Herewith the 'Maps and Society' programme for the next season.
Tony Campbell
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'MAPS AND SOCIETY'
The Warburg Institute
Nineteenth Series: 2009-2010
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Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano Smith
(Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library,
British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are
held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute, University of
London,Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 5.00 pm. Admission is free.
Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Enquiries: +44
(0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano Smith) or < [log in to unmask] >.
2009
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November 5. Professor Richard Talbert (Department of History, University of
North Carolina). 'The Artemidorus Papyrus and Its (ancient ?) Map of ...
Where ... ?'
December 3. Dr Carla Lois (Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional
de La Plata). 'Toponymic Landscapes: Ways of Seeing Patagonia in Early
Argentinean
Maps'.
2010
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January 21. Alexander Johnson (Department of History, University of Exeter).
'Board of Trade and Its Cartographic Agenda in British North America,
1748-1782'.
MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
February 25. Captain Michael Barritt, RN (Vice-President, Hakluyt Society).
'"Practical Men of Science": Operational Surveys in the French Revolutionary
and Napoleonic Wars, and the Emergence of the RN Hydrographic
Specialisation'.
March 18. Dr Alexander Kent (School of Geography, University of
Southampton). 'Landscape or Blandscape? Exploring Cartographic Style in
European Topographic Maps of the 20th Century'.
April 15. Dr Adam Mosley (Department of History and Classics, University of
Swansea). 'Cosmography and Cartography: Their Relationship Revisited'.
April 29. Dr Chet Van Duzer (Independent Scholar). 'Settling Disputes
through Cartography in Fourteenth-Century Palma de Mallorca: The Map of the
Siquia Aqueduct'.
May 27. Dr Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación,
Madrid). 'European Encounters with 'the Other' in Sixteenth-Century
Cartography'.
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This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of
the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the International Map Collectors'
Society, and Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd. It is supported by
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography.
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The web version of the programme
<http://www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html> can be bookmarked, as it will
always contain the current details. For a comprehensive list of talks and
meetings in the history of cartography, see John Docktor's 'Calendar'
<http://home.earthlink.net/~docktor/index.htm>
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