"The Stewart Museum Globe Symposium"
Stewart Museum, Ile Sainte-Hélène, Montreal
19-22 October 2000

The Stewart Museum is organizing a symposium concentrating on early
globes, to be held 19-22 October 2000.  The symposium will give participants

an opportunity to hear presentations by various globe experts as well as to
study the 50 terrestrial and celestial globes and 70 globe-related works in
the
museum's exhibition of early globes, "Yes! The World is Round."

Invited speakers will include Peter van der Krogt and Elly Dekker from
The Netherlands, Catherine Hofmann and Christian Jacob from France, Jan
Mokre from Vienna, and Robert Derome, an art historian from Montreal.

The registration fee which will include lunches and dinners during the
symposium is $285
(Canadian). The registration deadline is 8 September 2000.  (If space is
still
available after that date, the fee will be $325.)  Participation will be
limited
to 75 persons.

English will be the principal language of the symposium.

In order to receive the second circular and registration form, please
contact
the globe symposium secretary:
Nadia Hammadi - [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Stewart Museum, PO Box 1200, Station A, Montreal (Qc), H3C 2Y9, CANADA
Tel: (514) 861-6703, ext. 260  /  Fax:  (514) 284-0123

Please feel free to contact one of the three symposium organizers for
further
information:
Ed Dahl  -- [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Jean-François Gauvin  -- [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Eileen Meillon - [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

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