Cartography: the ideal and its history

About the event

The Oxford Seminars in Cartography's first Map Readings session, brings author Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine/History of Cartography Project) into conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) discussing Matthew's new book, 'Cartography: the ideal and its history'.

 Speakers

Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine/History of Cartography Project

Elizabeth Baigent, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

Other events the Oxford Seminars in Cartography (2020–1)

• Election illusions: the 2020 US presidential race and the perils of politics as a game of maps
• A view from the road: travel mapping and American identity
• Women and maps
• Shipwrecks and treasure in the manuscript maps of William Hack
• Revision and erasure: indigenous presence and maps of southern Patagonia, 16701750