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"MAPS AND SOCIETY" LECTURE SERIES
Warburg Institute, London
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PROGRAMME FOR 1996-7
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1996
October 31 Professor Claude Nicolet (University of Paris I)
"Cartography in the Roman Administration: Maps,
Town Plans and Development Plans".
November 21 Dr Liba Taub (Whipple Museum, Cambridge)
"Celestial Mapping: Representation or
Invention"?
December 12 Professor Jeremy Black (Department of History,
University of Exeter)
"Political Ideology and Historical Atlas Maps in
the Early Twentieth Century".
1997
January 30 Dr Peter Vujakovic (Department of Geography,
Christ Church College, Canterbury)
"Poison Pens: Maps and Mapping in Satirical
Political Graphics (1778-1977)".
February 27 Dr Jerry Brotton (School of English, University
of Leeds)
"Imagining Empires: the Cartographic Image in
Early Sixteenth-century Europe".
April 17 Peter Barber (Map Library, The British Library)
"'A tille full of Plattes': Henry VIII's Maps".
May 1 Earl B. McElfresh (McElfresh Map Co., Olean, New
York)
"Rapid Field Sketching: Making Maps for American
Civil War Armies (1861-1865)".
May 29 Molly Bourne (Department of Fine Arts, Harvard
University)
"Francesco II Gonzaga, Map Collecting, and Map
Mural Cycles in Late Fifteenth-century Mantua".
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Meetings are held at the University of London, Warburg Institute,
Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 5.00 pm on a THURSDAY. Admission
is free. Each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are *most*
welcome.
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This lecture series in the history of cartography is
convened by Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) and
Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research,
University of London).
The programme has been made possible through the generous
sponsorship of The International Map Collectors' Society, Jonathan
Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd, and Laurence Worms of Ash Rare
Books. It is supported by Imago Mundi.
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Tony Campbell, Map Librarian
British Library Map Library
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG, UK
Phone: 0171 412 7525. International: +44 171 412 7525
Fax: 0171 412 7780. International: +44 171 412 7780
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