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THE WARBURG INSTITUTE
University of London
Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB
MAPS AND SOCIETY
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 at 5.00 pm. Admission is free.
Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20
8346 5112 (Dr Delano-Smith) or [email protected]
TWENTIETH SERIES: 2010-2011
2010
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
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?
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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.
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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.
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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