Zoom Interview on 4 Feb 2021

If you want to listen to me burble about Cartography: The Ideal and the History …

I’ll be chatting with Liz Baigent about the book for TOSCA — The Oxford Seminar on Cartography — on 4 February at 16:30 (UK time). Here’s the announcement and a link to register (it’s free):

Dear Friends,

Our next event will take place via Zoom on Thursday 4 February at 4.30pm (UK time). 

Map Readings – ‘Cartography: the ideal and its history’ – Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine / History of Cartography Project) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

The Director of the landmark History of Cartography project, Matthew Edney, discusses his latest book,Cartography:  the ideal and its history, prompted by the scholarship which has informed the volumes of the History of Cartography over the past 40 years.  According to the book's blurb, in it, Edney grapples with 'the fundamental problems in the categories through which the cartographic enterprise is understood' and 'questions the very concept of "cartography"'.  In conversation with Elizabeth Baigent, co-convenor of TOSCA, Matthew discusses his ideas and gives us new ways of thinking about maps.

To register for this free event, please go to: https://tickets.ox.ac.uk/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=bodnf&c=lectalksnf

It should be fun!