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Subject: 'Maps & Society': next lecture series
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:17:12 +0100
From: "tony campbell" <[log in to unmask]>


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                              'MAPS AND SOCIETY'

                                The Warburg Institute

                           Thirteenth Series: 2003-2004
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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, School of Advanced Study, 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] >.


2003
October 30. Dr Tom de Wesselow (King's College, Cambridge) 'Turning like
the
world': Henry III's 1239 mappamundi and the Winchester Round Table.

November 13.  Jean-Marc Besse (Chargé de recherche, Centre National de
la
Recherche Scientifique, Paris) 'Embrasser la terre d'un seul coup
d'oeil':
The First
Parisian Georamas.

November 27.  Matthew Champion (Independent Landscape Archaeologist and
Heritage Consultant, U.K.) William Cuningham's Cosmographical Glasse
(1558/9) and its Influence on Sixteenth-Century English Urban
Cartography.


2004
January 22.  Professor James Raven (Department of History, University of
Essex) Mapping the London Book Trades:  St Paul's Churchyard,
Paternoster
Row and Fleet Street in the Eighteenth Century.

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Meeting sponsored by the Hakluyt Society:
February 12.  Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Professorial Fellow,
Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London) Maps and
Exploration Revisited: Problems in European Cartography in  the
Sixteenth
Century.
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March 18.  Christopher Fleet (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Analysing Image Colour and Content to Infer Map Authorship: A Case Study
of
the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland and its Sources.

April 22.   Dr Stephanie Coane (Warburg Institute, University of London)
Maps as Illustrations in Printed European Exploration Accounts in the
Late
Eighteenth Century.

May 27.   Dr Scott Westrem  (City University of New York)  Calculation,
Delineation, Depiction, Inscription: the Practicalities of Medieval
Mapmaking.

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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, and is supported by
Imago
Mundi.  DISPLAYS for each lecture, at the Royal Geographical Society,
are
arranged by Francis Herbert, Hon FRGS. Note that the Society's Library
and
Map Room will be closed until Spring 2004, although both the Picture
Library
and
Archives remain open by appointment.  See<http://www.rgs.org> -
'Collections'; 'Unlocking the Archives Project'.

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Please note that the web version of the programme is at a new URL
< http://www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html > [the 'Map History' site
has
moved].  That URL can be bookmarked, as it will always contain the
current
programme.  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]>