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‘MAPS IN CONTEXT’
BRITISH LIBRARY ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM
14th June, 2010, 14:00-17:30
British Library Conference Centre
Recent study of maps has attempted to understand the contexts in which maps were produced, and the functions they fulfilled. This symposium will allow for an evaluation of the role of maps in society by examining specific contexts in which maps were made and viewed. These will range from the military to the recreational, covering the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in homes, galleries and newspaper stands.
This symposium is for academic researchers in history, geography, anthropology and art and design.
The symposium is held in conjunction with the British Library exhibition ‘Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art,’ which will focus on the artistic, political, social and symbolic qualities of maps as opposed to their scientific properties. www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps
The symposium will feature the following papers:
Dr Carolyn Anderson
Constructing the Military Landscape: the Board of Ordnance Maps and Plans of Scotland, 1689–1755
Mr Roderick Barron
The Colossus of Rose: Fred W Rose, creator of the Serio-Comic “Octopus” Map 1877
Dr. Lauren Beck
Political use of the crescent moon on sixteenth-century European maps and views of Mexico, Brazil and Protestant Europe
Dr Genevieve Carlton
“Un Mapamondo in Portego”: The Place of Maps in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Homes
Dr Chris Perkins
Exhibitionist Map Display
Dr Hilary L. Turner
Mapped in Wool: the Elizabethan Sheldon Tapestry Maps
The symposium is free of charge and places can be booked by emailing [log in to unmask]
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