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Registration, Schedule and Speakers for ANZMapS Melbourne 2013

Martin Woods — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:46:41 +0000

Australian and New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS) – 41st Annual Conference. “The Metropolis and Beyond: mapping the built and natural environments”

Tue 9 – Fri 12 April 2013, Melbourne, Australia

ANZMapS-Melbourne-schedule-speakers-and-abstracts

The 2013 Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Australian Map Circle, established in 1973, and recognizes the support of the State Library of Victoria, major sponsor of this year’s event.

The conference commences Tuesday 9 April with the ANZMapS AGM, 5.00pm at the State Library’s beautiful “Red Rotunda” room, followed by a Reception at 6.00pm.

Conference papers will be presented in the Library’s Conference Centre (entry from La Trobe Street), 9.00am – 5.00pm Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 April. Lunches and teas provided as part of registration.

A full programme of presentations will be launched by Keynote speaker Professor Peter Stanley, author of many Australian military social history books, including Tarakan: an Australian Tragedy, Quinn’s Post, Anzac, Gallipoli, Invading Australia, A Stout Pair of Boots, and Digger Smith and Australia’s Great War. His Bad Characters was jointly awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History in 2011. His next book will be Black Saturday at Steels Creek, on the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

The Conference dinner (included in Earlybird, Full, and Student registration) is at the Angliss Restaurant (William Angliss Institute), 555 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, on Thursday 11 April 7.00pm.

Registration is inclusive of a bus tour on Friday 12 April, sponsored by Melway Publishing. The tour will be conducted by Professor Bernie Joyce and Dr Bill Birch, interpreting landscapes and geological features of Melbourne’s Western Districts. The tour will depart the State Library 9.00am, returning 4.30pm.

There will be a display of maps at the conference, including some the State Library’s magnificent early survey maps of Port Phillip, and other military, geological, and land use maps, from colonial times to the present day.

Accommodation: may be found via several websites, eg- http://www.melbourne.com.au/hotels.htm www.expedia.com.au www.wotif.com http://www.hotelscombined.com.au http://www.stayz.com.au

Please note that the State Library of Victoria have a mates rates deal with Quest on Bourke apartments. If booking please mention you are attending an event at the State Library.
Vanessa Warnock, General Manager – Quest on Bourke. 155 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3205.
Tel: +61 3 9631 0400 Fax: +61 3 9631 0500 Mobile:+61 427 430 242

Dorothy Prescott Prize 2012

Martin Woods — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:52:58 +0000

The ANZMapS committee is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Dorothy Prescott Prize for the best paper presented at the annual conference.

The 2012 winner is Rupert Gerritsen for his paper “Getting the strait facts straight” about Flinders’ search for a strait in the Australian coast likely to lead to an inland sea.

Rupert is an independant scholar who has been engaged in youth work, community work and mental health, and specialises in developmental work. His recent focus on Indigenous Australian Prehistory Research included And Their Ghosts May Be Heard, (1994, 2nd edition in 2002). It is a detailed exploration of the fate of the Dutch mariners castaway on the Western Australian coast in the 1600s and early 1700s. In 2011 he published Beyond the Frontier: Explorations in Ethnohistory (Canberra: Batavia Online Publishing).

Congratulations to Rupert! The prize consists of a certificate and $500, which are awarded to a presenter upon publication of his paper in The “Globe”. We look forward to publishing the paper in due course.

New website on Arrowsmith’s maps of Australia 1834-58

Martin Woods — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:31:26 +0000

Dorothy Prescott, OAM, former map curator of both the University of Melbourne Library, and of the National Library of Australia, has created a website to publish the results of her long-standing research into the evolution of the Australian maps from John Arrowsmith’s “London Atlas of Universal Geography” of 1834 to 1858.
The site documents each individual state of the maps, and details changes made from previous states, and includes information on worldwide institutional holdings of the various states.
The maps document the British exploration of Australia, showing explorer’s routes and findings, and slowly filling in the continent, and removing speculative features.
http://www.asmp.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/

Newsletter # 112

Martin Woods — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:58:57 +0000

In this issue: ANZMapS AGM: Elections of officers for 2012-13/How to subscribe to the member e-mail list/Welcome to new members/News from the National Library of Australia/News from the State Library of New South Wales / News from the National Library of New Zealand/Coming events, recent publications and other items of interest.

[Minutes of ANZMapS AGM 2011]

Brisbane 2012 conference, Speakers’ programme

Martin Woods — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:04:56 +0000

An excellent programme of speakers now listed, addressing historical and current cartographic interests

Earlybird registrations will expire in May. Register now..

Full details of conference events,tours etc. Brisbane July 8-11

Cook’s Treasures seminar, National Library

Martin Woods — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:05:32 +0000

On Friday 24 February, The National Library hosted a seminar, Cook’s Treasures, for an across the board exploration of Cook’s influence on Australian and South Pacific history. Keynote speaker Professor Iain McCalman delivered the 2012 Kenneth Binns Lecture, ‘Captain Cook’s Environmental Crisis on the Great Barrier Reef’. Over 100 guests enjoyed presentations by ANZMapS member and author of “Captain Cook’s War and Peace” John Robson, and a cast of mariners, academics, and North Queensland people.

List of presentations:

2012 Kenneth Binns Lecture, ‘Captain Cook’s Environmental Crisis on the Great Barrier Reef’, Professor Iain McCalman

Cook in Print: Andrew Sergeant, National Library of Australia

The Cook Archive: Nicola Mackay-Sim, Curator Pictures, National Library of Australia

Cook the Map Maker: John Robson, Map Librarian, University of Waikato

Dispelling the Myths, Oral history through the Guugu Yimithir people of contact with Cook and his crew: Alberta Hornsby, Kuku Yalanji, Guugu Yimithirr, Idinji, Ankamuthi and Ganggalida tribes of North Queensland

The Captain and His Book in the Victoria River Country, and Beyond: Deborah Bird Rose, Professor of Social Inclusion, Macquarie University

James Cook and the Endeavour at Botany Bay and Cooktown: John Molony, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University

Life on Cook’s Endeavour: Alan Frost, Professor Emeritus, La Trobe University

Cooks Relics Real and Imagined: Dr Nigel Erskine, Curator Exploration & European Settlement, National Maritime Museum

Some late improvements of the means for Preserving the Health of Mariners: Allen Mawer, independent researcher

ANZMapS joint conference with IMTA and MSIA, July 8-10, 2012

Martin Woods — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:20:36 +0000

For the first time the organisations that represent the enthusiasts, practitioners and the business of everything to do with maps are coming together to stage the Brisbane International Geospatial Forum, “Global Connections through Mapping, at the State Library Queensland July 8-10, 2012.

BIGF Call for papers

Brisbane 2012 conference brochure

Conference highlight – Muller’s map, Tabula moderna alterius hemispherius, 1525

Maggie Patton — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:13:52 +0000

The keynote speaker at the 2011 ANZMapS conference was Frederik Muller, who gave a presentation on the first map documenting Magellan’s sighting of the Southland and sailing of the Pacific, Fries’ Tabula moderna alterius hemispherius, 1525 .

Following the presentation a nmber of attendees requested a copy of Fries’ Tabula moderna alterius hemispherius, 1525 .

The text on the reverse has also been linked

If you have additional questions regarding the map or the presentation Frederik Muller is happy to be contacted at info@frederikmuller-rarebooks.com

Congratulations to Dr Jan Tent, recipient of the 2011 Dorothy Prescott Prize.

Martin Woods — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:13:07 +0000

The Prize is awarded for the outstanding paper at each Australian & New Zealand Map Society conference. There were many excellent papers presented at the Sydney conference, 24-27 May at the State Library of NSW, making the panel’s choice this year a very difficult one. Dr Jan Tent is a linguist at the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, and director of the Australian National Placenames Survey (ANPS). Jan’s paper was, “Where in the World is Ulimaroa? Or, How a Pacific Island Became the Australian Continent”, and is to be published in a forthcoming issue of The Globe.

2011 Conference gallery…

Maggie Patton — Thu, 12 May 2011 03:05:14 +0000

The launch of Professor Robert Clancy’s latest book written with Paul Harcombe, Maps that Shaped Australia, will be held following the conference Welcome Drinks at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 24 May in the Members Room, Mitchell Wing, State Library of New South Wales. If you are attending the conference you are welcome to stay for the launch after registering for the conference.