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September 26, October 3, 10, 24,
31, November 7, 2018 - Philadelphia Chair of the Haverford
College History Dept, Prof. Darin Hayton is teaching A
History of Cartography: From Antiquity to Longitude,
6:15-7:45 PM at the Free Library Independence Branch at 18 S. 7th
Street. This free six session course is sponsored by The
Wagner Free Institute of Science. This course will examine maps
as the products of particular cultures and societies to answer
specific questions or address specific needs. As questions and needs
changed, cartographers adapted their maps accordingly. The class will
look at some of the narrative, political and religious aspects of
maps. It will also work through the often sophisticated mathematics
and geographic knowledge that undergirded cartographic projects from
antiquity through the 18th century, when people finally solved the
longitude problem.
September 26, 2018 - Ancient Efforts to Map The
World
October 3, 2018 - Medieval Islamic Maps
October 10, 2018
- Medieval Latin World Maps and Portolan Charts
October 17, 2018 -
no class
October 24, 2018 - Byzantine Mapping Projects
October
31, 2018 - Navigation and the Discovery of the New World
November
7, 2018 – Longitude
October 2, 2018 - Williamsburg Chet Van Duzer will speak 5:00-6:30 pm in William and Mary College, Blow Memorial Hall, Room 331, 262 Richmond Rd. Chet will present a heavily-illustrated talk about Depictions of Asia in Early European Cartography. This talk traces the history of Asia in European maps from the earliest times to the late seventeenth century. The focus will be less on advances in knowledge of the physical contours of Asia—though that is certainly part of the survey—than on the maps as reflections of European cultural attitudes towards Asia and Asian identity.
October 3-4, 2018 - Aix-en-Provence, France The The Laboratory of Medieval and Modern Archeology in the Mediterranean, University of Aix-Marseille, will have a two day symposium Journée d’études: 'Émergences de la géographie, France / Italie, XIVe -XVIIe siècles'. Organized by Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli (LA3M) in partnership with CIELAM and UFR ALLSH (Aix-Marseille University). The purpose of this study is to highlight the way in which geography tends to gain importance in the late middle ages and modern times and to gradually become a discipline. Several talks are about cartography.
October 3, 2018 - Floriana, Malta The next Malta Map Society committee meeting will be at 6pm at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
October 4-6, 2018 – Arlington, Texas The 11th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography will be held at The University of Texas at Arlington Library. Theme: Paths to Highways: Routes of Exploration, Settlement and Commerce. The Texas Map Society Fall Meeting will follow at the same location on October 6. This is a joint meeting with the Philip Lee Phillips Society. Please register in advance on-line.
October 4, 2018 – New York The New York Map Society will meet 6:30 pm at The World School, 17th Floor, 11 East 26th St (between Park and Madison Avenues). Cartographer Anton Thomas will present, in a free and open-to-the-public talk, The North American Continent: A Pictorial Map. Additional information from Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas@gmail.com>.
October 6, 2018 – New York The New York Map Society will meet 2:00 pm at The World School, 17th Floor, 11 East 26th St (between Park and Madison Avenues). Noted cartographer and author Mark Monmonier will speak on his book Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History in a free and open-to-the-public talk. Additional information from Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas@gmail.com>.
October 8, 2018 - London Charlotta Forss (Bodleian Library, Oxford) will present The map as medium and message: a 17th–century Swedish geographer and the discovery of Atlantis at 5.15pm in Institute of Historical Research, Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street.
October 9, 2018 - Providence Chet Van Duzer (David Rumsey Map Center-John Carter Brown Library Fellow) will speak at at 2:00pm in Digital Studio, Brown University’s Rockefeller Library. This talk gives an account of a new book about a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to make multispectral images of a world map made by Henricus Martellus in about 1491, which is held by the Beinecke Library at Yale. This large map had long been thought to be one of the most important of the fifteenth century, and was thought to have influenced Martin Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507, one of the treasures of the Library of Congress, but the many texts on the map were illegible due to fading and damage, and thus its exact place in Renaissance cartography was impossible to determine. The new multispectral images have rendered most of the previously illegible texts on the map legible. Chet will explain why the Martellus map was an excellent candidate for multispectral imaging, describe the process of making the images, show the results, and situate the Martellus map in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century cartography.
October 10-13, 2018 – Gotha The 19th Kartographiehistorische Colloquium will be held at the Gotha Perthes Collection, University and Research Library Erfurt/Gotha. Additional information from Petra Weigel (petra.weigel(at)uni-erfurt.de) or Markus Heinz (kartographiegeschichte(at)sbb.spk-berlin.de).
October 10, 2018 – St. Michaels, Maryland The "2018 Fall Speaker Series" at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will be about "Exploring the Chesapeake: Mapping the Bay." Lecture will be 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm in Van Lennep Auditorium at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 213 North Talbot St. Today's lecture will be about John Smith on the Chesapeake Bay: Old Maps, New Science, and a Historical Controversy. In an attempt to discover the true route of Captain John Smith on his voyage up the Chesapeake Bay in 1608, Dr. Michael Scott and his team of geographers at Salisbury University accidentally stumbled into a major historical controversy. This presentation will discuss the processes John Smith used to map the Bay in the early 17th century, the methods used by modern geographers to unravel the true nature behind historical maps, and how the links between the two can help history come alive for modern-day explorers of the Chesapeake. Register on-line.
October 13, 2018 – Cambridge Karen Rann – artist and map enthusiast – will be talking about The Great Lines Project: Schiehallion and Charles Hutton’s contribution to the invention of contours. She will share her enthusiasm for contour lines and her work both tracing their history and engaging members of the public in her research and art. Contouring was first used in Britain, in the late 18th century, by Charles Hutton following his investigations on the Scottish peak of Schiehallion. The talk will start at 11am Milstein Seminar Room, Cambridge University Library, West Road. The talk will be accompanied by a display of Ordnance Survey maps and Karen Rann’s fascinating contour model. Contact Anne Taylor, 01223-333041 <aemt2(at)cam.ac.uk> if you have any questions. There is no need to book though I would be interested to know if you plan to come so that I know how many chairs to get out! The talk is being organised by the Charles Close Society with the support of Cambridge University Library.
October 13-21, 2018 - Manila and Hong Kong The Philippine Map Collectors Society and Jonathan Wattis (Wattis Fine Art) invite you to attend the Thirty-Sixth International Map Collectors' Society Symposium to be held in Manila and Hong Kong. The symposium will be sponsored by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum on October 19-20. Additional details for Manila can be found here and details for Hong Kong can be found here. Contact Rudolf Lietz (gallery(at)gop.com.ph) or Jonathan Wattis (info(at)wattis.com.hk) for additional information.
October 17, 2018 – St. Michaels, Maryland The "2018 Fall Speaker Series" at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will be about "Exploring the Chesapeake: Mapping the Bay." Lecture will be 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm in Van Lennep Auditorium at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 213 North Talbot St. Today's lecture will be about Where is Watkins Point?: Mapping Maryland’s Southern Boundary. Delve into the controversy surrounding Maryland’s southern boundary with Edward Papenfuse, retired Maryland State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents. Drawing on research from the depositions from the Smith Islanders who liked to spin a great tale, historic maps and land surveys, and even Thomas Jefferson’s interpretation of the Southern Boundary, Papenfuse will explore how this story has unfolded over time, from the Oyster Wars to the Supreme Court. Register on-line.
October 18, 2018 - Cambridge From his soon to be published new book, 'North Pole', Dr Michael Bravo explains the mystique behind Polar Maps and how we view the Earth from above. Join him at 7:30 pm at the Polar Museum, Lensfield Rd, as he discusses how the cosmographers of the renaissance produced new ways of visualising the poles and the world. Book here.
October 18, 2018 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will host a talk by Professor Marcin Wodziński from 3-5 pm. Wodziński is a professor of Jewish studies at the University of Wrocław in Poland. His many books include "Hasidism: A New History" (Princeton) and "Hasidism and Politics: The Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1864." He will discuss Historical Atlas of Hasidism. This reference book is visually stunning and easy to use, a magnificent resource for anyone seeking to understand Hasidism's spatial and spiritual dimensions, or indeed anybody interested in geographies of religious movements past and present. Doors open 2.30 pm. Please register on-line for this lecture.
October 18, 2018 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Sascha Trubetskoy will speak about Sasha’s Inferno: The Nine Circles of Viral Internet Maps. Ever since his “snow map” spread across the web in 2014, Sasha Trubetskoy has been well-versed in the world of viral internet maps. In his presentation, Sasha will tell the story of his initial and subsequent viral map hits, and take the audience on a journey deeper and deeper into the darkest pits of amateur internet mapmaking, where “real” cartographers seldom venture. The presentation will bring to light some aspects of mapmaking overlooked by the mainstream cartographic community, and highlight the importance of reaching out to a new, broader audience.
October 19, 2018 - Thousand Oaks, California Ernst F. Tonsing, the California Lutheran professor emeritus, will speak about Facts, Frauds and Fictions: Mapping the Top of the World at 4 p.m. in Room 212 of the William Rolland Art Center. The art center is just west of the stadium. Dr. Ernst Tonsing will speak about his collection of maps. He will show how early map-makers, relying upon the reports of travelers and sailors, sometimes got their maps right, sometimes wrong, and sometimes very wrong, putting in rivers, mountains, fjords, borders, and islands where they ought to be, all populated with curly-tailed sea creatures, bull-human land creatures, and even dreaded cannibals, perhaps to scare off those who would sail off to remote Scandinavia.
October 20, 2018 - Litchfield, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will meet at1 pm in the Litchfield Historical Society, 7 South Street. Litchfield is one of Connecticut’s most beautiful and historical towns, and there is no better time to visit than mid-autumn. Kate Zullo, Curator of Education at the Litchfield Historical Society, will show us treasures from the society’s map collection, which includes student maps from the early 19th century, town maps and surveys throughout Litchfield’s history, garden maps, and a Western Reserve map of New Connecticut. Leave time to visit all of the facilities which comprise the historical society: The Litchfield History Museum, the Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library, the Tapping Reeve House and Litchfield Law School, and the Tapping Reeve Meadow. There will be a modest fee (TBA) for the map tour, but the museums are free of charge. Because space for the map tour is limited, you’ll need to RSVP to our Connecticut Map Society email: ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com.
October 20, 2018 - Philadelphia The Philadelphia Map Society will meet at 11 AM at Laurel Hill Cemetery: 2nd annual walk featuring mapmakers' graves with Rich Boardman. Rich has researched new stops on our 2nd annual tour which will be a shorter path than last year. We will note achievements of those who helped make Philadelphia a map making center, starting with surveyor, astronomer and scientific instrument inventor David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) who on his lawn on June 3, 1796 with Benjamin Franklin viewed the transit of Venus from which he calculated the distance of the earth to the sun to be 93 million miles. Rich will be our guest at lunch following the walk. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman <philamapsociety(at)gmail.com>.
October 21, 2018 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium The Mercatormuseum, Zamanstraat 49, has an exhibition De Republiek boetseert de Wereld [The Dutch color the World] which is curated by Stanislas De Peuter. De Peuter will lead a tour of the exhibition at 14.30. Participants pay the entrance fee and enjoy afterwards coffee and pastries offered by museum sponsors Patisserie Jan Reed and Delicatessen Van Poeck.
October 24, 2018 – Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will host a talk with Australian Cartographer Anton Thomas, titled Drawing a Continent by Hand: a Pictorial Map of North America. In 2014, artist cartographer Anton Thomas began hand-drawing a large pictorial map of North America. Four years on, it is finally at the finish line. With thousands of features from Alaska to Panama, including 600 individualized cityscapes, it has been an odyssey of sheer labor and dedication. Inspired by the majesty of a continent, this color pencil map attempts to merge art with informative cartography. By utilizing the strengths of both disciplines, the hope is to tell a geographic story that engages a wide audience. A New Zealander based in Australia, Anton is in the US this Fall to present his work and will be displaying a full-size print at all events. In the presentation, he will unpack the origin and story behind the project, while taking the audience on an extensive tour across this pictorial map of epic proportions: The North American Continent. Doors open at 2.30 pm and talk 3:00 - 4.00 pm. The talk is free but requires advance registration.
October 25-26, 2018 - Cambridge, Massachusetts The Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library, will host a one and a half day symposium reflecting on the past and future of cartographic collections. We hope everyone from map-lovers to newcomers interested in how maps might help their research and teaching will come away inspired to use maps and geospatial data in their lives and work!
October 25, 2018 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Evelyn Edson, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Piedmont Community College, will speak about Sailing the Aegean Sea: A Renaissance Journey in Maps. In the early 15th century, Cristoforo Buondelmonti left his home town of Florence to visit the island of Crete. His purpose was to collect Greek manuscripts for the collection of his patron, Niccolo Niccoli, but he became smitten with the atmosphere, the mythological past, and the historical present of the islands, and never returned home. After writing an extensive account of the island of Crete, he went on the create the first isolario, or atlas of islands, describing 79 Greek locales and including a detailed map of each one. His work (pre-Gutenberg) was hand copied many times and survives in some 70 copies. He was followed by a number of imitators, and the isolario became a popular genre for several centuries; it retains its fascination for modern viewers. Dr. Edson will discuss the origin of his book and Buondelmoni’s life exploring the Greek isles. She is the editor of the recently published Description of the Aegean and Other Islands, a recreation of Buondelmonti’s masterpiece. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
October 25, 2018 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle meets 5:00 pm in the Yorktown/Jamestown Room at Williamsburg Landing. Our Map Circle member, John Milliman will discuss using old maps and charts in coastal research on the Pearl River, China. Additional information from Theodore Edwards <williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com>.
October 29, 2018 - Oxford Oxford Architectural History Seminar will be at 5pm in Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College. Anthony Gerbino (University of Manchester) will discuss Geometrical survey in sixteenth-century France: fortification plans, topographical maps, and architectural drawings. All enquiries to karl.kinsella(at)lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
October 31, 2018 - London The Friends of the Georgian Society of Jamaica will meet 18:00 – 20:30 at The Gallery, Alan Baxter Ltd, 75 Cowcross Street. Joanne Wishart will talk about James Robertson: The Shetlander who Mapped Jamaica. Little known surveyor and mapmaker James Robertson (1753-1829) went from the Shetland island of Yell to the Caribbean to seek his fortune. He produced an incredibly detailed and impressive map of Jamaica during the sugar boom which was highly praised at the time for its accuracy. This talk will explore all aspects of Robertson's life and career in the Caribbean, and will consider why he could not replicate similar success after he returned to Britain. Tickets are available.
November 1, 2018 – St. Michaels, Maryland The "2018 Fall Speaker Series" at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will be about "Exploring the Chesapeake: Mapping the Bay." Lecture will be 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm in Van Lennep Auditorium at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 213 North Talbot St. Today's lecture will be about Building a 3D Town: GIS Mapping of Historic Easton and Chestertown. Using historic maps, census data, and old photos, the staff and students at the Washington College GIS Lab have mapped historical community resources through the creation of interactive 3D maps of Chestertown and Easton. Join GIS Program Director Erica McMaster to explore how to these digital resources are supporting historic preservation and plans for future development.. Register on-line.
November 3, 2018 – Baltimore The Washington Map Society will have a Field Trip to Baltimore Area Home of WMS Member to View Private Collection. There will be an Open House at the Baltimore area residence of a WMS member to view nearly 100 maps framed and hung in his home. His collection has two main foci: Age of Discovery and Early Colonial Americana. The former includes maps of the world and continents by Schedel, Waldseemuller, Fries, Ruscelli, Ortelius, Munster, Blaeu, and Braun and Hogenberg. His Early Colonial Americana includes maps of Virginia, Maryland, and DC, including those by Jansson, Speed, and Fry-Jefferson. Beverages and hors d'oeuvres will be served. There is no limit on the number of persons who may attend, but reservations must be made with Eliane Dotson no later than 25 October to allow our host to arrange refreshments. More information, such as location and directions, will be made available to those who sign up as the date draws near. To sign up, or if you have questions, please contact Eliane Dotson at eliane(at)oldworldauctions.com.
November 3, 2018 – New York The New York Map Society will meet 2:00 pm at The World School, 17th Floor, 11 East 26th St (between Park and Madison Avenues). Yale Astronomer Priyamvada Natarajan will speak on her book Mapping the Heavens, in a free and open-to-the-public talk. Additional information from Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas@gmail.com>.
November 3, 2018 – Paris The 17th Paris Map Fair will be held at Hotel Ambassador, 16 boulevard Haussmann from 11 AM to 6 PM. The will be a cocktail reception in the Hotel on Friday night.
November 3, 2018 - Richmond Author and associate professor Max Edelson will visit the Library of Virginia, 800 E Broad St, from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM to talk about his book The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence, which explores the cartographic record of empire in British America in the generation before the American Revolution. The Fry-Jefferson Map Society hosts this workshop. Free for Fry-Jefferson Society members but $20 for non-members. Register online.
November 3, 2018 - San Pedro, California The next California Map Society southern California meeting will be held at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, 600 Sampson Way (Berth 84).
November 5, 2018 - Denver The maps of our Congressional Districts, and the process by which they are drawn, are some of the least known, most influential and most interesting political processes in American history. However, this process is not without controversy. Gerrymandering is a dirty word in politics, but what is it? And why is it bad? The Rocky Mountain Map Society invites you to meet on the Monday before Election Day as we examine this important example of applied cartography from Elbridge Gerry's Salamander to 21st century high tech redistricting efforts. Vincent Szilagyi talk Gerrymandering: Our Perennial Partisan Political Pastime in Maps will be at 5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room. Free and open to the Public. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry <lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net>.
November 5, 2018 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will host an event titled Nature in the City. The Nature in the City map may just be the first of its kind. A collaboration among artists, scientists, mapmakers, and more, it seeks to express the built world of San Francisco within the larger, older, unfolding, and connected world. The team integrated more than 40 data layers, mostly generated by public agencies, into a beautiful, deeply engaging document. Some of these layers include historic, current, and future water; natural areas; parks and open spaces; and tree canopy. It is explicitly about species and the context in which they arise and thrive. The data represents public goods and helps interpret those to map users. Doors open: 2.30 pm; Panel Discussion: 3.00 pm. The talk is free but requires advance registration.
November 6, 2018 - Stanford From rallies against apartheid in South Africa to sit-ins in the president’s office, activism has been a key part of life at Stanford for decades. With support from the Stanford Geospatial Center, the University Archives, and the David Rumsey Map Collection, undergraduate students, led by Andrew Lokay and sponsored by, working with the support of the Graduate School of Education and the Science, Technology, and Society program, have been uncovering this fascinating history and presenting it to the Stanford community via an online digital map: Mapping Student Activism at Stanford. The David Rumsey Map Center will host an event introducing this map to Stanford Historical Society members by Stanford undergraduate student Andrew Warren Lokay. It will also include a brief demo of the Center's technology and some of its maps by the Head and Curator of Center, G. Salim Mohammed. The event will also feature University Archivist Daniel Hartwig, who will discuss activism at Stanford and the University Archives’ work to document this history. Doors open: 4.00 pm; program begins: 4.30 pm. The talk is free but requires advance registration.
November 7-11, 2018 - Valletta, Malta The Malta Map Society will participate in the annual Malta Book Fair to be held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre. The society will exhibit 20 “never before seen” antique maps of the islands and Valletta. Additional information from David Roderick Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
November 8, 2018 - Edmonton The Edmonton Map Society will meet our usual location, Claridge House, 11027 87th Avenue at 7:00 pm. Our speakers will be Charlene Nielsen talking about 3D Medical Mapping for Visualizing Birth Outcomes and Air Pollution and Catherine Gadd talking about Expanding Horizons: Heritage Potential Modeling in Urban Archaeology. Additional information from David L. Jones <djones(at)ualberta.ca>.
November 8, 2018 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Professor Bill Sherman (Director, The Warburg Institute), and Dr Edward Wilson-Lee (Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge) will speak about Hernando Colón: Mapping the World of Books. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
November 15, 2018 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Mark Rosen will talk about The Early Modern Bird’s-Eye View as a Mode of Seeing. In this lecture, Mark Rosen explores the perspectival view that between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries was the predominant means of picturing cities, discussing how they were made, what sorts of demands they made upon viewers, and how they functioned in the worlds of science, cartography, and art.
November 20, 2018 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Andrew Doll will talk on Polish maps. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
November 23, 2018 - Floriana, Malta The next Malta Map Society committee meeting will be at 6pm at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
November 29, 2018 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Professor Dr Vanessa Collingridge (Independent Researcher, Glasgow) will speak about It’s All Fake News! James Cook and the Death of the Great Southern Continent (1760–1777). Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
November 30, 2018 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 7 pm in Lyric Hall, 827 Whalley Avenue. We’re going to combine our second annual Show & Tell with a holiday party at an unusual venue. Lyric Hall, located in the Westville section of New Haven, began as a vaudeville and silent movie theater. In 2006, John Cavaliere purchased the dilapidated building and has restored it to its former gilded glory. Here’s how our Show & Tell works: 6 or 7 members of the Connecticut Map Society give talks of 10 minutes each about a map or set of maps they own or admire. Lyric Hall has an ornate little stage for our speakers. The rest of us will sit back, relax, and watch the show! Last year, each presentation led to lively interaction. We’ll serve appetizers and you can buy wine or beer at Lyric Hall’s cash bar. Please RSVP <ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com> if you’d like to attend. Let us know if you’d like to be a presenter—for that, first come, first served.
December 1, 2018 – Antwerp Mark this date in your diary to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Brussels Map Circle at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp (Belgium). The 400 years old house of the famous family of printers is UNESCO world heritage and will be ours for the whole evening. You may expect guided tours, special pieces from their collection and ... good catering. Partners welcome! Program starts at 18:00 and guided tours in English, French and Dutch begin at 18:30. Please register in advance.
December 2-7, 2018 - Washington John Hessler (Specialist in Computational Geography & Geographic Information Science, Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress) will teach The Art & Science of Cartography, 200-1550 at the Library of Congress as part of the Rare Book School Seminar. The week long extremely intensive seminar is a deep dive into the origins of modern cartography and the early practice of scientific visualization as it emerged from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. Students will use the amazing map collections of the Library of Congress’ Geography and Map Division to explore both the artistic and scientific methodology of early mapmakers and scientists, and discuss in detail the complex epistemological problems they faced as the mathematization of science provided more and more abstract models of the world within the natural philosophy of the period. You must register in advance for the course.
December 11, 2018 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet in Denver Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room at 5:30 PM. Susan Schulten will discuss The Maps that Mattered in American History. Join Susan Schulten as she discusses her new book, "A History of America in 100 Maps." Additional information from Lorraine Sherry <lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net>.
December 16, 2018 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Stanislas De Peuter, curator for the exhibition De Republiek boetseert de Wereld [The Dutch color the World] at the Mercatormuseum, Zamanstraat 49, will conduct a guided tour in English of the exhibition at 14.30. Earlier in the day, at 11.00, he will give a lecture, in Dutch, on the Wytliet Atlas.
December 6, 2018 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Mr. Ralph Ehrenberg; Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, retired, will talk about Flying by the Seat of Your Pants: Rand McNally, and Post Office Belt Maps – The U. S. Post Office Airmail Service Air Navigation, 1918 – 1926. The United States Post Office’s Airmail Service played a pivotal role in developing the aeronautical chart in the United States from its establishment in 1918 through 1926 when airmail service was contracted out to private carriers. As the first organization in America to fly long distance scheduled flights on a daily basis, the Airmail Service worked closely with other Federal agencies, state and municipal governments, private industry, and civic groups to establish a national airways system analogous to the nation’s railroad and highway systems. The lack of adequate flying maps remained a major problem, however. As airmail pilot Ken McGregor remembered, “I got from place to place [by] the seat of my pants [and] the ability to recognize every town, river, railroad, farm, and, yes, outhouse along the route.” While a few pilots like McGregor relied strictly upon visual navigation, the majority resorted to using some form of published map. In an illustrated lecture, Mr. Ehrenberg will trace the history of map use by the Airmail Service and its own efforts in developing a basic aeronautical chart. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
December 20, 2018 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Members of the Society will celebrate the Annual Holiday Gala and Members’ Show-and-Tell. We hope that you will join us for our annual Gala, which will feature an especially full smorgasbord of holiday treats for your dining and drinking pleasure. We will continue our tradition of pairing this party with our “Members’ Night,” which allows our members to showcase a special item in their personal collections. In the past, we’ve enjoyed hearing about maps, atlases, globes, and “cartifacts”—old, new, borrowed, and blue (yes, we have seen blueprints). The Holiday Gala will also include a Silent Auction of any items that you may wish to donate to the Society—the full value of which is tax-deductible! To help us assemble our program, please email us at contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org by December 15 with details about any item you would like to present to the group and/or donate for the auction.
January 17, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Mike Flaherty will discuss Melchoir Huebinger and the Making of the First Automobile Atlas of Iowa. He will present a lecture on the maps and atlases produced by the nearly forgotten German immigrant cartographer and surveyor Melchoir Huebinger. His mapping of Iowa and Illinois spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s and included the production of vanity subscription atlases, military, flood, geologic and soil maps, production of general purpose state atlas, early automobile maps and route guides, and culminated in his incredible 1912 twenty-dollar "Good Roads Automobile Atlas of Iowa."
January 17, 2019 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Desiree Krikken (PhD student, Department of Modern History, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) will speak about Bears with Measuring Chains. Early Modern Land Surveyors and the Record of European Physical Space. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
January 24, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Paulette Hasier, chief of the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress, will discuss her personal interests in the history of cartography. She will also explain her mandate to take the Geography and Map Division in new directions more attuned to today’s cartographic technology. This does not mean abandoning the historic treasures of the Library, but rather using technical means to make them more readily available to researchers and aficionados alike. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
February 1-3, 2019 - Miami The Twenty-sixth Annual Miami International Map Fair will be held at HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street. Contact Hilda Masip (HMasip(at)historymiami.org), Phone 305.375.1618.
February 14-15, 2019 - Stanford A conference on Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900 will be held at the David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall. Maps have long been used to bring imaginary places to life, from Thomas More's Utopia to JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. But the role of the imagination in mapping extends well beyond the depiction of fantasy realms. Some cartographers have conjured places that were only rumored to exist but that they hoped could one day be charted. Others have drawn on their creative faculties to map sites that were only hazily known. Not a few cartographers have intentionally imposed illusory elements on their maps, whether in jest or in earnest (to mislead enemies, to foil would be plagiarists, or to score political or philosophical points). In the broadest sense, all maps are works of the imagination: at the moment of creation, the mapmaker translates a mental image into a visual and textual medium that can be shared. The various contexts that shape this process, the forms chosen for sharing spatial visions, and the nature of the resulting maps’ relationship to perceived reality all form important aspects of the study of cartography. This conference, co-organized by the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick and the History Department of Stanford University—is designed to showcase research and facilitate conversation about the role of the imagination in the cartographic enterprise writ large. Attendance is free and open to the public and includes a reception at Green Library on Thursday, February 14th, 2019. but pre-registration is required.
February 14, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Kass Kassebaum will tell us about Washington’s Mapmaker: Colonel Robert Erskine, First Surveyor General. Robert Erskine (1735–1780) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who came to the colonies in 1771 to run the ironworks at Ringwood, New Jersey and later became sympathetic to the movement for independence. General George Washington appointed him as Geographer and Surveyor General of the Continental Army at the rank of colonel; Erskine drew more than 275 maps, mostly of the Northeast region. His untimely death as the war was ending is largely responsible for his relative anonymity among the heroes of the Revolution. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
February 21, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Please join us as we celebrate the publication of Emily Talen’s book Neighborhood, which is a critical evaluation of the idea of neighborhood. Through the exploration of cross-cultural and cross-temporal commonalities of the ways in which neighborhood articulation exposes conflicting purposes, and the varying levels of realization of neighborhood design, this book assesses the historical record and current relevance of neighborhood.
February 26, 2019 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Steph Mastoris will talk on the Welbeck Atlas. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
February 27, 2019 – Philadelphia The Philadelphia Map Society will meet from 5:30-7:30 PM at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St. University of Pennsylvania Prof. Dr. Amy Hillier of the Cartographic Modeling Lab will share the multi-year development of an exemplary online research tool The Ward: Race & Class in Du Bois' Seventh Ward. Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois in 1896 was hired by the University of Pennsylvania at the behest of Susan P. Wharton to study residents of the Seventh Ward where the African American population was then focused, between Spruce and South Street, from Sixth to Twenty-Third. He conducted door-to-door interviews, preparing hand-drawn maps noting economic status and identifying the small portion of criminal class, in contrast to what he felt were city founders' biases that city crime arose in the Seventh Ward. Amy's team correlated Dr. Du Bois' maps with census and other data to provide detailed profiles of residents. Please review maps and analysis in W.E.B. Du Bois' The Philadelphia Negro (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899, 1996) prior to this talk. Amy will join us for dinner nearby. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman <philamapsociety(at)gmail.com>.
February 28, 2019 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr Elizabeth Haines (Department of History, University of Bristol) will speak about Labour Recruitment, Taxation and Location: Mapping (and Failing to Map) Mobile Populations in Early Twentieth Century Southern Africa. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
February 28 – March 1, 2019 - Tempe, Arizona Arizona State University will sponsor The Mapping Grand Canyon Conference which explores the art, science, and practice of Grand Canyon cartography. Join this celebration and critical examination of the cartographic history of a global landscape icon. Free and open to all, the conference promises a full two-day program of map-based story-telling, transdisciplinary analysis, state-of-the-art geospatial and cartographic demonstrations, engaging hands-on activities, and open community dialogue. There is no cost to attend the Conference. However, space is limited, so be sure to register to reserve your spot!
March 21, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Please join us as we celebrate the publication of Susan Schulten’s book, A History of America in 100 Maps.
March 21, 2019 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Professor Martin Brueckner (English Department and Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware, USA) will speak about The Rise of Monumental Maps in America: Aesthetics, Technology, and Material Culture. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
March 21, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Matthew Edney, Univ of Southern Maine; Osher Map Library; Director, History of Cartography Project, will speak about The History of Cartography Project: Its Past, Future, and Lasting Importance. In 1977, David Woodward and J. B. Harley conceived of The History of Cartography to encourage connoisseurs of maps, devotees of map history, and specialists dedicated to identifying and describing early maps to also consider how and why people have made and used maps - from mere documents to cultural artifacts. The effort exploded beyond their wildest expectations, expanding from a four book series to six broadly inclusive and increasingly large volumes, some with multiple books. It also fostered an unprecedented sense of community among map scholars around the world. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
April 3, 2019 – Philadelphia The Philadelphia Map Society will meet from 5:30-7:30 PM at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St. Dr. Larry E. Tise, Historian, East Carolina University, will present How Maps Made America. Larry has researched both manuscript and printed maps generated by explorers, surveyors, and real estate promoters ranging from the earliest European ventures to North America to the locations of river dams and transportation systems in the twentieth century. He will share with us some of his unusual discoveries, including the origins of hand-colored engraved maps beginning in the 16th century. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman <philamapsociety(at)gmail.com>.
April 3-7, 2019 - Washington Join the American Association of Geographers at the AAG Annual Meeting for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. The AAG Annual Meeting is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in geography and related disciplines. All scholars, researchers, and students are welcome. The five-day conference will host more than 7,000 geographers from around the world and feature over 5,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers.
April 11, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Ronald Grim, formerly Curator of Maps, Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, will speak about In the Footsteps of the Crime (Recovering a Map Masterpiece stolen by E. Forbes Smiley). For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
April 18, , 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Kevin Lewis will be the speaker; topic to be announced.
April 27, 2019 - Richmond The 2019 Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography will be held at the Library of Virginia, 800 E Broad St. We are pleased to announce that Stephen J. Hornsby has accepted our invitation to speak on pictorial maps. Dr. Hornsby’s latest book, Picturing America: The Golden of Age of Pictorial Maps, was published in 2017. As in previous years, the lecture will be complemented by an exhibition of pictorial maps from the Library’s collections.
May 2, 2019 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Jeremy Brown (PhD student, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the British Library) will speak about Democratising the Grand Tour: Self-reliant Travel and the First Italian Road Atlases in the 1770s. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
May 3-5, 2019 - Chicago The 5th Chicago International Map Fair will be held at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The Chicago Map Fair is sponsored by the History in Your Hands Foundation (HIYHF), a non-profit organization with a mission to provide classrooms with authentic, historical objects in an effort to help foster a more enriched learning experience. The lecture series portion of the Chicago Map Fair will be sponsored by the Chicago Map Society.
May 7, 2019 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Natasha Pairaudeau & Marie de Rugy will talk on Burmese maps in Cambridge University Library. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
May 9-12, 2019 – Kalamazoo, Michigan The fifty-forth International Congress on Medieval Studies meets on the campus of Western Michigan University. As many of you know, Felicitas Schmieder and Dan Terkla have organized “Mappings” sessions at the past three years of this ICMS at Kalamazoo, and you are invited you to join them. Currently they seek paper, panel discussion, and roundtable proposals that concur with one of our accepted ICMS “Mappings” rubrics: 1) “Pictura et Scriptura on/and Medieval Maps; 2) “Skin and Ink: The Materiality of Medieval Maps and Their Codicological Analogs”; 3) “‘Build it and they [hopefully won’t] come’: Placement and Displacement on Medieval Maps” and 4) “Seeing What’s no Longer There: New Imaging Technologies and Medieval Maps.” Proposals are due by September 21, 2018. Contact Felicitas Schmieder <felicitas.schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de> or Dan Terkla <terkla(at)iwu.edu> for additional information.
Another session has been organized by Giovanna Montenegro. Papers are sought for “Re-Mapping/Re-Reading Pre-Modern Travel Narratives and Maps.” This panel seeks papers that explore ways through which pre-modern travel narratives can be read geographically; also it seeks ways to read maps that were influenced by literature, i.e. literary cartographies. In what ways are late Medieval and early Renaissance maps shaped by literature? Inversely, how are travel narratives and chronicles shaped by the cartographic tradition. Proposals are due by September 21, 2018. Additional information from Giovanna Montenegro <gmontene(at)binghamton.edu>.
May 16, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Michael Conzen will discuss Chicago Diagrammed: Frank Glossop and the Mapping of Business Before and After the Fire. As befits any great metropolis, Chicago lays claim to a rich history of being mapped as a city, despite its relatively short history. (We are still nearly two decades shy of the city’s bicentennial). The pantheon of Chicago’s well-known cartographers, however, lacks one figure who should be in the line-up. The name of Frank Glossop (1838-1889) does not easily roll off the tongues of Chicago’s map historians, but it should. This talk will review his life story and assess the role that his unusual mapping ultimately played in his restless search for a stable living and for respect as a Chicago booster.
June 20, 2019 – Lake Forest, Illinois The Chicago Map Society meets at the MacLean Collection at 5:30 PM. Peter Nekola will address What Does it Mean to Map a Forest? Cartography and Geographical Knowledge in the Lake Superior Country in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Many of us have almost instinctively come to think of maps as representing locations; where things are as opposed to how they work. But mapping a forest as a simple location may tell us very little about the forest itself. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the thickly forested "Northwoods" of the Lake Superior Country provided the world with vast amounts of timber, while the rocks beneath them offered some of the world's largest deposits of iron and copper. Both endeavors relied on extensive mapping initiatives to locate and extract these resources, in the process changing the landscape drastically. It is no coincidence that these forests were also the site of several of the world's first published ecological surveys. Locating, assessing, extracting, and, eventually, managing, conserving and preserving the Northwoods demanded sophisticated reasoning, which was made possible by developing increasingly complex maps that represented not just objects but patterns, conditions, and relations. In the end such maps would allow future generations to "see the forest for the trees." This talk will offer a brief history of these maps and an explanation of how they worked. It will be accompanied by an exhibition including many of the original maps from the MacLean Collection that will appear in Professor Nekola's forthcoming book “Mapping the Northwoods: Cartography and Geographical Knowledge in the Lake Superior Country, from Industry to Conservation.”
July 1-4, 2019 - Leeds The twenty-fifth International Medieval Congress meets at the University of Leeds. As many of you know, Felicitas Schmieder and Dan Terkla have organized “Mappings” sessions at the past eight years of this IMC at Leeds, and you are invited you to join them. They plan panel and roundtable discussions that concur with the IMC theme of 'Materialities.' Proposals are due by September 21, 2018. Contact Felicitas Schmieder <felicitas.schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de> or Dan Terkla <terkla(at)iwu.edu> for additional information.
July 12, 2019 - Utrecht It is a tradition that the International Cartographic Association Commission on the History of Cartography and the International Conference on the History of Cartography jointly organize a pre-ICHC event. For the 28th ICHC we have teamed up with the Map Collection of Utrecht University and will together host a workshop entitled Controlling the Waters: Seas, Lakes and Rivers on Historic Maps and Charts. Besides presentations the day will involve a keynote address by Prof. Dr. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (University of Amsterdam) and a special map exhibit. Additional information from Imre Demhardt, Chair of ICA Commission on the History of Cartography: demhardt(at)uta.edu or Marco van Egmond, Curator of Maps, Atlases and Printed Works at Utrecht University Library: m.vanegmond(at)uu.nl.
July 13, 2019 – Leiden The International Society of Curators of Early Maps (ISCEM) will be held. Details to be announced. Contact Ed Dahl at ed.dahl(at)sympatico.ca for additional information.
July 14-19, 2019 – Amsterdam The Board of Imago Mundi Ltd and the Explokart Research Group of the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam have great pleasure in announcing that the 28th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) will be held at the Koninklijk Instituut voor Tropen, Mauritskade 63. The theme of the conference will be Old Maps, New Perspectives / Studying the History of Cartography in the 21st Century. For additional information contact Prof. Dr. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze / Marleen Smit MA at Special Collections – University of Amsterdam, ICHC2019, Oude Turfmarkt 129, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands; info(at)ichc2019.amsterdam
July 15-20, 2019 - Tokyo The 29th International Cartographic Conference of the International Cartographic Association will be held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation and Tokyo International Exchange Center. The theme will be Mapping everything for everyone.
September 2-7, 2019 - Bucharest The 12th Congress of South-East European Studies will examine Political, Social and Religious Dynamics in South-East Europe. One of the conference panels, organized by Robert Born (Leipzig) and Marian Coman (Bucharest), is dedicated to the cartographic history of south-eastern Europe.
October 10-12, 2019 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center is excited to announce the second “Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography” to be held at the Center. The Conference will investigate the theme of gender and cartography. Please Save the Date and watch for details!
November 7-9, 2019 – Chicago The 20th Kenneth Nebenzahl Lectures in the History of Cartography will be held at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. Watch for further details.
September 6-9, 2020 - Sydney The annual International Map Collectors' Society meeting will be at the State Library of New South Wales in honor of the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s discovery of the east coast of Australia. It is probable that we will have a post conference trip to Canberra with a visit to the National Library of Australia, and its wonderful collection. Additional information from Maggie Patton (maggie.patton(at)sl.nsw.gov.au), Senior Curator.
July 4-9, 2021 – Bucharest The 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) will be held. Additional details to come.