Cartography - Archive 2016 Calendar of Events

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January 6, 2016 - London Dr Radu Leca (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures) will speak about Japan’s Shifting Position on Maps of the World in the Late Edo Period at 5:05 PM in Brunei GalleryRoom: B102, SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square.

January 7, 2016 - Zürich The United Nations has proclaimed 2015-2016 as the “International Year of the Map” in order to promote maps and geographic information. As its contribution to the “International Year of the Map,” the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Zähringerplatz 6, will have a lecture in Hermann Escher Hall at 18.15 clock. Markus Hauser, cartographer (Orell Füssli Cartography AG) will speak about School map as art: a Swiss tradition.

January 9, 2016 - Somerville, Massachusetts Please join a small group of map enthusiasts from the Boston Map Society for a field trip to Somerville for a tour of Studio TKM Conservation of Fine Art and Historic Works on Paper and a presentation by the Director, a longstanding Boston Map Society member T.K. McClintock, on what is distinctive about the conservation of cartographic records with a particular focus on historic globes. Space is limited to the first 20 RSVPs, so please email Kris Butler (Krisbutler(at)me.com) if you plan to attend. More details, including where to gather for lunch afterwards for those interested, will be provided to confirmed attendees.

January 14, 2016 – London The Twenty-Fifth Series 'Maps and Society' Lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Nydia Pineda De Avila (PhD Candidate, Queen Mary, University of London) will discuss Experiencing Lunar Maps: Collections in England, France and Spain, 1638–c.1700. This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of an Anonymous Benefactor, The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and The International Map Collectors' Society. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell (tony(at)tonycampbell.info).

January 21, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, at 5:30 p.m. with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Our meetings are open to the public, but to help defray expenses, non-members are asked for a small donation at the door. Harry L. Stern will speak about How Close was Captain Cook to Discovering the Northwest Passage?.

January 21-23, 2016 - Katowice, Poland Fictional Maps International Conference 2016 will be held at CINiBA Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library, Bankowa Street 11a. The conference language shall be English. Mapping the imaginary has always been a challenge for world-building and storytelling alike. Map of the fictional world subverts the very essence of an actual cartography: it represents a territory that cannot be discovered or traversed in a non-fictional realm and yet it delivers much more than a usual map: a promise of the journey into unknown. Keynote speaker is Stefan Ekman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), author of the book "Here Be Dragons. Exploring Fantasy Maps & Settings" (Wesleyan UP 2013). Contact fictionalmaps(at)gmail.com for additional information.

January 21, 2016 – Oxford TOSCA Field Trip will be Launch event for the Historic Towns Atlas ‘Historical Map of Oxford’ in the Divinity School, Bodleian Library. Booking is essential - for further details, please contact: Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk) at 01865 287119.

January 21, 2016 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Geoffrey Martin, Archivist, Association of the American Geographers, will present On the History of the Book... American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical Science based on his most recent publication “American geography and geographers : toward geographical science” Dr. Martin is considered to be the foremost historian of American Geography and official archivist of the Association of American Geographers, a position he has held for nearly 30 years. For additional information contact Ed Redmond (ered(at)loc.gov) at 202-707-8548.

January 26, 2016 - New York The New York Map Society will meet at 6:30 – 7:45 pm in Classroom A, First floor, Bartos Education Center, just off the Fifth Avenue entrance of the Schwarzman (main) building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. Andrew Kapochunas, Secretary, Webmaster and a Director of the New York Map Society, was born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany, his parents and siblings part of over eight million homeless European refugees in that country after World War II. His presentation, How Maps and Map Collecting Helped an Immigrant Find His Place in the World, illustrated throughout with images of maps from his own collection and from his personal site, LithuanianMaps.com, will take attendees on a journey through time, beginning with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 13^th Century, and through space, as Andrew struggled to find his place in the world. Having finally found his place, Andrew now helps others – via hotlinks at genealogical sites like JewishGen's LitvakSIG -- find their and their ancestors' place. Physical maps from the Library’s collection, images of which are on Andrew’s site, will be displayed at his talk. Additional information from Constance Brown (connie(at)redstonestudios.com) at (860) 575-4640.

January 26, 2016 – Williamsburg Mike and Carolyn McNamara are hosting the Williamsburg Map Circle Winter Social at their home on Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30. Come and enjoy wine, munchies, and some wonderful maps elegantly displayed. Margaret Pritchard will kick off a brief show-and-tell program with comments on. . . well, come and be surprised! We would like to have two or three other very brief (five minutes or less) presentations, so if you have something cartographic you would like to bring and show (and that you have not had at a previous WMC social), please advise the program committee via Bill Wooldridge (w.wooldridge(at)charter.net) and he will take you on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact Ted Edwards (williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com) for directions to the McNamara home.

January 30, 2016 - Basel Arbeitsgruppe für Kartengeschichte der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kartografie will visit Universitätsbibliothek Basel und Museum Kleines Klingental for a seminar Surveying and Mapping in Basel around 1600. The detailed program with further information can be found online. Please note that registration is required for participation in the joint lunch.

January 30, 2016 - Philadelphia Please join us at Stenton, 4601 North 18th Street, at 1:00 for a special open house & lecture by Martin Bruckner, discussing the rise of maps in American popular culture during the eighteenth century. Martin’s talk, The Social Life of Maps in Eighteenth Century America, will examine how people related to maps in everyday life. As products of American entrepreneurship rather than state power, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps were highly versatile goods: made of paper, leather, and silk. Giant maps were sold next to pocket maps, needlework and puzzle maps, handkerchief and parlor-screen maps. By reconstructing the life-cycle of popular American maps from production to post-consumer usage, we will trace the emergence of maps as fashionable objects and popular narrative props, defining the private and public sphere. An accompanying exhibit will display historic maps from the private collections of Edward Middleton Drinker and Jonathan Cresswell, of the Philadelphia Print Shop. Cost is $15, or $10 for Friends of Stenton. To reserve your space, visit our website, call 215-329-7312, or email programs(at)stenton.org.

February 4, 2016 – London The Twenty-Fifth Series 'Maps and Society' Lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr Kevin Sheehan (Librarian & independent scholar, Durham University)will discuss Construction and Reconstruction: Investigating How Portolan Maps Were Produced by Reproducing a Fifteenth-Century Chart of the Mediterranean. This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of an Anonymous Benefactor, The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and The International Map Collectors' Society. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell (tony(at)tonycampbell.info).

February 4-7, 2016 - Ninove, Belgium We are glad to announce a short but interesting exhibition in Ninove where two recently restored 17th century manuscript maps from the city archives are presented. Besides, maps of Van Deventer, Horenbault, Chamlay, Villaret, Frickx, Leclerc, Sanderus, Ferraris, Vandermaelen and Popp will be exhibited. The exhibit Kijk op de kaart [Look on the map] can be seen at Oud Stadhuis, Oudstrijdersplein 6 from 10 AM-5 PM. In addition to the exhibition, there is a supplementary program:
On Saturday, 11 AM Peter Beyls is demonstrating land surveying techniques.
On Sunday, 2-4 PM, three lectures are planned:
    2PM: Georges Vande Winkel on Villaret and Ferraris
    3PM: Etienne Mahieu on map restoration
    4PM: Caroline De Candt & Clement Herremans on map digitalisation

February 5, 2016 – Boston The Boston Map Society will meet at the Langham Hotel, 250 Franklin Street. Dr. Ron Grim, Curator of Maps at the Normal B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, will talk about these off-site maps hung at the Langham Hotel while guests taste Scotch. (Lecture is free, drinks are pay-as-consume.) Mark your calendar and watch for more information.

February 5-7, 2016 - Miami The Miami International Map Fair, the oldest event of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, will be held at the HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street. Dealers from around the world exhibit and sell antique maps. Visitors are invited to bring in maps of their own for expert opinions and attend educational programs. While many of the attendees are serious map collectors, this event is building awareness of antique maps and encouraging new collectors. Guest speakers on Saturday are Julie Sweetkind Singer (Maps to the Masses: Content, Creation and Dissemination at Stanford) and Robert A. Leath (Cartography and Culture: Using Old Maps in New Ways). On Sunday speaker is Catherine L. Newell (Mapping the Imagination: Fantasy, Science, and Making Maps in the Human Brain). Registration is available on-line. For information contact Hilda Masip (HMasip(at)historymiami.org), Map Fair Coordinator, at HistoryMiami, 101 West Flager St., Miami, FL 33130; telephone: 305-375-1618.

February 6, 2016 – Brussels The 78th meeting of The Brussels Map Circle Executive Committee will take place at 10.00.

February 6, 2016 - Lancaster The Regional Heritage Centre, Department of History, Lancaster University is sponsoring a study day from 09.30-15.50: Maps and the Landscape - distortion and reality. The discipline of historical geography is the study of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical, and "real" geographies of the past. A common theme is the ways in which understandings of a place or region have changed through time. This study day will consider maps as a key piece of evidence in this endeavour.

February 8, 2016 - Cambridge Dr Radu Leca (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures) will speak about Material Culture and Synthetic Worldviews on Late Eighteenth-century Japanese Maps as part of the East Asian Studies Seminar. Seminar is at 5:00pm in Rooms 8 & 9 in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, University of Cambridge. The proliferation of Western knowledge in Japan has often been analysed as a distinct field of ‘Dutch studies’ centred on Edo. However, until the beginning of the nineteenth-century it was undertaken by an informal network of scholars with varying skills, and occurred just as much in Nagasaki and Osaka. Their preoccupation with updated information was matched by their fascination with foreign material culture. For instance, in 1786 Katsuragawa Hoshu was translating Blaeu’s 1648 world map by affixing paper slips to the original, while his brother Morishima Churyo was recording stories about foreign lands while pasting foreign papers in his scrapbook. Such materials were fragmentary and their understanding required collaborative knowledge. Nevertheless, attempts were made to integrate them into a synthetic worldview. For example, whilst Nagakubo Sekisui’s 1788 world map was based on Matteo Ricci’s ‘outdated’ model, it was updated with recent political and scientific information. This was part of a larger phenomenon visible at all levels of society: the impact of the materiality of foreign objects on the geographical imaginary.

February 10, 2016 – Manila The next quarterly meeting of the Philippine Map Collectors Society will be held at 6PM. Venue to be announced. Additional details from Rudolf Lietz (gallery(at)gop.com.ph).

February 11, 2016 - Los Angeles Chet Van Duzer (The Lazarus Project, University of Mississippi) will give a talk titled New Light on Henricus Martellus's World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging and Early Renaissance Cartography from noon to 1 pm in in the Laboratory for Digital Cultural Heritage in the Charles E. Young Research Library. The talk is open to the public and is sponsored by UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities.

February 11-12, 2016 - Parma The Department of Humanities, Arts, History and Society - University of Parma will have a seminar Officina cartografica: materiali per lo studio della cartografia. Additional information is available on-line.

February 12, 2016 - Los Angeles Chet Van Duzer (The Lazarus Project, University of Mississippi) will give a talk titled Monsters, Exploration, and Maps: The Oceans from Antiquity to 1600 from 3 to 4 pm in room 4302 of Rolfe Hall. The talk is open to the public and is sponsored by UCLA's Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

February 18, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, at 5:30 p.m. with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Our meetings are open to the public, but to help defray expenses, non-members are asked for a small donation at the door. Richard Pegg will speak about A Chinese Map of the World (Wanguo yutu) in the Newberry Library Collection.

February 18, 2016 - New York The New York Map Society will have a field from 6:30 - 7:45 pm at Manhattan Borough President's Map Room, 19th Floor, The Municipal Building, 1 Centre St. Those of you lucky enough to have seen some of the original John Randel Farm Maps (1818-20), already know the beauty of these oversize manuscript maps. Having Manhattan's official topographer, Hector Rivera, give us a detailed overview of these maps alone would be worth a trip, but, as a special treat for New York Map Society members, Mr. Rivera also will show us the oversize hand-colored manuscript survey maps of Manhattan's waterfront, maps that literally pick up where Randle left off, created in 1823 by surveyor Daniel Ewen. These maps were never printed, have yet to be digitized, and exist only in six large folios in the Manhattan Map Room. Our field trip will close with a behind- he-scenes tour of the working and storage areas of the Map Room -- and a pop quiz by Mr. Rivera that will test members' knowledge of Manhattan. RSVP to Andrew Kapochunas (kapochunas(at)gmail.com) is mandatory: because our visit requires after-hours building access, your name(s) must be on a list at the security reception desk. Anyone not on the list -- any last- minute attendees -- will be turned away. If you think you might be able to attend, please RSVP.

February 18, 2016 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. John Rennie Short will talk about The National Atlas. This talks looks at the emergence of the modern national atlas in the late nineteenth century down to the present day and reflects the rise of the postcolonial, the newly independent and the recently reinvented. The talk considers a number of themes including, how the atlas depicts national landscapes, embodies national communities and condenses national debates. John Rennie Short is Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was a Professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He has held visiting appointments the Australian National University, Groningen University, Loughborough University; His research fellowships include the Vietor Fellowship at Yale University, the Dibner Fellowship at the Smithsonian, the Kono Fellowship at the Huntington Library and the Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the American Philosophical Library. He is the author of 37 books and many papers in academic journals. For additional information contact Ed Redmond (ered(at)loc.gov) at 202-707-8548.

February 18, 2016 - Zürich The United Nations has proclaimed 2015-2016 as the “International Year of the Map” in order to promote maps and geographic information. As its contribution to the “International Year of the Map,” the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Zähringerplatz 6, will have a lecture in Hermann Escher Hall at 18.15 clock. Olivier Gygi, Dipl. Phys. ETH (Librarian and software developers) will speak about Time travel through old maps and panoramas - with smart phones and tablets.

February 23, 2016 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Dorian Gerhold (London) will speak about Plans of London buildings drawn c.1450-1720. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476.

February 23, 2016 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room. Lorraine Sherry will discuss Lithuania and the Baltic States: Welcome to NATO and the Euro Zone! After centuries of occupation by Russia, Prussia and Poland, the tiny nation of Lithuania – once the largest nation in Eastern Europe in the 14th century – finally gained her independence in 1991. But even after creating a stable democratic republic and a viable economic system, joining NATO and the European Union along with her sister Baltic States in 2004, and adopting the Euro in 2015, the threat of Russian aggression still looms large in the minds of her people. What makes this little country strategically located? What are its history, its culture, and its aspirations - and why should we care about it? RMMS Secretary, Lorraine Sherry, a third-generation Lithuanian-American, will explore some of these issues in her presentation. She will also bring along a few original maps from her personal collection. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry (lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net).

February 24, 2016 – Washington The Philip Lee Phillips Map Society, the Friends Group of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, will be hosting a lecture on the Crowd-sourced Mapping of North Korea at noon in the Mumford Room of the Madison Building, Library of Congress. The event is free and open to the public; no registration is required. North Korea is chief among the world’s most secretive societies. Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, has sought to cast light on the mysterious state. From 2006 to 2009, he employed Google Earth to create North Korea Uncovered, one of the most detailed maps of North Korea that has ever been available to the public. Mr. Melvin has gone on to help develop 38 North: DPRK Digital Atlas. The atlas depicts thousands of buildings, monuments, missile-storage facilities, mass graves, secret labor camps, palaces, restaurants, tourist sites, main roads of the country, and even includes the entrance to the country's subterranean nuclear test base, the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center. Mr. Melvin’s project is unique and noteworthy for its extensive use of publicly available satellite imagery, along with other innovative forms of data collection, such as gathering information from persons who have visited or North Korea or from defectors, and tracking the publicly announced movements of former leader Kim Jong-Il and current leader Kim Jung-Eun to geo-locate buildings and facilities. According to Mr. Melvin, there are special train tracks that carry VIPs to oases of luxury in the impoverished nation. “Several elite compounds have private train stations. We can follow the railway lines through the security perimeters and into the elite compounds.” For more information, please contact Ryan Moore, Cartographic Specialist (rymo(at)@loc.gov) at 202-707-7779.

February 25, 2016 – London The Twenty-Fifth Series 'Maps and Society' Lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Major Tony Keeley (Royal School of Military Survey, Thatcham, Berkshire) will discuss Cartography in the Sands: Mapping Oman at 1:100,000 and Fixing the Position of the Kuria Muria Islands in 1984. This meeting is sponsored by the Hakluyt Society. This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of an Anonymous Benefactor, The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and The International Map Collectors' Society. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell (tony(at)tonycampbell.info).

February 27, 2016 – Milan The Milano Map Fair will be held 11.00 to 18.00 at Hotel Michelangelo Milano.

February 27, 2016 – Valletta The Malta Map Society AGM will be held at Pardo Hall, Merchant Street, in the famous building which housed Napoleon when he invaded Malta! The meeting starts at 10.30am. At this meeting the first copy of the "Earliest Maps of Malta pre-1565" book will be shown to the members. Additional information from Rod Lyon (galleon(at)onvol.net).

February 28, 2016 - Falmouth, Massachusetts An illustrated talk by Sea Education Association visiting professor Dan Brayton at 1 PM will offer a “reading” of two early modern cartographic masterpieces, the Carta Marina et Descriptio of Olaus Magnus, and the Chart of the South Pacific by Hessel Gerritsz. Dr. Brayton, who is also Middlebury College associate professor of English and American literatures, will provide the stories behind the 16th- and 17th-century maps depicting the marine environment. All lectures are free, open to the public, and held at SEA, James L. Madden Center Lecture Hall, 171 Woods Hole Road.

March 3, 2016 – Boston The Boston Map Society will meet at 5:30 in the Boston Public Library. Robert Paine will discuss A History of the Coast Survey, 1807 – 1879. Robert “Bob” Paine will lead a talk on the important and often dangerous and difficult work of the US Coast Survey- the oldest governmental scientific organization in the United States. He will share some intriguing maps and artifacts as well.

March 3, 2016 – Oxford The 23rd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography runs from 4.30pm to 6.30pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm. Benjamin Olshin (University of the Arts, Philadelphia) will speak about Marco Polo and maps: the question of evidence. Additional information from Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk), Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.

March 5, 2016 - Charlotte The William P. Cumming Map Society will meet at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library - Dowd Learning Room, 310 North Tryon St. Stephen R. Kelly, author of “The Boundary Hunters: Uncovering North Carolina’s Lost Borders” (The Atlantic) and “How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines” (New York Times), will discuss the historical background of the boundary between the two Carolinas, and the current status of the recent re-survey to determine its true location. Prior to Mr. Kelly’s presentation, Jay Lester, author of the North Carolina Map Blog, will give a brief introduction to the variety and frequently peculiar cartographic shapes of North Carolina. Shelia Bumgarner, librarian in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, will have a fascinating selection of 19th century regional maps available for viewing and study. Among these treasures are maps of local gold mines. The meeting room will be open 9:30am-1:00pm; lectures 10:30am-12noon; map viewing available prior to and following the lectures.

March 10, 2016 – London The Twenty-Fifth Series 'Maps and Society' Lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr Isabelle Avila (Lecturer, University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France) will discuss Mental Maps of the World in Great Britain and France, 1870-1914. This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of an Anonymous Benefactor, The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and The International Map Collectors' Society. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell (tony(at)tonycampbell.info).

March 10, 2016 – Shanghai The story of Marco Polo and his 24 years living in China is well known. Less well known is the huge impact that Marco Polo had on early Western mapping of China. In this talk, Marco Polo, Columbus and Old maps of China, Vince Ungvary will take you through a journey in time – back to the 13th Century when Polo visited China and show how maps made in the 15th & 16th century were heavily influenced by Marco Polo’s writings. Marco Polo’s description of the Far East and its riches also probably inspired Christopher Columbus’s decision to try to reach Asia by sea. Talk will be at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, in the Tavern at the Radisson Xingguo Hotel, 78 Xing Guo Road. Vince Ungvary is an Australian professional antique map dealer specialising in antique maps of China & Asia. Vince will be displaying some stunning original antique maps of Asia and China from the 1600’s-1700’s as well as old maps of Shanghai. Please RSVP to bookings(at)royalasiaticsociety.org.cn if you wish to attend.

March 12, 2016 – Brussels The 2016 Brussels Map Circle Map Afternoon (MAPAF 2016) will take place in the Boardroom (Salle du Conseil/Raadzaal) of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Mont des Arts - Kunstberg, Boulevard de l’Empereur 2 - Keizerslaan 2, 1000 Brussels. You are expected at 12.30 for a convivial drink & sandwich lunch. The MAPAF 2016 will end at 16.30. We kindly invite you to bring a map, an atlas, a globe, a cartographic instrument or an interesting book on cartography and to present it and talk about it during the MAPAF 2016. We are equally interested into antique maps as into ordinary or contemporary maps as there is always something interesting, even in the simplest maps or cartographic items. Registration for the MAPAF 2016 on our website is mandatory. The Brussels Map Circle 2016 Annual General Meeting will precede MAPAF 2016 at 10.00 – 12.00. Register on our website. Additional information from Jean-Christophe Staelens & Henri Godts at mapaf(at)bimcc.org.

March 12, 2016 – New York Join us for a special members-only event: New York Map Society board member and map collector Andrew Kapochunas will host our annual Show-and-Tell party at his map-filled apartment at 2:30 pm. Fortified by wine and appetizers, we’ll settle in while 6 or so members give short (10 minute) map-related presentations. If you would like to attend, RSVP to Connie Brown (connie(at)redstonestudios.com): she will provide you with Andrew's address and directions. Furthermore, let Connie know if you’d like to give a “Show-and-Tell” — first come, first serve for presentations. Presenters may bring primary materials or a laptop — WiFi is available. You don’t have to share a map to attend — this is a great opportunity to socialize with other NYMS members and learn about their interests.

March 14, 2016 - Edmonton The Edmonton Map Society's winter meeting will be held in the Lounge at Claridge House, 11027 87 Avenue at 7:00 p.m. Parking is available in the visitors lot, just west of the building. Our three presenters are: Ron Kelland, who could not present in November, will talk about the AB/BC Interprovincial Boundary Survey and First World War Commemorative Place Names. Jonathan Schaeffer will discuss the history of the discovery of the fabled North-west Passage through the (mis)information provided by maps. For many centuries, finding a navigable path through the Arctic labyrinth of islands proved to be a daunting (and expensive) challenge. John Huck (University of Alberta Libraries) will give a brief report on a meeting he attended at Stanford University called Geo4Libcamp. The 'unconference'-style event saw representatives from 21 research libraries meet to discuss ways to work together on repository and discovery infrastructure for geospatial data, with a special focus on GeoBlacklight, largely developed at Stanford. Additional information from David L. Jones (david.jones(at)ualberta.ca).

March 15, 2016 - Barcelona The Barcelona City History Museum ( MUHBA ), between 16:30 and 20:00, will hold the seminar La construcció de la carta històrica de Barcelona [Building the historic map of Barcelona] by explaining and discussing a new digital tool within the Museum. It is a web based mapping of the history of Barcelona, from the Iberian era to the twentieth century. The event will take place in Carreras Candi (MUHBA Plaça del Rei). We recommend advance booking; phone 93 256 21 22 or via reservesmuhba(at)bcn.cat

March 15, 2016 - Shanghai The story of Marco Polo and his 24 years living in China is well known. Less well known is the huge impact that Marco Polo had on early Western mapping of China. In this talk, Marco Polo, Columbus and old maps of China, Vince Ungvary will take you through a journey in time – back to the 13th Century when Polo visited China and show how maps made in the 15th &16th century were heavily influenced by Marco Polo’s writings. Marco Polo's description of the Far East and its riches also probably inspired Christopher Columbus's decision to try to reach Asia by sea. Presentation will be at 7:30pm at The FIX - Building 2, 283 Jianguo Xi Lu, near Jiashan Lu. Original, rare antique maps of China from 1600-1800’s will be on display. Please RSVP to editor(at)shanghai-review.org.

March 17, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, at 5:30 p.m. with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Our meetings are open to the public, but to help defray expenses, non-members are asked for a small donation at the door. Michael Quane will speak about In-car Navigation Systems: A 20-year Retrospective.

March 19, 2016 - Richmond The Fry-Jefferson Map Society hosts a free workshop, Introduction To Antique Maps Workshop, at 10:00-11:30 am in Library Of Virginia Conference Rooms, 800 E. Broad Street. While examining a variety of antique map types, guest speaker Eliane Dotson will discuss map terminology, color application, printing techniques, manufacture and creation, and clues to look for to identify reproductions and forgeries. Join us to explore questions such as what you should ask or think about when looking at a map and what maps can relate to us within their broader context. Eliane Dotson is vice president of the Washington Map Society, a Fry-Jefferson Map Society Steering Committee member, a map dealer, and the owner of Old World Auctions. Advance registration required. For more information about this event, contact the Library of Virginia Foundation at 804.692.3900 or e-mail Dana.Brown(at)lva.virginia.gov.

March 21, 2016 - Paris The EHESS [School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences], salle 640, 6e étage, 190, avenue de France, will sponsor a seminar Deciphering Sino-Korean atlases & Japanese maps / Current Research Problems in East Asian Cartography Studies from 9h30 – 17h30. Additional information from Noem Godefroy at noemi.godefroy(at)ehess.fr

March 22, 2016 – Boston The Boston Map Society will meet at 5:30 in the Boston Public Library. Professor Joni Seager will present Missing Women, Blank Maps, and Data Voids: What gets counted counts. Professor Seager, feminist geographer and Chair at Bentley University, will discuss the persistent paucity of gender-disaggregated data. She is the author of the internationally renowned “State of the Women in the World Atlas,” first published in 1986. Now in its fourth edition, the atlas has been published in more than a dozen foreign-language editions; in 2016 it will be released in Persian in Iran. Joni has worked with a number of governments and the UN on developing gender-sensitive statistical protocols. She is also a globally recognized expert in the field of gender and environmental policy, and has worked around the world on projects in this field.

March 22, 2016 – Philadelphia Members of the Philadelphia Map Society are invited to attend a reception and talk by Jeff Lock of Colonial Instruments celebrating completion of his restoration of the John Bird Transit and Equal Altitude Instrument which was commissioned by Thomas Penn for Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon's survey. Reception and talk will be from 5:30 to 7 PM at Congress Hall. Sponsored by The Friends of Independence Historical Park, you may register through their website events tab for $20. Enter at 5th and Chestnut.

March 23, 2016 - Floriana, Malta The next committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held at the offices of the Malta Historical Society in Lion Street at 6pm. Subjects for discussion are the society’s latest publication on the earliest pre siege maps of Malta from Ptolemy (2nd century) onwards to 1564 and the next project: a study of the many French maps of the islands. Additional information from Rod Lyon (galleon(at)onvol.net).

March 24, 2016 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. John Hessler will speak about Watching the Apocalypse: Using GIS and Social Media to Map Refugees. The dynamics of population movements during humanitarian disasters is one of the most complicated geospatial problems of the modern era. Refugee movement from wars, like the Syrian conflict, revolutions, such as those in the Middle East, and epidemics, like the Ebola spread in west Africa, require new mapping tools capable of representing time and handling of huge amounts of data derived from social media and cell-phones. This talk will showcase some of these new dynamic maps and discuss how these new cartographic tools and visualizations are being used in places like the US State Department, the United Nations and NGO’s like Flowminder and CartoDB to help track and model these kinds of mass migration and to help allocate disaster response efforts. John Hessler is Specialist in Modern Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. For additional information contact Ed Redmond (ered(at)loc.gov) at 202-707-8548.

March 25, 2016 - Williamsburg Members of the Williamsburg Map Circle are invited to gather in the Swem Library Special Collections section for an open house (5:30 - 7:30) showcasing unusual maps in the collection, with a presentation by Rob Rose and Peter Colwell on geo-referencing and other Geographic Information System projects and tools, followed by refreshments. Additional information from Ted Edwards (williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com).

March 29, 2016 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room. John Lindemann will discuss Marie Tharp, Illustrator of a Paradigm. John Lindemann has been a professional geologist since his graduation from the Colorado School of Mines in the mid-1960’s. Marie Tharp’s 1977 image of the world’s ocean floor presented a view that earth scientists had never before seen – Earth with its oceans drained. Tharp’s image that evolved with plate tectonic thought provided the graphic synthesis that made plate tectonic theory the new reality. Her meticulous attention to detail, her tenacity of purpose, her geologic sense, and her artistic eye is made manifest by her near-iconic ocean floor image. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry (lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net).

March 29, 2016 - Valencia, Spain Dr. Francisco Taberner Shepherd will speak to the Delegación Territorial de la Comunidad Valenciana y Murcia del Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Ingeniería Geomática y Topográfica about Los planos de Tosca. Talk will be from 19: 00h to 20:30 at Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia.

March 30, 2016 – Boston The Boston Map Society will will sponsor a talk by Chet Van Duzer titled The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers’ Map of 1550 at 5:30 pm in The Castle Room, The Florence & Chafetz Hillel House, Boston University, located at 213 Bay State Road. Van Duzer will give an account of the large (4.4 × 7 feet) and elaborately decorated manuscript world map made by the Norman cartographer Pierre Desceliers in 1550 (British Library, Add. MS 24065). Following a look at the map’s genre, principal characteristics, and the circumstances of its creation as a gift for Henry II of France, he will demonstrate the cartographer’s greater interest in Asia than other contemporary Norman cartographers; discuss evidence that the cartographer hired multiple artists to decorate the map; and lay out the sources of both the map’s illustrations and its descriptive texts. Additional details available from John Day (jeanjour(at)comcast.net).

March 30, 2016 - San Francisco At 5:00-7:00 PM there will be an introductory lecture about the exhibition Mapping “The East”: Envisioning Asia in the Age of Exploration by Prof. Laura Hostetler, Eds-Stewart endowed Chair (Ricci Institute), in Xavier Auditorium, Fromm Hall at University of San Francisco, with opening reception to follow in Manresa Gallery in St. Ignatius Church, USF Main campus.

March 31, 2016 - Beckley, West Virginia The Cartography Club will meet at the Raleigh County Public Library, 221 N Kanawha St. The meeting will be downstairs at 5:15 p.m. For more information about The Cartography Club, call Best Fabric and Foam at 304-253-8441 and ask for Tom Sopher.

April 1-2, 2016 - Corpus Christi The Spring 2016 Texas Map Society Meeting will be held at Texas A&M University. The topic will be Maps and Technology. Tours, presentations and speakers include: Private Group Tour of the Art Museum of South Texas, (A Surveying Dynasty and its Legacy: The Blucher Collection and its Digitization) Ann Hodges • Rick Smith • Audrey Garza; (Learning on the Job: Student Accomplishments and Experiences Digitizing the Blucher Collection) Son Nguyen • Lillian Reitz • Bryan Gillis; Visit to Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Library; (A Surveyor’s Stories: Mapping South Texas) Ron Brister; (The Map That Bombed the Chinese Embassy) Walter (Walt) E. Wilson. Registration, details and updates will be soon be available online at the Texas Map Society web page. Registration deadline is March 27 at midnight. For questions about the program & local arrangements contact Ann Hodges (ann.hodges(at)tamucc.edu) at (361) 825-2301.

April 1-3, 2016 – Schwerte, Germany Every year since 2006, collectors have come together during the Atlas Tage [Atlas Days] to share their passion for atlases. The 11th International Atlas Days will mark the 200th anniversary of the launch of the subscription for “Stieler's Handatlas.” Additonal information from Jürgen Espenhorst (panverlag(at)t-online.de).

April 7-9, 2016 – Chapel Hill, North Carolina The Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill will host a conference entitled Mapping the Past: GIS Approaches to Ancient History. The conference, which is free and open to the public, features a variety of presentations applying the techniques of digital mapping to the challenges of ancient Greek and Roman history and archaeology. Tom Elliott of New York University, managing editor of the Pleiades project, will deliver a keynote address entitled "Stable Orbits or Clear Air Turbulence: Capacity, Scale, and Use Cases in Geospatial Antiquity."

April 7-8, 2016 - Rome X Seminario di studi storico-cartografici Dalla mappa al GIS Il progetto del territorio nelle fonti d’archivio, organized by the Laboratorio geocartografico “Giuseppe Caraci” del Dipartimento di Studi umanistici dell’Università Roma Tre, in collaboration with the Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici. Deadline for Call for Papers: 6 March 2016.

April 9, 2016 - New York The Oxford Outremer Map Colloquium will be held from 1:00 to 5:00 PM at Lincoln Center Campus, Twelfth Floor Lounge, 113 W. 60th St. Discussion will be about medieval maps.

April 9, 2016 – Wilmington, Delaware The Philadelphia Map Society will meet from 11AM-1 PM. The Society will view maps in the extensive collection of the Hagley Museum and Library, 298 Buck Rd. We have invited Lynn Catanese, Chief Curator of Library Collections, to be our guest for lunch nearby to follow. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman (philamapsociety(at)gmail.com).

April 11, 2016 Ithaca, New York PJ Mode is delivering a cartographic talk at the Olin & Uris Libraries, Cornell University Library at 11 AM.

April 12, 2016 – New York The New York Map Society will have a Tour of The New York Public Library Map Division: Current Projects and New Acquisitions, Schwarzman (Main) Building, 5th Ave. & 42nd St. at 6:30 - 7:45 pm. Join us -- by RSVP (attendance is limited to 25) to Connie Brown: connie(at)redstonestudios.com.

April 14-17, 2016 - Durham There will be an International Map Collectors' Society visit to the cathedral city of Durham. On Friday we will be visiting the cathedral and having a guided tour together with a visit to the new Open Treasures exhibition. We will also be privileged to visit the cathedral library to view some of their beautiful early printed, ecclesiastical and historically significant maps and atlases followed by lunch in the wood-panelled medieval Priors Hall, not normally open to the public. The following day we will visit the Durham County Record Office for a viewing of their maps and plans from the 18th and 19th centuries which showcase the county's industrial heritage and landed estates. Later in the afternoon we will go to St John's College, part of Durham University, to see some of the maps and views of the city and county belonging to two IMCoS members, Jenny Harvey and Ray Eddy. This will be followed by drinks and our group dinner in the Orangery of St John's College. Additional information online or from Valerie Newby (valerie.newby(at)btopenworld.com) or Jenny Harvey (jeh(at)harvey27.demon.co.uk).

April 14, 2016 – London The Twenty-Fifth Series 'Maps and Society' Lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr Pnina Arad (Research Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) will discuss Cultural Landscape in Early Modern Jewish and Christian Maps of the Holy Land. This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of an Anonymous Benefactor, The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and The International Map Collectors' Society. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell (tony(at)tonycampbell.info).

April 14, 2016 - Manchester The University of Manchester is excited to welcome Professor Peter Kornicki, who will talk about the production of maps in Japan during the Edo period and their appearance in European collections, such as the one assembled by the 25th Earl of Crawford in the 1860s and 1870s and purchased by The John Rylands Library in 1901. Talk is at 17:00 in The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, 150 Deansgate.

April 14, 2016 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Edward Papenfuse, former Archivist of the State of Maryland, will present Thomas Holdsworth Poppleton and the Surveyor's Map that Made Baltimore, placing it in the context of the work of his predecessors, including Dick Stephenson's Charles Varle, and explore his professional career in New York as well as Baltimore. Poppleton’s 1822 map is the most important map of Baltimore City ever produced (see www.loc.gov/item/77691538/ ) and was widely copied by Fielding Lucas and others. His map of Lower Manhattan (1817) is also highly regarded and remarkably accurate. For additional information contact Ed Redmond (ered(at)loc.gov) at 202-707-8548.

April 16, 2016 – Brussels The 79th meeting of The Brussels Map Circle Executive Committee will take place at 10.00.

April 16, 2016 - Richmond The 2016 Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lectures on the History of Cartography will be held at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad St. Speakers are Donald Hawkins (Alexandria, Virginia: In and Out of the District of Columbia, 1791-1865) and Dennis Gurtz (Iconic Maps of Washington D.C.). Special Exhibition of Alexandria, D.C./Virginia and Washington D.C. maps and views, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Lectures begin at 1pm. Lectures and exhibition free. Free parking available under the Library. Call 804-692-3561 for additional information.

April 19, 2016 - Portland, Maine The Osher Map Library, 314 Forest Avenue, invites you to a talk by Middlebury College Professor Daniel Brayton, author of the award-winning “Shakespeare’s Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration,” and explore the relationship between early modern cartography and the modern marine sciences. In his talk, Connecting Early Modern Cartography & the Modern Marine Sciences, Professor Brayton will examine how empirical knowledge in the graphic representation of marine phenomena, such as winds and currents, allows us to discern how competing epistemologies play out on maps and charts. Lecture is from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.

April 19-22, 2016 – Stanford, California Stanford University announces the opening of the David Rumsey Map Center in the Green Library, Bing Wing, 4th Floor, Stanford University. Don't miss our special presentations and workshops in celebration of the opening.
April 19, 6:00-7:00 pm: Open House
April 20, 10:00 am-6:00: A series of presentations by Grant Parker, Chet Van Duzer, Anne Knowles, Ben Versbow, David Rumsey and G. Salim Mohammed.
April 21, 8:45 am-6:00 pm: A series of presentations by Susan Schulten, David Rumsey, Kären Wigen, Zephyr Frank, Stace Maples, Chet Van Duzer and Grant Parker.
April 22, 9:00 am-5:00 pm: Open House
Contact Sonia Lee (sonialee(at)stanford.edu) at 650-736-9538 for additional information.

April 20-22, 2016 - Santiago, Chile 6° Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía, Del mundo al mapa y del mapa al mundo: objetos, escalas e imaginarios del territorio, at the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad Católica de Chile. For further details click here.

April 20-22, 2016 - Riga The 11th Conference of the series Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage will run jointly with the 20th Conference of the Map & Geoinformation Curators Group (MAGIC), “The one who wants to last is the one who is willing to change”: old maps for new user profiles. The two conferences will be hosted by the National Library of Latvia.

April 21, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, at 5:30 p.m. with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Our meetings are open to the public, but to help defray expenses, non-members are asked for a small donation at the door. Curtis Carroll will speak about The Life of H. M. “Harry” Gousha: The Single Most Important Person in the Free Road Map Era.

April 21, 2016 - Norwich Dr Radu Leca (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures) will speak about ‘Myriad Countries’: The Outside World on Historical Maps of Japan. This talk is part of the Third Thursday Lecture which is held at 6 pm in the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, 64 The Close. Admission free. All welcome. Places are limited and booking is essential. Historical maps offer a vivid record of previous generations’ mental landscapes. They can help us understand the nature and characteristics of other cultures’ knowledge of the world. This talk draws examples from the collection donated by Sir Hugh Cortazzi to SISJAC’s Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Library in order to answer the question: How was the outside world understood in early modern Japan? The focus is on two periods of dynamic changes in early modern worldviews: the second half of the seventeenth century, which witnessed the emergence of a playful urban print culture; and the turn of the nineteenth century, in which a renewed interest in foreign knowledge was coupled with threats of invasion. My analysis shows that the urban audience’s perception of the outside world was shaped by attempts to assemble a viable worldview through the maps’ visual persuasiveness. Maps thus emerged as contemporary tools for thinking about a continually changing perception of the Japanese archipelago among ‘myriad countries’.

April 22–24, 2016 – San Francisco A symposium Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: World Maps of Ricci and Verbiest to Google Earth will be held at University of San Francisco – McLaren Conference Center 252, 2130 Fulton St. It will be an international symposium on the history of East-West scientific exchange through the medium of cartography beginning with ancient maps and continuing to the present with the latest technological innovations. Internationally known specialists in cartography and East-West cultural exchange will be invited to share their research, while experts from Google and NASA will discuss the latest technological developments in enriching our knowledge of the world and the cosmos. Registration is required.

April 23-24, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a Road rally from Chicago to Lake Geneva: Retracing the Route of H. Sargent Michaels’ 1905 Photographic Guide for Motorists.

April 28, 2016 – London The Twenty-Fifth Series 'Maps and Society' Lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr Elodie Duché (Alan Pearsall Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London) will discuss Cartography and Captivity during the Napoleonic Conflicts, 1803-1815. This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of an Anonymous Benefactor, The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and The International Map Collectors' Society. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell (tony(at)tonycampbell.info).

April 28, 2016 - Milwaukee The 2016 Holzheimer “Maps and America” Lecture will be held at the American Geographical Society Library in the UWM Golda Meir Library building, third floor, east wing, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. Mirela Altić, Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia, will present a talk on Jesuit missionaries as geographers and cartographers of the New World. This will be the 27th “Maps and America” lecture, supported by an endowment created by Arthur and Janet Holzheimer. A reception at 5:30 p.m. precedes the lecture at 6 p.m. For more information or special needs, please call 414-229-6282 or email agsl(at)uwm.edu.

May 2, 9, 16, 23, and June 6, 2016 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society’s 2016 Map Month features a series of lectures about Illusions, Delusions & Confusions. Maps are often filled with inaccuracies—rivers running on a wrong course, cities placed incorrectly, existing geographic locations missing entirely—and these mistakes are one of the things which makes old maps interesting to us. One group of errors, however, are particularly captivating, those which are called ‘map myths.’ These are features which appear on maps, but not on earth: creatures which never were, cities where none were built, islands where there are but waves, lakes and rivers where there is but dry land, and kingdoms of non-existent kings. All lectures will be held in Conference Room B2 at the main branch of the Denver Public Library, starting at 5:30 pm.
  Joseph Nigg – May 2nd - Sea Monster of Olaus Magnus: Lore and Legacy of the 1539 Carta Marina
  John Gilbert – May 9th - The Edges of the Earth in Herodotus’ Histories
  P.J. Mode – May 16th - Mapmaking and Mythmaking: Persuasive Cartography at Work
  Don McGuirk – May 23rd - Sea of the West: The Imagined Sea in the Heart of North America
  Wes Brown – May 23rd - The Enormous Mythical San Luis Lake of Colorado
  Christopher W. Lane – June 6th - Cartographic myths of the American West
Additional information is available on-line or from Lorraine Sherry (lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net).

May 3, 2016 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Dr Douglas Lockhart (formerly University of Keele) will speak about Alexander Ogg (1811-65): surveyor, farmer and gold prospector, Aberdeenshire and New Zealand. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476.

May 3, 2016 – Cos Cob (Greenwich), Connecticut At 7 p.m., Richard H. Brown and Paul E. Cohen, coauthors of "Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783," will visit the Greenwich Historical Society, 31 Strickland Rd., to talk about Coastal Maps and Views from the American Revolutionary Era. They will explain how the rare maps serve as documentation of the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. In line with the society’s current exhibition “Close to the Wind: Our Maritime History... "

May 3, 2016 – New York The New York Map Society and and the Grolier Club will sponsor a presentation by PJ Mode - Persuasive Maps. The meeting will be 6:30-7:45 pm at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street (Between Park & Madison). PJ Mode will describe his collection of Persuasive Cartography, maps intended primarily to influence opinions or beliefs - to send a message - rather than to communicate objective geographic information. He will show examples published over five centuries concerning a number of subjects, including religion, empire, finance, advertising and promotion, politics, war and peace. This is a free and open-to-the-public presentation, and refreshments will be served. To facilitate getting an estimated headcount, Grolier has asked that RSVPs be sent to Maev Brennan, at mbrennan(at)grolierclub.org. Additional information from Connie Brown: connie(at)redstonestudios.com.

May 3, 2016 - Valletta, Malta The Malta Map Society will meet at 6:30 PM at the famous Casino Maltese. The Map Society will be holding an official book launch event to mark the publication of their new study The Earliest Maps of Malta from Ptolemy and the 2nd Century AD to 1564. The work is based on laborious research by 92 year old President Dr. Albert Ganado and MMS Secretary and expert Joseph Schiro. Additional information from Rod Lyon (galleon(at)onvol.net).

May 4-8, 2016 - Rome The Brussels Map Circle has organised a rather exceptional ‘excursion’ for 2016: Roma! All details are not finalized, but this message is rather aimed at allowing you to note the date in your agenda and start booking airplanes and hotels. It will be a workshop-cum-visits on the theme of Lafreri: in the morning workshop and in the afternoon visits to collections and places connected to maps. Speakers will be Birte Rubach (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Karen De Coene (UGent), Vladimiro Valerio (IUAV), Francis Herbert (Royal Geographical Society), Emilio Moreschi (Associazione Almagià), Stefano Bifolco (Antiquarius) and Wouter Bracke (Academia Belgica). Four visits to cartographical artifacts are planned (also provisional information): the Vatican, Galleria delle carte geografiche en Terza loggia; Biblioteca centrale di Roma; Biblioteca Casanatense; Palazzo Farnese. The workshop will be held in the Academia Belgica, Via Omero 8, 00197 Rome. This is a joint-venture with our sister organisation in Italy, the Associazione Italiana Collezionisti di Cartografia Antica, ‘Roberto Almagià’. Don’t miss this unique occasion and go to this link to manifest your interest (without any further obligation yet).

May 6, 2016 - London Transforming Topography is a collaborative conference organised by The British Library and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art which aims to shed new light and fresh insights on the field of topography and the British Library’s collection. The conference will be held 09:30 - 17:00 at Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road. Topography is an emerging and dynamic field in cultural and art historical scholarship. The British Library holds an extensive and extremely fine collection of place-related material including topographical views, travel diaries and antiquarian texts, amassed by distinguished collectors such as Charles I and II, Hans Sloane, and not least George III. The Transforming Topography conference is one element of an on-going research project which aims to explore the British Library's topographic collections in the light of current research. George III's topographical collection, estimated at 40,000 maps and views, is currently being catalogued and digitised with a new web space on topography due in 2017. Delivered by both established and emerging scholars, the day will end with a chaired panel discussion, addressing the matter of ‘topography now’ in art history, cultural geography and other disciplines.

May 6, 2016 - Oxford Dr Radu Leca, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures will speak about The Role of Mapping in the Emergence of Japan as a Sea Power in the Late-nineteenth-century. Lecture is at 17:00 to 18:30 in the Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College.

May 11, 2016 - Edmonton The Edmonton Map Society’s Spring meeting will be at 7:00 pm. at Claridge House, 11027 87 Ave. Our speakers will be: Lesley Cormack: The whole earth, a present for a Prince: Molyneux’s Globes and the creation of a global vision in Renaissance England and Adrian Christ: Representations of Hungary by Dutch Cartographers, 1585-1685: Ottomans within or without Europe. The recently installed intercom system does not connect to the lounge. Please call David Jones at 780 224-1860 from the foyer and he will let you in. Additional information from David Jones (djones(at)ualberta.ca).

May 12-15, 2016 - Kalamazoo, Michigan The 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place at Western Michigan University. There will be a panel about Defining Otherness on Medieval Maps. Additional information from the panel organizers Laura Whatley or Chet Van Duzer. There will be three additional panels about Roman Heritage of Medieval Maps, Mapping Space and Time, and Medieval Maps, their Makers, and Uses. Information about these panels can be obtained from panel organizers Felicitas Schmieder (Felicitas.Schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de) or Dan Terkla (terkla(at)iwu.edu).

May 12, 2016 -Friedrichsruh, Germany Dr. Christel Happach-Kasan will discuss The Duchy of Lauenburg on historical maps - Mercator to Prussian land survey at 19:30 at Otto von Bismarck Foundation, auditorium, Am Bahnhof 2.

May 12, 2016 – London The Twenty-Fifth Series 'Maps and Society' Lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Jonathan Potter (Jonathan Potter Ltd) will discuss Paid to do a Hobby: A Map Dealer's Reflections on the Last Forty-five Years. This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of an Anonymous Benefactor, The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and The International Map Collectors' Society. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell (tony(at)tonycampbell.info).

May 13, 2016 – Washington The Philip Lee Phillips Map Society, the Friends Group of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, will be hosting a lecture. Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez, a Cuban architect and urban planner, professor and author of the books “Inside Cuba” and “Inside Havana”; will discuss the history of Cuba through cartography at the Library of Congress. Islands in the Stream: Cuban Maps from the Past to the Future will start at noon in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. The event is free and open to the public. Perez Hernandez will offer a rich visual presentation—combining maps, old engravings and plans—to narrate the history of Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, and its relationship with the rest of America since colonial times. The lecture will begin with the 1500 Juan de la Cosa Map of Cuba, the first one to demonstrate that Cuba was an island, and will conclude with Perez Hernandez’s own “Master Plan for XXI Century Havana.” Additional information please contact Ryan Moore, Cartographic Specialist (rymo(at)@loc.gov) at 202-707-7779.

May 13, 2016 - Washington Please join the Washington Map Society on the beautiful campus of Gallaudet University for our 37th Annual WMS Dinner from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. We will meet at the Kellogg Conference Center, 800 Florida Avenue NE. The speaker for the evening will be Bert Johnson, Past President, WMS. He will talk about The Wind Rose - Flower of Antiquity or Mythical Black Orchid? The terms “Wind Rose” and “Compass Rose” are sometimes used interchangeably. But are they really synonyms? Compasses didn’t appear in the west until just after the first millennium. For untold centuries earlier, generations of intrepid mariners stood out to sea in small wooden craft - braving storm, peril and mystery. Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians, Egyptians and countless others all successfully navigated the oceans of their known ancient world without compasses. How did they track principal directions? From the 32 points of wind . . . depicted on maps of antiquity as heavenly figures blowing with puffy cheeks. This talk explores those early days when the winds themselves were used as points of mapping reference. You may register for dinner on line. Additional information about diner reservations from Peter J. Porrazzo (PJPorrazzo(at)gmail.com).

May 18, 2016 – Philadelphia The Philadelphia Map Society will meet at 5:45 PM at the Philadelphia Police Department Mapping and Analysis Unit, 750 Race St. Michael Urciuoli will speak on their latest mapping technology. We will gather outside at the main door and call his cell so he can come down and let us in. A long-table dinner will follow at Lee How Fook in Chinatown at 219 N. 11th St. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman (philamapsociety(at)gmail.com).

May 18, 2016 - Taguig City, Philippines The Philippine Map Collectors Society will meet at 6 PM in Arya Residences Tower II Function Room, Bonifacio Global City.

May 19, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, at 5:30 p.m. with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Our meetings are open to the public, but to help defray expenses, non-members are asked for a small donation at the door. Amanda Murphyao will speak about “Peoples of the Edge”: Map Cartoons of Newfoundland, 1948-1949.

May 19, 2016 – Oxford The 23rd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography runs from runs from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY. Nick Millea (Bodleian Libraries) will speak about The Sheldon Tapestry Map of Worcestershire: from Weston House to the Weston Library. Additional information from Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk), Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.

May 21, 2016 – New York The New York Map Society will hold its Program-Year-End Field Trip beginning 2:00 pm at Fraunces Tavern Museum, followed by a Social Hour or two at Fraunces Tavern: 54 Pearl Street, New York, 10004. 212-968 -1776. Join your fellow members to see as many of the seven concurrent exhibits as you please. Afterwards, we'll repair to their Colonial American Tavern, operating since 1762, for craft beers and hors d'oeuvres on the society, anything else, including full delicious meals, on your dime. RSVP to Andrew Kapochunas (kapochunas(at)gmail.com) to attend.

May 22, 2016 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina Mark Chilton will discuss Mapping Orange County: Land Grants, Early Travel Routes, and the Native Trading Path at 3 PM in the Chapel Hill Historical Society, 100 Library Drive. Mark Chilton's work on mapping the original land grants of Orange County will show where important early figures in county history lived, how people traveled by road, ferry, ford, and bridge, and where the great Native Trading Path was. Starting with the work of Allen Markham of some fifty years ago, Chilton has broadened Markham's perspective on the Orange County historical record.

May 25, 2016 - Williamsburg Join the Williamsburg Map Circle for a private tour of the exhibition: We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence at 5:00. The exhibition is located at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, 325 W. Francis Street. After the exhibit tour, enjoy wine and refreshments at the home of Margaret Pritchard, Colonial Williamsburg’s Curator of Maps & Prints. Directions to her home will be distributed at the Museum. Map Circle members who are Williamsburg/James City County residents should bring their Good Neighbors passes, members who live out of town should contact Trish Balderson (pbalderson(at)cwf.org) prior to May 25. Additional information from Ted Edwards (williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com).

May 27, 2016 - Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales You are cordially invited to attend the inaugural Wales Map Syposium at the National Library of Wales. Shaping the Nation will examine the role of maps in both depicting and creating the nation both as an entity on the ground and also as a perception in the minds of people. The symposium will be from 10.00-4.30 and is hosted by the National Library of Wales in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Presentations:
Mapping the Marches: Marginal Places and Spaces of Cartographic Innovation, Keith Lilley, Professor of Historical Geography, Queen’s University Belfast
Shapes of Scotland: Maps, history and national identity, Chris Fleet, Map Curator, National Library of Scotland
The Military Map Collection of George III: a cartographic record of European wars, empires won and empires lost, Yolande Hodson, Map historian; cataloguer of King George III's Military Maps in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle
Ail-ddychmygu daearyddiaethau’r iaith Gymraeg/Re-imagining geographies of Welshness, Rhys Jones, Head of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University
Humphrey Llwyd and the map of Wales, Huw Thomas, Map Curator, National Library of Wales
Maps and mapping at the Royal Commission; putting the past in its place, Tom Pert, On-line Development Manager, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Tickets available for free, morning and afternoon refreshments provided. For tickets phone: 01970 632 548 or visit: www.llgc.org.uk/drwm

June 3-4, 2016 – Lisbon The third ISHMap Symposium, Encounters and Translations: Mapping and Writing the Waters of the World, is organized by Trustee Dr. Thomas Horst in cooperation with the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology. It will be held at the National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83. The Annual General Meeting of ISHMap will take place on Friday, 3rd June 2016 after the papers of the first day. Additional details will be posted on the website.

June 3, 2016 – London The International Map Collectors' Society annual dinner will be held at the Civil Service Club, 13-15 Great Scotland Yard, London SW1A 2HU starting at 6.20pm. The nearest tube stations are Embankment or Charing Cross. The new IMCoS President, Peter Barber will be delivering the 2016 Malcolm Young lecture: Mapping Dangerous Spaces. Due to the rules of the Civil Service Club we do need you to register for this event. Please email either our Secretary, David Dare (david.dare1(at)btopenworld.com) or the Vice-Chair, Valerie Newby (valerie.newby(at)btopenworld.com) in advance.

June 4, 2016 – London The International Map Collectors' Society annual general meeting will be held at 10am in the Lowther Room, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore.

June 4-5, 2016 - London The annual London Map Fair will be held at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore.

June 4, 2016 – San Francisco The Spring Meeting of the California Map Society will take place 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM at Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street. Registration is available on line.

June 6-7, 2016 – Lisbon The Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology, University of Lisbon announces the first international workshop On the Origin and Evolution of Portolan Charts. Its aim is to bring together the researchers interested in the subject in order to access the current state of knowledge and possibilities for future research. The workshop is organized by Joaquim Alves Gaspar (alvesgaspar(at)netcabo.pt) (University of Lisbon), Tony Campbell (formerly British Library), and Evangelos Livieratos (International Cartographic Association). The event will be free of charges and is to be held in the Navy Museum.

June 11, 2016 - Northridge, California The California Map Society invites you to join librarian Christoper Salvano at Cal. State Northridge Department of Geography’s Map Library to view the largest collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlases followed by a no-host casual lunch at a local restaurant. The Geography Map Library has one of the largest Sanborn collections in the Western USA, with over 4,100 individual volumes covering more than 1,630 cities and towns in North America. Most of us have seen individual sheets from Sanborn atlases, but how many of us have been surrounded by a room full of these 40 pound beasts? Originally produced in the 1860’s and updated through the 1970’s, Sanborn atlases provide building-level information on American cities in the West, painting the most detailed cartographic portrait we have of urban life in America during the first half of the 20th century. Meeting is 10:30 - 12:00 at Sierra Hall, Room. 171, CSU Northridge.

June 13, 2016 - Berlin The Freundeskreises für Cartographica will have an excursion to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Potsdamer Str. 33; followed by the general meeting. Additional information from Dr. Markus Heinz (markus.heinz(at)sbb.spk-berlin.de), Tel.: 030 / 266-435500, Fax: 030 / 266-335401.

June 16, 2016 – Lake Forrest, Illinois The Chicago Map Society will meet at the MacLean Collection, 13820 West Polo Trail Drive. Social hour begins at 5:30 PM followed by a lecture at 6:30 PM. Joe Deo will speak about Surveys of the Upper Peninsula.

June 17-18, 2016 – Lisbon Universum Infinitum. From the German Philosopher Nicolaus Cusanus to the Iberian Discoveries in the 15th Century: Ocean World in European Exploration is the theme of a meeting in the National Library of Portugal. Cooperation partners of this conference will be the „Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte“ and the „Cusanus-Hochschule“ (both: Bernkastel-Kues, Germany). Additional information from Thomas Horst at thomashorst(at)gmx.net.

June 24-26, 2016 – Portland, Maine Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education is pleased to announce a three-day Manuscript Map Workshop with Connie Brown, of Redstone Studios. The workshop will be held in the Sam E. Cohen Center, OML’s classroom on the University of Southern Maine Portland campus. The workshop is limited to ten participants. Registration fee is $650, which includes all the materials and tools needed for the project. Also included in your fee is continental breakfast and lunch daily.

June 28-30, 2016 - Norwich and London The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture invites you to an exciting workshop, Isles of Gold Revisited: New Approaches to the Study of Early Modern Maps, in celebration of Sir Hugh Cortazzi's collection of historical maps of Japan. Attendance is free of charge, but please register in advance - the details will soon be available on the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture website.
28th June 14:00 Opening Remarks: Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Akira Hirano and Radu Leca
  14:30 Panel 1: The Conflation of World Views on Japanese Maps.
  Max Moerman: The Actuality of Buddhist Maps of the World in the Early Modern Period.
  Angelo Cattaneo: Maps of Japan in the Nanban Century.
  Elke Papelitzky: The 1671 ‘Map of Myriad Countries’
29th June 10:00 Panel 2: Regional and Urban Perspectives.
  Uesugi Kazuhiro: The Strategy of the Map Makers – Historical Geography of the Kyoto Maps in the Early Modern Era.
  Radu Leca: Maps of Kyushu on Ceramic Dishes in the Nineteenth Century.
  Richard Pegg: Mapping Edo in the mid-Nineteenth Century.
29th June 13:30 Panel 3: The Variety of Images of Japan
  Miyoshi Tadayoshi: The Overseas Adventures of Ryūsen’s Map of Japan.
  Marcia Yonemoto: One ‘Country’ or Many? Pre-national Nomenclature in Tokugawa Japanese Maps.
  Jason Hubbard: Crossfertilization: Japanese and Western Interrelationship in the Early Mapping of Japan.
30th June 14:00 Viewing of a selection of Japanese maps, Map Room, British Library.
Additional information from Radu Leca (lecaradu(at)gmail.com).

June 30, 2016 – Beckley,West Virginia The Raleigh County Historical Society Cartography Club will meet on the 5thThursday of the month. This should allow for a meeting each quarter. We will meet at the Raleigh County Public Library, 221 N Kanawha St, at 5:30 pm. This quarter’s topic will be The Making of Maps presented by Jim Whitmer. Jim worked 33 years for the U.S. Geological Survey, 10 years printing maps as well as 15 years of business in the cartography field.

July 4-7, 2016 – Leeds The Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, will again have an International Medieval Congresses. Its special thematic strand is “Food, Feast & Famine.” There will be a component about “Mappings.” Contact the organizers Felicitas Schmieder (Felicitas.Schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de) or Dan Terkla (terkla(at)iwu.edu) for additional information.

July 6, 2016 – Floriana, Malta The 45th Committee Meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held at 6.30pm at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Among the matters for discussion will be second issue of the successful MMS Journal. Additional information from Rod Lyon (28triqsikka(at)gmail.com).

July 23, 2016 - Westminster, Colorado The Rocky Mountain Map Society’s big summer social event for members and their guests will be Cartifacts IV – a fun-filled Saturday afternoon. We’ll have a make your-own-sandwich bar, drinks, a swap meet, a “show & tell,” and all sorts of unique, map related objects collected and treasured by our members. So, please bring along your road map place mats, coffee mugs, books, map ties and t-shirts, astrolabes, unusual maps, and any other interesting cartographic artifacts that you’d like to share with your fellow RMMS members. Contact Lorraine Sherry (lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net) for program details.

August 4, 2016 - Southwest Harbor, Maine Matthew H. Edney will give an illustrated lecture about the maps of Capt. John Smith at the Claremont Hotel, 22 Claremont Rd, at 8:15 p.m. Few early maps are as burdened with myths and misconceptions as Smith’s map of New England. Almost every aspect of the map has been misunderstood. In this liberally illustrated public lecture, Edney, a professor of cartography at the University of Southern Maine, begins with the map’s portrait of Smith to reveal how the map is less a precise record of Smith’s 1614 voyage and more a complex portrait of a man, a region and a colonial ideal.

August 24, 2016 - Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila The Philippine Map Collectors Society General Membership Meeting will be held at 6:00 PM at Arya Residences. There will be a special presentation by Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, who was a member of the Philippine Panel, and who will talk about the recent decision of the international tribunal regarding the South China Sea case, the involvement of the Murillo de Velarde map and his thoughts on how the Philippines should move forward vis-a-vis the position of Mainland China. Additional information from Rudolf J.H. Lietz at gallery(at)gop.com.ph.

August 31-September 2, 2016 - Prague Central Europe On Old And Historical Maps is one of the themes of the meeting of Central European Conference of Historical Geographers which will take place in the main building of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, 128 43.

September 6-8, 2016 - Cheltenham The 2016 British Cartographic Society and Society of Cartographers joint conference, will take place at Cheltenham Park Hotel. Come and join with mapmakers, map users and other enthusiasts at the BCS – SoC Conference 2016, where delegates from commercial, academic and government organisations share a common interest in using and promoting maps as a valuable means of communication.

September 7-9, 2016 - Wollongong, New South Wales The 44th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society will be held in Wollongong, the administrative centre for the Illawarra region, an area which reflects the common history of many coastal cities and towns in Australia and New Zealand. Encircled by sea, Australia and New Zealand share a common history of exploration and settlement along the coastal fringes. The 2016 conference will explore the European discovery and gradual mapping and settlement of Australia and New Zealand and the significant role explorers, surveyors and cartographers have played in shaping and documenting the changing coastal landscape over more than 200 years. The conference program also acknowledges the 400th anniversary of the landing of Dirk Hartog in his vessel the Eendracht off the coast of Shark Bay, on 25 October 1616.

September 8, 2016 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Cheryl LaRoche, Archaeologist and Historian and Lecturer, University of Maryland, will present Mapping the Underground Railroad. The most successful escapes of the Underground Railroad depended on shrewdness and knowledge of the landscape. Using a variety of maps, this talk will reveal the unsung role Free Black Communities played in delivering on the quest for freedom from slavery and oppression. The talk is based on Dr. LaRoche’s recent book, “Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance.” For additional information contact Eliane Dotson at eliane(at)oldworldauctions.com.

September 13, 2016 – Chapel Hill, North Carolina The William P. Cumming Map Society will meet at 7:15 p.m. in the auditorium at Carolina Meadows, 100 Whippoorwill Lane. Independent scholar and author, Stewart Dunaway will discuss The North Carolina town plans of Claude Joseph Sauthier. This presentation will review Sauthier’s life activity from his childhood home of Strasbourg, France to North Carolina, New York, and England. Mr. Dunaway will describe Sauthier’s roles at Tryon Palace, during the War of the Regulation, and during the American Revolution. A brief review of Sauthier’s ten town maps of North Carolina will be presented. Mr. Dunaway will bring high resolution color facsimiles of all of Sauthier’s town maps for viewing after the presentation. This presentation provides a sampling from Mr. Dunaway’s recent book, “Claude J. Sauthier and his maps of North Carolina – An interpretive Guide.” Mary Morrow, a long-time WPCMS member and map collector, will get the program started at 7:15 p.m. with a glimpse into the world of map collecting and a display of some of her favorite maps. Please join us. A reception will follow the presentations. Additional information from Jay Lester at ncmaps(at)ncmaps.org.

September 13, 2016 - Chicago Joaquim Alves Gaspar and Henrique Leitão will speak about Maps for the Whole Earth: Oceanic Voyages and the Birth of Modern Cartography at 6:00 pm at the Adler Planetarium, 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive. Maps are very ancient artifacts; they exist from ancient times in many different cultures. For Europeans, the making of maps, especially nautical charts, underwent a critical transformation in the sixteenth century, with the onset of long distance oceanic navigation. The need to adapt and master completely new situations led to a profound reshaping of the concepts and techniques of cartography. How does one know one’s position in the middle of the ocean when there is no land in sight? How does one navigate using a nautical chart ? What, exactly, is a nautical chart? The objective of this presentation is to show that it was only when regular sea voyages became truly of planetary dimensions that the central problems of cartography had to be faced and solved. In this presentation we will invite the audience to join in a sea voyage in the ocean, using the techniques of sixteenth-century sailors, to face the difficulties and the problems these men had to meet—and to understand the remarkable solutions they devised. This will culminate in the explanation of the method used by Gerard Mercator to make his famous cartographic projection which opened the door to modern cartography.

September 14, 2016 - London The International Map Collectors’ Society Collectors' Evening this year will be held at the Civil Service Club, 13-15 Great Scotland Yard, Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2HJ. Refreshments will be available from 6pm in the Milner-Barry Room followed by the meeting in the Elizabethan Room. Bring along your maps to discuss with other members or to have identified by our knowledgeable chairman, Francis Herbert. He has suggested the dual themes of map postcards (i.e. the map occupying the whole or a constituent part of the image side) or maps for promoting travel and tourism but if this is not your collecting area do feel free to bring a map of your choice. We will have the facility of showing large maps on screen (please bring on a computer stick) so no need to carry large tubes on the underground! A charge of £20 will be made to members to cover the hire of the room and refreshments. Do come along and make this a successful and interesting evening. Nearest underground stations are Embankment and Charing Cross.

September 14-17, 2016 – Vienna The 18th Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium will be held at the University of Vienna. Additional information from Petra Svatek (petra.svatek(at)univie.ac.at) or Markus Heinz (kartographiegeschichte(at)sbb.spk-berlin.de).

September 15-16, 2016 - Edinburgh The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold its Annual Workshop at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. The workshop theme will be Big is beautiful: managing large maps and large collections. Not only is Edinburgh a beautiful city to visit but the National Library will also be hosting a major map exhibition 'You are here!' which it would be shame to miss! On Thursday there is a series of talks, followed by the Map Curators' Group AGM and an optional group meal. On Friday you have a choice of visits (though book early since places are limited!). The full programme and contact details can be found at on-line where a booking form can also be downloaded. Additional information from Ann Sutherland, Convener, Map Curators’ Group (ann.m.sutherland(at)talk21.com) or Paula Williams, Curator, Map, Mountaineering and Polar Collections, National Library of Scotland (p.williams(at)nls.uk).

September 17, 2016 - San Antonio, Texas The 7th Annual Save Texas History Symposium: The Alamo, Keystone of Texas History: Past, Present and Future. Speakers will be presenting on the history of the Alamo, as well as work that is happening today and what is planned for the future. Meeting will be held at the historic Menger Hotel, 204 Alamo Plaza. Reception to follow at Alamo Hall.

September 20, 2016 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room. Lee Whitely will present a program titled Trails to Interstate: Transportation systems along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Lee and his wife Jane are the authors of five books on early transportation systems of the West. The program is free and open to the public. Contact Lorraine Sherry (lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net) for additional details.

September 20, 2016 – New York The New York Map Society will meet 6:00 - 7:45 pm at Berger Forum, second floor, Schwarzman (Main) Building, New York Public Library, 5th Ave. & 42nd St. John Roman, author of "The Art of Illustrated Maps," will discuss his book. While literally hundreds of books exist on the subject of maps and cartography, "The Art of Illustrated Maps" is the first book ever to fully explore conceptual, “illustrated” mapping. Author, educator and map illustrator John Roman correlates not-to-scale maps as “the creative nonfiction of cartography,” and in this book he reveals how and why the human mind instinctively accepts the artistic license invoked in imaginative maps. Additional information from Andrew Kapochunas at kapochunas(at)gmail.com.

September 22-25, 2016 – Newport, Rhode Island The fall 2016 annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries will meet in Newport, Rhode Island. Our theme: The Mariner's Life: At Home, Abroad, and At Sea. A featured part of the conference will be the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project and its work locating British ships, including Cook's bark Endeavour, lost off the Rhode Island coast during the Revolutionary War.

September 27, 2016 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle will meet at 5:00 pm. at the Jefferson Room of Williamsburg Landing --- come to the main building and down the hallway to the left. Wes Brown, Founder of the Rocky Mountain Map Society, will speak about Early World Maps & Renaissance Mapmaking. Additional information from Ted Edwards at williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com.

September 28, 2016 - Edinburgh Curator Paula Williams (Map, Mountaineering and Polar Collections) tells the inside story of the National Library of Scotland's map exhibition, You are here. From early ideas, through planning and building to the final product, exhibitions can be years in the making. Learn about the challenge of selecting 50 maps from more than two million in the Library's collection, how they are prepared for display, and what lessons were learned in the process. Lecture is 14:00 to 15:00 at National Library of Scotland - George IV Bridge. Free admittance but booking is essential.

September 28, 2016 - Floriana, Malta The next executive committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held in Lion Street at MHS headquarters at 6pm.Topics for discussion: the next issue of the Malta Map Society journal and the study of French maps of Malta. Additonal information from Rod Lyon at 28triqsikka(at)gmail.com.

September 28, 2016 - Philadelphia The Philadelphia Map Society meets at 5:30 PM, preview of Freeman's auction of Books, Maps & Manuscripts: Mr. Benjamin Truesdale, Specialist in Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts at Freeman's Auction, 1808 Chestnut Street, will discuss the maps and atlases up for auction on Sept 30. Mr. Truesdale is especially enthusiastic about "an atlas, compiled by some discerning collector in the lat 18th century, which comprises many important 17th century Dutch engraved maps of the Near, Middle and Far East." Dinner will follow at Dan Dan Restaurant, (126 S.16th St.) and we hope Mr. Truesdale will be our guest. Contact Barbara Drebing Kauffman at philamapsociety(at)gmail.com for additional information.

September 29, 2016 - Boston Curator Stephanie Cyr provides an insider's look at the creation of the exhibition Shakespeare’s Here and Everywhere followed by a viewing of the exhibition at 6pm in the Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street. This meeting is presented in partnership with the Boston Map Society.

October 3, 2016 - Barcelona The Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics, Centre d’Història Contemporània de Catalunya, and Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica will have a one day conference Catalunya I les Noves Tendències en Cartografia Històrica [Catalonia and the New Trends in Historical Cartography]. The conference will explore the historical mapping currently being produced in Catalonia as affected by the impact of new technologies, recent systematic exploration of the territory and the extension of current vision of landscape studies. Conference will be held from 9.30 to 19.30 in Room Pi i Sunyer, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Carrer del Carme, 47. Program is available on line. For additional information contact Sra. Mireia Ferran (mferranl(at)gencat.cat) at 935 526 177 or Sra. Mariàngels Gallego (sceh(at)iec.cat) at 935 529 103.

October 6-7, 2016 – Washington Washington Facts or Fictions: Debating the Mysteries of Early Modern Science and Cartography – A Celebration of the 500th Anniversary of Waldseemüller's 1516 Carta Marina will be held in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, and will consist of two days of talks. The sponsorship for the conference is coming from the Jay I. Kislak Family Foundation and the Gray Family Memorial Fund. Conference Schedule:
Thursday, October 6
Morning Session “Facts or Fictions: The Mysteries of Renaissance Cartography”
  9:00 Opening Remarks
  9:30 The Vinland Map - Kirsten Seaver
  10:00 Marco Polo and the Rossi Map with Ship - Ben Olshin
  10:30 Puebla-Tlaxcala Maps - Stephanie Wood
  11:00 Questions
Afternoon Session “The Carta Marina at 500”
  1:00 Nautical Mapping in the Medieval and Early Modern Period - Joaquim Gaspar
  1:30 Columbus, Vespucci and the Carta Marina - Don McGurck
  2:00 Waldseemüller’s Carta Marina: Its Originality and Diffusion - Chet Van Duzer
  2:30 Questions
  3:00 Reception
Evening Session
2016 Annual Jay I. Kislak Lecture in the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas
  6:30 Mapping The Elusive Southern Sky - Dava Sobel

Friday, October 7
Morning Session
  9:00 Opening Remarks - Librarian of Congress Carla D. Hayden, Ambassador of Italy to the United States Armando Varricchio, and Umberto Tombari, Ente Cassa di Risparmio
  10:00 Launch of Website “A Land Beyond the Stars” - Paolo Galluzzi, Galileo Museum; Filippo Camerota, Galileo Museum; John Hessler, Library of Congress
  11:00 Encasing Waldseemüller - Elmer Eusman, Library of Congress
  11:30 All Speakers on Stage for Question and Answer Session
Afternoon Session
  1:00-3:00 Open House in the Geography and Map Division
For additional information contact John Hessler, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, at jhes(at)loc.gov.

October 7, 2016 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle will meet at 5:30 pm at the Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums, Hennage Auditorium. Richard Brown, Collector & Vice Chairman, Norman Leventhal Map Center and Paul Cohen, Cohen & Taliaferro LCC will speak about Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence. At the Treaty of Paris, the French and Indian War ended, and King George III gained clear title to more territory than had ever been exchanged in any other war before or since. The British military employed its best-trained artists and engineers to map the richest prize in its Empire. They would need those maps for the war that would begin twelve years later. Join authors Richard Brown and Paul Cohen as they discuss the surveyors, artists, and engravers who delineated the topography and fields of battle allow us to observe the unfolding of events that ultimately defined the United States. Book signing will follow the lecture. $5.00 ticket in addition to museum admissions. Tickets may be obtained in advance at any CW ticket location, or on-line. Additional information from Ted Edwards at williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com.

October 12, 2016 – Floriana, Malta The next committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held at the Malta Historical Society HQ at 41 Lion Street. The meeting will start at 6pm. For discussion will be the new projects of the society. Additional information from Rod Lyon at 28triqsikka(at)gmail.com.

October 13-14, 2016 - Dubrovnik, Croatia The subject of the 6th International Symposium on the History of Cartography will be The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: Production – Trade – Consumption – Preservation. Three International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commissions (History of Cartography; Map Production & Geoinformation Management; Use, User & Usability Issues) and the Institute of Social Sciences “Ivo Pilar” (Zagreb, Croatia) invite the submission of abstracts for papers and posters for a joint conference in Dubrovnik, the medieval port city on the coast of the Adriatic and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The symposium and planned optional excursions are open to cartographers, geographers, historians, map collectors, academics and everyone with an interest in the diverse aspects of the history of cartography. The Call for Papers can be found at the conference website, including information on registration, programme, transportation and accommodation. Questions regarding the conference and call for papers can be send to: Dr. Mirela Altic at mirela.altic(at)gmail.com.

October 13, 2016 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Kimball (Kim) Brace, President of Election Data Services, Inc. will present Red vs Blue, a History of Political Mapping and the Use of Color. Mr. Brace started his company 39 years ago and since 1986 has been the creator and producer of the large Election Results posters that are published within two weeks of each general election. These posters grace the walls of most congressional offices, press rooms, and political consultant offices in DC and around the nation. Mr. Brace has also been involved in redistricting in more than half the nation over the past four decades and works with state and local governments in election administration and utilizes GIS to check voter registration files. For additional information contact Eliane Dotson at eliane(at)oldworldauctions.com.

October 14-15, 2016 – St. Louis The Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies is the longest running annual conference in North America devoted exclusively to medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies. It is organized by Saint Louis University Libraries Special Collections. This years conference will have a session Manuscripts for Travelers: Directions, Descriptions, and Maps. This session focuses on manuscripts of travel and accounts of places and geographies intended for practical use: perhaps as guidance for a journey; descriptions of topography and marvels, or as travel accounts of pilgrimage, mission, exploration, and commercial or diplomatic expeditions.

October 16-21, 2016 - Washington Rare Book School sponsors and co-sponsors a range of programming at various times throughout the year, including activities at book fairs, symposia at University of Virginia and other locations. John Hessler will teach the Art & Science of Cartography, 200–1500 at the Library of Congress. The course introduces students to some of the earliest forms of cartography and examines in detail the construction methods of some of the masterpieces of Renaissance cartography and other examples of early cartography at the Library of Congress. Class discussion will consider medieval and early Renaissance theories of the earth and the relationship of cartography to contemporary developments in astronomy and navigation as well as the social and cultural aspects of patronage and production. Course application information is available on line. If you have questions about course availability, contact rbsprograms(at)virginia.edu.

October 17-18, 2016 - Albi, France À l’échelle du monde. La carte, objet culturel, social et politique, de l'Antiquité à nos jours [On the scale of the world. Maps: a cultural, social and political object from Antiquity to the present day] is a symposium organized around the Mappa Mundi Albi (eighth century), and will be held at Centre Universitaire Jean-François Champollion - Place de Verdun. This symposium will compare the views of historians and geographers on the cultural practices, political and social mapping at the world scale. The first day will be devoted to the uses and meaning of representations of the world (world maps, world maps, globes, atlases) in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The second day will focus on modern and contemporary mapping and relevance across the world at the age of globalization. Additional information from Sandrine Victor (colloquemappamundi(at)lists.univ-jfc.fr).

October 17-18, 2016 - Almada and Lisbon The International Colloquium From Sea to the South Asian Ocean: real and symbolic appropriation of the Pacific, XVI-XIX centuries will be held 17 October in Escola Naval, Alfeite, Almada, 2810-001 Almada; and 18 October in FCSH/NOVA, Edifício ID, Sala Multiusos 2 (piso 4), Av. de Berna 26-C, 1069-061 Lisbon. This symposium stems from a joint organization between the CEG, the CHAM and the School Naval Research Naval Central (CINAV) and follows on from two conferences held within the same Project Research (CSIC, Seville, 2014 , UNAM, Mexico DF, 2015 ). The conference will be organized around five themes: (1) Ports, traffic and commercial networks; (2) forms, speeches and objects movement; (3) The identity, power and flow of ideas; (4) Travel, routes and nautical science; (5) Cartography, borders and geopolitical disputes. Free admission subject to prior registration by email to Francisco Roque de Oliveira at f.oliveira(at)campus.ul.pt.

October 18, 2016 - Paris Le Monde vu d’Asie : Histoire et pratiques cartographiques dans les mondes asiatiques [The world saw Asia: History and cartographic practices in Asian worlds] is a joint research seminar from E.H.GO, du Centre d’Histoire de l’Asie contemporaine de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, du Département d’Histoire de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure et du MNAAG – Musée Guimet. It will meet once a month, on Tuesdays from 18:00 to 20:00 at the Institute of Geography at the ENS, the Sorbonne, or at the Guimet Museum. Lectures are open to the public. The dramatic emergence of Asia on the international scene and its leading role in the current globalization are driving new thinking about this region and its interactions with the rest of the world. Maps and space objects reveal the differentiated process of construction of representations and Asian identities. They allow in particular the understanding of the different socio-cultural universe of Asian countries and their relations with Europe and the rest of the world. They show also the gradual broadening of horizons of Asian geography and cross-influence of Asian and European cartographers. We will consider all of the mapping tools and cosmographic products in Asian worlds, from China, Japan and Korea. The opening session, which will define the seminar and its main goal will be held between 18:30 and 20:00 in the "Aula Magna" of the Institute of Geography, on the ground floor, 191 Rue Saint -Jacques, 75005 Paris. Fabrice Argounès Hélène Blais, Pierre Singaravélou Inaugural session. Introduction Seminar "The world seen in Asia". Seminar coordinated by Fabrice Argounès (EHGO) (Fabrice.Argounes(at)univ-paris1.fr), Hélène Blais (IHMC ENS) (helene.blais(at)wanadoo.fr) and Pierre Singaravélou (CHAC-Paris 1).

October 19-20, 2016 - Baku, Azerbaijan Caspian From Past to Future, an International Caspian Sea Congress, organized by the Caspian Strategy Institute/Turkey (HASEN) in conjunction with the Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. The working language of the congress is English, but there will be simultaneous translation into Azerbaijani, Turkish and Russian. The themes include 'Toponomy of Port Cities in the Caspian Sea Region' and 'Historical Maps of the Caspian Sea'.

October 19, 2016 - Boston Peter Whitfield will discuss his latest book "Mapping Shakespeare’s World" (2015), and how Shakespeare never set a play directly in Elizabethan London which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote in space or time. The locations of Shakespeare’s plays range from Greece and Turkey to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. Whitfield surveys the geographical dimension to Shakespeare’s plays, using an array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps and topographical images showing that many of Shakespeare’s locations may have had a meaning or resonance which his audience would understand. Lecture will be at 6pm in Abbey Room, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street. The lecture complements the exhibition Shakespeare’s Here and Everywhere on display in the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.

October 19-22, 2016 – Colorado Springs The Annual meeting of the The North American Cartographic Society will be held at The Antlers Hotel, 4 S. Cascade Avenue. Join professionals and enthusiasts from government, commercial, and not-for-profit groups along with academics, scholars, map/GIS librarians, artists, technologists, and students in our 36th Annual Meeting.

October 19, 2016 - DeKalb, Illinois Join Dr. Tin Naing Win, associate professor of History, from Mandalay University for a public lecture on the Art of Cartography in Ancient Burma from 7-8 p.m., in the Rare Books and Special Collections section on the fourth floor at the Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University.

October 22, 2016 - Fullerton, California The Fall Meeting of the California Map Society will be held at California State University Fullerton Library. The CSUF library is home to the Roy V Boswell Map Collection. The collection consists of 1,700 maps covering 400 years (16th to 19th century) and represents the entire range of map production in the Western world during that period. Check-in starts at 9:15 AM and the program is from 10 AM to 4 PM. Full details are posted on the website. There is no charge to attend the meeting, but pre-registration is requested.

October 24-26, 2016 – Chicago The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, the Chicago Map Society and the Chicago International Map Fair cordially invite you to the Thirty-fourth International Map Collectors' Society Symposium. The symposium will be held in conjunction with the Nineteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography, commemorating and the fiftieth anniversary of the lectures series. These events will be followed by the Fourth Chicago International Map Fair. The theme for the IMCoS symposium will be Private Map Collecting and Public Map Collections in the United States. Early arrivals are invited to a welcome reception at the Newberry Library on Monday evening (24 October). Information about registration and accommodations can be found on-line.

October 24, 2016 – New York The New York Map Society will have a members-only field trip for a book talk - "Around Switzerland in 80 maps," with Swiss-based author and travel writer Diccon Bewes from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Ambassador André Schaller, Consul General of Switzerland in New York and Mrs. Brigitte Schaller-Schoepf, together with the New York Map Society, request the pleasure of your company for a magical journey: It’s a big beautiful book that will delight any map lover, book lover or Swiss lover. The80 maps are contemporary to the eras they portray, rather than drawn for the book. Each has been chosen for a particular reason, be that an important moment in Swiss history or an interesting aspect of Swiss life. Or because it’s simply beautiful. Through these maps we chart the development of Switzerland over the centuries. Attendance is limited to 30 people. A link to a required RSVP, and the event location, will be sent to current paid members wishing to attend. Email Andrew Kapochunas at kapochunas(at)gmail.com if interested in attending.

October 24, 2016 - University Park, Pennsylvania Katharina Piechocki, assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, will present The Rise of the Surface: Cartography, Poetics, and Visual Art across the Early Modern World (France, Germany, Poland) at 12:15 p.m., in 102 Kern Building, Penn State University. This event is a part of the Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series, a weekly, informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty and other members of the University community.

October 26-28, 2016 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil 3er Simposio Brasilero de Cartografía Historica will be held at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 June 2016.

October 27-29, 2016 – Chicago The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library cordially invites you to the Nineteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the lectures series. The program is titled Maps, Their Collecting and Study: A Fifty Year Retrospective. To commemorate this anniversary, the nineteenth series of the Nebenzahl Lectures returns to its first theme: the relationship between map collecting and the historical study of cartography. The Nebenzahl Lectures are free and open to the public, but registration in advance is required. Register online or contact Andrew Epps at (312) 255-3541 or eppsa(at)newberry.org.

October 28-30, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Fair will be held at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington Street, just off Michigan Avenue, across the street from the iconic Cloud Gate, or Bean statue in Millenium Park.

November 2, 2016 - Paris Noémi Godefroy (CEJ/CRJ) and Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CRJ/IKGF, Erlangen) have organized an International Workshop Cartography in Transition in Modern & Contemporary East Asia (18th-21st centuries) to be held at EHESS, salle 640, 6e étage, 190, avenue de France, 75013 Paris from 10.00 to 18.00. The aim of this workshop is to analyse, in a "longue durée" perspective, the evolutions in East Asia cartography in terms of cartographic contents, methods, means, and ends. Additional information from Noémi Godefroy at noemi.godefroy(at)ehess.fr.

November 2-4, 2016 - Nicosia The Sylvia Ioannou Foundation is pleased to announce its 3rd International Scientific Conference, entitled Knowledge Is Power / Η Γνωση Ειναι Δυναμη. The Conference will be held in collaboration with the University of Cyprus on the occasion of the inauguration of the "Stelios Ioannou" Learning Resource Centre. The aim of the Conference is to explore the historical dimensions and itineraries of knowledge deposited in books and maps, embarking from the sphere of private initiatives in knowledge codification and advancing to issues that regard its public diffusion for the benefit of the academic community, as well as the broader public. The cartographic portion is on the second of the two full days. Program is available on-line.

November 3, 2016 – Oxford The 24th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography runs from runs from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm. John Peaty (Defence Geographic Centre Joint Forces Intelligence Group) will speak about Mapping and the Falklands Conflict, 1982: how mapping helped British Forces retake the Islands against the odds. Additional information from Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk), Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.

November 4, 2016 - Berlin The State Archives Berlin, Eichborndamm 115-121, will have a one-day course Einen Plan haben... Karten als Quellen in der Geschichtswissenschaft. The course is primarily aimed at advanced students and postgraduate students who are interested in historical maps. It is intended to teach the participants in the "power of the maps" (abstraction, abuse, manipulation). And last but not least, how maps are read, where their knowledge potentials lie, and where boundaries must be drawn. In this way young historians are given an interesting entrance into the world of historical maps.

November 5, 2016 - Paris The 15th Paris Map-Fair will be held at Hotel Ambassador, 16, Bd Haussmann, between 11.00 - 18.00. There will be a Pre-Mapfair cocktail reception at 7.30PM - Salle Mogador, Hotel Ambassador on 4 November. Additional information from paris(at)map-fair.com.

November 5, 2016 - Richmond The Fry-Jefferson Map Society of Library of Virginia, 800 E Broad St., will have a workshop: How to Value Maps at 10:30 AM–Noon in Conference Rooms, Free, but registration required. Most of us have maps, whether in drawers, framed on walls, or in our attics. Have you ever wondered what your maps are worth? Join guest speaker Eliane Dotson as she shares secrets of the trade on how to value maps. Learn what key factors affect the value of a map and how to estimate how much a map is worth. For more information about this event, contact the Library of Virginia Foundation at 804-692-3813 or e-mail dawn.greggs@lva.virginia.gov .

November 9, 2016 - Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila The General Membership Meeting of the Philippine Map Society will be held at 6:00 PM at Arya Residences. Speakers and their topics are: Copyright Considerations for Antique Maps by Rolf Lietz, The Collection of George III by Jaime C. González, and A New and Correct Chart of the Coast of China, Mount and Page (1740) by Peter Geldart. Additional information from Rudolf J.H. Lietz at gallery(at)gop.com.ph.

November 10, 2016 - Boston The Boston Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm in the Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon, 700 Boylston Street. James A. Welu, Director Emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum, will present a lecture about Jan Vermeer’s The Geographer. No other painter from 17th-century Holland expressed a greater interest in cartography than Jan Vermeer. His detailed depictions of maps and globes coincide with the great age of exploration and mapmaking. This lecture by the leading authority on Vermeer’s use of cartographic material demonstrates that all of the maps and globes in Vermeer’s paintings can be identified, though few originals still exist. These cartographic objects and the ways in which Vermeer used them not only add further meaning to his allegorical subjects and scenes of everyday life; they also shed light on Vermeer’s working method, including his possible use of the camera obscura.

November 10, 2016 - London The British Library will sponsor a talk Fantastic Maps: From Winnie the Pooh to Game of Thrones at 19:00-20:30 in the Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road. Some of our most cherished reading journeys are accompanied by maps. Whether discovering “The Hobbit” or “The Lord of the Rings,” the Narnia books, “Swallows and Amazons,” or “Watership Down,” the maps in the end papers are central to our early experience of literature, and are often delightful works of art. In this celebration of the genre, writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley explores some of the classic maps of fictional landscapes and publisher David Brawn looks at the worlds created by Tolkien and C S Lewis. We are also joined by cartographer and artist Jonathan Roberts, creator of the superb official maps of Westeros and Essos, from George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. There will be a book signing after the event. Please book in advance.

November 11-12, 2016 – Arlington, Texas The University of Texas at Arlington will host the 10th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography. The theme is Profiles in Cartography: Selected Mapmakers and Their Maps of the Southwestern Borderlands. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the Texas Map Society. Additional information from Ben Huseman (huseman(at)exchange.uta.edu) (817) 272-0633.

November 15, 2016 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room. Chet Van Duzer will speak about New Light on Henricus Martellus’ World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral imaging and Early Cartography. Mr. Van Duzer will explain why he felt that the Martellus map was an excellent candidate for multispectral images, show some of the results, and give an account of the place of the Martellus map in late 15th and early 16th century cartography. There will be an informal celebration of RMMS’ 25th anniversary at a local restaurant [TBD] following Chet’s talk. No reservations, but please RSVP if you can make it. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry (lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net).

November 15, 2016 - London The British Library will sponsor a talk Great Escapes: Mapping War from WW2 to Sarajevo at 19:00-20:30 in the Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road. An evening of fascinating presentations and discussion on the way maps have been used in war, and to tell their stories. Former BBC correspondent Kate Adie, hosts the evening with speakers including Barbara Bond, who reveals the extraordinary world of the silk escape maps smuggled by MI9 into WW2 prisons, and Miran Norderland who was born in Sarajevo and has led the documentation of the Siege of Sarajevo 1992-1996, and the fall of Yugoslavia 1991-1999 through powerful maps and other media. Please book in advance.

November 15, 2016 - Paris Le Monde vu d’Asie : Histoire et pratiques cartographiques dans les mondes asiatiques [The world saw Asia: History and cartographic practices in Asian worlds] is a joint research seminar from E.H.GO, du Centre d’Histoire de l’Asie contemporaine de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, du Département d’Histoire de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure et du MNAAG – Musée Guimet. It will meet once a month, on Tuesdays from 18:00 to 20:00 at the Institute of Geography at the ENS, the Sorbonne, or at the Guimet Museum. Lectures are open to the public. The dramatic emergence of Asia on the international scene and its leading role in the current globalization are driving new thinking about this region and its interactions with the rest of the world. Maps and space objects reveal the differentiated process of construction of representations and Asian identities. They allow in particular the understanding of the different socio-cultural universe of Asian countries and their relations with Europe and the rest of the world. They show also the gradual broadening of horizons of Asian geography and cross-influence of Asian and European cartographers. We will consider all of the mapping tools and cosmographic products in Asian worlds, from China, Japan and Korea. Philippe Pelletier, University of Lyon, "The map, or hybridization of knowledge between East and West, for Japan". Seminar coordinated by Fabrice Argounès (EHGO) (Fabrice.Argounes(at)univ-paris1.fr), Hélène Blais (IHMC ENS) (helene.blais(at)wanadoo.fr) and Pierre Singaravélou (CHAC-Paris 1).

November 16, 2016 – Floriana, Malta The next committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held at the Malta Historical Society HQ at 41 Lion Street. The meeting will start at 6pm. Additional information from Rod Lyon at 28triqsikka(at)gmail.com.

November 17, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM in Ruggles Hall at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street. Paul Petraitis will speak about James Rees and the Idea of Chicagoland. The idea of a settlement based around the trans-shipment point of the Great Prairie and Lake Michigan is centuries old. Although the town of Chicago’s initial growth occurred in the 1830s, the coming of the railroads in the 1850s fueled the rapid urbanization of the area. Join us as Chicago historian Paul Petraitis returns to the Newberry to explain how Chicago cartographer and land agent James H. Rees’ 1851 map did more than just document this growth, it helped facilitate the expansion of Chicago’s grid into the hinterland, which would soon become known as “Chicagoland.”.

November 17, 2016 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. P.J. Mode, a long-time student and collector of maps, will present Maps and Messages: Deconstructing Persuasive Cartography. "Persuasive" or "suggestive" maps are those intended primarily to influence opinions or beliefs - to send a message - rather than to communicate objective geographic information. Mr. Mode will show and discuss examples published over five centuries regarding a number of subjects, including advertising and promotion, finance, imperialism, politics, religion, war and peace. More information on persuasive cartography and Mr. Mode's collection is available on his website: persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu. For additional information contact Eliane Dotson at eliane(at)oldworldauctions.com.

November 22, 2016 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Megan Barford (National Maritime Museum) will speak about Ink, Paper, Brass and Glass: Marine Charts and Charting in the Nineteenth Century. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476.

November 22, 2016 - Vienna The annual ordinary meeting of the General Assembly of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes will take place at 5:00 p.m. at Austrian National Library, Reading Room of the Map Department, Josefsplatz 1. Additional information from Jan Mokre at jan.mokre(at)onb.ac.at.

November 24, 2016 – London Members of International Map Collectors' Society are invited to a special viewing of the British Library's new exhibition Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line Our guide will be Lead Curator of Maps at the British Library, Tom Harper, who will point out the most significant maps and be on hand to answer questions. The exhibition will evaluate the turbulent century through the eyes of hundreds of maps produced during the period. Taking examples from the Library's unparallelled collections, including the formerly secret map archive of the British Ministry of Defence, the exhibition will provide contemporary insights into some of the major political, military and social events, as well as less familiar and unusual aspects of the period. This visit is free of charge but donations to the BL will always be welcomed. Numbers are limited so please book early. We will meet in the lobby, just inside the front entrance to the British Library at 2.15 pm. If you would like to come please contact the Vice Chairman, Valerie Newby by email at valerie.newby(at)btopenworld.com or telephone +44(0)1296 670001. The first of the IMCoS Sponsored "Maps and Society" Lectures takes place later on the same afternoon only 10 minutes away. So members can go on the the Maps and Society talk by Dr Dorian Gerhold (Independent Scholar) Plotting London's Buildings c 1450-1720. This will be held in the Woburn Room, Senate House, Malet Street (towards the southern end) at 5.00 pm.

November 24, 2016 - London The Twenty-Sixth Series 'Maps and Society' Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Please note change of usual time and venue [NB, just for this first talk; thereafter back at the Warburg Institute]. Meeting is at 5.30 pm in Woburn Suite, South Block, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU. The Woburn Suite (rooms 22-23) is easy to find on the Ground Floor of the SOUTH BLOCK of Senate House (i.e. the section nearest the British Museum). The North and South Blocks of Senate House are connected by an open-sided arched walkway that also gives access west to Malet Street and east to Russell Square. If you approach Senate House from Russell Square, turn left when inside the walkway to enter the South Block; if approaching from Malet Street, turn right. Once through the revolving door of the South Wing, go straight ahead past the Information Desk, keeping right, to the back of the hall. Ignoring the coffee bar, go through the swing door on your right and you will find the Woburn rooms on your left (they are signposted). Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr Dorian Gerhold (Independent Scholar) will speak about Plotting London's Buildings, c.1450–1720. This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of an Anonymous Benefactor, The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith) or Tony Campbell (tony(at)tonycampbell.info).

November 24, 2016 - Nottingham Professor Charlie Withers (School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh) will speak about Historical Geographies of the Prime Meridian at 1pm in Lecture Theatre A48, Clive Granger building, The University of Nottingham. This is part of the Cultural and Historical Geography Seminar Series at the University of Nottingham.

November 28, 2016 - London The British Library will sponsor a talk Another World is Inevitable: Mapping UK General Elections at 19:00-20:30 in the Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road. This lecture by Professor Danny Dorling is about how British general elections have been mapped in the past, but with a concentration on the very recent past and especially in 2015. There will also be speculation about what the future may hold, not just in terms of new political mapping techniques but in the much wider range of possible electoral outcomes we should consider as being plausible. Please book in advance.

November 30, 2016 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 6:00 pm at the World School, 17th Floor, 11 East 26th St. (between 5th & Madison). Tim Wallace, Graphics Editor and cartographer at The New York Times, will speak about news maps, especially the election maps on which he has been working, as well as anything that may be current at the time of his talk. At The Times, Tim crafts visual stories on whatever topic news dictates. His love of photography helps inform the way he tells stories with maps and images. Additional information from Andrew Kapochunas at kapochunas(at)gmail.com.

December 1, 2016 - Edmonton The Edmonton Map Society will be holding its Fall Meeting at 7:00 pm at Claridge House, 11027 - 87 Avenue. Our speakers will be Joseph Patrouch presenting The Imagined Landscapes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1570 as portrayed in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: (A Work in Progress) and John Horrigan who will discuss a previously unrecorded, manuscript map from the estate of the late Capt. William Gibson: The Water Companies[,] Royal Engineers[,] Work in Egypt & Palestine, 1917-1919. Parking is available in the Visitors Lot, to the west of the building. Please remember to sign in on the logbook (between the elevators). The recently installed intercom system does not connect to the lounge. Please call David Jones at 780 224-1860 from the foyer and he will let you in. Additional information from David Jones (djones(at)ualberta.ca).

December 1, 2016 – Oxford The Oxford Seminars In Cartography will have a field trip to the Bodleian Library. Hall Debbie Hall, Senior Library Assistant in the Map Room of the Bodleian Library, will discuss Treasures from the Map Room: a journey through the Bodleian collections. There will be a chance to buy the new Bodleian map book at a special discounted pre-Christmas rate. The event runs from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm. Additional information from Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk), Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.

December 6, 2016 – Washington Reiner Gogolin will discuss Berlin 1945-1989: Topography of a Divided City at 12 noon in Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Contact Reiner Gogolin at rgog(at)loc.gov for further information.

December 7, 2016 - Wilmington The Philadelphia Map Society will meet at 2 PM in Winterthur Museum Rotunda: Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia exhibit with special focus on an Aztec-style map inscribed on a desk in the exhibit. We will begin at 2:00 pm with a talk and tour with Dennis Carr, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Curator of the current exhibit at Winterthur, Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia. Following the talk, after 3:30 pm, plan to take in the Yuletide tour of the Du Pont home, or convene for an afternoon repast in the Visitor Center restaurant. Consider staying for the 6 pm talk by Dennis Carr which will touch on Mexican mapping traditions. Dennis co-wrote “Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing and Native Rule” (Yale Press, 2013). Cost is $20.00 per person. Registration and pre-payment are required at philamapsociety@gmail.com no later than Monday, November 28. When you make your reservation you must let us know if you plan to take the Yuletide tour following the gallery tour so enough guides may be scheduled. Once registered, checks should be payable to Barbara Drebing Kauffman. Contact her at philamapsociety(at)gmail.com for check mailing instructions or further information.

December 8, 2016 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Shelley S. Mastran, Professor in Practice, Urban Affairs & Planning, Virginia Tech, will present Early Roads and Settlements in Northern Virginia: A Cartographic Perspective. The presentation will trace the evolution of European settlement and road construction in Northern Virginia with a focus on Fairfax County. Early maps help explain the rationale for this development. For additional information contact Eliane Dotson at eliane(at)oldworldauctions.com.

December 10, 2016 – Brussels The Brussels Map Circle will be hosting International Conference Globes and Instruments from 09.30 to 16.00 at the Royal Library of Belgium, Meeting Centre, Mout des Arts/Kunstberg, Boulevard de l'Empereur 2 / Keizerslaan 2. Please register for the conference on the website. Special this year is the possibility to visit the day after the conference and for free an exhibition mounted by our member Stanislas De Peuter with the help of a cultural centre in nearby (from Brussels) Tervuren. The glorious Netherlands highlights Flemish and Dutch atlas cartography from 1500 to 1700 and focuses on representations of the Low Countries. This guided visit is also open for free to members who cannot attend our conference but who nevertheless want to see these maps; registration is in any case compulsory. Additional information from Caroline De Candt at carolinedecandt(at)gmail.com.

December 10, 2016 – Brooklyn The New York Map Society, from 1:30 - 2:30 pm, will have a members-only field trip to the Brooklyn Historical Society; at 2nd floor Parlor, 128 Pierrepont St., to tour the exhibition "Unlocking Two Revolutionary War Era Maps - The Ratzer Map." We will see paintings of Brooklyn from many eras alongside a copy of Brooklyn Historical Society's rare First State of Bernard Ratzer's "Plan of the City of New York," published in 1770, and based on surveys made in 1766 and 1767. Following the tour, we will have a paid-members-only Holiday Social Hour, tentatively at Caffe Buon Gusto, 151 Montague St., right around the corner from the Brooklyn Historical Society. Additional information from Andrew Kapochunas at kapochunas(at)gmail.com.

December 13, 2016 - Paris Le Monde vu d’Asie : Histoire et pratiques cartographiques dans les mondes asiatiques [The world saw Asia: History and cartographic practices in Asian worlds] is a joint research seminar from E.H.GO, du Centre d’Histoire de l’Asie contemporaine de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, du Département d’Histoire de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure et du MNAAG – Musée Guimet. It will meet once a month, on Tuesdays from 18:00 to 20:00 at the Institute of Geography at the ENS, the Sorbonne, or at the Guimet Museum. Lectures are open to the public. The dramatic emergence of Asia on the international scene and its leading role in the current globalization are driving new thinking about this region and its interactions with the rest of the world. Maps and space objects reveal the differentiated process of construction of representations and Asian identities. They allow in particular the understanding of the different socio-cultural universe of Asian countries and their relations with Europe and the rest of the world. They show also the gradual broadening of horizons of Asian geography and cross-influence of Asian and European cartographers. We will consider all of the mapping tools and cosmographic products in Asian worlds, from China, Japan and Korea. Angelo Cataneo, University of Lisbon "Operations and cartographic interactions. Jesuits, Chinese scholars, Buddhist monks and merchants ". Seminar coordinated by Fabrice Argounès (EHGO) (Fabrice.Argounes(at)univ-paris1.fr), Hélène Blais (IHMC ENS) (helene.blais(at)wanadoo.fr) and Pierre Singaravélou (CHAC-Paris 1).

December 14, 2016 – Floriana, Malta The next committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held at the Malta Historical Society HQ at 41 Lion Street. The meeting will start at 6pm. Additional information from Rod Lyon at 28triqsikka(at)gmail.com.

December 15, 2016 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street. The meeting will be a gala dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of the Chicago Map Society. We have invited a number of the charter members of the society (which was founded in February 1976) to participate in a panel discussion celebrating our first forty years. Please join us to hear their memories of the founding of the Society, of notable members or meetings of the Society, their thoughts about the evolution of the Society, and their hopes for the future of the Society. Befitting this special meeting, we will have an especially full smorgasbord of holiday treats for your dining and drinking pleasure.