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Provisional programMaps in American LiteratureInternational Symposium April 1–3, 2026 – Lyon, France Organized by Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité), Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg, USIAS), Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Pauline Pilote (Université Bretagne Sud). ENS de Lyon, 15 parvis René Descartes, 69007 Lyon, France. Room: D8 001 PROVISIONAL PROGRAM Wednesday, April 1, 2026
10:30 AM — Keynote Lecture: Martin Brückner, University of Delaware “Mapping With/out Maps: The Cartographic Imagination and American Literature” Chair: Julien Nègre
○ Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon, France), “Arboreal Poetics in Colonial Cartography: Inventing the American landscape in Virginia and New France” ○ Louise McCarthy (University Paris Cité, France), “‘Sweet Carols in praise of thy louely Face:’ gendered embodiments of the Virginia colony and the legitimation of conquest in Purchas his Pilgrims and its maps (1625)
○ Igor Maver (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), “The Map of Lower California (1701) by Marcus Antonius Kappus in Letters and Cartography” ○ Steffen Wöll (Leipzig University, Germany), “Travel, Trade, and Transformation: Cartographic Coordinates and Digital Legacies of R.H. Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast”
Day 2: Thursday, April 2, 2026
Sarah Sense (Chitimacha / Choctaw), artist working at the intersection of mapping, photography, and Indigenous weaving traditions; and Caroline Wigginton, Chair and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi: “Mapping with Trees: A Co-Learning from Indigenous American Literatures” Chairs: Aurore Clavier and Monica Manolescu.
○ Liz Ho (University of Hong Kong), ““Map-ability” and the imperative to island in contemporary map texts” ○ Marika Ceschia (Rachel Carson Center, Munich), “Unsettling the Matricidal Cartographies of the Plantationocene: Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day (1988)”
○ Aaron Shaheen (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA), “Cartographic Triangulation in Willa Cather’s One of Ours” ○ Joanna Johnson (University of Texas at Arlington, USA), “Mapping Injustice: The Cartographic Politics of The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II”
○ Lisa West (Drake University, USA), “Maps and Mastodons: An Anticlimax of Epic Proportions” ○ Kristi Humphreys (Baylor University, USA), “Blurring Fact and Fiction: Maps and the Mid-Century Magazine Fiction of William Faulkner”
Day 3: Friday, April 3, 2026
○ Lauren Coats (Louisiana State University, USA), “Forms of Possession: Andrew Ellicott Draws the Line” ○ Iuliu Ratiu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania), “Measuring the world anew: Thoreau, Land Surveying, and the Cartographic Imagination” ○ Todd Nathan Thompson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA), “Comic Cartography and Early American Imperialism”
○ Carrie Tirado Bramen (University of Buffalo, USA), “Reading the Stars: Astrological Maps from the Declaration of Independence to Wounded Knee” ○ Tina Young Choi (York University, Canada), “Mark Twain’s Biblical History and the Mapping of Palestine”
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