Carto-Cymru: The Wales Map Symposium 27th May 2016

Carto-Cymru

The Wales Map Symposium 2016

“Shaping the Nation”

27^th May 2016

10.00am – 4.30pm

An event hosted by the National Library of Wales in association with the

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Theme:

Shaping the Nation – the role of maps in both depicting and creating the nation both as an entity on the ground and also as a perception in the minds of people.

Presentations:

Mapping the Marches: Marginal Places and Spaces of Cartographic Innovation

Keith Lilley, Professor of Historical Geography, Queen’s University Belfast

Shapes of Scotland: Maps, history and national identity

Chris Fleet, Map Curator, National Library of Scotland

The Military Map Collection of George III: a cartographic record of European wars, empires won and empires lost

Yolande Hodson, Map historian; cataloguer of King George III’s Military Maps in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle

Ail-ddychmygu daearyddiaethau’r iaith Gymraeg/Re-imagining geographies of Welshness

Rhys Jones, Head of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University

Humphrey Llwyd and the map of Wales

Huw Thomas, Map Curator, National Library of Wales

Maps and mapping at the Royal Commission; putting the past in its place

Tom Pert, On-line Development Manager, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Tickets available for free, morning and afternoon refreshments provided.

For tickets phone: 01970 632 548 or visit: www.llgc.org.uk/drwm

SCGRG Annual Report 2015

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Dissertation Prize Awards 2015

The Social and Cultural Geography research group committee are happy to announce the winners and runners-up of their 2015 Dissertation Prize Awards (you can read their dissertations by clicking on their respective titles). They are:

Winner: Emma-Mai Eshelby (Leicester). “Gown and town: the unfolding presence of studentification in Clarendon Park, Leicester”

Runner-up: Grace Burchell (Nottingham) “Breeding Frankenstein’s Bulldog: reimagining the Pedigree in Nineteenth Century England”

Runner-up: Amelia Davy (Oxford) “Temporal worldings: an exploration of how time was implicated in the experiences of American Soldiers during the Vietnam War”

We decided to have two runners-up this year, due to the high standard of entries.

The winner receives £100 and both winner and runners-up will receive a one year personal subscription to the Taylor and Francis published journal Social and Cultural Geography. You can find out more information about the annual Dissertation Prize by clicking here.