Events

 IMCoS Symposium - London

location: London

Further details will become available shortly via http://www.imcos.org/International_SymposiumF.htm

 Maps and Society Lecture - Cartographic Race Games in Europe: Entertainment, Education - or Influence?

location: The Warburg Institute, University of London Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Professor Adrian Seville (formerly City University, London).

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome.

 Maps and Society Lecture - The Compost of Ptolemy and the Gosson Map (1600/1623?): English Geographic thought and the Early Modern Print Almanac.

location: The Warburg Institute, University of London Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Professor Meg Roland (English Literature and Writing, Marylhurst University, Oregon).

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome.

 Maps and Society Lecture - The First Two Centuries of Mercator Projection Sea Charts: Positioning the Practitioners, Leaving the Ships at Sea?

location: The Warburg Institute, University of London Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Gillian Hutchison (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich).

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome.

 Maps and Society Lecture - Cartography and Credulity: Mapping the Sources of the Nile since 150 AD.

location: The Warburg Institute, University of London Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Emeritus Professor Roy Bridges (Department of History, University of Aberdeen).

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome.

 Maps and Society Lecture - London 1747 and Dublin 1756: John Rocques Capital City Maps.

location: The Warburg Institute, University of London Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Dr John Montague (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin).

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome.

 Maps and Society Lecture - A Window on the World: Maps in the European Schoolroom in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

location: The Warburg Institute, University of London Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Tom Harper (Maps, British Library).

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome.

 Maps and Society Lecture - Mapping the Farthest Western lands: Gerald of Wales on Ireland and English Imperium in the Twelfth Century.

location: The Warburg Institute, University of London Woburn Square, WC1H 0AB

Dr Diarmuid Scully (School of history, University college, Cork).

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome.

 Maps and Society Lecture - Local Maps in Medieval Europe. The Last Twenty Years.

location: The Warburg Institute, University of London Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Professor Emeritus P. D. A. Harvey (Department of History, University of Durham).

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome.