Semester One Work in Progress Morning, Wednesday June 2, 2021

Semester One Work in Progress Morning, Wednesday June 2, 2021

by Centre for Early Modern Studies

CEMS ANU Work in Progress Morning

Wednesday June 2, 2021. 9.15am – 1pm

Nine members of CEMS presented short papers during the Work in Progress Morning, which fell into three sessions: Literature and Drama, Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, and History and Material Culture, reflecting the multidisciplinarity of the centre. We were especially pleased to welcome three HDR members at various stages of their candidature who presented compelling accounts of their research.

Lucy Matthews presented “What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine: Queer women adapting queer women, a Practice as Research study of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and John Lyly’s Galatea.” Charbel El-Khaissi spoke on the “Sociolinguistics of Script: Cues into Intergenerational Language Attrition,” and Sarah Hodge presented “A Composite Order of Dress: Understanding the Development of Women’s Historic Styles in Britain, 1757-1830.” See the full program and abstracts here.

We look forward to the next WIP meeting, towards the end of semester two.

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Historian of cartography Chet Van Duzer will host this CEMS workshop on studying early modern maps slowly.

When: Tuesday 14 October, 2025

Where: ANU Campus (location TBA)

Regstration: Registrations open soon

Abstract

Maps are incredibly rich documents that only reveal some of their secrets after slow and deliberate study, and it is precisely this aspect of maps that we will explore in this two-hour workshop. Chet Van Duzer will analyze several early modern maps and provide examples of important characteristics of them that can only be appreciated and understood through slow looking. He will also supply advice on how to study maps slowly, and workshop participants will consult historic maps to begin to practice looking slowly at them, with plenty of time for examining the maps together and asking questions. The goal of the workshop is that participants will gain experience and tools for engaging more fully with maps in the future.

About the Speaker

Chet Van Duzer is a historian of cartography and a board member of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester, which brings multispectral imaging (a technology for recovering information from damaged manuscripts) to cultural institutions around the world. He has published extensively on medieval and Renaissance maps; his recent books include Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence, published by Springer in 2019, and Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends, published by Springer in 2020. His book Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps was published by Brill in Open Access in 2023. His current projects are books about self-portraits by cartographers that appear on maps and the historical cartography of the Indian Ocean.