IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1410: Mappings, V: Mapping Medieval Cities - From Symbol to Survey: A Round Table Discussion
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 19.30-20.30
| Sponsor: | School of Arts & Sciences, Southern Connecticut State University |
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| Organiser: | Camille Serchuk, Department of Art, Southern Connecticut State University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Martin Foys, Department of English & Communication Arts, Hood College, Maryland |
| Abstract | This round table discussion will examine medieval cities and their maps, in graphic, textual, and virtual formats. An interdisciplinary panel of scholars will consider a variety of problems including the image, identification, and symbolism of the city on maps of larger scope, like mappaemundi; pictorial and textual medieval maps of cities, and their contexts and significance; and the challenges posed by the production of modern, digital, or virtual maps or recreations of medieval cities. What can be learned from the mapping of medieval cities? What strategies for contextualizing, interpreting, analyzing, and representing them have been successful? The panel plans to address these questions, and to outline opportunities for further research. Participants include Carly Deering (University of Liverpool), Martin Foys (Drew University, New Jersey), Keith Lilley (Queen's University, Belfast), Felicitas Schmieder (FernUniversität Hagen), Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University), and Martina Stercken (Universität Zürich). |