Friday 12 May 2006
9:30 – 12:00 Registration at the Ashmolean in the foyer of the Headley Lecture Theatre, & technical run-through (speakers can check slides, powerpoint)
Session 1: Thinking About the Images of the Maps and Maps of the Imagination
12:30 – 1:00 Tania Woloshyn & Steven Stowell – Introductory Remarks
Linking the Image and the Imagination Through the Map: Problems and Possibilities of an Interdisciplinary Approach to the History of Space (tba)
1:00 – 1:45 Dr. Jan Blanc, University of Lausanne
The Picturing Impulse in Dutch Cartography : Paintings as Models for Maps in the Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art Theories and Practices
1:45 – 2:00 Coffee (simple)
Session 2: Claiming Territory: Maps and Political Persuasion
2:00 – 2:45 Dr. Laura Nenzi, Florida International University
Maps, Movements, and the Malleable Spaces of Early Modern Japan
2:45 – 3:30 Dr. Steve Wharton, University of Sussex
'Le Piante et i Ritratti..: Cipriano Piccolpasso's Plans and Portraits of the Towns and Lands of Sixteenth-Century Umbria'.
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee
Keynote Address
3:45 – 5:00 Dr. Catherine Delano-Smith, Institute for Historical Research, London
From Diagram to Portrait: Recognising the Reader in the Map Image
Saturday 13 May 2006
Session 3: Maps as Indices of the Other
9:00 – 9:45 Anne MacLeod, University of Glasgow
‘All this Part Barron Hills’: Cultural Perceptions of the Scottish Highlands in Eighteenth Century Maps
9:45 – 10:30 Barton Keeton, Duke University
Making Scenes of Vancouver's Voyage: Producing the Enlightenment Cartographic Sublime
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee
Session 3 (Part II): Maps as Indices of the Other
10:45 – 11:30 Dr. Max Moerman, Barnard College, Columbia University
Mapping India in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination
11:30 – 12:15 Dr. Richard J. Smith, Rice University, Texas
Maps, Myths and Multiple Realities: Images of the Other in Late Imperial China
12:30-1:30 Lunch in the Ashmolean Café
Session 4: Reflections of the Self: Maps and Contemplation
1:30 – 2:15 Dr. Moya Carey
The Invisible Layer: Collating Classical and Arabian Uranometry in Ibn Al-Sufi’s Poem on the Constellations (c. 1000AD)
2:15 – 3:00 Dr. Victoria Morse, Carleton College
Mapping the Spiritual Cosmos in the Manuscripts of Opicino de Canistris (1296-ca. 1354)
3:00-3:15 Coffee (simple)
Session 5: The Depths of the City Map
3:15-4:00 Asao Sarukawa, University of East Anglia
‘Wandering Around While Sitting’: The Pleasure of Reading and Imagining the Great Map of Edo
4:00-4:45 Jessica Maier, Columbia University
Mapping Past and Present: Renaissance Responses to the Challenge of Imaging Rome
4:45-4:50 Closing Remarks