May be of interest, apologies for duplication.
Alberta
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SYMPOSIUM
on the
HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY IN AFRICA
Cape Town, South Africa
4-5 August 2003
Preliminary Programme
Venue: The National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus, situated at
the northern end of the Company Gardens near St George's Anglican Cathedral
and the Houses of Parliament.
Organizers: Dr Christopher Board, Chair of the ICA Commission on the
History of Cartography and formerly of the London School of Economics and
Political Science, and Prof Elri Liebenberg, Vice-President of the ICA and
formerly of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies,
University of South African.
Opening of the Symposium: The Symposium will be officially opened on
Monday, 4 August 2003 at 9:00 by the Hon. Dr Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the
South African Parliament. Dr Ginwala is a map enthusiast who was
instrumental in the staging of the Parliamentary Millennium Project
(www.pmpsa.gov.za) which also comprised an exhibition called Perspectives
on and of Africa. As part of this exhibition, Parliament exhibited
facsimiles of well-known and lesser known maps, one of them being a
facsimile of the Da Ming Hun Yi Tu or Amalgamated Map of the Great Ming
Empire, the original which resides in the First Historical Archive of China.
This map allegedly dates back to 1402 and is interesting in that it shows
the shape of the African continent relatively accurately.
Scientific Programme: The Symposium will comprise two days of papers, on
Monday 4 August and Tuesday 5 August, with adequate time for discussion
after each. There will also be an opportunity to examine the programme of
the Commission since it was re-launched in 1999, anticipating the Chairman's
report to the ICA General Assembly at ICC2003 in Durban in 10-16 August
2003.
Monday, 4 August 2003
09:30 Opening address by the Hon Dr Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the Houses
of Parliament, Republic of South Africa.
10:30 Break for refreshments.
11:00 Norman Etherington
Department of History
University of Western Australia
AUSTRALIA
Topic: Representing "tribes" on 19th century maps of South
Africa.
11:45 Mirela Slukan Altic
Head: Institute of Archivistics, Historical Ancillary Science and Filmology
Zagreb
CROATIA
Topic: Mirko Seljan (1871-1913), Croatian explorer and Cartographer of
Africa.
12:30 Gerald J Rizzo
AFRITERRA Foundation
Boston MA
USA
Topic: Lake Debo: A Beacon through the Ages.
13:15 Light buffet lunch
14:15 Ferjan Ormeling, Secretary-General of the International
Cartographic Association
Professor of Cartography
Faculty of Geographic Sciences
Utrecht University
The Netherlands
Topic: Models of place-names change and European expansion
15:00 Diane Butler
Associate Curator/Collections Manager
Picker Art Gallery
Colgate University
Hamilton
USA
Topic: Eye-witnessing Africa: A Blaeu Map and the Look of the
Book
15:45 R J Davies
Emeritus Professor of Urban Geography
University of Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA
Topic: The Cape Town Plan - a cartographic interpretation.
16:30 Exhibition viewing, at which a glass of Cape wine or juice will be
offered to all participants.
Tuesday, 5 August 2003
9:00 Harry Steward
Graduate School of Geography
Clark University
Worcester MA
USA
Topic: The Arc that never was: Jules Verne, Southern Africa, and Meridiana.
9:45 Lindsay F Braun
PhD Candidate and Fulbright Fellow
Rutgers University
New Brunswick NJ
USA
Topic: The Arc of the 30th Meridian and Geography in British Africa.
10:30 Refreshments
11:00 Elri Liebenberg
Emeritus Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies
University of South Africa
Pretoria
South Africa
Topic: From Barrow to Jeppe: The development of 19th century cartography
in South Africa.
11:45 Christopher Board
Chairman: ICA Commission on the History of Cartography
Formerly London School of Economics
LONDON
UK
Topic: An evaluation of survey and mapping in depicting land cover in
selected parts of the Eastern Cape, 1752-2000.
12:30 Light buffet lunch
13:45 Lindy Stiebel
Professor of English Studies
University of Durban-Westville
Durban
SOUTH AFRICA
Topic: A Suitable Match: marrying technology to the past in the "Thomas
Baines and the Great Map" CD-ROM project.
14:30 Refreshments
15:00 Further discussion of issues raised.
16:30 Closing remarks, including information on the meeting at Durban of
the Commission and its future programme.
Exhibition: There will be a Map Exhibition in the National Library of
South Africa which will emphasise the cartography of Southern Africa up to
about 1920 when the South African Trigonometrical Survey was established.
The Exhibition will draw on maps from the South African Archives (Cape
Archives Repository) and the South African National Library and will be
curated by Margaret Cartwright, formerly Map Librarian at the SANL and
author of A bibliography of maps of Africa and Southern Africa in printed
books, 1500-1570. (Cape Town, University of Cape Town Libraries, 1976), and
Maps of the South Western Cape of Good Hope: a bibliography (Cape Town, SA
Library, 1992). The Exhibition will be open to all who are interested in the
history of mapping in Africa before 1920 and is particularly aimed at those
delegates who wish to see something of the cultural heritage of South Africa
before travelling to the main ICA Conference in Durban which starts
officially on 10 August 2003.
Social Programme: On Wednesday, 6 August there will be an optional
excursion to visit historic towns and winelands in the vicinity of Cape
Town. Places on the itinerary are Stellenbosch, a famous university town
situated in the heart of the winelands; Paarl, the home of the
world-renowned KWV wines, and Franschhoek, the picturesque valley where many
of the French Huguenots settled in the late 17th century. This tour will
only take place of there is sufficient demand for it.
Registration: The registration fee of ZAR800 (currently approximately
$US100) for full delegates and ZAR300 for accompanying persons will entitle
delegates and their accompanying persons to attend the Symposium and
Exhibition, to receive one copy of the Exhibition Catalogue and one copy of
the Conference Proceedings, and to share in refreshments and lunches on 4
and 5 August. The charge for the day-tour to the winelands will be extra
and will be collected in Cape Town. Delegates can pay for the Symposium
either by bank draft or bank transfer (see the accompanying Registration
Form), or by presenting cash to the Conference Organizers in Cape Town.
Credit cards can unfortunately not be accepted.
Cancellations and refunds:
Refund (less 10%) if written cancellation is received before 15 June 2003
Refund (less 50%) if written cancellation is received on or before 20 July
2003
No refund will be granted after 20 July 2003.
Accommodation: Group accommodation has been arranged at the Park Inn, a
three-star hotel on Greenmarket Square in the heart of Cape Town, about
10-minutes walk from the National Library. The prices are R396 per night
for a single room with breakfast, and R451 per night for a double room (2
persons sharing) for bed and breakfast. The hotel management has been
alerted to the fact that delegates will arrive on either 2 or 3 August, and
that some delegates might want to stay on until 8 or 9 August 2003. The
hotel website is www.parkinn.com
Delegates should book their accommodation independently by contacting
[log in to unmask] and mentioning that they are part of the
International Cartography group booking. The telephone of the Park Inn is
++27 21 423 2050 and the fax number ++ 27 21 423 2059.
Submission of papers:
Participants must prepare a final, camera-ready copy of their papers for
inclusion in the symposium Proceedings and forward it by e-mail to:
[log in to unmask] before 30 June 2003. Should the electronic version
of your paper not be received by this date, it will not appear in the
official symposium Proceedings.
Please note the following when preparing your paper:
. The document should be sent in MSWord or Word Perfect format
(latest version possible).
. The document should be sent as an attachment.
. The length of your paper should not exceed 12 A4 pages,
illustrations included.
. All manuscripts must be single line-spaced.
. All papers should be accompanied by an abstract of about 250-300
words.
. Provide the following: Paper title, name of author, affiliation of
author, e-mail address of author.
. Illustrations should be part of the text and should be
black-and-white.
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