tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72075074119544147922024-03-13T19:43:45.291-07:00Geographies of DesireUniversity of Maryland, College Park
April 27-28, 2012Geographies of Desirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994199668063204723noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207507411954414792.post-81525890022031584192012-04-09T22:26:00.001-07:002012-04-17T20:27:23.271-07:00Conference Program<h2><b>Friday, April 27</b></h2><b> </b>2115 Tawes Hall<br />
<b> </b>University of Maryland, College Park<br />
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<b>10:30 AM - 12:00 PM</b><br />
"Maps, Bodies, Imperial Desires,"<br />
<i>Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia</i><br />
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<b>12:00 - 1:15 PM</b><br />
<b>Break</b><br />
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<b> 1:15 - 2:45 PM</b><br />
<b>Placing Desire: Bounded Spaces</b><br />
2115 Tawes Hall<br />
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"Buildings as Bodies: Architecture, Relics, and the Built Environment in Medieval Ravenna,"<br />
<i>Erica Longenbach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</i><br />
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"The Green Garden as Locus of Vision and Desire in Celestina,"<br />
<i>Nicholas Ealy, University of Hartford</i><br />
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"Binding the Void: The Erotics of Place in Antony and Cleopatra,"<br />
<i>Gillian Knoll, University of Maryland</i><br />
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<i> </i><b>3:00 - 4:30 PM</b><br />
<b>Plenary: Imperial Geographies</b><br />
2115 Tawes Hall<br />
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"A New World of Things: Apocalyptic Materialism and the Discovery of America,"<br />
<i>Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland</i><br />
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"Cartographies of Desire: Mapping the Guinea Coast in the Early Modern Slave Trade,"<br />
<i>Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University</i><br />
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"For the Love of Maps: Pattern, Passion, and Power in Eighteenth-Century America,"<br />
<i>Martin Brückner, University of Delaware</i><br />
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<b>4:30 - 5:00 PM</b><br />
<b>Coffee Break</b><br />
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<b>5:00 - 6:30 PM</b><br />
<b>KEYNOTE</b><br />
Ulrich Recital Hall, 1121 Tawes Hall<b> </b><br />
<h3><b>"Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West"</b></h3><b><i>Valerie Traub, University of Michigan</i> </b><b> </b><br />
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<h2>Saturday, April 28</h2><b>8:30 AM</b><br />
<b>Breakfast</b><br />
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<b>9:00 - 10:45 AM</b><br />
<b>Plenary: Digital Geographies </b><br />
2115 Tawes Hall<br />
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"Where Material Book Culture Meets Digital Humanities,"<br />
<i>Sarah Wagner, Folger Shakespeare Library</i><br />
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"Art on the Move: Mapping the Lives of Objects in the Walters Art Museum,"<i> </i><br />
<i>Elizabeth Rodini, Johns Hopkins University; Ben C. Tilghman, George Washington University; Reid Sczerba, Johns Hopkins University</i><br />
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<b>11:00 AM - 12:30 PM</b><br />
<b>From Here to There: Travel and Spiritual Exoticism</b><br />
2115 Tawes Hall<br />
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"Eyewitness of the Holy Land: The Functions of the Tactile in Egeria's Itinerarium,"<br />
<i>Vanessa Taylor, The Catholic University of America</i><br />
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"The World as Relic: The Hereford Mappa Mundi in the Context of Pilgrimage,"<b> </b><br />
<i>Bridget Walsh, University of Toronto</i><br />
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"Resonances of Trade and the Exotic: Indian Ocean Networks and Byzantine Proto-Globalism Within the Sinai Christian Topography,"<br />
<i>Sana Mirza, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University</i><br />
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<b>12:30 - 1:30 PM</b><br />
<b>Lunch</b><br />
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<b>1:45 - 3:15 PM</b><br />
<b>Plenary: Spiritual Geographies</b><br />
2115 Tawes Hall<br />
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"From Passion to Spiritual Zeal: Painting and Manipulation of Desire in Early Modern Bedrooms,"<br />
<i>Frances Gage, Buffalo State College</i><br />
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"The Spiritual Geography of Charles II of Anjou,"<br />
<i>Katherine Jansen, History, The Catholic University of America</i><br />
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"East Anglican Spiritual Geographies, 1348-1418,"<br />
<i>Theresa Colletti, University of Maryland</i><br />
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<b>3:30 - 5:00 PM</b><br />
<b>Landscapes and Cityscapes: Synthesizing New Spaces</b><br />
2115 Tawes Hall<br />
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"Patriotic and Religious Geographies in Emanuel de Witte's Church Paintings,"<br />
<i>Matthew Lincoln, University of Maryland</i><br />
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"The Disastrous Body: Anxiety in Venetian Art during the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-1517),"<br />
<i>Sara Berkowitz, Rutgers University</i><br />
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"Mapping Desires and Desiring Maps: A Queer Reading of Spatial and Sexual Maps of Early Modern Istanbul,"<br />
<i>Abdulhamit Arvas, Michigan State University</i><br />
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<b>5:00 PM </b><br />
<b>Cocktail Reception </b><i> </i><b> </b><i> </i><b> </b><i> </i><b> </b><i> </i>Geographies of Desirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994199668063204723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207507411954414792.post-85875407131942585152011-10-28T16:00:00.001-07:002012-01-09T08:03:22.438-08:00CALL FOR PAPERS<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cnreul%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cnreul%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cnreul%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link><style>
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</style> </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Geographies of Desire: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">University of Maryland, College Park -- April 27-28, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Keynote Speaker<b>: </b>Valerie Traub, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Where do we go to get what we want? Mandeville to the kingdom of Prester John, the Littlewits to Bartholomew Fair, Antony to Alexandria, Henry VIII to the Field of the Cloth of Gold: the fulfillment of desire, or the negation of an interior lack, is frequently a plotted movement from <i>here </i>to <i>there</i>. “Geographies of Desire” seeks papers that explore how desires are mapped across spatial planes; how do spaces such as markets, shrines, bedrooms, and courts produce material, spiritual, erotic, and political desires?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Geography is produced by an invested interest in the world, such that the mapping out of one’s desires is a precondition for mapping out the world. The desire for geographies both literal and figurative results<span style="color: red;"> </span>from having outgrown local, national, imperial, and earthbound spaces. And yet, satisfaction often eludes us: the geography of desire pursues a sense of completion but risks corruption in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Geography assimilates space and erases conceptual difference between separate worlds within<span style="color: red;"> </span>the confines of a controllable physical representation. But even as the fog lifts from the exterior world, a strange desire keeps pulling us toward things monstrous and divine. How, then, does the geography of desire upset or reinforce the economic, political, erotic, and cosmological centers of our universes? How do literature, the visual arts, travel narratives, histories, religious writings, natural philosophy, and theater imagine these geographies? How and why do we imagine ourselves into the personal, cultural, ecological, and political spaces of others? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Graduate Field Committee of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Department of English at the University of Maryland invite papers that explore these issues for “Geographies of Desire,” a graduate-faculty conference to be held <b>April 27 and April 28, 2012 </b>at the University of Maryland, College Park. This two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to foster insightful and vigorous conversation on this topic through an innovative format that includes graduate paper panels, roundtables, and plenary sessions with local scholars. Participants and attendees can look forward to a seminar led by <b>Ricardo Pad<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">r</span></span></b></span><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cnreul%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cnreul%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cnreul%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></link><style>
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</style><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ón </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">(University of Virginia), a digital humanities panel with <b>Martin Foys</b> (Drew University), <b>Elizabeth Rodini </b>(Johns Hopkins University), and <b>Ben Tilghman</b> (George Washington University), and plenary sessions with <b>Theresa Coletti </b>(University of Maryland), <b>Katherine Jansen</b> (Catholic University of America), <b>Frances Gage</b> (Buffalo State College), and <b>Ralph Bauer</b> (University of Maryland), with more panelists to be announced.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In addition to traditional papers, we are soliciting proposals for workshops related to the conference theme. Digital Humanities workshops centered on new research tools, pedagogy tools, or digital archives are especially welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We expect this theme to be interpreted broadly, but invite participants to consider some of the following approaches:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Exclusionary geography:</b> Anchorites, xenophobes, isolationists, land enclosure<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Desire in Transit:</b> pilgrimages, war and territorial expansion, diplomacy, colonization, tourism, travel literature, captivity narratives, slave narratives<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Shipwrecked Desires:</b> lost coasts, desert islands, Hellesponts and Maelstroms, Mermaids and Sirens<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Are You Going to Scarborough Fair?:</b> local economies, fair circuits, foodsheds and market villages, new views on Von Thünen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Scientific Desire for Geography:</b> telescopes, cartography, geohumoralism, new technologies, cosmography, describing nature—natural philosophy v. poetry, properties<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Great Reckonings in Little Rooms:</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> domestic economies, decoration of interior spaces, mapping the home<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Long is the way / And hard, that out of hell:</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> religious desires, missions, conversion, priest holes and monuments, spreading reform, spreading heresy, redemption<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Art and design:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> cartography (veracity v. subjectivity), mapping the canvas, perspective, architecture, urban planning<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Romantic and Er<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7207507411954414792&postID=8587540713194258515&from=pencil" name="_GoBack"></a>otic desires:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> exogamy, queer spaces, gendered spaces, courtly love, private / public, forests and cityscapes: green worlds and grey worlds<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Abstracts of 400-500 words for workshops or 20-minute papers related to the conference theme should be emailed to (fieldcommittee.umd@gmail.com) no later than <span style="font-size: large;"><b> January 31, 2012</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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