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'MAPS AND SOCIETY'
The Warburg Institute
TWENTIETH Series: 2010-2011
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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 < [email protected] >.
2010
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November 4. Professor Adrian Seville (formerly City University, London).
'Cartographic Race Games in Europe: Entertainment, Education - or Influence?'
December 2. Professor Meg Roland (English Literature and Writing, Marylhurst
University, Oregon). 'The Compost of Ptolemy and the Gosson Map (1600/1623?):
English Geographic Thought and the Early Modern Print Almanac'.
2011
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January 20. Gillian Hutchinson (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich). 'The
First Two Centuries of Mercator Projection Sea Charts: Positioning the
Practitioners, Leaving the Ships at Sea?'
MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
February 17. Emeritus Professor Roy Bridges (Department of History, University
of Aberdeen). 'Cartography and Credulity: Mapping the Sources of the Nile since
150 AD'.
March 3. Dr John Montague (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin). 'London 1747 and
Dublin 1756: John Rocque's Capital City Maps'.
March 31.Tom Harper (Maps, British Library). 'A Window on the World: Maps in
the European Schoolroom in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'.
May 5. Dr Diarmuid Scully (School of History, University College, Cork).
'Mapping the Farthest Western lands: Gerald of Wales on Ireland and English
Imperium in the Twelfth Century'.
May 26. Professor Emeritus P. D. A. Harvey (Department of History, University
of Durham). 'Local Maps in Medieval Europe. The Last Twenty Years'.
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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 <[email protected]>
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