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EIGHTEENTH SERIES
Programme for 2008-2009
2008
November 6. Graham Dolan, F.R.A.S. (Senior Educational Officer, The Greenwich Observatory, London) 'On the
Meridian of Greenwich: When did it Move, and Why, and Where is it?'
December 4. Professor Francesca Rochberg (Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley) 'New Light on the Maps and Mapping in Ancient Mesopotamia'
2009
January 22. Dr Benjamin Olshin (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, History, and History of Science, The University of
the Arts, Philadelphia) 'Speculations and Discoveries: Brazil and the Other Side of the Globe at the end of the 15th
Century'
March 12. Stéphane Blond (Department of History, University of Evry-Val d’Essonne) 'The Trudaine Road Maps, a Masterpiece in French Enlightenment Cartography'
March 26. Dr Hanna Vorholt (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, The Warburg Institute) 'Provenance and Dissemination of Medieval Maps of Jerusalem: Constructing and Deconstructing a Stemma'
April 23. Eva Stamoulou (Art History and Visual Studies, University of Manchester) 'Portraying the Mediterranean: Sixteenth-century Books of Islands (Isolarii) and the Venetian Maritime Empire'
May 14. Dr Alastair Pearson (Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth) ‘"The greatest map ever published": The American Geographical Society and the Map of Hispanic America at 1:1 Million Scale, 1922-1945'