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October 3-5, 2024 - Kansas City The Road Map Collectors Association will have MapCon 2024 at the Hilton Kansas City Airport Hotel, 8801 NW 112th St.
October 4-5, 2024 – Arlington The theme of the 14th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History of Cartography is Celestial Charts. Details and registration online.
October 8, 2024 - Paris The idea of geography being the “eye of history” is a common expression in the early modern period, but it is articulated in a specific way if we take the cartographic object as the point of observation. The map as the “eye of history” (16th-18th centuries) is a study day which will re-investigate the relationship between maps and history in the chronological span from the 16th to the 18th century, in Europe and its imperial extensions, from three angles: the analysis of the place of maps in the teaching and reading of history, an investigation into history on and through maps, and a reflection on the porosity between the producers of historical and cartographic knowledge. With the support of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (CAK) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the study day will take place in the conference room of the Maps and Plans Department of the BnF on the Richelieu site. Additional inforamtion from <oeildelhistoire2024(at)gmail.com>.
October 8, 2024 – Washington (Online) Join Library of Congress reference librarians from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) for an introduction to the Geography and Map Division collections. This orientation session, aimed at the general public, will highlight a wide range of cartographic formats and subject matter. The focus of the session will be on maps and online resources available to all patrons any time or place in the world. Topics covered will also include search tips and tricks, research and collection guides, ways to engage with the collections online, and how to prepare for a future trip to the reading room. After the presentation, staff look forward to answering additional questions from attendees. Register for this session.
October 10, 2024 - New York In 1964, Raleigh D’Adamo’s winning entry in a Transit Authority design competition redefined the color-coding scheme of the New York City subway map and inspired his professional shift from law to transportation. This led to a long career of notable achievements including his involvement in the creation of 1972’s iconic Unimark map. D’Adamo also developed safer subway operating procedures and devised new routing systems and passenger service proposals that are still influential today. Joined by historian and map scholar, Peter B. Lloyd, Raleigh D'Adamo will present his many contributions to the city’s subway system and share a selection of map artifacts from his personal collection. A Life in Transit: Raleigh D’Adamo in conversation with Peter B. Lloyd will be held from 06:00pm - 07:30pm at New York Transit Museum, 99 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn. Register here.
October 10, 2024 – Oxford (Hybrid) Technologies continuously evolve transforming the representation of space and geography, shaping new forms of consciousness and knowledge. Digital technologies are mediating access to and research into cartographic material. 2D and 3D digital recording and display technologies are being employed to document rare maps, globes, and other cartographic material, enhancing research and playing a crucial role in the decision-making processes focused on both access and preservation. Maps are too exciting! / digital innovations in mapping is a Sunderland Collection Symposium, hosted by ARCHiOx Project. The symposium will be held 9.30am – 4pm in Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street. Free, booking required. Book – in person | Book – online.
October 10, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Dr. Catherine Gibson (Lecturer in East European Studies, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia) will talk about Mapmakers in Action: Drawing Borders in the Baltic, 1919-1920. This meeting was arranged with the assistance of the New York Map Society.
October 10, 2024 – Williamsburg Professor Francesca Fiorani will be speaking to the Williamsburg Map Circle at 5:00 in the Williamsburg Landing. The title of her talk is The Shadow Drawing. How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint. She describes her talk as "an entirely new account of Leonardo the artist and Leonardo the scientist, and why they were one and the same man." She will also talk about some maps associated with Da Vinci. Additional information from Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com>.
October 12, 2024 - Bruges The Vrienden Musea Brugge and the Cultuurbibliotheek of the Sint-Lodewijkscollege invite everyone to attend an extremely interesting academic study day on Marcus Gerards and his equally extremely important city plan. Meeting will be from 09:15 AM to approx. 04:30 PM at Sint-Lodewijkscollege (Magdalenastraat 30, 8200 Brugge - Sint-Andries). Registration required.
October 12, 2024 - Taunton, England The British Association for Local History are delighted to present this one-day conference, Maps and Buildings, on the complementary topics of maps and buildings in local history. Both topics offer a tangible and accessible route into the study of local history and enrich our understanding of the past. Conference will be 10:00am - 4:00pm at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Kingston Road. Booking is required.
October 13, 2024 - South Windsor, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2pm in South Windsor Public Library, Board Room, 1550 Sullivan Avenue. Foxing, soiling, and worm holes, oh my! Are you intrigued by old maps, and perhaps collect them too? Are you confused and tongue-tied by jargon such as “foxing” or “neat line”, or simply not sure where to start or how to develop your collection? Come join us as Brian Tims enlightens us about collecting (and, most importantly, enjoying) antique and vintage maps of all types. Brian will be your sherpa as he walks you through the land of collecting: Antique Map Collecting 101. He will discuss how to define your collection, where to search for and acquire maps, evaluating them, negotiating, and preserving your collection. This event is free and open to the public. Click here to view the event on the library's website and to pre-register, which is required.
October 14-15, 2024 - Prague The workshop Ethnolinguistic cartography (18th–21st centuries) in comparative perspective: genre, political conflicts, memory, organised by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of the Strategy AV21: Research programme Identities in the World of Wars and Crises, will take place at the Institute of History. The theme of the workshop will be to analyse the development of ethnolinguistic maps in Europe and other regions of the world from different perspectives from the 18th to the 21st century. Additional information from dr. Stanislav Holubec <sholubec(at)gmail.com> or dr. Jitka Močičková <mocickova(at)hiu.cas.cz>.
October 16-19, 2024 - Valletta, Malta The 41st International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium, Imago Melitae 2024, will feature six lectures by well-known figures in the cartographic world will be given along with visits to the National Library, MUZA and Lascaris War Rooms in Valletta, the Maritime Museum and the Inquisitors Palace in Vittoriosa, and the National and Ecclesiastical Archives in Rabat and Mdina. On October 20 there will be a post symposium tour to the sister island of Gozo where we will visit the Ġgantija Archaeological Park – a Unesco World Heritage site, the Citadel of Rabat, the Ħaġar Museum and other interesting historical places.
October 17, 2024 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. Mimi Cheng will speak about Charting Modernity in Late-Qing Maps. This talk focuses on a set of maps of China from the last two decades of the Qing empire (1644-1911) that reside in the MacLean Collection and Library of Congress. Click here to register for this program on Zoom.
October 17, 2024 - Chicago (Online) Take a deep dive into the process of creating the many multifaceted and interactive maps for the Newberry Library’s “Indigenous Chicago” project, with scholars who helped to conceptualize and build them. Mapping Indigenous Chicago is an introduction to several of the all-new interactive maps created for our "Indigenous Chicago" project. Scholars involved in development of the maps will speak to the maps they worked on and discuss the challenges they faced in deciding how to represent various cultural aspects. Click here to register for this program which will be on Zoom 6:00pm–7:30pm.
October 19-20, 2024 - Amsterdam This year the International Antiquarian Book, Print & Map Fair will be held in Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, Piet Heinkade 27.
October 22, 2024 - Boston (Online) Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center for a virtual lecture from 7:00-8:00 pm. Learn how “cartifacts” circulated in the everydays spaces of the Revolutionary War era. In North America, the consumer revolution of the eighteenth century profoundly affected people’s material life and, as some argue, paved the way for other more momentous political revolutions. In this program, Martin Brückner (Professor of English and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware) will discuss how maps became popular consumer goods and how their material transfer as “cartifacts” came to shape everyday and political life in early America. Click here to register.
October 23-25, 2024 - Bologna The Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of the International Cartographic Association, continuing the tradition of its annual Cartoheritage Conferences, since 2006, is organising the 18th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage in partnership with the University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, CartoGeoLab - Laboratory of Cartography and Geographical Analysis, supported by the MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group. The Conference is kindly hosted by the University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM).
October 24-26, 2024 - San Antonio The Society for History of Discoveries will be partnering with The Texas Map Society for our next annual conference. With its warm weather, beautiful riverwalk, and rich history, San Antonio offers another exciting venue that aligns with our society's broad interests. The conference will be a multiple-day affair that will be near the Alamo and will include an excursion to the nearby Missions. Located directly on Alamo Square, our venue for the annual meeting is the famed Menger Hotel, historic partner hotel of the Alamo.
October 26, 2024 - Zurich, Switzerland As part of the exhibition "Zollikon from above" we are offering an excursion to Zurich, which focuses on maps, panoramas and city models. One of the most important competence centers for map history is located in the "Maps and Panoramas" department of the Zurich Central Library. Dr. Jost Schmid heads this department and will show us the newly moved premises of the special collection. In the reading room we will build a bridge to Zollikon and discover the community on original maps and panoramas. As the number of participants is limited, we ask that you register in advance by October 23, 2024. Please send an email to: <ortsmuseum(at)zollikon.ch>. The meeting point is in the ZB foyer at Zähringerplatz 6. We would be grateful if you could arrive at 12:50 p.m.
October 28, 2024 - London (Hybrid) Maps and mapping play a central part in many expeditions. They help participants to plan and to plot where they’ve been. Dr Katherine Parker will talk about Exploring the explorers’ maps from 2.30pm-3.45pm in the Education Centre at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore. Advance booking for this event is required. This event will be held in person and online. If you are joining the event online, the joining instructions will be included in your confirmation email.
October 29, 2024 – Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will host a talk at 4:00pm by Professor Mario Cams of KU Leuven, a visiting scholar to Stanford's History Department. His talk, Circling the Square, addresses how Jesuit and East Asian cartography informed one another in the seventeenth century. Please register in advance to attend.
October 31, 2024 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Jordana Dym (Skidmore College, NY) will discuss Looking Down, Looking Up: Wall and School Maps in Guatemala, 1860-1936.
November 7, 2024 - Oxford The Oxford Seminars in Cartography will have a Field Trip – Adventures in Maps. This is an in-person event at Debbie Hall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford). Booking essential - for further details, please contact: nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 287119.
November 7, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Matthew H. Edney (Osher Professor in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine and Director, History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison) will discuss What’s Different about Map Making in the Nineteenth Century, and therefore in Volume Five of “The History of Cartography”?.
November 9, 2024 - Paris The 23rd Paris Map-Fair will be held 11 h 00 - 18h 00 at Hotel Ambassador, 16 bvd Haussmann. A Cocktail reception in Hotel Ambassador will be held on 8 November at 18h.
November 9, 2024 - Santa Barbara The California Map Society announces our fall Southern California Meeting, to be held on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be held from 10:30am - 5:00pm. Additional information, including recommended lodging, will be sent around October 1.
November 11, 2024 - Stanford (Hybrid) Join with the David Rumsey Map Center for a presentation by Anton Thomas, an artist-cartographer from New Zealand known for his illustrated maps. One of his maps is Wild World, a vast world map of nature that has 1,642 wild animals roaming it. During his talk, at 3:30pm, Thomas will dive deep into his story, from the endless details of Wild World to the managing of its popularity, from the psychological odyssey of three years drawing one map, to his search for new ideas in the Kenyan wilderness. Please register in advance to attend the talk either in-person or remotely via Zoom.
November 19, 2024 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Maurice Whitehead (Venerable English College, Rome) will discuss Maps, meridians and missions: Christopher Maire, SJ (1697–1767), an English cartographer in continental Europe. All are welcome. 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.
November 19, 2024 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, at 5:30 pm. Chris Lane will discuss Willful Wildlife: animals in persuasive maps. Persuasive maps are those intended primarily to influence opinion or make a point rather than simply present objective geographic information. The designers of such maps want to send a message to the reader and they use various images to encode this meaning in their maps so that that reader will be able to decode those images and so understand their message. Images of animals are one of the very best ways to encode a message on a map, naturally drawing attention to themselves and the intended meanings generally readily understood by viewers. This lecture will look at how animals have been used on persuasive maps from the seventeenth century to the modern era in many clever, dramatic and humorous ways. The Zoom link will be announced.
November 21, 2024 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. The program Indigenous People and the Chicago Portage will be held in-person and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. In this edition of “Conversations at the Newberry,” historian John William Nelson discusses researching issues of land use and landscape change, focusing on the Indigenous history of Chicago waterways, with Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Eric Hemenway and Raphael Wahwassuck. Lecture will be 6:00pm–7:00pm in Ruggles Hall and Zoom. Advance registration is required.
November 21, 2024 – Washington The Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division will celebrate 25th Annual GIS Day: Mapping Our World. Presented as one of the Library of Congress’ Live at the Library series, this event will feature Dr. Vicki Ferrini (Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) talking about Ocean Floor mapping and a display of related collection items. In addition, G&M staff will be hosting several interactive activities in the Great Hall involving maps and globes. Lecture will he in Jefferson Building, LJ119, 6:30 pm.
December 4, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Dr. Neal Asbury (rare map collector, CEO of Legacy Companies, and host of syndicated weekly radio talk show - Neal Asbury’s Made in America) and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts (historian and professor emeritus, Fielding Graduate University) will speak about Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion. Their book "Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas" is available wherever books are sold.
December 6, 2024 - Hamden, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will have our annual Show & Tell, a social event and Map Society favorite, held this year at 7 pm. We’ll provide appetizers and drinks. The location is a home in Hamden with easy street parking. At Show & Tell, 7-10 members will talk for 10 minutes each (we mean business here!) about a map or map topic they’re eager to share. Speakers and audience members alike must RSVP to <connie(at)redstonestudios.com>. Speakers, reserve your spots: they fill up quickly. We’ll provide venue details when you email us.
December 6, 2024 - Paris Following on from the meeting organised on 25 November 2023 in Paris on the intersections between art and cartography, the History Commission of the Comité Français de Cartographie is organising a study day entitled Cartography and Cinema at the National Institut d'histoire de l'art, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne. As we all know, cinema, the main medium of fiction developed during the 20th century, has from the outset been concerned with the representation of the most diverse spaces and landscapes on the surface of the planet. Cartography, in all its forms, has been used to transform geographical places and spaces into a range of narrative supports and focal points. The aim of the Study Day is to explore some of the ways in which cartography has been present in the history of fiction cinema and in cinematographic operations. Additional information from Catherine Hoffman <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.
December 7, 2024 – Brussels The next annual conference of Brussels Map Circle will focus on Cartography of Spain. Spweakers include Luis Robles Macias, José M. Garcia Redondo, Piet Lombaerde, and Carme Montaner.. More information to follow.
December 12, 2024 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) will discuss Copying or Creating? Notions of Ingenuity in isolarii from the 15th to 18th century.
December 19, 2024 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. The Society will have it's Annual Holiday Gala.
January 16, 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. Ian Spangler, Assistant Curator of Digital and Participatory Geography, and Emily Bowe, Assistant Director, both with the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library will discuss Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World.
February 25, 2025 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Finnian O’Cionnaith (Dublin) will present ‘A peculiar survey … for our peculiar purpose’: founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. 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.
February 27, 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>. Louise McCarthy and Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité) will discuss Cartographic Science at the Service of Company Propaganda in Early Imperialist Britain (1600–1625). McCarthy and Niayesh are Hakluyt Society Speakers.
March 13, 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>. James Cheshire (University College London) will discuss Discoveries from the UCL Map Library.
March 19-22, 2025 - Seville The Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos/Instituto de Historia will have a “Mapping Frameworks” conference Cartografía y territorialidad en América [Cartography and territoriality in America]. The conference aims to open a rich dialogue among specialists in the history of maps, history of science, landscape archaeology, American culture, etc., which reflect on the way of understanding and interpreting spaces in the Americansbetween the 15th and 18th centuries.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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 Maine Monday through Wednesday, September 15-17th. Additional details to be announced. Contact Libby Bischof <elizabeth.bischof(at)maine.edu> for more information.
October 31-November 1, 2025 - Winston-Salem The Museum Of Early Southern Decorative Arts asks you to please save the date for a two day map seminar, Mapping America & Its Expansion, as we explore the American Century and America’s westward migration during the 18th and 19th centuries. 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. The seminar will also include a map fair.
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.
