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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:02:07 +0100
From: Tony Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: 'Maps & Society' lectures
'MAPS AND SOCIETY'
(Warburg Institute, London)
EIGHTH SERIES
PROGRAMME FOR 1998-9
1998
October 29. Dr Tom Conley (Department of Romance Languages,
Harvard University) From `Satyre' to `Theatre': The Map
and the Political Essay in Sixteenth-century France.
November 19. Dr Garrett Sullivan (Department of English,
Pennsylvania State University) Travelling by Road or
Armchair? Reading the Inutility of John Ogilby's Britannia.
December 10. Dawn Odell (Department of Art History,
University of Illinois) Mapping Mercantilism in the
Seventeenth-Century: The Dutch East India Company Travels to
China.
1999
January 28. Professor Michael Jones (Department of History,
University of Nottingham) The English and Brittany in the
Late Sixteenth Century: the Map Evidence.
February 25. Dr Jeffrey Stone (Department of Geography,
University of Aberdeen) Imperialism, Colonialism and
Cartography in Africa.
March 18. Professor Martha Pollak (Department of Art
History, University of Illinois) Military Strategy and City
Plans in the Seventeenth Century.
April 29. Ralph Ehrenberg (Map Division, Library of
Congress) Charting Invisible Airways: the Early Development
of Aviation Cartography in the United States of America.
June 3. Professor Lena Cowen Orlin (Department of English,
University of Maryland) Reading Ralph Treswell's Maps:
Property Disputes in Tudor and Stuart London.
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Meetings are held at the University of London, Warburg
Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB (between the
British Museum and the new British Library) at 5.00 pm on a
THURSDAY.
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Admission is free and each meeting is followed by
refreshments. All are MOST welcome.
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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. Since the talks represent
work in progress there is no associated publication
programme.
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Tony Campbell, Map Librarian
British Library Map Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB {NB Please note *new* address}
Phone: 0171 412 7525 International: +44 171 412 7525
Fax: 0171 412 7780 International: +44 171 412 7780
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Please see, bookmark and PROVIDE LINKS to:-
1. The British Library Map Library homepage
http://www.bl.uk/collections/maps
2. The History of Cartography homepage
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/maps/
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