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'Maps & Society' lectures 2001-2002



                             MAPS AND SOCIETY
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Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Tony Campbell
(formerly 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 on a Thursday. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by
refreshments. All are very welcome.
Enquiries: < t.campbell@ockendon.clara.co.uk >


                ELEVENTH SERIES:  2001-2002

2001
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October 25. Dr A.C. Hiatt (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College,
Cambridge). Forged Charters and Medieval Trade Maps: Title to Land, Then
and Now.

November 15. Mireille Galinou (Art and Museum Consultant), Stephen Marks
(London Topographical Society), and Peter Barber (British Library) with
Laurence Worms (Ash Rare Books). Aspects of a Sixteenth-Century Map. The
`Lost Copperplate' Map of London Revisited: Art Connections, Names, and
Sponsors.

December 6. Dr Daniel Birkholz (Department of English, Pomona College,
Claremont, CA). A Crack in the Bedroom Map: Gender, Genre, and the
Reception of Cartography in Early Fourteenth-Century England.

2002
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January 10. Nicholas Crane (Travel Author). Mercator: the Man Behind the
Myth.

         MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
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January 31. Anthony Payne (Bernard Quaritch Ltd). Cartographic
Interrogations: The Concept of Accuracy in Early Modern Cartography.
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February 28. Professor Rolf Loeber (Department of Psychiatry, University
of Pittsburg, PA). Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Irish Maps:
Evidence for Gaelic Settlements.

March 21. Dr Maria Ann Conelli (Fashion Institute of Technology, State
University of New York, New York). The Guglie of Naples: Maps, Urban
Markers and the Politics of Religion in the Seventeenth Century.

April 18. Professor John Rennie Short (Department of Geography, Syracuse
University, NY). Cartographic Encounters in the American West,
1800-1861.

May 23. Neil Safier (Department of History, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MA). Of Instruments and Indians: Tales from the Amazon's
Cartographical Conquest in the Eighteenth Century.

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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, and is
supported by Imago Mundi.
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Posted by < tony.campbell@bl.uk > - the programme is also available at <
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/warburgprog.html >


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