Cartography - Archive 2023 Calendar of Events

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January 5, 2023 - 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. Andrew Kapochunas (Secretary of New York Map Society, member of Lithuanian Cartographic Society) will be talking about The Struggle of Mapmakers to Keep Up with Changing Post-WWI Boundaries Between Lithuania and Poland.

January 18, 2023 - 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! Arnold Bartetzky (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO): [TBC]

January 18, 2023 - Boston Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, at 6:00pm ET with exhibition curatorial fellow Laura Lee Schmidt for an introduction of our new, featured exhibition, Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases, including a curatorial talk, Q+A session, and opportunity to explore the material on display. This program is free and open to all members of the public. Registration on Eventbrite is required.

January 19, 2023 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St., at 5:30 pm with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Jim Akerman will speak about A Short History of the Atlas to 1620. In this talk, he returns to the subject of his doctoral dissertation: the history of the structure of early atlases and their place in early modern European culture.

January 24, 2023 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT at History Colorado, Research Center, downtown Denver. Attendees should enter the building at the staff entrance, on Lincoln St. between 12th and 13th Avenues. Contact Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu for Zoom link and any questions. Matthew D. Mingus (Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico-Gallup) will discuss 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.

January 26, 2023 – London (Online) 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. Drs Anne-Rieke van Schaik (Research assistant, Explokart Research Program, University of Amsterdam) will discuss Old News? Time, Memory and Conflict in Story Maps of the Dutch Revolt (c.1630–1640) Made in Amsterdam and Antwerp. (remote – GMT)

February 2, 2023 - Draguignan, France Emmanuelle Vagnon (medievalist, researcher at the CNRS in the Laboratory of Western Medieval Studies in Paris) and Jacques Mille (associate professor of geography) will discuss Nautical charts and portulans: new discoveries in the Archives at 18:00 in auditorium of Pôle culturel Chabran, 660, boulevard Kennedy. The recent discovery of a fragment of a portolan chart, dated from the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century, in the binding of a notarized register in the Departmental Archives of the Var is an important event for the cartographic historians. The speakers will present the state of research on this type of map. They will analyze the newly discovered document and will suggest some ways to identify its author and retrace its history.

February 2, 2023 - Oxford (Hybrid) The 30th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Andrew Honey (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) will discuss ‘Please use the postcode’: navigating the past, present, and future conservation needs of the Hereford Mappa Mundi. 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.

February 4, 2023 – Santa Monica The SoCal Greater Los Angeles Mappers of the California Map Society invite you to join us for an in-person gathering in a member's home 11:00 am- 2:00 pm. Bring your favorite map 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! Light refreshments will be served. Location shared with registration confirmation.

February 5, 2023 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle is looking for a show of hands from those who are interested in joining us for our Winter Social at at 12 Noon in the Two Rivers Country Club. The Club offers us a beautiful room overlooking the water and provides a lovely occasion to see friends and to welcome the New Year. Save the date! Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you will be able to attend. Further details will follow shortly.

February 7, 2023 - New York (online) Have you ever wondered how someone would have traveled in the past? If so, join us from 1 - 2 PM, as we show you how to Researching a Historical Route with New York Public Library's Collections. You will learn what types of material are useful for researching this topic - such as maps, guidebooks, timetables, and many more - as well as how to search for these materials within NYPL's collections. With these tools, you will see how you can utilize this information in genealogy, local history research, writing projects, and many more. Register Here.

February 11, 2023 – New York The New York Map Society will meet 2:00 – 4:00 pm at Ned Davis' map-filled Manhattan apartment for our first in-person members-only Show & Tell and Social Hour since December 2019. First come, first served, for 2023 paid members only, with a limit of 10 presenters and a total of 20 attendees. Your society will pick up the cost of appetizers, soft drinks, wine and beer. Email Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> as soon as possible, with your interest in attending, and whether or not you'd like to show a map. Since attendance is limited, please make sure to tell me as soon as you can if your plans change, and you can't make it.

February 13, 2023 – London (Online) The British Cartographic Society Map Curators' Group will hold a virtual business meeting at 3pm. Anyone who would like to attend please contact the Group's convener at paula.williams(at)cartography.org.uk to receive an invitation and notes from the previous meeting.

February 14, 2023 – Washington Please join Geography and Map Division staff for our first virtual orientation of 2023 from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern)! Reference librarians Julie Stoner 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 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: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/9016540958301/WN_HnBFFM0IQ9-ph1ZJR7BZpA

February 14, 2023 – Williamsburg Please join the Williamsburg Map Circle for Bill Wooldridge’s talk on how West Virginia’s borders were determined. Mr. Wooldridge, a charter member of the Map Circle and a former program chair, is an accomplished map collector and scholar of Virginia maps. His book, “Mapping Virginia: from the Age of Exploration to the Civil War” (2012) has become a standard reference work on Virginia maps. Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore@gmail.com> know if you will be able to attend. We will meet once again at Williamsburg Landing at the APA Auditorium at 5pm.

February 15, 2023 - 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! Andreas Pilger (Stadtarchiv Duisburg): TBC: War damage maps of Duisburg city centre

February 16, 2023 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St., at 5:30 pm with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Benjamin Benus, Associate Professor of Art History (Loyola University, New Orleans) will speak about Elmer Jacobs, Atlas Design, and Modernism. Since its publication in 1953, the World Geo-Graphic Atlas has come to occupy a key place within graphic design history. Created by Bauhaus-trained artist Herbert Bayer for Container Corporation of America, this work’s imaginative approaches to data visualization and scientific illustration have had a lasting impact in the field of visual education, extending well beyond the postwar years. In this talk for the Chicago Map Society, Benjamin Benus, author of the forthcoming book “Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury”, will examine the creative process, sources, and intellectual exchanges through which Bayer and his scientific collaborators realized this remarkable work. Rergister at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTECYg8oQ-6BGANHESMzuA

February 16, 2023 – Edinburgh (Hybrid) Discover more about the first detailed survey of Scotland. Hear Chris Fleet (curator, National Library of Scotland) discuss the work of Timothy Pont - Scotland’s first map-maker, at 14.00GMT. This event will be live-streamed from the National Library of Scotland. Book your ticket to attend in-person or to watch online.

February 16, 2023 - 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. The Mapping of Race in America: The Legacy of Slavery and Redlining from 1860 to Present has a long and difficult history. From the earliest counts of enslaved individuals and the practice of redlining, to the under counts of various groups in modern Census tabulations, there have always been questions about both its purpose and its accuracy. John Hessler (Library of Congress (retired) and Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University), with Library of Congress GIS Research Fellows: Catherine Discenza (University of Florida, fourth-year student) and Anika Fenn Gilman (Tulane University, senior) will discuss their journey through this mostly unknown and ephemeral data, talk about some surprising answers to these questions and detail the making of their web making application, “Mapping Race in America.”

February 21, 2023 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen, will discuss Remapping and place naming in ‘Beautiful Dachau’. 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.

February 23, 2023 – Minneapolis (Online) The Society for the History of Discoveries will continue to have a virtual lecture series this year. Victoria Morse (History, Carleton College) will be our first speaker at 2:30pm (Central). She will discuss Making the Invisible Visible: The City Maps of Opicino de Canistris. Opicino de Canistris (1298-ca.1354) is well known for his elaborately layered images that combine a wide range of map types with symbolic and textual information. In addition to his two highly visual autograph manuscripts, he was the author of several earlier surviving treatises, two of which are known currently. This talk will focus on the especially clear case of his portrayals of the city of Pavia, exploring how his later mapping of the city grew out of and relates to the textual mapping he had written earlier. Register here.

February 23, 2023 - Oxford (Online) The 30th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Mirela Altić (University of Zagreb) will be in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) to discuss Map Readings – ‘Encounters in the New World: Jesuit cartography of the Americas’. 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.

February 28, 2023 - London (Online) The International Map Collectors' Society next Show & Tell takes place by Zoom at 6:00 pm UK time. Collectors, dealer, and academics will share about maps and related objects. So now is the time to register if you wish to participate in this event.

March 2, 2023 – London (Online) 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 Bertie Mandelblatt (George S. Parker II '52 Curator of Maps and Prints, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island) will discuss Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery: the Vicomte de Rochambeau and Cartographic Dreams of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Caribbean. Speaker from the Hakluyt Society (remote - GMT)

March 4, 2023 - Bruges The Brussels Map Circle will visit the Pieter Pourbus. Master of Maps exhibition in Groeningemuseum, Dijver 12. Meet at 10.00. Please register by mail before 1 March 2023 to <pierre.dumolin(at)skynet.be> and mention if you participate in the lunch.

March 4, 2022 - San Francisco (Hybrid) Join with Bay Area Map Group Meeting at 10am, for an in-person gathering of friends at the home of Tom Paper and Eleanor Bigelow, in San Francisco. You can share a map or just hang out and listen. If you plan to share, please email Tom <tom(at)websterpacific.com>. To register for attending in-person, click here. You can also Zoom in here around 10:30am (no registration necessary) but please understand the Zoom will be low-tech and sharing will be limited to those in-person.

March 7, 2023 - Denver (Hybrid) Susan Schulten (Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Denver) will speak to the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Meeting starts at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado, Research Center, downtown Denver. Attendees should enter the building at the staff entrance, on Lincoln St. between 12th and 13th Avenues. There will be a greeter at that door for the RMMS event. Shulten will discuss How Emma Willard Mapped Time. Emma Willard was among the nineteenth century’s most influential educators. She broke new ground in female education, shaped the advent of public schooling, and was widely known for her textbooks and atlases. Central to this success was her conviction that history and geography were not just interdependent subjects, but best learned through visuals. To that end, from the 1820 through the 1860s she produced a wide array of graphics that show us a mind reckoning with the very meaning of time and space through an era of unprecedented expansion, dislocation, and conflict. Please email naomi.heiser@colorado.edu for the Zoom link and any questions.

March 8, 2023 - Austin (Online) The Harry Ransom Center is home to one of only three intact copies of the first state of Joan Blaeu’s nearly 7' x 10’ (2m x 3m) wall map of the world, a map that stands as one of early modern Europe’s greatest cartographic achievements. At its size and price, copies of Blaeu's map would have been destined almost exclusively for the walls of the powerful and affluent, but we know almost nothing about the particular history of the Center’s copy before 1969, when it appeared in a catalog from the New York bookseller, H.P. Kraus. The map itself, however, does carry with it some clues about its past, ones that the Center's conservation and exhibitions teams took pains to preserve as they painstakingly worked to stabilize and frame it for display in our galleries. Grappling with a Monumental Map: Joan Blaeu's Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula (1648) is a virtual program with the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Speakers are Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, PhD (Associate Director for Preservation and Conservation at the Harry Ransom Center) and Aaron Pratt, PhD (Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center). Free & online via Zoom 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST. Register here.

March 9, 2023 - Bruges Cultuurbibliotheek Stock Laureyns, Magdalenastraat 30, invites Philippe De Maeyer to give a lecture Hoe sociaaleconomische, wetenschappelijke en technische ontwikkelingen de 19de eeuwse cartografie hertekenden [How socio-economic, scientific and technical developments redrawn 19th century cartography]. The consequences of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution reshaped Western European society. This cartographic revolution for Belgium is discussed on the basis of map series from the nineteenth century. New economic models, social relations and needs also created new demands for inventories. As an industrial power in the mid-nineteenth century, the challenges in present-day Belgium were all the greater. Thematic maps based on better topographical backgrounds provided an answer to the new questions.Lecture will be at 20.00. Contact: Claude Anthierens: Telephone: +32 50 40 68 55, E-mail: info(at)cultuurbibliotheek.be

March 9, 2023 - Paris The Bibliothèque Nationale de France Richelieu, 5 rue Vivienne, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm will have a conference Cartographies du Monde et Projets Cosmographiques à la Renaissance [Cartographies Of The World And Cosmographic Projects During The Renaissance]. As part of the cycle of conferences around the history of cartography from Antiquity to the present day, this session focuses on world maps and cosmographic projects during the Renaissance. Lecture by Georges Tolias , EPHE, historical and philological sciences section.

March 15, 2023 - 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! Łukasz Musiaka (Uniwersytet Łódźki): Post World War II recovery of small towns. Past and present challenges of spatial transformation in the Recovered Territories of Poland

March 15, 2023 – Ocean View, Delaware The Historic Village in Ocean View announces the next presentation in its 2023 Lecture Series will be held at 7 p.m. at Hall’s Store Education and Visitor Center, 32 West Ave. George Kent, Ocean View resident and Principal Cartographer and Mapping Supervisor at the Delaware State Highway Department (1965-2013), will discuss the history of Delaware mapping and the State’s long battle with border disputes. How was the southern boundary starting point of Delaware selected on a deserted beach at Fenwick Island? Who in the world is Thomas West? Why did early maps of Delaware display the west direction pointing up? Where is the Mason Dixon line? This lecture is free to the public.

March 16, 2023 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St., at 5:30 pm with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Susan Schulten, Professor of History (University of Denver) will speak about Emma Willard, Maps of History.

March 16, 2023 - 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. George Barros (Geospatial Intelligence Team Lead and Russia Analyst, Institute for the Study of War, Washington, DC) will discuss Open-Source Maps: Mapping the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. This briefing will focus on the Institute for the Study of War’s open-source methodology as their team collects, processes, analyzes, and interprets data that supports their maps and written prose assessments. The brief will also present analytical decisions ISW has made on how they structure maps, what they show and do not show, how they do source characterization, caveat confidence levels, and leverage remote sensing technology.

March 16, 2023 - Vancouver Join us for an end-of-day author talk and social event at Koerner Library, University of British Columbia, from 4:30pm - 5:00pm! Map enthusiast Kris Bulter's "The Drink Map Book: British Temperance Maps of the 1800s" is due out next spring. She will discuss A two minute walk between beers: Legislative attempts to map alcohol ‘needs' of 19th century British neighborhoods. In the midst of rapidly growing cities and soaring rates of alcohol consumption, British temperance groups faced resistance in the accepted notion of ’neighbourhood needs’ and widespread belief in healthful drinking. In response, they created maps to show the lawmakers entrusted with granting liquor licenses just how many public houses were already cramped together. These ‘Drink Maps’ were convincing. One judge explained his decision, after refusing to renew half the liquor license in his town, that no man could complain about having to walk just two minutes to purchase his next beer. After this short talk we will walk as a group to one of our nearby campus pubs for a social mappy hour.

March 18, 2023 - Zurich Magnificent atlases – georeference old maps will be presented 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m in Hermann-Escher-Saal, Zentralbibliothek Zürich. We invite you to work with us on this exciting task. With your commitment, you contribute to a treasure trove of maps from the 15th-17th centuries. century by making it easier to read and compare. Georeferencing on the "Old Maps Online" web platform is intuitive and mostly simple. But there are also a few challenging nuts and bolts waiting for those who are particularly interested. On the research trip through the old atlases, you will not only gain an insight into the development of the atlases with their maps, which were increasingly elaborate and magnificently designed up to the 17th century. You will also discover how the outlines of landmasses on maps have changed as the world has been explored, or how borders have shifted as a result of conflicts. There are also imaginary islands and sea monsters to be discovered in the ocean and wild animals on land.

March 21, 2023 – Vienna The Institute for Strategy and Security Policy of the Austrian National Defense Academy kindly invites you to the scientific public lecture entitled: The da Vinci Globe dating from 1504 and the first division of the world by Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne, RGS Fellow. Lecture is at 5:00 p.m.at the Austrian National Defense Academy, Sala Terrena, Stiftgasse 2a. Please note that the Austrian National Defence Academy is a military area. Access is only possible for guests with a confirmed registration via email and who show a valid photo and ID. The registration via Email at <lvak.iss(at)bmlv.gv.at> is open until 15 March 2023.

March 22, 2023 - Zurich The famous St. Galler Globus has been online since the end of November 2022. The St. Gallen Globe is one of the most important cultural and historical objects in Switzerland. Research in recent years has shown that it was designed by Tileman Stella and completed around 1576. It combines heaven and earth on the same spherical surface. The original belongs to the Zurich Central Library and is now in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. A true-to-the-original replica is in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. The newly developed online globe makes it possible to conveniently view all the details of the 2.3 meter high instrument, regardless of time and place. Der virtuelle St. Galler Globus. Ein Werkstattgespräch [The virtual St. Gallen globe. A workshop talk] will be held in Hermann-Escher-Saal, Zentralbibliothek Zürich from 18:00 – 19:00.

March 23, 2023 – 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. LauraLee Brott (PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) will discuss The graphics of knowledge in the twelfth-century Tournai maps of Asia and Palestine (in-person).

March 23, 2023 - Sheffield (Online) The British Association for Local History, in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, will have a virtual lecture starting at 7:00pm. The Layers of London website brings together historic maps of London, covering 2,000 years of history, with content that has been created and uploaded by community groups, individuals and organisations across the capital and beyond. This talk by Matthew Davies will explore the origins and development of the project, introducing some of the techniques used to create the maps, as well as some of the important maps layers themselves. Book now online.

March 23, 2023 - Stanford (Online) Tracing Sea Routes on Maps: A Conversation on the European and Asian Contexts With Sara Caputo and Elke Papelitzky will be presented by the David Rumsey Map Center 12:00 - 1:30pm. Two leading experts will discuss the appearance and function of sea routes on European and East Asian maps, showing the interconnections of the early modern global maritime world. We have all seen tracks marching across the oceans of a map. Have you ever wondered where they came from and why they are there? In this online event, Sara Caputo (Cambridge) and Elke Papelitzky (KU Leuven) will share their ongoing research on route lines on European and East Asian maps, respectively. They will each give a brief presentation, followed by a conversation moderated by Katherine Parker (BLR Antique Maps). Register here.

March 24, 2023 – Berlin (Online) Topographic visual media have been and continue to be produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. Accordingly, the field of investigation includes maps and sea charts, topographic sketches, diagrams and plans, the mapping of planets and seas, and virtual spaces in computer graphics as well as landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There are many overlaps between these visual media in terms of techniques and types of spatial representation. Thus, we aim to understand and examine their functions and applications with regard to these interconnections. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to provide a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects and approaches from different disciplines, e.g. image, media and cultural studies, history of art or history of cartography. In our workshops, current research projects on topographic visual media are presented and discussed. Christian Welzbacher (Technische Universität Berlin) will speak about Building administration (Office of public works) in Prussia and the use of plans, maps and topographical drawings. The workshop will take place online via zoom starting at 14:00 CET. If you wish to register please subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us at <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> .

March 29, 2023 - Canberra (Hybrid) In-person (National Library, Canberra) and online, Meet the Author: Allen Mawer discusses his new book on Magellan from 5:30-6:30 pm AEDT. 500 years have now passed since Ferdinand Magellan’s famous voyage, the most audacious in maritime history. In his new book "East by West", Allen Mawer closely examines the historical sources, charts and eyewitness records, considering afresh what we know of Magellan and the details of his voyage. Allen Mawer is an author and historian who has written many well-received books on Canberra, Australian folklore, whaling and exploration. His best-known works in these genres are, respectively, Canberry Tales, Wild Colonial Boys, Ahab’s Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling and Incognita: The Invention and Discovery of Terra Australis. Allen is the President of the Canberra & District Historical Society and in a former life was a Senior Executive Service officer in the Australian Public Service. In conversation with Allen will be Dr Martin Woods, current President of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, and Curator of Maps at the National Library from 2005-2018. Book tickets here.

April 6, 2023 - Portland, Maine (Hybrid) All are invited to join with the Osher Map Library for the 2023 DiMatteo Lecture with Dr. Bill Rankin from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM. Dr. Rankin will present his lecture, Radical Cartography: Visual Argument in the Age of Data. This talk is an exploration of how new kinds of cartography can challenge the entrenched politics of mainstream mapping. By combining historical research on the history of data maps with Rankin’s own work as a cartographer over the last twenty years, it argues that contemporary cartography should be guided not just by new data or new technology, but by a new set of values. This lecture will take place in-person at Hannaford Hall in the Abromson Center on the University of Southern Maine Portland campus, and the event will be livestreamed on YouTube via this link.

April 6, 2023 - Sheffield (Online) The British Association for Local History, in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, will have a virtual lecture starting at 7:00pm. John Moore (retired librarian, University of Glasgow) will discuss Mapping Urban Britain from the Past to the Past: a Scottish view on three episodes in cartographic history. Three specific undertakings in the history of urban mapping in Great Britain over the last two centuries will be considered from a particularly Scottish point of view, beginning with the work of John Wood, a 19th century Edinburgh-based cartographer whose plans of Scottish towns, dating from 1818 to 1844 are reasonably well-known. Current research has identified a further series of plans of towns across much of England and Wales which warrant investigation. A century later, the Ordnance Survey produced an equally rare series of Town Maps at the uniform scale of six inches to the mile, in which Dundee was the only Scottish burgh surveyed. Both these sets of plans mapped the contemporary urban environment. Finally, the work of the Historic Towns Trust in the production of historical maps will be considered. Book now online.

April 11, 2023 - Denver (Online) Eliane Dotson (Old World Auctions) will present What’s My Map Worth? How to Value Antique Maps to the Rocky Mountain Map Society at 5:30 MT. Most of us have maps, whether in drawers, framed on walls, or in our attics. Have you ever wondered what your maps are worth? Join guest speaker, Eliane Dotson, as she shares secrets of the trade on how to value antique maps. Learn the difference between various types of values, such as insurance appraisals, dealer prices, and auction estimates. Discover which key factors most affect the value of a map, including color, state/edition, published format, and condition. Learn where to find information on current and historical prices for maps and how to evaluate the validity of the data. Although valuing antique maps takes many years to master, this lecture will guide both new and experienced collectors to a better understanding of why some maps are worth more than others, and will offer a step-by-step process to value your own collection. Contact Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu> for Zoom link.

April 11, 2023 - Washington (Online) Please join staff from the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress at 3:00 for a virtual orientation which will provide an introduction to the map collections, with a special focus on resources for genealogists like land ownership atlases, gazetteers, real estate atlases, and fire insurance maps. Join us to explore a treasure trove of cartographic resources and learn how to access them in person and online. A Q&A session with map librarians will follow the presentation. Register for the orientation here.

April 12, 2023 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) The Department of History of Lingnan University (Hong Kong) is pleased to continue its Distinguished Speaker Series this year 2022/23. The theme this year is the history of the Pacific World. For our next seminar, we're delighted to host Prof. Ronald C. Po, London School of Economics and Political Science. He will be speaking on The Dunn Map: An American and a Long-forgotten Curio from Nineteenth-Century China. The “Fusheng quantu” (A Complete Map of Fuzhou) is thought to have been produced in nineteenth-century China. Found in 2011 amidst the stacks of the Library of Congress, the quantu had lain undisturbed for over a century. Its creator remains anonymous and the document is undated, which prevents us from tracing its origin in a straightforward way. Records only show that it entered the Library of Congress as part of a large donation of manuscripts from Thomas Dunn, an American businessman and politician who spent several years in the Qing empire. The lecture is at 16:30 Hong Kong time (09:30 London). No registration is needed. The Zoom link is: https://lingnan.zoom.us/j/95652838969. In-person lecture wil be held in LKK105, Leung Kau Kui Building, Lingnan University.

April 13, 2023 – Miami (Online) Join Chet Van Duzer in conversation with Arthur Dunkelman, curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection as they look at the kinds of equipment available for recovering materials from shipwrecks in the late 17th century and discuss the manuscript atlases made by the English cartographer William Hack. The lecture Shipwrecks, Treasures, and Maps at the End of the 17th Century: The manuscript atlases of William Hack will be held 1:00-2:30 pm (EDT) online. Click here to reserve a spot. William Hack's beautiful maps, copied from a "derrotero" (sailing directions with maps) captured from a Spanish ship in 1680, show the locations of several shipwrecks, unusual in 17th-century maps. His later atlases also include indications of the amount of treasure on those ships. Van Duzer argues that this change was inspired by William Phips' spectacular recovery of treasure from a Spanish wreck in 1687. Phips' recovery increased appreciation of shipwrecks as a potential economic resource and the addition of information about sunken treasure to his atlases created an extra source of value in his works, as guides for the discovery of treasure.

April 13, 2023 - Paris The Bibliothèque Nationale de France Richelieu, 5 rue Vivienne, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm will have a conference La Cartographie Marine : des Portulans à Beautemps-Beaupré (XIIIE-XVIIIE Siècle) [NAUTICAL Cartography: Portolans At Beautemps-Beaupré (13th-18th Century)]. As part of the new cycle of lectures on the history of cartography from antiquity to the present day, this session focuses on marine cartography: portolans at Beautemps-Beaupré. Lecture from Catherine Hofmann, General Curator, BnF, Department of Maps and Plans.

April 13, 2023 – Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle announces that John Delano will be presenting our next lecture at 5 pm at The Williamsburg Landing, APA Auditorium. Due to irreconcilable differences between the English colonists and the Powhatan Chiefdom, the English constructed a 5-mile long, wooden barrier (i.e. palisade) across a portion of the peninsula between College Creek and Queens Creek to separate the two cultures. The topic of John's Lecture will be The Locations of the 1634 and 1646 Palisades in Middle Plantation. Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you will be able to attend.

April 14, 2023 - Amsterdam The Jansonius Lectures are organized annually for all colleagues, donors, volunteers and those interested in historical cartography. This year Madelon Simons will speak about the wall map by Van Berckenrode, and Reinder Storm will lecture about the Open kaart [Open map] exhibition. Lectures are from 13.30 to 17:00 at Singelkerk, entrance via Herengracht 431 and are followed by a visit to the exhibition Open kaart [Open map] at Allard Pierson Museum, Oude Turfmarkt 127-129.

April 14, 2023 - Greve in Chianti, Italy Verrazzano Day 2023. Prof. Stefaan Missinne, RGS Fellow, will be speaking at the castle of Giovanni da Verrazzano at 17.00. The power point presentation will be in Italian. The title is: Il prezioso Globo di Leonardo Da Vinci. For registration please contact: <info(at)verrazzano.com.

April 19, 2023 - Brussels When it was founded in 1882, the National Institute of Geography, a private company, brought together eminent figures from the Belgian political and financial spheres, including King Leopold II. Colin Dupont will discuss L’Institut national de géographie (1882-1898) : politique et capitalisme au service de la science at Bibliothèque des Riches Claires, Rue des Riches Claires 24 from 18.30 – 19.30.

April 19, 2023 – Washington (Hybrid) The California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a lecture startling at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. The lecture will be given in person at Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ-119, 85 First Street SE; or can be seen virtually on the Library of Congress Zoom account. Chet Van Duzer (current recipient of Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship; and Board Member, The Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester) will present Behold the Mapmaker: Cartographic Self-Portraits. The lives of early modern cartographers are poorly documented compared with those of contemporary writers and painters, yet a source for insights into the lives of cartographers—the self-portraits that they sometimes include in their maps—is largely unexplored. These self-portraits are an important part of the social history of cartography, of how cartographers chose to present themselves; they also function as visual signatures, guarantees of quality, and expressions of pride. In this talk, Chet will examine some of the more striking and evocative cartographic self-portraits from the earliest surviving case in the fourteenth century to examples from pictorial maps of the twentieth century. You are invited to register for either the In-Person or Virtual meeting. Click here for In-Person registration link and click here for Virtual registration link. Following the speaker’s presentation, the Washington Map Society will hold its annual business meeting from 8:00-8:30 pm. WMS members are invited to attend either In Person or Virtually.

April 20, 2023 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society meets at The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St., at 5:30 pm with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Dr. Larry McClellan (Emeritus Professor at Governor’s State University) will speak about Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Chicago and Northeastern Illinois. This presentation will be an exploration of the movement of fugitive slaves/freedom seekers and the networks of support that developed as the Underground Railroad. In the decades before the Civil War, several thousand freedom seekers traveled through northeastern Illinois. This program outlines their stories and the range of encounters with white and Black abolitionists providing assistance. Click here to register for the webinar.

April 21, 2023 – Berlin (Online) Topographic visual media have been and continue to be produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. Accordingly, the field of investigation includes maps and sea charts, topographic sketches, diagrams and plans, the mapping of planets and seas, and virtual spaces in computer graphics as well as landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There are many overlaps between these visual media in terms of techniques and types of spatial representation. Thus, we aim to understand and examine their functions and applications with regard to these interconnections. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to provide a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects and approaches from different disciplines, e.g. image, media and cultural studies, history of art or history of cartography. In our workshops, current research projects on topographic visual media are presented and discussed. Anette Baumann (Justus Liebig Universität Gießen) will speak about Visualisierte Evidenz. Inaugenscheinnahmen und Augenscheinkarten am Reichskammergericht (1495-1806) in German. The workshop will take place online via zoom starting at 14:00 CET. If you wish to register please subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us at <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> .

April 22, 2023 - Brussels The Brussels Map Circle 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held in Boardroom / Raadzaal / Salle du conseil, Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts / Kunstberg from 10.00 – 11.45. The 2023 Map Afternoon will be organised in close cooperation with the Maps and Plans Department of the Royal Library of Belgium who 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 from his own collection to be presented and discussed by the present fellow members. Always an excellent occasion to learn more in a convivial atmosphere. If you have the intention to show an item, please let it be know to Henri Godts at <henri(at)arenbergauctions.com>. Meeting will be 14.00-16.00 in Map Room / Cartes et Plans / Kaarten en Plannen, Royal Library of Belgium.

April 22, 2023 - New York Up to 20 New York Map Society 2023 members, only, will meet at 10:45 am in Fordham University's Walsh Family Library lobby, 441 E Fordham Rd, The Bronx, NY 10458. They will review maps in a conference room with Special Collections Librarian Gabi/Gabriella DiMeglio, and then quietly and individually view New Amsterdam maps on display in the Reading Room. Members may want to grab a pastry and coffee or lunch at nearby Arthur Avenue, New York’s authentic Italian market area. There's still room for additional members: email <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> to sign up.

April 23, 2023 - Jackson, New Hampshire Peter Benson will present Part 2 Selected Maps of the White Mountains from 1852 – 1903 at 4 p.m. in the Jackson Historical Society, 23 Black Mountain Road. This transformative period in American and world history brought many advances in communication and transportation, and created a longing for the bucolic scenes of rural America.

April 27, 2023 – Minneapolis (Online) The Society for the History of Discoveries will continue to have a virtual lecture series this year. Cameron Strang (History, University of Nevada – Las Vegas) will speak at 2:30pm (Central). His topic, Runaway Pathfinders and American Exploration, will be related to his recent research on Native American and African-American explorers. To register for the event follow the registration link.

May 2, 2023 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Martijn Storms will discuss Maps that made history: the map collections of Leiden University Libraries. Martijn Storms MA (Arnhem, 1978), is curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries. He studied human geography and planning at Utrecht University where he specialized in GIS and cartography. 2022 marked 150 years since the death of the map collector Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872). He bequeathed his enormous map collection to Leiden University. Over the years the map collection in Leiden grew and now it is one of the greatest map collections in the Netherlands. The talk will focus on the cartographic collections of Leiden University Libraries as well as the people and institutions behind these collections. Please register for the talk. The Zoom link will be sent a couple of days before the 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.

May 2, 9, 16, and 30, 2023 – Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society and History Colorado will be sponsoring Map May-hem 2023 this month. Meetings wll be held on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm in Martin Room, 4th floor, History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway. The programs will also be available via Zoom. Contact Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu> for the Zoom link.
    May 2nd - Wes Brown: The Cartographic Roots of Colorado
    May 9th - Chris W. Lane: Unveiling of the Continent’s Spine: the discovery and mapping of the Rocky Mountains
    May 16th - Steve Hoffenberg: Drawing the Line: War, Treaty and Exploration
    May 30th - Tom Overton: Early Maps of Denver

May 4, 11, and 25, 2023 - Miami (Online) University of Miami Libraries Special Collections will be hosting, using Zoom software, Conversations On Cartography. All presentations will begin at 1 pm (EDT) and are free and open to the public. Please contact the University of Miami Libraries at <library.events(at)miami.edu> for more information.
    May 4: Ballerinas, Butterflies, and Bucky Balls: Three Architects Redesign the World Map for the Modern Age with Matthew Edney. Click here for more info and link to attend.
    May 11: What Makes a Map Persuasive? Or Not? with PJ Mode. Click here for more info and link to attend.
    May 25: It Came from a Blue Sky: Mapping the Origins and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 and other Zoonotic Diseases with John Hessler

May 4, 2023 - Milwaukee (Hybrid) The 2023 Maps & America / The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series at the American Geographical Society Library in Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., will feature Dr. Karen Lewis (Chair, Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, and Associate Professor, Architecture Section at the Ohio State University) who will discuss Unquiet Journeys: Mapping the Underground Railroad. Her visualizations of the Underground Railroad was featured in 2022 in "Crossings: Mapping American Journeys”, an exhibition at the Newberry Library, which visualized three stories of men and women who escaped slavery and created their Underground Railroads. 5:30pm Reception, 6:00pm Lecture. Registration is required for this event. You may attend in-person or via Zoom. Register here.

May 4, 2023 - Oxford (Online) The 30th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Madeline Hewitson (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford) will discuss ‘An illustrated encyclopaedia of this great and varied universe’: Mapping the Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936. 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.

May 5, 2023 - Los Angeles The California Map Society is proud to support UCLA’s Center for Early Global Studies to present a one-day conference: The Intermingling of Cartography and Literature in the Early Modern Period in UCLA - Royce Hall, 9:00AM – 5:00PM. Registration is free for this event, although you will need to pay for parking at UCLA. Click here to RSVP. Organized by Chet Van Duzer <chet(dot)van(dot)duzer(at)gmail(dot)com> and Steve McCormick <mccormicks(at)wlu(dot)edu>, the program of the conference offers rich and diverse perspectives on the interactions between literature and cartography in the early modern period.

May 10, 2023 - Berlin (Online) You are very welcome to a talk Mapping as translation: sources, methods and legacies of Julius Klaproth’s unfinished map of Central Asia by Felix de Montety (Université Grenoble Alpes) at 6 pm CEST. A unique large hand-drawn map in two parts held in the archives of the French National Library’s map department can be attributed to the Prussian polymath Heinrich-Julius Klaproth (1783-1835). A close examination of that map of Central Asia, a region that was rarely mapped for itself but more often because of its situation at the periphery of other imperial territories, seems to demonstrate that Klaproth extensively used Chinese maps found in European collections in the 1820s and 1830s to try to create a map of Central Asia that would supercede all other European maps of the region. Register online.

May 11, 2023 - Paris The Bibliothèque Nationale de France Richelieu, 5 rue Vivienne, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm will have a conference Cartographie Et Art Militaire (XVIIE-XIXE Siècle) [Cartography And Military Art (17th-19th Century)]. As part of the new cycle of lectures on the history of cartography from antiquity to the present day, this session focuses on the relationship between cartography and military art from the 17th to the 19th century. Lecture by Isabelle Warmoes, design engineer, Museum of Relief Maps.

May 12, 2023 - Aberystwyth, Wales (Hybrid) You are invited to join us in person or online for Carto-Cymru - The Wales Map Symposium 2023 - 'Mapping the nation'. Held by The National Library of Wales and The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales, in association with The Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, at The National Library of Wales, Penglais Rd. The theme of this years event is 'Mapping the nation' – exploring the work of the Ordnance Survey, how approaches to mapping the landscape have changed over time and how historical OS maps can help us to understand our physical environment both past and present. Presentations start at 9:30:
'Excavating' the Map: Landscapes of the Early Ordnance Survey in Great Britain and Ireland – Keith Lilley, Professor of Historical Geography, Queen’s University, Belfast.
The Blue & Black MS Drawings for the 1:2500 – Dr Rob Wheeler, Honorary Secretary, Charles Close Society.
Mapping the milestones in Ordnance Survey’s history – Jess Baker, Technical Relationship Consultant, Ordnance Survey.
The Meresmen and the Parish Boundaries of Wales – Scott Lloyd, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Not just maps of Wales: OS mapping at the National Library – Huw Thomas, Map Curator, The National Library of Wales.
Wales on the Map – Mike Parker.
Tickets are: £25 in person (including buffet lunch) £15 online. Book tickets for in-person attendance or for online participation.

May 13, 2023 – Amsterdam The Brussels Map Circle will visit the Allard Pierson Museum, Oude Turfmarkt 127-129, to see the exhibition Open kaart [Open map]. The exhibit displays seven centuries of cartography in the Netherlands and takes a look into the future. If you wish to register for this visit please let Marie-Anne Dage, Brussels Map Circle secretary, <secretary(at)bimcc.org> know before Tuesday 28 February.

May 15, 2023 - London (Hybrid) The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) will have a seminar session: The Rutter Project: Making the Earth Global in Early Modern Europe. Henrique Leitão (Universidade de Lisboa), Luana Giurgevich (Universidade de Lisboa), and Nuno Vila-Santa (Universidade de Lisboa) will showcase recent research in the history of cartography by the Lisbon-based Rutter team. Attend 5:30PM - 7:00PM online-via Zoom or in-person at IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street. Additional information from Zoltán Biedermann <z.biedermann(at)ucl.ac.uk>. Booking is required.

May 16-18, 2023 - Leith International Map Collectors' Society has visited Edinburgh before, but the base for this excursion to Leith will reveal another side to the city. Participants may meet about 6.00pm on 16th May for a short walking tour of Leith, led by Diana Webster, followed by an optional meal. As Leith is Edinburgh’s port and seaside, there is a maritime thread running through the activities, which will include a visit to the National Library of Scotland Map Room on 17th May, where Paula Williams will introduce a display of three types of collection: Business (Stevenson: lighthouse, railway and harbour engineers), Private (the recently acquired Smith collection) and Country House (Newhailes). Nautical charts will accompany a talk by Dr Andrew Cook on Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), who was the first Hydrographer of the Admiralty after working for the East India Company. Dalrymple was born at Newhailes, a Palladian mansion just outside Edinburgh, and in the afternoon a visit has been arranged. On the following day, 18th May, we start with a tour of Trinity House of Leith, a small architectural gem built in 1816, although the Incorporation of Mariners and Shipmasters can be traced to 1380, founded to support injured and retired seamen and their dependents. This has an eclectic collection of maritime memorabilia, including navigation instruments, donated by its merchant seamen members. On previous Scottish excursions, IMCoS has visited the Highlands, so this time, in the afternoon and evening, there will be a trip southward towards the Borders. This section of the programme is in preparation, but it is hoped to include the outdoor relief Polish Map of Scotland.

May 17, 2023 - Williamsburg Mike and Carolyn McNamara have graciously invited members of The Williamsburg Map Circle to a tour of their map collection at their Kingsmill home from 5:00 to 6:30 pm. As many of you know, Mike and Carolyn have collected maps of Colonial America for many years, and their collection ranks as one of the finest in private hands. Mike and Carolyn, with assistance from Margaret Pritchard and Katie McKinnie of Colonial Williamsburg, will be providing guided tours of the collection. Light refreshments will also be served. Due to time and space constraints, we are limited to 30 guests for this tour. We will take acceptances on a first-come, first served basis, so time is of the essence if you would like to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. RSVP to Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com>

May 18, 2023 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society meets at The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St., at 5:30 pm with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Dr. Patrick Ellis (Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Tampa) will discuss Maps to the Stars: California, Cartography, and Cinema. This talk will introduce Ellis’ current research into the maps that surround more than a century of Hollywood cinema. Contact Chicago Map Society <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org> for the Zoom link.

May 18, 2023 – London (Online) 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 Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS Researcher, LARHRA, Lyon) will discuss Magnetism Matters: Early Modern Commerce, Practices and Frameworks in the Iberian Empires.

May 18, 2023 - Manchester Join us at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 150 Deansgate, for a number of presentations about Maps, Magic and the Manchester Geographical Society from 17:30 - 19:30 BST. The presentations explore the nature of colonial collections and the stories they reveal about empire and imperialism. There will be an opportunity to discuss the issues around working with these collections and to network with researchers and library practitioners. Please reserve your spot.

May 18-20, 2023 - Nashville (Hybrid) The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, welcomes you to a hybrid workshop on South Asian maps, digital mapping projects, conceptions of space, and map epistemologies, to be held in person and over Zoom: Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography. The workshop will run from 8 AM - 12 AM US Central Time. Please click here to see program and to register.

May 19, 2023 – McLean, Virginia The Washington Map Society 42nd annual dinner and lecture will be at Maggiano's Little Italy, 2001 International Dr, in Tyson Galleria II. Andrew Adamson (principal Heritage Charts) and Frank Licameli (Enrollment/Recruiting Operations Officer, Department of Military Science, George Mason University) will speak about F. W. Des Barres’ Great Folly: An Examination of Des Barres’ Foray into the Realm of Political Mapping and the Little-known Plans He Created to that End. Registration is available.

May 19, 2023 – Washington (Hybrid) The Washington Map Society, in conjunction with Philip Lee Phillips Society, will meet in Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ-119, 85 First Street SE; 10:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET. The Library will host a coffee hour followed by a lecture (in-person and virtual at 11:00 am) followed by treasures display. Jackie Coleburn (Library of Congress, Rare Book Cataloger) and Anthony Mullan (Geography and Map Division, Cartographic Specialist [retired]) will discuss A Globe on a New Plan: Peter Parley’s Innovative Teaching of Geography to Children in 19th Century America. Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860), believed that the instruction of American children should be fact-filled, engaging, and morally instructive. Using the pseudonym Peter Parley, he addresses his young readers as a companion more than as a tutor, telling stories and creating adventures to convey concepts of history and geography.  His Peter Parley books were immensely popular, selling in multiple editions and millions of copies. In this presentation, the authors will discuss and illustrate his innovative methods of teaching geography to children. Click here for In-Person registration link and click here for Virtual registration link.

May 20, 2023 - New Haven The Connecticut Map Society has one event scheduled for this spring: a guided tour of Yale Gallery’s excellent exhibit entitled Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500-1800. Please note that we are limited to 15 attendees, so you must RSVP to Connie Brown <connie(at)redstonestudios.com> in order to attend. First come, first served! We will gather in the lobby at 11:15, Yale Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street.

May 24-26, 2023 - Thessaloniki, Greece 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 17th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH), in partnership with the AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, supported by the MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group. The Conference is kindly hosted by the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki.

May 25-26, 2023 - Lisbon There will be an International Workshop On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart at Hydrographic Office (Instituto Hidrográfico). This meeting aims to further the discussion opened in two previous workshops held in Lisbon in 2016 and 2018, and attended by leading experts on the History of Cartography. Additional information from Joaquim Alves Gaspar <alvesgasparj(at)gmail.com>.

May 25, 2023 - Oxford The 30th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will have a Field Trip - A jolly for Peter Jolly: maps from the British Cartographic Society Awards collection by the Bodleian Map Room Team. Booking is essential for this Field Trip. Click here to book your place. For further details, please contact 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.

May 26, 2023 – Berlin (Online) Topographic visual media have been and continue to be produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. Accordingly, the field of investigation includes maps and sea charts, topographic sketches, diagrams and plans, the mapping of planets and seas, and virtual spaces in computer graphics as well as landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There are many overlaps between these visual media in terms of techniques and types of spatial representation. Thus, we aim to understand and examine their functions and applications with regard to these interconnections. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to provide a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects and approaches from different disciplines, e.g. image, media and cultural studies, history of art or history of cartography. In our workshops, current research projects on topographic visual media are presented and discussed. Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) will speak about Mutation, Mediation, Meditation: Early Modern World Maps and their Frames. The workshop will take place online via zoom starting at 14:00 CET. If you wish to register please subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us at <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> .

May 30-31, 2023 - Brussels (Hybrid) The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and the Belgian Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences will jointly host an international conference Conquering the World through Cartography: The Imperialist Turn in 19th and 20th Century Mapping. The conference’s scientific programme of lectures will take place all day on Tuesday 30 May and on Wednesday morning 31 May. Optional free tours are planned both on the afternoon of Wednesday 31 May, visiting the map collection of the AfricaMuseum, as well as on the morning of Thursday 1 June, for a visit to the Map room of the Royal Library of Belgium, themed “Not just Congo. Belgian colonial mapping in the 19th and 20th centuries”.The symposium will be held in English and organized as a hybrid event both face-to-face at the Palace of the Academies and via livestream.

June 1, 2023 - Miami (Online) University of Miami Libraries Special Collections will be hosting, using Zoom software, Conversations On Cartography. All presentations will begin at 1 pm (EDT) and are free and open to the public. Please contact the University of Miami Libraries at <library.events(at)miami.edu> for more information. Timothy Norris (Data Scientist, University Libraries) in conversation with Arthur Dunkelman Curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection, University Libraries, will speak about Indigenous Cartography and Cartography of the Indigenous. Click here for more info and link to attend.

June 1, 2023 - Seville The General Archives of the Indies is hosting a lecture by the Belgian Professor Dr. Stefaan Missinne (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society), in the Assembly Hall of the headquarters, Avda. de la Constitución s/n, Lonja building, and c/ Santo Tomás nº 5, the building of the former Cilla del Cabildo in Seville. The title of the lecture which will be in Spanish is: El globo terráqueo de Leonardo da Vinci de 1504. The opening of the event and official greeting will be by Professor Dr. María Ester Cruces Blanco, Director of the General Archive of the Indies. The speaker will be formally introduced by the Austrian Consul in Seville Dr. Rufino Garcia-Otero Reina on behalf of the Austrian Embassy in Spain. The closing ceremony will be by Guillermo Morán Dauchez, Deputy Director General of the General Archive of the Indies. The meeting is at 7:00 PM. Please register <ag1(at)cultura.gob.es>.

June 6, 2023 - London The International Map Collectors' Society annual general meeting takes place at 10.30am in the Library of the Royal Geographical Society (on the first floor). It concludes prior to the opening of the London Map Fair downstairs. All members are welcome.

June 6 and 13, 2023 - London (Online) The International Map Collectors' Society annual Malcolm Young lecture will be in a slightly different format. There will be two online lectures, rather than a single physical one during Map Fair weekend. Dennis Reinharz, Emeritus Profession of History at the University of Texas in Arlington, will present two lectures. The highly topical subject is that of Russia. In keeping with the sheer size of the country – and the topic – the material extends over two separate but related talks. The first is on June 6th at 18.00 UK time. It is entitled Misconceptions: Russia and the West – past centuries. Registration free.
The second talk will focus on more recent and current issues and modern aspects of the mapping of Russia. It will be on June 13th at 18.00 UK time. Registration free. You are welcome to register for one event and not the other. However, they do make up a single whole in interpretive terms.

June 8, 2023 - Miami (Online) University of Miami Libraries Special Collections will be hosting, using Zoom software, Conversations On Cartography. All presentations will begin at 1 pm (EDT) and are free and open to the public. Please contact the University of Miami Libraries at <library.events(at)miami.edu> for more information. Kate Hunter, Senior Specialist, Daniel Crouch Rare Books in conversation with Arthur Dunkelman, Curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection, will speak about Unexpected Adventures Told in Three Maps: Western Australia, the Indian Ocean, and Captain James Cook's First Voyage. Click here for more info and link to attend.

June 9, 2023 - Kyoto (Hybrid) Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin) will discuss Rethinking Historical Maps for the 21st Century: A Quantitative Perspective on Japan’s kuniezu from 15:00 - 17:00 (JST). Meeting will be on Zoom and in Seminar Room 1, International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Over the past 30 years, historians have reconceptualized the history of political space. We now recognize that discrete, exacting borders are largely a creation of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, not a timeless or natural phenomenon. Our historical maps, however, do not reflect this new understanding, and draw all borders as clear, exact lines. In Japan’s kuniezu, for example, long stretches of provincial borders are described as undetermined. How can we accurately map vague borders? Relying on quantitative methods, this presentation engages with that question as both a conceptual and a practical problem for digital mapping. Registration required for the Zoom link.

June 10-11, 2023 - London The London Map Fair is the largest Antique Map Fair in Europe. It will be held at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore: Saturday 12.00 pm to 7.00 pm and Sunday 10.00 am to 6.00 pm. There will be a lecture on Saturday at 2:30 pm.: 'You are not here’ Adam Dant’s diverting maps. In this richly illustrated talk fine artist and cartographer Adam Dant describes the conception, research and construction that underpin his printed pictorial maps. Additionally there will be talks by Ashley Baynton-Williams throughout the weekend on map collecting for beginners.

June 11-16, 3023 – Charlottesville Matthew Edney will be teaching H-65 Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900' at the Rare Book School. The course will meet on the University of Virginia campus. Indeed, while the main UVa library (with RBS quarters) continues its multi-year renovations, RBS meets in Thomas Jefferson's famed rotunda and lawn.

June 13, 2023 - Washington (Online) Please join Geography and Map Division staff for a virtual orientation to our collections and resources from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern). Reference librarians Julie Stoner and Cynthia Smith will present an introduction to the Geography and Map collections at the Library of Congress. This orientation session, aimed at the general public, 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 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 Zoom session.

June 14, 2023 - 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. Rodney Kite-Powell (Director, Touchton Map Center, Tampa Bay History Center) will present Key West and the Florida Keys: Mapping the History of the Conch Republic. This presentation will provide an overview of the current map exhibition at the Tampa Bay History Center on display from April 15 to October 15. It focuses on Key West and the Florida Keys, which have played an outsized role in Florida’s history.

June 15, 2023 - Lake Forest The Chicago Map Society will visit the MacLean Collection. Dr. Molly Briggs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will speak about Immersion in Print: Mapping Place-Worlds in Azimuthal Projection. Lecture is at 6:00 pm Central (Social hour begins @ 5:00). Space is limited, so be sure and reserve yours soon using the Eventbrite Link.

June 17, 2023 - San Francisco (Hybrid) Join Bay Area Map (BAM) Group of California Map Society at 10am for an in-person gathering of friends at the home of Tom Paper and Eleanor Bigelow. You can share a map or just hang out and listen to our in-person speakers, as well Patrick McGranahan, who will Zoom in to talk about the Madaba map. If you plan to share, please email Tom <tom(at)websterpacific.com>. To register for attending in-person, click here. You can also Zoom in here at10:30am (no registration necessary. Contact <tom(at)websterpacific.com> for the Zoom link.

June 20-21, 2023 - London Despite the attentions of cultural historians since the 1980s, maps still tend to escape close and critical study as fundamentally visual and material forms of communication, with histories of cartography remaining predominantly disconnected from these dimensions of the subject matter. This two-day symposium, The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square; addresses this interdisciplinary challenge from a diverse range of perspectives that foreground such questions as: how do maps operate as representations, and how do culturally situated understandings of space shape how they are created, seen and read? How does the study of maps within specific historical or cultural contexts connect to broader issues in visual/material history? In what ways are coloniality and/or indigeneity made visible/material in maps? How can art-historical approaches inform other disciplinary analyses and uses of maps? Invited speakers will offer new perspectives through studies of cartographic objects from around the world, from early modern India, Iran, and China to the Atlantic world and contemporary South Africa.

June 24, 2023 - Washington Join the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. for a tour of the exhibition The New Naval and Military Map of the United States and special access to the museum’s collection of maps of Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area. These primary documents used for urban planning, exploration and navigation, and more will be on display in the Albert H. Small Center for National Capital Area Studies. This program will take place in person at the museum. To join the program, meet us in the Woodhull House galleries on level two for a guided tour of the exhibition The New Naval and Military Map of the United States, followed by a visit to the Albert H. Small Center for National Capital Area Studies. Space is limited, so please register in advance.

June 30, 2023 – Berlin (Online) Topographic visual media have been and continue to be produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. Accordingly, the field of investigation includes maps and sea charts, topographic sketches, diagrams and plans, the mapping of planets and seas, and virtual spaces in computer graphics as well as landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There are many overlaps between these visual media in terms of techniques and types of spatial representation. Thus, we aim to understand and examine their functions and applications with regard to these interconnections. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to provide a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects and approaches from different disciplines, e.g. image, media and cultural studies, history of art or history of cartography. In our workshops, current research projects on topographic visual media are presented and discussed. Petra Svatek (Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna) will speak about Cartography and Politics at the Department of Geography of Vienna University 1900-1945. The workshop will take place online via zoom starting at 14:00 CET. If you wish to register please subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us at <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> .

June 30, 2023 - Williamsburg Members of the Williamsburg Map Circle are invited to attend Susan Schulten’s lecture which will take place at 4:30pm in the Hennage Auditorium in the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Susan will speak about Emma Willard who was among the nineteenth century’s most influential educators. She broke new ground in female education, shaped the advent of public schooling across the country, and was widely known for her innovative textbooks and atlases. Those of you who are not members of the Museum should tell the people at the Entrance that you are members of the Williamsburg Map Circle. so that you won’t have to pay admission. Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you would like to attend so that your name is on the list of members. You may bring a guest or guests.

July 1, 2023 - Brussels The Brussels Map Circle will meet at 15.00 in the Map Room of KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), Bd de l'Empereur 4. Chet Van Duzer (University of Rochester, USA)) will discuss Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches. He will speak about the early history and development of cartouches, examine some of their sources, and explain their symbolism of several remarkable cartouches in detail. Please register: Marie-Anne Dage, Brussels Map Circle Secretary, <marie.anne.dage(at)gmail.com>.

July 10-14, 2023 – Berlin The International Society for the History of the Map will hold its “VII Symposium” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. The symposium theme, Intersections in Map History, invites consideration of the impact of seemingly contradictory perspectives such as insider and outsider knowledge expertise, and art and science, on map making and use. The first two days will be devoted to a Workshop for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, and the symposium will follow. The General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 12th July from 13:30-14:30 CEST in hybrid format. ISHMap Society members may participate online via Zoom. The Symposium Keynote, on Wednesday 12th July 2023 from 18:30-19:30 CEST will also be hybrid and open to members via Zoom (pre-registration not required). Richard A. Pegg and Elke Papelitzky will discuss Mapping Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China. Contact ISHMap Secretary <ishmap.secretary(at)gmail.com> for Zoom links. Questions may be directed to co-hosts Diana Lange <diana.lange(at)uni-hamburg.de> or Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann <vera.dorofeeva-lichtmann(at)ehess.fr>.

August 8, 2023 - Washington (Online) Join with the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) for a virtual orientation that will provide an introduction to the world's largest map library, with a special focus on resources for teachers and educators. Explore a treasure trove of maps, atlases, and cartographic resources that you can use in your classroom. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with map librarians and education specialists. Register for this session.

August 13-18, 2023 – Cape Town The 31st International Cartographic Conference and 19th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association will have the theme Smart Cartography for Sustainable Development. The venue is the world-class Cape Town International Convention Centre.

August 19, 2023 – Stanford (Hybrid) The California Map Society Spring Conference will be held at the David Rumsey Map Center, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall, from 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Click for program and registration for attending either in-person or by Zoom.

August 22-24, 2023 – Helsinki The International Map Collectors' Society 40th annual symposium is organized by Cartographic Society of Finland and Chartarum Amici. Sponsored by National Land Survey of Finland, City of Helsinki and John Nurminen Foundation. There will be an optional pre-conference tour of Helsinki on August 21, and an optional post-conference tour August 25-27. For more information contact Antti Jakobsson <antti.jakobsson(at)maanmittauslaitos.fi>.

August 29-31, 2023 - London The three-day Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference attracts over 2000 geographers from around the world. This year, the conference will will be held in the The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore.