Map Matters - Cartographic Approaches to Cultural Production across Languages Conference
On May 20-21 the Interdisciplinary conference 'Map Matters' organised by the Rethinking Spatial Humanities research cluster at Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures was held at University College Cork
An interdisciplinary conference, spearheaded by Dr Alessio Aletta, ‘Map Matters: Cartographic Approaches to Cultural Production Across Languages’ was held on 20- 21 May (online) and 22 May (in person) 2026. It featured 26 presentations by speakers from institutions all around Europe, Asia, and North America, as well as three special events: Wed 20 May Mapping as a Creative Practice, Artist talk by Emily Jay (ArtistScholar, Ohio Northern University) Thurs 21 May What Does It Even Mean to Map Fiction? Roundtable moderated by Shawn Day (School of English and Digital Humanities) Fri 22 May “The Eye of History”: 450 years of mapping the Ancient World, Keynote Address by Stuart Dunn (King’s College London)