Cartography - Archive 2024 Calendar of Events

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January 11, 2024 – Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle is delighted to announce our first lecture of the New Year by Meagan Snow. The Subject of Meagan's lecture will be Evolving Technologies: An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The Lecture will take place at 5PM at The Williamsburg Landing, APA Auditorium. Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you will be able to attend this event.

January 16, 2024 - Denver (Hybrid) Join with the Rocky Mountain Map Society as we hear local trail researcher Larry Obermesik on a journey through a forgotten chapter of Colorado’s past. His presentation, Mapping the Cherokee Trail: Colorado’s Forgotten Highway, will explore the profound significance of the Cherokee Trail in Colorado's history, learn about ongoing trail preservation efforts, and see how a deep-dive into Colorado’s pre-territorial Claim Clubs has revealed new insights into the lives of this region’s earliest settlers. Meeting is at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado Center, downtown Denver. Program will be in the Martin Room, 4th floor. Please enter the building at the main (front) entrance. We will offer this program in person and via Zoom. Please register and get a free ticket at History Colorado's event calendar or contact <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for Zoom link.

January 18, 2024 - Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an exciting program at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St.: 5:30 p.m. – social time with light refreshments; 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Emily Barton Altman Bathymetry: 20th and 21st Century Map Poetics. This creative and critical presentation will feature Altman’s map poetry. Altman will read her work and then trace the map and score-based practices that inform her writing. Beginning with 20th-century avant-garde practices and ending with contemporary work, Altman will show how writers and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries used maps in their poetry to interrogate space, politics, and everyday life. Write Chicago Map Society <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org> for Zoom link.

January 18, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. This meeting was arranged with assistance of Rocky Mountain Map Society. 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. J. C. McElveen will discuss Herman Moll and John Senex: Mapping North America in the Early 18th Century (from the British Point of View).

January 23, 2024 - Salt Lake City (Online) Marco Polo was famous for traveling to East Asia, but some historians argue he never reached it. Dr. Benjamin B. Olshin will present, at the Salt Lake County Library, A Tale of Marco Polo and Some Mysterious Maps. He will discuss the research for his book, "The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps". Olshin will offer a leading analysis of a newly discovered collection of 14 maps and related documents said to have belonged to the family of Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo. This online lecture will be given at 7:00pm. You must register for this event to receive a link to the WebEx virtual lecture.

January 25, 2024 - London (Hybrid) - The Thirty-Third Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London) with Tony Campbell and Peter Barber (both formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at 5.00 pm and are followed by refreshment. Enquiries to <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>, or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. All meetings are hybrid but please note that for this series all will be held in Senate House, University of London. We strongly encourage all who can to support the speaker by attending in person. All meetings are free but anybody wishing to attend a meeting must, please, indicate their intention at the Warburg Institute's What's On page, to register. Those attending remotely will be sent a link with guidelines. Felix de Montety (Université Grenoble Alpes, France) will speak about The Birth of the Isogloss: Remarks on the Problem of Language Borders in the History of Cartography.

January 26, 2024 - Germany (Online) The next Network Topographic Visual Media workshop will be 14.00–15.30 (CET). Jana Moser (Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IfL) / Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography) will discuss From East and West: Shaping spatial perceptions through (school) atlases. School atlases are map products that are strongly influenced by national education policies. Using the example of German school atlases from the last 50 years, differences and similarities are shown with the aim of a joint reflection and discussion on other atlases but also on possible social (impact) effects. Contact <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> for Zoom link.

January 28, 2024 - New York The New York Map Society presents, at 2:00 pm New York (ET) time for up to 12-15 2024 paid-members-only, Peter Lloyd on The History and Design of Transit Maps. "I have been researching the history and design of the New York City subway maps for a number of years. In 2012 I published "Vignelli: Transit Maps," based on interviews with Massimo Vignelli, and others, as well as archival research. I am preparing several further volumes documenting the history of the NYC subway map since its inception." RSVP for one of the limited spots to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>. The default location will be my apartment in Long Island City, but if you'd like to host 12-15 fellow members, and have either a Smart TV or a projector that can display a PowerPoint, please let me know ASAP!

February 1, 2024 - Edinburgh (Hybrid) In 1654, Scotland became one of the best mapped countries in the world. The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland features 49 stunning, hand-coloured maps of Scotland. Collectively, these maps identified over 20,000 locations. For most of these places, this was the first time they ever appeared on a printed map. Discover the stories behind the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland with our Map Curator, Chris Fleet. Lecture will be held National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge at 17:30 - 18:30 GMT. Book tickets to attend in-person or view the livestream.

February 4, 2024 – New York The New York Map Society will have a field trip 11:00 am - 1:00 pm New York (ET) time. Attendance is limited to 10-15 New York Map Society members-only to privately view maps of Palestine, Israel, and some relating to the Holocaust at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at 15 West 16th Street in Manhattan, on a day when the institute is normally closed to the public. RSVP to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>. The Society is required to send, well in advance, YIVO a list of attendees that will be shared with building security. Passage through a metal detector, and photo IDs, will be required.

February 9, 2024 – Philadelphia (Online) The University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center will host, from 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Roger Chartier (Annenberg Visiting Professor in History and Professor at the Collège de France) and John Pollack (Kislak Center) speaking on Maps in Literature: 18th century to 16th century. When and why do maps first appear in fictional works? How do maps condition the readers of literature? Focusing on early modern Europe, this presentation will move from maps showing the journeys of Don Quixote through Spain, to maps of Gulliver’s Travels, to early maps of imaginary and allegorical worlds. Free registration here.

February 13, 2024 - Washington (Online) Join from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, reference librarians for an introduction to the Geography and Map Division collections. 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 session.

February 15, 2024 - Chicago (Hybrid) Please join Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. 5:30 p.m. – social time with light refreshments; 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Dr. Danielle Gravon. She will discuss Gerhard Mercator’s sacred geographies during the Reformation. Register in advance for this webinar.

February 20, 2024 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 6.30pm UK time. Isabella Alexander (UTS Sydney) will discuss Controlling Copying before Copyright: A Tale of Three Britannias. All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom. Please register for the talk and the Zoom link will be sent to you. 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 22, 2024 – Hong Kong (Hybrid) The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, École française d'Extrême-Orient, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology co-organized a lecture series “The Backgrounds of the Chinese Maps / Their Reading and Understanding”. Ms. Bai Hongye (National Library of China) will present Map production and distribution in China A case study based on the Jian'an and Ouning (Fujian) district maps from 4:30-6:30pm at The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The lecture could be seen via Zoom.

February 22, 2024 - London (Hybrid) - The Thirty-Third Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London) with Tony Campbell and Peter Barber (both formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at 5.00 pm and are followed by refreshment. Enquiries to <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>, or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. All meetings are hybrid but please note that for this series all will be held in Senate House, University of London. We strongly encourage all who can to support the speaker by attending in person. All meetings are free but anybody wishing to attend a meeting must, please, indicate their intention at the Warburg Institute's What's On page, to register. Those attending remotely will be sent a link with guidelines. Matthew Day (College of Arts, Humanities and Education, University of Derby) will speak about For the Benefit of the Nation? Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations (1589, 1598–1600) and Its Readers. Hakluyt Society Speaker.

February 26, 2024 - Cambridge, Massachusetts The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies will have a China Humanities Seminar featuring Michelle H. Wang (Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities, Reed College) from 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm in CGIS South, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge St. In The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China (University of Chicago Press, 2023), Michelle H. Wang explores the diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China. The book centers on maps (ditu) excavated from three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute the entire known corpus of early Chinese maps.

February 26, 2024 - London (Online) The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold a virtual business meeting from 3-4:30 pm. If you would like to join the business meeting, or have any other business we should discuss, please respond to me <paula.williams(at)cartography.org.uk> by 19th February so I can share papers and the meeting link.

February 27, 2024 - Denver (Hybrid) Rebecca Theobald (Associate Research Professor in the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs) will speak about The Role of Maps in Electoral Redistricting: Redistricting Maps in Context at the Rocky Mountain Map Society meeting. Meeting will be at 5:30 pm in History Colorado Center, downtown Denver. This presentation will examine redistricting in the context of 1) global approaches to geographic representation, 2) manipulation of districts to maintain power, and 3) current democracy reform projects in the United States. Register to attend in-person. Contact Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for Zoom link.

February 27, 2024 - London (Online) The International Map Collectors' Society will have a Show & Tell by Zoom at 6pm UK time (as in the past). As before, several Presenters will share about a map, globe or related item. Register for the event or alternatively, register on the Society website Events page.

March 2, 2024 - 's-Hertogenbosch For its next excursion, The Brussels Map Circle proposes to go to 's-Hertogenbosch to visit the Mapping Modernity exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch. Mapping Modernity is an exhibition that tells the story of our world in 250 maps. If you wish to register please email to Marie-Anne Dage, Brussels Map Circle Secretary, <marie.anne.dage(at)gmail.com>.

March 2, 2024 - San Francisco (Online) The Winter Conference of California Map Society will be held virtually 9:30AM - 12:30PM Pacific time. Suzanne Knecht will talk about her circumnavigation of the globe over the course of 2 years, 30,000 miles and over 30 countries. Robert Headland will talk about his trips to the Arctic with the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. Chet van Duzer will discuss Imagined Territories around the South Pole: Exploring the Ring Continent on Early Globes and Maps There will also be a presentation by Evan Thornberry from Stanford's David Rumsey Map Center. Click here to register.

March 5, 2024 - Cambridge You are warmly invited to a special event in Magdalene College at 5.15pm in The Cripps Auditorium (Entrance on Chesterton Road. Professor Stuart Martin, Senior Tutor and member of the Department of Mathematics, will chair a presentation on Perspectives. There will be two short talks and then a chance for discussion. The first panellist is Professor Tina di Carlo (Department of Architecture). Her talk will be about projections, with reference to Magdalene's own William Farish. Our second speaker is Tony Kirby, who is an expert on cartography (the production of maps and city plans) who will talk about the history of these two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional spaces. He will focus especially on plans of Cambridge through the ages. All are welcome including guests. The event will be followed by a drinks reception. Booking is not essential but helpful for catering purposes. Enquiries or to book contact The Pepys Librarian on <litfest(at)magd.cam.ac.uk>.

March 5, 2024 - Sheridan, Wyoming Rich Urbatchka (formerly with Kansas University Cartographic Service) will will give a presentation on the basics of Cartography from 5-6 p.m. in the Inner Circle, at Fulmer Library, 335 W. Alger St.

March 12, 2024 - Barcelona Presentation of the book Late Medieval World maps: From the Birth of the Hybrid World Map to the Demise of the Portolan Mappamundi by Ramon J. Pujades will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Auditorium of the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC). Montjuïc Park. Attendance is free but, given the limited capacity of the room, it is essential to register as soon as possible.

March 14, 2024 - Valenciennes, France Jean-Louis Renteux (former Vice-President The Brussels Map Circle) will give a lecture about the history of the mapping of Hainaut. Lecture will be at 18.00 in Médiathèque Simone-Veil - 4, rue Ferrand.

March 14, 2024 - Rome (Hybrid) Stefaan Missinne (Royal Geographical Society) will deliver a lecture Leonardo and Verrazzano: New Discoveries on the Occasion of the 500th Anniversary of the Earliest European Voyage to the United States, 1524–2024. Lecture will be 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm at Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway. Register to attend on-line or in-person.

March 14, 2024 - Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Arranged with assistance of Rocky Mountain Map Society. 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. Gary Spaid (Past President, Road Map Collectors Association) will discuss Why We Collect Road Maps.

March 21, 2024 – Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library; 5:30 p.m. – social time with light refreshments; 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Dr. Anne Bonds (Professor and Associate Chair of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County represents the first effort to comprehensively document and map all racial covenants in Milwaukee County. Our goal is to not only analyze and visualize the historical geographies of racial covenants, but also to uncover Black resistance to such discrimination and its impact in shaping racial justice movements today. Register in advance for this webinar.

March 21, 2024 - London (Hybrid) - The Thirty-Third Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London) with Tony Campbell and Peter Barber (both formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at 5.00 pm and are followed by refreshment. Enquiries to <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>, or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. All meetings are hybrid but please note that for this series all will be held in Room 243, 2nd Floor, Senate House, University of London. We strongly encourage all who can to support the speaker by attending in person. All meetings are free but anybody wishing to attend a meeting must, please, indicate their intention at the Warburg Institute's What's On page, to register. Those attending remotely will be sent a link with guidelines. Catherine Gibson (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia) will speak about Mapmakers in Action: Drawing Borders in the Baltic, 1918–20.

March 22, 2024 - Amsterdam Scientific research on maps from the period when the Netherlands actively participated in slave trade and colonial occupation sometimes provokes fierce public reactions: falsification of history and virtue propaganda! In this Jansonius Lecture: Geschiedvervalsing en deugpropaganda!: Waarom het noodzakelijk is onze blik op oude kaarten te veranderen, starting at 14.15, Margriet Hoogvliet explains why it is necessary to change our view of old maps. She does this in particular using texts and maps on Africa, America and Asia in Blaeus Atlas Maior (from 1662 onwards). We can no longer simply discuss Dutch cartography from the sixteenth century onwards as heritage that we as a society can be proud of, because there are too many dark sides that we cannot simply ignore. Recent scientific theorising on old maps and different perspectives will be discussed, providing surprising new insights. Registration here. Venue: Singelkerk, Singel 452, Amsterdam. Language: Dutch

March 23, 2024 – Brussels The Brussels Map Circle 2024 Annual General Meeting will be held 10.00-12.00. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) opens only for Brussels Map Circle active members.
The Brussels Map Circle 2024 Map Afternoon (MAPAF) will be held 14.00-16.00. The MAPAF 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.
Both meetings will be held in Map Room / Cartes et Plans / Kaarten en Plannen, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), Mont des Arts.

March 24, 2024 – New York The New York Map Society invites all New York-area map lovers to join us at 2:00pm for a self-guided tour of the New York Historical Society’s immersive exhibit: New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam. Buy your ticket(s) Adults: $24; Seniors/Educators: $19 here. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of a colony that would give rise to New York, this special installation is organized around the Castello Plan, a map depicting New Amsterdam around the peak of its settlement circa 1660.

March 25, 2024 - Portland (Online) Please join Osher Map Library at 12:00 PM, for a conversation with Matthew Edney about Chromolithography. 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. Registration link to be posted.

March 26, 2024 – Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30PM at History Colorado, 1200 Broadway. Rocky Mountain Map Society Founding Member Don McGuirk will speak on the topic: Is This North America? The earliest World Maps (c. 1502-1516) appear to depict the Eastern Coast of North America decades before its documented exploration. This enigma has been called “The most baffling [cartographic] problem” of its time. (W. P. Cumming, R. A. Skelton, and D. B. Quinn). This presentation will examine these maps in detail, present contemporary written information regarding this geography presented, and conclude by arguing that the geography presented is not North America but rather the earliest expression of an overestimated Cuba. Register to attend in-person. Contact Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for Zoom link.

April 1, 2024 - Stanford David Rumsey has spent the last 30 years building one of the biggest historical map collections in the world. He calls it his poem. The collection now is in the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford. A Stranger Quest is a documentary film about building this collection. It will be shown and discussed in Hauck Auditorium, Traitel Building, Stanford Campus. 435 Lasuen Mall, from 4:30-7:00 pm. Register here.

April 2, 2024 – Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will have a presentation Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: A Short History of Maps in Video Games and Virtual Worlds. Andrea Gatopoulos will talk about his journey within the existential folds of the virtual through video-essays, short films and stories orbiting around maps at the David Rumsey Map Center, Green Library Bing Wing, Stanford Campus. 557 Escondido Mall. Talk will be from 2:00-4:30 pm. Register here.

April 3, 2024 – Hong Kong (Hybrid) The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, École française d'Extrême-Orient, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology co-organized a lecture series “The Backgrounds of the Chinese Maps / Their Reading and Understanding”. Dr. Isabelle Charleux (CRNS France) will discuss Comment on the Map of the Eastern Turned Right Banner, Inner Mongolia from 4:30-6:30pm at The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The lecture could be seen via Zoom.

April 3, 2024 – Vienna The annual ordinary meeting of the General Assembly of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes will take place at 5 p.m. at Austrian National Library, Reading Room of the Map Department, Josefsplatz 1.

April 9, 2024 - New York (Hybrid) The Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance presents Chet Van Duzer speaking on Animals on Maps and our Views of the World. The talk will take place at the New York Faculty House, Columbia University, at 4:00 PM Eastern time. Click here to register for attendance in-person or on-line. Questions to Cynthia M. Pyle, <c.m.pyle(at)nyu.edu>.

April 9, 2024 - Washington (Online) Join from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Reference librarians Amelia Raines and Julie Stoner who 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, and fire insurance maps made by other companies held in our division. We will cover how to search for, 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. Register for this session.

April 11, 2024 – Hong Kong (Hybrid) The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, École française d'Extrême-Orient, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology co-organized a lecture series “The Backgrounds of the Chinese Maps / Their Reading and Understanding”. Dr. Cheng Yinong (Yunnan University) will talk about On the Chinese Administrative Maps Tradition from 4:30-6:30pm at The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The lecture could be seen via Zoom.

April 11, 2024 - London (Online) Susan Schulten (Professor of History at the University of Denver) will deliver the International Map Collectors' Society “Malcolm Young Lecture 2024” at 6:00pm UK time. She will speak about The Cartographic Creativity of Richard Edes Harrison. From the 1930s through the 1950s, he produced hundreds of stunning maps and graphics that upended the American public’s understanding of geography in a world governed by war and aviation. The Lecture will be delivered on Zoom and registration is open on Eventbrite.

April 11, 2024 - Milwaukee (Hybrid) Tim Wallace (Senior Editor for Geography at The New York Times) presents the 2024 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture at 6 p.m.(5:30 reception) in the American Geographical Society Library, located on the third floor of the UWM Golda Meir Library. The title of his talk is Newsroom Cartography. Registration is required for this in-person and virtual event.

April 11, 2024 - Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. 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. Leonid Chekin will discuss Svalbard, Paradise and Beyond: The Arctic Islands on Medieval and Early Modern Maps.

April 12, 2024 – New York The New York Map Society invites members to attend a talk by noted cartographic historian Chet Van Duzer (a member of the New York Map Society) at 6:00 pm New York (EDT) time in Arader Galleries, 1016 Madison Avenue, between 78th and 79th Street, on Maps and Power. Particularly since the 1988 publication of J. B. Harley’s essay “Maps, Knowledge and Power,” the role maps can play in both the symbolism and the administration of political power has been widely recognized and discussed. These discussions have not always been as rich in concrete examples as one might wish. In this talk Van Duzer will analyze specific maps that show the various ways in which this intimate relationship has been expressed and implemented, from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. These examples include maps as symbols of power, the capture of maps and resultant military gains, and the replacing of indigenous place names with imposed ones. His hope is that consideration of several diverse ways in which maps have expressed, represented, and generated power will foster a broader understanding of this relationship. To attend, members must RSVP Andrew Kapochunas at <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>.

Apr 13, 2024 - Santa Monica The Southern California section of California Map Society will meet 2:00PM - 5:00PM Pacific Time. Register online.

April 18, 2024 – Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library; 5:30 p.m. – social time with light refreshments; 6:00 p.m. Karen-edis Barzman (Emeritus Professor of Art History) will speak about Government Mapping in Early Modern Venice. Description: In 1460 the Venetian republic mandated something unprecedented – the systematic mapping of its territories, combining quantitative and qualitative data in “true pictures” to be archived and consulted in the inner chambers of government.

April 20, 2024 - Hershey, Pennsylvania The Road Map Collectors Association will have their annual Spring MapCon at the AACA Museum, 161 Museum Drive. Register here.

April 24, 2024 - Canberra Join American cartographic expert Emeritus Professor Dennis Reinhartz as he discusses the exploration and charting of the Americas and the Pacific undertaken by the Spanish from the 15th to the 18th centuries with map collector, curator and author Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy. Lecture, Spanish mapping of Empire, is at National Library of Australia Theatre, 6:00pm – 7:00pm. Entry is free to this event but bookings are essential. The talk will be available to view live online via the Library’s Facebook and YouTube pages. You do not need to book a ticket to watch the event online.

April 24-26, 2024 - Montevideo The X Ibero-American Symposium on the History of Cartography will take place in a collaboration between the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences of the University of the Republic (FHCE-Udelar), the National Historical Museum-National Directorate of Culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay ( MHN-DNC-MEC) and the School of Humanities of the National University of San Martín (EH-UNSAM). The central theme of the symposium, Historias de cartografías en Iberoamérica: mapear un campo de estudios, proposes to enable theoretical-methodological reflection on the history of cartography and historical cartography, as well as to celebrate the consolidation of an academic space that has been forged since 2006 with the biennial celebration of meetings of Ibero-American specialists dedicated to the study of the production and social use of cartographic images in different times and spaces. Registration will be free, and the official languages will be Spanish and Portuguese. Additional information from <xsiahc(at)gmail.com>.

April 25, May 23, 30, 2024 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium The Museum SteM Sint-Niklaas is organising a series of lectures on cartography in MercatorMuseum - Zamanstraat 49. Below is the list of forthcoming events, with a link to the pages containing a description of each lecture and the opportunity to register: Each lecture starts at 20:00 and is in Dutch:
April 25: Ik = cartograaf [I = cartographer]
May 23: Oude kaarten lezen [Reading old maps]
May 30: Kaarten die grenzen verleggen [Maps that push boundaries]

April 26, 2024- Boulder, Colorado Please join the Rocky Mountain Map Society at 11:00 am for a field trip to the CU Boulder Map Library. There will be a group tour of the current exhibition "No Boundaries: Women Transforming the World", with time to explore the library, and lunch on campus to follow. If you haven't visited the CU Map Library, here's your chance to learn about holdings and research services available to all!

April 27, 2024 - Chapel Hill The William P. Cumming Map Society will meet 10a - 12n at Wilson Library on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Margaret Pritchard will discuss More than Meets the Eye: Symbolic Messages Conveyed Through Maps. Margaret’s presentation dovetails with "Compasses, Cartouches, and Creatures: Exploring the Art of North Carolina Maps", the current map exhibit in the North Carolina Gallery in the Wilson Library.

May 1-2, 2024 - Sydney On May 1 the Australian and New Zealand Map Society will have a one-day “ANZMaps 2024” symposium, Mapping the Indian Ocean World, from antiquity to the present, held at the State Library of New South Wales. The symposium explores the cartography of the Indian Ocean World reflecting its role in shaping human knowledge, culture and history from antiquity to present. Click here for booking.
   On May 2 there will be a public lecture and workshop organised by the University of Western Australia. The will be limited tickets for the workshop: Looking slowly at early modern maps with Chet van Duzer. Book now. Tickets for the evening lecture, Frames that Speak: An introduction to cartographic cartouches with Chet van Duzer, can be obtained by clicking here.

May 2, 2024 – Washington (Hybrid) The Washington Map Society will meet in person at the Library of Congress, arranged in collaboration with the Library of Congress Development Office and the Philip Lee Phillips Society. The Library will also broadcast the two presentations virtually. The lectures will be held in the Montpelier Room on the 6th Floor of the Madison Building. The program schedule is as follows:
    Lecture 1, 3:00-4:00 pm, Lauren Beck (Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter; Professor of Visual and Material Culture Studies, Mount Allison University, Canada) will speak about Extractive Place Naming Practices in Early Modern North America
    Map Display, 4:00 -5:00 pm, Room adjacent to Montpelier Room
    Lecture 2, 5:00 -6:00 pm, S. Max Edelson (Professor of History, University of Virginia) will speak about Catawba Cartographies: Remapping the Indigenous Southeast, ca. 1670-1733
Click here to register for in person or virtual attendance at the Library of Congress events.
    Following the Library of Congress events, the Washington Map Society has arranged for an informal dinner at the nearby Hunan Dynasty Restaurant (215 Pennsylvania Ave. SE), starting at 6:30 pm. The cost will be $40.00 cash (including tax and tip). Dinner reservation must be made by April 24. RSVP to John Docktor at <washmap(at)gmail.com> in order to receive link for making a dinner reservation.

May 2, 2024 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle announces our next presentation by Eliane Dotson. Her lecture will explore Jefferson's early education and experiences in surveying and explain how he came to create his influential map, A Map of the Country Between Albemarle Sound, and Lake Erie. We will review the cartographic and historical significance of this map and examine how it served as an important record of the growth of the nation in the late 18th Century. We hope you will all be able to join us at 5:00p.m. at Williamsburg Landing, Assisted Living Building. Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you will be able to attend.

May 3-4, 2024 - Austin The Texas Map Society is pleased to host the “2024 Spring Meeting”, All Over the Map, at the Texas General Land Office, 1700 Congress Ave. This event will feature tours of the Ransom Center, the Briscoe Center, the Benson Latin American Collection, and the Texas General Land Office, as well as pioneer land surveying demonstrations and presentations on an assortment of cartographic topics. Click here for program. Click here to register for meeting. Discounted hotel rates are available if booking is made by April 4. For questions one can email TMS President and conference organizer James Harkins <James.Harkins(at)glo.texas.gov>.

May 3, 2024 – Edinburgh (Hybrid) The Scottish Maps Forum will be having a one-day seminar: The Premodern Scottish Place: Mapping, Chorography, History, Landscape, Literature. This seminar will bring together researchers working on the premodern (medieval and early modern) histories of Scottish cartography, chorography, landscape, history, and literature. The seminar forms part of a wider research project relating to Place and Poetry in Pre-Modern Scotland. A related part of this project involves the creation of a new online resource, mapping a small selection of early modern poems relating to Scotland. We will unveil these on the day, inviting comment and review to help to finalise them by the summer. The seminar will involve a series of short talks, with plenty of time for discussion. There will also be an opportunity to view a small selection of relevant collection items in the Maps Reading Room. The seminar will be held in the National Library of Scotland Causewayside Building, Edinburgh, and also online. There will be no charge for the seminar, but you will need to register to attend. Spaces are limited for attendance in person. Further details of speakers, talks and a timetable for the day is posted online.

May 4, 2024 - New York The New York Map Society will have our end-of-program-season event! A Lunch, Show & Tell will be held in a member's home in Manhattan: 12:00 - 1:00: Light lunch, wine and beer; 1:00 - 2:00: Show & Tell. Attendees strictly limited to 15. Presenters limited to eight speaking for no more than five minutes each. RSVP to Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> as soon as possible to reserve your spot as a presenter or attendee and receive the meeting address.

May 7, 2024 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Jana Schuster (Historic England & New York University) will speak about The cartographic commissions of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749). All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom. Please register for the talk andd the Zoom link will be sent to you. 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 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2024 – Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society, in conjunction with History Colorado, presents a month-long series of lectures focusing on persuasive maps. All programs will be at History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, and start at 5:30PM MT. Contact Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for Zoom link for each meeting.
  May 7 - PJ Mode. Persuasion” and “Intent” in Persuasive Mapping: “Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go. Please register for in-person attendance and get a free ticket at History Colorado's event calendar.
  May 14 - Susan Schulten. The Graphic Legacy of Richard Edes Harrison. Please register for in-person attendance and get a free ticket at History Colorado's event calendar.
  May 21 - Dennis Reinhartz. Popular Promotional Cartography of the Southwest: The Art of Persuasion. Please register for in-person attendance and get a free ticket at History Colorado's event calendar.
  May 28 - Chet Van Duzer. Colonialism in the Cartouche: Imagery and Power in Early Modern Maps. Please register for in-person attendance and get a free ticket at History Colorado's event calendar.

May 8, 2024 - Richmond The Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad Street, received a gift of 200 maps from the Emerson Knapp Map Collection. The Knapp collection is composed of maps illustrating North America, British North America, Virginia, the United States and the American Southeast through three centuries of cartographic publication. You are invited to join us 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. as we explore the Emerson Knapp Map Collection. RSVP here.

May 9, 2024 - Oxford (Online) The 31st Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Martin Brückner (University of Delaware) will speak about Colonial counter-mappings: Learning from indigenous cartography in eighteenth-century America. 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 10, 2024 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center for a virtual lunch lecture at 12 noon to learn more about George Washington’s relationship to the American West. Dr. Alexandra Montgomery from the Washington Library at Mount Vernon will focus on one of the maps he used most frequently during the American Revolution: Thomas Hutchins’ A New Map of the Western Parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina (1778). This event is part of the American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) project. Click here to register.

May 11, 2023 – San Francisco The Bay Area Map Group of the California Map Society will have in-person meeting, from 2 to 5pm, at the home of Len and Juliet Rothman. More information about the event, including how to RSVP, can be found here.

May 15, 2024 - New York (Online) Register for "Morning Tea with the British Library", a virtual event hosted by The American Trust for the British Library in partnership with The British Library. Join us for a short, thirty-minute virtual program, 9:00 am - 9:30 am EDT, with British Library Curator Tom Harper. Tom will present The Topographical Collection of King George III at the British Library. He will go in-depth about projects that have been acquired, preserved, or catalogued through ATBL grants. There will be a short Q&A session with the curator at the end of the program. Though we typically restrict these “Tea with the British Library” programs to our registered supporters, we are happy to open it up for "cartographic networks", given the interest in all things “map”! Register here.

May 16, 2024 – Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library; 5:30 p.m. – social time with light refreshments; 6:00 p.m. Wilbert Stroeve (past president Chicago Map Society) will discuss Games on Maps. Remember Risk? It was probably the first time that he ever heard of geographical regions called Yakutsk and Irkutsk. Over the years Stroeve played many board games and now that he is retired has time for more. It was suggested to do a map talk about those games that involve maps.

May 16, 2024 - Stanford Maps are incredibly rich documents that only reveal some of their secrets after slow and deliberate study, and it is precisely this aspect of maps that we will explore in this two-hour workshop: Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps. Chet Van Duzer will analyze several early modern maps and provide examples of important characteristics of them that can only be appreciated and understood through slow looking. Workshop is 10am to 12pm PT in Green Library, Hohbach Hall, Room 123. Click to register.

May 17, 2024 - Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales (Hybrid) Carto-Cymru 2024, The Wales Map Symposium, will be held at the National Library of Wales. This year the theme is ‘Maps and Mapmakers’ and we are looking at the people who make maps. Click here for more information and to book to attend in person. Click here for more information and to book to attend online. Additional information from Huw Thomas <huw.thomas(at)llyfrgell.cymru>.

May 17-18, 2024 - Stanford Organized by Professor Paula Findlen of Stanford's Department of History, the David Rumsey Map Center will host a workshop about the Milanese cartographer Urbano Monte's 1587 world map. Join historians and scholars from Stanford and beyond as they discuss this compelling artifact from a variety of points of view. Learn more about the event. At the conclusion of the workshop, Stanford Camerata and the University of Southern California's Early Music Ensemble will perform Musical Encounters in the Tenshō Embassy, a concert exploring Western music performed for Japanese envoys in the 1580s. Register now for the workshop, the performance, or both!

May 25, 2024 - Washington The Washington Map Society will have a field trip from 3:00 -6:00 pm, at Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E Street SE. Patrick Crowley, Capitol Hill resident and former Board of Director Member, Congressional Cemetery will talk about Grave Matters: Act I - Solving Graveyard Mysteries through Old Maps; Act II – Visiting the Cartographers & Explorers Buried at Congressional Cemetery. Meeting will be in two parts: first, a presentation of old maps used by Mr. Crowley to find solutions to mysteries about the grounds and, second, a tour of cartographers and explorers buried at Congressional Cemetery.

June 7, 2024 - Boston (Hybrid) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center for a virtual lunch lecture at 12 noon to learn more about New York During the Stamp Act and Revolutionary War: The Montrésor Map of 1766/1755. This program is organized in partnership with the Washington Library at Mount Vernon. Dr. Alexandra Montgomery (Washington Library at Mount Vernon) will talk about one of Early America’s most important cities, New York, from one of its most influential early maps: “John Montrésor’s A Plan of the City of New-York”. Washington owned a copy of this map, which was surveyed and drafted during the heady days of the stamp act riots and published at the beginning of the American Revolution. The event is part of the American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) project. Click here to register.

June 10, 2024 - Warsaw (Online) We are excited to invite you to Warsaw Spatial Humanities seminar. Our speaker is Matthew Endey with a topic Historical Geography and Early Maps: Reflections on Modelling Sources. We meet online at 12:00 Warsaw time (CEST). Register here to join us.

June 11, 2024 - Washington (Online) Join from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, reference librarians for an introduction to the Geography and Map Division collections. 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 session.

June 13, 2024 - Oxford (Online) The 31st Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Anthony Gerbino (University of Manchester) will discuss How did the chorographic tradition end? Picture maps and measurement in Renaissance France. 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.

June 15, 2024 – London The International Map Collectors' Society annual general meeting will be held at 10am at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore.

June 15-16, 2024 - 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.

June 17, 2024 – Boston (Online) The Leventhal Map & Education Center will have a virtual lecture The Blue Maps of China: A Conversation with Elke Papelitzky from 1:00 – 2:00 pm New York (EDT) time. To attend the lecture register here.

June 20, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. 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. Heiko Mühr (Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of California Berkeley) will speak about Mapping German Americans and Their Communities: Heinz Kloss and His 1974 Ethnographic Atlas.

June 29, 2024 – Stanford (Hybrid) The Spring Meeting of the California Map Society will be held, from 10am to 4:30pm, at the David Rumsey Map Center, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall. Click here for additional details.

July 1-5, 2024 - Lyon, France Imago Mundi and the University of Lyon will be glad to welcome you back to France during the 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography, postponed from 2023. The idea of organizing the conference in Lyon with the theme Confluences - Interdisciplinarity and New Challenges in the History of Cartography is inspired by the very location of the city, as a confluence between North and South, between Saône and Rhône rivers, the Rhône Valley and the Alps. The official language of the conference will be English, and all presentations must be in that language. There will be no simultaneous translation. There will be a pre-conference visit to Paris and Bibliothèque Nationale de France on June 29th, and a post-conference tour on July 6th. Additional information from <ichc2024(at)univ-lyon3.fr>.

July 3, 2024 – Lyon, France The Lyon Map Fair will be held 11.00 to 18.00 at the University of Lyon/MILC - Maison Internationale des Langues et des Cultures, 35 rue Raulin -The 15 national and international map dealers will offer for sale a large selection of old maps, atlases, globes, travel books, and prints.

July 9, 2024 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center for a virtual lecture from 7:00-8:00 pm.: Tracing ‘Yu’: Stone Maps and the Modern Re-Imagination of ‘Chinese’ Territory. On opposite sides of a twelfth-century stele in Xi’an appear two of the most famous maps in Chinese cartographic history, the Tracks of Yu and the Map of Chinese and Foreigners, best known through rubbings now found in collections around the world. This paper, by Stephen H. Whiteman (Reader in the Art and Architecture of China, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London), revisits these two maps, reflecting on the almost heroic status they have acquired in modern efforts to imagine the ‘China’ and the Chinese past through its technical accomplishments. Click here to register.

August 13, 2024 – Washington (Online) Join reference librarians Cynthia Smith and Amelia Raines from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) as we explore maps and atlases by several important cartographers in the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress collections. This orientation session will provide an overview of a series of research guides focused on prominent cartographers. We'll also discuss how to search for works by specific mapmakers and creators in the Library's catalog and online collections, and resources for learning more about their lives. The session will end with a Q&A. Register for this session.

August 27, 2024 - Dublin The Royal Irish Academy, in partnership with the International Geographical Congress 2024, invites you to a public event that traces the evolution of mapping in Ireland. From map-making as a colonial project to contemporary community map-making as a means to address significant national challenges, we invite you to consider the social and political power of maps in a variety of contexts across more than 400 years. Mapping Ireland Through Time: From Cartographies to Communities will feature a series of fifteen-minute talk on maps and map-making during different time periods. This will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by Professor Keith Lilley, Queen’s University Belfast.

August 27-30, 2024 - London (Hybrid) The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2024 will be chaired by Professor Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham, UK). The chair’s theme will explore mapping in all its forms, in a world that is saturated with maps, from historical cartography to the newest technologies and digital practices. The conference venue will be at the Society and at Imperial College London. Additional information from <ac2024(at)rgs.org>.

September 2, 2024 - London (Hybrid) Over the last fifty years, scholars, collectors, and curators revolutionized and invigorated the practice of map history. Theoretically informed studies, grounded in new archives and shaped by new technologies, have globalized both the subject and the community of map history. As a new generation of map historians emerges, as the last of the six volumes of The History of Cartography approaches completion, and as “Imago Mundi”, the leading journal in the field, anticipates its second century of publication, the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap), in collaboration with the editors of “Imago Mundi” are organizing a small, one-day symposium. Where Does Map History Go Now? invites reflection on the series and its intellectual significance, and provides an opportunity to brainstorm and imagine what comes next for the field with interventions attending to the global and digital contexts of our work. The symposium will take place at the Royal Geographical Society. Although in-person space is closed, ISHMap members in good standing by August 31 may participate virtually. To attend virtually, please complete this registration form.

September 4-5, 2024 - London The British Cartographic Society annual conference and geodata visualisation hack day will be held in partnership with University College London at the Jeffrey Hall, 20 Bedford Way. There is an informal dinner arranged for those who might be interested. Located close by Stanfords, it should suit those who plan to be at the Networking Event and would like to eat beforehand. Register here.

September 4-7, 2024 – Oldenberg The 21. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium will be held. Program can be viewed online.

September 6-7, 2024 – Amsterdam The first international Amsterdam Map Fair will be held on Saturday, 7 November at the Maritime Museum from 11.00-18.00. There are extras for members of both International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS) and The Brussels Map Circle. These include a boat trip and a lunch on the day. There is also an optional concert that evening. Our much-esteemed previous IMCoS Chair, Hans Kok, will be giving an address at the Fair in the afternoon. On Friday, 6 November, there will be a guided tour of the Maritime Museum and a pre-Mapfair cocktail reception on a classic boat cruising the Amsterdam canals. Make your reservation now.

September 7, 2024 - Amsterdam The Brussels Map Circle is pleased to announce its next excursion to Amsterdam, in conjunction with the Map Fair. The programme will follow.

September 7, 2024 - Shrewsbury, Shropshire The Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, invites you to drop in and view some stunning maps of Shropshire from 1pm-3pm. Archivists gathered together a selection of our favourite maps from across the centuries.

September 10, 2024 - Boston (Hybrid) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center, 700 Boylston Street, for a lecture from 7:00-8:00 pm. Learn about the changing land tenure systems of eighteenth-century Canada as seen through maps. The 1774 Quebec Act is primarily known for partially provoking the American Revolution. But it also formalized the continuation of French, and by extension, Indigenous land tenures in British-controlled Quebec. In this program, Julia Lewandoski (Assistant Professor of History, University of California San Diego) will explore how cartographers struggled to express and accommodate distinctive French and Indigenous forms of landholding on maps meant to assert British dominance over the province. Registration is not required, but we will send a calendar invitation and reminder to registered attendees.

September 11-13, 2024 - Cartagena de Indias, Columbia The First Colombian Symposium on the History of Geography and Cartography is an initiative of Razón Cartográfica: Network of History of the Geographies and Cartographies of Colombia, the History Program of the University of Cartagena and the Geography Program of the National University of Colombia (La Paz Campus).

September 17, 2024 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will have two presentations by Professor Imre Demhardt at the History Colorado, 1200 Broadway. At 4:00 PM in the Research Center of the History Colorado building, Demhardt will lead a workshop on Weiland & Happel’s Atlas von Amerika (1823-29). At 5:30 in the Martin Room of the History Center, Demhardt will give his lecture on Alexander von Humboldt. The latter presentation can be attended in person or viewed on Zoom. Click here to register to attend in person or click here to view on Zoom.

September 18-19, 2024 – London (Online) Canceled: The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society has canceled its Annual Workshop. Additional information from Paula Williams <P.Williams(at)NLS.UK>.

September 19, 2024 - Albuquerque The University of New Mexico Libraries presents the 2024 Willard Lecture, Borders and Other Imagined Spaces: How Maps Define Understanding. The panel presentation will take place from 4 - 5:30 p.m. in the historic West Wing of Zimmerman Library. Light refreshments will be served.

September 19, 2024 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. At 6:00 pm CT Richard Pegg will talk about Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China. Register in advance for the webinar.

September 19, 2024 – Washington (Hybrid) The Library of Congress Philip Lee Phillips Society will be sponsoring two presentations about Mapping in the Islamic Tradition in the Jefferson building, 10 First Street, First Floor, LJ119 (Mahogany Row). There will be a meet and greet at 12:30 with first speaker at 1:00: Dr. Shah Hanifi (Professor of History, James Madison University) is a historian with research interests in the Middle East, Islamic urbanism, migration, diasporas, and cartography. Second speaker at 3:00: Dr. Karen C. Pinto (Associate Scholar, Religious Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder) is author of “Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration” (University of Chicago, 2016). In addition, G&M staff will give a short talk on related acquisitions at 2:00 and a display of collection items from the Geography and Map Division and the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room. Registration required. Click here to attend in person or click here to join the program on Zoom.

September 26, 2024 – Edinburgh Join Map Curator Paula Williams (Curator of Maps, Mountaineering and Polar Collections at the National Library of Scotland) from 17:30 - 18:30 BST as she delves into the fascinating stories of two maps and two men from the northern Renaissance. Her presentation, Stories, surveys, and spies in Renaissance map-making, will explore the maps created by John Geddy and Nicolas de Nicolay, contrasting their careers and our knowledge of them. Reserve a spot at the National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge.

September 30, 2024 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) The French School of Asian Studies, Hong Kong Center, has the pleasure to invite you to attend the following talk by Cheng Yinong (Researcher University of Yunnan, Department of History) The Use of Map in Imperial China Government Affairs. The talk will be at 4:30 pm in Digital Scholarship Lab., G/F; University Library, CUHK Shatin; New Territories. The talk will be given in Chinese. Connect with Zoom. Enquiry +852 3943 1247 / <hk.center(at)efeo.net>

October 3-5, 2024 - Kansas City The Road Map Collectors Association will have MapCon 2024 at the Hilton Kansas City Airport Hotel, 8801 NW 112th St.

October 4-5, 2024 – Arlington The theme of the 14th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History of Cartography is Celestial Charts. Details and registration online.

October 8, 2024 - Paris The idea of geography being the “eye of history” is a common expression in the early modern period, but it is articulated in a specific way if we take the cartographic object as the point of observation. The map as the “eye of history” (16th-18th centuries) is a study day which will re-investigate the relationship between maps and history in the chronological span from the 16th to the 18th century, in Europe and its imperial extensions, from three angles: the analysis of the place of maps in the teaching and reading of history, an investigation into history on and through maps, and a reflection on the porosity between the producers of historical and cartographic knowledge. With the support of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (CAK) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the study day will take place in the conference room of the Maps and Plans Department of the BnF on the Richelieu site. Additional inforamtion from <oeildelhistoire2024(at)gmail.com>.

October 8, 2024 – Washington (Online) Join Library of Congress reference librarians from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) for an introduction to the Geography and Map Division collections. 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 session.

October 10, 2024 - New York In 1964, Raleigh D’Adamo’s winning entry in a Transit Authority design competition redefined the color-coding scheme of the New York City subway map and inspired his professional shift from law to transportation. This led to a long career of notable achievements including his involvement in the creation of 1972’s iconic Unimark map. D’Adamo also developed safer subway operating procedures and devised new routing systems and passenger service proposals that are still influential today. Joined by historian and map scholar, Peter B. Lloyd, Raleigh D'Adamo will present his many contributions to the city’s subway system and share a selection of map artifacts from his personal collection. A Life in Transit: Raleigh D’Adamo in conversation with Peter B. Lloyd will be held from 06:00pm - 07:30pm at New York Transit Museum, 99 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn. Register here.

October 10, 2024 – Oxford (Hybrid) Technologies continuously evolve transforming the representation of space and geography, shaping new forms of consciousness and knowledge. Digital technologies are mediating access to and research into cartographic material. 2D and 3D digital recording and display technologies are being employed to document rare maps, globes, and other cartographic material, enhancing research and playing a crucial role in the decision-making processes focused on both access and preservation. Maps are too exciting! / digital innovations in mapping is a Sunderland Collection Symposium, hosted by ARCHiOx Project. The symposium will be held 9.30am – 4pm in Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street. Free, booking required. Book – in person | Book – online.

October 10, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. 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. Dr. Catherine Gibson (Lecturer in East European Studies, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia) will talk about Mapmakers in Action: Drawing Borders in the Baltic, 1919-1920. This meeting was arranged with the assistance of the New York Map Society.

October 10, 2024 – Williamsburg Professor Francesca Fiorani will be speaking to the Williamsburg Map Circle at 5:00 in the Williamsburg Landing. The title of her talk is The Shadow Drawing. How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint. She describes her talk as "an entirely new account of Leonardo the artist and Leonardo the scientist, and why they were one and the same man." She will also talk about some maps associated with Da Vinci. Additional information from Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com>.

October 12, 2024 - Bruges The Vrienden Musea Brugge and the Cultuurbibliotheek of the Sint-Lodewijkscollege invite everyone to attend an extremely interesting academic study day on Marcus Gerards and his equally extremely important city plan. Meeting will be from 09:15 AM to approx. 04:30 PM at Sint-Lodewijkscollege (Magdalenastraat 30, 8200 Brugge - Sint-Andries). Registration required.

October 12, 2024 - Taunton, England The British Association for Local History are delighted to present this one-day conference, Maps and Buildings, on the complementary topics of maps and buildings in local history. Both topics offer a tangible and accessible route into the study of local history and enrich our understanding of the past. Conference will be 10:00am - 4:00pm at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Kingston Road. Booking is required.

October 13, 2024 - South Windsor, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2pm in South Windsor Public Library, Board Room, 1550 Sullivan Avenue. Foxing, soiling, and worm holes, oh my! Are you intrigued by old maps, and perhaps collect them too? Are you confused and tongue-tied by jargon such as “foxing” or “neat line”, or simply not sure where to start or how to develop your collection? Come join us as Brian Tims enlightens us about collecting (and, most importantly, enjoying) antique and vintage maps of all types. Brian will be your sherpa as he walks you through the land of collecting: Antique Map Collecting 101. He will discuss how to define your collection, where to search for and acquire maps, evaluating them, negotiating, and preserving your collection. This event is free and open to the public. Click here to view the event on the library's website and to pre-register, which is required.

October 14-15, 2024 - Prague The workshop Ethnolinguistic cartography (18th–21st centuries) in comparative perspective: genre, political conflicts, memory, organised by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of the Strategy AV21: Research programme Identities in the World of Wars and Crises, will take place at the Institute of History. The theme of the workshop will be to analyse the development of ethnolinguistic maps in Europe and other regions of the world from different perspectives from the 18th to the 21st century. Additional information from dr. Stanislav Holubec <sholubec(at)gmail.com> or dr. Jitka Močičková <mocickova(at)hiu.cas.cz>.

October 16-19, 2024 - Valletta, Malta The 41st International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium, Imago Melitae 2024, will feature six lectures by well-known figures in the cartographic world will be given along with visits to the National Library, MUZA and Lascaris War Rooms in Valletta, the Maritime Museum and the Inquisitors Palace in Vittoriosa, and the National and Ecclesiastical Archives in Rabat and Mdina. On October 20 there will be a post symposium tour to the sister island of Gozo where we will visit the Ġgantija Archaeological Park – a Unesco World Heritage site, the Citadel of Rabat, the Ħaġar Museum and other interesting historical places.

October 17, 2024 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. Mimi Cheng will speak about Charting Modernity in Late-Qing Maps. This talk focuses on a set of maps of China from the last two decades of the Qing empire (1644-1911) that reside in the MacLean Collection and Library of Congress. Click here to register for this program on Zoom.

October 17, 2024 - Chicago (Online) Take a deep dive into the process of creating the many multifaceted and interactive maps for the Newberry Library’s “Indigenous Chicago” project, with scholars who helped to conceptualize and build them. Mapping Indigenous Chicago is an introduction to several of the all-new interactive maps created for our "Indigenous Chicago" project. Scholars involved in development of the maps will speak to the maps they worked on and discuss the challenges they faced in deciding how to represent various cultural aspects. Click here to register for this program which will be on Zoom 6:00pm–7:30pm.

October 19-20, 2024 - Amsterdam This year the International Antiquarian Book, Print & Map Fair will be held in Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, Piet Heinkade 27.

October 22, 2024 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center for a virtual lecture from 7:00-8:00 pm. Learn how “cartifacts” circulated in the everydays spaces of the Revolutionary War era. In North America, the consumer revolution of the eighteenth century profoundly affected people’s material life and, as some argue, paved the way for other more momentous political revolutions. In this program, Martin Brückner (Professor of English and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware) will discuss how maps became popular consumer goods and how their material transfer as “cartifacts” came to shape everyday and political life in early America. Click here to register.

October 23-25, 2024 - Bologna 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 18th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage in partnership with the University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, CartoGeoLab - Laboratory of Cartography and Geographical Analysis, supported by the MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group. The Conference is kindly hosted by the University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM).

October 24-26, 2024 - San Antonio The Society for History of Discoveries will be partnering with The Texas Map Society for our next annual conference. With its warm weather, beautiful riverwalk, and rich history, San Antonio offers another exciting venue that aligns with our society's broad interests. The conference will be a multiple-day affair that will be near the Alamo and will include an excursion to the nearby Missions. Located directly on Alamo Square, our venue for the annual meeting is the famed Menger Hotel, historic partner hotel of the Alamo.

October 26, 2024 - Zurich, Switzerland As part of the exhibition "Zollikon from above" we are offering an excursion to Zurich, which focuses on maps, panoramas and city models. One of the most important competence centers for map history is located in the "Maps and Panoramas" department of the Zurich Central Library. Dr. Jost Schmid heads this department and will show us the newly moved premises of the special collection. In the reading room we will build a bridge to Zollikon and discover the community on original maps and panoramas. As the number of participants is limited, we ask that you register in advance by October 23, 2024. Please send an email to: <ortsmuseum(at)zollikon.ch>. The meeting point is in the ZB foyer at Zähringerplatz 6. We would be grateful if you could arrive at 12:50 p.m.

October 28, 2024 - London (Hybrid) Maps and mapping play a central part in many expeditions. They help participants to plan and to plot where they’ve been. Dr Katherine Parker will talk about Exploring the explorers’ maps from 2.30pm-3.45pm in the Education Centre at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore. Advance booking for this event is required. This event will be held in person and online. If you are joining the event online, the joining instructions will be included in your confirmation email.

October 29, 2024 – Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will host a talk at 4:00pm by Professor Mario Cams of KU Leuven, a visiting scholar to Stanford's History Department. His talk, Circling the Square, addresses how Jesuit and East Asian cartography informed one another in the seventeenth century. Please register in advance to attend.

October 31, 2024 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Jordana Dym (Skidmore College, NY) will discuss Looking Down, Looking Up: Wall and School Maps in Guatemala, 1860-1936.

November 7, 2024 - Oxford The Oxford Seminars in Cartography will have a Field Trip – Adventures in Maps. This is an in-person event at Debbie Hall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford). Booking essential - for further details, please contact: nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 287119.

November 7, 2024 - Richmond (Online) Join with the Library of Virginia at 12 pm for a free virtual presentation about the roads that early Americans traveled during the colonial and early Republic periods. Spanning from Maine to Ohio to Georgia, these routes were traveled by boat, foot, horseback and stagecoach. The Library of Virginia’s senior map archivist, Cassandra Farrell, will discuss Early American Migrations, giving both a historical context and inspiration for how you can use maps in your research. This event complements the Library’s exhibition “Mapping the Commonwealth: 1816–1824.” Learn more and register.

November 7, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Matthew H. Edney (Osher Professor in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine and Director, History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison) will discuss What’s Different about Map Making in the Nineteenth Century, and therefore in Volume Five of “The History of Cartography”?.

November 9, 2024 - Paris The 23rd Paris Map-Fair will be held 11 h 00 - 18h 00 at Hotel Ambassador, 16 bvd Haussmann. A Cocktail reception in Hotel Ambassador will be held on 8 November at 18h.

November 9, 2024 - Santa Barbara (Hybrid) The California Map Society announces our fall Southern California Meeting, to be held on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be held from 10:30am - 5:00pm. Click here to register. Additional information, including recommended lodging, are on web-page.

November 11, December 5, and December 19, 2024 – Berlin (Hybrid) Dagmar Schäfer (BBAW, MPIWG), Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS Paris; EC-Chronoi and MPIWG), and Ute Tintemann (BBAW), in cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Einstein Center Chronoi; have organized a “Lecture Series: Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture I”. Lectures are at 6 pm (CET) in Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin. As one of the oldest forms of human communication, maps are an important historical record of space. Yet maps are much more than a visual representation of a territory at a given time, but a reflection of the historical, political, religious, and cultural contexts in which they were created. This lecture series invites a critical and fresh look at mapping, its role in the global circulation of knowledge, its influence on state sovereignty and royal authority, colonialism, imperialism, and national identities throughout history.

Click on each of the links below to register for the in-person meeting. No registration is required for those attending virtually. Those attending virtually must, at the time of the meeting, click on the appropriate link below and then click on the link provided on the line “For a virtual participation in the event please click here”.
   11 November 2024 - Maps and Mapping in Global Cultural Perspectives: Temporality in Map History with Mirella Altic, University of Zagreb, ISHMap President
   5 December 2024 - Visualising Time-Space in East Asia: Mapping ‘Round Heavens & Square Earth’ from Ancient Rotating Devices to Late Modern Commercial Maps with Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, CNRS, Paris; Fellow Einstein Center Chronoi and Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
   19 December 2024 - Transcultural Cartographies: The Japanese Buddhist World Map and the Birth of Asian Studies in Europe with D. Max Moerman, Columbia University, New York

November 11, 2024 - Stanford (Hybrid) Join with the David Rumsey Map Center for a presentation by Anton Thomas, an artist-cartographer from New Zealand known for his illustrated maps. One of his maps is Wild World, a vast world map of nature that has 1,642 wild animals roaming it. During his talk, at 3:30pm, Thomas will dive deep into his story, from the endless details of Wild World to the managing of its popularity, from the psychological odyssey of three years drawing one map, to his search for new ideas in the Kenyan wilderness. Please register in advance to attend the talk either in-person or remotely via Zoom.

November 13, 2024 - Portland, Maine The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education invites you to attend the Annual Mattson-New York Times Lecture Join us for an evening of stories from the Map Trade with Laura Ten Eyck of Argosy Gallery and Antiques Road Show. Lecture will be in McGoldrick Center Salons, 35 Bedford Street: 5:30pm reception and meet and greet; 6:00-7:30pm lecture and Q and A. Registration is free with an optional donation to support the Osher Map Library Fund. Register here.

November 19, 2024 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Maurice Whitehead (Venerable English College, Rome) will discuss Maps, meridians and missions: Christopher Maire, SJ (1697–1767), an English cartographer in continental Europe. All are welcome. Click here to receive the link for this seminar. Please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk> if you wish to join the mailing list. 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 19, 2024 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, at 5:30 pm. Chris Lane will discuss Willful Wildlife: animals in persuasive maps. Persuasive maps are those intended primarily to influence opinion or make a point rather than simply present objective geographic information. The designers of such maps want to send a message to the reader and they use various images to encode this meaning in their maps so that that reader will be able to decode those images and so understand their message. Images of animals are one of the very best ways to encode a message on a map, naturally drawing attention to themselves and the intended meanings generally readily understood by viewers. This lecture will look at how animals have been used on persuasive maps from the seventeenth century to the modern era in many clever, dramatic and humorous ways. Click here to register for in-person attendance. Click here for the Zoom link at the time of the meeting.

November 21, 2024 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. The program Indigenous People and the Chicago Portage will be held in-person and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. In this edition of “Conversations at the Newberry,” historian John William Nelson discusses researching issues of land use and landscape change, focusing on the Indigenous history of Chicago waterways, with Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Eric Hemenway and Raphael Wahwassuck. Lecture will be 6:00pm–7:00pm in Ruggles Hall and Zoom. Advance registration is required.

November 21, 2024 – Washington The Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division will celebrate 25th Annual GIS Day: Mapping Our World. Presented as one of the Library of Congress’ Live at the Library series, this event will feature Dr. Vicki Ferrini (Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) talking about From Paper to Pixels: The Evolution of Ocean Mapping and Exploration. Lecture will be in Jefferson Building, LJ119, 6:30 pm. In addition, G&M staff will be hosting several interactive activities in the Great Hall involving maps and globes from 5pm to 8pm. There will be a display of oceanic collection items between 5pm to 6:30pm and 7:30pm to 8pm in LJ-113. Click here to register for Dr. Ferrini's lecture Click here to register.

November 28, 2024 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Luz Martin del Campo (City University of New York) will speak about Vernacular environmental cartographies: landscapes and navigation unseen in Lacanjá Chansayab, Chiapas, México. 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.

December 4, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. 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. Dr. Neal Asbury (rare map collector, CEO of Legacy Companies, and host of syndicated weekly radio talk show - Neal Asbury’s Made in America) and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts (historian and professor emeritus, Fielding Graduate University) will speak about Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion. Their book "Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas" is available wherever books are sold.

December 5-6, 2024 – Copenhagen The Danish Royal Library, Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, and the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon invite you to a program examining historic map collections across the Atlantic. This 1 ½ day symposium, held at the Royal Library, will feature historians, geographers, and technologists working in digital map collections. ​This program is part of the American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) project.
    December 5 - Scandinavia and the American Revolutionary Era
14:00 - Roundtable on ARGO: Mapping Scandinavia and the Americas in a revolutionary age. Stig Svenningsen (Det Kgl. Bibliotek), Garrett Dash Nelson (Leventhal Center), Alexandra Montgomery (Washington Library)
15:00: Keynote Lecture, Geopolitics with and without Geography, Andrew Rhodes (US Embassy, Copenhagen)
17:00: Reception (Remarks by Alan Leventhal, US Ambassador to Denmark)
    December 6 - Mapping Across the Atlantic
9:00: Coffee
10:00: Roundtable on Denmark in North America. Henrik Dupont, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer
12:00: Lunch break
13:00–14:30: Panel on digital map collections, digitization, and historical GIS. Christina Vibeke Holck-Clausen & Stine Dau (Danish Climate Data Agency), Peder Dam (Odense Museum), Bert Spaan (Allmaps Project)
15:00 - Collections showing with highlights from the Royal Library map collections

December 6, 2024 - Hamden, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will have our annual Show & Tell, a social event and Map Society favorite, held this year at 7 pm. We’ll provide appetizers and drinks. The location is a home in Hamden with easy street parking. At Show & Tell, 7-10 members will talk for 10 minutes each (we mean business here!) about a map or map topic they’re eager to share. Speakers and audience members alike must RSVP to <connie(at)redstonestudios.com>. Speakers, reserve your spots: they fill up quickly. We’ll provide venue details when you email us.

December 6, 2024 - Paris Following on from the meeting organised on 25 November 2023 in Paris on the intersections between art and cartography, the History Commission of the Comité Français de Cartographie is organising a study day entitled Cartography and Cinema at the National Institut d'histoire de l'art, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne. As we all know, cinema, the main medium of fiction developed during the 20th century, has from the outset been concerned with the representation of the most diverse spaces and landscapes on the surface of the planet. Cartography, in all its forms, has been used to transform geographical places and spaces into a range of narrative supports and focal points. The aim of the Study Day is to explore some of the ways in which cartography has been present in the history of fiction cinema and in cinematographic operations. Additional information from Catherine Hoffman <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.

December 7, 2024 – Brussels The next annual conference of Brussels Map Circle will focus on Cartography of Spain. Speakers include Luis Robles Macias, José M. Garcia Redondo, Piet Lombaerde, and Carme Montaner.. It will be held at KBR (Royal Library of Belgium).

December 11, 2024 – Boston (Online) Join Julia Williams (Gallery & Communications Coordinator at the Leventhal Map & Education Center) together with Boston Public Library Research Services, at 6 pm ET, for Putting Family History on the Map to discuss the use of historic maps for genealogical research. Julia has experience working with New England Historical Genealogical Society as a genealogist on 10 Million Names, a project aimed at recovering the names of the estimated ten million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America. She will also provide a demo of Atlascope, which overlays historic and modern maps so you can easily compare past and present. Register for the event.

December 12, 2024 - Berlin (Hybrid) Dagmar Schäfer (BBAW, MPIWG), Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS Paris; EC-Chronoi and MPIWG), and Ute Tintemann (BBAW) have organized a lecture Japanese Buddhist Astral Sciences (Bonreki) of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Using celestial maps, this presentation by Prof. Dr. D. Max Moerman (Professor and Chair of Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College) will analyze the arguments, images, models, and mechanisms produced by the Japanese Buddhists who attempted to prove the superiority of traditional Buddhist thought over European science until the end of the nineteenth century. Lecture at 15:00 PM (CET), at the Einstein Center Chronoi, Otto-von-Simson-Strasse 7, 14195 Berlin.

December 12, 2024 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) The French School of Asian Studies has the pleasure to invite you to attend the workshop Materiality and Colour in Early Modern Chinese Maps’ Production. This workshop is organized around two papers presenting colour maps of two different coastal regions: the Guangdong Sheet Map (廣東全省圖說, ca. 1739) and the Map of Huai’an Prefecture (Lee Shau Kee Library, late Ming). Robert Batchelor (Chair of the Department of History and Director of Digital Humanities at Georgia Southern University) presents the Map of Guangdong, one of the first surviving polychrome Chinese xylographic cartographic documents. Wang Qianjin (Director of the Institute of Cartography at the National Museum of China) will discuss three late Ming manuscript maps of Huai’an Prefecture (淮安府圖及淮安府附近地圖) and its surrounding districts, created in ink and colour on silk. Workshop is at 3:00 pm-6:30 pm in Lecture Theatre, G/F, Institute Studies, CUHK, Shatin, New Territories. Click here to attend on Zoom. Additional information from +852 3943 1247 or <hk.center(at)efeo.net>.

December 12, 2024 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) will discuss Copying or Creating? Notions of Ingenuity in isolarii from the 15th to 18th century.

December 14, 2024 - New York 1:00 pm New York (ET) time, In-Person: Up to 15 current paid members,only of the New York Map Society are invited to reserve a spot with <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for a private tour of The Old Print Shop in Manhattan, followed by a Holiday Social Hour at a nearby pub for appetizers and drinks.

December 19, 2024 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. The Society will have it's Annual Holiday Gala.