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                                'MAPS AND SOCIETY'

                            (Warburg Institute, London)

                                   EIGHTH SERIES

                                PROGRAMME FOR 1998-9

     1998

     October 29. Dr Tom Conley (Department of Romance Languages,
     Harvard University)   From `Satyre' to `Theatre': The Map
     and the Political Essay in Sixteenth-century France.

     November 19. Dr Garrett Sullivan (Department of English,
     Pennsylvania State University)  Travelling by Road or
     Armchair? Reading the Inutility of John Ogilby's Britannia.

     December 10. Dawn Odell (Department of Art History,
     University of Illinois)  Mapping Mercantilism in the
     Seventeenth-Century: The Dutch East India Company Travels to
     China.


     1999

     January 28. Professor Michael Jones (Department of History,
     University of Nottingham)   The English and Brittany in the
     Late Sixteenth Century: the Map Evidence.

     February 25. Dr Jeffrey Stone (Department of Geography,
     University of Aberdeen)  Imperialism, Colonialism and
     Cartography in Africa.

     March 18. Professor Martha Pollak (Department of Art
     History, University of Illinois)  Military Strategy and City
     Plans in the Seventeenth Century.

     April 29. Ralph Ehrenberg (Map Division, Library of
     Congress) Charting Invisible Airways: the Early Development
     of Aviation Cartography in the United States of America.

     June 3. Professor Lena Cowen Orlin (Department of English,
     University of Maryland)  Reading Ralph Treswell's Maps:
     Property Disputes in Tudor and Stuart London.

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     Meetings are held at the University of London, Warburg
     Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB (between the
     British Museum and the new British Library) at 5.00 pm on a
     THURSDAY.

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     Admission is free and each meeting is followed by
     refreshments.  All are MOST welcome.
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     This lecture series in the history of cartography is
     convened by Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) and
     Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research,
     University of London). The 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: the International Journal for the History of
     Cartography.

     Enquiries to the following please, not to the Warburg
     Institute. If you have a convenient noticeboard, request a
     display copy of the programme.  Since the talks represent
     work in progress there is no associated publication
     programme.

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