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Meg Roland to Speak at Mapping Medieval Geographies Conference
Meg Roland, chair of the English Literature & Writing Department, will be a guest speaker at the Mapping Medieval Geographies conference at UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in May 2009.
About the Conference
Mapping Medieval Geographies:
Cartography and Geographical thought in the Latin West and Beyond, 300-1600
Thursday, May 28 – Saturday, May 30, 2009
Geography as it was understood and practiced in the Middle Ages, within both eastern and western traditions, and as represented both graphically and textually, is a subject of renewed interest and importance among historians, philologists and geographers. This conference aims to promote an exchange between those of different disciplines working on geographical ideas and thinking from late Antiquity to the Renaissance.
Anticipated guest speakers include:
Daniel Birkholz, University of Texas at Austin
Veronica della Dora, University of Bristol
Kathy Lavezzo, University of Iowa
Natalia Lozovsky, UC Berkeley
Andrew Merrills, University of Leicester
Meg Roland, Marylhurst University
Emilie Savage-Smith, University of Oxford
Alessandro Scafi, The Warburg Institute, London