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Subject:        FW: Conference announcement - Bath, UK
Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100
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Dear All,
This message has been cross-posted to Lis-maps, MapHist, Maps-L and
various interested individuals.
Nick Millea

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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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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:

/New World Cartographies: Mapping America 1500 – 1776/. Sponsored by The
American Museum in Britain and the Rothermere American Institute at the
University of Oxford. Friday 2 November & Saturday 3 November 2007. To
be held at the American Museum in Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath.

This symposium, which will be held in conjunction with an exhibition of
maps of early America from the American Museum’s rich collections, 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 will be given by 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), on the
subject “Colonial New England in Multiple Geographical Discourses.”
Other panels will include sessions on: “Theories of Cartography,”
“Native American Cultures,” “Exploration and Empire,” and
“Historicizing Geography.” Speakers will include William Boelhower
(Louisiana State), Joy Porter (Swansea), Catherine Armstrong (Warwick),
Joanne Mancini (National University of Ireland), Peter Wood (Duke),
Arwin Smallwood (University of Memphis), April Summitt (Arizona State),
Mark Rosen (Medici Archive Project).

The 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 literature, culture, history and geography.

Conference Costs:

Full conference without dinner £35

Full conference with conference dinner £75

One day (either Friday or Saturday) £17.50

For further information and registration go to
http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/seminars/index.html

Tim Pottle

Assistant Director

Rothermere American Institute

1A South Parks Road

Oxford OX1 3UB

UK

(0)1865 282711

(0)1865 282720

www.rai.ox.ac.uk <http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk>

To see the current RAI Academic Programme click here:
http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/diary/diary_2007-mt.pdf

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