[AIW] CFP: Lines on a Map: Crafting and Contesting Borders in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond, Institute of Historical Research, London/UK, December 13-14, 2019

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Call for Papers

Lines on a Map: Crafting and Contesting Borders in the Early Modern Atlantic
and Beyond

Institute of Historical Research, London/UK

December 13 - 14, 2019

https://rachelbherrmann.com/lines-on-a-map/

 

For over a century, scholars have wrestled with how to imagine, explain, and
convey geographical space. From Frederick Jackson Turner's chronologically
shifting frontier to Fernand Braudel's integrated Mediterranean basin, from
concepts of an 'Atlantic' world to arguments for an enduring 'Red' North
American continent, scholars have offered various models for understanding
the interrelationship between space and time, and people and their
environments-whether on land-locked interiors, blue water empires, or the
bays, estuaries, rivers, and coastlines that connect water and land. 

 

This conference asks participants to analyse their own assumptions about and
models of early modern historical spaces by engaging with and interrogating
how actors themselves described, drew, and defined geographic spaces-whether
discrete urban vistas, vast colonial projects, regional chorographies,
interiors unmapped (by Europeans), or ever-changing maritime and riverine
waters. The ways in which actors defined scale, bounded their maps and
descriptions, imagined the unknown, and projected their own understandings
onto spaces provide a rich archive for examining how early modern actors
defined and contested space, boundaries, and border-making. 

 

'Lines on a Map' will take place at the Institute of Historical Research
(London, UK) on December 13th and 14th, 2019 and will offer participants the
option of drawing upon the IHR's North American collections to produce new
knowledge about the maps contained inside of them or in related materials,
such as the Rolf E. Gooderham collection
<https://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S10/?searchtype=Y&searcharg
=Rolf+E.+Gooderham&searchscope=10&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=S
earch&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=YRolf+E.+Gooderham+%3B+2017.%26SORT%3DDZ>
of historical atlases (https://tinyurl.com/yxohxcnt). The conference will
take place alongside a maps exhibit at the IHR. Knowing that some
participants, particularly those whose work stretches beyond North America,
may already have a map in mind, maps or images from other collections may
also be used.

 

After receiving the materials described below, the organisers, working in
consultation with IHR librarians, will then offer to connect accepted
participants with access to a high-resolution image of a map or image from
the IHR collections. Potential attendees are encouraged to browse the IHR
collections (www.history.ac.uk/library <http://www.history.ac.uk/library> ),
or to contact Matthew Shaw, IHR Librarian (Matthew.Shaw at sas.ac.uk
<mailto:Matthew.Shaw at sas.ac.uk> ), for additional guidance on locating
relevant images. Participants will use their chosen image or map as the
touch-stone of their papers and as a tool to think through and ground their
analysis about early modern borders and modern historiographical models of
historical space.

 

The co-organisers (Dr Rachel Herrmann, Cardiff University, and Dr Jessica
Roney, Temple University) envision diverse formats for conference
participation including but not limited to pre-circulated papers for
extended discussion, roundtables, and standard formal conference
presentations. Several of our committed participants are senior scholars
willing to workshop pre-circulated essays by early career scholars. The
co-organizers warmly welcome suggestions for innovative paper formats and
sessions. Interested participants should send the following to Rachel
Herrmann (HerrmannR at cardiff.ac.uk <mailto:HerrmannR at cardiff.ac.uk> ) by
August 1st, 2019:

*	A short CV
*	250-word proposal including a description of the topics that
interest you, the books, atlases, or sheet maps that have thus far inspired
your research, and an indication of possible geography-related print
materials that may inform your presentation for this conference. If you have
a specific map or book in mind known to be available through the IHR, please
indicate which item(s) may be of interest.
*	One sentence indicating preferred format for your presentation
(including, but not limited to formal conference presentation,
pre-circulated paper, roundtable). If you are open to more than one format,
please let us know, in order, your preference.

 

This workshop is the final of three in a series devoted to 'Geographies of
Power on Land and Water', made possible by a Networking Scheme Grant from
the Arts and Humanities Research Council (United Kingdom) and participates
in an ongoing scholarly conversation about space, borders, and power in the
early modern world. This conference invites participants to continue a
conversation about the landed and aquatic frontiers of borderlands and
maritime history in the early modern period to investigate in a broadly
comparative framework how actors defined, defied, and took advantage of
borders, be they on land or on water. The co-investigators seek to build
upon the three conferences to consolidate and expand the network going
forward. At least one edited volume is envisaged.

 

About the Institute of Historical Research (IHR)
<https://www.history.ac.uk/> 

The IHR is the UK's national centre for the study of history, providing
research resources, events, training, and connecting historians working in
varied contexts and fields across the UK and beyond. Questions of place,
identity and mapping are central to many of the projects based in the IHR,
from the Victoria County History of England (founded 1899), to more recent
initiatives which produce and explore maps in innovative ways, such as the
Heritage Lottery-funded 'Layers of London' digital history project. Many of
these projects and research foci are now brought together in the IHR's new
Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. The IHR Wohl Library
is a reference collection of published primary sources covering the history
of Western Europe and its colonial history from the fifth century to the
present. Its British and European collections are complemented by rich North
American collections (such as the Albert Gallatin collection) and the unique
Rolf E. Gooderham collection of historical atlases. The IHR is on Twitter at
@IHR_history.

 

Contact Email: HerrmannR at cardiff.ac.uk <mailto:HerrmannR at cardiff.ac.uk>  

 

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