Events 2012
IMCoS Events 2012
Collectors´ Evening
Tuesday 13th March 2012
Our regular Collectors´ Evening will begin at 6 p.m. at The Farmers´Club, 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1Q 2E1. Open to members and non-members alike it is a chance to bring along an item to show to fellow collectors or even to bring a an item where you would like to find out more. The theme of this year´s meeting is Gerard Mercator to tie in with the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of his birth. The Chairman, as always, is Francis Herbert. There will be a small charge for refreshments.
AGM and Annual Dinner
Annual Dinner
Friday 15th June 2012
The annual dinner will be held at the Royal Overseas League, 5 St. James’s Terrace, London SW1A 1LP.
The Dinner will be preceeded by the Malcolm Young lecture. Our lecturer last year was Stanislas De Peuter, judge at the Court of First Instance in Louvain, The Netherlands.
The title of his lecture was “Novus Atlas Sinensis" and the work of the Jesuit Martino Martini.
The IMCoS Helen Wallis Award for 2012 will also be presented.
IMCoS AGM
Saturday 16th June 2012
The IMCoS AGM will be held at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London.
The Warburg Lectures
IMCoS actively supports the lecture series MAPS AND SOCIETY held each year at The Warburg Institute
Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute, University of London,Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano Smith) or < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >.
The Twentyfirst Series: 2011-2012 continues with
January 26. Nils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and School of Gender, Culture and History, Södertörn University, Sweden). 'White Maps of Africa: The Making of Blank Spaces, 1700–1800'.
February 16. Francis Herbert (Former Curator of Maps, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)). 'Maps for The Hakluyt Society, 1847–2010: or, from Cosmas to Cook and computers'. This meeting is sponsored by the Hakluyt Society.
March 1. Dr Hilde De Weerdt (Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford). 'Reasoning with Maps: Amateur Mapmakers in Imperial China (1100–1300)'.
March 15. Professor Imre Demhardt (Department of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA). 'Alexander von Humboldt and the Scientific Mapping of the Americas'.
April 19. Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird (School of Advanced Study, University of London). 'Improved Satin Maps for Ladies' Schools: A New Revenue Stream for Eighteenth-Century Printsellers'.
May 10. Emeritus Professor Noël Wilkins (Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland, Galway). 'Alexander Nimmo (1783–1832) and Some of His Little-Known Irish Maps and Charts'.
One-Day Conference at The Warburg Institute
MEDIEVAL MAPS AND DIAGRAMS
A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE AT THE WARBURG INSTITUTE, LONDON
9 MARCH 2012
In the past, maps were defined as representations of the surface of the earth or a part of it, but modern cartographical theorists and map historians define maps more widely as forms of graphic representations facilitating 'a spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or events' (J. B. Harley and D. Woodward). This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the relationship between medieval maps and diagrams. Brief presentations (15 minutes each) will concentrate on specific examples, which will be discussed in view of wider topics such as the art of memory, divination, typology, and page layout. The concluding panel will be concerned with the underlying question of the relationship and distinctions between medieval diagrams and maps, with the ways in which they have been examined by scholars in the past, and with how they might be investigated in the future.
PROGRAMME
10.00 Doors Open, Registration
10.15 Peter Mack and Hanna Vorholt, Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Peter Tóth (Warburg Institute)
10.30 Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, London) - One Image, Several Guises: the Mapping of the Desert Encampment (Numbers 2-3)
11.00 Peter Barber (British Library) - From Jerusalem to Alpine Pride: the Geographical Diagrams of Albrecht von Bonstetten of 1479
11.30 Coffee
Chair: Megan C. McNamee (Warburg Institute and University of Michigan)
12.00 Paul D. A. Harvey (University of Durham) - English Manorial Accounts: Their Visual Impact
12.30 Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) - Mapping the Shoulderblade
13.00 Lunch
Chair: Michael Kauffmann (Courtauld Institute of Art and Warburg Institute)
14.00 Mary Carruthers (New York University and All Souls College, Oxford) - How the Tower of Wisdom Diagram Works
14.30 Sandy Heslop (University of East Anglia) - Typology as Diagram in the Stained Glass at Canterbury Cathedral
KEYNOTE LECTURE
15.00 Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University) - Rhabanus redivivus: Berthold of Nuremberg's Marian Supplement to De laudibus sanctae crucis
15.45 Tea
Chairs: Alessandro Scafi and Hanna Vorholt
16:15 PANEL DISCUSSION
17:45 Reception
Registration £25 (£12.50 for concessions) including coffee/tea, and a sandwich lunch. To register please contact: warburg(at)sas.ac.uk
For further information please contact the organisers, Hanna Vorholt (hanna.vorholt(at)sas.ac.uk) and Alessandro Scafi (alessandro.scafi(at)sas.ac.uk).
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2011-12/medieval-maps-and-diagrams
Advance Trip Notice
It is hoped to arrange a trip to Canterbury during 2012. Watch this space!
