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Subject:        Oxford conference: The Image of Maps - Conference programme
Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:49:42 +0100
From:   Nick Millea <[log in to unmask]>


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Dear All,

Apologies for cross-posting, but this event may be of interest.

Nick Millea

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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:39:01 +0000
From: Steven Stowell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The Image of Maps Conference Programme
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We are pleased to announce the programme for the conference 'The Image of
Maps/Maps of the Imagination'.

We believe that this event promises to be a stimulating exchange of ideas
about the use maps/mental maps in historical research. We hope that you
consider attending the conference - registration forms can be found at the
website http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball2144/

Best wishes,
Steven Stowell & Tania Woloshyn

The Image of Maps/Maps of the Imagination

12-13 May 2006 Ashmolean Museum, The University of Oxford

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Keynote Speaker: * ** *Dr. Catherine Delano-Smith, Institute for Historical
Research

*From Diagram to Portrait: Recognising the Reader in the Map Image*

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Speakers:

Dr. Jan Blanc, University of Lausanne

*The Picturing Impulse in Dutch Cartography : Paintings as Models for Maps
in the Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art Theories and Practices *


Dr. Laura Nenzi, Florida International University

*Maps, Movements, and the Malleable Spaces of Early Modern **Japan***


Dr. Steve Wharton, University of Sussex

*'Le Piante et i Ritratti..: Cipriano Piccolpasso's Plans and Portraits of
the Towns and Lands of Sixteenth-Century **Umbria**'.*


Anne MacLeod, University of Glasgow

*'All this Part Barron Hills': Cultural Perceptions of the Scottish
Highlands in Eighteenth Century Maps*


Barton Keeton, Duke University

*Making Scenes of **Vancouver**'s Voyage: Producing the Enlightenment
Cartographic Sublime*


Dr. Max Moerman, Barnard College, Columbia University

*Mapping **India** in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination*


Dr. Richard J. Smith, Rice University, Texas

*Maps, Myths and Multiple Realities: Images of the Other in Late Imperial **
China***


Dr. Moya Carey

*The Invisible Layer: Collating Classical and Arabian Uranometry in Ibn
Al-Sufi's Poem on the Constellations (c. 1000AD)*


Dr. Victoria Morse, Carleton College

*Mapping the Spiritual Cosmos in the Manuscripts of Opicino de Canistris
(1296-ca. 1354) *


Asao Sarukawa, University of East Anglia

*'Wandering Around While Sitting': The Pleasure of **Reading** and Imagining
the Great Map of **Edo***


Jessica Maier, Columbia University

*Mapping Past and Present: Renaissance Responses to the Challenge of Imaging
**Rome***

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To register please download a registration form from:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball2144



Registration shall be £20.00 or £15.00 for students.

Please register by 1 May 2006.
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