Cambridge History of Cartography Seminar

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Cambridge History of Cartography Seminar

All meetings will be held in the Department of History of Art, Cambridge University, 1 Scroope Terrace (Seminar room 2) on a Monday at 5.00 p.m. All are welcome.

For further details please contact Tom de Wesselow: tpcd2(at)cam.ac.uk [NB. You need to replace (at) with the @ symbol].

Programme for 2004-2005

2004

November 15 Timothy Hyman (artist and independent scholar) Painting and cosmography: artists who map the world.

2005

January 31 Alfred Hiatt (University of Leeds) Ptolemy's Terra Incognita: knowledge and history in fifteenth-century cartography.

March 14:
Dan Terkla (Illinois Wesleyan University) Purpose determines placement: the Hereford map as teaching tool.
Dominic Harbour (Hereford Cathedral) The Hereford Mappamundi and the 21st-century pilgrim.

May 9 Lucy Donkin (British School at Rome) Mapping in mosaic: geographical imagery in the medieval ecclesiastical floor mosaics of northern Italy.

May 23 Marcia Kupfer (Johns Hopkins University) Maps and bodies.