Register
Register here for the annual meeting and to begin or renew an ASA membership
Register here to submit a proposal through the ASA's 2012 submission site.
Register here for JHU Press and ASA membership services, including online access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online.Register here to join an ASA community. Only current ASA members may contribute to the community blogs. Registration is not required to submit display or text ads or news and events or to view many pages. We will refuse posts that are not of professional interest to ASA members.
Click here for membership FAQ's
Group Members
The following people are members of this group:
The following people are administrators of this group:
Member Tools
We're sorry. You are not yet a member of the Visual Culture Caucus.
Register or login to join this group.
Main | Member Publications | Digital Image Collections | Works in Progress | Contact | Contact Members
Visual Culture Caucus
ASA 2012, November 15-18, San Juan, Puerto Rico
“Pictures from an Expedition: Aesthetics of 19th-century Cartographic Exploration in the Americas”
We seek historians, art historians, geographers, and scholars of visual culture for a panel discussing the aesthetics of 19th-century cartographic exploration in the Americas.
The nineteenth century represented a high point in mapping expeditions at the hemispheric level. These ostensibly scientific expeditions charted territories, often in support of nation building projects, yet also produced vast amounts of visual and artistic materials. This panel will focus on this visual material addressing such questions as: What kinds of 19th-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? Can looking at mapping hemispherically challenge a distinction between North American and South/Central/Latin American methodologies or practices of exploration? We are interested in all forms of visual representation, including maps, sketches, drawings, landscape paintings, photography, lithography, etc.
Proposals including a title and abstract (maximum 500 words) should be sent by Monday January 23rd to:
Ernesto Capello, History, Macalester College, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Julia Rosenbaum, Art History, Bard College, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Categories:
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]
Add Your Comment