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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  • 2: Do No Harm: Mapping the Jain Cosmos with William Dalrymple

    2: Do No Harm: Mapping the Jain Cosmos with William Dalrymple
    Sep 24 2024
    Welcome to the first episode of What’s Your Map? where host Jerry Brotton is joined by historian William Dalrymple, who unfurls a beautiful Jain cosmological map to explore the meaning and history of the ancient Indian religion.

    To see a high-definition image of the map as it’s discussed, please go to: https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast

    William untangles Jain beliefs through their cosmological map of the universe. He recounts his visit to a Jain temple where he bore witness to heartbreak and ritual death.

    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.

    William Dalrymple’s new book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (Bloomsbury) is out now.

    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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    33 mins
  • 1: What's Your Map? Coming September 25th

    1: What's Your Map? Coming September 25th
    Sep 3 2024
    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 the 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.

    Celebrated historian William Dalrymple will join Jerry for our first episode on September 25th to discuss a beautiful map from the ancient Indian religion of Jainism.

    What's Your Map? Is an Oculi Mundi exploration. To look at the maps as they are discussed, go to Oculi-Mundi.com

    Produced by Emily Uchida Finch at Whistledown Productions.
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    1 min

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