Roger Stewart

(Welcome and Lacaille, the cartographer))

I am a truant from medicine (MB, ChB), academia (PhD (Med)) and commerce (Dip Comp. Dir). Currently, I am involved in executive and director development; I also consult to a small group of senior executives in industry and am a director of a listed and a private company.

My hobby is the management of and research of my family’s collection of Africana maps and books. The collection comprises mainly small and miniature maps of Africa (most prior to 1700) and Southern Africa (up to the Boer War) and larger format maps of Southern Africa (up to the Great Trek).

 

 

Ellen Tise

(Opening)

Ellen R. Tise is Senior Director, Library and Information Services at Stellenbosch University South Africa, since January 2006. She previously held the positions of University Librarian at the University of the Western Cape from 2001–2005, and Deputy University Librarian (Client Services) at the University of the Witwatersrand  from 1996-2000, in South Africa. She is a Past-President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (2009-2011) and of the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) (1998-2002). She served on other major library and information bodies, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award Advisory Committee in 2007, OCLC Members Council Delegate 2005-2008 and Director of the Sabinet Online Board since 2003. In February 2011, Ms Tise was appointed to the UNESCO International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World for a four year period from 2011-2015. In October 2012, she was appointed Chairman of the Board of the National Library of South Africa for a three year period. Ms Tise also serves as a member of the International Advisory Board of Beacon of Freedom of Expression of the National Library of Norway since 2012, Qatar National Library Board in 2013, OCLC Board of Trustees since November 2014 and the IFLA Cultural Heritage Programme Advisory Committee since August 2015.

Ms Tise was awarded an honorary fellowship of IFLA in August 2012. She was also awarded Honorary Membership of the Library and Information Association of South Africa in 2007. She has received many other awards for distinguished leadership and outstanding contributions to librarianship, including a special recognition award for contributions to international librarianship by the International Relations Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She has published various articles in professional journals and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, seminars, symposia, etc.

 

Hans Kok

(Our chairman; Travel to and past the Cape of Good Hope)

Is a retired KLM Royal Dutch Airlines  pilot who started in the days where aeronautical navigation still took place as celestial navigation with sextants, skycompasses etc. Deputy Director of Flight Training with KLM and on secondment to other airlines for starting or re-structuring  these. State Examiner for Flight Navigator’s licence in Germany, retired as B747-400 captain in 1996. Collector of maps and charts for Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies and some side-lines, IMCoS chairman since 2005

 

Stephen Craven

(maps and the Cango Caves)

1) Retired general medical practitioner, MA., BM., BCh. (Oxon.).

2) An Hon. Lecturer in Family Medicine at UCT.

3) Favourite disease is acute benign pulmonary histoplasmosis (= cave disease). Have collected every case in Cape Town during past 30 years.

4) Ph.D. (Cape Town) Environmental Science. Title of thesis “Management problems at Cango Cave” which was published in the Bulletin of the S.A. Spelaeological      

    Association (1994) Vol. 34.

5) Published innumerable papers about the history, politics and mismanagement of Cango Cave.

6) Member editorial advisory boards Cave & Karst Science, and International Journal of Speleology.

7) Vice-President: S.A. Spelaeological Association.

8) Member: Craven Pothole Club (UK), and National Spelaeological Society (USA).

 

Wulf Bodenstein

(Collection at Belgium Royal Museum)

Wulf Bodenstein was born in Hamburg in 1936, and was educated in Germany and in the UK. In 1957 he started a career in civil aviation, as an air traffic controller, and in 1961 was appointed to an expatriate post in East Africa by the Her Majesty’s Crown Agents, holding supervisory positions at major airports there from 1961 to 1966. Following a short spell at Hamburg University, he joined Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation in Brussels, retiring in 1996 as Head of the Advisory Services Division. 

A member of IMCoS since 1994, he founded the Brussels Map Circle in 1998 and currently looks after the collection of ancient maps of Africa on a voluntary basis at the

Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, near Brussels. 

 

Lucia Lovison

• Afriterra Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts (2005-present) 

• Geospatial Director and Librarian (2014-present): cataloguing, metadata and geospatial developer.

• Member of the Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage Working Group of the International Cartographic Association (ICA-ACI) (2005-present). http://xeee.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage/

• Invited by SCOLMA (2012) at Oxford (UK), and written a paper on "The Integration of Historical Cartography into the Present Day" (2014) from the book "African Studies in the Digital Age."

• Group on Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS) – Architectural Implementation Pilot (AIP) (2011-present)

• AIP- GEOSS Capacity-Building Leader: Directing capacity-building for GEOSS-AIP disaster management and risk reduction projects in Latin America (particularly in Chile), Africa, and Asia.

 

Dr Lee, Ki-bong

(Koren Map Maker, Kim, Jeong-ho)

Graduated: Seoul National University Goegraphy (PhD)

Works: Old Map Specialist of Kyu-Chang Kak, Korea National Library in Seoul University

Current: Old Map Specialist of The National Library of Korea)

He presented more than 100 lectures & other presentations for Korea Old Maps.

 

Lindsay Braun

(Cadastral maps from 19th century)

Lindsay Frederick Braun is Associate Professor of African History at the University of Oregon (USA). His work focuses on survey, mapping, and landscape change in colonial-era Africa.  His first book, Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa 1850-1913, appeared with Brill last October.  He is a contributor to the History of Cartography project, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and the recipient of J.B. Harley, Netherland-America Foundation, and Fulbright Fellowships. 
He is currently working up a wider study of British colonial geodesy and a biographical study of 19th-century Transvaal map compiler Friedrich (Fred) Jeppe. 

 

Ian Glenn

(Le Vaillant’s magnificent MS map of the Cape)

Ian Glenn is Emeritus Professor of Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He was educated at the universities of Natal (now Kwa-Zulu Natal) York (U.K.) and Pennsylvania where he took his PhD. He joined the English Department at UCT and moved to the Centre for Film and Media Studies on its formation, serving as director
for most of its first decade. His research on Francois Le Vaillant led to the discovery of the King's Map. He is currently working on a history of wildlife documentary in Southern Africa.

 

Carl Vernon

(Wentzel’s VOC Map)

Carl Vernon is a naturalist who in 1947 came from England with his parents to Africa.  In 1969 he graduated from the University of Pretoria and became an ornithologist with National Parks in Rhodesia (soon to become Zimbabwe). He has always been associated with museums and in 1977 he joined the East London Museum, and retired in 2003.  A special interest of his has been the historical interpretation of the landscape, which led to his participation in the study of Beutler who was accompanied by David Wentzel the surveyor and cartographer on Ensign Beutler’s journey to the east of the Cape of Good Hope...

Elri Liebenberg (David Livingstone’s map; Mapping and the Anglo Boer War)

 

Elri Liebenberg

Elri Liebenberg is Emeritus-Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of South Africa since 2000. She obtained her first degree from the University of the Orange Free State, and her MA and D Litt et Phil from the University of South Africa, after which she studied Cartography at the University College of Swansea in Wales. She was appointed lecturer in Geography at Unisa in 1967, senior lecturer in 1976, and full professor in 1991. In 1994 she became Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, a position she held until she retired in 1999. Professor Liebenberg has published widely in cartographic techniques and the history of surveying and mapping in South Africa. She was a council member of the Society for South African Geographers and has been a member of the South African National Committee of ICA since 1991. In 1999 she was elected Vice-President of ICA for the period 1999-2003

 

Ian Glass

(Lacaille’s landmark chart of the southern skies)

Dr Ian Glass was born in Dublin, Ireland, and obtained his BA (First Class) at Trinity College Dublin and his PhD in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Following posts at MIT, the California Institute of Technology and the Royal Greenwich Observatory, He has worked since 1971 at the South African Astronomical Observatory. He has held visiting positions in USA, England, France, India, Japan and Australia.
His main field is the astrophysics of stars and galaxies, especially in the infrared. He is the author of over 200 journal articles and six books:
Victorian Telescope Makers -The Lives and Letters of Thomas and HowardGrubb (1997),
Handbook of Infrared Astronomy (1999),
Revolutionaries of the Cosmos - the Astrohysicists (2006),
Proxima - the Nearest Star other than the Sun (2008),
Nicolas-Louis de La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist (2013) and
The Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope - History and Heritage (2015)

 

Janine Dodds

(Introduction to South African Wines)

Janine has been associated with the wine industry for the last 15 years - specifically in the Constantia Valley. She has developed a love and appreciation for the wines of this unique region and is keen to share her passion for these vineyards and their wines.