200 Years of Smith’s Map – provisional conference programme
Day 1: Thursday 23 April, 2015
9:30
10.10
Registration
John Henry
Welcome
Chair HOGG
Practical aspects of William Smith’s maps
10:15
Tom Sharpe
10.45
Karen Cook
11:15
John Henry
11.45
Comfort break
William Smith’s 1815 map: its
production, distribution and
survival.
Cartographic Innovation and
Tradition in William Smith’s
Geological Maps.
William Smith, the maps
supporting his published maps.
Lyme Regis Museum
William Smith Online: The impact
of re-curating the William Smith
Archive.
William Smith - from Fuller's
Earth to Google Earth.
Oxford University
Museum of Natural
History
Independent Scholar
William Smith's search for a
money-earning career.
Professor Emeritus,
Keele University
William Smith’s visits to East
Anglia: the legacy of a sea
defence and drainage engineer.
A breach too far? East Norfolk’s
place in Smith’s search for
success.
Department of Earth
Sciences, University of
Oxford.
Independent Scholar
William Smith, the principles of
stratigraphy, and their impact on
the search for underground
water supplies.
William Smith and Combe Down:
the Story of a Geologist and his
'Cherished' Home.
Emeritus Professor,
University of London
University of Kansas
Independent Scholar
William Smith today
12:00
Kate Santry
12.30
Peter
Wigley
13.00
Lunch
William Smith’s career
14:30
15:15
KEYNOTE
Hugh
Torrens
Owen
Green
15.45
Peter Riches
16:15
Break
16.45
John
Mather
17.15
Richard
Irving
17.45
Summing up and discussion
18.00
Wine Reception
Dinner
School of Policy
Studies, Kwansei
Gakuin University,
Japan
Day 2: Friday 24 April, 2015
William Smith’s contemporaries in Europe
09.30
Pierre
Savaton
The first detailed geological maps
of France : between individual
plans and national plan.
10:00
Ezio
Vaccari
The 'practical' roots of stratigraphy
and geological mapping in Italy
during the early decades of the
19th century.
10.30
Peter
Schimkat
Geological mapping in Germany
during the early decades of the
19th century.
11:00
Break
Dépt. des Sciences de
la Terre, Université de
Caen, BasseNormandie
Università dell'Insubria
– Varese
Independent Scholar
Revealing William Smith’s Maps
11:30
12.00
Patrick
Wyse
Jackson
Martyn
Pedley
12:30
Duncan
Hawley
13.00
Lunch
William Smith and Ireland: sources
of Irish geological Information on
his geological maps.
New light on the 1824 William
Smith Northumberland County
map.
William Smith's error in South
Wales.
Dept. of Geology,
Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland
Emeritus Reader,
University of Hull
Independent Scholar
William Smith: the man and his influence
14:30
Nina
Morgan
Alan
Bowden
William Smith, family man
Science Writer
John Farey (1766-1826), pioneer
geologist and an advocate of
Smithian methods.
15.30
Cherry
Lewis
David Mushet, John Farey and
William Smith – geologising in the
Forest of Dean.
Dept. of Earth and
Physical Sciences,
National Museums
Liverpool
Honorary Research
Fellow, University of
Bristol
16:00
16.30
17.15
Break
KEYNOTE
William Smith:
Simon
the coming of the Father.
Knell
Summing up and discussion
17.30
Close
15:00
Professor of Museum
Studies, University of
Leicester