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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). TWENTY-FIRST SERIES: 2011-2012 2011 November 3 Professor Jean Boutier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille). Without Cassini: Colbert and his Provincial Cartographers, 1660-1683. December 1 Dr Emilie d'Orgeix ((Department of History of Art, Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3 University). French Colonial Mapping in the Americas (1635-1776). 2012 January 26 Nils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and School of Gender, Culture and History, Södertörn University, Sweden). White Maps of Africa: The Making of Blank Spaces, 1700-1800. _____________________________________________________________________________________ MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY February 16 Francis Herbert (Former Curator of Maps, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)). Maps for The Hakluyt Society, 1847-2010: or, from Cosmas to Cook and computers. ____________________________________________________________________________________ March 1 Dr Hilde De Weerdt (Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford). Reasoning with Maps: Amateur Mapmakers in Imperial China (1100-1300). March 15 Professor Imre Demhardt (Department of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA). Alexander von Humboldt and the Scientific Mapping of the Americas. April 19 Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird (School of Advanced Study, University of London). Improved Satin Maps for Ladies' Schools: A New Revenue Stream for Eighteenth-Century Printsellers. May 10 Emeritus Professor Noël Wilkins (Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland Galway). Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832) and Some of His Little-Known Irish Maps and Charts. __________________________________________________________________________________ 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> Tony Campbell i...@tonycampbell.info
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