International Conference on Geography and Empire; Kingston, Ontario, Canada

最近对地理历史的研究试图考察这门学科在其学术核心之外的作用。地理概念和信息已经以各种各样的方式用于多种目的，地理学家作为科学家和实践者在公共政策的发展、维护和转变中发挥了不同的作用。这种关注开始集中的最有趣的话题之一是18世纪到20世纪民族帝国的建立、扩张、管理和解体。该奖项将支持美国地理学家参加一个国际会议，研究地理与帝国之间的相互关系。会议将于1991年4月在加拿大安大略省金斯敦举行，届时将有来自世界各地的大约20位学者参加。这些学者将发表论文并讨论地理学作为一门学科的发展如何在许多不同形式和国家背景下对帝国的技术和意识形态做出贡献。还将关注帝国的经历如何影响地理学作为一门学科和知识体系的发展。已出版的会议记录将传播会议的论文和结果。女王大学和加拿大社会科学与人文研究理事会也为会议提供了支持。本次会议将召集地理和科学史学家、地理学家和相关科学家，就地理学作为一门学科发展的一个重要方面分享观点和见解。除了将来自世界各地的学者聚集在一起，他们很少有机会进行集中的面对面的讨论，该项目还将为确定这一重要主题的新基础研究提供机会。

Recent studies of the history of geography have sought to examine the role of the discipline beyond its academic core. Geographic concepts and information have been used in a wide variety of ways for a multitude of purposes, and geographers as scientists and practitioners have played varying roles in the development, maintenance, and transformation of public policy. One of the most intriguing topics on which this attention has begun to focus has been the establishment, expansion, management, and dissolution of national empires from the 18th into the 20th centuries. This award will support participation by American geographers in an international conference to examine interrelationships between geography and empire. The conference will be held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in April 1991 and will bring together roughly twenty scholars from around the world. These scholars will present papers and discuss issues related to the ways that the development of geography as a discipline contributed to the techniques and ideology of empire in many different forms and national contexts. Attention also will focus on how the experiences of empire influence geography's development as a discipline and as a body of knowledge. A published proceedings will disseminate papers and results of the conference. Support for the conference also has been provided by Queen's University and the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. This conference will convene historians of geography and science, geographers, and related scientists to share perspectives and insights about an important aspect of the development of geography as a discipline. In addition to bringing together scholars from across the globe who have had relatively little opportunity for focused, face-to- face discussions, the project also will provide opportunities for identification of new lines of basic research on this significant topic.