In 1985, the Commonwealth Secretary-General Sir Shridath Ramphal delivered this joint GA/RGS/IBG lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on the 10th April 1985. This was Pat Cleverley's conference and she sent me a copy of the conference programme as well, which has appeared on another post on the blog.
He was also known as Sonny Ramphal.
This event was one of the first introductions for many to the Peters projection rather than Mercator, and he called on geographers to help people see the world in the round. I remember starting to see a Peters map around this time, and bought one when I first started teaching. Radical geography!
This was one of the highlights of that year's conference for many according to reports, and he was a high profile guest of the conference that year.
ReferenceRamphal, Shridath S. “A World Turned Upside Down.” Geography, vol. 70, no. 3, 1985, pp. 193–205. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40570953. Accessed 26 Sept. 2020.
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