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THIRTY-FOURTH SERIES: 2024-2025
We're very pleased to invite you to this season's 'Maps and Society' lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person.
For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute (London, WC1H 0AB) and will be followed by refreshments.
For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance at the Warburg Institute's What's On page, to receive a Zoom link on the day.
2024
October 31. Jordana Dym (Skidmore College, NY). 'Looking Down, Looking Up: Wall and School Maps in Guatemala, 1860-1936'.
December 12. Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz). 'Copying or Creating?: Notions of Ingenuity in isolarii from the 15th to 18th century'.
2025
February 27. 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.
March 13. James Cheshire (University College London). 'Discoveries from the UCL Map Library'.
April 3. Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku). 'Maps for Development?: Finnish Mapping of the Global South, c.1970-2000'.
May 8. Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust). 'Marking the Miles: Some annotated maps in National Trust Collections'.
In-person meetings are made possible through the generous support of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association’s Educational Trust and the International Map Collectors’ Society, to whom we are most grateful.
For any enquiries, please email: c.delano-smith@sas.ac.uk or philip.jagessar@kcl.ac.uk.
