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• 01 fév 2016

  Albi

  Call for papers - History

  On the scale of the world. Maps: a cultural, social and political object from Antiquity to the present day

  The questions arising from the study of world maps are numerous: why represent the entire world, and does the ‘world’ mean the terrestrial globe or just its inhabited part? What kind of knowledge is used to form the world image? What information is selected? What is the purpose and the audience of such maps ? What is the cultural, social and political background of these geographical images? The conference will allow historians and geographers to compare their understanding of the diversity of representations of the world throughout the ages and the use and meaning of such maps.

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