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The Image of Maps/Maps of the Imagination 12 - 13 May 2006, Ashmolean Museum, the University of Oxford [log in to unmask] Keynote Speaker: Dr. Catherine Delano-Smith, Institute for Historical Research 'From Diagram to Portrait: Recognising the Reader in the Map Image' Speakers: Dr. Jan Blanc, University of Lausanne 'The Picturing Impulse in Dutch Cartography : Paintings as Models for Maps in the Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art Theories and Practices' Dr. Laura Nenzi, Florida International University 'Maps, Movements, and the Malleable Spaces of Early Modern Japan' Dr. Steve Wharton, University of Sussex 'Le Piante et i Ritratti..: Cipriano Piccolpasso's Plans and Portraits of the Towns and Lands of Sixteenth-Century Umbria'. Anne MacLeod, University of Glasgow ''All this Part Barron Hills': Cultural Perceptions of the Scottish Highlands in Eighteenth Century Maps' Barton Keeton, Duke University 'Making Scenes of Vancouver's Voyage: Producing the Enlightenment Cartographic Sublime' Dr. Max Moerman, Barnard College, Columbia University 'Mapping India in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination' Dr. Richard J. Smith, Rice University, Texas 'Maps, Myths and Multiple Realities: Images of the Other in Late Imperial China' Dr. Moya Carey 'The Invisible Layer: Collating Classical and Arabian Uranometry in Ibn Al-Sufi's Poem on the Constellations (c. 1000AD)' Dr. Victoria Morse, Carleton College 'Mapping the Spiritual Cosmos in the Manuscripts of Opicino de Canistris (1296-ca. 1354)' Asao Sarukawa, University of East Anglia ''Wandering Around While Sitting': The Pleasure of Reading and Imagining the Great Map of Edo' Jessica Maier, Columbia University 'Mapping Past and Present: Renaissance Responses to the Challenge of Imaging Rome' To register please download a registration form from: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball2144 Registration shall be £20.00 or £15.00 for students. Please register by 1 May 2006.