Announcing the Brussels Map Circle annual conference
Brussels, Belgium
Spanish Cartography – Cartography of Spain
- 9.30 - Wouter Bracke (President of the BIMCC) - Introduction;
- 9.45 - Luis Robles Macias (Independent Scholar) - Maps and globes to divide the world. The Junta of Badajoz-Elvas of 1524;
- 10.30 - José M. Garcia Redondo (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de España) - What was the first map printed in the New World? Cosmographic debates, problems of authorship and archive bluffs;
- 11.15 - Break;
- 11.45 - Piet Lombaerde (Universiteit Antwerpen) - Fortifications and Cartography in the Low Countries during the Spanish Occupation;
- 12.30 - Carme Montaner (Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia) - Maps of the Spanish civil war (1936-1939);
- 13.15 - Closing remarks.