28th Annual Series - Programme for 2021
Thursday 4 February
Map Readings - 'Cartography: the ideal and its history'
Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine/History of Cartography Project) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Thursday 11 March
A view from the road: travel mapping and American identity
James Akerman (Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography,
The Newberry Library, Chicago)
Thursday 20 May
Shipwrecks and treasure in the manuscript maps of William Hack
Chet Van Duzer (The Lazarus Project, University of Rochester)
Thursday 3 June
Revision and erasure: indigenous presence and maps of southern Patagonia, 1670-1750
Katherine Parker (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc/Hakluyt Society)
Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6pm (GMT) via Zoom. Please book a ticket to join the seminars.
For further details, please contact: nick.millea@bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 287119
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by:
The Friends of TOSCA
The Bodleian Libraries
The School of Geography and the Environment
The Charles Close Society
Lovell Johns Ltd
