Please find details below of the first two talks in the next 'Maps and
Society' season.
The whole programme is already up on the permanent webpage, if you want to
plan your visit to London between November and next May:
http://www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html
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 Classics, University of
North Carolina). 'The Artemidorus Papyrus and Its (ancient ?) map of ...
where... ?'
December 3. Dr Carla Lois (Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad de La
Plata). 'Toponymic Landscapes: Ways of Seeing Patagonia in Early Argentinean
Maps'.
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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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Tony Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
