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Subject:        Re: Newberry Library events in autumn 2007
Date:   Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:57:21 -0500
From:   Jim Akerman <[log in to unmask]>
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 Jim Akerman wrote:

Early November the Newberry Library will be hosting both the Nebenzahl
Lectures and the annual meeting of the Society for the History of
Discoveries. Please find the details below and at the websites
indicated. We are looking forward to seeing you this fall.

The Sixteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of
Cartography and the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the
History of Discoveries

The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of
Cartography is pleased to announce the Sixteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr.,
Lectures in the History of Cartography, to be held at the Newberry
Library on November 8-10, 2007. This year’s series, “*Ancient
Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and
Rome,”* examines recent trends in the study of the mapmaking of the
ancient cultures ringing the Mediterranean Sea. The series has been
organized for the Smith Center by Dr. Richard Talbert (University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill), and will include seven papers on topics
ranging from local to cosmological mapping. For more than 40 years the
Nebenzahl Lectures series has been dedicated to its mission to present
current scholarship in the history of cartography to general audiences
thanks to the ongoing support of Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl. Further
information about the Lectures, including a preliminary program, local
accommodations, and advance registration, is available on the Smith
Center’s website (www.newberry.org/smith/smithhome.html
<http://www.newberry.org/smith/smithhome.html).

The 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries
will follow the Nebenzahl Lectures at the Newberry Library from Sunday,
November 11 to Tuesday, November 13, 2007. A registration fee will be
required to attend the Society’s meeting; receptions and dinners are
included in the program. Further information is available on the
Society’s website (www.sochistdisc.org <http://www.sochistdisc.org/).
The Society for the History of Discoveries is dedicated to stimulating
interest in teaching, research, and publishing in the history of
geographical exploration. Founded in 1960, the Society includes members
from several academic disciplines as well as archivists, non-affiliated
scholars, and laypersons with an interest in history. The scope of the
Society's activities encompasses the discovery, exploration, and mapping
of the earth's land and sea surface from earliest times to the present -
the explorers and the explored.

Cultural institutions throughout Chicago are planning cartographic
exhibitions for the Festival of Maps. Heading this list is “Maps:
Finding Our Place in the World,” a major cartographic exhibition at the
Field Museum jointly organized by the Museum and the Newberry Library.
The Newberry Library is also mounting two exhibitions. “Ptolemy’s
/Geography/ and Renaissance Mapmakers” will feature the Newberry’s
stellar collection of early printed editions of the /Geography/.
“Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the West”/ /examines the role of
maps in envisioning the American West from the sixteenth through the
early twentieth centuries, with a particular eye to Chicago’s emergence
as a metropolis and center for the production of maps. Both exhibitions
will run from November 3, 2007 to February 16, 2008. More information
about these exhibits may be found at
http://www.newberry.org/exhibits/main.html.


Jim Akerman

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