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MAPS AND SOCIETY
The Warburg Institute
Fourteenth Series:
2004-2005

Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano Smith
(Institute of Historical Research) and Tony Campbell (formerly Map
Library,British Library). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays 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 most
welcome.
Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano Smith) or <
t.campbell@ockendon.clara.co.uk >.

2005

January 20
Dr Dorothea McEwan (The Warburg Institute)
Aby Warburg's (1866-1929) Dots and Lines: Mapping the Diffusion of
Astrological Motifs in Art History.

February 10
Robert Headland (Scott Polar Institute, University of Cambridge)
The Non-Existent Islands of the Antarctic on Maps, Ancient and Modern.
* Meeting sponsored by the Hakluyt Society *

March 10
'The Map in Book History':
Dr Moya Carey (Independent Scholar)
Star Maps for Ibn al-Sufi's poem (Baghdad, 1125)
Hilary Hunt (The Warburg Institute)
The Map of 'The Seven Churches of Rome' (1575) in Travel Guides
Dr Stephanie Coane (U.C.L. and The Warburg Institute)
A Map from the Published Account of La Pérouse's Expedition around the
World (1797).

April 14
Surekha Davies (The British Library Map Collections and The Warburg
Institute)
The Vomiting Giant and Other Stories: First Steps among the Monstrous
Peoples on Maps of America c. 1506-1648.

May 5
Professor Stephen Daniels (Department of Geography, University of Nottingham)
Maps and Education in Georgian England.

May 26
Lindsay Braun (Department of History, Rutgers University, U.S.A.)
'A portion of our country comparatively unknown': Fred Jeppe, the
Zoutpansberg, and the Cartography of the Transvaal, 1867-1899.

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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. Each lecture is
accompanied by a display, at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington,
arranged by Francis Herbert, Hon FRGS.

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The web version of the programme <
http://www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html > can be bookmarked, as it
will always contain the current details. For a comprehensive list of talks
and meetings in the history of cartography, see John Docktor's 'Calendar'
<http://home.earthlink.net/~docktor/index.htm >

Tony Campbell <t.campbell@ockendon.clara.co.uk>