Cartography - Archive 2021 Calendar of Events

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January 4, 2021 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center for a remote program at Phillips Academy; The Meaning of Land: Indigenous and Euro-American Mapping. How can maps reflect the world-view and relationships to the land of their creators? Look closely and engage with maps made by both Native and Euro-American cartographers. This interactive virtual workshop will incorporate close looking, sketching and discussion of maps and art from the Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at Phillips Academy as well as others. Led by Michelle LeBlanc, Director of Education at the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library in collaboration with the Addison Gallery of American Art inspired by the exhibition, “Wayfinding: Contemporary Artists, Critical Dialogues, and the Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection.” This is a free program but space is limited and advance signup is required.

January 5, 2021 – January 26, 2021: Tuesdays – Hamburg (Online) When we enter a map shop today, we would hardly find any map without colours. Colours and maps seem to have a strong relationship. Modern technical possibilities of designing and printing maps make it easy to create coloured maps. But our today’s standard is the result of a centuries-long development of the practise of map production. Colours on printed (and hand-drawn) maps have been an additional element over a long period of time and were not a ‘natural part’ of the map like today. In this sense, the colouring of maps provides insights into the production, use and interpretation of maps by their producers and users since the beginning of this process. Therefore, a multi-facetted approach is essential for a better understanding of hand-coloured maps. With a cross-cultural historical approach, and a wide range of international speakers from different disciplines we will address and discuss the material nature and meaning of colours on maps from their individual research perspectives. The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg, has a virtual lecture series: Maps and Colours. Lecture is via Zoom and is from 16.15 - 17.45. Zoom link to be announced. Additional information from Diana Lange <diana.lange(at)hu-berlin.de>, Benjamin van der Linde <Benjamin.vanderLinde(at)hk24.de>, or Peter Zietlow <peter.zietlow(at)uni-hamburg.de>.
05 January: Dr Anna Boroffka (Hamburg) - Green pearls and blue waves: On the iconography of water in early colonial maps from Mexico
12 January: Jun.-Prof. Dr Stephanie Zehnle (Kiel) - German Paper, Islamic Colours? African Maps of Cameroon
19 January: Dr.Martijn Storms (Leiden) - The meaning of colours on early modern property maps
26 January: Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Orleans) - Colours on French local maps from 14th to 16th century

January 5, 2021 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Matthew H. Edney (University of Southern Maine and University of Wisconsin–Madison) will take us through the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education’s current exhibition, Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677–1842, which is their contribution to the marking of the bicentennial of Maine statehood in 1820.

January 7, 2021 - London (Online) The first of the new British Cartographic Society Teatime Talks is from 5:00pm – 5:30pm. Seppe Cassettari, President of the British Cartographic Society, will speak about St Helens, City of London – Shakespeare to Skyscraper. In support of a book on the life of Shakespeare during the time he lived within the parish of St Helens in the City of London (around the last 5 years of the 16th century), we have created a time sequenced set of maps for the parish from the original church and nunnery through to the modern day. There are many references to local features in works produced by Shakespeare around this time, including the 'two-bucket well' and the nunnery itself. But it has always been an area of continual change while at the same time retaining links to the past through the church and the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. We'll have a brief tour using the maps to show what still exists from Shakespeare's time to the latest landmark buildings such as 100 Bishopsgate. Registration via Eventbrite.

January 9, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual meeting at 2 pm Eastern (New York) Time. Cartographer Jordan Engel of the "Decolonial Atlas Project" will highlight the work geographers are doing to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Meeting by Zoom. Registration is not required.

January 14, 2021 – Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center, the JP, Egleston, and Connolly branches of BPL, and the Jamaica Plain Historical Society as we explore the history of Jamaica Plain through online maps from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. How old is the Jamaica Plain Branch of the BPL? What was Jamaica Plain like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? How has the neighborhood changed, and how has it stayed the same? Using Atlascope, the Leventhal Map & Education Center’s user-friendly portal for exploring urban atlases, we’ll dive into the historical geography of Jamaica Plain. Come learn about how the community has changed over time, and discover how to research the history of your own house and neighborhood. This event will be broadcast online at the Leventhal Map Center’s YouTube Live and Facebook Live channels. Please pre-register for the event in order to receive further event details.

January 15-16, 2021 – Paris (Online) The annual conference of the Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles has adopted the theme Maps and Mapping in English-speaking Countries in the 17th and 18th Centuries. This symposium will investigate the influence of cartography in a two-fold approach. It will assess its influence on the course of History, considering the impact that the perception of geography had on the political, scientific, intellectual and literary history in the 17th and 18th centuries. It will also consider its influence on historiographical science at the time and nowadays, in relation with the development of new historiographical approaches such as atlantic history, global history, the history of material culture and sociabilities, as well as gender and minorities studies. Note that the times shown on meeting schedule are in European Standard Time Zone (Paris time). For the Zoom registration link, please contact <emmanuelle.peraldo(at)univ-cotedazur.fr>. Contact other questions to <colloque1718janvier2021(at)gmail.com>.

January 15, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the Malta Map Society Executive Committee will be held using Zoom at 5.30pm. We will have a urgent discussion about the AGM held in abeyance due to covid 19. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

January 16, 2021 – San Francisco (Online) We are pleased to announce the first Bay Area Map Group of California Map Society meeting of 2021 from 10:00am – 12:30pm. We hope you will join us! We have an impressive line-up planned, including:
Maps that Identify Francis Drake’s 1579 Pacific Coast Anchorage, by Garry Gitzen
4 Key Steps to Confirm the Authenticity of a Map, by Eliane Dotson
Army Map Service City Plans, by Julie Sweetkind-Singer
18th Century Africa Maps, by Ken Habeeb
Maps Captured from the German Military During World War II, by Susan Powell
Build your own maps with ArcGIS, by Mike Schembri
Keynote: Historic Maps that Trace the Evolution of Gerrymandering, by Susan Schulten
We will be trying out a new format that we hope provides more opportunity for small group interactions among participants. Three speakers will give 10-minute presentations. Then participants will have the opportunity to join a small group discussion with one of the three presenters for 15 minutes. We will have two such sessions separated by a 10-minute break. Then we will wrap up with a keynote presentation. Join us and get 2021 off to a map filled fun start! Register online.

January 21, 2021 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM ET/6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT. Michael Flaherty will speak about Short History of Map Measuring Devices: How tools to measure maps have evolved from the Victorian age to the Present. Maps can be wonderful to look at, but the way in which they were used is often overlooked. Not by CMS Member Mike Flaherty, whose personal collection of about 150 map measuring devices ranges from 19th century screw opisometers, WWI & WWII curvimeters, digital map measuring devices, and a whole lot more. Since there are few publications on the subject available, Mike has had to forge his own path when building his collection over the past five years. He will share with us a wide variety of map measuring instruments and his own personal research into their history and use. Join us for a fascinating presentation on the amazing diversity of different solutions for the simple act of accurately measuring distance on maps. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.

January 21, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth Series of “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), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Dr Radu Leca (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Heidelberg University, Germany) will discuss Bathymetric Maps of Tokyo Bay: A Transnational History. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>

January 21, 2021 - London (Online) The new British Cartographic Society Teatime Talks is from 5:00pm – 5:30pm. John Peaty, Convener of the Historical Military Mapping Group, British Cartographic Society, will speak about The Waterloo campaign: the mapping perspective. This talk will explore the contemporary maps available to Wellington, his allies and opponents during the campaign. In particular, it will examine their accuracy and how they either helped or hindered the commanders at the time. It will discuss the famous and controversial Waterloo Map, a prized possession of the Royal Engineers. It will also discuss three examples where it is possible that either inadequate maps and/or inadequate map reading had an impact on the course and result of the campaign. Registration via Eventbrite.

January 21, 2021 - Perrysburg, Ohio (Online) The Bentley Lecture Series, created in memory of Christopher Perky who served at Fort Meigs during the War of 1812, will continue online in 2021. The next lecture Reading the Color: Manuscript Military Mapping in 18th Century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia will be held at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. The lecture will feature Mary Pedley, an adjunct assistant curator of maps at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. The lecture will highlight the collection of manuscript military maps housed in the Clements Library. Contact Fort Meigs Info <info(at)fortmeigs.org> for Zoom login details.

January 22, 2012 – Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center and Stanford Department of History invite you to join us at the book launch commemorating the publication of Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to our Digital Era, now available from University of Chicago Press. Edited by Stanford's Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer, it features a foreword by Abby Smith Rumsey. All three will be in conversation about the book at the event. The publication of this book stems from the “Time in Space: Representing Time in Maps” conference held at the David Rumsey Map Center and Stanford Humanities Center in 2017. The launch will take place on Zoom and follows the schedule 2:45pm PST: Zoom opens, 3:00pm PST: Launch begins, followed by Q&A. For more information and to register, click here.

January 26, 2016 - Madrid (Online) Conference Juan de la Cosa, by Mr. Manuel Sieira Valpuesta, collaborating advisor of the Institute of Naval History and Culture, which will take place at 6:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall of the General Headquarters of the Navy (C / Juan de Mena, 7. 28014 Madrid). Due to sanitary measures, capacity will be limited, so you must reserve your seat by emailing ihcn-dei(at)mde.es or by calling 91 379 5050. This conference, from the series "Naval Histories", will be broadcast live by the YouTube channel Armada Española.

January 27, 2021 - Bamberg, Germany (Online) UrbanMetaMapping research consortium is pleased to invite you to the launch of its research project: Mapping and Transforming: An interdisciplinary analysis of city maps as a visual medium of urban transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939–1949 which will be at 2.30 pm (CET) via Zoom. Please join our presentation and discussion on war damage maps as an interdisciplinary historical source, and learn how to engage and cooperate with our consortium. Should you have any questions about the event or the research consortium please don’t hesitate to write to us at info.urbanmetamapping(at)uni-bamberg.de.

January 30, 2021 - USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a two hour virtual lecture about “Gerrymandering and Congressional Redistricting” via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will be 2:00-4:00 PM ET/1:00-3:00 PM CT/ 12:00 NOON-2:00 PM MT/11:00 AM -1:00 PM PT. John Hessler (Specialist in Computational Geography and Geographic Information Science at the Library of Congress and a Professor of Evolutionary Computation in the Graduate School of Advanced Studies at the Johns Hopkins University) will speak about Algorithmic Democracy: Supercomputers, NP-hardness & the New Science of Gerrymandering. Jeanne Nielsen Clelland (Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder) will speak about What Can Mathematics Tell Us About Fairness for Redistricting?.

February 4, 2021 – Oxford (Online) The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Join by clicking here. Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine / History of Cartography Project) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) will discuss Map Readings – ‘Cartography: the ideal and its history.’ Additional information from Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.

February 9, 2021 – Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will host a meeting featuring Helen Davies speaking about her research on the Vercelli mappa mundi. Dr. Helen Davies will discuss the medieval Mappae Mundi tradition with a particular emphasis on the Vercelli Map. This medieval manuscript was lost for centuries before being rediscovered in 1908 and has been impossible to read for the last half a century. Working with the Lazarus Project over the last six years to digitally recover this map through multispectral imaging, allows Davies to share some of the newly revealed secrets of this otherwise illegible document. Meeting will be 5:30 PM Mountain Time. Contact Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu> for additional information.

February 10-14, 2021 - Miami (Online) The Annual Miami International Map Fair, normally held at HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street, will be virtual this year. Register for free admission to the fair or for paid admission to three lectures plus fair admission. Individual lectures can be purchased:
    February 10 from 12-1pm (EST) - Ronald E. Grim, PhD - Mapping the Transformation of the American Landscape During the 19th Century: The Price of Progress?
    February 12 from 12-1pm (EST) - Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, PhD, GISP - Digital Cartography: Connecting the Past to the Future
    February 13 from 12-1pm (EST) - Peter Hiller - Discovering the Cartographic World of Joseph Jacinto “Jo” Mora
For additional information contact Hilda Masip <HMasip(at)historymiami.org>, Phone 305.375.1618.

February 11, 2021 – Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will meet via Zoom at 6:00PM CT. Dr. John J. Kulczycki will speak about Lines on the Map: The Process of Setting Poland’s Borders after the World Wars. In 1795 the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth disappeared from the map of Europe. How were Poland’s borders set after 123 years following World War I? Following World War II, its borders were redrawn again. On what basis? Few countries in Europe have experienced such drastic changes in its geography and demography in the 20th century. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.

February 11, 2021 - Colchester (Online) The Landscape Research Group will be hosting a webinar from 1.30-3.30pm. Mapping the Landscape will examine the role maps play in landscape art. Maps tell many stories of our landscape through the places they depict. Find out more about a range of historical maps and how they can provide insight into themes of identity, power and authority. Explore how artists have used maps to reinterpret our surroundings and contemporary mapmakers reactivate collections to create future maps. RSVP to emma.roodhouse(at)colchester.gov.uk

February 12, 2021 - Chicago (Online) The Society for the History of Discoveries launches its new occasional virtual lecture series with a presentation by Gayle K. Brunelle, professor of History at California State University-Fullerton. She will discuss Monopolizing Commerce and Colonization: The Uses and Abuses of French Royal Commercial Companies. Historians of French overseas commerce and colonization have debated the advantages and disadvantages of French state-sponsored companies of commerce and colonization since the creation of these companies in the 17th century. Brunelle's talk will focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, relating how and why these the French crown created these companies and discussing the most recent scholarship regarding their role especially in the exploration and colonization of North America. This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required. Meeting is 1:00 p.m. US Central (Chicago); UTC time (UK, Portugal) 7 pm; Central European Time (most Europe) 8pm; US Pacific Time 11 am.

February 15, 2021 - New Haven (Online) Beinecke Library’s Michael Morand will discuss the Plan of the City of New Haven by James Wadsworth, the earliest surviving manuscript map of New Haven. The talk will follow threads of local history from the marks Wadsworth made to sketch a reckoning with history. Talk is from 4:00pm to 4:30pm and will be a Zoom webinar. Registration online.

February 16, 2021 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map and Education Center at noon for a virtual session on historical geography: Boston by Map! Bring your lunch, map questions, and enthusiasm. Come virtually visit with volunteer Dennis McCarthy and Public Engagement & Interpretation Coordinator Rachel Mead as we take a trip into Boston historical geography. Then we’ll widen our scope to answer your questions and figure out how to assist you in your own historical geography projects! Learn about the Map Center’s collections, tools, and more. This session will be streamed on LMEC’s Facebook and YouTube channels. Registrants will be emailed direct links to these streams.

February 16, 2021 - Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Online) - Les Salons du Général Dufour Director of the Cantonal Surveyor Service of the Republic and Canton of Geneva in partnership with swisstopo will have a virtual conference at 18h30 on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the publication of the first two maps of Switzerland. Laurent Tissot, Emeritus professor of contemporary history at the University of Neuchâtel, former member of the international committee of historical sciences and co-editor of the book "Switzerland on the measuring table, 175 years of the Dufour map" will be speaking. Registration required.

February 17, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held using Zoom at 6.30pm. We will have the annual General Meeting. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

February 18, 2021 – Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Dr. Miquel Gonzalez-Meler will discuss Mapping Climate Change. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.

February 18, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth Series of “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), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. This meeting is sponsored by the Hakluyt Society. Dr Megan Barford (Curator of Cartography, Royal Museums Greenwich, London), Hakluyt Society Speaker, will speak about Chart-making and the Admiralty Hydrographic Office, 1830-1850. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>

February 18, 2021 - London (Online) The new British Cartographic Society Teatime Talks is from 5:00pm – 5:30pm. Philip Dellar, Technical Director, Geomni UK, will discuss Stansted Airport – Modernising their mapping but keeping it simple at the same time! Stansted airport has over many years increased its capacity and ability to handle larger and larger volumes of aircraft and people traffic. Under its new owners, Manchester Airports Group, they have been looking to modernise not only their operational procedures, but also their behind-the-scenes airside operations. Being approached by the airside operations team, with two large paper maps in hand, and asking if it was possible to create new current versions the challenge was set. Dragging them into the world of GIS and creating a spatial database that they could maintain themselves and use across many of their operational groups was the plan, but in the end they just wanted an update of the same paper maps. It seems their resistance to change was very high and this 20-minute presentation aims to show some of the advances there were made in creating the database and ultimately the end result – the new map! Registration via Eventbrite.

February 20, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Caroline Winterer and Karen Wigen, editors, will speak on their new book: "Time in Maps: From The Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era." Registration is not required. Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, "Time in Maps" shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways.

February 22, 2021 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM ET/6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/ 4:00 PT. Ronald S. Gibbs (former Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Consulting Professor, Stanford University) will talk about George Washington and the American Revolution, 1775-1776. In this presentation, we will share the momentous ideas, great personalities, and seemingly incredible outcome of the early years of the American Revolution. Using 18th century maps to show the terrain and tactics, we will experience Gen. George Washington’s tough decisions, near disasters, and ultimate victories. The maps will include depictions of Bunker Hill, New York City, Westchester County, and Trenton. To tell one of the most thrilling stories in American history, we will supplement these great maps with portraits, prints and current day photos.

February 23, 2021 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet virtually on Zoom at 5.30 pm. Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge) will discuss Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography. All are welcome. For details on how to join, please send an email to events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.

February 24, 2021 – Ann Arbor (Online) Join historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson from the Leventhal Map and Education Center at 4:00 PM for a discussion about representation, reality, and the visualization of geographic information in the new exhibition Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception. Dr. Nelson will discuss not only the content of the exhibition itself but also the challenges and opportunities associated with creating digital exhibitions of historic printed material. Participants are encouraged to view the online exhibit in advance and submit questions through this form. Dr. Nelson will be joined by Clements Library Curator of Graphic Materials Clayton Lewis, and Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps Mary Pedley. This event is co-sponsored by the William L. Clements Library and The American Historical Print Collectors Society.

February 25, 2021 - Edinburgh (Online) Edinburgh World Heritage presents Mapping the City. Please join us for a fascinating evening, 6:00 pm-7:00 pm. as we explore the history of the World Heritage Site through the National Library of Scotland’s outstanding map collection, with Dr Christopher Fleet, Curator of Maps and author of ‘Mapping the City’, published by Birlinn. Buy your tickets for this online event and we’ll send you the joining info.

February 25, 2021 – London (Online) International Map Collectors' Society will be having our first online event on Zoom. Our annual Collectors’ evening will be replaced by a simple ‘Show and Tell’ at which presenters will have 5–10 minutes to present a map. As we hope members from across the globe will attend, a start time of 6pm UK time has been chosen. Register for the meeting online, and a Zoom link will be sent to registered ticketholders the day prior to the event.

February 25, 2020 - Williamsburg (Online) The Williamsburg Map Circle is pleased to announce that Dr. John Delano will be presenting his lecture in a Zoom Meeting at 5:30pm. The subject will be If Walls Could Talk: Old Stone Walls in New York and New Hampshire. The 250,000 miles of stone walls in New York and New England are an enduring testimony to the strenuous efforts and strong work ethic of 18th and 19th century subsistence farmers. With large-scale abandonment of those farms in the late 19th century, the fields were promptly reclaimed by the forests. Stone walls, stone foundations, and family cemeteries in the New England woods are now silent reminders of past generations. John Delano mapped nearly 750 miles of old stone walls in New York and New Hampshire. Those data along with old maps and survey reports were used to determine the impressive accuracy of the early surveyors, as well as to infer the drift of the Earth’s magnetic field. If you would like to join us for the webinar email Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com>.

February 26, 2021 - Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center will host Stephen Pyne and Gray Brechin at a virtual mini-symposium on fire, fire mapping and fire breaks. The speakers will discuss American fire history and policy from the late 19th century to the present, as well as the importance of the Ponderosa Way fire break as a prototype for slowing and stopping fires. The symposium will take place on Zoom and follows the schedule below:
2:15pm PST - Zoom opens
2:30 - Introductions, housekeeping
2:35 - Stephen Pyne: A Billion Burnable Acres. America Between Three Fires
3:15 - Gray Brechin: Ponderosa Way: Rediscovering the World’s Longest and Most Forgotten Fire Break in California
4:05 – Q&A.
For more information and to register, click here.

March 2-5, 2021 - Seville The International Committee for the History of the Nautical Science is pleased to announce the XIX International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science which is coordinated by the Pablo de Olavide University and the Higher Council for Scientific Research. On this occasion, with Seville being the venue and coinciding with the fifth centenary of the first circumnavigation, the conference will have the title: Magellan, Elcano, circumnavigations and great oceanic explorations (XV-XX centuries). The conference will be dedicated to analyzing and discussing scientific and nautical aspects (including cultural, practical and theoretical subjects) connected to Magellan and Elcano’s navigation. The conference will be open to dialogue on scientific issues related to the first oceanic voyages across the oceans, great sailings and other circumnavigations from the 16th to the 21st century. The conference will be held in a hybrid format. The organizers will offer an online platform to participate remotely. Additional information from <irhns.sevilla(at)gmail.com>.

March 3, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held using Zoom at 6.30pm. We will be welcoming a new committee member. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

March 4, 2021 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map and Education Center at noon as we explore Cambridge By Map. How old is the Cambridge Public Library? What was Cambridge like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? How has the city changed, and how has it stayed the same? Using Atlascope, the Leventhal Map & Education Center’s user-friendly portal for exploring urban atlases, we’ll dive into the historical geography of Cambridge. Come learn about how the community has changed over time, and discover how to research the history of your own house and neighborhood. This event will be broadcast online at the Leventhal Map Center’s YouTube Live and Facebook Live channels. Free registration.

March 9, 16, and 23, 2021 - Ann Arbor (Online) In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, "The History of Cartography Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment" (University of Chicago Press) appeared. Cartography in the European Enlightenment: How to build a reference work in three easy conversations is a 3- part Discover Series Zoom Webinar hosted by the Clements Library involving Mary Pedley, Matthew Edney, Gotfried Hagen and Karl Longstreth. The following links have additional information about the programs and registration. If you have any questions, contact Anne Bennington-Helber <abhelber(at)umich.edu>.
    March 9 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Discover Series: Cartography, Session 1 “The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia”. Mary Pedley & Matthew Edney discuss the design and rationale for the encyclopedia format of the volume and the challenges and benefits of this structure.
    March 16 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Discover Series: Cartography, Session 2 “The Minutiae behind Mapmaking”. Mary Pedley & Matthew Edney are joined by Volume Four contributor on Ottoman mapping, Gottfried Hagen (University of Michigan), to explore the particularly special and unusual aspects of mapmaking in the long eighteenth century.
    March 23 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Discover Series: Cartography, Session 3 “Digitization and Cartography Research”. Mary Pedley & Matthew Edney are joined by Karl Longstreth (Clark Library, University of Michigan) on the many challenges of digitizing maps and the advantages to research that such images bring.

March 10, 2021 - Portland (Online) Please join the Osher Map Library for: Iyoka Eli-Wihtamakʷ Kətahkinawal–This is How We Name Our Lands: Mapping Penobscot Place Names, a panel discussion on the making of the 2016 Penobscot Nation Cultural and and Historic Preservation Department Map and Gazetteer, as we learn from Language Masters, Historians, Artists, and Cartographers, on the intersections of place, language, art, culture, and cartography. Discussion will be on Zoom from 6pm-7:30pm. Register online.

March 11, 2021 – Oxford (Online) The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Join by clicking here. James Akerman (Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library, Chicago) will present A view from the road: travel mapping and American identity. 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 11-13, 2021 - Paris XVII Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les champs culturels en Amérique latine International Colloquium, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, will be about The use of maps. Mapping in Latin America (XIX-XXI centuries). The colloquium corresponds to our desire for convergence between diverse disciplinary practices. Thus, both literature scholars and historians, and of course geographers, can participate in reflection: the former with their reading and deciphering practices, historians by their approach to maps as social, discursive and epistemic products.

March 16, 2021- London (Online) The London Group of Historical Geographers has organised fortnightly themed seminars that are interdisciplinary in focus. Isabella Alexander (University of Technology Sydney) will make a virtual Zoom presentation from 5:30PM - 7:00PM Copyright, maps and the circulation of geographical knowledge in 18th-century Britain. This talk explores the role of law in producing, using and circulating geographical knowledge through an examination of the emergence and application of copyright legislation in eighteenth-century Britain. This talk investigates this tension through an examination of a number of legal disputes that arose relating to the unauthorised copying of maps and road books. All welcome- this seminar is free to attend, but booking is required.

March 17, 2021 - Nantwich, Cheshire (Online) Members of the Research Group at Nantwich Museum will be giving a new series of illustrated online talks about different aspects of life in our historic town. The talks will be delivered using Zoom, and will open at 1:50 pm for a 2 pm start. Keith Lawrence will deliver an online talk about Mapping Nantwich from Speed to the Ordnance Survey. Nantwich is shown on Saxton’s 1577 map of Cheshire and Speed’s county map of 1610. Fenna’s Map of 1794 shows the town in extraordinary detail. Since then the Ordnance Survey has produced a wide range of maps of Nantwich, all of which showing how the town has developed and changed over the years. If you wish to attend, you will need to purchase your place at least one hour before the talk – and joining details will be sent via email.

March 18, 2021 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Dr. Benjamin Olshin will talk about Art, the Mughals, and Jahangir’s Globe. Dr. Olshin will look at the fascinating South Asian tradition of Mughal paintings, which appeared during the Mughal Empire that flourished from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The globe is rendered in particular detail — but what was the artist’s source for this image? And what is its meaning in this curious work of art? Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.

March 18, 2021 - Paris (Online) Cartes et révolution conférences, sponsored by École Pratique des Hautes Études, will have a series of lectures about the cartography of insurgent Greece. Today's lecture will be about The maps of Greece by Colonel Lapie and Franz von Weiss, 1821-1829. Take part in the seminar from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

March 20, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Judith A. Tyner will speak on her new book "Women in American Cartography." Registration is not required.

March 23, 2021 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Susan Schulten (Professor of History, University of Denver) will discuss “Make the Map All White”: Visual Strategies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments. Maps were essential tools for two of the most ambitious challenges to American law in the twentieth century: the suffrage and prohibition campaigns. Taking their cues from reformers of the nineteenth century, prohibitionists and suffragists used stark, persuasive maps to gain public support. Both movements began with regional strengths—suffrage in the west, prohibition in the south—and designed maps to leverage that regional power for their agendas. As suffrage and prohibition pivoted from state level campaigns to federal amendments after 1913, these maps amplified support across the entire nation. A closer look at the common slogan of the two campaigns, “Make the Map All White,” reveals the degree to which they also navigated—and exploited—racial and ethnic divisions in order to achieve their legislative and constitutional goals.

March 25, 2021 - Oxford (Online) The Oxford Seminars in Cartography will have an online conference about Women and Maps from 13:00-18:00 (UK time). Mapping, and closely linked professions such as surveying, exploration, navigation, hydrography, and printing, have conventionally been associated with men: as makers, patrons, users, and interpreters. Sometimes those assumptions reflect reality, but sometimes they do not. This conference explores the place of women and the feminine in maps and mapping, with no chronological or geographical bounds, and a broad understanding of 'maps'. Free registration available online. Additional information from Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>

March 25, 2021 - Williamsburg (Online) Williamsburg Map Circle is pleased to announce that Nicholas Luccketti will be presenting his lecture in a Zoom Meeting at 5:30pm. The subject will be: “50 Miles into the Maine” Lost Colonist Sites in the Albemarle, by Nicholas M. Luccketti. In July of 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh’s colony of 117 men, women, and children led by Governor John White arrived at Roanoke Island in North Carolina to establish a permanent English settlement in the New World. Since 1895, historians and archaeologists have endeavored to find the sites of the 1587 colony’s fort and village on Roanoke Island, and more recently, where the Lost Colonists may have re-established their settlement up the Albemarle Sound. Mr. Luccketti, an archaeologist on excavations at Roanoke Island in the 1990’s and 2008-2010, serves as First Colony Foundation’s co-director for archaeological research. He will describe the archaeological research conducted by the First Colony Foundation that has identified 2 “Lost Colonist” sites In Bertie County; evidence that the 1587 colony did in fact relocate inland along the Albemarle Sound/Chowan River. Please contact Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> if you would like to join us for the webinar.

March 26, 2021 - Austin (Online) Please join us for our first Mirror Talk, a new collaboration between the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives/Texas A&M University Libraries and other institutions. Sierra Laddusaw and Brandice Nelson will speak about A Tale of Three Countries: The Texas Legation in Great Britain and France from 12:00pm - 1:00pm CT. Drawing on the rich collections at the Texas General Land Office and Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, curators from both collections will address immigration to Republic-Era Texas and the relationships between this new country and Great Britain and France. The conversation will be framed using Arrowsmith’s 1841 Map of Texas and Brué’s 1840 map of Mexico and Texas (Nouvelle carte du Mexique, du Texas et d'une partie des états limitrophes) and discuss why these various attempts at diplomacy and colonization ultimately failed. This is a virtual talk. To register please use this link (registration closes 24 hours before the event). Once you register, a Zoom link will be sent to you 24 hours before the start of the event. This event is free and open to the public. Inquiries: Dr. Marini <fmarini(at)library.tamu.edu>.

March 26, 2021 - Stanford (Online) Join us for the online live opening of Mapping the Islamic World: The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires, the David Rumsey Map Center's newest virtual exhibition. Guest curator Alexandria Brown-Hejazi, Stanford PhD candidate, will discuss the maps and cartographic studies of Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia, and Mughal India. Our thanks to the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies for their co-sponsorship which made this exhibition possible. The exhibition opening will take place on Zoom and follows the schedule 2:45pm PST: Zoom opens, 3:00pm PST: Talk by Alexandria Brown-Hejazi, followed by Q&A. For more information and to register, click here.

March 29, 2021 – Bristol (Online) In association with the ‘Borders and Borderlands’ research network at the University of Bristol, the Historic Towns Trust is delighted to present a series of online lectures. Lecture will be delivered via Zoom 7.30pm to 8.30pm, and is free to attend. Register for the lecture via Eventbrite. Professor Keith Lilley will speak about Mapping Chester’s Landscapes: Past, Present, Future. In this lecture, Professor Lilley will talk about his work on medieval Chester, and how maps have helped us to understand not only more about the city’s medieval past but also revealed the continued presence of these legacies in today’s urban landscape. He will use state-of-the-art digital mapping techniques to illustrate what potential there is for creating a new historical map of Chester and how this map would itself form an important contribution to a nationwide programme of mapping Britain’s historic cities, overseen by the Historic Towns Trust. Professor Keith Lilley is Professor of Historical Geography at Queen’s University Belfast. He is also Chair of the Historic Towns Trust.

March 30, 2021 - London (Online) The University College London Institute of Advanced Studies and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London will host an online conference Dire Straits: Patagonia and the Magellan Circumnavigation at 500. The conference marks 500 years since Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan sailed through the strait at the southernmost tip of the Americas that now bears his name as part of the first circumnavigation of the globe (1519-22). On the eve of this significant anniversary, this conference aims to unite new and diverse critical perspectives on the Strait, its surrounding regions, and the Pacific spaces that it brought into European view for the first time, across a broad time frame. This event seeks to avoid the triumphalist commemorative narrative typifying many celebrations of this anniversary, and provide a space that privileges alternative, decolonial and emerging research that continues to question the tropes of barrenness and desolation that have long been associated with Patagonia. By welcoming scholars working across fields as diverse as environmental history, historical geography, visual culture, and Latin American politics, we hope to shed further light on the contested nature of Patagonian space and how it has been understood by different peoples at different times. We also seek to continue the important work that is already being done by Latin American scholars in particular that speaks to the significance of Patagonia and its indigenous peoples in the history of the Americas and of the world. The conference will take place on Zoom from 12:45-19:30 London time. Please register to attend here.

April 6, 2021 - Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will host a talk at 5:30 PM MT. Wesley Brown will speak about Revealing the Mysterious West: Delisle's Revolutionary Maps. As the result of mostly French exploration in the continent’s mid-section around 1700, French father and son team Claude and Guillaume Delisle produced superb maps that revolutionized understanding of the North American interior, and were copied for decades. Additional information from Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu>.

April 7, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the executive committee Malta Map Society will be held using Zoom at 6.30pm. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

April 8, 2021 - Milwaukee (Online) The 31st annual "Maps & America" lecture, supported by an endowment created by Arthur and Janet Holzheimer, is held in the spring of each year in the American Geographical Society Library on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. Tom Patterson, US National Park Service Cartographer (Ret.), will present a virtual talk, Mapping Grand Canyon National Park, from 6:00 – 7:00 PM. Patterson’s presentation will focus on four recently published maps of Grand Canyon National Park that owe their design inspiration to renowned mapmakers of the twentieth century. Meeting Via Zoom – click here to register.

April 12-16, 2021 - London (Online) The Warburg Institute announces that Alessandro Scafi (Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Cultural History) will conduct a course about Mapping Worlds: Medieval to Modern. The aim of this course is to explore how maps have served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds from around 1200 to 1700. The course will be taught across five two hour classes, from 15:00 to 17:00, online via the zoom platform. Each session will have time for discussion. Reading lists will be made available to registered students.

April 12-14, 2021 - Rome (Online) You are warmly invited to the workshop Remediated Maps: Transmedial Approaches to Cartographic Imagination, hosted online by Bibliotheca Hertziana. The workshop aims at extending the research horizons developed in the last years around the cartographic image, to deepen the methodologies of the so called cartographic turn and revise its categories of analysis in a transmedial perspective. The program can be found online, and the meeting will be held on Zoom from 14:30-19:00 each day.

April 14, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the executive committee Malta Map Society will be held using Zoom at 6.30pm. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

April 15, 2021 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Dr. Matthew Edney will discuss The History of Cartography: Celebration of Volume 4, Cartography in the European Enlightenment. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.

April 17, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Ana Pulido Rull will speak on her new book "Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain". Registration is not required. Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the allocation of land. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de tierras, recorded the boundaries of cities, provinces, towns, and places; they made note of markers and ownership, and, at times, the extent and measurement of each field in a territory, along with the names of those who worked it. Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for Zoom link.

April 19, 2021 – Bristol (Online) In association with the ‘Borders and Borderlands’ research network at the University of Bristol, the Historic Towns Trust is delighted to present a series of online lectures. Lecture will be delivered via Zoom 5.00pm to 6.00pm, and is free to attend. Register for the lecture via Eventbrite. Professor Vanessa Harding will speak about Early Tudor London: On the Brink of Transformation? London in 1520 - the date of the Historic Towns Trust’s map – was still essentially a medieval city, but on the brink of two transformative events: the Reformation, and the ensuing dissolution of the monasteries, and explosive population growth. London’s medieval monasteries, nunneries, and friaries had been closed down by 1540, and only some of the hospitals survived. Meanwhile, the capital’s population, perhaps 50-60,000 at the beginning of the century, had expanded to c. 200,000 by the end. This lecture will consider the physical form of the city around 1520, and the changes that were already perceptible. Vanessa Harding is Professor of London University at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Trustee and Hon Secretary of the British Historic Towns Trust. Her research and writing focus on the social history of early modern London, c. 1500–1700, and especially on family and household, environment, health and disease, death and burial. She contributed to the HTT maps of Medieval London and London c. 1520, and is currently developing a project to map London on the eve of the Great Fire.

April 20, 2021 - Chicago (Online) The Society of the History of Discoveries occasional lecture series present Chet Van Dozier who will talk about The Origin of the Mythical Island of Brasil on Early Nautical Charts. The online lecture will be at 3:00 pm CT. This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required. In this lecture Van Duzer will examine the origin of the long-lived mythical island of Brasil which first appeared in the Atlantic west of Ireland on a nautical chart in 1395 and continued to appear on maps until the middle of the nineteenth century.

April 22, 2021 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. James Akerman, Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and Curator of Maps at the Newberry Library, Chicago, will give a presentation, entitled Reading Maps in 20th-Century Travel Brochures: A Primer. For the past several decades, the Newberry Library has been collecting travel brochures advertising tourist attractions, points of interest, and other localities of potential interest to leisure travelers. In this presentation, Akerman will introduce us to this collection, by focusing on approximately 20 examples, offering a preliminary methodology for describing and drawing meaning from these ubiquitous yet widely disregarded sources at the intersection between mapping, cultural geography, and the history of travel and tourism. Organized in conjunction with the Chicago Map Society.

April 23, 2021 - Stanford (Online) On the event of the fifth anniversary of the David Rumsey Map Center we bring to you a very special guest, Joshua Miele, who will talk about his story as a Blind Cartographer - Hands-On Mapping: The Story of a Blind Cartographer. Joshua will use the creation of TMAP – Tactile Maps Automated Production – to frame the broader landscape of how tactile maps and graphics can be used by blind people to understand many kinds of spatial information. He will discuss the power of touch as a spatial percept, as well as the design constraints on tactile representations that are surprising and challenging to most visual designers. Key topics include historical techniques for creating tactile maps, examples and counterexamples of tactile map use cases, and promising technologies for expanding the availability of accessible maps in the future. Dr. Joshua Miele is a blind scientist, inventor, and community leader with decades of experience creating innovative accessibility solutions. In addition to tactile cartography, he has made contributions to mobile wayfinding tools, video description technologies, and accessible STEM education. He is currently a Principal Accessibility Researcher at Amazon and lives in Berkeley, California. The talk will take place on Zoom. 3:00pm PDT: Zoom opens; 3:15pm PDT: Talk by Joshua Miele, followed by Q&A. For more information and to register, click here.

April 29, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth Series of “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), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Dr Djoeke van Netten (Department of History, University of Amsterdam) will speak about The Landscape and the Ship. Mapping Seventeenth Century Naval Battles. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>

May 1, 2021 – California (Online) The California Map Society 2021 Spring Conference will be held as two virtual sessions: May 1st and May 15th. Session One schedule:
9:00-9:15 am | Welcome – President Ron Gibbs and Vice President Tom Paper
9:15-10:00 am | Benjamin Grant, Founder of Overview, on How We Change The Earth.
10:00-10:45 am | Daniel Crouch, Co-Founder of Daniel Crouch Rare Books, on Contagious Cartography, A Panorama of Pandemics & Plagues.
10:45-11:00 am | Break
11:00-11:45 am | Steve Hanon, President of New York Map Society, on Maps of Spain in the Age of Discovery.
11:45-12:15 am | Adjourn and CMS Business Meeting
This event is open to both members and non-members. To attend the May 1st session, please click here to register. Your confirmation email will provide the Zoom link. Please email Tom Paper <tom(at)websterpacific.com> for any questions.

May 4, 2021 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet virtually on Zoom at 1:00 pm (UK time). Peter Geldart (Philippine Map Collectors Society) will speak about Nicholas Norton Nicols and his maps of Mindanao. All are welcome. For details on how to join, please send an email to events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.

May 6-7, 2021 - Budapest (Online) The Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of the International Cartographic Association, is organising the 15th Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage jointly with the 22nd Conference of the Map & Geoinformation Curators Group - MAGIC on Challenges in Modern Map Librarianship. The joint conference will be held online in partnership with the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University.

May 12-14, 2021 - Aberystwyth (Online) The Carto Cymru-Wales Map Symposium 2021, held by the National Library of Wales and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, will be online this year. This year’s symposium, Surveying the Streets, will focus on how towns and cities have been mapped through time and how this can help us to understand the history and processes of urban growth. See the full programme and book tickets.

May 15, 2021 – California (Online) The California Map Society 2021 Spring Conference will be held as two virtual sessions: May 1st and May 15th. Session Two schedule:
9:00-9:15 am | Welcome – President Ron Gibbs and Vice President Tom Paper
9:15-10:00 am | Jim Schein, Founder of Schein & Schein, and Tom Paper, Founder of The Digital Gallery, on The Cartographic History of San Francisco.
10:00-10:45 am | Courtney Spikes, Historian and CMS Vice President, on The History & Cartography of Waterloo.
10:45-11:00 am | Break
11:00-11:45 am | Susan Schulten, American Historian, and Professor at University of Denver, on How Maps Made America.
This event is open to both members and non-members. To attend the May 15th session, please click here to register. Your confirmation email will provide the Zoom link. Please email Tom Paper <tom(at)websterpacific.com> for any questions.

May 15, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Cartographic historian and New York Map Society member Chet Van Duzer will speak on Shipwrecks, Treasure, and Maps at the End of the Seventeenth Century: The Manuscript Atlases of William Hack. Registration is not required. In this talk, following a look at some of the equipment available in the 16th and 17th centuries for recovering material from shipwrecks, Chet will discuss the manuscript atlases made by the English cartographer William Hack in the latter part of the 17th century. Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for Zoom link.

May 17, 2021 - USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom . Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Matthew Gilmore will speak about Tilting Washington's National Mall. One of the major decisions the Senate Park (or McMillan) Commission made in 1901 was to create a new centerline for the National Mall, around which to shape its design. Instead of drawing it directly east/west from the Capitol, continuing the line of East Capitol Street, they deflected it southward to pass through the Washington Monument. This was to cope with the design flaw of the misplaced Washington Monument. This was not entirely new... a few others seem to have considered this as a solution before the Commission did. But most other planners had a raft of other ideas whether to or how to cope with the "misplacement" of the Washington Monument, generally designing around it, but not reorienting the entire landscape. This new centerline (and the width of the Mall proposed by the Commission) became a key design element and determined the location and (even) design of the buildings on the Mall--including the Department of Agriculture and the New National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural history).

May 19, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held using Zoom at 6.30pm. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

May 19, 2021 - Vienna (Online) The Anthropological Society in Vienna has invited Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne, globe collector and researcher on the Italian Renaissance, to speak about The Da Vinci Globe. Dating from 1504, it is the oldest globe on which the New World is shown for the first time. Missinne will present his research on this globe which appears in his book "The Da Vinci Globe", Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Lecture will be at 18.30 via zoom. Contact <ag(at)nhm-wien.ac.at> for the Zoom link.

May 20, 2021 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 6:00 PM. Dr. Martin Foys will speak about The Virtual Mappa Project. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.

May 20, 2021 – Oxford (Online) The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Register by clicking here. Chet Van Duzer (The Lazarus Project, University of Rochester) will discuss Shipwrecks and treasure in the manuscript maps of William Hack. 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, 2021 - Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center will have a talk by Laura Bliss. Maps mattered during the pandemic—not just data-driven maps that pointed us to spikes in new infections or hospitalizations. In 2020, Bloomberg CityLab asked readers to send in homemade maps of what their worlds look like after coronavirus. The hundreds of maps received were so many windows into the sprawling economic, environmental, and social sea changes that swept the world along with the virus. All together, they are a unique—and deeply personal—document of the pandemic and how it changed our daily lives. But why, and how? Laura Bliss' talk, The Quarantine Atlas, will expand on how these maps served as a powerful medium for making sense of a year of grief, tumult, and extended uncertainty. The talk will take place on Zoom: 2:45pm PDT: Zoom opens, 3:00pm PDT: Talk by Bliss, followed by Q&A. For more information and to register, click here.

May 24, 2021 – Bristol (Online) In association with the ‘Borders and Borderlands’ research network at the University of Bristol, the Historic Towns Trust is delighted to present a series of online lectures. Lecture will be delivered via Zoom 5.00pm to 6.00pm, and is free to attend. Register for the lecture via Eventbrite. Helen Fulton and Giles Darkes will discuss Making Bristol Medieval. The research project, Making Bristol Medieval, funded by the University of Bristol, aims to re-position Bristol as a medieval city, bringing to light its architectural, topographical, and documentary legacies in ways that appeal to the city’s residents and its many tourists. One important outcome of the project has been the Map of Bristol in 1480, created by a team of local historians and archaeologists and published by the Historic Towns Trust. In this lecture, the project leader, Helen Fulton, will talk about the reasons why medieval Bristol was one of the most important cities in Britain in the late Middle Ages, and Giles Darkes, cartographer for the map, will talk about the challenges of capturing medieval Bristol in the form of a map. Helen Fulton is Chair of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol and a Trustee of the Historic Towns Trust. Her research focuses on the March of Wales and its links with the urban culture of England and Europe. Giles Darkes is Cartographic Editor for the Historic Towns Trust.

May 26, 2021 - Boston (Online) The Leventhal Map and Education Center exhibition Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception examines how visual representations of the world can shape what people believe. But sometimes biases and distortions are built into the data that is used to produce a map. Far from offering a perfectly objective, all-encompassing view of the world, data sets of all kinds are deeply shaped by human choices. Morgan Currie is a lecturer in data and society at the University of Edinburgh whose work focuses on open data, automation in social services, activists’ data practices, civil society and democracy, participatory mapping, and social justice among other topics. She will discuss why we should be careful about geographic information in modern data. How is data collected, and how does it get fixed into categories and numbers? Who gets to own data sets, and who gets to make decisions using them? What sorts of public responsibilities should shape the social lives of data? Talk will be broadcast over the LMEC’s YouTube Live and Facebook Live channels at 12:00 PM but you must register.

May 27, 2021 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map and Education Center for a virtual session on historical geography: Boston by Map. Bring your lunch, map questions, and enthusiasm. Come virtually visit with volunteer Dennis McCarthy and Public Engagement & Interpretation Coordinator Rachel Mead as we take a trip into Boston historical geography. Then we’ll widen our scope to answer your questions and figure out how to assist you in your own historical geography projects! Learn about the Map Center’s collections, tools, and more. This session will be streamed on LMEC’s Facebook and YouTube channels at 12:00 PM. Registrants will be emailed direct links to these streams.

May 27, 2020 – Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a Zoom lecture at 6:00PM CT. This lecture Far From Jerusalem: The Exclusion of Jews on Christian Maps, presented by Dr. Asa Mittman of California State University, is about how medieval Christian maps use principles of inclusion and exclusion to generate fictions of collective identity. This talk will examine cartographical images of Jews, thus far understudied but key to the creation of a central myth of the Middle Ages: Christendom. Register in advance for this webinar:

May 27, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth Series of “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), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Dr Angelo Cattaneo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome) will discuss What Is a Map? The Case of Fra Mauro's Mappamundi: Author's Intentions, Modern Receptions. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>

June 1, 2021 - Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will host a talk at 5:30 PM MT. Dr. Joe Bryan, CU Boulder Geography Department, will speak about his new book: Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America. In the book, Bryan presents a series of essays by Indigenous and Afro-descendant activists and scholars reflecting on the uses of mapping to defend, protect, and create territories in struggles for social justice. Their work offers a critical take on mapping’s troubled history as a technology of power, developing new approaches to mapping attuned to questions of justice. Additional information from Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu>.

June 3, 2021 - Boston (Online) Many of the maps in Leventhal Map and Education Center are scattered with animals real and fantastical — come participate in Map Monster Show and Tell and tell of favorite map monsters from the collections at 12:00 pm! In this chill lunch hour session for map lovers of any age, listen and learn or present and profess your love for the creatures that populate our maps. We’ll send out Zoom info to registrants two days before the event. Stay well until then!

June 3, 2021 – Oxford (Online) The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Register by clicking here. Katherine Parker (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. / Hakluyt Society) will discuss Revision and erasure: indigenous presence and maps of southern Patagonia, 1670-1750. Additional information from Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.

June 9, 2021 - Boston (Online) The Leventhal Map and Education Center exhibition “Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception” examines how visual representations of the world can shape what people believe. But sometimes biases and distortions are built into the data that is used to produce a map. Far from offering a perfectly objective, all-encompassing view of the world, data sets of all kinds are deeply shaped by human choices. Angles on Bending Lines: Brian Jefferson on geographic information systems and the war on crime and drugs will discuss why we should be careful about geographic information in modern data. How is data collected, and how does it get fixed into categories and numbers? Who gets to own data sets, and who gets to make decisions using them? What sorts of public responsibilities should shape the social lives of data? Talk will be broadcast over the LMEC’s YouTube Live and Facebook Live channels at 12:00 pm. Registration is required.

June 9, 2021 – London (Online) The International Map Collectors' Society annual Malcolm Young Lecture will be at 7:00 pm. Daniel Crouch will discuss A Protestant Wind or Hot Air? A study of the Astor Armada drawings. In January 2021 a set of ten ink and watercolour drawings were acquired by the National Museum of the Royal Navy. The re-discovered manuscripts are the earliest visual representations of the progress of the Spanish Armada and depict one of the greatest events in British naval history. The chronicle events from the sighting of the fleet at the Lizard on 29 July 1588 to the Battle of Gravelines on 8 August 1588. The drawings had, in 1828, been identified as preparatory sketches for Robert Adams and August Ryther’s engravings, ‘Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam Vera Descriptio’– the first commercially-produced English prints – published in 1590, to accompany Ryther’s description of the battle, A Discourse Concerninge the Spanishe Fleet. The lecture discusses the penmanship, provenance and production of the maps, and raises the possibility that, rather than being preparatory sketches for a printed work, they comprise separately-produced illustrations to accompany a now lost manuscript despatch of the campaign. In either case, both the drawings and the prints are shown to have played a vital role as part of Protestant propaganda and the Tudor spin machine. Registration is required.

June 10, 2021 - Montreal (Online) The International Society for the History of the Map's virtual 2021 Annual General Meeting will be held from 1:30-4:30pm UTC -5 (Eastern Time US); 17:30-21:30 UTC (London); 18:30-22:30 UTC+1 (Europe) via Zoom. In addition to the General Meeting, we are delighted to present the inaugural winner for the ISHMap Prize in Map History; open the call for papers for the VI ISHMap 2022 symposium and workshop; and announce the venue and host for ISHMap VII in July 2023. ISHMap members will receive the virtual meeting information via email. Others contact ISHMap Secretary <ishmap.secretary(at)gmail.com> for the Zoom meeting link.

June 12-13, 2021 - London The London Map Fair is canceled.

June 12, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Historian Lindsay Frederick Braun (PhD, Rutgers, 2008, Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon, 2020-2021 Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study [Amsterdam]) will speak on Cartographic Authorities and Compilation Networks in 19th-Century South Africa. Braun's work over the last decade and a half has involved surveying, mapping, and struggles over land and landscape in South Africa between the middle of the 19th century and the First World War. Before the South African War (1899-1902) and Union in 1910, the mapping of the South African subcontinent fell to a variety of semi-official actors with both private and public networks of information. With a paucity of numerical data, decisions regarding what information appeared as knowledge on a map or in text often fell to particular practitioners with the most robust networks, and their work in turn fed into others and shaped imaginations as well as policy. In this talk, Braun looks primarily at the two Boer Republics—the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal)—and divergences between the illusion of precision and the cartographic ideal of accuracy that exposed the limitations of knowledge and the erasure of certain kinds of information in the service of colonial priorities. Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for Zoom link.

June 14, 2021 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map and Education Center and the Public Library of Brookline for a dive into the historical geography of Brookline, and using maps for research! Brookline By Map will examine what was Brookline like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? What schools and churches were in the town? Were any industries based in Brookline? Using Atlascope, the Leventhal Map & Education Center’s user-friendly portal for exploring urban atlases, we’ll dive into the historical geography of Brookline. Come learn about how the community has changed over time, and discover how to research the history of your own house and neighborhood. Talk will be broadcast over the LMEC’s YouTube Live and Facebook Live channels at 7:00 pm. Registration is required.

June 14-16, 2021 - Montreal (Online) The 53rd annual Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives/Association des cartothèques et archives cartographiques du Canada CARTO conference will be held online between 1-3PM EST. With that in mind, the theme this year is Old Is New Is Old. Presenters are encouraged to submit their presentations, posters, and other multimedia work in mapping and geospatial fields for this event, which promises to be a thrilling new take on the old conference format. This event will also include the ACMLA/ACACC annual general meeting, and some surprise social events!

June 15, 2021- Berkeley (Online) Join us for a virtual presentation highlighting a collaborative effort to explain the story behind the maps captured from axis militaries by the Americans during WWII maps! Discover the similarities and differences between the collections and much more! The University of California Berkeley Engineering and Physical Sciences Library division presents from 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM A Hidden Collection Emerges: German & Japanese World War II Captured Maps from the UC Berkeley and Stanford University Libraries. Panelists include three notable California Map Society members, Susan Powell, Heiko Mühr and Julie Sweetkind-Singer. Register at: https://bit.ly/3w2MZJW.

June 16, 2021 – London (Online) Peter Geldart will address the International Map Collectors' Society on a virtual lecture at 2:00 pm. He will discuss Mapping the British Occupation of Manila 1762–64. Towards the end of the Seven Years War, the East India Company (EIC) saw an opportunity, supported by the British government, to seize the Philippines from Spain. An invasion fleet was assembled in Madras and arrived in Manila Bay on 23 September 1762. Within ten days Manila had fallen, and the acting Governor-General, Archbishop Manuel Antonio Rojo, surrendered. The British went on to capture Cavite and the Manila galleon Santísima Trinidad, but faced resistance by a native army under Simón de Anda. Under the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, Manila was returned to Spain on 31 March 1794 by the then Provisional Deputy-Governor, Alexander Dalrymple, who would later become hydrographer to the EIC and (in 1795) the first Hydrographer to the British Admiralty. Peter will discuss the background to the invasion, the dramatic attack on the fortified citadel, subsequent events, the return of Manila to Spain, and the cartographic consequences of the occupation. To illustrate his talk, he will show maps from the British Library, George III’s Collection of Military Maps held by the Royal Collection Trust, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection at the Boston Public Library, the Library of Congress, and private collections in Manila. Registration is required.

June 16, 2021- Williamsburg (Online) The Williamsburg Map Circle virtual meeting has been canceled.

June 17, 2021 - Brussels (Online) The Brussels Map Circle invites the Members to join by ZOOM the 2021 Annual General Meeting at 18.00. E-mail: secretary(at)bimcc.org for login instructions.

June 17, 2021 – Chicago The Society for the History of Discoveries offers the third lecture in its new occasional virtual lecture series with a presentation by Professor Jordana Dym at 12:00 PM US/Canada Central (Chicago); 1:00 PM Eastern US Time, 6:00 PM (London), 7:00 PM (rest of Europe). She will discuss Hiram Bingham in the footsteps of Simón Bolívar, from Caracas to Bogota, 1906-1907. Discovery by historians is often imagined as solitary work in archives and libraries. An alternate model of field research takes archival research as a starting point. This talk explores the practice of a young professor of Spanish American history, Hiram Bingham, best known for publicizing Incan archaeology, on his first ‘expedition’ to South America, in 1906 and 1907, for a two-part mapping project. Bingham proposed to map key battles of Venezuelan independence leader Simón Bolívar and to determine whether, as Spanish American historians claimed, following an “impassable” road across Venezuela and Colombia was “as wonderful as the more famous marches of Hannibal and Napoleon [over the Alps].” Between developing his hypothesis and disseminating his conclusions, the Bingham case allows us to consider the intersections between history, travel and cartography at the beginning of the 20th century. This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required.

June 17, 2021 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 6:00 PM. Anne D. Williams will talk about Puzzles in geography, from “Dissected Maps” to “Silent Teachers”. The map of the United States, made into a puzzle with each piece an individual state, is a time honored device for teaching children geography. This talk covers map puzzles from their beginnings in the mid-1700s to the first World War, with emphasis on nineteenth century American puzzle ones. It focuses especially on the “Silent Teacher” puzzles that several companies in central New York manufactured from about 1875 to 1910. Most Silent Teachers were double-sided. They showed an individual state, cut on county lines, on the front, and an advertising image on the obverse. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.

June 19, 2021 – New Haven It’s been a long pandemic; we hope you are all well and ready to dabble your toes in the wide world of cartography. To that end, we hope you’ll join the Connecticut Map Society at New Haven’s Artspace to visit the exhibit W.E.B. Du Bois, Georgia, and his Data Portraits, which include a number of maps. After the exhibit, we could (weather permitting) gather at one of the outside spaces near the gallery. Meet at 2 pm in Artspace, 50 Orange Street, New Haven. Additional information from CT Map Society <ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com>.

June 22, 2021 - Boston (Online) One-sixth of Boston is built on made land. If you’ve ever wondered about Boston’s history of landmaking, come to this map show and tell, Boston's Changing Shoreline, at 12:30 pm sponsored by Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Registration is required.

June 23, 2021 – London (Online) The International Map Collectors' Society will have a virtual lecture at 7:00 pm. Paula van Gestel will discuss Wall maps published in the Netherlands between c.1550 and 1850. Paula van Gestel will present aspects of her research for a cartobibliography on Dutch wall maps which she has been compiling with Günter Schilder since 2010. In addition to setting out their defining characteristics, manner of construction, sources, geographic and decorative content and the historical context, she will also discuss several prominent publishers of wall maps, the commercial environment, and issues of privileges and commissions. Registration is requjired.

June 24, 2021 - USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom . Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Leah Thomas will discuss “nearly in a circular form”: Mapping the Cherokee Nation through John Marrant’s Narrative (1785). Taken into captivity by the Cherokee, John Marrant is saved by the Chief’s daughter, echoing John Smith’s "The Generall Historie" (1624) during a pivotal moment in the colonial contest in the Southeast. Living among the Cherokee for approximately two years, Marrant hunted and traveled with them. His narrative mapping reflects the mapping in the 1720s deerskin maps attributed to the Catawba and Chickasaw that may have been of Cherokee origin.

June 27, 2021 - Scarborough, Maine (Online) The Scarborough Public Library will welcome Dr. Matthew Edney at 2.00 PM. Dr. Edney will deliver Mapping Maine With the Osher Map Library virtually, via Zoom. Dr. Edney curated the Osher Map Library’s Maine Bicentennial Exhibition, “Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677-1842.” Using digital images of the exhibit and additional items from the OML collection, Dr. Edney will provide an overview of this special installation in this virtual presentation. Digital maps of Scarborough’s marshes – an important part of Scarborough’s early and present history – will also be included. Registration is required. Click here to register to receive the Zoom link.

June 30, 2021 – London (Online) The International Map Collectors' Society will have a virtual lecture at 7:00 pm. Wes Brown will discuss Alzate y Ramirez and the mapping of New Spain. In 1768, Mexican Jesuit priest Don José Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez, created a large manuscript map of New Spain (defined at the time as those portions of North America controlled by Spain) which, in a bold move, he sent to the French Royal Academy of Sciences hoping that the learned society would publish it. For centuries, Spain had guarded its geographic knowledge about the New World and rarely allowed information to be published. Alzate’s outrageous breech of protocol resulted in the publication of the only map of New Spain printed in the eighteenth century using Spanish information. The map is rich with new geographic information of the area which would become the western United States. The lecture will describe this extraordinary map in the context of the limited knowledge of that region of America at the time. Registration is required.

June 30, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next executive committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held using Zoom at 6.30pm. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

July 4-9, 2021 – Bucharest The 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) has been postponed to July 2022.

July 14, 2021 – Australia/New Zealand (Online) The Australian & New Zealand Map Society announces a second installment in our 2021 webinar series from 12:00 pm AEST / 2:00 pm NZST. In this 1-hour webinar we will hear from experts talking about the latest innovations in the State and National mapping programs of Australia & NZ.
Karl Baker - Land Information New Zealand: Mapping New Zealand in 2021 - Respecting past and present products as we look to future! A presentation on maps and future possibilities
Dmitar Butrovski - Geoscience Australia: Enabling Access to Geoscience Australia’s Aerial Photography Collection – a journey from aerial survey films to digital downloads
Jodie Howie and Simon Haycock - Queensland Department of Resources: Queensland Topographic Mapping Program offered by the Department of Resources
Register here for webinar.

July 19-23, 2021 - Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil The 57th International Congress of Americanists, America and its borders: multiple voices, multiple encounters, has been canceled.

August 4, 2021 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map and Education Center at 7:00 pm to hear scholar Michele Navakas as she explores the “liquid landscapes” of places like Florida in the eighteenth century, helping us reframe our understanding of the American Revolutionary period through cartography and landcape history. Liquid Landscapes and the Edges of America, From the Revolutionary Era to Today examines a rich archive of historical documents that show how diverse groups of people met, struggled, and mixed in regions where boundaries themselves were hard to define. This talk is the first in the Richard H. Brown Seminar on the Historical Geography of the American Revolutionary Era, and is co-presented by the Touchton Map Library. Login information will be provided to those who register.

August 18, 2021 - San Francisco (Hybrid) We are pleased to announce the next Bay Area Map Group of California Map Society meeting. This will be a hybrid meeting, which can be attended either: In-person from 5:00pm - 7:30pm, or Virtually from 6:00pm - 7:30pm. The in person portion includes an informal gathering prior to the presentations. We have some wonderful speakers lined up, including Fred DeJarlais, Ron Gibbs, Heiko Muhr, and Tom Paper. We hope you will join us for our summer celebrations of maps! Meeting registration information is available here.

August 19, 2021 - Dennis, Massachusetts Joseph Garver, curator emeritus of the Harvard Map Collection, will present the talk The Cartography of Cape Cod: Reading Between The Lines at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, 60 Hope Lane, on Thursday, August 19, at 4 PM. Admission is $12, $10 for museum members and you may register online. The presentation by Mr. Garver will explore how the maps and mapmakers of Cape Cod reveal not only a changing natural environment but also a wider web of verifiable data, myth and fabrication. It will also examine how present-day museumgoers might interpret the maps in the context of their own legacy of individual and collective stories.

August 19, 2021 – Lake Forest, Illinois Please join us for the annual Chicago Map Society trip to the MacLean Collection, W Polo Trail Dr, starting at 5:30 pm! It's an incredible destination for map lovers and we are very appreciative that they have agreed to host our group once more. This year, Dr. Michael Conzen will be discussing the production and publication of county atlases, using a number of choice examples from the library's stacks. Registration is required, and limited to fully vaccinated members. Transportation is not provided, and directions will be circulated to registered attendees in a few weeks.

August 25-26, 2021 – Sydney The State Library of New South Wales conference Mapping the Pacific has been postponed until early 2022.

August 29, 2021 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society is having a Summer Social Event celebrating the 30th birthday of our society! (1991-2021). The event will be held from 4-6 PM for members and their guests in City Park Pavilion, 2001 Steele Street, at the west end of the lake, just west of the DMNS and south of the Zoo. You are invited! RSVP! Please E-mail member name and number of guests to the RMMS Secretary: Lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net.

August 31 - September 3, 2021 - London (Online) The three-day Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference attracts over 2000 geographers from around the world. This year, the conference is taking place online, with in-person elements if it is possible to do so. We will make a decision on whether we can safely proceed with planning for in-person elements by early April 2021. The Chair's theme for the conference is borders, borderlands and bordering.

September 1-4, 2021 - Basel The 20. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium has been postponed until September 2022.

September 7, 2021 - Belfast (Online) Join the Public Record Office NI for an online workshop, Using Ordnance Survey Maps, that will showcase historical Ordnance Survey maps of Northern Ireland. The workshop will (1) provide background to the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, (2) introduce basic map reading skills, and (3) demonstrate how you can browse OS maps and modern basemaps (including aerial imagery) to locate geographical boundaries, sites, buildings and landmarks of historical interest. Workshop is from 19:00 to 20:15, and register on Eventbrite.

September 8, 2021 - Keyworth, Nottinghamshire (Online) The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold its Annual Workshop from 10:00 until 16:30 on Google meets. The workshop theme will be Learning from Lockdown : positive developments for our map collections. During lockdown many of us have learnt new ways of working and begun new projects. Some of these will change the way we work going forward. What has worked well for you? Register online. Additional information from Paula Williams <paula.williams(at)cartography.org.uk>.

September 9, 2021 - Keyworth, Nottinghamshire (Online) The British Cartographic Society Annual Conference will be held virtually from 10.00–17.50. Register online.

September 9, 2021 - USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom . Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Andrew J. Rhodes (Department of Defense, board member of Washington Map Society) will discuss James Monteith: Cartographer, Educator, and Master of the Margins. James Monteith (1831–1890) was a leading figure in American geography education in the late nineteenth century, but his career has been largely forgotten and his contribution to cartography has been underappreciated. His geography volumes included unique illustrations to help the reader visualize terrain on a continental scale and place individual maps in a global context. Monteith's maps were surrounded with remarkable symbology and amplifying data that ought perhaps to earn him the title “master of the margins.”

September 11, 2021 - Civitella del Lago, Italy In association with the exhibition Italian cartography in the Napoleonic era (1796-1815), the Associazione Roberto Almagia, Comune di Baschi, and Associazione Culturale Civitellarte will have conference at 10:00 in Salle Brizzi. Speakers will be Marco Asta, Antonio Coppola, Vito de Pinto, Emilio Moreschi, Francesco Trippini, and Vladimiro Valerio. Additional information from <info(at)civitellarte.it> or <info(at)associazionealmagia.it>.

September 13, 2021 - Portland (Online) Please join Osher Map Library for the kick off of the Monday Map Lunch Series from 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM. In conjunction with the opening of the physical exhibit "Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception" at the Leventhal Map and Education Center in the Boston Public Library, President and Head Curator Garrett Dash Nelson will present Don’t Believe Me On This: Engaging With Truth and Skepticism Through Maps & Data. Register for the Zoom lecture.

September 15, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next executive committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held using Zoom at 6.30pm. Work has begun on the next important study publication: French Maps of Malta. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

September 17-18, 2021 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts conference Mapping the Early American South has been postponed to October 21-22, 2022.

September 18-19, 2021 - Mantua The Mantua Books Maps Prints Fair will be held under the arcades of the cloister of the former Augustinian monastery of S. Agnese, now the seat of the Francesco Gonzaga Diocesan Museum, Piazza Virgiliana, 55.

September 21, 2021 - Belfast (Online) Join Micheál Ó Siochrú as he gives the 2021 D.A. Chart Seminar on Maps with the topic of The Down Survey of the 1650s and the transformation of Ireland. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the 1650s occurred at the culmination of a century of warfare that witnessed a demographic catastrophe, wide-scale destruction of societal infrastructure and the disappearance of the old Gaelic order. Much of the struggle centered on control of the land and successive plantations resulted in a dramatic shift in ownership from a Catholic elite to a new Protestant settler class, one of the largest single transfers of land anywhere in Western Europe during the early modern period. The resulting cadastral maps, at a scale of 40 perches to one inch (the modern equivalent of 1:50,000), are unique for the time – nothing as systematic or on such a large scale exists anywhere else in the world. Lecture will be on Zoom from 19:00 to 20:15, and you must register 24 hours in advance.

September 21, 2021 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will be offering hybrid programs in a new venue this season. History Colorado has generously offered in-person space in their Research Center, 1200 N Broadway, and they'll be broadcasting and recording our programs as well. Our first program will be Max Peeters speaking on The Golden Age of Cartography and the 80 year war of independence in The Netherlands at 5:30 PM MT. The 17 provinces, as The Netherlands was called around 1560, comprised current Belgium and Holland, and were governed by Philip II, the king of Spain. Philip wanted everybody to be a practicing Roman Catholic, enforcing this with the inquisition called “blood council”. Consequently, the Protestants rebelled and founded “Republic of the Seven United Provinces” covering the northern half of The Netherlands; the remainder stayed Spanish. Many cities that turned Protestant were besieged by the Spaniards. This talk will show the defenses of several cities and results of the sieges. Amsterdam emerged as the trade and financial capital of Europe, holding a monopoly of the spice trade over two centuries. Maps of the fabled spice islands were jealously guarded. Three generations of the family of Blaeu cartographers provided the United East Indies Company (VOC) with accurate maps culminating in the Atlas Maior, which contains 450 maps of the world. additional information from Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser@colorado.edu>.

September 22, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will present from 7:00 - 8:00 pm EDT: Adventures in Academic Cartography by Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University. Monmonier, editor of “Cartography in the Twentieth Century” (Volume Six of “The History of Cartography”), retired in May 2021. His talk will cover changes in maps, mapping, and cartographic education since the early 1960s. Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for the Zoom link.

September 23, 2021 - Chicago (Online) Please join the Chicago Map Society at 6:00 pm via Zoom to hear Dr. Carl Smith discuss his new book, Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City. In the shadow of the tragedy's 150 anniversary, we are excited to host Professor Smith as he explores the history of the fire, its causes, and impacts both locally and globally. He will be joined by our very own Dennis McClendon, who created a number of custom maps for the volume. Contact Chicago Map Society <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org> for registration information.

September 23, 2021 - Falmouth (Hybrid) A new autumn Lecture Series has been announced at National Maritime Museum Cornwall featuring talks from some of the country’s leading experts. The series starts at 7:30 pm with Maps, Globes & Monsters with Dr Megan Barford, historian and Curator of Cartography at Royal Museums Greenwich. In this talk Dr Barford will explore why there are depictions of monsters in the stars on 16th and 17th Century globes and atlases. Tickets may be purchased for either the live lecture or online lecture.

September 24-25, 2021 – Rome Third edition of the Rome Map, Atlas & Travel Book Fair will be taking place at 80 Piazza Santi Apostoli with 30 International map dealers from Italy, Europe and America. Access to the fair is free of charge. Open Friday 17.00-21.00 and Saturday 10.00-20.00.

September 25, 2021 – California (Online) The California Map Society 2021 Fall Conference will be held 9am to noon, via Zoom. Please click here to register. Your confirmation email will provide the Zoom information.
9:00AM | Welcome - President Ron Gibbs and Vice President Courtney Spikes
9:10AM | Mapping the Haitian Revolution - Stephanie Curci, Phillips Academy Andover, award-winning creator of innovative website using maps to teach the complicated narrative of the Haitian Revolution across time and space.
10:00AM | Indigenous Floridians in the Time Before Memory - Professor Andrew Frank, Florida State University, author of Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves and the Founding of Miami (2017).
11:00AM | Breaking the Third Wall: Going Beyond Traditional Hillshade - Mr. Sean Conway, Orthoimagery Technical Expert, transforming vintage maps into stunning three-dimensional relief by meticulously rendering elevation data with new technologies.
12:00-12:15PM | Membership Social

September 30-October 2, 2021 - Arlington, Texas (Hybrid) The second regional symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, the 12th Virginia Garrett Lectures, and the Fall meeting of the Texas Map Society will be held at the University of Texas Arlington. The theme is Coordinating Cartographic Collections and the accompanying exhibit will feature recent acquisitions. Meeting will be virtual and in-person. Registration is online.

October 1, 2021 - Paris Naturalist, botanical and zoological gardens share with cartography the desire to describe the world in a manner that is both exhaustive and orderly. The scales, the materials, the appearances of the representation are certainly different. but it is indeed, in the map as in the garden, To develop an image of the world that can be read by everyone. maps and gardens are part of this great scientific effort which consists in showing and understanding the world and its spaces, natural and human. This Study day on Cartography and Natural History aims to explore the relationships that have developed between cartography and the garden, particularly at the Jardin des Plantes, from the point of view of the acquisition, organization, representation and dissemination of natural knowledge. This Study day will be held 09:00 to 18:15 in Auditorium de la Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, 36 Rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire . Register on Eventbrite. Contact <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr> for additional information.

October 6-8, 2021 – Lisbon (Online) The international workshop On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart will be held online via Zoom and live YouTube streaming. This meeting aims to further the discussion opened in two previous workshops held in Lisbon in 2016 and 2018, and attended by leading experts on the History of Cartography. Since the preceding workshops, considerable progress has been made on critical questions pertaining to the origins of European nautical cartography. The theme of this third workshop has been broadened to encompass a greater chronological and topical scope. The meeting will be from from 14H-18H BST each day, and registration is available. Additional information from <portmeeting(at)ciuhct.org>.

October 7, 2021 - USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom . Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Anthony Mullan (retired the Library of Congress) will discuss How Tourist, Business, and Colonization Maps Shaped North American Views of Cuba, 1898-1913. This presentation surveys a selection of maps associated with North American investment, colonization, and tourism in Cuba during the first 15 years following the Spanish American War.

October 11-14, 2021 – Brussels The 38th International Map Collectors' Society symposium will highlight the early Belgian contributions to the development of cartography worldwide. The theme will be Mapping the world, the Belgian contribution. These include the introduction of triangulation techniques (Frisius, van Deventer), first world atlases (Ortelius, Mercator) and the first navigation map to use the Mercator projection. The symposium will be held in conjunction with the Royal Library and Brussels Map Circle. It is planned as a three-day event, opening with a reception on the evening of 11 October at the Royal Library of Belgium. A post-conference tour is planned.

October 19-21, 2021 - London (Online) This year’s William Smith Meeting of the Geological Society of London will be an international celebration of the breadth of geological mapping: Geological Mapping - of our world and others. We look to explore its historical importance, the principles at its core, and its value in understanding the geological evolution and processes taking place on Earth and beyond. Complete program is online. Registration for this virtual conference is open and available to all (Fellows and visitors).

October 19, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The Malta Map Society is pleased to announce that it will be organizing the first Show & Tell online, via Zoom, at 6.30p.m. There will be five 10 minute presentations by members of the society. This is not exclusive to Malta Map Society Members. All are welcome. Contact the Society online or write to Rod Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com> for Zoom link.

October 20-22, 2021 - Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center is excited to announce that the 3rd Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography will focus on Indigenous Cartography as well as its connections with other cartography. This theme is of paramount importance, especially as Indigenous peoples around the world continue to fight for their recognition and rights to land and resources. Simultaneously, institutions are increasingly examining their roles in exploitative imperial expansion and settler colonialism. The history of colonial encounter and of indigenous agency can both be glimpsed in historical maps, many of which were made by Indigenous peoples or thanks to crucial, and often unacknowledged, Indigenous contributions. More recently, mapping technologies are helping Indigenous groups to monitor resources, protect language, survey territory, govern, and provide evidence for reclamation and recognition procedures. Scholars, many of them Indigenous, are voicing their critiques and interventions using geographic and cartographic frameworks. The online conference is entirely free and available to anyone who registers.

October 21, 2021 - Chicago (Online) We hope you can join with the Chicago Map Society at 6:00 pm for a fascinating presentation on Changing the Landscape-Building Chicago’s Expressways. During the 1950’s, the county experienced a population boom that would make it the most populous in the United States. Much of this increase would ultimately reside in the newly incorporated suburban towns, though few of the existing expressways served them. Local historian Andrew Plummer is likely the foremost expert on the history and development of Chicago’s expressway system. The story of that construction will be explored in detail, along with thoughts on its impacts across the city. Contact <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org> for Zoom link.

October 21, 2021 - London (Online) The Thirty-First Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), 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). Meetings are normally held at the Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm (admission free) and are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. Enquiries: <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>. Under present circumstances, however, all will be virtual meetings (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Meetings in London, when these are physically possible, are generously supported by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association’s Educational Trust and the International Map Collectors’ Society. Today Dr Mario Cams (Associate Professor, University of Macau, Macao) will discuss Circling the Square: How European Renaissance and Chinese Administrative Mapping Intersected at 14.00 BST [Note change of time].

October 21, 2021 – Oxford The Oxford Seminars in Cartography will have a Field Trip. Nina Morgan will conduct a tour of Geological maps of the British Islands in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. There will be a tour at 1.30 pm and a second tour at 3.15pm with a limit of 10 people on each tour whilst retaining social distancing. Booking essential - for further details, please contact: nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 287119. So, if you would like to attend, please let Nick know, stating which session you wish to join – 1.30pm or 3.15pm.

October 26-29, 2021 - California (Online) The Western Association of Map Libraries will host this year's virtual conference. Potential topics for discussion include “Historical maps and cartography”, and “Maps/GIS and diversity”.

October 26, 2021- New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual meeting at 7 pm EDT: room opens 6:45 pm. John Hessler (Library of Congress) will speak on It Came From a Blue Sky: Mapping Bats and Spillover of Covid-19. No registration necessary. Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for Zoom link.

October 27, 2021 – Brazil GEOPAM will have a conference (in Spanish) at 14h (CDT-USA) / 16h (Brasil). Prof. Dr Ana Pulido Rull (University of Arkansas/USA) will speak about Los mapas de Mercedes de tierra y la defense del territorio indígena en Nueva España. Write to <americanizaciongeopam(at)gmail.com> for additional information.

October 27, 2021 - Valletta (Online) The next executive committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held using Zoom at 6.30pm. Work has begun on the next important study publication: French Maps of Malta. Additional details from David Roderick Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com>.

October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 2021 Stanford (Online) Chet Van Duzer offers a four-week Zoom course Hidden Secrets: Exploring Maps from the Early Modern Era at 7:00-9:00 pm Pacific Time as part of Stanford University continuing studies. In this course we will learn in detail about the three principal types of medieval maps—mappaemundi (circular world maps), the maps in the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, and nautical charts. Particular focus will be placed on how early modern maps were made, not only on how the maps were commissioned, but also the sources that cartographers used, both textual and pictorial. Featured maps include a series of fifteenth-century mappaemundi that show what was supposed to happen to the world during the Apocalypse, and Martin Waldseemüller’s famous world maps of 1507 and 1516. The segment on the decoration of maps will include discussions of sea monsters, ships, and cartouches. Register online.

November 1, 2021 - Chur, Switzerland The autumn meeting of the Swiss Society for Cartography is expressly open to those interested who are not members of the association. The meeting will be held from 13:45 to 17:30 in Rätisches Museum / Museum Retic, Hofstrasse 1. Topic of the meeting is Johann Coaz and the surveying of Graubünden. Please register by Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at the President of the SGK <m.wigley(at)esri.ch> or Tel. +41 78 914 15 02.

November 6, 2021 – Paris The 20th Paris Map, Globes, Scientific Instruments Fair will be held 11h00 – 18h00 at Hôtel Ambassador, 16 Bd Haussmann. The fair is organized by Librairie Loeb-Larocque and includes antique maps, atlases, globes, scientific instruments and travel books.

November 9, 2021 – Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet in person at History Colorado, Research Center, 1200 N Broadway at 5:30 PM. On-line instructions (Zoom link) will be sent out as soon as confirmed. Wes Brown will speak about The Mapping of New Spain and Alzate y Ramirez’s Remarkable Map. In 1768, Don José Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez, a Mexican renaissance man, created a large manuscript map of New Spain (defined at the time as those portions of North America controlled by Spain). For centuries, Spain jealously guarded its geographic knowledge about the New World and rarely allowed information to be published. In a bold move, Alzate sent the manuscript to the French Royal Academy of Sciences hoping that the learned society would publish it. This outrageous breach of protocol resulted in the only map printed of New Spain using Spanish information that appeared during the eighteenth century!

November 9, 2021 - Washington (Online) Join the Friends of the Library of Congress and the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society of the Library of Congress for Inside the Vault: A Curator's Look at the Schoner Sammelband at 7:00 pm EST. A virtual event featuring a newly designated National Treasure and one of the most important collections of maps of the earth and heavens to survive from the Renaissance. With John Hessler, Library of Congress Specialist in Computational Geography & Geographic Information Science. Register here.

November 10, 2021 – Brazil (Online) GEOPAM will have a virtual conference at 13:00 (PST-USA) / 18:00 (Brazil). Jeffrey Alan Erbig (University of California) will discuss his new book Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America. During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant to Indigenous peoples whose lands the border crossed. Write to <americanizaciongeopam(at)gmail.com> for Zoom information.

November 10, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a Zoom meeting from 7:00 - 8:00 pm EDT. Shannon Mattern and Emily Bowe will discuss the class they teach at New York City's The New School: Mapping the Field. Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for the Zoom link.

November 13, 2021 - USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom . Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Two two hour meeting will start at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, 1:00 PM Central Time, 12:00 PM Mountain Time, and 11:00 AM Pacific Time. Meagan Snow (Geospatial Data Visualization Librarian, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress) and John Hessler (Specialist in Computational Geography and Geographic Information Science, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress) will present Mapping Ourselves: A Cartographic Introduction to the 2020 Census & Tapestry Segmentation Analysis. The 2020 Census, along with the American Community Survey, provide a snapshot of the demographics of the American population like no other sources available. Combined they tell the story of the spatial distribution of everything from health care, cell phone ownership, housing expenditures and the level of poverty in the United States by age, gender and race. John Hessler and Meagan Snow have spent this last year advising and training Congressional staff on the data and how to efficiently visualize and map it for policy analysis. The first talk by Hessler, will present an overview of the computational and statistical methods used to create the data and the theory behind segmentation analysis. The second talk by Snow, will focus on visualizing and understanding the data using GIS and other cartographic tools.

November 15, 2021 – Edmond, Oklahoma With more historical map collections being digitized and made accessible online, exploring the history of Oklahoma is becoming easier. During the Edmond Genealogical Society's upcoming meeting, attendees will learn what Oklahoma libraries, archives and museums, along with other institutions across the nation, are doing to bring historic maps to researchers' fingertips. Jan Davis, administrative archivist for the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, and Chad Williams, director of the Research Division at the Oklahoma Historical Society, will present the program Exploring Oklahoma History thru Maps at 6:30 p.m. Edmond Genealogical Society meetings, which are free and open to the public, are held the third Monday of the month at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15700 N Pennsylvania. Masks are required for all attendees.

November 16, 2021 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet virtually on Zoom at 1:00 pm UK time. Florin-Stefan Morar (City University of Hong Kong) will present At the Limits of China: Frontiers, Borders, and Political Geography in Early Modern Sino-Western Cartographic Exchanges. All are welcome. For details on how to join, please send an email to events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.

November 17, 2021 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society invites you to join History Colorado's Curator of Archives Shaun Boyd and Denver Public Library's Senior Special Collections Librarian Craig Haggit for a lively, fun exploration of their institutions' map collections. Both collections feature thousands of maps covering very similar areas, from the explorer's trails documented before Colorado became a state, through water and geographical features of the West, to ski runs of the 20th century. The meeting starts at 12:00 PM in History Colorado, Research Center, 1200 N Broadway.

November 17, 27 & December 8, 2021 - Sydney Join us at State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Building, for a guided curator tour of the exhibition, Maps of the Pacific, and explore the beauty, art and science of three centuries of maps from the Library’s collection.
17 November - Tour is from 4:30pm to 5:30pm. Registration required.
27 November - Tour is from 2:00pm to 3:00pm. Registration required.
8 December - Tour is frpom 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Registration required.

November 18, 2021 - Chicago (Online) Please join Chicago Map Society at 6:00 PM for a unique presentation that will see two pioneers in orienteering share an overview of the sport Orienteering and the Use of Maps in the Field, its growth in the United States, and the close relationship between orienteering and cartography. The first part of the meeting, led by Peter Goodwin, will include a brief history of the evolution of making maps for orienteering and then discuss the present-day method that involves the use of laser light to obtain data in order to make maps (LIDAR). Peter will also discuss what other information LIDAR can provide and how it’s useful for orienteering and mapmaking. The second part of the presentation will have Joseph Huberman take us on a virtual race as he navigates through an orienteering course. During which he will explain course decisions, outline details from the map, and cover differences between Orienteering and ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction Finding). Meeting registration information <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org>.

November 19-20, 2021 - New Orleans (Online) The Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries will be held as a virtual event. Theme: Changing Tides: Native Americans, Europeans and Africans on the Gulf Coast. Conference program and registration for Zoom are available online.

November 23, 2021 - November 25, 2021 - Bamberg, Germany (Hybrid) Conflicts and catastrophes impacted cities worldwide throughout history and recently at various scales. The impact of the destruction of cities is documented globally and yet not fully analyzed comparatively and from a long-term perspective. Cartographies of Catastrophes, a conference at Bamberg University and online, aims to problematise cartographies of catastrophes from the 19th century until the present time in the global context, from wide interdisciplinary perspectives. By focusing on damage maps from past and recent conflicts and catastrophes, this conference interrogates whether maps just show past conditions, or do they foresee and predetermine future conditions? The language of the conference is English (presentations in German are also possible). Additional information from <conference.urbanmetamapping(at)uni-bamberg.de>.

November 24, 2021 - Valletta The Malta Map Society announces that an exact replica of a unique 1504 globe ostrich egg world map by Leonardo Da Vinci will be the subject of a lecture by its discoverer Prof. Stefaan J Missinne. The globe is also the earliest showing the new world. The lecture will be given at the Casino Maltese, Republic Street, at 6.30pm and seats will be attributed on a first come first served basis. The general public will be welcome.

November 25, 2021 - Oxford (Online) The 29th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. André Reyes Novaes (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) will talk about Mapping practices in Amazonian borders: indigenous knowledge and guesswork in Percy Harrison Fawcett's explorations. Additional information from Nick Millea <tosca(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.

November 26, 2021 - Regensburg, Germany
Drawing borders is as difficult, as each individual case is exceptional. In our workshop, Drawing the Line: Border Commissions in Eastern Europe, 1699–1921, we explore the emergence of the borders that separated Eastern European empires and states over the centuries and shaped the daily life of those living in these regions. The workshop will be conducted in English, and it is organized by Luminita Gatejel, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg; Stephan Rindlisbacher, Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Contact gatejel(at)ios-regensburg.de for more information.

November 30, 2021 – London (Online) Following the great feed-back the International Map Collectors' Society received from our first ever Zoom Show & Tell in the Spring, an autumn one is now scheduled. The start time of 6pm UK time worked well for countries which hold around 90% of current members, so remains the same. Another great line-up of presenters will each have 5–10 minutes to share about a specific map. There will be a true mix of both presenters and maps. Collectors, dealers, and academics will share about maps to do with railways, the heavens, the past, agriculture, social history etc. across the continents! Registration online.

November 30, 2021 - Vienna The annual ordinary meeting of the General Assembly of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes has been canceled because of the new lockdown.

December 2, 2012 – Malta (Online) The next meeting of the Malta Map Society Executive Committee will be held at 6.30pm via Zoom. Matters for discussion are the 2024 Symposium and the study of French Maps of Malta. Also MMS participation in the IMCoS Show and Tell event. Contact Rod Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com> for additional information.

December 4, 2021 - Los Angeles (Online) - The California Map Society Greater Los Angeles Mappers will have a Holiday Cocoa & Coffee virtual meeting from 9:00am - 10:30am. All are welcome to share your favorite map (or anything related to maps) at our welcoming virtual Holiday Cocoa & Coffee online event. We had such fun last year and we’d love you to join us as a participant or attendee this year as well. Please contact Courtney Spikes, CMS Vice President <cspikes(at)me.com> for Zoom link.

December 6, 2021 - Boston (Online) How has Ashland, Massachusetts changed over time? Where can we find the names and locations of buildings and landscapes that have now vanished? How can maps tell geographic stories? Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library and the Ashland Public Library for a virtual exploration of some of the best historic digital maps of Ashland and the region. We’ll look at Ashland up close, answer questions in an interactive Q&A, and offer up resources for further research with maps and geography. This event will be broadcast over the LMEC’s Facebook Live and YouTube Live channels from 7-8 PM. Register online.

December 7, 2021 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library and the Ashland Public Library for a virtual exploration of some of the best historic digital maps of Ashland and the region from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST. We'll look at Ashland up close, answer questions in an interactive Q&A, and offer up resources for further research with maps and geography. Register online.

December 7, 2021 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will announce at 7:00 pm ET, via Zoom, the results of their yearly leadership election, to be followed by a Members-Only Show and Tell that can be attended by anyone, anywhere. Email <kapochunas(@)gmail.com> for the Zoom link.

December 8, 2021 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle is delighted to announce our first in-person program since Covid. Jack Spain will present, The Maps Available to Marco Polo 1271-1295 at 6:00pm. We have been invited to use a beautiful meeting room in the Stryker Building for this program. The building is located on the corner of Lafayette St. and N. Boundary St. in downtown Williamsburg, near the Police Department and the Public Library. The main entrance is on the side of the building facing the library, and there is parking just next to the building. We will be using room 127 on the main floor. Please note that as of this time, face masks are required to enter the building. The room is quite large and we will be able to provide quite adequate social distancing. There is plenty of parking next to the building. Please send Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> a message if you are able to attend this program.

December 9, 2021 - London (Online) The Thirty-First Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), 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). Meetings are normally held at the Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm (admission free) and are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. Enquiries: <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>. Under present circumstances, however, all will be virtual meetings (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Meetings in London, when these are physically possible, are generously supported by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association’s Educational Trust and the International Map Collectors’ Society. Today Dr Charlotta Forss (Postdoctoral Researcher, Stockholm University. In 2021–2022, guest researcher at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and Linacre College, Oxford) will discuss Septentrionalism: Mapping the Exotic North through History.

December 9, 2021 - USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom . Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Peter A. Cowdrey, Jr. (Archivist, Cognetta Family Trust Collection of Historic Florida Maps) will discuss The Florida Origins of North American Cartography. From tiny, isolated points on the Florida peninsula, the Spanish claim to “La Florida” grew so that by the late 16th century it stretched from the Florida Keys to Virginia and from the Atlantic Coast to the Trans-Mississippi West. Map archivist Peter A. Cowdrey, Jr. will guide participants on an exploration of the beginnings of North American cartography as well as detail the growth and diminution of Spanish Florida. Utilizing the impressive collection of Florida maps spanning multiple centuries from the Cognetta Family Trust Collection, this presentation will feature maps from the early 16th century to the early 1800s.

December 10, 2021 - New York (Online) Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (French National Centre for Scientific Research / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) will address the Columbia University, Early China Seminar at 12:00 PM Eastern Time about An Implicit Shift to the South: Questioning the Claim of No Southern Specificity in the Early Chinese Concepts of Space – Textual Sources Reconsidered with Respect to ‘Historical’ Maps. Join Zoom Meeting https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/94050642593?pwd=dkNFanJ0STFoaTVtVzluWnZ0b3c4dz09

December 13, 2021 - Florence (Hybrid) The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography is organizing a workshop from 9:00-12:30 AM (CET) preceding the International Cartographic Conference in Florence. The workshop will feature six papers which were originally intended to be part of our postponed 2020 symposium in Istanbul on “Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and Archaeologists”. You can find the full programme and abstracts here. The workshop is open to everybody, free of charge, and does not require a registration for the 30th ICC. It is a hybrid event, so participation is possible both in person at a venue of the University of Florence (Via Laura 48, Room A1.03) as well as digitally via WebEx. For digital attendance, simply use the following link: https://unifirenze.webex.com/unifirenze/j.php?MTID=mecd59bfbdd03a72831f257f6eb7a0e76

December 14, 2021 - Boston (Online) What was the name of the building that once housed the Brighton Branch Library? What was Brighton like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? How has the area changed, and how has it stayed the same? Using Atlascope, the Leventhal Map & Education Center’s user-friendly portal for exploring urban atlases, we’ll dive into the historical geography of Brighton from 1:00-2:00 pm. Come learn about how the community has changed over time, and discover how to research the history of your own house and neighborhood. This event will be broadcast online at the Leventhal Map Center’s YouTube Live and Facebook Live channels. Register online.

December 14-18, 2021 - Florence The 30th International Cartographic Conference, initially scheduled for July 2021, has been pushed back to December. Furthermore, the Conference will be prepared logistically both as face-to-face event (plan A) and hybrid event (plan B) with little local footprint and online participation options. Further details are on the website.

December 16, 2021 - Chicago (Online) Please join Chicago Map Society at 6:00 PM for CMS Holiday Party/Show & Tell. Meeting registration information <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org>.