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An online conference focusing on mapping and closely linked professions such as surveying, exploration, navigation, hydrography, and printing, which have conventionally been associated with men: as makers, patrons, users, and interpreters. The conference explores the place of women and the feminine in maps and mapping, with no chronological or geographical bounds, and a broad understanding of 'maps'.
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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Welcome and Introduction | Catríona Cannon, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, introduces the seminar. | Catriona Cannon | 12 May 2021 | |
| 10 | Where are the women on sixteenth-century French World maps? | Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University, USA, gives the first talk in the first session of the seminar. | Camille Serchuk | 12 May 2021 | |
| 9 | The rise, persistence and surprising end of female personifications of the continents on maps | Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester, NY, USA, gives the second presentation in the first session of the seminar. | Chet Van Duzer | 12 May 2021 | |
| 8 | Women and children first: gender, flood and victimhood in Dutch eighteenth-century maps of dike-breaks | Anne-Rieke van Schaik, University of Amsterdam, gives the third in the first session of the seminar. | Anne-Rieke van Schaik | 12 May 2021 | |
| 7 | ‘Octavia always enjoyed a map’: Octavia Hill, maps, and Victorian social reform | Elizabeth Baigent, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in the second session of the seminar. | Elizabeth Baigent | 12 May 2021 | |
| 6 | Mapping toward equitable solutions in public transit planning | Suzie Birdsell, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting, Boston, USA, gives the second presentation, in the second session of the seminar. | Suzie Birdsell | 12 May 2021 | |
| 5 | From body as territory to feminicides mapping: discourses and mapping languages by Latin American feminist cartographies | Manuela Silveira, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gives the third talk in the second session of the seminar. | Manuela Silveira | 12 May 2021 | |
| 4 | The political cartographies of Marthe Rajchman | Mike Heffernan and Benjamin Thorpe, University of Nottingham, give the first talk of session 3A in the seminar. | Mike Heffernan, Benjamin Thorpe | 12 May 2021 | |
| 3 | Where are all the women? The case of the Halls | Debbie Hall, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in session 3B in the seminar. | Debbie Hall | 12 May 2021 | |
| 2 | Beyond “clerical cartography”: gender and the production of Sanborn fire insurance maps in the 1920s | Jack Swab, University of Kentucky, USA, gives the second talk in session 3B in the seminar. | Jack Swab | 12 May 2021 | |
| 1 | Lost and found in the map library: changes in early map librarianship | Georgia Brown, UW-Milwaukee Libraries, WI, USA, gives the third talk in session 3B of the seminar. | Georgia Brown | 12 May 2021 |