Anne-Rieke van Schaik, University of Amsterdam, gives the third in the first session of the seminar.
Women and children first: gender, flood and victimhood in Dutch eighteenth-century maps of dike-breaks
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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'.