New Book: *Making Contact. Maps. Identity and Travel*

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

Dear Colleagues,

It please me to inform you that the University of Alberta has just released
*Making Contact. Maps. Identity and Travel,* an interdisciplinary collection
  devoted to the Middle Ages and Early Modernity.

Of interest to Slavists (among others) who study the seventeenth century
is the article by David Frick, "The Bells of Vilnius: Keeping Time in a
City of Many Calendars."

Other articles in the collection are:

- Scott Westrem's "Africa Unbounded: On an Unstudied Mappamundi (ca. 1450)
and Related Cartography."
- Steven Kruger's "(De)Stabilized identities in Medieval Jewish-Christian
Disputations on the Talmud."
- Nakai Ayako's "Jesuit Missionaries and the Earliest Contact between European
and Japanese Culture."
- Linda Woodbridge's "Vagrants Meet Nomads: Rogues, Aborigines, and
Eilizabethan
Subjectivity."
- Paul W. DePasquale's "Re-Writing the Virginian Paradise: The
Conflicted Author(s)
of a late Sixteenth-Century Travel Account."
- Rick H. Lee's "Stylizations of Selfhood in Pierre-Esprit Radisson's Voyages."
- Richard a. Young's "Re-Reading the Past: Cabeza de Vaca's in
History, Fiction,
and Film."

The collection was edited by Glenn Burger, Jonathan Hart, Lesley Cormack and
Natalia Pylypiuk.  This 284 page volume has a Bibliography and an Index.


Best,
N. Pylypiuk, President
Canadian Association of Slavists

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