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Call: Map Room Conversations: Geographies of Inequalities
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London,
UKOrganisation: Royal Geographical SocietyThe ‘Map Room Conversations’ allows participants to introduce a selection of maps from the archive to conference attendees, explain their interest and interpretations, and then to engage in dialogue with delegates. Paired speakers addressed shared themes including Indigeneity, race and internationalism, language, diaspora and objects. This call for papers invites submission of proposals to engage with the Society’s map collections in relation to the conference theme of "Geographies of Inequalities".
Examples could include:
Maps as resources for “challenging, addressing and seeking to overturn inequalities and injustices”;
Maps as tools for “making a difference beyond the academy, in informing policy or practice about specific inequalities or injustices, in engaging in activism, campaigning or advocacy work to resist or overcome injustices, in engaging diverse public audiences with such work, or in offering practical solutions to the challenges of inequalities”;
How maps of past inequalities allow reflection on current and future challenges;
Experimental forms of engagement with the collections (counter-mapping, digital reformations, etc.)
The call want include people who have not worked on the map collections, or who have not done historical research, before but who are keen to see how the map collections might contribute to their work. Submit an abstract of c.200 words, with your name and institutional affiliation, and a few lines on your broader interests to Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham) and Katherine Parker (RGS).
