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Subject:        New World Cartographies Mapping America 1500 - 1776
Date:   Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:46:42 +0100
From:   Nick Millea <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear All,

This message has been cross-posted to: LIBER-GdC, Lis-maps, MapHist,
Maps-L and The Friends of TOSCA.

Possibly of interest,
Nick Millea


New World Cartographies Mapping America 1500 - 1776

Friday 2 November & Saturday 3 November 2007

At the American Museum in Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath.


The American Museum in Britain and the Rothermere American Institute at
the University of Oxford are now taking registrations for the conference
“New World Cartographies: Mapping America, 1500-1776” to be held at The
American Museum, Claverton Manor, Bath, Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd
November, 2007.

This symposium, which will be held in conjunction with an exhibition of
maps of early America at the Museum, will focus on cartographic
representations (and misrepresentations) of America before the
Declaration of Independence in 1776 which gave rise to the present-day
United States.

Plenary address by Professor Matthew H. Edney
/Director, History of Cartography Project, Department of Geography,
University of Wisconsin and Associate Professor and Faculty Scholar,
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education,
University of Southern Maine/

“Colonial New England in Multiple Geographical Discourses”

Tracks will include:

          o Theories of Cartography
          o Native American Cultures
          o Exploration and Empire
          o Historicizing Geography

This symposium will be of interest to those interested in the history of
exploration and cartography, as well as those involved with the study of
early American history, geography and culture.

For more information and to register, go to:

_http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/seminars/index.html_


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Nick Millea

Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
Tel: 01865 287119
Fax: 01865 277139
Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Homepage: _http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/_
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