The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett

For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk

Stephen Leach, University of Keele.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:30-18:30

The idea of the Indigenous map: examples from the RGS-IBG collections

Joy Slappnig, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 17:30-18:30

At the limits of China: frontiers, borders, and political geography in early modern Sino-Western cartographic exchanges

Florin-Stefan Morar, City University of Hong Kong.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Nicholas Norton Nicols and his maps of Mindanao

Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link

Peter Geldart, Philippine Map Collectors Society.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography

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Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge).

via zoom .

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:30-19:00

The Straits of Malacca-A Cartographic Journey using Nautical Sea Charts

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SPEAKER AND TITLE

Julian Candiah (Kuala Lumpur).

via zoom .

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 17:30-19:00

Secret Soviet maps of Cambridge and the world

John Davies (sovietmaps.com) & Alex Kent (Canterbury Christ Church University).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography

Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge).

To be confirmed: Emmanuel College or via Zoom.

Sunday 23 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Geologist William Smith (1769-1839) and his struggles to both earn a living, and finance his scientific and cartographic projects to 1820

Hugh Torrens (University of Keele).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:30-19:00

The cardinal points and the structure of geographical knowledge in the early twelfth century

Eric Wolever, University of York.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 17:30-19:00

Michael Alexander Gage and the mapping of Liverpool, 1828–1836

Paul Laxton, formerly University of Liverpool.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 17:30-19:00

In Everest’s footsteps: surveying the legacies of the Great Trigonometrical Survey in India

Keith Lilley, Queen's Universiety Belfast.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:30-19:00

Changing trends in mapping estates in the Welsh border counties during the eighteenth century

Dr Bob Silvester, formerly Clywd-Powys Archaeological Trust.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 17:30-19:00

From curiosity to treasure: Mr Selden's map of China

David Helliwell, Bodleian Library Oxford.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 17:30-19:00

Ink, Paper, Brass and Glass: Marine Charts and Charting in the Nineteenth Century

Megan Barford, National Maritime Museum.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:30-19:00

Alexander Ogg (1811-65): surveyor, farmer and gold prospector, Aberdeenshire and New Zealand

Dr Douglas Lockhart (formerly University of Keele).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 17:30-19:00

Plans of London buildings drawn c.1450-1720

Dorian Gerhold (London).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 17:30-19:00

The map that would save Europe: the tariff walls map and the politics of cartographic display between the wars

Professor Michael Heffernan and Ben Thorpe (University of Nottingham).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Maps and seafarers in the English Channel (eighteenth century)

Dr Renaud Morieux, Faculty of History & Jesus College.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 17:30-19:00

Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the Polar oceans

Lt Cdr Dr John Ash, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:30-19:00

Early-modern maps in mirror image

Professor Paul Harvey, University of Durham.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 17:30-19:00

Land surveying in the post-Roman West

John Blair, The Queen's College, Oxford.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 17:30-19:00

The terrestrial globe under globalisation

Jerry Brotton (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 17:30-19:00

East Anglian large-scale county maps of the eighteenth century: what can we learn from a digital analysis?

Andrew Macnair, University of East Anglia.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 17:30-19:00

National Grids: Some twentieth-century cartographies of energy production and transmission

James Purdon (Jesus College, Cambridge) .

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 17:30-19:00

How were maps produced? A look at old and new surveying methods

Chris Burgoyne (Department of Engineering and Emmanuel College, Cambridge).

Emmanuel College (Old Library).

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 17:30-19:00

'To make a true and perfecte plotte': maps in the sixteenth-century Chancery Court of the Duchy of Lancaster

Bill Shannon (University of Lancaster).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 17:30-19:00

Mapping during the Irish plantations, c.1580-1640

Annaleigh Margey, National University of Ireland.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Mapping consecration in twelfth-century Italy and beyond

Lucy Donkin, Department of History of Art, Cambridge.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Surveying Salonika: the work of British military survey sections 1915-1919

Alan Wakefield, Imperial War Museum.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 17:30-19:00

'Number, Weight or Measure': Mapping Colonial Governmentality in William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland

Nessa Cronin, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 17:30-19:00

Colour and problems of visualising space in early ninteenth-century geological maps of Britain

Allison Ksiazkiewicz, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 17:30-19:00

'Geography Rectified': a study of a seventeenth-century terrestrial globe and the motives of its makers

Emma Perkins, History & Philosophy of Science.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 17:30-19:00

Map of a nation: the early Ordnance Survey and the politics of British landscape

Rachel Hewitt, Queen Mary, University of London.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 17:30-19:00

Seller, Pepys and the seventeenth-century London map trade

Lawrence Worms, Ash Rare Books.

Emmanuel College (Harrods Room).

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 17:30-19:00

Fens Maps and Moore's Mapp (1658)

Frances Willmoth, Jesus College.

Emmanuel College (Harrods Room).

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 17:30-19:00

'Beautiful maps and attractive fields': a surveyor's view of ancient Italy

Brian Campbell, Queen's University Belfast.

Emmanuel College (Harrods Room).

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 17:30-19:00

Diagram to portrait and back again: styling the map to fit the reader

Catherine Delano Smith, University of London.

Emmanuel College (Harrods Room).

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:30-19:00

The materials of the Hereford mappa mundi

Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Emmanuel College (Harrods Room).

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:30-19:00

Cholera mapping from 1819 to 1854: before John Snow and the Broad Street outbreak

Professor Tom Koch, University of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University.

Emmanuel College (Harrods Room).

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 17:30-19:00

Mapping the Soviety: cartography and the construction of Stalinist space, 1928-1953

Dr Nick Baron, Department of History, University of Nottingham.

Emmanuel College (Harrods Room).

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 17:30-19:00

Cartography as a tool of social reform: drink maps of nineteenth-century Liverpool

David Beckingham, Department of Geography.

Emmanuel College (Harrods Room).

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

Title to be confirmed

Christopher Burlinson, Emmanuel College.

Emmanuel College (Robert Gardner Room).

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 17:30-19:00

The history of mapping the railway

David Milbank Challis & Andy Rush, Industrialogical Associates, Railway Record of the British Isles.

Emmanuel College (Robert Gardner Room).

Tuesday 20 February 2007, 17:30-19:00