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Subject: Colonial Cartography working group
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:34:28 +1000
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>

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ICA WORKING GROUP ON THE HISTORY OF COLONIAL CARTOGRAPHY IN THE 19TH AND
EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

At a recent meeting the Executive Committee of the International
Cartographic Association  approved the formation of a Working Group on the
History of Colonial Cartography in the 19th and early 20th centuries
(1801-1914) . This Working Group is chaired by Prof Elri Liebenberg of
South Africa with Privatdozent Dr Imre Josef Demhardt of the Geographisches
Institut, University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany, as Co-Chair.
Although some of the members of the Working Group are also members of the
ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and vice versa, the Working
Group operates separately from the Commission and has its own terms of
reference.  These are

-Establishing a database of interested researchers and encouraging
cooperative activities
-Holding a minimum of two meetings to monitor and discuss research work
undertaken
-Publishing in accredited international journals
-Preparing a book of comparative studies to be based on research undertaken
between 2003 and 2007.

The Working Group has adopted the principle of two focus areas which run in
tandem, each over a four-year period starting and ending with an ICA
conference.  For the period 2003-2007 research within the Working Group
will focus on Subsaharan Africa, and for the period 2005-2009  on
Australasia (South-East Asia - Australia and New Zealand - Pacific
Islands). Thus far members of the Working Group have already contributed to
a Special Issue of Cartographica Helvetica on Southern and East Africa
which is to be published shortly.  Research on the cartography of colonies
falling outside the above-mentioned focus areas will also be  accommodated.
The research results of Working Group members will, as far as possible, be
published in accredited international journals and presented in specialised
sessions at  the 22nd International Cartographic Conference in La Coruña,
Spain, in July 2005 and the 23rd International Cartographic Conference in
Moscow in 2007. Interested researchers should contact Elri Liebenberg at
[log in to unmask] or Imre Josef Demhardt at
[log in to unmask] for more particulars.

Elri Liebenberg
Chair: ICA WG on the History of Colonial Cartography