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Call for paper: Mapping the Gulf of Mexico
Galveston, Texas,
USAOrganisation: Texas Map Society The Texas Map Society invites paper proposals for its Spring Meeting dedicated to the spatial history, science, and visualization of the Gulf of Mexico. We seek to bring together map collectors, historians of cartography, marine scientists, geographers, archivists, digital humanities scholars, and others to explore the Gulf as a contested and evolving space.
From early colonial maritime charts to high-resolution bathymetric modeling, the mapping of the Gulf of Mexico has been central to geopolitical strategy, economic extractions, and environmental preservation. With this conference we aim to examine how the Gulf of Mexico has been defined by the tools used to measure it and the narratives built upon its waters.
We welcome paper proposals on, but not limited to, the role of maps in Spanish, French, and British colonial claims, historical and modern methods of mapping the Gulf floor and the Continental Shelf, environmental humanities, Indigenous geographies and the recovering of non-Western spatial knowledge and coastal navigation traditions, borders and jurisdictions, and digital humanities projects particularly as they relate to the Texas coast and/or its islands.
Submission Requirements
We welcome proposals for individual 20 minutes papers or pre-constituted panels.
Individual Abstracts: 250–300 words.
Panel Proposals: A 150-word session description plus short abstracts for each presenter.
Short Biography: A 100-word biography, can include relevant publications or projects
Deadlines
Proposals Due: March 10
Acceptance Notification: March 15
Conference: 10-11 April
Please submit all materials in a single PDF directly to TMS VP Lydia Towns.
E-mail: Lydia.towns@sfasu.edu
