Mapathon 1571 - Verbind het Brugse Vrije met vandaag
–Bruges, Belgium
The Brussels Map Circle will be present.
The Brussels Map Circle have a stand on site (kindly offered by Librairie Loeb-Larocque).
The Brussels Map Circle will be present as well.
The trip is scheduled for the Brussels Map Circle Members from Friday 14 October to Saturday 15 October.
Dr Petra Weigel, head of the Perthes collection department, research library, University of Erfurt, offers us a guided tour at 10.00 on Saturday 15 October 2022.
We will see maps of Ukraine and the Netherlands of the Perthes collection, the most important remnant of the German-language cartographic publishing tradition.
We will then be able to visit the monumental castle of Friedenstein, well preserved, with richly decorated rooms, one of the first baroque castles in Germany.
This year there is a superb exhibition called Luxury, art and fantasy in homage to Duke August of Saxony-Gotha- Altenburg, an impressive collector, mentioned by Goethe and Napoleon, who died in 1822.
Day ticket to visit the castle, the exhibition and the museum: EUR 10.00.
Access to Gotha:
Accommodations in Gotha: from EUR 70.00 (Pension Am Ostbahnhof) up to EUR 155.00 (Hotel am Schlosspark).
The trip will take place if there are at least 10 participants.
A dinner is planned on Friday evening in Gotha.
If you wish to participate please fill the Registration Form before Thursday 15 September 2022.
We will acknowledge receipt of your registration shortly.
Interesting links:
from | departure | arrival |
Liège-Guillemins | 06.40 | 09.23 |
Gent-Sint-Pieters | 05.39 | 09.23 |
Bruxelles Luxembourg | 06.56 | 09.23 |
Antwerpen Centraal | 05.40 | 09.23 |
Handout of the conference: available on-line here.
REGISTRATION: please register here.
Liège-Guillemins | 07.01 | 08.01 |
Gent-Sint-Pieters | 07.22 | 08.22 |
Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid | 07.45 | 08.45 |
Antwerpen Centraal | 08.45 | 09.45 |
Breda a. | 09.45 | 10.45 |
Breda d. | 09.53 | 10.53 |
Den Haag HS | 10.37 | 11.37 |
Special this year is the possibility to visit (for free) an exhibition mounted by our member Stanislas De Peuter with the help of a cultural centre in nearby (from Brussels) Tervuren on Sunday. The Glorious Netherlands highlights Flemish and Dutch atlas cartography from 1500 to 1700 and focuses on representations of the Low Countries, featuring title pages, cities, images of the 80 years war, maritime charts etc., drawn from atlases, with beautiful colouring and often unique pieces. Set in very agreeable surroundings, the venue also offers the possibility for lunch, after the guided tour by Stanislas. Further practical details on how to get there at the conference.
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The symposium will consist of three events, each hosted by one of the contributing partners and is open to all cartographers, geographers, historians, map collectors, academics and lay persons interested in the history of cartography and map production.
The Brussels Map Circle (BIMCC) will host its annual International Conference, themed Mapping in times of war – military cartography through the ages up to World War I.
Programme
The symposium will consist of three events, each hosted by one of the contributing partners and is open to all cartographers, geographers, historians, map collectors, academics and lay persons interested in the history of cartography and map production.
The Commission’s 5th International Symposium will primarily focus on Military Cartography in commemoration of the First World War (1914-1918), also known as the 'Great War'. With 2014 being the centenary of the outbreak of the War, and the conference venue situated so close to the actual war zone of 1914-1918, contributions on the effect of war on military cartography are encouraged. Contributions on the mapping which was done during other late 19th and 20th century wars such as the Boer War (1899-1902), the Second World War (1936-1945), the Vietnam War (1960-1973), the Falklands War (1982), and the Balkan War of the 1990s will also be welcome. Although the Symposium will primarily focus on Military Cartography, submissions on cartographic endeavours in other fields of cartography during the 19th and 20th centuries will also be considered, as well as cartographic activities during earlier centuries, as they often formed the background for later important developments.
Fixed programme of lectures
Registration will open in March 2014. At that time it will be possible to register for each event individually or for the entire joint symposium through the online registration system.
During the conference there will be several optional social events. Already planned are a conference dinner and visits to Ghent University’s Museum of Science, the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas and the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres.
The symposium will consist of three events, each hosted by one of the contributing partners and is open to all cartographers, geographers, historians, map collectors, academics and lay persons interested in the history of cartography and map production.
The Commission will host a symposium on the The influence of war on map production techniques.
Fixed programme of lectures
Registration will open in March 2014. At that time it will be possible to register for each event individually or for the entire joint symposium through the online registration system.
During the conference there will be several optional social events. Already planned are a conference dinner and visits to Ghent University’s Museum of Science, the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas and the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres.
This yearly event will again bring together collectors and all those interested in atlases published in German-speaking countries, mainly of the 19th and 20th centuries. The accent this time is on atlases produced by Westermann (Diercke Atlases) and other firms in Brunswick. On the first two days (Friday and Saturday), the programme foresees visits to publisher Westermann’s archives, to the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Schoolbook Research, and to the world-famous Herzog August Library in nearby Wolfenbüttel. On the last day (Sunday) a visit to the Brunswick Institute for Regional History is planned.
As always, presentations on the subject are foreseen, and a book and atlas fair for participants (no dealers admitted) will be held on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, at which atlases, maps, travel literature and geographical handbooks may be exchanged. Although conducted in German, participants from Belgium, the Netherlands and France regularly attend – everybody is most welcome. Please register as soon as possible, but not later than 1 March 2014 with the organiser Michael Willma who will provide full details of the programme and can assist with suggestions for accommodation.
'The Cosmographer' proposes an innovative sequential iconographic analysis of rare and valuable 15th-17th Centuries documents, through which the roots of 'Christian' European culture are explored, following the trail of the 'Golden Apple', the symbol of Paradise Lost, contrasting the path to forbidden knowledge with the unfulfilled prophecy of the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia). The relentless European grand ambition to create a first Universal Christian Monarchy fails due to the (re)surge of the Inquisition, Humanism, Reformation and Counterreformation, and internal power conflicts amongst European Princes, whether popes, emperors, kings or princes. Time after the crusades, the quest for 'Paradise Lost' reignites, along with a feverish search for the Gold of Solomon’s Ophir needed for the reconstruction of the Temple of the New Jerusalem, thus provoking a religious-military conquest of the 'East'- particularly (via) the Americas, India and China- in order to deliver the final battle against the Antichrist (here the Ottoman Empire), given the imminence of the Final Judgment and the End of Times. A Jesuit mappamundi illustrates a universal attack plan to liberate Constantinople, Jerusalem and the Holy Land in order to prepare for the Parousia of Christ and the installation of the Kingdom of God, as predicted in the Apocalypse. The competing eschatological visions of Islam, Judaism and a divided Christianity, stage a Theatre of 16th Century dramatic events that (re)shaped both the Old and the New Worlds, as reflected in post-Ptolemaic Cartography. During the Eighty Years' War between Flanders and the Spanish Habsburg Empire, the cartographic skills of Flemish Cosmographer Petrus Plancius (1552-1622) altered the course of history. This fugitive Calvinist minister promotes an alternative Evangelical universal ecumenism, puritan and capitalist. This vision still represents an essential part of our Occidentalized world. 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' The universal race to install the City of God, Utopia(s), the City of Ladies, Dar al-Islam or the Kingdom of God is not over. When will the rivers of history finally flow into the ocean-sea? Can a common word or common sense be found? 'Tempus fugit'. The original cosmographic vision of 'the Cosmographer' invites us to a new interpretation of recent geo-political events.
Profile of the Speaker For the past five years Stefaan Cloet and his daughter, Isis, (Belgians) have been working on a special project, the visual content of which, the Cosmographer, is entirely based on a private collection gathered over the last 25 years by Cloet during his travels worldwide, and contains rare historical maps, unique manuscripts, atlases, books and paintings from the 15th to the 17th centuries. After an initial professional career as applications-software engineer, specializing in financial and hedging management for multinationals based in the US, Asia and Europe, Stefaan Cloet acted as Financial & Managing Director of South-European and South-American industrial non-ferrous metals operations for over two decades. He is now dedicated to the study of 15th-17th Century cartography as an independent researcher specializing in the Flemish School of Cartography and Biblical map iconography.
Isis Cloet graduated in English Philology and holds a diploma in Religious Sciences from Deusto University (Bilbao, Spain).