In the framework of the
IV International & Interdisciplinary Symposium
“Books, Travels, Travelers, and the Discourse of Water / Libros, viajes, viajeros y el discurso del agua”
July 11-15, 2022, Europa-Universität Flensburg

Opening Keynote Lecture (online)

Mapping the World, Mapping the Mind. Juan de la Cosa’s ‘Carta’ and the Cartographic Conceptions of Islands and Archipelagic Transcendence

by Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette (Berlin-Branderburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Monday, July 11, 2022. (Opening Ceremony: 6:30 pm; Lecture beginning: 7:00 pm).
Online: https://uni-flensburg.webex.com/uni-flensburg/j.php?MTID=m29f3221c10894691e74f7c0a1f9e1570

Designed for the Spanish Kings in 1500 and rediscovered by Alexander von Humboldt, the famous “Carta” by Juan de la Cosa is the first World Map explaining the recent discoveries in what later will be later called “Americas” and gives a deep insight into the philosophical backgrounds and legitimations of the Iberian expansion in late 15th Century. Between Medieval Religion and the Sciences of the Modern World, Juan de la Cosa’s “Carta” introduces to the Sea of Knowledge of Emerging World History.

Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette is Chair of Romance Literary Studies at the University of Potsdam. He earned the Ph.D. at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau with a thesis on José Martí and habilitated at the Catholic University of Eichstätt on Roland Barthes. He is honorary member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) and member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academia Europaea.

To the programme of the IV International & Interdisciplinary Symposium: https://www.uni-flensburg.de/fileadmin/content/seminare/romanistik/el-agua/programmheft-el-agua.pdf