Although geographers have done much to uncover the relationship between geographical knowledge and imperial projects in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they have paid less attention to the ways geography, war, and colonial projects converged in the early modern period (ca. 1500 to 1789).

Therefore, this interdisciplinary session seeks to bring together geographers, historians, and other scholars interested in exploring the geographies 'in' and 'of' early modern war, namely the ways geographical knowledge figured in early modern wars, and how early modern wars transformed concrete, lived geographies in Europe, North America, South Asia, and elsewhere.

We welcome contributions from scholars keen to address such questions from perspectives that foreground themes such as 'life geographies', scientific practices, cultural transfer, and early modern war's 'global' dimensions rather than military history's traditional concerns. Also, we welcome and encourage proposals from historians interested in engaging with geographers and geographical questions.

Papers might address themes such as:

* Geographical knowledge, war, and the press

* Mapmaking practices and 'state' geographers

* Religion and geographical knowledge in confessional conflicts

* Life geographies of scholars and publishers during war

* Geographies of reconstruction

* Patriotism and geographical knowledge

* Knowledge transfer and its geographies during war

* Seven Years War as a 'global war'

* War and the geographies of colonial expansion

* Geographies of war narratives and their uptake

* War and the geography of the book

* Peace treaties and geographical knowledge

* 'Balance of power' as geographical concept

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to Dean Bond (dean.bond@utoronto.ca) and Madalina Veres (mvv3@pitt.edu)

Conference website: http://www.ichg2015.org/

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Contact:

Dean Bond

University of Toronto

dean.bond@utoronto.ca