• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Nick Millea (Bodleian Library) , Elizabeth Baigent (Wycliffe Hall)
• Timing: Thursdays 16:30-18:00 via Zoom Webinar
• Web Address: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca
• Organising department: Bodleian Libraries

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Map Readings: ‘Time in maps’
  Kären Wigen (Stanford University), Caroline Winterer (Stanford University), in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Cartographers, craftsmen, and artists: collaboration and cross-pollination in the creation of nautical charts
  Online event
  Šima Krtalić (University of Lisbon)

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - ‘Please use the postcode’: navigating the past, present, and future conservation needs of the Hereford Mappa Mundi
  Hybrid event
  Andrew Honey (Bodleian Library)

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Map Readings – Encounters in the New World: Jesuit cartography of the Americas
  Online event
  Mirela Altić (University of Zagreb), In conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford)

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - 'An illustrated encyclopaedia of this great and varied universe’: Mapping the Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936
  Online event
  Madeline Hewitson (Ashmolean Museum)

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - TOSCA Field Trip – A jolly for Peter Jolly: maps from the British Cartographic Society Awards collection
  In-person event
  Bodleian Map Room Team

Monday 25 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:45 - Day 1 - 30th Anniversary Conference: 'Artful maps: exploring the visuual culture of cartography'
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 26 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Day 2 - 30th Anniversary Conference: 'Artful maps: exploring the visuual culture of cartography'
  Various Speakers

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Map Readings – Copyright and cartography: history, law and the circulation of geographical knowledge
  Online event
  Isabella Alexander (University of Technology, Sydney), In conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford)

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - TOSCA Field Trip – Mapping Middle-earth: how Tolkien created a convincing world
  In-person event
  Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Colonial counter-mappings: Learning from Indigenous Cartography in eighteenth-century America
  Martin Brückner (University of Delaware)

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - How did the chorographic tradition end? Picture maps and measurement in Renaissance France
  Anthony Gerbino (University of Manchester)

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Title to be confirmed
  Margriet Hoogvliet (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Anouk de Vries (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - TOSCA Field Trip – Adventures in Maps (In-person event)
  Debbie Hall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Vernacular environmental cartographies – landscapes and navigation unseen in Lacanjá Chansayab, Chiapas, México
  Luz Martin del Campo (City University of New York)

Thursday 30 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Map Readings – ‘Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities’
  Tania Rossetto (Università degli Studi di Padova), Laura Lo Presti (Università degli Studi di Padova), Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Title to be confirmed
  Margriet Hoogvliet (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Anouk de Vries (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Thursday 15 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
  Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)

Thursday 29 May 2025 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
  Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)

Thursday 12 June 2025 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
  Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)