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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 TWENTY-SECOND SERIES

Programme for 2012-2013

2012

November 8. Tony Campbell (formerly Map Librarian, British Library). 'Portolan Charts (1300–1600): How Newly Revealed Details Deepen Our Understanding of Their Purpose'.

November 29. Julie McDougall (Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh). 'Authorship and Readership in the Production of British School Atlases (1870–1930)'.

2013

January 17. Dr Zoltan Biedermann (Birkbeck College, University of London). 'Terrestrial Mapping in a Time of Maritime Expansion: Portuguese Cartographies of Persia and Armenia in the 16th–17th Centuries'.

MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY February 7. Jonathan King (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge). 'Maps and Native North America'.

February 28. Amy Prior (Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh). 'Harry H. Johnston and the Mapping of Africa, 1880–1915'.
[NB. An earlier version of the programme gave the lecture date incorrectly]

March 14. A. Crispin Jewitt (Cartographic and Topographic Materials, British Library). '"One Damned Thing after Another": Mapping Britain’s 19th-Century Wars'.

April 25. Dr Jesse Simon (University College, Oxford). 'Later Roman Cartography: A Non-Ptolemaic Approach'.

May 16. Dr Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (Chargée de Recherche, CNRS-EHESS, Paris). 'Early Sino-Korean Atlases in an Enduring East Asian Cartographical Enterprise'.

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