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events.
Please submit your meeting notices to John W. Docktor
<phillymaps(at)gmail(dot)com>
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non-current maps see Map
History / History of Cartography.
Exhibition announcements
can be found at Cartography
- Calendar of Exhibitions.
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for archive of past events.
November 6, 2025 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Simon Morris (London Topographical Society): Mapping Local London — London Parish Maps to 1900. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
November 8, 2025 - Milwaukee Join UW-Milwaukee professors Anne Bonds and Derek G. Handley for a presentation and discussion about racial covenants and Black resistance. Lecture is 1:00pm - 3:00pm in Centennial Hall, 733 N 8th St. Racial covenants were a widely used tool to racially segregate housing and communities in the first half of the twentieth century. Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County is a crowdsourced, community-engaged mapping project documenting all racial covenants in Milwaukee County and Black resistance to them. For nearly three years, Bonds and Handley have been working together with thousands of community members to read and transcribe racial covenants in property records in order to map these covenants and understand their geography and impact in Milwaukee County’s racially segregated landscape. Click here to register.
November 8, 2025 - Santa Monica, California (Hybrid) You're invited to the California Map Society Southern California Meeting at the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd. We'll have an engaging program, including presentations by experts, opportunities to view unique maps, and time for discussion and networking. Meeting is from 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.. Click here to register for in-person or Zoom attendance.
November 13, 2025 - Boston (Online) Join with Leventhal Map & Education Center at 7 pm ET for a conversation in the Brown Seminar on the Historical Geography of the American Revolutionary Era with Katy Lasdow. In this program Women Property Holders of Boston’s Waterfront in the Late 1700s, Dr. Lasdow will explore how maps and deeds documenting women property holders on Boston’s waterfront in the late 1700s illuminate women’s persistence in these neighborhoods, in the face of challenges which changed real estate and land use in the early Republic. Click here to register.
November 13, 2025 – 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. Ronald S. Gibbs, MD (President California Map Society) will speak about The American Revolution Told in Ten Maps.
November 14, 2025 - London Technologist Ed Parsons and Dr Ollie Ballinger joins this panel conversation to explore how maps and cartography is being used to reveal what those in power would rather keep hidden. From exposing environmental injustice and geopolitical cover-ups to challenging propaganda and reclaiming erased histories, this conversation uncovers the radical potential of mapping. Together, they examine how cartographic tools, are being used to hold truth to power, uncover hidden inequalities, and challenge dominant narratives. The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? will be held 19.00-20.30 in Pigott Theatre, British Library. Book now.
November 14, 2025 – Paris The History Commission of the CFC is organising a study day on Cartographic exhibitions at the Institut national d'histoire de l'Art, Vasari Room, Galerie Colbert 2 rue Vivienne. This one-day symposium is a continuation of the previous meetings on ‘Art and Cartography’ (2023) and ‘Cartography and Cinema’ (2024), in which cartography and its history were examined from the angle of their presence in modern and contemporary visual cultures. The aim of this new day is to consider the various aspects of the encounter between cartography and the general public. Maps have long been exhibited, more or less permanently, in the galleries of major palaces and public buildings. Think, for example, of the Vatican Map Gallery or the world map room in the Farnese Palace in Caprarola. But it is not to these perennial cartographic settings, which are already well known, that this Study Day aims to focus its analysis, but rather on temporary installations. Additional information from Catherine Hofmann <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.
November 18, 2025 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Chris Lukinbeal, University of Arizona, will speak about Cinematic cartography. All are welcome. Register for the Zoom presentation. 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.
November 19, 2025 – Washington Join with The Geography & Map Division of Library of Congress for the 26th annual Geospatial Information Systems Day. Additionally, join renowned cartographer Tom Patterson for a discussion on the topic of topographic relief from 6:30 - 7:30 pm. A collaborative display of collection items related to topography will also be on view. Tickets and further details will become available when the government reopens. This event will not be held if the government remains shutdown through Thursday, November 13.
November 20, 2025 - Boston Join Kris Butler for a presentation and conversation on her book and latest research relating to Drink Maps in Victorian Britain. This talk is free, open to the public, and will be held in person at 6:00pm in Holland & Knight at 10 St. James Avenue, 11th floor. Local beer will be served and registration is required.
November 20, 2025 - Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for a special program at the Newberry Library. 5:30 p.m. – social hour (delicious finger food and light refreshments); 6:00 p.m. – presentation by David Weimer. David Weimer will discuss the creation and purpose of the Newberry’s exhibition, Mapping Outside the Lines. This exhibition explores how mapmakers in Europe and the Americas have used the lines on maps to communicate spatial information. Click here for Zoom.
November 20–21, 2025 - Istanbul The IV International Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium on the History of Islamic Science will be hosted by Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University. The main theme of this year’s symposium is Islamic Geography and Maritime History. Sezgin emphasised the significant impact of Islamic maps on the European cartographic tradition, underscoring the inseparable link between cartography and geographical thought, and highlighting its substantial influence on Western scientific heritage. The symposium aims to both preserve Prof. Sezgin's scientific legacy and encourage new research in these fields.
November 21, 2025 - London Secret reading a map often requires a knowledge of keys and codes as cryptic as any crossword puzzle to unlock its secrets. X might mark the spot but what other treasures are hiding in plain sight on its surface? Early cartographers took their bearing from the stars, their art then having much in common with fortune telling and astrology. In Newton’s time, palms were presented as charts to be read, cardinally located to the north, south, east and west, and read with regard to the moving celestial bodies. Satellites still guide us today, but what of geomancy in the age of Google maps and palmistry in an era of genetics and digital footprints? From the lines on the body to ancient alignments in the landscape, Alison Bashford, author of "Mapping the Hand: How Physicians used Palm Lines to Reveal Secrets Within", and Travis Elborough, whose books include "Atlas of Vanishing Places", explore the more uncanny sides of cartography and the place of myth and magic in guiding our direction of travel. Mapping the Mysterious will be from 19.00 – 20.30 in Pigott Theatre, British Library. Booking required.
November 21-22, 2025 Paris The
24th Paris Map-Fair
will be held 22 November from 11 h 00 - 18h 00 at Hôtel
Ambassador Marriott, 16 Bd Haussmann. About 25 dealers will be
present. Free entry - Free estimation of your maps, atlases and
globes.
On 21 November there will be a cocktail reception in Hotel
Ambassador. It is open to visitors and participating dealers and will
feature a premium open bar. The reception will start at 7 PM and last
for one hour. Free entry - by reservation
only. A dinner in a typical Parisian Bistro, Restaurant Le
Valentine in the famous Passage Jouffrey, will follow at 20.30 –
22.00.Open for dealers, collectors and map enthusiasts. 50 euros pp.
By reservation
and pre-payment only.
November 22, 2025 - Woodbury, Connecticut 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 with the Connecticut Map Society at 2pm as our president, 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, including how to define your collection, where to search for and acquire maps, evaluating them, negotiating, and preserving your collection. Antique Map Collecting 101: Foxing, soiling, and worm holes, oh my! will be presented at Woodbury Public Library, 269 Main Street South. Click here to view the event on the library’s website and to pre-register.
November 24, 2025 - London Secret Maps exhibition curator Tom Harper provides an insider’s perspective on the exhibition process, from shaping its narrative to the final touches. He reveals the secrets behind the selection of maps, and how the gallery’s design and visual language have been intentionally crafted to tap into and showcase the key themes of the exhibition. Lecture will be from 13:00 – 14.00 in Pigott Theatre, British Library. Free but booking required.
November 27, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Pragya Agarwal (Newnham College, University of Cambridge) will discuss Mapping sense of place: Travels and Maps of May Morris. 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, 2025 - London An evening navigating the long history of espionage, cartography, and covert operations. Spies and maps are inseparable tools in intelligence gathering, statecraft and secret missions. Find out how they combine to shape the shadowy world of espionage. A panel discussion of Spies, Maps, and Secret Missions: Deep Into Enemy Territory will be held 19.00 – 20.30 in Pigott Theatre, British Library. Book now.
December 4, 2025 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Noémi Ujházy (University of Nottingham): Mapping Soils in the Early 20th Century and the Material Politics of Internationalism. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
December 6, 2025 - Brussels The Brussels Map Circle announces their annual conference: Models of the Cosmos: On Globes and Their Making. It will be held in Royal Library of Belgium from 09:15-12:30. Speakers include Wouter Bracke, Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Colin Dupont, Willem Jan Neutelings, Thomas Horst and Martina Pippal. If you would like to join this event please advice our Secretary Marie-Anne Dage <marie.anne.dage(at)gmail.com>.
December 6, 2025 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society is switching gears this year, holding our Annual Show & Tell from 2-4pm at Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison Street, in the Westville section of New Haven. It’s a friendly space with a big parking lot and, for those who care, no stairs. Here’s how Show & Tell works: six people give short (10 minute) talks about a map or map topic that interests them. It can be anything cartographic, from an antique map with an interesting backstory to a hand-rendered map to an intriguing map from a publication. If you’d like to give a 10 minute talk, register with Connie Brown, our events manager: <brownie487(at)gmail.com>. No need to register if you’re attending as a member of the audience.
December 6, 2025 - New York Members of the New York Map Society are invited to RSVP to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> to reserve a spot at our Show & Tell and Holiday Social, 5:00pm – 7:00pm New York (ET) time, at a Manhattan location TBD. If you have a map to show, please provide details with your RSVP, and expect to discuss your map in about five minutes.
December 9, 2025 - Florence (Hybrid) Rather than lectures, this event series is a staged conversation, clash or celebration of two people with two distinct positions. It's a Match! Petter Hellström and Toby Yuen-Gen Liang on Seeing Blank Spaces brings together two historians, each of whom examines the relationship between knowledge and representation by analyzing the curious presence of blank space on geographical maps and architectural plans of Africa created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Conversation will be held at 15:00 in Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, Via dei Servi 51. No registration is necessary for in-person participation. Please register here to participate online via Zoom.
December 11, 2025 - London (Hybrid) Writer and international journalist Tim Marshall’s iconic bestseller "Prisoners of Geography" has sold over three million copies worldwide, in its original and recent, fully updated edition. His clear and insightful analysis of the global geopolitical landscape in the book and its successors "The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography" has for so many been a vital guide to understanding world history, current conflicts and changing power structures and the possible future. This special event The Future Map of the World, with Tim Marshall explores how the political map of the world may or may not change in the years ahead. Lecture will be held 19.00 – 20.30 in Pigott Theatre, British Library. Book now for in-person attendance or for Zoom online.
December 11, 2025 – 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. Tom Harper (Lead Curator of Antiquarian Mapping, The British Library) will speak about an Overview of the British Library's New Map Exhibition, “Secret Maps”.
January 14, 2026 - Oxford The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be having a Field Trip – Mapping the North with Charlotta Forss (Södertörn University, Stockholm). This is an in-person event and booking is essential. For further details, please contact Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk> or 01865 287119.
January 22, 2026 – 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. Mark Giordano (Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Professor of Geography, Georgetown University) will discuss Teaching Geopolitics with Maps. Georgetown University’s “Map of the Modern World” is likely the largest class in the world that still uses maps to teach geopolitics and world affairs. The current instructor will provide examples of how historic and contemporary maps and custom cartography are used to engage students in global issues and help them understand international challenges from multiple perspectives.
January 28-30, 2026 - London Do you have an interest in the history of a specific place, landscape and/or historical theme? Would you like to learn more about the evolution of cartography, including how to use old maps in your research? With a focus on mapping practices in Britain and Western Europe between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, this new 3-day Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place / Discovery Course 1 will introduce you to our vast range of physical map collections, historical maps and topographical rare books. Course is offered by Institute of Historical Research.
January 29, 2026 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Elizabeth Chant (University of Warwick): Road Maps, Leisure Travel and Petro-modernity in 20th Century Argentina. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
January 30, 2026 - Killingworth, Connecticut Did you miss Brian Tims’s other talk? Join with the Connecticut Map Society for this encore presentation of Antique Map Collecting 101: Foxing, soiling, and worm holes, oh my! as Brian travels the state in the name of maps. Meeting will be at 6pm in Killingworth Library, 301 Route 81. Click here to view the event on the library’s website and to pre-register (after December 5).
February 9-10, 2026 - Perth, Scotland In 2025, UHI’s Institute for Northern Studies, together with our collaborative partners from the National Library of Scotland and Landscape Research Group, launched Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland. This project brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the ways in which maps have been, and are still, used to interpret and shape Scotland’s understanding of the present, past and future. The project will host a free hybrid conference at UHI Perth to explore this topic with colleagues.
February 12, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) will talk about Map Readings – ‘Lies of the Land: Painted maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern 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.
February 19–21, 2026 - San Francisco The Renaissance Society of America will hold its 72nd Annual Meeting at the San Francisco Hilton Union Square. Ricardo Padrón, Asa Mittman, and Dan Terkla will be having a panel Premodern Mapping Today. They are planning to have papers which address any aspect of mapping in the premodern world (pre-1700), from any mapping tradition. Additional information from Ricardo Padrón <padron(at)virginia.edu>.
February 19, 2026 – 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. This meeting is arranged in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Whether a trail map of a serene forest or a plot of historical markers in a bustling city, maps help us understand and connect to the spaces we inhabit, creating a feeling of topophilia, or “love of place”. In this talk Astrotopophilia: A Love of Place with Maps of Space, Sam Cartwright (PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder) will trace the history of planetary cartography from the earliest telescope sketches to today’s high-resolution imagery and explore the indelible link between maps and humanity’s fascination with space.
February 24, 2026 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Adrian Webb will discuss Churchill’s secret chart-makers All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom and joining instructions will be circulated nearer the time. 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.
February 26, 2026 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Bob Headland (Scott Polar Research Institute): Cartographical Conundrums and Antarctic Sovereignty. Hakluyt Society Speaker. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
March 12, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will talk about The unique large-format print of the General Map of the Qing Empire by Li Mingche李明徹 (1751–1832) in Göttingen: tracing its cartographical origins and journey to a German university. 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.
March 19, 2026 – 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. Louis Miller (Assistant Director for Research and Fellowship Programs and Cartographic Reference and Teaching Librarian, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine) will speak about Resurrecting ‘Rhat Soupe’: Alcohol and Allegorical Maps in Mid-19th Century America.
March 26, 2026 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Mimi Cheng (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz): Aesthetics and Authority in 19th Century Maps of China. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
April 8-10, 2026 - La Plata, Buenos Aires The XI Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía will take place in Sergio Karakachoff Graduate Center – National University of La Plata, located at 7th Street, No. 776. Theme is "Mapear y proyectar. Territorios dibujados, diseñados y representados." Registration is free, and the official languages will be Spanish and Portuguese. Contact email: <xisiahc(at)gmail.com>.
April 10, 2026 - Paris The History Commission of the French Cartography Committee and the National Library of France are joining forces to organise a one-day symposium to coincide with the exhibition “Cartes imaginaires, imaginaire des cartes <Maps of the Imagination, Imagination of Maps>”. The symposium will be held at the François-Mitterrand site of the BnF in Paris. Additional information from Catherine Hofmann <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.
May 5, 2026 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Juliette Dumasy, Université d’Orléans, will discuss The rise of local cartography in Europe, 12th-14th century. All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom and joining instructions will be circulated nearer the time. 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.
May 7, 2026 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Anthony Terry (Independent Researcher): The Derrotero Ingles: Unravelling the Mysteries of an early 18th Century English Waggoner in Peru. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
June 4, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will discuss Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth century. 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 6, 2026 – London The Annual General Meeting of the International Map Collectors' Society will be held at Royal Geographical Society, Additional details to be announced.
June 6-7, 2026 - London The largest Antique Map Fair in Europe, established 1980, is the London Map Fair. It will be held in 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 18, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. JNick Bolton (CEO, Ordnance Survey) will discuss Ordnance Survey: twenty-first-century National Mapping Agency. 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.
July 7-11, 2026 – Prague & Brno The 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography will have as its primary venue the main building of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6. The theme is Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography. Additional information from <ichc2026(at)hiu.cas.cz>.
July 29-August 1, 2026 – St. John's, Newfoundland The Society for the History of Discoveries annual conference will be held at Memorial University. Wednesday, July 29 we will have a reception and presentation in the evening. Panels will run all day Thursday and Friday, with the Annual Banquet Thursday evening. Saturday, August 1, there will be optional tours/excursions. Additional details remain to be determined.
October 1-3, 2026 – Arlington, Texas The 15th biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography will be conjoined with the Texas Map Society’s annual meeting. Both events will take place in the Central Library at the University of Texas at Arlington. The Virginia Garrett Lectures will take place on Thursday and Friday and will focus on the cartography of Antarctica. The Texas Map Society’s meeting will take place on Saturday. Additional details and registration will be available in May 2026.
October 7-10, 2026 - Denver The Western Association of Map Libraries annual conference will be held at Denver Public Library, 10 W 14th Ave.
November 8-14, 2026 - Tokyo and Kyoto The International Map Collectors' Society has been invited by the Japan Map Society to participate in a conference that they would host for international guests with most of the program in English. A pre-symposium tour is planned on 8 November to Nikko and a post-symposium tour is planned for 14-15 September to Kyushu; Japan's most southerly island. Program currently is tentative.