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Encounters and Translations: Mapping and Writing the Waters of the World
SIMPÓSIO ISHMAP | 3 e 4 jun. '16 | Auditório BNP | Entrada livre | Inscrições
Simpósio organizado pelo ISHMap (The International Society for the History of the Map), pelo CIUHCT (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia) e BNP.
Programme
Friday, 3rd June 2016
09h30 Opening Session | Sarah Tyacke (Chair of ISHMap), Thomas Horst (Local Organizer and trustee of ISHMap) Moving beyond borders: from the history of cartography to the history of science | Henrique Leitão
10h15 Session 1: Indigenous Cartography | Chair: Thomas Horst Changing Tides: Cartographic Depictions of Water as Reflections of Cultural Change in Ancient Mexico | Kathryn Marie Hudson Islands as Mountains standing out from the Sea: The Case of Kunlun Islands in Chinese Cartography | Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
11h15 Break
11h30 Session 2: Encounters and translations in overseas Cartography | Chair: Petra Svatek Cartographic Representations of the South Atlantic in the luso-brazilian cartography: cartographers and spatial dynamics in the slave trade XVIII–XIX | Iris Kantor Mapping the “Eastern Frontier”: American Explorers around the African Waters during 1870s | Tarik Tansu Yiğit Surveying and Mapping Lands and Waters in Mozambique in late 19th century | Ana Roque
13h00 Lunchbreak
14h30 Session 3: Cartography of Rivers | Chair: Zsolt Török The Muluya River as a millennia-old frontier: representations of the Algarve and the construction of geographic knowledge (14th–16th centuries) | Gonçalo Matos Ramos, André Oliveira Leitão, Luís Ribeiro Gonçalves «Come dimostra il congiunto disegno»: Sketches, drawings and maps of the Po river in Early Modern Italy | Blythe Alice Raviola Rafael Reyes and the Putumayo or Içá River: Amazon explorations, cartography and diplomacy (1874–1909) | David Ramírez Palacios
16h00 Break (with the possibility to see cartographic treasures of the BNP)
16h45 ISHMap Annual General Meeting
Saturday, 4th June 2016
09h30 Session 4: Nautical Charts and the Cartography of the Ocean | Chair: Emmanuelle Vagnon The Kunstmann III Chart of the Atlantic Ocean: The Oldest Known Chart of Latitudes? | Gregory C. McIntosh, Joaquim Alves Gaspar Luís Teixeira, c. 1585: the earliest known extant chart with isogonic lines | Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Henrique Leitão
10h30 Break
11h00 Session 5: Cartography of coastlines | Chair: Catherine Delano Smith The Vallard or Gandille atlas (1547), a reexamination | Nicolas Médevielle Knowledge of coastlines, coastlines of knowledge. Visual epistemologies and notions of spatiality in Early Modern coastal profiles, 1585–1815 | Wouter de Vries Between Land and Sea: Cartography of the Brazilian Coastline by Jesuit Mathematicians in the 1730s | Luís Tirapicos
12h30 Lunchbreak
14h00 Session 6: Mapping waters and space | Chair: Sarah Tyacke Medieval inhibitions in re-inventing the Caspian sea | Mordechay Lewy Imagination or reality? Hydrography depiction on maps of Polish lands from 16th to 19th century | Tomasz Panecki The masters of the eighteenth-century British Navy and the production of hydrographic knowledge | Lena Moser
15h30 From the Rivers to the Ocean: Marsigli’s Maps in the Shadows of the Enlightenment | Zsolt Török (Founding member and former Chair of ISHMap)
15h50 Final discussion and end of the Symposium
Cabeçalho: pormenor de Pratica da arte de navegar de Luís Serrão Pimentel, 1673. [BNP IL. 156//1]
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