PERSONAL NEWS
The news items listed here concern members of the Commission and their research and academic activities during the period 2005-2010, excluding their publications which have already been listed. It will be appreciated if relevant information regarding papers that have recently been read, societies to which members have recently been elected, positions to which they have been appointed or accolades they have received, would be forwarded to the Chair or Vice-Chair for inclusion in this section.
Wulf Bodenstein (formerly President of the Brussels International Map Collectors’ Circle).
Received the IMCoS/Helen Wallis Award for 2008 on 6 June 2008 at the IMCOS Annual Dinner in London. The Award was presented by IMCoS President Sarah Tyacke in recognition of his contribution "towards increasing awareness of historical cartography and the need to conserve, study, publicize and promote historical charts and maps as reflection of a cultural, scientific and artistic heritage" (IMCoS Journal N° 114, p.55). Wulf Bodenstein founded the Brussels International Map Collectors’ Circle (BIMCC) in 1998 and currently is its Honorary President.
Prof Emanuela Casti (University of Bergamo)
Paper read:
Emanuela Casti and Federica Burini. “Cartographic cataloguing and filing: Towards a new definition of the colonial mapmaker”. ”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
Dr Imre Josef Demhardt (Professor & Garrett Chair in the History of Cartography, University of Texas (Arlington), USA).
Papers read:
"Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen' and the High Mountain Mapping of Asia in the 19th century". ICA International Cartographic Conference, A Coruña, Spain, 9-16 June 2005.
"Hopes, Hazards and a Haggle: Perthes' Ten Sheet "Karte von Innern-Afrika", ICA International Symposium on the History of Colonial Cartography in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 August 2006.
“Mapping the Greater Germany: Paul Langhans, political cartography and the Perthes ‘national’ atlases of the 1890s”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
“19th Century Cartography: The Contribution of August Petermann”. ICA Commission on the History of Cartography: Roundtable Discussion and Paper Session, Copenhagen , Denmark, 11 July 2009.
“August Petermann and the German Quest for the North Pole”. 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-15 July 2009.
Dr Christopher Board (formerly London School of Economics, UK)
Awarded the British Cartographic Society Medal at the 41 Annual Symposium of the British Cartographic Society, University of Durham, 10-12 September 2004. On 9 February 2005 Dr Board was presented with the OBE (Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services to British Cartography.
Papers read:
“Military Maps of the Cape Colony, South Africa, issued during the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: recent discoveries". Annual Symposium of the British Cartographic Society, University of Durham, 10-12 September 2004
"The British War Office 1: 250 000 mapping of the Cape Colony 1906 to 1914". ICA International Symposium on the History of Colonial Cartography in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 August 2006.
“The style sheet for the War office series GSGS 1764, Cape Colony Reconnaissance Series”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
Dr Lindsay Frederick Braun (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA).
Papers read:
"Dividing Native Lands on the Cape and Transvaal Frontiers, ca. 1864-1900". Symposium on the History of Surveying and Land Tenure at the Cape, 1813-1913, organised by the Institute of Professional Land Surveyors and Geomaticians of the Western Cape, Cape Observatory, 6 June 2004.
Together wiith John Obree and Roger Fischer. "Land Policy at the Cape and the Office of the Surveyor General 1813-1912". Symposium on the History of Surveying and Land Tenure at the Cape, 1813-1913, organised by the Institute of Professional Land Surveyors and Geomaticians of the Western Cape, Cape Observatory, 6 June 2004.
"Dividing Native Lands on the Cape and Transvaal Frontiers, ca. 1864-1900". Meeting of the Institute of Professional Land Surveyors of the Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth, 8 June 2004.
"Native Space in the Cartography of the Transvaal, 1830-1910". 21st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Budapest, Hungary, 17-22 July 2005.
“The Colonial Archive and Maps of the Transkei, 1857-1898”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
“Surveying and Interstate Conflict in Limpopo and Mpumalanga during the 19th Century.” University of Texas Conference on African History, Austin, Texas, 27-29 March 2009.
Dr Peter Collier (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Papers read:
"Boundary Surveys and Demarcation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mapping approaches into a changing world". ICA International Cartographic Conference, A Coruña, Spain, 9-16 June 2005.
"The Air Survey Committee and the Development of Military Mapping in Britain between the 1st and 2nd World Wars". 21st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Budapest, Hungary, 17-22 July 2005.
Participate in a One-Day Seminar on Covert Military Mapping. British Cartographic Society/Defence Surveyors Association, Portsmouth, 24 May 2006.
"The Colonial Survey Committee and the Survey of Africa". ICA International Symposium on the History of Colonial Cartography in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 August 2006.
“Relief depiction on 20th century mapping in the absence of precise height information”. 22st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Berne, Switzerland, 8-13 July 2007.
“Not just Trench maps”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
Dr Collier has received a grant from the British Academy to continue his research on "Networks and Innovation on Geography, 1870-1914". This work will focus on developments in mapping.
Dr Nessa Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland).
"Desocialising Native Space: Renaissance Maps of the West of Ireland." Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, UK, April 2005.
"Brian Friel's Translations and Cultural Translation". Department of International Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2 November 2005.
"Brian Friel's Translations and the Politics of Cartography". Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 24 November 2005.
"Translating Geographies: The Languages of the Irish Colonial Map." ICA International Symposium on the History of Colonial Cartography in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 August 2006.
Prof Dr Matthew H Edney (University of Southern Maine, USA.
Since September 2007, both Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine (Portland, Me., USA) and Director of the History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). In the latter capacity, Prof Edney is also co-editor, with Mary Pedley, of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also President and Chairman of the American Friends of the J. B. Harley Research Fellowships, Inc., a trustee of the J. B. Harley Research Fellowships, and a director of Imago Mundi, Ltd.
From 1 August 2007 Prof Edney has divided his time between Madison (25%) and Portland, Me. (75%). His preferred mailing address is c/o Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04104-9301, and he can be reached at either of the following two e-mail addresses: 
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Papers read:
"Maps and other ‘awkward materials': critical reflection on the nature and purpose of cartobibliography". 22st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Berne, Switzerland, 8-13 July 2007.
Hans-Uli Feldmann (formerly SwissTopo, Bern, Switzerland)
Retired on 1 June 2008 as Head of the Cartographic Division of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography, Berne, after 40 years’ service. On 28 March 2009 made an Honorary Member of the Swiss Society of Cartography. Longstanding Editor of the Swiss journal on the history of cartography, Cartographica Helvetica.
Paper read:
„Kartenherstellung zur Zeit von Xaver Imfeld (1853–1909)“ [Map production techniques at the time of Xaver Imfeld]. Forum “Geomatik mit Tradition und Zukunft”. ETH Zurich. 3 September 2009.
Dr Philippe Forêt (University of Nottingham, UK)
In 2008 Dr Forêt was appointed Associate Professor of Chinese Geography in the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, UK. As from November 2009 he was visiting professor in the Oriental Languages Institute of Stockholm University, Sweden. In 2008 he was awarded a publication grant by the French House of the Humanities (MSH), and in 2009 he was part of an exchange programme funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation (STINT Foundation).
Paper read:
“The Swiss contributions to the International Development of Cartography: The Eduard Imhof era, 1920-1970”. 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 12-17 July 2009.
Dr Maria Gussarsson-Wijk (Swedish Military Archives)
Papers read:
“The Military as Map Maker. Finland 1808-09 in the Military Archives Map Collections”. Europe in Upheaval - the Era of the Napoleonic Wars, Hanasaari, Helsinki, Finland 21-23 February 2008.
“Finska kriget 1808-1809 i Krigsarkivets kartsamlingar”. Kartdagarna, Jönköping, Sweden, 16-18 April 2008.
”Kartor som historiskt källmaterial. Exemplet Finska kriget 1808-09 I Krigsarkivets samlingar”. Svenska historikermötet, Lund, Sweden, 24-26 April 2008.
“Before and after the splitting-up of Sweden-Finland: 19th century Military Maps of Finland in the Swedish Military Archives”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography, University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
”Kartor i militärens tjänst. Den svensk-norska fronten 1808-1809 i Krigsarkivets samlingar”.
Krig i Norden 1807-1810. Forsvarsmuseet, Oslo, Norway., 6-7 November 2008.
“Mapping land and sea. Two Swedish military cartographers at the turn of the 18th century”. International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 12-17 July 2009.
Prof Dr Koji Hasegawa (University of Kobe, Japan)
Papers read:
"Critical report on Japanese military maps before and during the 2nd World War" at a conference organised by the Association of Japanese Geographers, Hiroshima University, 26 September 2004.
"Mapping the castle towns in early modern Japan and Britain". 22st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Berne, Switzerland, 8-13 July 2007.
“Constructing the Empire”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography, University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
Francis Herbert (formerly Map Librarian, Royal Geographical Society, London)
Papers read:
“Back to the drawing board: 120 years of map-making in the RGS”. Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). 6 & 7 June 2009. [Summary by London Map Fair’s chairman, Tim Bryars, in IMCoS Journal, Autumn 2009, 118, pp. 32-33.]
“OS Agents in Scotland from the 1860s onwards: why, who, where, when, what – and how?”. Meeting of the Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey maps, National Library of Scotland’s Map Library, Edinburgh. 12 September 2009.
Prof Dr Ingrid Kretschmer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Prof Kretschmer officially retired on 1 October 2004. but continues to work at the University of Vienna, Department of Geography. At the Kartographentag in Stuttgart (12-15 October 2004), Prof Kretschmer was awarded the "Mercator-medal", which is the highest scientific award of the German Cartographic Society. Since 2006 Prof Kretschmer is also Honorary President of the Austrian Geographical Society.
Dr K Maria D Lane (University of New Mexico, USA)
Papers read:
“Water technology, discourse, and the courtroom: New Mexicans resist the Reclamation Era.” Department of History Colloquium. University of New Mexico, 30 April 2010.
“Water technology, discourse, and the courtroom: New Mexicans resist the Reclamation Era.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Washington, DC. 16 April 2010.
“Placing science: Mars and the geography of water resource management.” Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, 25 February 2010.
“Geographies of Mars.” International Workshop on One Century of Mars Observations, Paris Observatory, France, 18 September 2009.
“Water engineers in the field: from New Mexico to the wider West.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas, NV: March (with Molly Blumhoefer), 2009.
“Quest for Mars: origins, crosscurrents, and the early role of earth sciences.” Department of Earth and Planetary Science Seminar Series, University of Mew Mexico, 6 March 2009.
“Regional Studies Workshop.” Department of Regional Studies in Humanities and Social cences, National Hsinchu University, Taiwan, 28 May 2008.
“Urban-rural relationships in the American Southwest.” Department of Regional Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Hsinchu University, Taiwan, 23 May 2008.
“The historical geography of water management in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico.” Department of Regional Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Hsinchu University, Taiwan, 22 May 2008.
“Geochemistry and potential playa sources of the January 7, 2008 Southwestern New Mexico ‘milky rain.’” International Conference on Salt Lake Research. Salt Lake City, UT: 11-16 May 2008 (with Gilbert, J., Gill, T.E., Borrok, D., Frey, B., Hertel, T., Bleiweiss, M., Lehmann, C., and Gay, D.).
“Explorations and uncertainties: science, law and New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Boston, MA: April 2008.
“Geochemistry and potential playa sources of the January 7, 2008 Southwestern New Mexico ‘milky rain.’” Annual Meeting of the New Mexico Geological Society. Socorro, NM: April 2008 (with Gilbert, J., Gill, T.E., Borrok, D., Frey, B., Hertel, T., Bleiweiss, M., Lehmann, C., and Gay, D.).
“Writing their way around the world: student essays and geographic literacy.” University of New Mexico Success in the Classroom Conference. Albuquerque, NM: 21 February 2008.
“Intersections of authority: science, law and the management of water resources in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley.” Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division, Association of American Geographers. Bryan, TX, 3 November 2007.
“The cartography of uncertainty in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley: land use, water rights, and identity conflict, 1907-1917.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Philadelphia, PA: 11 October 2007.
“High science: men, mountains, and the mapping of Mars.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. San Francisco, CA: April 2007.
“Reading Boulder Dam: perceptions of western resource management in 1930s America.” Department of Geography, University of New Mexico, 16 April 2007.
“Knowing Mars: how the red planet became arid, irrigated, and inhabited in the late nineteenth century.” Department of Geography Speaker Series, University of New Mexico, 6 April 2007.
“Knowing Mars: how the red planet became arid, irrigated, and inhabited in the late nineteenth century.” University Honors Program, University of New Mexico, 21 February 2007. "
"Creating landscape, contesting national identity: popular narrations of Boulder Dam in 1930s America.” Annual Meeting of the Southwest / Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Albuquerque, NM: 14 February 2007.
“High science: mountain geography in astronomical debates.” Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division, Association of American Geographers. Norman, OK: 27 October 2006.
“Natural alteration as national transformation: the Boulder Dam landscape story.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Chicago, IL: March 2006.
“Mars in the image of the Earth: historical geographies of the red planet.” Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, 17 January 2006.
“Geographies of Mars: bringing the red planet to life in the late nineteenth century.” Colloquium, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin: 18 November 2005.
“Cartography, photography, and areography: visual negotiations over the planet Mars, 1899-1910.” Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society. Minneapolis, MN: 5 November 2005.
“Mapping life onto Mars: early views of the red planet.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Washington, DC: 4 November 2005.
“The lost planet: maps of the planet Mars, 1877-1910.” International Conference on the History of Cartography. Budapest, Hungary: 17 July 2005.
“Areographical narratives: images and imaginations of the planet Mars, 1867-1916.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado: 5 April 2005.
Prof Dr Elri Liebenberg (formerly University of South Africa)
In 2007 elected Chair of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography.
Papers read:
"The Arrowsmith and S.D.U.K. maps of South Africa of 1834 - Source material and geographical significance." ICA International Cartographic Conference, A Coruña, Spain, 9-16 June 2005.
"Mapping South Africa in the 1830s: The cartography of James Centlivres Chase." 21st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Budapest, Hungary, 17-22 July 2005.
"Providing a tolerably correct map of South Africa': the cartography of Henry Hall, R.E.D". ICA International Symposium on the History of Colonial Cartography, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 21-23 August 2006.
"The 1 : 500 000 Irrigation maps of South Africa, 1935-1937”. 22st International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC), Berne, Switzerland, 8-13 July 2007.
“Shifting boundaries in Southern Africa: John Arrowsmith’s map of the Cape of Good Hope of 1834”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
“19th Century Cartography: A global overview”. ICA Commission on the History of Cartography: Roundtable Discussion and Paper Session, Copenhagen , Denmark, 11 July 2009.
“Maps as visions of the world”. 8th Biennial conference of the Society of South African Geographers, Pretoria, South Africa, 30 August-3 September 2009.
Dr Carla Lois (University of Buenos Aires)
Papers read:
“From Mare Tenebrorum to Atlantic Ocean: Creating the modern Atlantic World through Cartographical Writing (1470-1800)”. International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World 1500-1825, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 3 - 11 August 2009.
“From the far South: the utmost ends of the Earth in the Argentinean national cartography”. 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography. Copenhagen, Denmark, 12-17 July 2009.
“El uso de la cartografía en la investigación social”. Jornadas "Las Fuentes de la Historia: dialogo entre Pasado y Presente". Paraná, 26 June 2008.
“Patagonia, tabula rasa. La cuestión toponímica y el diseño territorial en la cartografía de la Argentina moderna”. II Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto Mora, Ciudad de México, 21-25 April 2008.
“America quarta pars: Island or continent? The conceptual argument about the geographical status of America in the sixteenth century”. International Cartographic Conference, Australian Map Circle, New Zealand Map Society and IMCOS. Wellington, New Zealand, 11 February 2008. Videoconference.
“Mapping Argentina”. Conference of the American Geographical Society, Map Society of Wisconsin, USA, 13 February 2009.
“Inventing the Argentinean territory: maps that created the geography of a nation”. American Geographical Society, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, 26 February 2009.
Prof Dr Mark Monmonier (Syracuse University, USA)
In 2008 Prof Monmonier received a Research Grant from for the period 1.9.2008 to 31.8.2013 from the US National Science Foundation, funded by the Science and Society Program and the Geography and Regional Science Program, for “Collaborative Research: History of Cartography in the Twentieth Century.” In 2009 the German Cartographic Society awarded him with their highest award, the “Mercator Medal”.
Papers read:
‘‘Sea level rise and the fourth shoreline of coastal cartography’. Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 15 – 19 April 2008.
“Persuasive cartography in the era of the internet”, Second Catalan Geographic Conference). Barcelona, Spain, 30 May 2008.
“Maps that say ‘No!’: the intensification of prohibitive cartography in the twentieth century.” 23nd International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 12-17 July 2009.
Dr Jana Moser (Saxon Academy of Sciences, Dresden, Germany)
Paper read:
Mapping the Namib Desert II: Sperrgebietskarte 1913”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Colonial Cartography, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. 21-23 August 2006.
“Border Contrasts – Border Conflicts: Examples from Northern Namibia”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography, University of Portsmouth, UK. 10-12 September 2008.
Mike Nolan
Paper read:
“The British military mapping of Hong Kong and the cruise of the H.M.S.Pegasus”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
Prof Dr Ferjan Ormeling (formerly University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Papers read:
Prof Ormeling served as Secretary-General of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) for the period 2003-2007. For the period 2007-2011 he holds the portfolio of Chair of the ICA Publications Committee.
"School atlases for a colonial society: The Van Gelder/Lekkerkerker school atlases for the Netherlands East Indies (1800-1952). ICA International Symposium on the History of Colonial Cartography in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 August 2006.
"Geographical names in the VOC atlas of Izaak de Graaf (AD 1700). 22st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Berne, Switzerland, 8-13 July 2007.
Dr Alastair Pearson (University of Portsmouth, UK)
In 2007 Dr Pearson was awarded the John S. Best Research Fellowship by the American Geographical Society Library to study the 1:1 Million Map of Hispanic America published by the AGS.
Papers read:
"Digitizing and Analyzing Historical Maps to Provide New Perspectives on the Development of the Agricultural Landscape of England and Wales." ICA Working Group On Digital Technologies In Cartographic Heritage. First International Workshop on Digital Approaches To Cartographic Heritage, Thessaloniki, 18 to19 May 2006
Pearson, A.W. and Twigg, L. "An analysis of mid-nineteenth century agricultural productivity using the Tithe Survey of England and Wales. Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 15-17 June 2006.
Pearson, A.W. "Identifying change in the human and physical landscape using historical map data in a GIS." Conference on Land Use Mapping: Past, Present and Future Applications. Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London, 29 June 2006.
Pearson, A.W. (with Heffernan, M.) Cartographic Ideals and Geopolitical Realities: International Maps of The World from the 1890s to the late 1970s. Society of Cartographers 42nd Annual Summer School, Keele University, September 2006.
Pearson A.W. (with Heffernan, M.) "Ordering the South. The Mapping of Hispanic America by the American Geographical Society at a Scale of 1:1 Million." 22nd International Conference on the History of Cartography, Berne, Switzerland, July 2007.
Pearson, A.W. “Allied Military Model Making during the Second World Wa”r. Presentation to Swisstopo (Swiss Topographic Mapping Agency), 24th January, Bern, Switzerland, July 2007.
Alastair Pearson and Mike Heffernan. “Pan-Regional mapping: The contribution of the International Map of the World and the AGS Map of Hispanic America to Global Mapping in the Twentieth Century”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography, University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
Dorothy Prescott (University of Melbourne, Australia)
In 2003 Dorothy Prescott was elected "Eminent Spatial Scientest of the year by the newly established Institute of Australia (the institute was formed by the separately organised Institution of Surveyors, Australia; the Mapping Sciences Institute of Australia and the Remote Sensing Association). She also received the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2003 for services to map librarianship and cartobibliography; was appointed to the Geographical Names Board of Victoria, Australia in September 2004; and was given a Certificate of Appreciation for distinguished service on the Surveyors Board of Victoria as the community member appointed by the Governor-in-Council, 15 September 1987 - 15 September 2003. In 2003 she was appointed Semior Fellow of the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environment Sciences, Melbourne University.
Papers read:
"Australian plates in John Arrowsmith's London Atlas of Universal Geography." ICA International Cartographic Conference, La Coruna, Spain, 9-16 July, 2005. 10pp.
"John Arrowsmith's Great map of Australia." Australian Map Circle Annual Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, February 12 to 15, 2006.
"The discovery and mapping of Australia's coasts: the contributions of the Dutch, French and British Explorer-hydrographers". Keynote address at the '400 years of mapping Australia' conference organised by the Mapping Sciences Institute of Australia, Darwin, Australia, August 23 -25, 2006.
Gordon Richings
Paper read:
“Charles Cornwallis Michell (1793-1851). Pioneer Cape military cartographer”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
Ana Christina Roque
Papers read:
“Rethinking Borders in South Mozambique”, paper presented at the Aborne Conference on How is Africa Transforming Border Studies?, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, 10-12 September 2009.
Roque, Ana Cristina, Torrao, M. Manuel & Santos, P. “Missões Científicas: Do património á Ciência. O Acervo de gago Coutinho no IICT”. !º Encontro Nacional de História da Ciência, CCCM. Lisbon, 21-22 July 2009.
“Entre o Cabo e a Terra do Natal: Saberes, Experiência e Ciência no Século XVI”. Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa. Lisbon, 26 June 2009.
“Ao Dobrar do Cabo: Conhecimento e Biodiversidade nos Roteiros e Diários de Navegação Portugueses da Primeira metade do século XVI”, IICT – IV Ciclo Ciência nos Trópicos: Bloco Falar de África. Lisbon, 12 May, 2009.
“Entre Terra, Céu e Mar: Viagens Portuguesas e Conhecimento da África Austral nos Roteiros e Diários de Navegação da Primeira Metade do século XVI”. Academia de Marinha, Lisbon, 28 April 2009.
“Um saber de experiência feito: Conhecer e curar com as plantas da terra em Moçambique nos finais do século XIX”, X Congresso Luso-Afro Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais. Braga, 4-7 Feruary 2009.
“Knowledge and use of medicinal plants in the Central Coast of Mozambique in the late 19th century: contribution for a better understanding of the present day situation”. European Social Science History Conference. Lisbon, 26 February -1 March 2008.
“Looking for the land in the sky and in the sea: Portuguese travels and the recognition of the South East African Coast during the 1st half of the 16th century”. International Conference “From Brazil to Macao: Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces”. Lisbon, 10-14 September 2008.
“Entre médicos e curandeiros: partilha ou marginalização de saberes em Moçambique nos finais do século XIX”. Workshop Plantas Medicinais e Práticas Fitoterapêuticas nos Trópicos, IICT. Lisbon, 29-31 October 2008.
“Sources for the History of the Southern Border of Mozambique: The Archives of the Portuguese Commission of Cartography”. International Colloquium Borderlands and Frontiers in Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. 22-24 November 2007.
Judith Scurfield (State Library of Victoria, Australia)
Judith Scurfield Received a State Library of Victoria Staff Fellowship for the period May-July 2006 to investigate the topic "Charting Australian waters: A survey of the British Admiralty charts of the Australian coastline held in the State Library of Victoria." This meant documenting the bibliographic details of all charts of the Australian coast in the Library's collection, which date from the 1820's top the 1990's, putting them on a database, and adding them to the Library's catalogue with scanned images of some of the charts.
During 2006 map historians in Australia commemorated the 400th anniversary of the first documented landing by Europeans on Australian soil, by Jantzen in the "Duyfken", in a programme called "Australia on the Map 1601-2006". It resulted in, among other things, a good addition to the National Library of Australia's website called "Southland to New Holland".
Dr Mirela Slukan-Altic (Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia)
Papers read:
"Henry Morton Stanley - Exploration and Mapping of the Congo River (1874-1877), solving the last Great Mystery of the African Continent." ICA International Cartographic Conference, A Coruña, Spain, 9-16 June 2005.
"Janko Mikic - Croatian cartographer in the service of Henry Morton Stanley." ICA International Symposium on the History of Colonial Cartography in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 August 2006.
“The Croatian explorer Dragutin Lerman (1863-1918), and his contribution to the mapping of Central Africa. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
Dr Zsolt Török (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Zsolt Török was awarded a David Woodward Memorial Fellowship for 2006-2007 to do research at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. In June 2009 he delivered the Malcolm Young Lecture at the IMCOS Annual General Meeting in London. At the same meeting he was also awarded the prestigious IMCoS/Helen Wallis Award for 2009 for his contributions to the history of cartography.
Papers read:
"Die Geschichte der ungarischen Kartographie, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Geowissenschaftlichen, thematischen Karten." Thematic Mapping in Geosciences', Deutsche Akademike de Naturforscher, Leopoldina Meeting, Budapest. 25-27 May 2006.
“The ‘English’ patient, fools, foxes and rats: exploration, mapping and war in the Lybian desert”. ICA International Symposium on the History of Cartography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 10-12 September 2008.
“Looking glass: Cartographic and artistic reflections of an unknown map of the Habsburg-ttoman Frontier (1566)”. 23nd International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 12-17 July 2009.
