----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ 'MAPS AND SOCIETY' LECTURES AT THE WARBURG INSTITUTE ------------------------------------------------------------ SEVENTH SERIES - PROGRAMME FOR 1997-8 1997 October 23 Dr John Dunbabin (St. Edmund Hall, Oxford). Red Lines on the Map: The Fixing of the Border between the United States and British North America. November 20 Dr Michael Wintle (Department of European Studies, University of Hull). Renaissance Maps and the Construction of the Idea of Europe. December 11 Professor Glyn Williams (Department of History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London). Speculative Maps and Apocryphal Voyages in the Exploration of North America. 1998 January 22 Laurence Worms (Ash Rare Books Ltd.) Society and Maps: The London Map Trade in the 18th Century. February 26 Dr Benet Salway (Department of History, University College, London). Journeying in the Roman World and the Genesis of the Tabula Peutingeriana. March 26 Dr Christopher Board (Department of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science). Silences, Secrecy and Falsification on maps after 1858. April 30 Geraldine Beech (Public Record Office, London) `A Wall of Glass'? Mapping Boundaries in the Balkans since 1830. May 28 Professor David Buisseret (Department of History, University of Texas-Arlington). A New Vision: Artists and Maps in Early Modern Europe. - o O o - Meetings are held at the University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB (i.e. quite close to the British Museum) at 5.00 pm on a THURSDAY. **** Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are MOST welcome **** This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) and Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London). The 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. It is supported by Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography. Enquiries to the following please, not to the Warburg Institute. If you have a convenient noticeboard request a display copy of the programme. ******************************************************* [log in to unmask] Tony Campbell, Map Librarian British Library Map Library Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG, UK Phone: 0171 412 7525 International: +44 171 412 7525 Fax: 0171 412 7780 International: +44 171 412 7780 -------------------------------------------------------- Map History / History of Cartography - THE gateway to the subject http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/ ********************************************************