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Subject:        'Maps & Society' lecture programme
Date:   Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:25:10 +0100
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_'MAPS AND SOCIETY' LECTURES_

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine
Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London),
Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro
Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute,
School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London
WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm on selected Thursdays. Admission is free and each
meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome.

Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell
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                                   THE TWENTY-THIRD SERIES

                                    Programme for 2013-2014

2013
November 14. Joaquim Alves Gaspar and Henrique Leitão (Centro
Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, University
of Lisbon). 'Squaring the Circle: Rhumbs, Globes and the Making of the
Mercator Projection (1569)'.

November 28. Dr Frederik Muller (Antiquarian bookseller, Bergum,
Netherlands). 'Recording the Discoveries: the Pacific and Tartary Mapped
by Lorenz Fries in Early 1525'.

2014
January 16. Dr Elizabeth Upper (University of Cambridge). 'Colour
Printing in the Renaissance: The Strasbourg Edition of Ptolemy’s
Geography (1513)'.

MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
February 6. Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University). 'Flinders and the
Cartography of Australia 1795–1815'.

February 27. Dale Kedwards (Department of English and Related
Literature, University of York). 'A View from the North? The Medieval
Maps of Iceland'.

March 13. Professor George Tolias (Institute of Historical Research,
National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens). 'Adornments and
Metaphors: Illustrations on the Early Printed Maps of Greece'.

April 3. Dr Leif Isaaksen (Department of Archaeology, University of
Southampton). 'One World, Two Systems: Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographike
Hyphegesis and the Birth of Modern Cartography'.

May 22. Dr Iris Kantor (Department of History, University of São Paulo,
Brazil). 'Portable Empires: Atlases and the spatial projection of the
Iberian Empires during the Constitutional Revolutions (1776–1825)'.

This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship
of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, The International Map
Collectors' Society, and Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd.  It is
supported by /Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of
Cartography/
Tony Campbell
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