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'Maps & Society' programme



     
                             MAPS AND SOCIETY
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     Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Tony Campbell (Map 
     Library, British Library) and Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of 
     Historical Research). Meetings are held at The Warburg Institute 
     (University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB) at 5.00 pm. 
     Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are very 
     welcome. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 7412 7525 (Tony Campbell) 
     <tony.campbell@bl.uk>.  
     
     
                          TENTH SERIES:  2000-2001
     
     
     2000
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     October 26. Dr Erin Blake (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.). 
     'Zograscopes, Topographical Views, and Polite Society circa 1750.'
     
     November 16. Dr Graham Burnett (History of Science Program, 
     University of Oklahoma). 'Masters of All They Surveyed: Cartography, 
     Exploration, Geography and a British 'El Dorado'.'
     
     December 7. Peter Chasseaud (Department of Earth & Environmental 
     Sciences, University of Greenwich). 'Artillery's Astrologers: Mapping 
     the Western Front, 1914-1918.'
     
     2001
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     January 25. Dr Georgina Endfield (Department of Geography, University of 
     Nottingham). 'Images of Contested Space in Sixteenth-century Michoacan, 
     west central Mexico.'
     
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                     Sponsored by The Hakluyt Society
     
     February 22. James W. Kelly (Worcester College, University of Oxford). 'The 
     Voyage of the 'Trinity' in the Pacific (1680-2): Buccaneers, Chartmakers, 
     and the Keys to a Private Sea.'
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     March 8. Professor Daniel L. Smail (Department of History, Fordham 
     University, New York). 'From Verbal to Graphic Cartographies: The Case 
     of Late Medieval Marseille.'
     
     March 22. Dr Roger Batty (Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan). 
     'Roman Mapping of the Provinces.'
     
     April 26. Dr Noël Golvers (Faculty of Arts, Catholic University Leuven). 
     'European Jesuits as Cartographers of China in the Last Decades of the 
     Seventeenth Century.'
     
     May 24. Dr Margriet Hoogvliet (Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit 
     Groningen). 'Early Modern Cartography and the 'studiolo'.'
     
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     This 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. Displays for each lecture, at the Royal 
     Geographical Society, are arranged by Francis Herbert, Hon. F.R.G.S.
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