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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📍 New on CANOA 🛶 Can a map hide political satire? 🗺️ Our colleague Chet Van Duzer reads a Dutch map by Nicolaes Visscher II, where Phaeton—who lost control of the sun's chariot—becomes an allegory of Louis XIV's boundless ambition. www.canoageopam.org/post/alegori...

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ALEGORIA POLÍTICA DE LUÍS XIV EM UM MAPA HOLANDÊS DA FRANÇA

Chet Van DuzerLazarus Project, University of Rochester, United States. | GEOPAMBrenda Yasmin DeggerTradutora, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil | GEOPAM Durante minhas pesquisas sobre cartuchos c...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

🗺️📖 New publication! Our researcher José María García Redondo has published a new article in Imago Mundi on the oldest known map printed in the Americas, revealing its role in the scientific, political and social debates of colonial Mexico. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0308...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

GEOPAM researcher José María García Redondo is part of the organising team for the International Seminar “Spaces, Representations, Agents and Forms of Resistance in the Early Modern World”. 💻 Online broadcast: saco.csic.es/call/yugatrqz

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🌍 Our colleague from GEOPAM José María García Redondo will be participating in the International Seminar “Artisans of the Territory: Nature, Knowledge, and Processes of Territorialisation in the Hispanic Monarchy (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)”. mapworks.ih.csic.es

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

CfP de Seyni Gueye, una de nuestras colegas de Geopam, forma parte del comité organizador del coloquio internacional “El imperio en los límites: construcciones del territorio colonial americano (siglos XVI y XVII)”. 🌎🗺️

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Our colleage Vanina María Tagle is organising a Pre-LASA colonial session on Monday 25 of May. Everybody welcome to attend! 🤩

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We are happy to share that the GEOPAM website has now been updated. We invite you to explore the site, discover our new content, projects, publications, and recent activities 🌎📚👀 🔗 www.geopam.org

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Our colleague Paolo Vignolo will be presenting at two events tomorrow! 🎤 Join him for thoughtful conversations about history, memory, and how we make sense of the past through words, images, and narratives 📚✨ Don’t miss these engaging discussions!

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

✨📣 A new publication from our colleagues Carmen Channing and Vicente Pajuelo in Revista de Indias: "The failed Scottish Colony in Darien (1698-1700): an entangled history". Congratulations on your paper! 👏 revistadeindias.revistas.csic.es/index.php/re...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🌊📖 New publication! Four of our colleagues contributed to a new article in Revista de Indias exploring how expeditions reshaped the “unknown” and ideas of habitability - a really fresh look to a fascinating topic! 🌎✨ 🔗 revistadeindias.revistas.csic.es/index.php/re...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Our researcher Elizabeth Montañez Sanabria will take part in “Encontros Piratas” 🏴‍☠️🌊📚 📅 14 April 2026 🗺️ Talk: Pirates, cartography, and circulation of information 📡 Live on YouTube ▶️ @EncontrosPiratas Join us! 🙌

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🌊📖 New publication! Edited by two of our researchers, Guadalupe Pinzón and Flor Trejo, Geografías acuáticas. Espacios de conectividad y sociabilidad explores rivers, seas, and lakes in Mesoamerica, New Spain, and Mexico as spaces of connection and sociability. 🔗 historicas.unam.mx/publicacione...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📍Sanlúcar de Barrameda A few moments from our visit to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, where we wrapped up the conference “Mapping Frameworks: Cartography and Territoriality in the Americas”.🗺️ Read Carmen Channing’s insights on our website. Available in Research → Experiences of Place. www.geopam.org

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The fort was built on the banks of the Guaporé River in 1775 to mark the Portuguese presence on the frontiers between the Iberian empires in South America. See some photos from the trip! 🧭🏕🌳

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Our colleagues from Brazil, professors Junia Furtado, Andréa Doré, and Maria de Fátima Costa, embarked on an expedition to the Real Forte Príncipe da Beira, on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, in November 2025. 🧭🏕🌳

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🎙️ Our researcher, Javiera Jaque, will present “Indigenous Funerary Rites in Seventeenth-century Santiago de Chile: Confraternal Festive Practices and Death” at the Americas Initiative Guest Speaker Series. 📅 March 3, 2026 | 4 pm 📍 SO 112, Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton)

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📚✨ NEW PUBLICATION ✨📚 Geopam researcher Sabrina Guerra Moscoso has contributed to New Directions in Hispanic Atlantic History. In her chapter, she explores the transoceanic circulation of botanical knowledge from a maritime and environmental perspective 🌱🚢. 🔗 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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New Directions in Hispanic Atlantic History | Francisco A. Eissa-Barro

This book brings the latest research and evolving historiographical developments on the Hispanic Atlantic world to a student audience. It highlights how the

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Abstracts (250-350 words) will be accepted until January 16, 2026 at the email addresses of the coordinators or at JECM2026@miuandes.cl Maria Gandini (jgandini@unsam.edu.ar) Javiera Hidalgo (javieraj@vt.edu) Malena Palmero (mlpalmero@unsam.edu.ar) Diego Mellado Gomez (diego.mellado@usach.cl)

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Our colleague from GEOPAM, Javiera Jaque Hidalgo, is organizing a panel at the XV Jornadas de Estudios Coloniales y Modernos, in Santiago, Chile, from July 27 to 31, 2026! "Fronteras Móviles, Historias Situadas: Representaciones de los Márgenes del Imperio Español"

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Join us to discover the vision behind this great exhibition and glimpse the extraordinary world of cartographic imagination. Available on Geopam's YouTube channel:

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“Imaginary Maps, Imaginaries of Maps,” by Cristina Ion and Julie Garel-Grislinde.

YouTube video by GEOPAM Red de Investigación Internacional

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

On October 28, our Cartographic Cultures series offered an exclusive preview of the upcoming exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, titled "Imaginary Maps, Imaginaries of Maps." This fascinating event was led by the exhibition’s two curators, Cristina Ion and Julie Garel-Grislinde.

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

At the next conference of the Nodo Culturas Cartográficas, Teresa Shawcross, professor at Princeton University, will present her research "Malleable Geographies: mapping China on the Americas in Christopher Columbus' annotation of Marco Polo's description of the world." This Friday, November 14th!

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Travel accounts from remote and unknown territories offer perspectives from the ship that allowed explorers to “narrate the lived experience, describe the observed world, and draw new maps in order to possess it.” www.canoageopam.org/post/los-inh...

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LOS INHÓSPITOS CONFINES DEL IMPERIO: RÍO DE LA PLATA Y LA REGIÓN MAGALLÁNICA

María Jesús BenitesUniversidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina | GEOPAMENTRADILLA: El descubrimiento europeo del Estrecho de Magallanes proyectó su dinámica en el proceso de exploración e integración t...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

In the latest publication of our Canoa, María Jesús Benites, professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, invites us to explore the European imagination on the Río de la Plata and its connections with the Strait of Magellan and Patagonia.

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This book recapitulates the history of New Spain from a maritime perspective. It seeks to explain how, after this territory became part of global networks, it became a central zone in the maritime networks that developed in the Atlantic and the Pacific. 🔗 historicas.unam.mx/publicacione...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos, professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of Geopam, just published her book "Introducción a la historia marítima de Nueva España". Congratulations!

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We invite you to the colloquium "Penser le monde, écrire pour dominer? Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas et l’entreprise géo-historiographique des Habsbourg d’Espagne (1580-1625)", on November 6th and 7th, in Paris. Some members of Geopam will participate in the event. Check it out!

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Due to their stinging trichomes, nettles may not have the best reputation. Even so, this wandering herb has numerous uses and properties, explored for centuries in medicine, manufacturing, and even cooking. Learn more in the Herbal Calendar on our CANOA. 🌿🌾

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Why was South America referred to as Peru, Peruana, or América Peruana? What role did Potosí play in shaping such designations? And how did these perceptions affect Brazil? The book offers new insights into such questions, exploring continuities and shifts in European maps of South America.

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We congratulate Andréa Doré, professor at the Federal University of Paraná and member of Geopam, on the publication of her book "Mapping South American Promises: Potosí, Brazil, and European Visions"!

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🔗 us06web.zoom.us/j/8981811263...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This Thursday, 9/11, Kaytlin Ramírez Opazo will present her research on maritime visualities of the Port of Arica. The lecture will be in Spanish (link below). We look forward to seeing you there! 🗺️🌊

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Scholars interested in participating should submit their proposals in Spanish or English to congresonaufragios@gmail.com by March 31, 2026. Check out the website for more information: sites.google.com/view/congres...

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Presentación

Viña del Mar, Valparaíso (CHILE), 26-28 de noviembre de 2026

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We invite you to the III Congreso Internacional Naufragios, to take place on November 26-28, 2026, at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile! The Congress is an opportunity to bring together scholars with the aim of discussing Early Modern shipwrecks from different disciplines.

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ornamental plant, ingredient for teas and infusions, detail on Greek columns, herb with magical powers: in these and other situations, the acanthus is a companion plant for humans, ants, bees, and hummingbirds. Read our article about this migratory herb in the Herbal Calendar in CANOA! 🌿🌾

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The dandelion is one of the most well-known migratory plants. We find it in parks, on paths, in gardens, and in cracks in the asphalt. Read our article about this small and resilient flower, including its culinary uses! 🌱💮 www.canoageopam.org/post/calenda...

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Jaguar-men are present in Indigenous narratives of both the past and present. They serve as a reminder that the past is a valuable source for understanding the many ways in which our behavior as humans varies according to our diverse encounters with other living beings. 🐆

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) is the newest addition to our Herbal Calendar of traveling plants! This herb originates from the Mediterranean, but it's in Chile, during the spring, that its intense blue flowers are harvested and its raw stems served in a delicious and sophisticated salad. 🌿🥗

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Chicory is the third plant in our Herbal Calendar. Charismatic and with blue flowers, it is the country girl that appears on roadsides and around the edges of plantations. Its multiple medicinal and culinary uses make this plant a longtime companion of humans. 💐🌿

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Read the text by Kaytlin Ramírez Opazo, historian at the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile, on images of llamas! Addressing both European and Indigenous perspectives, Kaytlin argues that placing these camelids, so important to the history of the Andes, at the center of visual analysis is an +

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

With a strong personality, the thornless blackberry grows quickly and travels long distances. From Mexico to Uruguay, this plant has multiple uses and is used by different cultures for a variety of purposes. Check it out in our Herbal Calendar, with a delicious blackberry crumble recipe! 🌿🌱

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GEOPAM @geopam.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We invite you to read the essay by Andréa Doré, one of the most recent publications in CANOA! In her text, Andréa demonstrates how the simple details of the landscape, like a tree on top of a hill, can carry meanings that go far beyond spatial orientation. 🌳 Check it out on www.canoageopam.org

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