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Subject: 'Maps and Society' 2005/2006 programme
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005
From: tony campbell <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>,
[posted to MapHist, Maps-L, lismaps, LIBER GdeC - please excuse duplication]
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'MAPS AND SOCIETY'
The Warburg Institute
Fifteenth Series: 2005-2006
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Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano Smith
(Institute of Historical Research) and Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library,
British Library). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg
Institute, University of London,Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 5.00 pm.
Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are most
welcome. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano Smith) or <
[log in to unmask] >.
2005
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November 3. Dr Jacinta Prunty (Department of Modern History, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth / Research Fellow, Irish Research Council
for the Humanities and Social Sciences) 'The Military Imperative for Town
Mapping: Galway City, Ireland, 1580s to 1740s'.
November 17. Dr Sonja Brentjes (Associate Professor, Aga Khan Institute,
London) 'A Contextual Interpretation of the World Map by Iskandar-Sultan
(d. 1414) in the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul'.
2006
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January 19. Dr Alessandro Scafi (Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni
Culturali, University of Bologna, Italy); Professor Dan Terkla (Department
of English, Illinois Wesley College, U.S.A.); Dominic Harbour (Head of
Communications, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford, U.K.) 'Medieval and
Modern: the Hereford Mappa Mundi (c.1290) on Display'.
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February 16. Emeritus Professor Bruce Lenman (Department of History,
University of St Andrews) 'Cartographic Intelligence and the French Navy
in the Caribbean, c.1679-1711'.
** Meeting sponsored by the Hakluyt Society **
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March 9. Ashley Baynton Williams (Editor, Map Forum) 'Coaxing the Buyer:
Financing and Marketing Broadsheet Maps in 17th and 18th Century Britain'.
April 6. Veronica Della Dora (Post-doctoral Fellow, Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles, U.S.A.) 'Mapping Mount Athos: Renaissance and
Enlightenment Visions'.
** 'The Map in Book History' **
May 4. Anne Bush (University of Hawaii at Manoa / University of Oxford)
'Inscribing the City: Visual Itineraries in Nineteenth-Century Guidebooks to
Rome'.
May 25. Dr Camille Serchuk (Department of Art History, Southern Connecticut
State University, U.S.A) 'Picturing France in the Fifteenth Century: a New
(Old) Map'.
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This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of
The International Map Collectors' Society, Jonathan Potter of Jonathan
Potter Ltd., and Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books. Each lecture is
accompanied by a display, at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington,
arranged by Francis Herbert, Hon FRGS.
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The web version of the programme <
http://www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html > can be bookmarked, as it will
always contain the current details. For a comprehensive list of talks and
meetings in the history of cartography, see John Docktor's 'Calendar' <
http://home.earthlink.net/~docktor/index.htm >
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Tony Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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