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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:52:54 +0100
From: Tony Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Maps & Society lectures
'MAPS AND SOCIETY'
(Warburg Institute, London)
TENTH SERIES
PROGRAMME FOR 2000-2001
2000
October 26. Dr Erin Blake (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington,
D.C.). Zograscopes, Topographical Views, and Polite Society circa
1750.
November 16. Dr Graham Burnett (History of Science Program,
University of Oklahoma). Masters of All They Surveyed: Cartography,
Exploration, Geography and a British El Dorado.
December 7. Peter Chasseaud (Department of Earth & Environmental
Sciences, University of Greenwich). Artillery's Astrologers: Mapping
the Western Front, 1914-1918.
2001
January 25. Dr Georgina Endfield (Department of Geography, University
of Nottingham). Images of Contested Space in Sixteenth-Century
Michoacan, West Central Mexico.
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** Sponsored by The Hakluyt Society **
February 22. James W. Kelly (Worcester College, University of Oxford).
The Voyage of the Trinity in the Pacific (1680-2); Buccaneers,
Chartmakers, and the Keys to a Private Sea.
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March 8. Professor Daniel L. Smail (Department of History, Fordham
University). From Verbal to Graphic Cartographies: The Case of Late
Medieval Marseille.
March 22. Dr Roger Batty (Faculty of Economics, Keio University,
Japan). Roman Mapping of the Provinces.
April 26. Dr Noël Golvers (Faculty of Arts, Catholic University
Leuven). European Jesuits as Cartographers of China in the Last
Decades of the Seventeenth Century.
May 24. Dr Margriet Hoogvliet (Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen). Early Modern Cartography and the Studiolo.
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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.
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Admission is free and 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 Dr 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: the International Journal for the History of Cartography.
A new development this season is an extra, joint meeting with the
Hakluyt Society.
DISPLAYS on the theme of each lecture, at the Royal Geographical
Society, are arranged by Francis Herbert, Hon. F.R.G.S.
Enquiries to the following please, not to the Warburg Institute. If
you have a convenient noticeboard, request a display copy of the
programme. Since the talks represent work in progress, there is no
associated publication programme.
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Tony Campbell, Map Librarian
British Library Map Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB ## NB. You must now use the NEW style phone/fax ##
Phone: 020 7412 7525 International: +44 20 7412 7525
Fax: 020 7412 7780 International: +44 20 7412 7780
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Please see, bookmark and PROVIDE LINKS to:-
1. The British Library Map Library homepage:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/maps
2. Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject:
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/
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