Name: Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture
Start: 2025-10-02T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-03T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci

Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture

International Interdisciplinary Conference
Conference languages: Czech/Slovak and English
Length of presentation: 15–20 minutes
Applications: by 1 May 2025
The topics of the conference, which offers an interdisciplinary glance at the phenomenon, intersecting historical, literary, anthropological, art-historical, cartographic and textual perspectives, include:
● possibilities of using maps for research on travelogue texts
● the function of map illustrations in the construction of the fictional world of a literary work
● the topos of the journey in a literary work
● the boundaries between fictional and actual worlds when examining factual and fictional texts
● the use of digital mapping for fictional literature research
● literary cartography and literary theory
Register online now! https://digeocat.upol.cz/conference/