PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
[subject to change]

"Early American Cartographies"
March 2-4, 2006

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.

Thursday, March 2, 2006

1:00-1:15 ~ Welcome remarks from James Grossman, Vice President for Research and Education, The Newberry Library, and Dennis Moore, President, Society of Early Americanists

1:30-3:00 ~ Two concurrent sessions

Session 1: Ruggles Hall
Washington, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark

Chair: Dennis Moore, Florida State University

Edward J. Redmond (Library of Congress) "The MapMaker from Mount Vernon, 1747-1799"
Peter J. Kastor (Washington University), "Describing Jefferson's West"
Thomas Hallock(University of Mississippi), "Traveling East with Lewis and Clark"

Session 2: Towner Fellows' Lounge
Contested Space at the Time of King Philip's War

Chair: Stephanie Fitzgerald (Mount St. Mary's College)

Betty Donohue (Wingate High School) and Zabelle Stodola (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), "Cultural Contours: A Native Scholar and a White Scholar Remap Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative"
Andrea Foroughi (Union College), "'They have Usurp'd vast Territories': Cartographic Representations of French, British and Indian Conflicts, 1700-1755"
Jess Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University), "Lockean Geographies"

3:00-3:15 ~ Break

3:15-5:00 ~ Two concurrent sessions

Session 3: Ruggles Hall
Teaching Early America with Historical Maps: A Workshop

Co-organizers and presenters:

James Akerman (The Newberry Library)
Jerry Danzer (University of Illinois at Chicago, emeritus)
Judith K. Bock (Lake Villa, Illinois, Public Schools, retired)

Session 4: Towner Fellows' Lounge
Mapping the Colonial Imagination

Chair: Carla Zecher (The Newberry Library)

Dennis A. Carr (Yale University), "Figures of Speech: Decoding a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Land Map"
David A. Boruchoff (McGill University), "Mapping Religion in the (Imagined) Space of European Expansion"
Bruce Greenfield (Dalhousie University), "The Performance of Place in the Voyages of Pierre Esprit Radisson (1636-1710)"
Oliver Scheiding (University of Mainz), "Mapping America and the Colonial Imagination"

5:30-6:30

Keynote lecture: Ruggles Hall

"Cemanauactli ymachiyo: The Image of the World and the Lure of the Local in Colonial Cartography"
Barbara Mundy (Fordham University)

Friday, March 3, 2006

8:30-9:00 ~ Coffee

9:00-10:30 ~ Two concurrent sessions

Session 5: Ruggles Hall
Mapping Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century

Chair: Eric Slauter (University of Chicago)

Judith Ridner (Muhlenberg College), "Building Urban Spaces for the Interior: Thomas Penn and the Colonization of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania"
Ed White (University of Florida), "Mapping Early American Fiction"

Session 6: Towner Fellows' Lounge
Mapping the Early Chesapeake

Chair: Jerry Danzer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Timothy Sweet (West Virginia University), "Garnishing the Plott: The Roanoke Images of John White and Theodore De Bry"
Catherine Armstrong (University of Warwick), " 'To Conquer all the World'? A New Interpretation of John Smith's Map of 1612"
Gavin Hollis (University of Michigan), "Maps in the Dust: Negotiating Spaces in Early Colonial Virginia"

10:30-10:45 ~ Break

10:45-12:15 ~ Two concurrent sessions

Session 7: Ruggles Hall
Treaties and Colonial Space

Chair: Susan Imbarrato (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)

Mark Rifkin (Skidmore College), "Mapping Tradition: Contesting Treaty Geographies in Black Hawk's Narrative"
Edward Watts (Michigan State University), "Adam's Excision: Remapping Race in the Treaty of Fond du Lac"
Andrew Newman (SUNY Stony Brook), "Bull Stories"

Session 8: Towner Fellows' Lounge
Mapping North Carolina and the Caribbean

Chair: Thomas W. Krise (University of Central Florida)

E. Thomson Shields (East Carolina University), "Portraying Early North Carolina: The Exceptionalist Geography of John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina (1709)"
Scott Lehman (San Francisco State University), "'A capacious and secure harbor': Mapping Havana in the English Magazine, 1740-1762"
Michael Drexler (Bucknell University), "Hurricanes and Revolutions"

12:15-1:45 ~ Lunch break

1:45-3:15 ~ Plenary session

Session 9: Ruggles Hall
Cartographic History, Markets, and Contexts

Chair: Betsy Erkkilä (Northwestern University)

Judith A. Tyner (California State University), "Threads and Ink: 19th Century Schoolgirl Mapping, 1770s-1840"
Martin Brückner (University of Delaware), "The Elephant in the Print Shop: Wall Maps, Literacy, and Symbolic Action in British America"
Thomas M. Woodfin (Texas A&M University), "Colonial America's Mapping Tradition: The Cartography of Capitalism"

3:15-3:30 ~ Break

3:30-5:00 ~ Plenary session

Session 10: Ruggles Hall
The Great Basin and the Northwest in the Eighteenth Century

Chair: Matthew Edney, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Richard Francaviglia (University of Texas at Arlington), "The Native American Contributions to the Mapping of the Interior American West"
Gordon Sayre (University of Oregon), "The French Maps of North America from Lahontan and Delisle to Le Page and Buache"
Barton C. Keeton (Duke University), "Sykes' Sketches, Vancouver's Maps: Enlightenment Visions of the Northwest American Coast"

Saturday, March 4, 2006

8:30-9:00 ~ Coffee

9:00-10:45 ~ Plenary session

Session 11: Ruggles Hall
Native American Cartography in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

Chair: Brian Hosmer (The Newberry Library)

William Green (Beloit College), "From Oneota to Oklahoma via the 1837 Ioway Map"
David Bernstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Constructing Territories: Indigenous Cartography in the Old Northwest"
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (Yale University), "Reestablishing Handenosaunee Communities at Buffalo Creek"
William Gustav Gartner (Beloit College), "Encountering Cartographic Performance: The Pawnee Star Chart Viewed from the Perspective of Skiri-Band Cosmology and Ritual"

10:45-11:00 ~ Break

11:00-12:30
Roundtable: Ruggles Hall
"Knowledge, Practice, Culture: Cartography in the Early Americas"

Organizer and chair: Martin Brückner (University of Delaware)
Participants: James Akerman (The Newberry Library), David Buisseret (University of Texas at Arlington), Tom Conley (Harvard University), Matthew Edney (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mary S. Pedley (University of Michigan)