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.
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can be found at Cartography
- Calendar of Exhibitions.
Click here
for archive of past events.
April 2, 2025 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Mario Cams will speak about Squaring the Circle: The Seventeenth-Century Encounter between East Asian and European World Maps at 8:00 p.m. in SteM Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14.
April 3, 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). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku) will discuss Maps for Development? Finnish Mapping of the Global South, c.1970–2000.
April 4-6, 2025 - Zurich The 19th International Atlas Days will be held at Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Zähringerpl. 6. The program “The Swiss Atlas Cartography – Precision and Innovation between Snow and Rocks” will reconstruct the development of Swiss cartography in lectures and by inspecting the maps in detail. Due to the special nature of Swiss cartography, the scope of the event will not only include the private publishers of the 19th and 20th centuries, as has been the case in previous events, but will also examine aspects of early private cartography and official cartography. A guided tour of the history of maps in the Swiss National Museum rounds off the program. Registration is required.
April 8, 2025 - Berlin (Hybrid) Maps belong to the oldest forms of human communication and thus represent an important historical record of space. Yet, maps are much more than just a visual presentation of a territory during a certain period of time, but a reflection on historical, political, religious and cultural contexts in which they were compiled. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Einstein Center Chronoi jointly organized a lecture series Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II. This is the second part of a series of lectures held November-December, 2024. Lectures are at 6 pm (CET) in Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin. Registration for in-person and virtual attendance is required and can be done from the meeting web page. Today there will be a Roundtable with Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Goce Naumov, Goce Delćev, and Cinzia Pappi discussing House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies.
April 8, 2025 - Cambridge, Massachusetts (Hybrid) Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture present Chet Van Duzer (Lazarus Project, University of Rochester) and Peter Girguis (Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University) who will talk about Sea Monsters on Maps: Myth, Mystery, and Marine Life. Lecture is in Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm. Register to attend in person or online.
April 11, 2025 – London The International Map Collectors' Society will visit from 10.30am to 1.00pm the Royal Geographical Society map collection in Kensington near Hyde Park. It will be hosted by Katherine Parker, Cartographic Collections Manager of the RGS, who will be well-known to many members. The RGS is less than a 10-minute walk from the Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum, so you have a big choice of how to spend the rest of your day. The cost will be £10.00. The full programme and booking information is on the IMCoS website. There will only be 25 places, so book early. If you have any questions, please send an email to UK Representative Mark Clark <markclark368(at)gmail.com>.
April 17, 2026 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. At 6:00 pm CT Daniel Block will discuss Finding Food: How We Map and Talk About Food Access in Chicago and Beyond.
April 17, 2025 - Williamsburg Please join the Williamsburg Map Circle at Williamsburg Landing, APA Auditorium at 5pm. Jay Gaidmore, Marian and Alan McLeod Director of Special Collections at The Swem Library Map Collection, will offer us a discussion of the library's cartographic collection and how to access it. Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you will be able to join us on the 17th. We are looking forward to seeing you all.
April 22, 2025 – Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado Center, downtown Denver. History-storyteller Kurtis Kelly has performed throughout the Front Range as Enos Mills and many other notable Colorado figures. He will discuss Enos Mills: Chasing a Dream for Colorado. Take a journey through this first-person narrative inspired by adventurous times when grizzlies still roamed Colorado and a national park was an elusive dream. Come celebrate the 155th birthday of Enos Mills the day of the program. Click here to register for in-person attendance. Click here when program starts for Zoom attendance.
April 24, 2025 – Milwaukee (Hybrid) The annual Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series will be held at the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There will be a reception at 5:30 pm and the lecture will begin at 6 pm. The speakers are Ian Spangler, Assistant Curator of Digital and Participatory Geography and Emily Bowe, Assistant Director, both of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. The title of their talk is Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographer Redrew our World. Registration is required for this in-person and virtual event.
April 24, 2025 – Washington (Hybrid) Kris Butler (Senior Career Coach at Holland & Knight, lawyer, and author of “Drink Maps in Victorian Britain”) will speak about American Drink Maps of the Boston area and towns in Maine and New Hampshire in later editions of Rowntree & Sherwell’s The Temperance Problem and Social Reform. Talk will be at 6:00 pm in Holland & Knight, 800 17th Street, NW. Kris will share new research since the publication of her book on little known versions of United States drink maps made to persuade lawmakers to reduce the number of places to buy alcohol. Craft beer will be served. Security in the building requires registration for in-person attendance for this meeting by April 22. Click here to stream the meeting once it starts at 6:00pm.
April 26, 2025 – Richmond
Map Day at Library of
Virginia, 800
E Broad St., will have:
10:00
am - Noon: Map appraisals by Old World Auctions; conservation
assessments by Leslie Courtois, LVA Conservator; and guided tours of
map exhibition, “Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816-1826,” by
Cassandra Farrell, Exhibition Curator and Senior Map Archivist.
Noon
- 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm, Program Presentations
First
Speaker: Ronald Grim, Vice President and Program Chair, Washington
Map Society, with presentation entitled “‘Compiled from
Official Sources,’ The First Official State Maps.”
Second
Speaker: Martin Brückner, Professor of English and Material
Culture Studies, University of Delaware, with presentation entitled,
“Selling Virginia: State Maps and the Marketplace,
1800-1840.”
This is a free event, but registration
is required.
April 30, 2025 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) The French School of Asian Studies (EFEO), Hong Kong Center, has the pleasure to invite you to attend the following talk by Prof. Radu Leca (Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University) Orankai and the Geographical Imaginary of the Qing in Early Modern Japan. Lecture is at 4:30 pm-6:30 pm in Art Museum, West Wing, 2/F, CUHK, Shatin, New Territories. Online broadcasting. Enquiry; +852 3943 1247 / <hk.center(at)efeo.net>.
May 1, 2025 - Ipswich We all take maps for granted today, but in the sixteenth century maps were new-fangled things, viewed by some with suspicion. In this talk, John Darby (c.1553-1608/9) of Bramford, Suffolk, surveyor, map-maker and artist, Dr Vivienne Aldous will use a case-study of one of the early East Anglian map-makers, John Darby, to investigate the uses to which early maps were put and how they quite quickly became a well-understood medium. Lecture is at 6:30 - 8pm GMT+1 in University of Suffolk, Waterfront Building Neptune Quay. Reserve a spot.
May 1, 2025 - Stanford (Online) Join the David Rumsey Map Center for a talk about chronomapping, a methodology developed by Dr. Ben Gitai of EPF Lausanne that integrates techniques from the fields of architecture, hydrology, urban planning, climatology, and more disciplines to investigate land transformation through time. The methodology is a means to produce new conceptual frameworks of territories and habitats across time, designed to counterbalance the short-sightedness of much development in the Western world. The talk, Mapping Time, Space and Habitat Talk, takes place from 3:30-4:30pm. Please register to attend.
May 6, 2025 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Onur Engin (University of Cambridge) will present Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography. All are welcome. Joining instructions for Zoom 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. The seminars are kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
May 7, 2025 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St., will have a meeting from 6:00-7:00pm. Barbara Mundy, in conversation with Lia Markey and David Weimer, will discuss The 1524 Cortés Map of Tenochtitlán, Mexico. This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. Register here.
May 8, 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). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust) will discuss Marking the Miles: Some annotated maps in National Trust Collections.
May 8, 2025 – Washington The
Library
of Congress Geography and Map Division and Philip
Lee Phillips Society will meet in LOC Jefferson Building, LJ119
(Mahogany Row). Title: Exploring
Map Surrounds. Two
presentations with speakers discussing the significance of cartouches
and watermarks on maps from Library of Congress collections.
First
speaker (1:45pm): Chet Van Duzer, Historian of cartography, PLPS
Fellow, and board member of the Lazarus Project at the University of
Rochester, with presentation entitled “Drawing Identity:
Cartographic Self-Portraits in the 20th and 21st Centuries.”
2:45
– 3:15pm ET: Break with refreshments and Geography and Map
display.
Second speakers (3:15pm): Dr. Juliet Wiersema,
Pre-Hispanic and Spanish Colonial Art History at University of
Texas-San Antonio, and Meghan Hill, Preservation Science Specialist
at the Library of Congress with presentation entitled, “Sights
on Spice. A Historical and Material Exploration of William Hack’s
A Description of the Sea Coasts … East Indies”
May 10, 2025 – Middletown, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2:00pm in Wesleyan University (Earth & Environmental Sciences Department, Exley Science Center, Church/Pine Street, 4th floor, room 405). Ellen Thomas and Joop Varekamp, curators of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History at Wesleyan, will enlighten us about Edwin Howell: Mapping Early Explorations of the American West, within the context of the early explorations of the American West. We will look at some of the relief maps on display at Wesleyan, notably the Grand Canyon Map by Howell, as well as an 1894 curved relief map of the geology of the U.S. Other relief maps and models of volcanoes can also be inspected. We will look at some geological maps of the western U.S. with associated photographs.
May 14, 2025 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Wouter Bracke will discuss Maps of Congo from the library of Leopold II at 8:00 p.m. in SteM Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14.
May 15, 2025 - Chicago You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. 5:30 p.m. – social hour (delicious finger food and light refreshments); 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Richard Condit Maps, Biogeography, and Species Extinction.
May 15, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina) will talk about Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases. Click here to book your place. For further details please contact: Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.
May 16, 2025 - Aberystwyth, Ceredigion (Hybrid) Carto-Cymru - The Wales Map Symposium 2025 will be held by the National Library of Wales. Our theme this year is "The Art of Maps" and we will be exploring how artists have used maps or been influenced by them when creating works of art, as well how as the artistic elements of maps and mapmaking have changed over time. Click to register for in-person or online attendance. Additional information from Huw Thomas <huw.thomas(at)llyfrgell.cymru>.
May 20-23, 2025 - Ottawa We warmly invite you to join Carleton University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers from May 20 to 23, held jointly with the 50th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the Canadian Cartographic Association from May 20 to 21.
May 22, 2025 – Brussels The Brussels Map Circle will have the next lecture on the renovation of the Mercator Museum by Ward Bohé. Lecture will be in Map Room of KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) and more information soon.
May 23, 2025 - Stanford Join with the David Rumsey Map Center for a symposium OpenGulf: Creating Open Historical Data about the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf from 9am-12pm. The symposium marks the publication of a comprehensive dataset of geocoded place names derived from a seminal twentieth-century British colonial Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, and Oman. Register to attend.
May 29, 2025 - Oxford (Online) Today's meeting has been POSTPONED. The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet) will discuss Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment. Click here to book your place. For further details please contact: Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.
May 31, 2025 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2-4 pm in Mitchell Library (the New Haven Public Library's Westville branch, 37 Harrison Street, parking is available next to the library). Cartographer and Connecticut Map Society founder and board member Connie Brown will talk about Manuscript Mapmaking 101: A Workshop. She will share techniques for creating your own hand-drawn maps. Is there a place or a trip you’d like to map? Your childhood home, a family migration, a journey you’d like to commemorate cartographically? Bring a commercial paper map, laptop, or iPad for reference—or skip the research and make a memory map. Materials provided. You must pre-register for this workshop: email <connie(at)redstonestudios.com>. Sign up soon: there are only 20 spots.
June 1-6, 2025 - Charlottesville Matthew Edney will be teaching a week-long seminar, H-65, Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900, at Rare Book School, University of Virginia. The course is intended for students, faculty, librarians, dealers, collectors, and anyone interested in early maps, whether beginners or experts. It includes broad introduction to maps and their materiality; particular consideration of atlases, maps in books, and bibliographical practices; hands-on printing with letterpress and intaglio presses; and in-class examination of maps and books from RBS's own collections.
June 5, 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. Casey Price (Recent Ph.D. Graduate and Visiting Teaching Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) will discuss Our Fire Sits Here’: The French Cartography of Indigenous Coalescence in the Native South.
June 6, 2025 – Oxford The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society is planning a one day event. In the morning will be a map cataloguing training session, aimed at people who look after map, book or manuscript collections and would like further training on dealing with maps. The afternoon will be the MCG Workshop. Both events will be in person, at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and people are welcome to sign up for either or both parts. Further details will circulated. Additional information from <martin.davis(at)cartography.org.uk> or <debbie.hall(at)cartography.org.uk>.
June 7, 2025 – London The Annual General Meeting of the International Map Collectors' Society will be held at 10am in the Library, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore.
June 7-8, 2025 - London The London Map Fair will be at its usual location of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore. At 14:30 on Saturday, journalist and author Nicholas Nugen will speak about Spices, Maps and the origins of global sea trade.
June 11, 2025 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Djoeke van Netten will discuss Frozen sea and melting ice. Cartography of the North Pole at 8:00 p.m. in SteM Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14.
June 12, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will speak about 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 12, 2025 – Vienna An International Conference on the History of Map Collecting Vienna, Central Europe and Beyond will be at University of Vienna. The conference will be organised jointly by the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting (Austria) and Moravian Library in Brno (Czech Republic) and will be accompanied by a poster exhibition on Bernard Paul Moll composite atlas preserved at Moravian Library which originated in Vienna in the 18th century. Should you have further questions, please contact the organizers Eva Chodějovská <chodejovska(at)mzk.cz> and Silvia Tammaro <silvia.tammaro(at)univie.ac.at>).
June 16-20, 2025 - London Maps are simultaneously ubiquitous in everyday life yet also strangely absent from much scholarly work outside the niche field of the history of cartography. How to catalogue, study, and discuss maps as historical sources for research is a subject that draws insight from critical bibliography, the history of the book, historical geography, and other subjects, making it an interdisciplinary and dynamic field. A History of Maps and Mapping is a London Rare Book School course (University of London, Senate House, Malet Street), convened by Katherine Parker.
June 16-20, 2025 - Mexico City Since 1987 and during twenty meetings, an academic network has been consolidated between the geographic community of Latin America and the Caribbean, to face the social, economic, political, environmental and cultural challenges that the region faces. From the diversity of the territories, based on research and teaching, spaces have been built to promote the exchange of knowledge and expertise, which contribute to consolidating the identity of the geographies in the region. For this reason, the National Autonomous University of Mexico is pleased to host the "XX Meeting of Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean" at the Ciudad Universitaria campus in Mexico City. André Reyes Novaes (UERJ - BR), Carolina Martinez (CONICET - AR) and Mariana Lamego (UERJ - BR) will host a session History of cartography and geographical imagination in Latin America. This panel aims to discuss the role of cartographic images in shaping imaginative geographies in Latin America. More information from <mariana.lamego(at)uerj.br>.
June 22, 2025 – Bethany, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will have a Field Trip to Whitlock Book Barn, 20 Sperry Road, at 2:00pm. A Connecticut treasure, Whitlock’s Book Barn has been in business since 1948. In its two red barns, you’ll find hundreds of used books and maps. Because map lovers tend to be book lovers, we think this field trip is for you. Store Manager Meg Turner will preside, describing the store’s history and showing us a selection of maps from the collection. Thereafter, you’re free to browse their maps and books.
July 8-11, 2025 – Paris The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) will hold their annual conference at Campus Condorcet. The theme is Mapping the Cultural Crossroads. A two-day Workshop (8-9 July) for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, will precede the Symposium (10-11 July). Post-event trip to Vincennes with guided tour through the cartographic treasures of the Historical Archives Center kept in the Château de Vincennes, a former fortress and royal residence dating back to 14th century is planned for 12 July. Additional details online.
August 11–15, 2025 - Los Angeles Ian Fowler (Curator of Maps, History, and Government Information; New York Public Library) will be teaching a California Rare Book School course on the History of Cartography at UCLA. This course is designed to provide a general overview of the history of mapping in the western world as well as the use of cartographic resources in modern day teaching and research.
August 26-29, 2025 - London The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2025 will be held. Additional 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 Bar Harbor and Acadia National Forest Monday through Wednesday, September 15-17th. Additional details to be announced. Contact Libby Bischof <elizabeth.bischof(at)maine.edu> for more information.
October 8-9, 2025 - Rome The Historical Wall Maps Research Group, an international collective of historians and geographers dedicated to advancing the study of modern historical wall maps, is pleased to announce a workshop Hang Them Up! New Perspectives on Historical Wall Maps Studies, at the Società Geografica Italiana, Palazzetto Mattei in Villa Celimontana via della Navicella, 12. The main aim of the event is to bring together experts from different fields to explore the historical and comparative dimensions of wall maps, their cultural significance and impact on geographical knowledge across different periods and regions, and finally the possibilities for their preservation and digitization. For inquiries, please contact Arturo Gallia: <arturo.gallia(at)uniroma3.it>.
October 8-10, 2025 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will host the fifth biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography. To stay in the loop about the conference theme and speakers over the coming months, please sign up for the Ruderman Conference mailing list.
October 16-18, 2025 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St., will be hosting the 22nd Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography. The theme will be "Mapping from Mexico: New Narratives for the History of Cartography". This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. Additional registration, schedule, and speaker information will be released as the event nears.
October 17-18, 2025 - Hobart, Tasmania The annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS) will be held at Museum of Old and New Art. Papers will be presented about the theme Southern Frontiers.
October 23-25, 2025 – Denver The Society for the History of Discoveries annual conference will be hosted by the Rocky Mountain Map Society and the Denver Public Library, with opening reception the evening of October 23rd, and program October 24th and 25th. The theme will be Mountains as Sites of Myth, Barriers, and Exploration. Additional information from Cortney Berg, SHD Secretary: <cberg(at)gradcenter.cuny.edu>.
October 25-26, 2025 - Liège, Belgium The Brussels Map Circle next excursion, focusing on geological mapping, will take place in Liège. More information coming soon.
October 31-November 1, 2025 – Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Hybrid) Registration is open for Mapping American Expansion, a two day seminar and Map Fair at The Museum Of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem. Moderated by Margaret Pritchard, Former Curator of Prints, Maps, and Wallpaper at Colonial Williamsburg, lecturers will include JC McElveen, Wesley Brown, and Chet Van Duzer. Concurrent with the seminar, a select group of dealers will be exhibiting maps for sale. A list of speakers, topics, dealers, and registration details (in-person or virtual) are available at https://mesda.org/program/map-seminar/.
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. 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>.
July 7-11, 2026 – Prague 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>.
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. Date and program currently are tentative.