-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 'Maps & Society': next lecture series Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:17:12 +0100 From: "tony campbell" <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ ************************* 'MAPS AND SOCIETY' The Warburg Institute Thirteenth Series: 2003-2004 ************************* 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. ------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- 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'. -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Campbell <[log in to unmask]>