This programme is still under development and is therefore likely to change during the next months.
- Monday 11 October 2021
- 17.00 | Registration
- 18.00-19.00 | Reception
- 19.00 | End of the day’s programme
- Tuesday 12 October 2021 – Day 1
- 09.00 | Registration
- 09.30 | Opening
- 10.00 | Where are you? Introduction to Belgium by Prof. Wouter Bracke (KBR and ULB)
- 10.30 | Coffee
- 11.00 | Darkness there and nothing more? Medieval cartography and the Liber Floridus by Dr. Karen De Coene
- 11.30 | Intersections of military architecture and cartography in the Low Countries (1540-1625), from Jacob van Deventer to Pierre Le Poivre by Prof. Pieter Martens (VUB)
- 12.00-13.30 | Lunch at your leisure (we will provide a list of places to eat in the neighbourhood)
- 13.30 | Guided visit to the Dukes of Burgundy museum
- 15.30 | Guided visit around the KBR Map Room
- 17.00 | End of the day’s programme
- Wednesday 13 October 2021 – Day 2
- 09.30 | Ortelius: the man and his world by Curator Joost Depuydt (Museum Plantin Moretus)
- 10.00 | Gerard Mercator as a maker of scientific instruments: aspects of materialized knowledge by Prof. Koenraad van Cleempoel (Universiteit Hasselt)
- 10.30 | Coffee
- 11.00 | Northern Europe in sixteenth-century nautical cartography: a comprehensive review by Luis Robles (ULB)
- 11.30 | Between Heaven and Earth. Michiel Florent van Langren and his Map of the Moon. by Prof. Geert Vanpaemel (KU Leuven)
- 12.00-13.30 | Lunch at your leisure (see list of places to eat in the neighbourhood)
- 14.00 | Visit to the scientific instruments section of the Art & History Museum
- 15.30 | Visit to the Map Room of the Royal Army Museum [to be confirmed]
- 16.30 | End of the day’s programme
- Thursday 14 October 2021 – Day 3
- 09.30 | The Ostend East India Company 1722-1742 by Dr. Jan Parmentier (Museum aan de Stroom)
- 09.55 | From a 1761 Venus transit to the Second Military Survey – the century of the Habsburg Empire in cartography by Prof. Gábor Timár (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
- 10.20 | The role of geography and cartography in Leopold II’s imperialist ventures around the time of the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) by Dr. Jan Vandersmissen (UGent)
- 10.45 | Coffee
- 11.10 | The ‘Mappothèque’ of Philippe Vandermaelen by Marguerite Silvestre (to be confirmed)
- 11.35 | The Mapping of the Antarctic Peninsula by European Nations around 1900 (Belgium, France, Sweden and Russia) by Robert Clancy
- 12.00-13.30 | Lunch at your leisure (see list of places to eat in the neighbourhood)
- 14.30 | Visit to the Map Room of the State Archives of Belgium
- 16.30 | End of the programme
- 18.30 | Reception at the Cercle Gaulois
- 19.00 | Official dinner at the Cercle Gaulois
- 21.30 | Speeches
- Friday 15 to Sunday 17 October 2021 – Optional excursion organised by our travel agent