Map Matters: Cartographic Approaches to Cultural Production Across Languages

About this Conference

An interdisciplinary symposium exploring cartographic approaches in humanities research, focusing on how mapping practices produce knowledge across languages, media, and disciplines. The event examines mapping as a research method that reveals spatial relationships, cultural production, and interpretive strategies.

Call for Papers

Submissions are invited from researchers in literary studies, history, art history, film and media studies, cultural geography, museum and heritage studies, and adjacent fields. Papers should develop projects with a mapping component or critically reflect on mapping methodologies. Topics include cartographic visualizations across media, mapping movement, colonial and postcolonial cartographies, maps as narrative devices, geographies of memory, and comparative mapping approaches.

Important Dates

• Full Paper Submission March 5, 2026
• Conference dates 21-22 May 2026