New members and visitors are always welcome to attend these
events.
Please submit your meeting notices to John W. Docktor
<phillymaps(at)gmail(dot)com>
To learn more about
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.
September 5, 2023 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in Martin Room, 4th floor, History Colorado Center, 1200 N Broadway. Tim Hagaman will discuss Economic Development Impact on Cartography from the Range Industry. This talk will explore the development and population growth in the livestock and range industry, led by explorers, cattle drovers, stock associations, ranching corporations, railroads, and stockyards. This history will be richly illustrated by examples of printed maps and lithography. Please register and get a free ticket at History Colorado's event calendar. Please email <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> for Zoom link or any questions.
September 7, 2023 - Minneapolis (Online) The Society for the History of Discoveries will have another online lecture at 3:30 pm (Central): Daniella McCahey (Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University) will discuss Gender and Antarctic Science and Exploration. Dr. McCahey won the SHD Student Prize in 2018. Her first book (co-authored with Jean de Pomereu) was published just last year: "Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects" (Conway, 2022). Additional details to be announced.
September 9, 2023 – Leeds An extremely rare copy of one of the UK's first ever atlases is to go on show for the first time. The Saxton Atlas was created by Christopher Saxton in 1578 after he received permission from Queen Elizabeth I. The book contains 35 hand-coloured maps of the counties of England and Wales. The atlas, which formed the basis of all succeeding county maps for over 100 years, is part of a heritage event at Leeds Central Library, Calverley Street. The atlas is set to go on show to the public during a special heritage open day event.
September 9, 2023 - New York Members of the New York Map Society are invited to reserve one of up to 20 spots for a private tour of the Rare Book & Manuscript (and Map!) Library at Columbia University starting at 2:00 pm. The tour will feature a variety of objects, including atlases, a data map of New York gefilte fish and the Harlem nightclub map. First come, first served via email to kapochunas(at)gmail.com.
September 7-9, 2023 - Zadar The Croatian Cartographic Society, the Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb, the Department of Geography of the University of Zadar and the Croatian Geographic Society are organizers of the 19th international conference Geoinformation and Cartography. Conference will be held at Ceremonial Hall of the University of Zadar, Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV br. 2.
September 12, 2023 - 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. This meeting was arranged with assistance of the Rocky Mountain and Texas Map Societies. 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. Richard Francaviglia (Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Arlington; currently Associated Scholar, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon) will discuss The Role of Maps in Films about Exploration and Discovery: Some Latin American Examples. Filmmakers have long used maps on screen to chart the progress of characters going from one place to another -- for example, explorers taking a ship from the Old World to the New. However, cinematically speaking, maps serve many other purposes as well. In this presentation, Francaviglia will discuss the varied ways that films depicting the process of exploration and discovery in South America employ maps.
September 19, 2023 - Boston Join Leventhal Map & Education Center, Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, for a curatorial introduction to our new exhibition, Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit, featuring a roundtable talk on transit in Boston, a Q+A session, and an opportunity to explore the material on display. This program is free and open to members of the public. Registration is required for refreshments and gallery tours. Please register online to RSVP. The reception will begin at 5:30 pm and the speaking program will begin at 6:00 pm with small group gallery tours to follow.
September 20, 2023 - Cambridge The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold its Annual Workshop in person at the British Antarctic Survey, Madingley Road. The Map Curators’ Group is for anyone interested in using and sharing maps, bound together by a shared interest in curating, maintaining, and sharing our map collections. Our annual workshops offer the opportunity to share expertise and learn from each other. This workshop is part of the British Cartographic Society’s 60th anniversary conference. The conference will be welcoming a host of fascinating speakers from leading organisations involved in cartography and GIS. As well as the Map Curators’ Group annual event, there will be the GeoViz and BAS hackday, and the main conference. On the evening of 20 September, BCS will be hosting an anniversary dinner at Christ’s College which we’d love for you to attend. The evening will start with a talk by polar explorer, Alex Hibbert. There will then be a three-course meal, followed by the BCS annual Awards event, celebrating the best in cartography and geovisualisation. For the MCG workshop register through Eventbrite. Additional information from Williams, Paula <P.Williams(at)NLS.UK>.
September 20, 2023 - Rochester, Massachusetts Charlie Rowley will present a program Mapping Rochester at the monthly meeting of the Rochester Historical Society. Meeting is at 7:00 PM at the East Rochester Church at 355 County Road.
September 21, 2023 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 6:00 pm Central (Social begins @ 5:30) at Newberry Library - Baskes Hall. Steve Wiertz (Cartographic Researcher at Rand McNally) will speak about The Evolution of the Road Atlas, 100 Years in the Making. Mr. Wiertz will cover the evolution of the Road Atlas from its start in the early 1900s to the current digital age in the 21st century. It will outline changes in map specification techniques, map production methods, and research methodologies. Contact Chicago Map Society <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org> for Zoom link.
September 21-24, 2023 – Minneapolis The “Annual Conference 2023” of the Society for the History of Discoveries is titled Worlds of Exploration. The conference will be hosted by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota. There will be a Thursday evening reception and a post-conference excursion in Minneapolis.
September 25, 2023 - Winchester, Hampshire (Online) Maps have an instant appeal, giving vivid insights into the changing appearance of the places where our families lived over the centuries. This talk at 6pm to 7pm, Discovering Hampshire’s past: Maps for Hampshire local and family history, will introduce you to the key series of historic maps dating mainly from the 17th to 20th centuries and covering most places in Hampshire, and will provide advice on how to use them. It will be illustrated with examples from collections held at Hampshire Record Office, including some of the more quirky and intriguing maps you can find there. Book here.
September 25-26, 2023 – Oxford (Online) The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, will have an Oxford Seminars in Cartography Conference about Artful maps: the visual culture of cartography. Cartography has long been recognised as art and science. This conference explores how art affects cartography’s process, products, and personnel. Ranging over all types of map, all areas of the world, and all time periods, the conference considers the relationship between art and cartography. Lectures are Monday, 25 September 1.45pm–4.45pm (BST); and Tuesday, 26 September 12.15pm–6.30pm (BST). Free event but booking is required. Additional information from <elizabeth.baigent(at)geog.ox.ac.uk> or <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>.
September 27-30, 2023 - Berlin The International Coronelli Society will have its XV International Symposium About Globes in the Humboldt Hall of the Staatsbibliothek, Unter den Linden 8. The production of globes only began in Berlin in the late 18th century, but developed into an internationally very successful production in the 19th century. Researchers of globe studies and all interested parties are invited to this symposium. The topics of the symposium are all aspects of globe studies - in particular the history of globes and their position in the socio-economic context, but also contributions to globe-related instruments such as armillary spheres, planetariums, telluriums and lunariums. Conference languages are German and English (no translation).
October 5, 2023 - Boston (Hybrid) The Boston Public Library holds a remarkable collection of approximately 500 bird’s-eye view maps from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. How were these maps produced? How accurate are they? What sorts of historical information can we learn from them? Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center with the Jamaica Plain Historical Society at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 30 South Street, at 6:00 pm ET for a deep dive on bird’s-eye view maps of Boston, mapmaking techniques and more This is program will be offered both in person and online. For in person attendance, please register here on Eventbrite. For online attendance, please register on Zoom here.
October 10, 2023 - Washington (Online) Join with the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, 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 15, 2023 - New York (Online) Join Andrew Kapochunas at 12:00 pm (ET) time on a free Zoom presentation hosted by LitvakSIG as part of its "Power Up Your Research" series. Kapochunas' session, open to anyone, is How to find any shtetl on topographic maps, a session whose steps are applicable to finding even the smallest village on topographic maps of Eastern Europe. The Zoom link will be made available the first week in October at the LitvakSIG website, and also at the blog, LithuanianJournal.org.
October 18-20, 2023 – Stanford (Hybrid) The David Rumsey Map Center, along with sponsor Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps, Inc., is excited to announce dates for the Fourth Biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Maps Conference on Cartography to be held on Data Visualization. The meeting schedule is online. You may register to attend in-person or on-line.
October 19, 2023 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 6:00 pm Central (Social begins @ 5:30) at Newberry Library - Baskes Hall. Ryan Chester will present Chicago Reflected: A Skyline Drawing from the Chicago River. The COVID‐19 pandemic provoked Ryan to start a challenging project – to document scrupulously the street‐front views along the entire length of the Chicago River within Downtown – from Lake Michigan along the main and south branches of the river. This presentation to the Chicago Map Society will focus on how the drawing was created as an elevational map of Chicago as opposed to seeing the city as a plan. Contact Chicago Map Society <contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org> for Zoom link.
October 26, 2023 - Boston What was Charlestown like in the 19th and 20th centuries? What schools and churches were around? Were any industries based in the area? Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Charlestown Branch Library, 179 Main Street, at 6pm EDT for a deep dive into the historical geography of the area. Come learn about how the community has changed over time, and discover how to research the history of your own house and neighborhood.
October 26, 2023 –
Washington (Hybrid) The Philip
Lee Phillips Society (PLPS) will have two
meetings at the Library
of Congress (meeting room to be announced).
The
first meeting 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET will be given by PLPS Fellow
Ernesto Capello (Professor, History Department, Macalester College).
He will speak about Mapping Mountains. This talk surveys the
broad history of relief representation in cartography with an
emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping
mountains. Developed with the support of a 2019 PLPS Fellowship, it
presents a brief historical account of techniques of relief
representation before delving into four clusters of mountain mapping
metaphors. These include visions of mountains as paradise, the
mountain as site of colonial and postcolonial encounter, the
development of elevation profiles and panoramas, and mountains as
mass-marketed touristed itineraries.
Geography
and Map Reading Room will have an open house from 4:00-6:00 PM
ET.
A second meeting starting at 7:00 pm ET will
feature Edward Brent Lane (Fellow of Global Heritage Economics,
Global Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill) who will talk about John White's 1585 Map of the North
Carolina Outer Banks. As a
native North Carolinian, Brent was surprised to learn that behind the
romanticism of the story of Sir Walter Raleigh’s “Lost
Colony” lay a 16th century tale of scientific entrepreneurship
addressing challenges still faced by today’s new tech
businesses in places like Silicon Valley and the Research Triangle
Park. Raleigh faced rightly skeptical investors as he sought startup
capital for his 1584-1590 Roanoke Colony venture. Cartography played
a key role in his “campaign of persuasion,” at the center
of which was John White’s 1585 Map of the North Carolina Outer
Banks.
Zoom registration information to be
announced.
October 28, 2023 - New York Members of the New York Map Society are invited to reserve one of up to 15 spots for a visit from 2-4 PM to the map-filled Manhattan apartment of members Kathleen & Joseph Porder. Contact <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for reservations and directions.
November 2, 2023 - Boston What was Hyde Park like in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? What schools and churches were around? Were any industries based in the area? Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center and Hyde Park Historical Society at the Hyde Park Branch Library, 35 Harvard Ave, at 6pm EDT for a deep dive into the historical geography of the area. Come learn about how the community has changed over time, and discover how to research the history of your own house and neighborhood.
November 4, 2023 - Paris The 22nd Paris Map Fair will be held at Hotel Ambassador, 16 bvd Haussmann, from 11.00-18.00. On Friday night, 3 November, a cocktail reception at 7pm in Salle Mogador of the Ambassador Hotel will be held which is open for visitors and participating dealers.
November 7, 2023 – Denver Joseph Kerski will speak about The Ethics of Map Making at a Rocky Mountain Map Society meeting. Additional details to be announced.
November 9, 2023 - 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 no later than November 8 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 was arranged with the assistance of the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Dale Loberger (Certified GIS Professional (GISP) and Esri Certified ArcGIS Desktop Professional) will discuss Using GIS to Tease Information from Historic Maps in the Search for Old Roads. The intent to discover a road has uncovered a path that will lead researchers to better appreciate and predict where transportation infrastructure once existed. The key lies in improving our understanding of the testimony presented by the cartographic witnesses of any inquiry.
November 16, 2023 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society will meet at 6:00 pm Central (Social begins @ 5:30) at Newberry Library - Ruggles Hall. There will be a co-hosted event with the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies. Additional details to be announced.
November 16, 2023 - 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. Isabella Alexander (Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney) will speak about Maps, Makers, and Markets in the Early 19th Century: A View from the Legal Archive.
November 20, 2023 - Vienna The Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for the Research of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Balkan are hosting a lecture (in German) under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Austria by Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society). The title of the lecture is: Leonardo und Verrazzano: Der 500. Jahrestag der Entdeckung von New York 2024 [Leonardo and Verrazzano: The 500th anniversary of the discovery of New York 2024]. The venue is the Theater Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sonnenfelsgasse 19. Registration: <IHB(at)oeaw.ac.at>.
November 25, 2023 – Paris The History Commission of the French Cartography Committee is organizing a study day at Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2 Rue Vivienne, entitled Art(s) and mapping(s). Beyond the classic studies on the specific place of cartography in the history of scientific knowledge, and the repeated analyzes of the involvement of cartography (and cartographers) in various political operations, it is necessary to consider the relations of cartography with the arts and artists as well as its forms of involvement in the visual cultures of modern and contemporary societies. Research on this subject is already numerous, and fruitful, and has made it possible to establish decisively the multiple levels and forms of interaction between the worlds of cartography and the worlds of art.
December 5, 2023 – Denver India Wood will speak about The Navigation of the Colorado-X Now, and Then at a Rocky Mountain Map Society meeting. Additional details to be announced.
December 6, 2023 – 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. Imre Demhardt (Virginia and Jenkins Garrett Endowed Chair in the History of Cartography, University of Texas at Arlington; Chair: International Cartographic Association, Commission on the History of Cartography) will discuss The Changing Map of the Island of Enchantment: Puerto Rico and the Spanish-American War of 1898.
December 7, 2023 - 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. Tom Simpson (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) will speak about Maps that Made Climate Change, c.1800 to the Present Day.
December 20, 2023 - Boston Join Leventhal Map & Education Center, Rabb Hall, Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, at 6:00 pm ET with Jake Berman for a talk on his new book, The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been. The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider this eternal question, with a strikingly visual—and fun—journey through past, present, and unbuilt urban transit. Using meticulous archival research, cartographer and artist Jake Berman has successfully plotted maps of old train networks covering twenty-three North American metropolises, ranging from New York City’s Civil War–era plan for a steam-powered subway under Fifth Avenue to the ultramodern automated Vancouver SkyTrain and the thousand-mile electric railway system of pre–World War II Los Angeles. He takes us through colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit, and modern rail systems—drawing us into the captivating transit histories of US and Canadian cities. Berman combines vintage styling with modern printing technology to create a sweeping visual history of North American public transit and urban development. With more than one hundred original maps, accompanied by essays on each city’s urban development, this book presents a fascinating look at North American rapid transit systems.
December 21, 2023 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30pm Central at Newberry Library - Ruggles Hall. There will be a Holiday Party. Additional details to be announced.
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.
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.
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 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.
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, 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. Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust) will speak about Marking the miles: some annotated maps in National Trust collections.
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.
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>.
September 4-7, 2024 – Basel The 21. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium will be held. Additional details to be announced.
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. Further details to be announced.
September 11-14, 2025 - Portland, Maine The 42nd International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium will be at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, 314 Forest Ave. We will also be working with the University of Southern Maine facilities. The conference title is New Perspectives on Mapping New England and Maritime Canada. The program opens with an evening reception and possible keynote lecture on Thursday. Friday and Saturday will be lectures during the day and dinner on your own. Sunday, the final day, will be a behind the scenes tour and "Treasures of the Collection" in the morning. Then lunch and a walking tour of Portland in the afternoon ending around 3:00 PM. Closing banquet that night. There will be a post-symposium three-day tour of Maine Monday through Wednesday, September 15-17th. Additional details to be announced. Contact Libby Bischof <elizabeth.bischof(at)maine.edu> for more information.