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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 'Maps and Society' 2008 talks Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:39:53 -0000 From: Tony Campbell <[log in to unmask]> To: maps-l (posted to MapHist, lismaps, LIBER GdeC, Maps-L) ************************* 'MAPS AND SOCIETY' The Warburg Institute Seventeenth Series: 2007-2008 ************************** 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] >. 2008 ------ January 24. Professor Valerie Kivelson (Department of History, University of Michigan). 'Angels in Siberia: Maps and Empire in the Age of Peter the Great'. MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY February 28. Dr James Kelly (Worcester College, University of Oxford). 'Daniel Defoe's "Captain Singleton" (1720): Spectacular Speculative Geography'. March 13. David Milbank Challis and Andy Rush (Industrialogical Associates / Railway Record of the British Isles). 'Mapping the Railway: An Overview and Case Study of Britain's Extensive and Largely Unexplored Record'. April 24. Dr Nick Baron (School of History, University of Nottingham). '"Miracles on a Geographical Map": The Cultures of Soviet Cartography under Lenin and Stalin, 1918-1941'. May 8. Professor Tom Koch (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia; and Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, B.C.). 'Cholera in 1850s London: John Snow, His Contemporaries, and the Broad Street Map Revisited'. May 29. Rose Mitchell (The National Archives, London). 'Castles in the Air? Sixteenth-Century Fortification Plans in The National Archives'. -------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Campbell <[log in to unmask]>