Seminar & Lectures

World-renowned ancient historian and cartographer Richard Talbert will be a featured speaker at the U of S Sept. 21-22, delivering a public lecture and a seminar at a conference on ancient world mapping.

LECTURE & CONFERENCE ON ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING

World-renowned ancient historian and cartographer Richard Talbert will be a featured speaker at the U of S Sept. 21-22 at events arranged by the Classical, Mediaeval & Renaissance Studies Program and the Depts. of Geography and History. Talbert has taught in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. and is currently Wm. Rand Kenan Jr. Prof. of History at the Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He promotes cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines in the field of ancient studies. Talbert is author of the new Barrington Atlas of the Greek & Roman World, which has revolutionized the mapping of ancient lands, from Britain to India.

• Fri., Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m., Public Lecture by Richard Talbert, "Mapping the Classical World for the 21st Century", in Commerce Rm. 18.
• Sat., Sept. 22, 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Seminar & Conference on Ancient World Mapping, featuring sessions by Richard Talbert Keith Carlson (U of S Dept. of History), Kai-Iu Fung (U of S Dept. of Geography), and Susan Stevens (Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA). In Commerce Rms. 16 & 18.

For info. on Prof. Talbert’s visit to the U of S and on the public lecture and conference, see the website: http://www.usask.ca/antiquities/cartographycon.html or contact Catherine Gunderson, curator of the U of S Museum of Antiquities, at e-mail: gundersn@duke.usask.ca