{"id":762,"date":"2015-07-22T20:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2015-07-22T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:55:03","slug":"cfp-transforming-topography-british-library-6th-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Transforming Topography, British Library, 6th May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please see below for a Call for Papers for an exciting upcoming conference on new directions in the study of topography, which will take place at the British Library in May next year.\u00a0 Full details can also be seen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk\/whats-on\/forthcoming\/transforming-topography\/event-category\/call-for-papers\" target=\"_blank\">website of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art<\/a>, which is sponsoring the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Transforming Topography<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The British Library, 6th May 2016<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/View-of-Strowan-Bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/View-of-Strowan-Bridge-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"View of Strowan Bridge\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/View-of-Strowan-Bridge-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/View-of-Strowan-Bridge-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/View-of-Strowan-Bridge.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The British Library and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art are delighted to announce a call for papers for an international\u00a0conference on transforming topography.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be interdisciplinary in nature, and we invite contributions from art historians,\u00a0architectural\u00a0historians,\u00a0map scholars, historians, cultural geographers, independent researchers, and museum professionals (including early-career) which contribute to current\u00a0re-definitions\u00a0of topography. We welcome contributions that engage with specific items from the British Library\u2019s topographical collections and highlight the copious nuances that can be explored within topography, including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Topography versus landscape: topography\u2019s position within registers of pictorial representation.<\/li>\n<li>Topography\u2019s boundaries with other forms of knowledge, such as antiquarianism.<\/li>\n<li>The role and identity of the artists and writers employed in producing topographical images and texts.<\/li>\n<li>Topographic techniques and conventions, repetitions in text and images<\/li>\n<li>Patrons and collectors of topographical material:\u00a0topography as a social and cultural practice, the circulation, use and display of these objects.<\/li>\n<li>Topography and the library, museum or gallery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Topography is an emerging and dynamic field in historical scholarship. The <i>Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain<\/i> exhibition of 2009\/2010 (Nottingham, Edinburgh, London) and subsequent research has sought a redefinition of topography. Rather than seeing topographical art as marginal compared to the landscapes in oils or watercolours by the canon of \u2018great artists\u2019 or more imaginative and sublime images, a growing number of scholars are embracing the historical study of images of specific places in their original contexts, sparking a lively debate around nationhood, identity, and cultural value, or what John Barrell describes as \u2018the conflict and coexistence of the various\u2026\u201cstakeholders\u201d in the landscape and in its representation\u2019 (Barrell, <i>Edward Pugh of Ruthin<\/i>, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>The British Library holds the world\u2019s most extensive and important collection of British topographic materials, including George III&#8217;s King&#8217;s\u00a0Topographical\u00a0Collection, currently being re-catalogued. There are hundreds of thousands of images and texts, including unique compilations of prints and drawings, rare first editions, maps, extra-illustrated books, and handwritten notes across the collections: all of which exhibit the broad range of forms and subject matter which topographical material can take. Using the BL\u2019s main online catalogue and typing in \u2018George III, views\u2019 will give you a taste of what is available, as will the entry for the British Library in M.W. Barley\u2019s <i>A Guide to British Topographical Collections <\/i>(1974). The majority of topographic materials are not listed individually, so if you need help finding specific items please contact Alice Rylance-Watson, Research Curator, at <a href=\"mailto:Alice.Rylance-Watson@bl.uk\">Alice.Rylance-Watson@bl.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please send proposals of no more than 300 words accompanied by a brief biography to: Ella Fleming, Events Manager, <a href=\"mailto:events@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk\">events@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk<\/a> by 5.00pm on Wednesday 30 September 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see below for a Call for Papers for an exciting upcoming conference on new directions in the study of topography, which will take place at the British Library in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=762\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}