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January 6, 2022 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will meet at 7:00 pm New York (ET) time, via Zoom: Lippert & Lowry: Battle of the Maps. World-renowned poster experts present their favorite posters with maps. Angelina Lippert is the Chief Curator of Poster House NYC. Nicholas D. Lowry is president of Swann Auction Galleries, New York City. Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for Zoom login instructions.
January 12, 2022 – Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the Malta Map Society executive committee will be held via Zoom at 6.30pm.Subjects for report Include : progress on the study of French Maps of Malta and future events for 2022. Contact Rod Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com> for additional information.
January 12, 2022 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle meeting in the Hennage Auditorium at the Arts Museums of Colonial Williamsburg has been canceled due to the spike in cases of Coronavirus.
January 13, 2022 - 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. Benjamin B. Olshin (retired Professor of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia) will discuss Indigenous Mapping: Cultural and Psychological Sources. In cartography and other fields, “scientific thinking” is defined as an analytic and systematic way of observing and interacting with the world. “Analytic” in this context means examining evidence and constructing models of the world based on that evidence. By contrast, what characterizes non-scientific, indigenous cultures is — rather derisively — called “magical thinking”, a belief in structures beyond observable physical reality. This talk will examine how apparently non-scientific thinking (i.e., non-analytic thinking) can nonetheless create sophisticated maps and broader systems of knowledge, with parallels in other traditional systems, such as indigenous medicine. The talk will touch upon the underlying cultural and psychological frameworks that produce indigenous knowledge systems and note that such systems still exist deep within the human psyche everywhere — and may reflect how we truly perceive the world around us.
January 15, 2022 - Madrid The Museo Naval, Paseo del Prado, 3 will conduct a Thematic visit: the cartography collection of the Naval Museum at 17:00 h. It begins with a visit to the selected pieces and then in a practical session you will discover, from the hand of a specialist, the elements that make up a map and how to analyze its information. Limited capacity. It is essential to request a reservation in advance to participate. Email <activitiesmuseonaval(at)educacionypatrimonio.es>.
January 27, 2022 - 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 Philip Jagessar (School of Geography, University of Nottingham) will talk about Orienting Imperialism: The Royal Asiatic Society’s Miscellany of Maps.
January 27, 2022 - New York (Online) Join New Amsterdam History Center trustee Toya Dubin for an in-depth exploration of New Amsterdam in the 17th Century as she discusses Mapping Early New York. Lecture will be on Zoom 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST. Meet Native American Chief Wampage II, African American Manuel de Gerrit de Reus, Jewish resident Asser Levy, Anthony Salée, aka, « The Turk », and Catalina Trico women's advocate. Find out where they worked and lived, who they married and what they drank. Toya will introduce you to this diverse population who spoke 18 languages and laid the foundation for our New York City. Sliding time maps and a walk down Stone Street will capture your imagination. Register here.
January 28, 2022 - Zurich (Online) The Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Zurich will have an online workshop Map Power - Written representations of the Habsburg lands in the age of humanism. Workshop starts at 09:00 and contact <kunstgeschichte(at)oeaw.ac> for zoom link.
February 3, 2022 - 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. Mark Monmonier (Syracuse University) will discuss Writing the life and work of John Byron Plato: serendipity, challenges, and implications. Register online. Additional information from Nick Millea <tosca(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
February 5, 2022 - San Francisco (Online) The California Map Society Bay Area Map Group Meeting Winter 2022 will be held virtually 10:30 am - 12:00 pm. This will be a casual meeting to share and learn. If you'd like to plan ahead to present a map, please email Tom Paper <tom(at)websterpacific.com>. If you'd like to simply show up and present something, we will leave time for you. Please register for this event.
February 6, 2022 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle Winter Social will begin at 12:00 Noon. As usual, the venue will be the Two Rivers Country Club at Governors’ Land. Please write Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> and let me know as soon as possible of your intention to attend and whether you will be bringing a guest.
February 10, 2022 - 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. Barbara Belyea (Professor Emerita of English, University of Calgary, Alberta) will discuss Papering the Landscape: maps of regime change in North America. Belyea has studied three sets of maps that asserted territorial claims following conquest and expansion by an imperial power. The maps are usually credited with not only registering “new” territory but also improving on previous cartographic concepts and techniques. The talk will focus on the third set of maps, which document an expedition to Lake Athabasca led by J. B. Tyrrell of the Geological Survey of Canada. It turns out that Tyrrell was not the first to explore this region.
February 11-12, 2022 - Los Angeles (Online) The Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, University of Southern California, invites you to a two-day seminar Mapping Medieval Japan. In this two-day seminar on maps and mapmaking, participants will pay special attention to the use of maps in pre-modern Japanese history, and will have the opportunity to learn to make their own maps using computer-based mapmaking tools in a hands-on workshop. To register for the zoom link click here.
February 15, 2022 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will meet at 7:00 pm New York (ET) time, via Zoom. Jennifer Thermes, author and map illustrator, will discuss her award winning book Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island. From before its earliest settlement to the vibrant metropolis that exists today, the island of Manhattan has always been a place of struggle, growth, and radical transformation. Humans, history, and natural events have shaped this tiny sliver of land for more than 400 years. In Manhattan, travel back in time to discover how a small rodent began an era of rapid change for the island. Learn about immigration, the slave trade, and the people who built New York City. See how a street plan projected the city’s future, and how epic fires and storms led to major feats of engineering above and below ground. Through dramatic illustrations, informative sidebars, and detailed maps inspired by historic archives, Manhattan explores the rich history that still draws people from all around the world to the island’s shores today. From The Battery downtown up to Inwood, every inch of the island has a story to tell. Jennifer is also the author-illustrator of books for children, including "Charles Darwin's Around-the-World Adventure," and "Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail." Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for Zoom login instructions.
February 17, 2022 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a Zoom meeting starting 7:00 pm ET/6:00 pm CT/5:00 pm MT/4:00 pm PT. Professor Molly Briggs will discuss Panoramic City: Immersive Media and the Shape of Chicago. Chicago’s storied park boulevard system was conceived and constructed during a period of international interest in popular didactic entertainments known as panoramas. This lecture interprets the system as a key exemplar of the “panoramic mode,” an urban visual culture defined by synthetic spectacle. The disposition of Chicago’s parks, boulevards, and panorama rotundas is revealed in contemporary bird’s-eye views, park plans, city maps, and immersive printed ephemera. These spatial relationships illuminate the role of designed landscapes in the mediated complex that constituted the nineteenth-century city. Email Chicago Map Society <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org> for Zoom link.
February 17, 2022 - Minneapolis (Online) The Society for History of Discoveries "Occasional Virtual Lecture" will have Carla Rahn Phillips (Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota) present Can We Define Ideal and Idealized Types of Explorers? A Work in Progress from 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST. Registration required.
February 17, 2022 - 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. Carla Lois (Universidad de Buenos Aires) will discuss The thinking hand: sketch maps and geography in late 19th-century education. Register online. Additional information from Nick Millea <tosca(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
February 18, 2022 – Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held via Zoom at 6.30pm.Subjects for report Include : progress on the study of French Maps of Malta and future events for 2022. Contact Rod Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com> for additional information.
February 22, 2022 - Dumfries, Scotland (Online) Dumfries Archival Mapping Project and the Galloway Glens Scheme are bringing together a whole host of mapping enthusiasts to look at a range of maps in different ways. Today's lecture entitled Amorous Couples, Place Names and Steampunk, looks at a series of historic maps through a number of different angles. Speakers include Chris Fleet from National Library of Scotland, Geologist Alan Gibbs and Graham Roberts, the ex-archivist for the region – with a whole host of others. Program is from 7.30pm to 9pm. Register online.
February 23, 2022 - Armagh, Northern Ireland (Online) Spanning several centuries of mapping in Ireland, a talk A Journey Through Maps: Exploring Ireland’s Cartographic Heritage by Professor Keith D Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast) and Dr Catherine Porter (University of Limerick) will explore the importance of field-survey in the map-making process. From the early-seventeenth century maps of Josias Bodley and the Escheated Counties of Ulster, through to the early Ordnance Survey six-inch maps under Thomas Colby, the lecture will journey through Ireland’s rich cartographic heritage and revisit those landscapes and localities where surveyors traversed and plotted the ground. Looking ‘behind’ the map, to the field, opens up new and interesting perspectives on how Ireland was mapped in the past. Talk is sponsored by Armagh Robinson Library and is from 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm: register online.
February 23, 2022 - Newark, Delaware (Online) The University of Delaware Library has invited John Hessler to speak about The Sound of the People of the Rain: A Curator's Look at Indigenous Mapping in the Early Americas, 1500-1550 from 4:30-6:00 pm. The history of the earliest contact between the peoples of Europe and the Indigenous cultures of the Americas produced some of the most historically important manuscripts and rare pieces of indigenous mapping ever created. The Nahuatl and Mixtec cultures of Mexico made maps unlike those of Europeans, and used a complex combination of hieroglyphs, iconography and land measurement to produce beautiful examples of cartography that are at once histories, legal documents and ethnobotanical records. During this talk, Hessler will introduce attendees to the materials, language and artists who made two of the most important of these cartographic histories and manuscripts to survive from the early 16th century—the Oztoticpac Lands Map and the Codex Quetzalecatzin held by the Library of Congress. The talk to take place over Zoom and you can sign-up here.
March 2-3, 2022 – Sydney (Hybrid) The State Library of New South Wales, in collaboration with the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, hopefully will be able to hold a conference at the State Library of New South Wales about the Mapping the Pacific. For more information, access to the preliminary program and registration please refer to the website. Conference is from 9:30 am – 3:00 pm AEDT Wednesday and Thursday, corresponding to 5:30 pm - 11:00 pm EST Tuesday and Wednesday (March 1-2).
March 3, 2022 - Boston (Online) Join Leventhal Map & Education Center Assistant Curator Ian Spangler and Boston Public Library Media & Journalism Research Specialist Erica Husting at 6:00 PM EST for a public workshop Critical Map Reading in the Age of Misinformation in the historic and contemporary cartographic landscape. We’ll uncover inaccuracies, dive into issues of viral misinformation, and review methods of map interpretation. Workshop is 6pm EST and sign up here.
March 3, 2022 - 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. Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer (Stanford University) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) will discuss Map Readings – ‘Time in maps’. Register online. Additional information from Nick Millea <tosca(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
March 4, 2022 - Chur, Switzerland Martin Rickenbacher will give a presentation about Coaz and the Dufour map: topographical survey before 1860. Lecture is at Rätisches Museum, Hofstrasse 1, starting at 19:30.
March 5, 2022 - Ghent The Brussels Map Circle will have a field trip from 14.00-17.00 to visit the exhibition Wondrous Voyage at the Historische Huizen Gent, Sint-Pietersplein 9. Unique objects bring the journey to life, from old nautical maps and model ships to exotic animals and exclusive discoveries from eighteenth century shipwrecks. Additional information from <info(at)bimcc.org>.
March 8, 2022 – 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. Asa Simon Mittman (Professor of Art & Art History, California State University, Chico) will discuss Seeing Across the World: How Medieval Mapmakers Brought Their Monsters Home. “Telesthesia” – perception at a distance – is a key element of medieval cartography. This talk is focused on the Hereford Map, which is the largest and most detailed map to survive from medieval Europe. The talk explores the visual strategies that medieval mapmakers used to create the sense that a viewer safely ensconced in a church in England could see distant peoples throughout the world. It also examines the visual dynamics that seem to allow these supposedly-distant peoples to travel across the world, and appear within the “safe” spaces where the maps are housed.
March 9, 2022 - Boston (Online) The Leventhal Map & Education Center invites at 3pm EST to join us in a conversation with critical cartographer Alex B. Hill, the creator of Detroit in 50 Maps. Alex will discuss his work creating maps and digital information about contemporary Detroit, and explain how mapping is crucial for understanding the history of cities. Sign up for free.
March 10, 2022 - 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 Catherine Scheybeler, Hakluyt Society Speaker (Rare book and manuscript consultant) will discuss Cartography as Naval Power: The Atlas Marítimo de España (1789).
March 12, 2022 - Colorado (Online) The OCTA Colorado-Cherokee Trail Chapter will have a presentation by Frank Tortorich. He will discuss How California Got Its Borders at 1:00 Pacific/2:00 Mountain/3:00 Central/4:00 Eastern. It took years before California finally settled its boundaries. The west boundary was the Pacific Ocean, but the other three borders came about due to different events from 1819 to 1853. Few people know that Great Britain, Spain, France, Mexico, Florida, Texas and Utah all played a role in how California became a state. Contact: Camille Bradford <bradford(at)usa.net>, OCTA Colorado-Cherokee Trail Chapter President for Zoom link.
March 15, 2022 - Denver (Hybrid) Please join Rocky Mountain Map Society at History Colorado at 5:30 PM for our first program of 2022. Dr. Lucy Chester (Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, CU Boulder) will speak about Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab. Contact Rocky Mountain Map Society <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for the Zoom link.
March 15, 2022 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society meeting with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro had to be canceled.
March 16, 2022 – Oxford (Online) Julian Munby will be giving the latest talk in the British Association for Local History / Historic Towns Trust series entitled Mapping Medieval Oxford. Lecture is at 7pm. You can book your place here.
March 17, 2022 - Chicago (Online) Ronald Grim will speak to the Chicago Map Society about A Nation of Immigrants: Mapping American 19th-Century Migration Stories at 7:00 pm ET/6:00 pm CT/5:00 pm MT/4:00 pm PT. Throughout our Nation’s history, migration — the process of people moving from one place to another to establish a new residence — has been a re-occurring theme. Maps are an essential source for studying this process. Based on Grim's contribution to the Newberry Library’s Mapping Movement Project and previous research using maps to document the changing historical geography of the United States, this lecture will identify and illustrate a variety of maps that can be used effectively to document the spatial components of America’s 19th century migration story. Contact Chicago Map Society <contact@chicagomapsociety.org> for Zoom link.
March 21, 2022 - St. Gallen, Switzerland Dr. Jost Schmid (Zurich Central Library) will speak in St. Gallen Abbey Library (music hall) at 18:15 about Notker Labeo as cosmographer: The St.Gallen terrestrial and celestial globe under Abbot Purchart (1001-1022). Registration at <stibi(at)stibi.ch>.
March 22, 2022 – Cambridge (Online) Very unfortunately the speaker for the Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography, Dr Sara Caputo, has had to cancel, so this seminar will now not take place.
March 25, 2022 – Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held via Zoom at 6.00pm.Subjects for discussion include the Malta Symposium for IMCoS and the lecture programme. Contact Rod Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com> for additional information.
March 26, 2022 - Canterbury An important historical and ecclesiastical centre, Canterbury has a rich, yet relatively unexplored, cartographic heritage. Join our Study Day to discover more. Canterbury Maps and Mapmaking: Imagining and Re-Imagining the City explores the cartographic history of the city through a stimulating combination of a series of talks with an exhibition of maps from Canterbury Cathedral Archives. Local experts will present the findings of their archival research on manuscript and printed maps of the city and its environs, including the twelfth-century Eadwine Psalter and Christopher Packe’s A New Philosophico-chorographical Chart of East Kent (1743). The all day program ends with an optional dinner in a local restaurant. The display of a special collection of maps produced in and of Canterbury over the centuries and curated by the Cathedral Archives will provide a unique cartographic portrait of the city. The study day aims to provide a range of new perspectives on Canterbury that will establish its identity as a centre of cartography and offer fresh insights into the wider significance of the city’s role in the history of maps and mapmaking.
April 5, 2022 – Oxford (Online) The Bodleian’s Nick Millea and Stuart Ackland will be presenting, at 5pm, Meet the maps: unconventional views of Oxford. Book your place here. This webinar will focus on four very different maps of Oxford from the standpoint of why these maps were made. Each of the maps has its own tale to tell, some showing Oxford as it was; others showing Oxford as it might have been; and others how Oxford never was. Each has an agenda aiming to depict a city under the influence of the military, mass delinquency, motor vehicles or moles. The focus will be on each map’s aesthetic charms, their functionality, and how they have visualised such a well-known city in such unusual ways. Join us to be surprised, alarmed and charmed in equal measure as we appreciate the purpose of these of maps but never lose sight of the powerful image they are able to convey.
April 5-6, 2022 - Pessac, France UMR Passages and the Ameriber (Bordeaux Montaigne University), CREDA (IHEAL / Sorbonne Nouvelle), CRIAL (Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Skidmore College (New York) laboratories are organizing at the Maison des Suds (Pessac) study days entitled Cartography in education in/of the Americas. Historians and geographers will discuss the educational uses of cartography in Canada, Guatemala, Cuba, Guyana, Brazil, etc.
April 7, 2022 - 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. Lexie Cook (2021–2022 Getty Foundation Fellow & PhD Candidate in Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, New York) will talk about Island, Archive, Além-Mar: the Insular Mechanics of Iberian Expansion.
April 8, 2022 - Amsterdam The Jansonius Lectures are organized for colleagues, donors, volunteers and all of those interested in the history of cartography. The lectures are an initiative of Explokart, the Jansonius Fund and Allard Pierson. The next Jansonius lecture will take place at the Allard Pierson – The Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam. This year the lecture will be given by Martijn Storms, curator of Maps and Atlases at Leiden University Libraries. His lecture will be about 150 years of the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection at Leiden University Library. More information about the registration for the Jansonius lecture and the Maps in Context workshop will follow shortly on the website.
April 12, 2022 - Denver (Hybrid) Please join Rocky Mountain Map Society at History Colorado at 5:30 PM for annual meeting of the Society. At this meeting, Michael Willis (CU Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)) will speak about his work mapping the changing cryosphere (Earth's ice) and sea levels using remote sensing techniques: Looking at the Greenland Ice Sheet through Time from the Ground, the Air and from Space. Contact Rocky Mountain Map Society <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for the Zoom link.
April 12, 2022 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle is happy to announce that we have been able to reschedule our program, Promoting America: Maps of the Colonies and the New Republic. There will be no admissions fee at the Arts Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, but, you will need to check in at the visitor services desk. The desk with a list of attendees so you must notify Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> if you plan to attend. The program will begin at 4:00pm in the Hennage Auditorium at the Arts Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, with Katie McKinney's lecture on the map exhibit. The Museum will be closing at 5pm that day, which means that The Map Circle will have access to the exhibit before and after the regular visitors to the Museum depart. This program explores the newly installed Michael L. and Carolyn C. McNamara Gallery, Colonial Williamsburg's first dedicated maps and prints gallery.
April 18-21, 2022 - Lima (Online) The IX Ibero-American Symposium on the History of Cartography will meet at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. The symposium will be about Ibero-American cartographies in a globalized world. The symposium will have a virtual format with live transmission through the Facebook Live platform of the organizing units: Riva-Agüero Institute and Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences PUCP.
April 20, 2022 - 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. Julie Sweetkind-Singer (Associate University Librarian for Science and Engineering Resources Group, Stanford Libraries, Stanford University) and Greg March (Map Librarian, John C. Hodges Library, University of Tennessee) will talk about Acquisition of World War II Captured German and Japanese Maps: A Case Study of Stanford University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
April 21, 2022 - Arlington (Online) The next Occasional Online Lecture of the Society for the History of Discoveries will be presented by Professor Matthew Edney at 2pm (Central). The talk will be on Empire and History, Maps and Discovery, 1775–1860. The systematic study of map history first emerged in Paris in the 1830s as an extension of the history of geography and discovery, a field that had itself cohered in its modern form only after 1775. This presentation explores the use of early maps by early historians of geography, such as James Playfair (1808) and Conrad Malte-Brun (1810), and how scholars such as Alexander von Humboldt, Ramón de la Sagra, Edme François Jomard, and the visconde de Santarém had by 1840 turned a sporadic interest in early maps into l’histoire de la cartographie. Register online.
April 21, 2022 - Chicago (Online) Martin Brückner will speak to the Chicago Map Society about Maps & American Literature: A Material History of Practice and Perception at 7:00 pm ET/6:00 pm CT/5:00 pm MT/4:00 pm PT. Contact Chicago Map Society <contact@chicagomapsociety.org> for Zoom link.
April 22, 2022 – Valletta (Online) The next meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held via Zoom at 6.30pm. Contact Rod Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com> for additional information.
April 25, 2022 - Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center will sponsor a virtual lecture Reimagining Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope by Grant Parker. This lecture will canvas historical maps as sources of insight into lives, both enslaved and slave-holding, at the Cape in the early colonial period. Grant will consider how selected maps tacitly embed narratives on both a large and a small scale and how they reflect both continuity and change. The lecture will draw on Stanford University's map collections and take place on Zoom and follows the schedule: 4:45pm PST: Zoom opens, 5:00pm PST: Lecture by Grant Parker. Register in advance.
April 26, 2022 – New York (Online) The New York Map Society presents, at 7:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Rick Smit, a map collector living in The Netherlands, speaking about his Berghaus Map of Syria, published 1835 by the German publishing house Justus Perthes. He will explain the sources Berghaus used, the context under which the map was published, and the new depicting methods applied in making the map, which represents a style transition from then current methods to a new method of depicting elevation: hachures. The map was intended to be included in an atlas that would cover the Americas, Asia and Africa, but the atlas was never completed because of high costs. An incomplete range of Asia maps were published individually as well as bound as “Atlas von Asia” (Atlas of Asia). The quality of the maps was regarded as outstanding, and contributed to Justus Perthes' worldwide recognition as a high-end cartography publishing house. Log in after 6:45 pm April 26 to link provided by Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>.
April 27, 2022 - Brooklyn (Online) Delve Into the History of the Sanborn Map Company with Green-Wood Cemetery. Founded by Daniel Sanborn, who is buried in the historic cemetery, the company ultimately produced more than 700,000 detailed maps covering cities and towns in the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Join Jeff Richman, Green-Wood’s historian, and Ian Fowler, curator and geospatial librarian for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at the New York Public Library, for a discussion and tips on exploring the maps online. Mapping the Past: The Sanborn Maps takes place from 6 to 7 p.m. For more information and to purchase a ticket, visit the event page online.
April 28, 2022 - Milwaukee (Hybrid) The American Geographical Society Library’s annual Holzheimer Maps & America Lecture will be held at 6pm, reception at 5:30pm. This will be our first hybrid Maps & America lecture – registration is required for both virtual and in-person attendees. Our speaker this year is Dr. Katherine Parker, Research Officer at Barry Lawrence Ruderman Rare Maps Inc. The title of her talk is Mapping Difference and Distance: Indigenous presence on European maps of southern Patagonia in the early modern period.
April 28, 2022 - 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. Daniel Stracke (Universität Münster) will present Maps of the European Historic Towns Atlas I: Germany. See May 5, May 12, and May 26 for subsequent lectures of this series. Additional information from Nick Millea <tosca(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
April 29, 2022 - Lichtensteig The Jost Bürgi Symposium 2022 will feature talks about globe of German's Notker, The Gough Map, Fra' Mauro's Mappamondo, and Jost Bürgi. Participation in the workshop is only possible with registration. You can contact Maurine Gübeli, Hauptgasse 8, 9620 Lichtensteig, <maurine.guebeli(at)lichtensteig.sg.ch> / +41 58 228 23 89.
May 3, 2022 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet virtually on Zoom at 5:30 pm UK time. Joy Slappnig (Royal Holloway, University of London) will discuss The historical significance of indigenous maps. 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 5, 2022 - 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. Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast) will present Maps of the European Historic Towns Atlas II: Great Britain. See May 12, and May 26 for subsequent lectures of this series. Additional information from Nick Millea <tosca(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
May 10-13, 2022 – Montevideo (Hybrid) The International Society for the History of the Map will be holding a combined virtual and in-person conference hosted by the Museo Histórico Nacional. The first two days will be an in-person workshop that will offer professional development activities and create community among up to 15 early-career scholars and professionals working in the history of cartography in teaching, research, curation, and collections. The last two days will be a symposium that focus on methodological approaches which might concern map history in the context of exhibitions, teaching and everyday life. The symposium will be held in-person and online between 9:30 am – 5:00 pm (GMT -3). There are separate registrations required for the workshop and the symposium. You may direct questions to organizers Carolina Martínez <carolina.martinez(at)unsam.edu.ar> and Lucia Rodríguez <luciarodriguezarrillaga(at)gmail.com> or ISHMap’s Chair, Jordana Dym, at ishmap.society(at)gmail.com.
May 10, 2022 – Zürich Dare to look at the stars with us! From the origins of the first star maps to their use in science and society to three-dimensional images: the guided tour from 18:15-19:15 p.m offers selected works from the map collection of the ETH Library - which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022 - and the map collection of the Zurich Central Library an exciting journey through space and time. Come with us on a journey through space and time - from the first star maps to three-dimensional images. Registration is required.
May 12, 2022 - 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. Sarah Gearty (Royal Irish Academy) will present Maps of the European Historic Towns Atlas III: Ireland. See May 26 for subsequent lecture of this series. Additional information from Nick Millea <tosca(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
May 14-15, 2022 - 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.
May 14, 2022- New York Members of the New York Map Society are invited on a field trip to the Queens Museum at 2:00 PM. We're visiting the museum to spend as much time as we want looking at and walking around two of the biggest and greatest three-dimensional maps: The Relief Map of New York City's Water Supply and The Panorama of the City of New York. You must tell Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> by 5 pm New York (ET) time Tuesday, May 3 whether you can join us.
May 17, 2022 – Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle is happy to announce our next lecture, entitled Under the Southern Cross: A Cartographic Revelation of Australia by Barry Kinnaird. The lecture will take place at 6pm in the Williamsburg Regional Library Theater, 515 Scotland Street, 23185. Please notify Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> if you will be attending the lecture.
May 19, 2022 - Chicago - The Chicago Map Society plans to have an in-person meeting at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, at 5:00 PM. Jim Akerman will have a Gallery Walk, Crossings: Mapping American Journeys.
May 19–21, 2022 - Leuven (Online) The Crossroads Research Centre will have an online workshop Mapping Practices and Transpacific Transfers of Geographic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries. When the first galleons crossed the Pacific in the sixteenth century, new routes of exchange started to be formed, connecting Asia and the Americas. These networks also brought about new impulses in the history of map making. Galleons and other vessels surveyed the waters, lands, and coastlines along their routes, and the resulting knowledge was then adapted in ports on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. Thereupon, this new or revised knowledge circulated further and affected regions and mapmakers that were not directly connected to transpacific navigation. Mapmakers adapted information on navigation and coast lines, and added, removed, or revised islands, harbours, or other specifications. Exchanges also had a profound effect on port cities themselves, an effect that we can observe, for example, in city maps, which mark trading posts, ships, or quarters for foreigners. Individual maps could be captured from ships or be passed on as gifts along these routes, and these artifacts themselves can tell a story of exchange across the Pacific World and beyond. The workshop will address these stories of exchanges and mapping practices across and along extended Transpacific networks, as they can be observed on maps and with the help of maps in any language. Additional information from Elke Papelitzky <elke.papelitzky(at)kuleuven.be> or Wim de Winter <wim.dewinter(at)kuleuven.be>.
May 19, 2022 - 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 Kevin Wittmann (Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain) will speak about Turning the world inside out: T-O maps in an English almanac (c 1420).
May 20, 2022 - Aberystwyth, Ceredigion (Online) Join the National Library of Wales and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales online for Carto-Cymru – The Wales Map Symposium 2022 – Mapping in Megabytes from 10.30-4.30. We will discuss how computer generated mapping is changing the way maps are produced, used and preserved and what this means for those who hold such information and make it available to the public. Book your free ticket.
May 20, 2022 – McLean, Virginia The Washington Map Society 41st annual dinner and lecture will be at Maggiano's Little Italy, 2001 International Dr, in Tyson Galleria II. Matthew Mingus (Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico-Gallup, Book Review Editor for “The Portolan”, 2009 winner of the Ristow Prize) will speak about Mapping a Defeated Germany in the Aftermath of World War II. After defeating the Nazis in the Second World War, the Allied powers occupied a German nation-state that was experiencing extreme territorial instability. This presentation will discuss some of the strategies and maps used by bureaucrats, educators, public relations firms, and the various Allied militaries to convincingly denazify, truncate, and divide postwar Germany. Not only is the cartographic chaos after World War II interesting, but it also shows just how vital maps were (and are) in constructing new political realities. Register online.
May 20, 2022 - Washington (Hybrid) The work of Greek
geographer Claudius Ptolemy sits at the foundations of western
cartography, and influenced Renaissance thinkers, mathematicians, and
mapmakers for centuries. Library of Congress collections contain
every early edition of Ptolemaic atlases printed between 1472 and
1600, including the first Greek edition put together by the great
Renaissance humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam. John Hessler, Library of
Congress Curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology
and History of the Early Americas will give remarks on provenance and
collecting of these extremely rare and valuable volumes and then you
will meet with expert Library curators to see the display.
10:00
AM Coffee Reception, Jefferson Building, Room LJ-119
11:00 AM
Remarks, Jefferson Building, Room LJ-119 and Livestreamed
11:45 AM
Treasure Display, Jefferson Building, Lessing J. Rosenwald
Room
Register to attend in-person or to receive a Zoom link.
May 21, 2022 - Brussels The Brussels Map Circle 2022 Annual General Meeting will be held 10:00-11:45 in Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts /Kunstberg. It will be followed, at 14.00-16.00, by 2022 Map Afternoon at the Royal Library. The Maps and Plans Department of the Royal Library will show some very interesting items from their collection. On the other hand, every participant is invited to bring along a map, object, book or anything else of cartographic interest of his own to be presented and discussed by the present fellow members.
May 23, 2022 - Brenham, Texas James Harkins will discuss historic Texas maps from noon to 1 p.m. at the Brenham Heritage Museum’s Bus Depot Gallery at 313 East Alamo Street. Harkins is the Director of Public Services for the Texas General Land Office Archives and Records Program. The state’s oldest agency, established by the Republic of Texas in 1836, has a collection of 36 million documents. That collection includes over 45,000 maps, sketches and drawings documenting the surveying and mapping of Texas boundaries and land ownership dating back to the 16th century and Spanish rule.
May 24, 2022 - Denver (Hybrid) Please join Rocky Mountain Map Society at History Colorado at 5:30 PM. Our speaker will be Sarah Kelly, teaching professor in CU Boulder's Geography Department. She'll lead us through a participatory discussion about map-making aesthetics called: Cartography: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Making maps is often approached with little understanding of effective cartographic techniques which can lead to a map not meeting its intended purpose, or worse, completely mislead its reader. We will go over basic cartographic conventions such as using visual variables, applying symbol hierarchy, and using color effectively. The presentation will be interactive and include extensive examples of both effective and not-so-effective maps covering a variety of geographic areas, from historical to contemporary. The audience is invited to join in critiquing these maps using concepts presented by the speaker. Contact Rocky Mountain Map Society <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for the Zoom link.
May 26, 2022 - 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. Katalin Szende (Central European University) will present Maps of the European Historic Towns Atlas IV: East Central Europe. Additional information from Nick Millea <tosca(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
May 26, 2022 - Stanford (Hybrid) Barbara Mundy (Professor at Tulane University's Newcome Art Department) will deliver the keynote for the “Re-Mapping Sovereignty Conference” at 5:00 pm PST held at the David Rumsey Map Center. She will speak about Indigenous Sovereignty Out of Time. Registrants must register to attend the keynote virtually via Zoom or complete the In-Person Request Form.
May 26-27, 2022 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will have a conference Re-Mapping Sovereignty, Representing Geopolitical Complexity on May 26, from 1-7pm PST and May 27, from 10am-5pm PST. Speakers: (in alpha order) Franck Billé, Peter Bol, Jordan Branch, Fabian Drixler, Guntram Herb, Valerie Kivelson, Martin Lewis, Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren, Barbara Mundy, Alec Murphy, Luca Scholz, Ali Yaycioglu. Panel titles: Concepts & Frameworks; Sovereignty’s Counter-Maps; Shared Landscapes in Early Modern Eurasia; Borders and their Discontents; Visualizing Fragmented Polities. Please see our events page for more information.
May 27, 2022 – Parma Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society) will discuss Cartography of Flanders in the 16th century and the Riconquista of Alessandro Farnese: knowledge transfer to and from Italy at 9:00 at the conference "The Court of the Farnese in Parma and Flanders" held in Monastero di San Paolo - Strada Macedonio Melloni 1. Additional information from <rome(at)flanders.eu>.
June 3, 2022 - Leiden Governments draw borders, governments manage borders and people have to live with those borders. Over the centuries, countless borders have been drawn and blurred in the Netherlands. Kester Freriks, together with Martijn Storms and other experts, went in search of the stories behind historical borders on the basis of the age-old maps from the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection of Leiden University Libraries. They will present the result of their work: the richly illustrated book Grensverkenningen. Langs oude grenzen in Nederland [Grensverkenningen. Along old borders in the Netherlands]. Presentation begins at 3:30 PM (walk-in 3:00 PM) in University Library, Witte Singel 27. Registration required.
June 4, 2022 – Stanford (Hybrid) The California Map Society Annual Spring Conference is scheduled from 10am to 4pm at the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University. The meeting will feature an in person interview with David Rumsey and include talks by Hampton Sides, Rachel Bolten, Ron Gibbs, Leo Dillon, and Grant Parker. These talks are open to the public to attend either in person or live-streamed via Zoom. Register online.
June 9-10, 2022 - Barcelona The Cartography History Study Group (Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia) is preparing, in collaboration with the Insititut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, a new colloquium with the title City and territory in Spanish cartography: a historical perspective. The Cartography History Study Group has dealt with in previous colloquia the central theme of the history of urban cartography. The present colloquium is dedicated to one aspect of this cartography: that which relates the city to its nearby territory, in such a way that its field of study is broadened towards cartography at a regional level. Additional information to be announced.
June 10, 2022 – London The International Map Collectors' Society will have a celebration reception to coincide with the Map Fair. Please take particular note that this event is open to all, including Dealers and attendees at the London Map Fair, which opens the following day at the Royal Geographical Society. The programme is partly a celebration of the return to normality by holding a reception where we can at last exchange news and experience face to face with our cartographic friends. Partly it is an opportunity to honour giants of the mapping world: 6pm Drinks and canapes, 7pm Presentation of the IMCoS/Helen Wallis Award, and a Presentation to our long-serving previous Chairman, Hans Kok, 7:15pm Malcolm Young Lecture. This year the lecture will be given by Vivien Godfrey, Chairman and CEO of the Edward Stanford Group, retailer of travel books, maps and globes. Registration for this event is available online or by email to Peter Walker <financialsecretary(at)imcos.org>. The reception will be held in the James and Charles Suite in the Rembrandt Hotel, London SW7. This is opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum.
June 11, 2022 – London The International Map Collectors' Society Annual General Meeting will take place at 10am (please arrive for 9:30am so that we can start punctually) in the Lowther Room of the Royal Geographic Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR. RGS security requires advanced knowledge of all those attending the meeting. If you are planning to come please contact Peter Walker at <financialsecretariat(at)imcos.org>.
June 11-12, 2022 - London The London Map Fair brings together around 40 of the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers as well as hundreds of visiting dealers, collectors, curators and map aficionados from all parts of the world. We exhibit at the historic London venue of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore. The Fair has an additional lecture in the RGS lecture theatre on Saturday 11th June 2022 at 14:30 by Dr Paul Hughes The Greenwich meridian's Dutch, Spanish & Colonial origins.
June 14, 2022 - Washington (Online) Please join the Phillips Society: Geography and Map Division: Library of Congress Virtual Orientation Series for the first session in a new series of virtual orientations for the Geography and Map Division! Session is via Zoom 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern). Register for this session here! Reference librarians Amelia Raines and Julie Stoner will present an introduction to the Library of Congress Geography and Map collections. This general orientation session will highlight a wide range of cartographic formats and subjects. The focus of the session will be on maps and resources available online to all patrons, even those far from the Library’s buildings. Topics covered will also include search tips and tricks, research and collection guides, ways to engage with the collections online, and how to prepare for a future trip to the reading room. After the presentation, staff look forward to answering additional questions from attendees. We hope to see you there!
June 16, 2022 - Chicago Join the Chicago Map Society for a presentation on site at one of the most spectacular map libraries in the United States: the MacLean Collection at 6pm CT. Four scholars at the MacLean Collection will discuss their work and the collection items they are using: Molly Briggs, Nick Lowe, Angela Schottenhammer, and Amberly Yeo. Topics will include ribbon maps, panoramic views, East Asian maps and Chinese maritime maps among others.
June 16, 2022 - 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. Lena Denis will discuss The Foundation and the Gateway: what maps show and hide about Baltimore and American history. Lena Denis is the Geospatial Data, GIS, & Maps Librarian for Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries’ Data Services, where she works with maps and map data.
June 24-26, 2022 - Maastricht The 14th edition of the Maastricht Antiquarian Book and Print fair provides a very diverse selection of books, charts and prints. Fair is at Sint Janskerk, Vrijthof 24.
June 24, 2022 – Valletta (Online) The next Malta Map Society Executive Committee Meeting will be held by Zoom at 6.30pm. Currently under discussion are the programme for the next Malta Map Society Show and Tell and plans for Imago Melitae 2024. Contact Rod Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com> for additional information.
June 27, 2022 - Portland, Maine (Online) Please join the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at 12:00 PM, with Dr. Katherine Parker and her presentation, European Geographic Debates About the Pacific in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Dr. Parker's presentation will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Matthew Edney. This event will be presented on Zoom and tickets are limited to the first 90 registrants. This event is free and open to the public. Register Here.
June 27-28, 2022 - Tenerife Dr. Kevin R. Wittmann (Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of La Laguna) has organized an international seminar Las aguas que unen el mundo. Visiones transculturales de los océanos en la primera globalización [The waters that unite the world. Transcultural visions of the oceans in the first globalization] to be held at Museo de Historia y Antropología de Tenerife, Sede Casa Lercaro. Speakers include Chet van Duzer speaking about "Changes in conceptions of the Indian Ocean across maps", and Ricardo Padron speaking about "Making the Spanish Pacific visible. Methods to investigate a geopolitical image." Additional information from Kevin R. Wittmann <krodrigw(at)ull.edu.es>.
June 28, 2022 – Hereford The International Map Collectors' Society will be making a trip to visit the Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral. More details to be announced. However, there may be limit to numbers, so if you would like to come please contact Valerie Newby on 01296 670001.
June 29, 2022 - Vienna The annual ordinary meeting of the General Assembly of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes will take place at 5:00 p.m. at Austrian National Library, Reading Room of the Map Department, Josefsplatz 1.
July 2, 2022 - Paris The Bibliothèque nationale de France is presenting an exhibition entitled «Visages de l'exploration au XIX° siècle» to mark the bicentenary of the "Société de Géographie" of which it keeps the archives. This exhibition benefits from exceptional loans and is located in the east wing of the "François Mitterrand library". In the west wing are the famous globes of Louis XIV made by Vincenzo Coronelli. Mr. Olivier Loiseaux, curator of the exhibition, invited members of the Brussels Map Circle to visit at 11 a.m. ((in French). If you wish to participate in this visit you are invited to let Marie-Anne Dage <secretary(at)bimcc.org> know as soon as possible.
July 4-8, 2022 – Bucharest (Hybrid) The 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC), postponed from July 2021, will be held at Aula Magna of the Central University Library “Carol I”. The main conference theme, Conflict and Cartography, aims to explore the intricate conflictual content of mapping and mapmaking in fields such as war, politics, ideology, cultural or intellectual history. Register to attend in person or remotely. The conference is being organized by the National Museum of Maps and Old Books and the University of Bucharest, in collaboration with Imago Mundi Ltd. Additional information from Christina Toma at <ichc2021(at)gmail.com> or <office(at)muzeulhartilor.ro>
July 4-7, 2022 - Leeds (Hybrid) The Leeds International Medieval Congress provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. This year's special thematic focus will be Borders. Among thr themes will be Mapping borders and border zones, Medieval imagery of borders, and Boundaries between town and countryside and within towns. It is our strong intention, coronavirus restrictions permitting, that there will be both an in-person and virtual component.
July 6, 2022 - Oxford Join John Leighfield CBE, for his highly illustrated talk, Atlases and Maps, about how the maps of Oxford have developed from the 16th century until the present. Highly respected for his knowledge of the maps of the county and city of Oxford, John has had a passion for maps since his schooldays and has built a marvellous collection, some of which will be on display after the talk. Talk is at 5pm in Magdalen College School Studio, Cowley Place. Book here.
August 6, 2022 - Richmond Please join us from 10:30am - 11:30am at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, for a presentation on a compelling artifact of Virginia’s urban planning history: The Dunn Plat: An Adaptation of Joseph Smith’s Plan for the City of Zion in 19th-Century Virginia. In 2015, the Library of Virginia acquired a plat of an unnamed location that staff members originally described as a “mystery town.” Research revealed, however, that the late-19th-century manuscript plan drafted by Petersburg civil engineer T. R. Dunn follows the precepts of Joseph Smith’s Plan for the City of Zion. Smith, who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), issued the Zion plan in 1833 as a set of instructions for how the faithful were to lay out future LDS communities. Presented by Joseph W. Grubbs, who led the Library’s research into the Dunn plat, this talk will explore the extensive analysis that confirmed the plat’s adherence to Smith’s Zion plan, including land-use characteristics and the development pattern envisioned for the prospective settlement. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Klaczynski at elizabeth.klaczynski(at)lva.virginia.gov or 804.692.3536. This is a free event. Registration is suggested.
August 9, 2022 - Washington (Online) Please join us for the second session in a new series of virtual orientations for the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, focusing on our collection of fire insurance maps from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) on Zoom. Register for this session here! Reference librarians Amelia Raines and Julie Stoner will present an introduction to the fire insurance maps housed at the Library of Congress, with a special focus on the maps created by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company. This orientation session will highlight the background of fire insurance mapping, the Sanborn map collections, as well as fire insurance maps made by other companies held in our division. We will cover how to search, download, and interpret Sanborn map sheets. Also covered will be which sheets are available online and the future of digitizing these important resources. After the presentation, staff look forward to answering additional questions from attendees. We hope to see you there! This event will be livestreamed.
August 21, 2022 - Cambridge, Massachusetts Kris Butler (award-winning homebrewer, exam-certified beer judge, past president of the Boston Map Society, and currently on the board of the Washington Map Society) will discuss The Drink Problem and the Maps Made to Solve It: A Gripping Tale and Delicious Beer Tasting from 2:00-4:00 pm in Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle Street. In the late 1800s, guzzling to excess exploded on the heels of the Industrial Revolution. In England, organized anti-drinking groups created startling maps intending to shock people into abstaining from alcohol. Did these lovely temperance tools inspire zealous anger—or did they just make people thirsty? The story of their brief existence will be told amidst a tangle of licensing laws, corrupt temperance organizers, exasperated women, and - of course - several delicious pints of beer. Some of which we will sample in class while admiring the maps. The cost of tuition includes all beverage materials and fees. Register online.
August 30 - September 2, 2022 – Newcastle (Hybrid) The three-day Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference attracts over 2000 geographers from around the world. This year, the conference will be held at Newcastle University and the Chair's theme for the Conference is Geographies beyond recovery.
August 30, 2022 - Singapore (Online) Join Yale-NUS College as we launch the Digital Historical Maps of Singapore and Southeast Asia Platform. This new online resource brings together maps of the region from the collections of four prestigious partner libraries. Learn how to use the platform, follow our MapJourneys, hear how the Platform can be used to support your teaching or studies, or to follow your curiosity about the history and geography of the region. Lecture will be on Zoom 7:00pm - 8:15pm and register now.
August 31-September 3, 2022 - Berlin The 20. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium will be held at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Program and registration form is online. Additional information from Dr. Markus Heinz <kartographiegeschichte(at)sbb.spk-berlin.de>.
September 1, 2022 - Edinburgh (Online) Humphrey Welfare's new biography on General William Roy, 1726-1790: Father of the Ordnance Survey is due to be published by Edinburgh University Press on 31 August 2022. William Roy himself became acutely conscious of both the potential and the shortcomings of the ‘Great Map,’ particularly the lack of a trigonometrical framework and of an accurate system for determining elevation. Humphrey will be giving a talk on Zoom on his new book at 17.00. The talk is organised by the Scottish Maps Forum and will be free, but please register. You will then receive details of how to join nearer the time.
September 1, 2022 - Washington (Hybrid) Please join the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, from 10:00 – 11:30 EDT for a presentation Machine Reading Maps: processing text from maps using machine learning. Maps constitute a significant body of global cultural heritage, and the number of maps available digitally is increasing rapidly. However, as historical map sets are digitized in volume and become available online, the lack of detailed information about individual map sheets often make specific maps difficult to locate, and the content of many digital map collections remains opaque to researchers and map users. In this event, members of the Machines Reading Maps project from The Alan Turing Institute, University of Minnesota, Austrian Institute of Technology, University of Sheffield, and the University of Southern California will demonstrate how Machine Learning and Semantic Web technologies can be used to extrapolate text on individual map sheets, creating data that can make cartographic collections more accessible and useful. Using examples from the Library of Congress’ collection of Sanborn fire insurance maps and Ordnance Survey maps from the National Library of Scotland, this presentation will highlight how text on maps preserve valuable information about historical places that have been transformed due to urban growth, re-development or environmental change. Register in advance to attend by Zoom.
September 3, 2022 - Sint-Niklaas The Brussels Map Circle will have a Guided visit to the exhibition Recht door Zee at 14:00.
September 7, 2022 - Minneapolis (Online) Paolo Chiesa (La Statale per il Futuro at the University of Milan) will present at 1 p.m. Central in the US (or 8 p.m. in Italy) the final virtual lecture of 2022 for The Society for the History of Discoveries. Professor Chiesa is the author of the most widely cited article in Terrae Incognitae’s history, “Marckalada: The First Mention of America in the Mediterranean Area (c.1340),” and we are excited that he will be joining us virtually to present his work. His presentation is titled Hearsay on America (and Ethiopia) around 1340. In his talk Paolo Chiesa will present new findings emerging from the study of the (still unpublished) “Cronica universalis” by Galvaneus de la Flamma, a work written in northern Italy around 1340. Within the work there is a lengthy geographical section devoted to several exotic regions. In addition to pieces of information depending on traditional sources, Galvaneus also reports unpublished news from oral sources available to him. In particular, Galvaneus mentions a land called Marckalada, located west of Greenland, spoken of by sailors. This is the first mention of the American continent in the Mediterranean region. Register for the Zoom lecture.
September 13, 2022 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at the Newberry Library at the normal time of 6:00 p.m. A social half-hour with lighter-than-usual refreshments will begin at 5:30. For those of you who are outside of the Chicago area, or still wary about in-person events, we also plan to offer the meeting as a virtual presentation via Zoom. Professor Mirela Altic (Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb) will discuss her new book Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography of Americas.
September 14, 2022 - London (Online) The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold its “Annual Workshop” online. Our workshops offer the opportunity to share expertise and learn from each other. The workshop theme will be Finding Maps. Registration online. Additional information from Paula Williams <paula.williams(at)cartography.org.uk>.
September 14-15, 2022 - London (Online) The British Cartographic Society is delighted to announce that the 2022 Annual Conference will be supported by Steer. For the conference, we’ve chosen a theme of ‘design for movement’. This is reflective of the work Steer are involved in, across cities, infrastructure and transportation.
September 15, 2022 - New Haven Jim Akerman (Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and Curator of Maps at the Newberry Library, Chicago) will present the opening lecture, at "The World in Maps: Exhibition", From Dati to d’Anville: Early Modern Europe and the Birth of the Atlas. Lecture is from 4:00pm to 7:00pm at the Beinecke Library, 121 Wall St.
September 16, 2022 – Valletta (Online) The next Malta Map Society Executive Committee Meeting will be held by Zoom at 6.30pm. Currently under discussion are the programme for the next Malta Map Society Show and Tell and plans for Imago Melitae 2024. Contact Rod Lyon <28triqsikka(at)gmail.com> for additional information.
September 17, 2022 – Grange, Ireland Why did three Spanish Armada ships sink at Streedagh in 1588? The reasons–or at least one of them –will be explored in detail during the upcoming lecture at Remembering the Armada. The Manuscript Maps of Early Modern Ireland is the title of a lecture to be given by Dr. Annaleigh Margey of Dundalk Institute of Technology in which she will describe how the absence of accurate maps was a key reason why up to 26 Armada ships foundered off the coast of Ireland, resulting in the deaths of approximately 5,000 Spanish Armada soldiers and sailors. Lecture is at 10am at Spanish Armada Visitor Centre.
September 17-18, 2022 – Mantua The Mantua Books Maps Prints Fair takes place outdoors, under the arcades of the cloister of the former Augustinian monastery of S. Agnese, now the seat of the Francesco Gonzaga Diocesan Museum. Open Saturday h. 10 / 18.30 - Sunday h. 9.30 / 13.
September 19-21, 2022 - Vienna The International Cartographic Association (ICA), the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the German (DGfK), Austrian (ÖKK), Swiss (SGK) and British (BCS) Cartographic Societies are pleased to invite you to the European Cartographic Conference EuroCarto 2022. We aim to bring together Cartographers and those working in related disciplines to offer a platform of discussion, exchange and stimulation of research and joined projects.
September 20, 2022 - USA (Online) The 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. Les Trager, retired lawyer and member of New York and Washington Map Societies, will discuss his recently published book Ancient Explorers and Their Amazing Maps. Trager will discuss a body of Western 16th century maps which cannot be explained by the discoveries of European explorers. Meeting was arranged with assistance of New York Map Society.
September 21, 2022 - Bamberg (Online) The UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium warmly invites you to the third semester of our online, midday academic talks on issues connected to our research interests on mapping man-made and natural catastrophes, heritage, urban planning, and digital tools used for researching these. Meetings take place every third Wednesday of each month at noon (Central European (Summer) Time (CET/CEST)). They will last for an hour (including Q&A) and will provide an exciting platform to discuss with international scholars their research and exchange ideas. If interested, please email us at <talks.urbanmetamapping(at)uni-bamberg.de> to receive access to our Zoom meeting room. We look forward to you joining us for the UrbanMetaMapping Seminar Series! Birgit Knauer (Technische Universität Wien): Healthy, beautiful Vienna. City, cityscape and urban transformation in the interwar period.
September 22-24, 2022 - Cluj-Napoca, Romania The Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of the International Cartographic Association, continuing the tradition of its annual Cartoheritage Conferences, since 2006, is organising the 16th Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH) in partnership with the Faculty of Geography, Babeş–Bolyai University, supported by the MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group.
September 23, 2022 - Orgères-en-Beauce, France Wulf Bodenstein will deliver a lecture, in French, De la représentation du monde à la Beauce : histoire de la cartographie at 18:00 in Maison du Tourisme Coeur de Beauce, 5 Place de Beauce.
September 22-24, 2022 - Rome (Hybrid) Sapienza and DigiLab will host ArcheoFOSS 2022. One of the panels will be Maps to the past. Open digital approaches to the investigation of historical maps. Historical maps have always been a precious source of information both for archaeologists and historians. In this panel, we would like to discuss the new role that open-source technologies are allowing for historical maps, in all humanities disciplines but especially in archaeology. Additional information from Julian Bogdani <julian.bogdani(at)uniroma1.it> or Valeria Vitale <vvitale@turing.ac.uk>.
September 27, 2022 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at History Colorado, Research Center, 1200 N Broadway, at 5:30 PM MT. Mary Conroy, professor emeritus at CU Denver, will address Why do Ukrainians Feel Different from Russians and Wish to be Independent? President Putin insists that the Ukraine was never a state and is historically part of Russia—and further, that Russian speakers have been persecuted in the eastern part of Ukraine. This talk unpacks his assertions and explains why Ukrainians desire to be independent. This talk will bring the Ukrainian conflict up to date, using a variety of maps to demonstrate this extensive history. Contact Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for additional information.
September 29-October 1, 2022 – St. Louis The 63rd Annual Meeting of Society for the History of Discoveries will be held in the Pere Marquette Gallery at St. Louis University, and co-hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The opening reception will take place on Thursday evening (September 29), followed by the conference the following two days, and a post-conference excursion on Sunday (October 2). The theme is At the Heart of the Continent: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Upper Mississippi Region. Additional details to be announced.
September 30-October 1, 2022 - Carson, California In collaboration with Peter Hiller from the Monterey History and Art Association and Joss Grandeau: Jo Mora aficionado and collector, the International Printing Museum, 315 W. Torrance Boulevard, will be hosting a two-day event on the printed works of renowned California artist, illustrator and writer, Jo Mora. Guests of all ages are welcome to attend. From 5 pm to 8 pm on Friday there will be a free presentation at the Museum by Peter Hiller, the Jo Mora Collection Curator, focusing on Mora’s artwork and its lasting impact in Los Angeles and California. Guests will have the opportunity to purchase original works by Mora and participate in printing demonstrations using the artist’s original plates. Limited edition numbered black and white prints, created at the International Printing Museum will be available for purchase along with authorized copies of Jo’s Los Angeles carte (map) and his last carte, California in mint condition from the original 1945 printing, along with copies of The Life and Times of Jo Mora: Iconic Artist of the American West by Peter Hiller. Light drinks and refreshments will be provided. The following day, Saturday, Museum visitors will have additional opportunities to print and engage with Mora’s work between 10 am to 4 pm. Admission is $10 and is suitable for all ages. Along with tours of the museum’s collections, visitors will be able to print bookmarks and small keepsakes using letterpress blocks of Jo Mora’s artwork, bind booklets and watch Museum staff print Mora’s California and Los Angeles maps on vintage printing presses.
October 3, 2022 - New Haven (Online) Chet Van Duzer, historian of cartography, will discuss the Martellus Map in conjunction with the current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. Part of Mondays at Beinecke online, a virtual series of gallery talks every Monday at 4pm. Talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.. Zoom webinar registration.
October 5-8, 2022 – Arlington, Texas (Hybrid) The International Map Collectors' Society Annual Symposium will be a joint meeting with the Virginia Garrett Lectures and the Texas Map Society. It will be hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington and take place at the Central Library, Special Collections. The event is both virtual and physical. The physical events naturally cluster around the main presentations, but with optional trips after both the Friday and Saturday groups of lectures. There will be a preconference bus trip on October 5, and a three day post-symposium tour. Registration and suggested hotels can be found online. For more information contact Ben Huseman <huseman(at)exchange.uta.edu>.
October 6, 2022 - Cambridge Massachusetts (Online) The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Digital Medievalist will sponsor a Zoom presentation Quo Vadis: Digital Mapping and Medieval Studies Today from 12:00pm to 2:30pm. Whether scholars are annotating restored images of medieval maps or plotting data on modern cartographic platforms, the challenges they face in representing medieval spatial data remain largely unanswered. In this virtual symposium, participants will discuss what has already been accomplished with online medieval maps and mapping projects, and identify the larger questions concerning this genre of digital scholarship. Click here to register.
October 6, 2022 - Miami (Online) Many old maps are as much works of art as tools for getting from one place to another, and one of the most engaging artistic embellishments of these maps are the decorative frames called cartouches, which often surround the map’s title and other details. Cartouches were an important cartographic design element from the 15th to the 19th century and continue to be used on 21st-century maps. Although they are one of the most visually engaging elements on maps, and despite the fact that it is often through the decoration of the cartouche that the cartographer speaks most directly to the viewer — revealing his or her interests or prejudices — there is no detailed study of them, no discussion of their earliest history or development, and no attempt to interpret the symbolism of a large number of them together. Join author, historian, and cartographer Chet Van Duzer in conversation with Arthur Dunkelman, Curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection for an online discussion of the early history and development of cartouches, their sources, and the symbolism of several remarkable examples. Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches Zoom lecture starts at 1:00 PM EDT and you may register online.
October 6, 2022 - Stanford (Hybrid) Mirela Altic will discuss her recently published book, Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography of Americas, at the David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall. She will analyze maps produced by the Jesuits during their missionary work in the possessions of the Spanish, Portuguese, and French Crowns in both North and South Americas. She traces the Jesuit contribution to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World into the post-suppression period, placing it in the context of their worldwide undertakings in the fields of science and art. Altic’s analysis shows the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into the Jesuit maps, effectively making them an expression of cross-cultural communication—even as they were tools of colonial expansion. Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits’ significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World. 3:15 pm PST: Zoom room opens; 3:30 pm PST: Talk begins, followed by Q&A. Register in advance for in-person or Zoom attendance.
October 10, 2022 - New Haven (Online) Join the Beinecke Library at 2:00pm to 4:00pm for a presentation on the history and science of the Vinland Map. Speakers will include John Paul Floyd, Independent Historian, Paula Zyats, Conservation, Yale University Library, and Richard Hark, Yale Center for the Preservation of Cultural History. Following the presentations, Ray Clemens will ask the speakers to reflect on how history and science worked together to come to the same conclusion about the Vinland’s authenticity. All are welcome. Registration is required.
October 11, 2022 - Washington (Online) Please join Geography and Map Division staff for our next virtual orientation from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern)! Reference librarians Carissa Pastuch and Amelia Raines will present an introduction to the Geography and Map collections at the Library of Congress. This general orientation session will highlight a wide range of cartographic formats and subject matter. The focus of the session will be on maps and online resources available to all patrons any time, day, or place in the world. Topics covered will also include search tips and tricks, research and collection guides, ways to engage with the collections online, and how to prepare for a future trip to the reading room. After the presentation, staff look forward to answering additional questions from attendees. Register for this session.
October 13, 2022 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Online) Júnia Furtado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) will speak about her new book Quebra cabeça africano: a cartografia do continente, século XVIII [African puzzle: the cartography of the continent, 18th century] at 17:30h (Brazil). Presentation will be on YouTube Perspectivas em História Moderna.
October 13, 2022 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society is excited to have Dr. Kara Johnson, Dr. Nicholas Kryczka, and Sophia Croll to give their presentation, Teaching with Maps in a Digital Age at the usual time, 6:00pm, at the Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St, in the Baskes Board Room. There will a half-hour social preceding the presentation, with an open bar and some snacks. For those outside of Chicago or who are still weary of in-person events, register for livestreaming the presentation.
October 13, 2022 - Hong Kong The publication of the first carto-bibliography of China, “Regnum Chinae”, marks the completion of the Western Maps of China research project. This Book Launch and Donor Appreciation Ceremony celebrates the book launch as well as expresses our gratitude to Dr. Ko Pui-Shuen, the project sponsor. Dr. Peter Van der Krogt, Research Leader, Explokart and Jansonius curator, Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam, is an officiating guest of this event. Venue: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST. Time schedule: 17.00.
October 15, 2022 - New Haven After a long pandemic hiatus, the Connecticut Map Society is back in business. Our first event is an extraordinary map exhibit, The World in Maps, 1400–1600 at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in New Haven. Ray Clemens, the exhibit’s curator, has generously offered to give us a private tour. The tour is free, and not member-restricted, but space is limited: you must RSVP in order to attend <connie(at)redstonestudios.com>. Let’s all meet outside the library at 10:45.
October 18, 2022 – London (Online) Rose Mitchell and Lucia Pereira Pardo will give the 2022 D.A. Chart Seminar on Maps with the topic of Early Irish maps at The National Archives. This event is taking place on Zoom from 19:00 – 20:15 BST. Please book your place on Eventbrite. Sign-up closes 24 hours before the event and an invite will be sent to everyone registered 24 hours before the beginning of the event. This seminar looks at the context for early modern maps of Ireland in State Papers at The National Archives in London, and showcases findings of new research into the materiality of maps by Richard Bartlett, including comparison with those in Dublin collections. Rose Mitchell is map archivist at The National Archives of the United Kingdom, with a particular interest in early modern maps. Lucia Pereira Pardo is a conservation scientist, also at The National Archives, where she is conducting material analysis especially into the colourants on these maps.
October 19, 2022 - Bamberg (Online) The UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium warmly invites you to the third semester of our online, midday academic talks on issues connected to our research interests on mapping man-made and natural catastrophes, heritage, urban planning, and digital tools used for researching these. Meetings take place every third Wednesday of each month at noon (Central European (Summer) Time (CET/CEST)). They will last for an hour (including Q&A) and will provide an exciting platform to discuss with international scholars their research and exchange ideas. If interested, please email us at <talks.urbanmetamapping(at)uni-bamberg.de> to receive access to our Zoom meeting room. We look forward to you joining us for the UrbanMetaMapping Seminar Series! UMM Conference: Mapping “Post-Conflict” Cities, https://urbanmetamapping.uni-bamberg.de/conf/MPC/
October 19, 21, and 24, 2022 -
Brazil Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne who lives in Vienna has been
invited by the Austrian Embassy in Brazil to give a series of public
lectures (in Portuguese) with the title: The da Vinci Globe dating
from 1504. Brazil´s historical naming on a globe.
October
19, Rio de Janeiro: Wednesday, at 3 p.m., at the Instituto
Histórico Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB), Av. Augusto
Severo, 8 (9º/13º floor), Glória. Info:
<secretaria(at)ihgb.org.be>
October
21, São Paulo: Friday at 3 p.m., at Sala Villa-Lobos of
the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, Rua da
Biblioteca, 21 Cidade Universitária São Paulo
(University of Sao Paolo). Info (for press enquiries):
<brasilia-ob(at)bmeia.gv.at>
October
24, Porto Alegre: Monday, at 7 p.m. at the Goethe Institute of
Porto Alegre Auditorium, Rua 24 de Outubro, 112 (Federal University
of Rio Grande do Sul). Info: <consuladoaustriapoa(at)gmail.com >
October 20-21, 2022 - Erkner, Germany (Hybrid) Building on the knowledge gathered from academic literature as well as from the first UrbanMetaMapping conference “Cartographies of Catastrophes” in Bamberg (2021) this conference, Mapping “Post-Conflict” Cities, will examine mapping of “post-conflict” cities from the 19th century until the present day in different geographic settings. The conference will take place at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS). In addition, the online format will be offered via Zoom. The language of the conference is English. Additional information from <conference.urbanmetamapping(at)leibniz-irs.de>.
October 21, 2022 - Chelmsford, Essex The Essex Record Office invites you to discover the joy of maps, including a once ‘lost’ and now ‘found’ Essex map, and time-travel back to the landscapes they depict. The Walkers of Hanningfield: Mapmakers of Tudor and Stuart Essex is a series of talks starting at 10:30, finishing by approximately 12:30 followed by a display of the ERO's collection of maps created by the Walker family in the Searchroom. See home page for details and booking.
October 21-22, 2022 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Hybrid) The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 924 S Main St, will be hosting a two day conference Mapping the Early American South. From the earliest mapping of North America by European navigators to campaigns during the French & Indian War and the American Revolution to further exploration through westward expansion, join us as we delve into how different communities used maps as tools to establish unique visions of the American South. Margaret Pritchard is helping organize this event and she has an impressive list of speakers signed up.
October 24-26, 2022 - Berlin The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will jointly host the 9th International Symposium on the History of Cartography. The venue will be the recently renovated old main building of the Staatsbibliothek in the heart of Berlin on the boulevard Unter den Linden (subway stop) within sight of the iconic Brandenburg Gate. The joint organizers expect contributions investigating the global “surveying turn” in cartography, hinting to the increasing professionalization and mechanization to gather base data for drawing ‘ever truer to nature’ maps, especially during, but not limited to, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The conference program and registration are online.
October 25, 2022 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society in person and online will meet at History Colorado, Research Center, 1200 N Broadway, at 5:30 PM MT. Stephen Hoffenberg will present recent research on the Topographical Engineers 1850 map of the US West - A Map of National Identity. Contact Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for the Zoom link.
October 27, 2022 - Washington
(Hybrid) The
California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain,
Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a day at the Library
of Congress. Explore
the Depths of the Geography and Map Division, Library of
Congress.Three
separate events arranged in association with the Library of Congress
Philip Lee Phillips Society and open to all map societies, in person
and/or virtually. Registration is required for each presentation,
whether you are attending in person or virtually.
Presentation
1:
Title: From
Farmsteads to Supercomputers: Mapping the Electoral Demographics of
the United States, 1812-Present
Speaker:
John Hessler, Specialist in Computational Geography and Geographic
Information Science and Curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of
the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas, Library of
Congress
Location: In person at Library of Congress, Madison
Building, Montpelier Room (LM Sixth Floor), 3:00 PM ET and Virtual,
3:00 PM ET/2:00 PM CT/ 1:00 PM MT/Noon PT
Click here to register
for Hessler presentation.
Presentation 2:
Title:
Library
of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Special Display, Tours and
Reception
Activity:
Visit with curators, explore the collection and enjoy refreshments
with other map enthusiasts and friends
Location: In person only at
Library of Congress, Madison Building, Geography and Map Division
Reading Room (LM B02), 4:30-6:00 PM ET.
Click here to register for
tour and reception
Presentation 3:
Title:
“Will
Work for Maps”: A History of the Library of Congress Geography
and Map Division Special Map Processing Project
Speaker:
Laura McElfresh, Cartographic Metadata Librarian, University
Libraries, University of Minnesota
Location: In person at Library
of Congress, Madison Building, Montpelier Room (LM Sixth Floor), 7:00
PM ET and Virtual, 7:00 PM ET/6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/4:00 PM PT
Click
here to register for McElfresh presentation
November 2, 2022 – Oxford The Museum of Oxford, Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate’s, invites Julian Munby to talk about Mapping Oxford: The Historic Oxford Map and Atlas. This fully illustrated talk, from 1-2pm, will review historic maps of Oxford and the evidence from archaeology and documentary sources for reconstructing the shape of the city from medieval to modern times for the Historic Towns Map and Atlas of Oxford. Book online.
November 4-5, 2022 –
Chicago (Hybrid) The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St, will have
the 21st installment of the Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the
History of Cartography. The theme is Mapping as Performance,
addressing the ways in which people create and share maps through
action in space. Mapping as Performance brings scholars
together from several disciplines, including dance, Indigenous
studies, literature, geography, and history. The two days of lectures
have been organized into panels focusing on four
sub-themes:
Performing Space, Place, and History
in Indigenous North America
Travel as
Mapping
Mapping Dance
Surveying
as Performance
This year, the Nebenzahl Lectures have no charge
and will also be available on Zoom. Register for the in-person
lectures or register for the Zoom lectures.
November 4-5, 2022 - Mount Vernon, Virginia (Hybrid) Join us at The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington for an enlightening look at the cartographic revolution that took place during the eighteenth century. Mapping the American Revolution: The 2022 George Washington Symposium will examine how and why maps became vital political, economic, and social tools in the Revolutionary era. During this symposium you will hear from Mount Vernon staff and leading historians, tour the Mansion, and view historic documents and objects. Register to attend in person or virtual.
November 5, 2022 – California (Online) The 2022 Fall Conference of the California Map Society will be held online between 9:30AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time. Click here for program details and registration.
November 5, 2022 – Paris The 21st Paris Map, Globes, Scientific Instruments Fair will be held at Hôtel Ambassador, 16 Bd Haussmann, from 11h00 – 18h00. Free entry.
November 8, 2022 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will have Niall Atkinson speak about Florentine Topographies: The Buildings, Spaces, and People of the Renaissance City at the usual time, 6:00pm, at the Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St, in Ruggles Hall. There will a half-hour social preceding the presentation, with an open bar and some snacks. This lecture will trace the spatial and social dimensions of the urban development of the city of Florence from the late Middle Ages until the time of Botticelli at the turn of the sixteenth century. In person register to attend, or online register to attend.
November 12, 2022 - Pasadena The SoCal Greater Los Angeles Mappers of the California Map Society invite you to join us for our first official, in-person gathering in SoCal since the pandemic! We've missed you and would love to talk with you about our favorite subject: MAPS. Bring a special map to share or anything map-related or...just come on over. We are a friendly bunch who welcome everyone at any level of map-knowledge and interest! Meeting will be in Member's Home from 2:00-5:00 pm. Location shared with registration confirmation.
November 14, 2022 - New Haven (Online) Suzanne Boorsch, an art historian who specializes in Renaissance old master prints and the former curator of prints and drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, will give a talk, at 4:00 PM, in conjunction with the Beinecke Library current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. Boorsch will discuss Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia, Florence, 1482. Click here for Webinar Registration.
November 15, 2022 - Williamsburg Michael McNamara, a member of the Washington Map Society and the Williamsburg Map Circle, will speak on THE Map 'famously used by General Braddock' at 5:00 p.m. at the Williamsburg Landing. Please save the date. More details will follow. Also, let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you will be able to attend.
November 16, 2022 - Bamberg (Online) The UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium warmly invites you to the third semester of our online, midday academic talks on issues connected to our research interests on mapping man-made and natural catastrophes, heritage, urban planning, and digital tools used for researching these. Meetings take place every third Wednesday of each month at noon (Central European (Summer) Time (CET/CEST)). They will last for an hour (including Q&A) and will provide an exciting platform to discuss with international scholars their research and exchange ideas. If interested, please email us at <talks.urbanmetamapping(at)uni-bamberg.de> to receive access to our Zoom meeting room. We look forward to you joining us for the UrbanMetaMapping Seminar Series! Małgorzata Fabiszak (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań) & Isabelle Buchstaller (University of Duisburg-Essen): Commemorative street naming practices in the border towns Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice
November 17, 2022 – Portland, Maine The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education invites you to attend the opening reception of our latest exhibition, Industry, Wealth, and Labor: Mapping New England’s Textile Industry from 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM, with a panel discussion from 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM in Hannaford Hall. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be provided. Register here.
November 17, 2022 - Stanford (Hybrid) The David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall, will be holding a mini-symposium on COVID-19 maps featuring Paul Kahn and Hugh Dubberly, who have curated a collection of contemporary COVID-19 maps; we will also have Jessica Martin talk about her book co-authored with Laura Bliss, both of Bloomberg's CityLab based on this project and will feature maps from their published book entitled The Quarantine Atlas. Ken Fields, author of Thematic Mapping will speak to mapping COVID-19 maps, among others. 2.45 pm: Center and Zoom Room Opens; 3.00 pm: Speaker Presentations; 4.30 pm: Q and A/Panel Discussion. In person registration or Zoom registration.
November 19, 2022 – New York The New York and Connecticut Map Societies will have an in-person Field Trip starting at 2:00 pm in the New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. at 42nd Street. Ian Fowler (Curator and Geospatial Librarian for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at The New York Public Library) will personally guide members through the "Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library's Treasures." The exhibition showcases some of the library's most extraordinary items, including the c. 1508 Hunt-Lenox copper Globe, not only one of the earliest surviving terrestrial globes, but also one of the oldest known cartographic depictions of the Americas. Also on the tour will be the c. 1460-70 "Geographia" of Nicolaus Germanus: the "Codex Ebnerianus." Map society members will meet at 1:45 at the main entrance on Fifth Avenue. To attend, RSVP to New York Map Society Secretary Andrew Kapochunas at <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>.
November 22, 2022 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Stephen Leach, University of Keele, will speak about The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett. All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom. For joining instructions, please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ca.uk> a few days before each seminar. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at <sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk>, tel. 01223 330476. The seminars are kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
November 24-25, 2022 - Erfurt The Centre for Transcultural Studies and the Gotha Perthes Collection, Erfurt University will have a conference Mapping Asia: Cartography and the Construction of Territoriality in Centre for Transcultural Studies, Gotha Research Campus. This conference will explore cartography and the construction and contestation of territoriality in Asia from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular we seek to answer the question of how ideas of territoriality were cartographically produced, circulated and interpreted within Asia and between Europe and Asia. The conference is part of the project „Cartographies of Africa and Asia (1800–1945). A Project for the Digitization of Maps of the Perthes Collection Gotha” (KarAfAs). KarAfAs is a co-authored endeavour of the Centre for Transcultural Studies at Gotha and the Perthes Collection of the Gotha Research Library, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. By digitising the maps of the Perthes collection in Gotha, we intend to inspire future projects which see questions of territoriality and spatiality in a fresh light, utilising the source material held at the Perthes Collection. Participants will be invited to a tour of the highlights of the collection’s cartographic material on Asia. We invite papers written on any geographical area in Asia which deal with the intersection of cartography and territoriality from the eighteenth to the twentieth century to frances.omorchoe(at)uni-erfurt.de by Sunday 17th April. Send inquiries to Claudia Berger <claudia.berger(at)uni-erfurt.de> or Frances O’Morchoe <frances.omorchoe(at)uni-erfurt.de>.
November 25, 2022 - Aubervilliers The Comité Français de Cartographie will have a one-day seminar L’histoire de la Cartographie et son Écriture a L’épreuve du Renouvellement [The History of Cartography and its Writing put to the Test of Renewal]. Discussion will be about the forms and objects of writing the history of cartography considered over a long period of time. We will especially look at the contemporary period, in relation to the current renewal of tools, especially digital ones. The seminar will be held at Centre des colloques, Campus Condorcet.
November 27, 2022 - Bruges The exhibition Pieter Pourbus. Master of Maps is at the Groeninge Museum. So it's time to reflect on Pourbus as a cartographer. Jan Trachet, postdoc researcher (UGent) and co-curator of the exhibition, will talk about the map, the cartographic activities of Pieter Pourbus and about the painter himself at 10:30 am. An interesting introduction to your visit to this exhibition.
November 28, 2022 – London (Hybrid) (Note date change) The Thirty-Second Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Peter Barber (formerly Map Library, British Library), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London). Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at the Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm (admission free). Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. Enquiries: <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>. Circumstances are still not normal, though, and although we are anxious to return to the usual in-person meetings as soon as possible, uncertainty over the continuing pandemic means that only some meetings are scheduled to be in-person and that even these may have to be switched to be remote should conditions dictate. Those planning to attend a meeting (there is no charge) please consult the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register and, for the remote meetings, to be sent a link with guidelines. In all cases, however, do please check online for the location and form of each meeting in case of last-minute changes. Dr Danielle Gravon (Director of Exhibitions, Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Adjunct Faculty, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN) will discuss Gerhard Mercator and geographia sacra: Biblical mapping during the sixteenth-century image debates (in-person).
November 29, 2022 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society in person and online will meet at History Colorado, Research Center, 1200 N Broadway, at 5:30 PM MT. Steve Nadler will discuss Maps on Stamps and Ephemera. Contact Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for the Zoom link.
November 30, 2022 - USA (Online) The 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. Thomas Horst (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Centre for the History of Science and Technology) will discuss The Amazing (Hi-)Story of the Bavarian Army Library Map Collection – Reconstructed 60 Years After Its Restitution to Germany. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the restitution of the Bavarian Army Library to Germany, this paper reconstructs the amazing story of one of the largest collections of military books and maps, that survived destruction during World War II and was taken by American soldiers in 1946 to the US, where it was stored in the Library of Congress. Meeting was arranged with the assistance of the Philip Lee Phillips Society.
November 30, 2022 - Valletta The Malta Map Society has produced a facsimile of four portolan atlases of the 18th century Maltese captain Antonio Borg which are found at the British Library, Mss 13957-13960. This facsimile, consisting of 4 bound volumes in leather, will be deposited at the National Library of Malta for the benefit of all Maltese scholars during an official ceremony to be held from 6.00-7.00p.m in the presence of the Minister for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government, the Hon. Dr Owen Bonnici. On the invitation of the Malta Map Society, Mr Hans D. Kok, a Dutch expert in historical cartography, a collector, a writer and co-author of a number of standard works on the vellum charts of the Dutch East India Company will afterwards be giving a talk to MMS members and friends, entitled Is it a sea chart? where he will be shedding light on what qualifies a map as a chart, a ‘sea-chart’.
November 30, 2022 - Vienna The Institute for Hungarian Historical Research cordially invites you to the German-language lecture by Dániel Segyevy entitled Cartography in the shadow of Trianon. Ethnic maps in the peace negotiations after the First World War, which will take place at 7 p.m in the Collegium Hungaricum Vienna, Hollandstraße 4. The scientific legitimation of territorial arguments played a major role in the peace negotiations after the First World War - geography was also an important player in the debate about border-drawing processes. Numerous ethnic maps of the delegations from different nations were of great importance. While these maps formed an important basis in the negotiations, they were not all equally necessary. In addition to Pál Teleki's well-known Carte Rouge, British, French, Serbian and Austrian ethnic maps will also be examined, some of which will be shown in the original after the lecture. If you are interested in the lecture, please register by November 30, 2022 at 12 p.m. at <geschichte(at)collegiumhungaricum.at>.
December 1, 2022 - Oxford (Online) The 30th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Šima Krtalić (University of Lisbon) will discuss Cartographers, craftsmen, and artists: collaboration and cross-pollination in the creation of nautical charts. Click here to book your place. Additional information from Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.
December 2, 2022 - Boston Looking to add more maps to your life? Join us at the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, for an afternoon of close map looking! For this edition of From The Vault, we’ll take a look at textile maps from our collections—embroidered, sewn, needlepoint, and more. Drop in any time between 2:00PM – 4:00PM.
December 2, 2022 - Erfurt (Online) Frances O‘Morchoe (Oxford/Gotha) will give a online lecture Mapping South East Asia: Situating Perthes Cartography in a Global Historical Perspective from 14:00-16:00. Send email to <fkts.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de> for registration.
December 2-3, 2022 - Hamburg (Online) The Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts", Universität Hamburg, cordially invites you to the workshop Typologies of East Asian Maps in a Global Perspective. Organized by Diana Lange (Universität Hamburg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS Paris, MPIWG Berlin). The aim of this workshop is to discuss some methodological approaches to developing a clearly articulated typology of East Asian maps, which is still missing. For additional information contact: diana.lange(at)uni-hamburg.de. Register here.
December 2, 2022 - New Haven The Connecticut Map Society will have a Show & Tell Evening at President Connie Brown’s place in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven (specifics provided when you RSVP). Please join us for this relaxed social event at which up to seven members share a favorite map or map story for a maximum of 10 minutes each (we’ll hold you to it!). It doesn’t have to be a map of value or prestige—just something that interests you. If you’d like to give a little talk, let us know ahead of time--first come, first served! If you’d rather sit back and relax instead that’s fine, too. We’ll serve wine, sparkling water, and appetizers. This party is a great opportunity to get to know your fellow mapheads. Whether you give a talk or simply attend, please RSVP to <connie(at)redstonestudios.com>.
December 3, 2022 - Brussels The Brussels Map Circle will meet in Panorama Room, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), Mont des Arts /Kunstberg from 10.00-13.00 for a conference Mapping Ukraine. The fertile territory of the Republic of Ukraine, between forest and steppe, has been part of many empires, from the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century to the Russian Empire in the twentieth century. This borderland, as it is often defined, will be the subject op three papers by specialists of Ukrainian mapping. Additional details including registration can be found online.
December 3, 2022 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a Show & Tell starting at 7:00 pm. Ten members will speak, for five minutes each, about a map that interests them. Contact Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for Zoom link.
December 5, 2022 - Oxford The very latest in 3D recording technology has revealed near-invisible text and artwork from originals in the Bodleian Libraries’ collections. Imagery captured with this technology show what has never before been possible to record. These recordings have assisted researchers in making exciting discoveries which will be shared for the first time at this event at 10am–12pm in Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library. In this presentation, ARCHiOx: Seeing the Unseen in Bodleian Collections, a panel of experts will discuss how ARCHiOx recordings have supported their research. The Gough Map, the Rawlinson Copper Printing Plate collection, a selection of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and examples of ‘Insular Manuscripts’ dating from the 8th and 9th century will all be explored through these incredible new images. Free, booking required.
December 5, 2022 - Princeton (Hybrid) Professor Richard J.A. Talbert will outline the attraction and importance of the Late Ottoman Turkey in Princeton’s Forgotten Maps, 1883-1923 online exhibition, which is being launched a century after the Smyrna Fire and the establishment of the Turkish Republic. He will highlight the key role of the German cartographers Heinrich and Richard Kiepert and its remarkably long-lasting impact. Kiepert maps of Asia Minor (Turkey) remained the basis of those made by the Ottoman General Staff, as well as by the British, German, Greek, and Italian armies during and after World War I. Talbert will also trace how he gradually became aware of all these rare, long-forgotten maps, and shares his experiences in searching for them. He also explains how Princeton University Library’s holdings and expertise have proven crucial to the creation of this absorbing display. Lecture is 4:30pm - 5:30pm in Lewis Science Library and registration is required for in-person or online registration.
December 8, 2022 – London (Hybrid) The Thirty-Second Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Peter Barber (formerly Map Library, British Library), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London). Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at the Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm (admission free). Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. Enquiries: <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>. Circumstances are still not normal, though, and although we are anxious to return to the usual in-person meetings as soon as possible, uncertainty over the continuing pandemic means that only some meetings are scheduled to be in-person and that even these may have to be switched to be remote should conditions dictate. Those planning to attend a meeting (there is no charge) please consult the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register and, for the remote meetings, to be sent a link with guidelines. In all cases, however, do please check online for the location and form of each meeting in case of last-minute changes. Šima Krtalic (PhD candidate in the History and Philosophy of Sciences and researcher in the MEDEA-Chart ERC project, University of Lisbon) will discuss Rethinking accuracy: the graphical language and geometric aesthetics of late medieval nautical charts ( (in-person).
December 13, 2022 - Washington (Online) Please join Geography and Map Division staff for our next virtual orientation from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern)! Reference librarians Carissa Pastuch and Amelia Raines will present an introduction to the Geography and Map collections at the Library of Congress. This general orientation session will highlight Afghanistan. Further details to be announced.
December 14, 2022 - USA (Online) The 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. Francis (Frank) Manasek (retired professor, Dartmouth Medical School; former antiquarian map dealer; author of "Collecting Old Maps" and "A Treatise on Moon Maps" will speak about The Birth of Moon Maps: Looking Through the Telescope, 1610-1696. With fifteen Moon maps from 1610 to 1696, Manasek explores some different visual languages used to portray the lunar surface, and implicitly ask if there are any defining elements that link Moon maps to the historiography of terrestrial maps.
December 15, 2022 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will again hold an annual Holiday Gala that features a full smorgasbord of holiday treats for your dining and drinking pleasure at 5:30 pm at the Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. Our tradition is to pair this party with member presentations of a special item in their personal collections.
December 15, 2022 - San Juan The Consulate of Spain in Puerto Rico and the Casa de España invite you to hear Dr. Jorge Rodríguez Beruff, Dr. Aníbal Sepúlveda and Dr. Francisco Moscoso discuss El Caribe en tiempos de la primera vuelta al Mundo por la expedición de Magallanes y Juan Sebastián Elcano [The Caribbean at the time of the first circumnavigation of the world by the expedition of Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano]. Conference is at 7:00 pm in Casa de España, 9 Av. de la Constitución.
December 21, 2022 - Bamberg (Online) The UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium warmly invites you to the third semester of our online, midday academic talks on issues connected to our research interests on mapping man-made and natural catastrophes, heritage, urban planning, and digital tools used for researching these. Meetings take place every third Wednesday of each month at noon (Central European (Summer) Time (CET/CEST)). They will last for an hour (including Q&A) and will provide an exciting platform to discuss with international scholars their research and exchange ideas. If interested, please email us at <talks.urbanmetamapping(at)uni-bamberg.de> to receive access to our Zoom meeting room. We look forward to you joining us for the UrbanMetaMapping Seminar Series! Christina E. Kramer (University of Toronto): Traveling along Skopje's main street from Train Station to the Square 1911-2014