Tuesday 1.10.2024

The Cambridge University Library organizes a Historical Cartography Seminar, which can also be attended online.

All seminars will be on Zoom. Joining instructions will be circulated nearer the time. Please email events@emma.cam.ac.uk if you wish to join the mailing list.

Program:

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (5.30pm / 17:30 UK GMT) 

Finnian O’Cionnaith (Dublin): A peculiar survey … for our peculiar purpose' : founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland

 

Tuesday 25 February 2025 (5.30pm / 17:30 UK GMT) 

Maurice Whitehead (Venerable English College, Rome): Maps, meridians and missions: Christopher Maire, SJ (1697–1767), an English cartographer in continental Europe

 

Tuesday 6 May 2025 (5.30pm / 17:30 UK BST [= GMT + 1])

Onur Engin (University of Cambridge): Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography

 

More information here: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/cartographic-events/camsem.