Detail from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Carte des Cinq Grands Lacs du Canada (Paris, 1764) The Newberry Library
Detail from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Carte des Cinq Grands Lacs du Canada (Paris, 1764) The Newberry Library
A conference sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists; the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, and Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History; and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.
Keynote speaker: Barbara Mundy, Fordham University
Co-director of Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America 1520-1820
This cross-disciplinary conference investigates the enduring significance of space and place in scholarship of the early Americas against the backdrop of the Newberry Library's world-class cartographic holdings. If you would like to attend the Early American Cartographies Conference, please fill out and send in the registration form below along with your payment. The Newberry has arranged for a block of rooms to be held for conference participants and attendees at a nearby hotel. Please see the link below for more information. You may also wish to consult the list of neighborhood apartments and hotels on the Center for Renaissance Studies' website.
Registration form for "Early American Cartographies" Conference
Conference hotel information
"Early American Cartographies" Conference Program
Website for the Society of Early Americanists
Please contact us at renaissance@newberry.org or 312-255-3514 for more information.