Hosted by the Centre for American Studies, The Cartographic Imagination: Art, Literature and Mapping in the United States, 1945-1980 will take place at the University of Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture between the 18-19 May 2018.
The conference explores the role of mapping in post-war American art and literature. With keynote lectures by David Herd (University of Kent), Stephen Collis (Simon Frazer University), and Lize Mogel (Independent Artist), it also includes speakers from over ten countries and a variety of disciplines – all aimed at creating dialogues between art history and literary studies. The conference is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the British Association for American Studies, the Centre for American Studies at the University of Kent and the Départment d’Etudes Anglophones at the University of Strasbourg. For further details, please see the conference webpage.