FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023

UCLA - Royce Hall 314

9:00aM - 6:00PM

The California Map Society is proud to support UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies & the Center for Early Global Studies to present a one-day conference:

“The Intermingling of Cartography 

and Literature in the Early Modern Period”

Click HERE for the up-to-date event page at UCLA.

No registration required for this event,

although you will need to pay for parking at UCLA.

Organized by Chet Van Duzer and Steve McCormick, the program of the conference offers rich and diverse perspectives on the interactions between literature and cartography in the early modern period.

Scheduled speakers and their subjects, in alphabetical order:

• Tom Conley, Harvard University, “Cartographic Fictions: from Rabelais (1552) to Béroalde (1616)”

• Sonia Favi, University of Manchester, “Maps as Narratives of a ‘Closed-Off’ Japan: The Case of Tōkaidō bunken zu (Sectional Map of the Tōkaidō, 1690)”

• Oury Goldman, EHESS, Paris, “Naming and Ordering the World in the Era of Expansion: Locating Places in 16th Century French Translations of Romances, Poems and Chronicles”

• Karla Mallette, University of Michigan, “Mapping Languages in Pre-Modern Central Asia”

• Carolina Martínez, CONICET, Buenos Aires, “Picturing Greenland: Cartographic Images and Geographical Knowledge in the Making of a Boreal Utopia”

• Stephen McCormick, Washington & Lee University, “Cartography and Italian Epic in the Fifteenth Century”

• Elke Papelitzky, KU Leuven, “The Real and Imagined Geography of Zheng He’s Travels in Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century China”

• Işın Taylan, Yale University, “Mount Qaf and Early Modern Ottoman Geographical Imagination”

• Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester,“Monsters and Place Names in Maps and Texts: Three Cases of Early Modern Intermingling”