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	The Uses of Cartography in Atlantic History April 24-25, 1999 HARVARD UNIVERSITY A Workshop of The Atlantic History Seminar
Frederik de Wit, Nova orbis tabula, in lucem edita, Amsterdam, c. 1670
Program Saturday, April 24 9:30 a.m., Forum Room, Lamont Library INTRODUCTION: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University SESSION I Maps in the Study of History: The State of the Art David Woodward, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin and Editor, History of Cartography, 6 vols. The First Discoveries of America: The Spatial Imagination Matthew Edney, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine SESSION II The Natives' Sense of Space Barbara Mundy, Department of Art History, Fordham University The Development of Atlantic Cartography David Buisseret, Department of History, University of Texas, Arlington LUNCH: Resources on the Web: Demonstration and Discussion Sunday, April 25 9:30 a.m., Barker Center, Room 110 SESSION III The Social Dimensions of Cartography James Akerman, Director, Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library Spatial Conceptions in Literature Tom Conley, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University AT LUNCH Cartography and Power in the Early Modern World Jeremy Black, University of Exeter