Imaginative Geographies: Travels of the Mind in Early Modern Europe

28th September 2011 at the University of Bristol

While Renaissance and Early Modern Studies are focused on the two and a half centuries between 1500 and 1750, the areas of research that the period encompasses are
multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging. A common thread is the spatial or
geographical dimension. This conference aims to attract a wide audience,
to explore correspondences between geography, literary and historical
fields of research, to enable varied and cross-disciplinary discourses
between scholars and students of the arts and sciences, and to enrich
renaissance and early modern research with methodological and thematic
diversity.

There will be panels on: 'Spiritual Geographies',
'Cartographic Spaces', 'Mapping the Other', 'Mapping the Familiar'.
Please download the application form from the conference website if you
are interested in attending:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/gradschool/community/conferences/imaginative-geographies.html.

Please note, there is a delegate's fee of £10 for applications received
before 14 September 2011, rising to £12 for applications received after
that date. There is an additional £5 charge for those delegates wishing
to attend the conference reception, at which early modern-inspired
refreshments will be served. This conference is organised by
postgraduate REMS researchers at the University of Bristol and supported
by The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts.