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Subject: J B Harley Research Fellowships in Cartography announced
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:44:50 -0000
From: Mitchell, Rose <[log in to unmask]>
To: <Maps-L>
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*ANNOUNCING THE FIFTEENTH SERIES OF J B HARLEY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN
THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY*
The Trustees of the J B Harley Research Fellowships Trust Fund are
pleased to announce the fifteenth series of awards, offering support to
assist research in the map collections of the United Kingdom.
Awards have been made to:
Ms Carolyn Anderson (University of Edinburgh): 'Constructing the
Military Landscape: Board of Ordnance Maps and Plans of Scotland/
c./1707 to/ c./1815' (4 weeks)
Professor Elio Brancaforte (Tulane University, New Orleans): 'Iran
through Western Eyes: Representations of Safavid Persia in Early-Modern
European Travel Narratives and Maps (1501-1722)' (3 weeks)
Ms Eva Stamoulou (University of Manchester): 'The Early Modern Eastern
Mediterranean: Cartographical Insights on Identity in Venice and its/
Oltremare'/ (2 weeks)
Professor Dan Terkla, (Illinois Wesleyan University) : '/The Hereford/
Mappa Mundi/: Placement, Reception, and Perception/' (3 weeks)
For the period 2007-2011, in addition to the normal J B Harley
Fellowships there are also Harley-Delmas Fellowships funded by the
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, for research on the history of
cartography during the European Renaissance to the Enlightenment/
c./1400-/c./1800.
The first Harley-Delmas Fellow is Mr Jeffers Lennox (Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Canada): 'An Atlantic Borderland: Mapping,
Geographic Knowledge, and Imagining Nova Scotia / l'Acadie / Mi'kma'ki,
1710-1784' (4 weeks )
For details of past awards, numbers of applicants, and extracts from
previous Fellows’ reports, see_
__<<http://www.maphistory.info/harlflws.html>>_ [part of the 'Map
History' gateway site]. This also contains information about applying
for a Fellowship (closing date 1st November each year).
Ms Rose Mitchell, Hon. Sec., Harley Fellowships
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