WOMEN AND MAPS CONFERENCE

BOOK NOW FOR WOMEN AND MAPS ONLINE CONFERENCE AT THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD.  25 March 2021. 1-6pm (GMT). The event is free mut registration is necessary.The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA) focuses on Women and Maps in its first online conference. Mapping, and closely linked professions such as surveying, exploration, navigation, hydrography, and printing, have conventionally been associated with men: as makers, patrons, users, and interpreters. Sometimes those assumptions reflect reality, but sometimes they do not. This conference explores the place of women and the feminine in maps and mapping, with no chronological or geographical bounds, and a broad understanding of ‘map