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Saturday 17 October:

Optional pre-symposium Full Day Tour of the Cape Peninsula

 

Private Tour with English speaking guides.

Cost: Group of 70–R1 390 pp

 

The tour includes:

Hout Bay Harbour, Chapman’s Peak (weather permitting), Cape of Good Hope Nature reserve with a return trip on the flying Dutchman Funicular at Cape Point, Boulders Beach, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Specialist guides and a set lunch en route.

 

 

Sunday 18 October: 

18h00 – 19h00: Welcome Reception - Slave Lodge, Adderley Street – venue confirmed http://www.iziko.org.za/museums/slave-lodge

Taste three South African wines - Janine Dodds

 

Monday 19 October:

08h00 – 09h00: Coffee and viewing of maps at venue

09h00 – 09h15: Welcome: Roger Stewart

09h15 – 09h45:  Opening addresses - Ms. Ellen Tise, University of Stellenbosch - http://www.liasa.org.za/node/490 

09h45 – 10h30: Maps of the sea voyage from Europe to the Far East – Hans Kok

10h30 – 11h00: Refreshment break

11h00 – 11h45: Cartographic highlights from the Map Collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium – Wulf Bodenstein

11h45 – 12h30: Afriterra’s journey – Lucia Lovison http://www.afriterra.org/

12h30 – 13h15: The 19 C. Korean Map Maker, Kim, Jeong-ho - Dr. Lee, Ki-Bong (from The National Library of Korea)

13h15 – 13h45: Light lunch at venue

13h45 – 17h30: Exhibitions: coach organised

Highlights of the University of Cape Town Collection http://srvrhldig001.uct.ac.za/R/?func=collections&collection_id=2332

 

Evening: own arrangements

 

Tuesday 20 October:

08h00 – 09h00: Coffee and viewing of maps at venue

09h00 – 09h45: Nineteenth century cadastral mapping in South Africa: maps for bureaucrats – Lindsay Braun

09h45 – 10h30: François le Vaillant’s map of the Cape of Good Hope: the map for a King – Ian Glenn

10h30 – 11h00: Refreshment break

11h00 – 11h45: The Wentzel map of south-eastern Africa: the map for a Governor – Carl Vernon

11h45 – 12h30: David Livingstone’s mapping of Eastern Africa: a missionary’s maps – Elri Liebenberg

12h30 – 13h00: 2012 Vienna conference book - Petra Svatek

13h00 – 13h30: Light lunch at venue

13h30– 17h30: Exhibitions – coach organised

University of Stellenbosch: Hugh Solomon Map Collection and Selected Maps in Books (transport has been organised)

Dialogue: the digital era, antique map collecting and imaging (hosted by the University of Stellenbosch Library) 

 

Evening: own arrangements 

 

Wed 21 October

08h00 – 09h00: Coffee and viewing of maps at venue

09h00 – 09h45: Mapping of the Cango Caves and early travellers in the Cape – Stephen Craven

09h45 – 10h30: Lacaille’s mapping of the southern skies – Ian Glass

10h30 – 11h00: Refreshment break

11h00 – 11h45: The surprising cartography of Nicolas-Louis de la Caille – Roger Stewart

11h45 – 12h30: Anglo-Boer War Cartography – Elri Liebenberg

12h30 – 13h30: Light lunch at venue

13h30 – 17h30: Exhibitions: within walking distance – will arrange transport for delegates who require it.

Maps of the Boer War (Symposium venue)

Collections of maps of Africa and Notable Maps of the Cape of Good Hope– Library of Parliament and National Library of South Africa 

 

7pm: Gala Dinner Leeward Room, Cape Grace Hotel, Clock Tower precinct of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (confirmed)

 

The following will be on display throughout the symposium

Small and Miniature Maps of South Africa and the continent of Africa –at the venue

Selected maps from Old Mutual’s Van Schaik Collection of maps – at the venue 

Collections of maps of Africa at the National Library of South Africa – at the Library

 

Thur 22 – Sun 25 October

Optional Tour of the Garden Route 

Cost: For couples – R20 691 pp sharing

Group of 10 – R8 800 pp

Group of 20 – R6 710 pp

 

Day 1 (Thu 22 October): 

To Oudtshoorn by road; overnight at Thorntree Country House.

 

Day 2 (Fri 23 October):

Visit to Cango Caves (one of the presentations at the symposium will be on the mapping of the caves), Wildlife Ranch and Ostrich Farm and then to Knysna by road; overnight in Knysna at the Protea Hotel Knysna Quays on Knysna Lagoon.

 

Day 3 (Sat 24 October):

Visits to Tsitsikamma National Park/Storms River Mouth. Suspension Bridge; Monkeyland OR Birds of Eden; John Benn Sunset Cruise on Knysna Lagoon; evening after dinner: presentation and discussion on early travellers to the Garden Route, their routes 
and maps.

 

Day 4 (Sun 25 October): 

Transfer from Knysna to George airport for connection to Cape Town or Johannesburg.