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Maps and Society Series 2024-2025

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London and Online, UK and Online
A series of lectures on the history of maps and mapping worldwide, from earliest times to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural factors of the maps’ context, production, and use. To attend online, register here .

Programme

  • 31 October 2024 - Jordana Dym (Skidmore College, NY) - Looking Down, Looking Up: Wall and School Maps in Guatemala, 1860-1936
  • 12 December 2024 - Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) - Copying or Creating? Notions of Ingenuity in isolarii from the 15th to 18th century'
  • 27 February 2025 - Louise McCarthy and Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité) - Cartographic Science at the Service of Company Propaganda in Early Imperialist Britain (1600–1625). Hakluyt Society Speakers
  • 13 March 2025 - James Cheshire (University College London) - Discoveries from the UCL Map Library
  • 3 April 2025 - Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku) - Maps for Development? Finnish Mapping of the Global South, c.1970–2000
  • 8 May 2025 - Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust) - Marking the Miles: Some annotated maps in National Trust Collections

    • Convenors: Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London) with Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute).