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'Maps and Society' Lectures

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm on selected Thursdays. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome.

Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell < info(at)tonycampbell.info > [NB. You need to replace (at) with the @ symbol].

For the location, see the online map provided by Streetmap (the Warburg Institute is by the S of 'Square')

THE TWENTIETH SERIES

Programme for 2010-2011

2010

November 4. Professor Adrian Seville (formerly City University, London). 'Cartographic Race Games in Europe: Entertainment, Education - or Influence?'

December 2. Professor Meg Roland (English Literature and Writing, Marylhurst University, Oregon). 'The Compost of Ptolemy and the Gosson Map (1600/1623?): English Geographic Thought and the Early Modern Print Almanac'.

2011

January 20. Gillian Hutchinson (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich). 'The First Two Centuries of Mercator Projection Sea Charts: Positioning the Practitioners, Leaving the Ships at Sea?'

MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY February 17. Emeritus Professor Roy Bridges (Department of History, University of Aberdeen). 'Cartography and Credulity: Mapping the Sources of the Nile since 150 AD'.

March 3. Dr John Montague (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin). 'London 1747 and Dublin 1756: John Rocque's Capital City Maps'.

March 31.Tom Harper (Maps, British Library). 'A Window on the World: Maps in the European Schoolroom in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'.

May 5. Dr Diarmuid Scully (School of History, University College, Cork). 'Mapping the Farthest Western lands: Gerald of Wales on Ireland and English Imperium in the Twelfth Century'.

May 26. Professor Emeritus P. D. A. Harvey (Department of History, University of Durham). 'Local Maps in Medieval Europe. The Last Twenty Years'.

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

If you have a convenient noticeboard, please print off a display copy of the programme