What's Your Map?

By: Oculi Mundi
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  • We all want to make sense of this vast and messy world. From etchings on cave walls to sea charts, globes and atlases, humans have been making maps for thousands of years. Join historian Jerry Brotton as he explores this fascinating world of maps. In each episode, we ask our guests to unfold a map that is special to them and tell us the story behind it. What's Your Map? Is an Oculi Mundi exploration. To look at the maps as they are discussed, go to http://Oculi-Mundi.com
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  • 5: Lost Treasures: Reconstructing Al-Idrisi with Adam Lowe

    5: Lost Treasures: Reconstructing Al-Idrisi with Adam Lowe
    Nov 20 2024
    In this episode of What’s Your Map? host and map historian Jerry Brotton is joined by Adame Lowe, the director of Factum Arte and the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation.

    Adam's organisation specialises in heritage preservation, and they monitor, study and recreate intrinsically important cultural assets and artworks.

    For What’s Your Map? Adam brought a re-creation of The Lost Map of al-Idrisi, which Factum made with pure silver.

    To read more information on the map as it’s discussed, go to: https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast

    The original map for Roger II of Sicily was created in the 12th century by Islamic cartographer al-Idrisi. It was a technically sophisticated world map that drew on several centuries of Islamic cartographic research. While the original silver disc was lost, Factum has re-created the piece based on printed maps stored at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

    In What’s Your Map?, we speak to people who live, love, and work with maps — making, preserving, interpreting, and being inspired by them. In each episode, we ask our guests to unfold a map that is special to them and tell us the story behind it.

    Jerry Brotton is a British historian with a specialist interest in maps. He is aProfessor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London and is a regular on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3.

    What’s Your Map? is a Whistledown Production and is produced by Emily Uchida Finch

    Instagram: @oculimundimaps
    Website: https://oculi-mundi.com/



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    27 mins
  • 4: Tolkien's Pipe: Maps and Fantasy with Roz Kaveney

    4: Tolkien's Pipe: Maps and Fantasy with Roz Kaveney
    Nov 6 2024
    In this episode, our host Jerry Brotton is joined by writer and pioneering LBGTQ+ rights activist Roz Kaveney. Roz is best known for her cultural critiques, poetry, fantasy writing, and editing.

    Content warning: this episode deals with the topic of sexual assault.
    From Tolkien's draft map of Rohan from The Lord of the Rings, Jerry and Roz launch into a discussion about the importance of fantasy, adventure, and never giving up – no matter the odds and no matter the times that we live in.
    To read more information about the map as it is discussed, go to: https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast
    Roz is a regular contributor to the Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement and a core member of the Midnight Rose collective, which produced fantasy anthologies for Penguin Books. Among other works, she edited Tales from The Forbidden Planet and its sequel. Her novel Tiny Pieces of Skull won the 2016 Best Trans Fiction Lambda Literary Award. In 1972, as part of its TV/TS Drag Queen Group, Roz co-authored the ‘trans manifesto’ published by the UK Gay Liberation Front, and was part of the first London Pride march.
    In What’s Your Map? we speak to people who live, love and work with maps - making, preserving, interpreting, and being inspired by them. In each episode, we ask our guest to unfold a map that is special to them, and explore the stories attached to it.
    Jerry Brotton is a British historian with a specialist interest in maps. He is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London and is a regular on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3.
    What’s Your Map? is an Oculi Mundi exploration, produced by Emily Uchida Finch of Whistledown Productions.
    Instagram: @oculimundimaps
    Website: https://oculi-mundi.com/
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    27 mins
  • 3: The Heart of Maps: Plotting Power with Peter Barber

    3: The Heart of Maps: Plotting Power with Peter Barber
    Oct 22 2024

    In this episode we are joined by Peter Barber, the former head of the British Library's map rooms, which hold more than 4.5 million maps! Peter is one of the world's foremost experts on European cartography. He has curated numerous exhibitions, and has written extensively on the history of maps.

    Exploring a heart-shaped world map created in 1544 by Gemma Frisius, Jerry and Peter unveil the hidden messages from the map maker, who lived at a time of huge upheaval and war. They also revisit Peter's personal history with the fascinating world of maps.

    To view the map while listening to this episode, please visit www.oculi-mundi.com/podcast.

    What's Your Map? is an Oculi Mundi Exploration. Oculi Mundi is the online home of The Sunderland Collection of antique maps and atlases.

    In this series, we speak to people who live, love and work with maps - making, preserving, interpreting, and being inspired by them. In each episode, we ask our guests to unfold a map that is special to them and to tell us the story that lies behind it.

    Jerry Brotton is a British historian with a specialist interest in maps. He is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London and is a regular on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3.

    What’s Your Map? is a Whistledown Production and is produced by Emily Uchida Finch

    Instagram: @oculimundimaps
    Website: https://oculi-mundi.com/


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    28 mins

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