Online events: Maps and the History of Cartography - Warburg Institute, University of London: Spring 2022
Mapping Worlds: Medieval to Modern - short course
Monday-Friday, 25-29 April 2022: 3:00-5:00pm [UK time]: online via zoom.
Course tutor: Alessandro Scafi (Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Cultural History, Warburg Institute)
The aim of this course is to explore how maps have served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds from around CE 1200 to 1700. The focus is on the iconographic character of maps and the complex relation between art and science that is found in mapmaking throughout history. Students will be introduced to a wide range of images from different time periods and made for a variety of purposes, with the intent of drawing together art history, literature, philosophy and visual culture. Theoretical issues will be approached concerning, for example, the association of word and image, the definition of maps and their difference from views and diagrams, but the background and purpose of individual examples will be also discussed.
Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/mapping-worlds-2022
Maps and Society online lecture series
Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King's College) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). All lectures free to attend online via zoom with advance booking.
Thursday 10 March 2022: 5.00-7.00pm
Dr Catherine Scheybeler, Hakluyt Society Speaker (rare book and manuscript consultant): 'Cartography as Naval Power: The Atlas Marítimo de España (1789)'
Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-catherine-scheybeler
Thursday 7 April 2022: 5.00-7.00pm
Lexie Cook (2021-2022 Getty Foundation Fellow, Columbia University, New York): 'Island, Archive, Além-Mar: the Insular Mechanics of Iberian Expansion'
Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-iberian-expansion
Thursday 19 May 2022: 5.00-7.00pm
Dr Kevin Wittmann (Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain): 'Turning the world inside out: T-O maps in an English almanac (c 1420)'
Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-english-almanac
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