Abstracts are invited for papers about “Women and Maps in Early Modernity,” for a possible SSEMW Co-Sponsored Session at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Washington DC in January 2014.

We seek papers from a range of disciplines — including, but not limited to, history, art history, literary studies, and historical geography — which address the nexus between early modern women and maps/cartography in any geographical region or culture, during the time period c. 1400-1700. Paper topics might consider women as:

• Explorers contributing data from which maps are made
• map illustrators
• printers/publishers/sellers of maps
• navigators/users of maps
• writers on the topic of cartography

Abstracts (400-500 words) for papers 20 minutes in length should be submitted by January 10, 2013, by email, to Allyson Poska (aposka@umw.edu) and Erika Gaffney (egaffney@ashgate.com).