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'MAPS AND SOCIETY'

The Warburg Institute

Fifteenth Series: 2005-2006

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 >.

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April 6.

Veronica Della Dora
(Post-doctoral Fellow, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)

Mapping Mount Athos: Renaissance and Enlightenment Visions.

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The Map in Book History
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May 4.

Anne Bush
(University of Hawaii at Manoa / University of Oxford)

Inscribing the City: Visual Itineraries in Nineteenth-Century Guidebooks
to Rome.

May 25.

Dr Camille Serchuk
(Department of Art History, Southern Connecticut State University, U.S.A)

Picturing France in the Fifteenth Century: a New (Old) Map.

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For details of the final two talks in May see
<http://www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html >.
The web version of the programme 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 >

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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