Sumathi Ramaswamy, "Going Artfully Global"

Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) will deliver the keynote lecture, titled "Going Artfully Global", at Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500 - 1900 Conference on February 14, 2015.

Slated for February 14th - 15th, 2019, 'Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500 - 1900' conference is organized by by the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford History Department, Center for South Asia, and University of Warwick's Global History & Culture Centre (U.K.). When mapping on a global scale, the line between factual and fictitious landscape quickly blurs. The speakers of ‘Mapping the Global Imaginary, 1500—1900’ cross this blurry boundary into every continent, as well as purely speculative ones, to share a host of cartographic enterprises. From the imaginary Kobitojima Island propagated by Edo cartographers to the armchair geography seeking to define colonial Africa, to efforts at mapping airspace itself, topics probe the extent and diversity of challenge and license inherent in mapmaking from a (cognitive) distance.  Speakers include Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Zoltán Biedermann, Nathan Braccio, Corin Braga, Jordana Dym, Matthew Edney, Quintana Heathman, David Lambert, Carla Lois, Ewa Machotka, Bertie Mandelblatt, Erika Monahan, Luca Scholz, Chet Van Duzer, and Bram Vannieuwenhuyze

Conference program and more detailed information are available at this link. The event is free and open to the public; pre-registration is required at this link.