New members and visitors are always welcome to attend these
events.
Please submit your meeting notices to John W. Docktor
<phillymaps(at)gmail(dot)com>
To learn more about
non-current maps see Map
History / History of Cartography.
Exhibition announcements
can be found at Cartography
- Calendar of Exhibitions.
Click here
for archive of past events.
September 6-9, 2020 - Sydney Sadly the International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium at the State Library of New South Wales has also fallen to the Covid-19 shutdown, and is now postponed to August 2021.
September 8, 2020 - Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society invites you to a Zoom-hosted Favorite Maps event at 5:30 PM MT! Members will share a favorite map in a 10 minute “lightning talk” or listen and learn from others. R.S.V.P. to Naomi Heiser, Program Director <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> to receive a Zoom invitation to join the meeting. Anyone is welcome to join, whether presenting or not!
September 8, 2020 – Vienna The annual ordinary meeting of the General Assembly of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes will take place at 5:00 p.m. at Austrian National Library, Reading Room of the Map Department, Josefsplatz 1.
September 10-12, 2020 - Basel The 20. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium has been postponed until next year.
September 10, 2020 – Canberra (Online) Despite recent headwinds the Australian and New Zealand Map Society in cooperation with the National Library of Australia and The Hakluyt Society, is holding a one day online symposium by the National Library of Australia with the theme Mapping Pacific Places. Registration required. This will be a free online event open to all.
September 10, 2020 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society, in conjunction with the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division and the Johns Hopkins University, is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. 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. John Hessler (Specialist in Computational Geography and Geographic Information Science at the Library of Congress and Professor of Evolutionary Computation in the Graduate School of Advanced Studies at the Johns Hopkins University) will discuss Mapping Covid-19 from Phylodynamics to Contact Tracing. Hessler will provide an introduction to the computational techniques and the algorithmic methods that cartographers and epidemiologists are using to map the spread and origins of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 virus). He will look at methodologies for mapping the virus' nucleotide and amino acid mutations and examine how the virus spread to the United States, looking closely at the massive amounts of complex geospatial data generated by GISAID (originally known as Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data).
September 11, 2020 - Bern There will be an introduction and tour of the exhibition Die Schöpfkarte in the event hall 1st basement, Bibliothek Münstergasse, Münstergasse 61. The 500th birthday of Thomas Schöpf (1520–1577) is the time to appreciate his 1.3x1.9 meter map of Bern. 5:30 p.m. Welcome; Introduction by Michael Schläfli, head of the map collection, and Martin Kohler, map collection employee, followed by an exhibition tour. 6:30 p.m. free exhibition tour; 7:00 p.m. End of the event.
September 11-12, 2020 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts two day conference Mapping and Migration has been rescheduled for September 17-18, 2021.
September 12, 2020 - Portland, Maine (Online) Please join us for the opening reception and lecture of our Maine Bicentennial exhibit: Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677-1842, curated by Osher Map Library Faculty Scholar, Dr. Matthew Edney. The virtual lecture will be held from 3:00pm – 4:30pm. Free registration is available online.
September 17, 2020 - Chicago (Online) In our first virtually hosted meeting of the Fall 2020 program year, Chicago Map Society member Dan Vohasek will be sharing the story behind one of the city’s most iconic pictorial maps; Walter Conley and O.E. Steltzer’s, A Map of Chicago Incorporated as a Town August 5 1833. What started as Dan’s first map purchase ended up taking him down a rabbit hole from which he has never emerged, and we are excited to have him share what he has discovered thus far. Meeting will start at 6:00PM CT. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for Zoom Meeting registration information.
September 21-25, 2020 – Vienna (Online) The Central European Cartographic Conference, EuroCarto 2020 will take place as a virtual event. Attendance will be free for all registered participants. Already paid registrations will be refunded. Please register online. Registration is limited to 400 people. Please register early.
September 22, 2020 – Washington and Denver (Online) The Washington Map Society and the Rocky Mountain Map Society are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. 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, 5:00 PM Mountain Time. Derek van Westrum will discuss A Mile High Above What Exactly? Denver is the "Mile High City," and Colorado is famous for its collection of "14ers". But how exactly are such "heights above sea level" determined at locations so far from the sea? And what if Derek told you that in the next couple of years, the US is actually set to replace mean sea level with an entirely new basis for its height system? He will describe how the new system will work, why you're gonna love it, and what it might mean for some of those, um, lower 14ers. [It's a general audience talk that explains datums, the new datum, and has some fun with what *might* happen to Sunshine Peak]. Derek van Westrum received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Colorado and spent the next 15 years making instruments that measure changes in Earth's gravity. Since 2014, he has managed NOAA's gravity lab at the Table Mountain facility, north of Boulder - somehow finding the one division at NOAA that doesn't actually work directly with the Ocean or the Atmosphere.
September 23, 2020 – Richmond (Online) Join the
Library of Virginia for
the 17th Annual Alan
M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography
which is hosted by the Fry-Jefferson Map Society. The lectures are
presented as a series of virtual events on August 19, 2020, September
23, 2020, and October 22, 2020. Explorations of the Albemarle
Sound region and the first English settlements of the Roanoke
Islands in the 1580s are the topic of the free virtual events.
Join us for one, or all three. Participants will receive an email
closer to the event date from “Education and Outreach”
with a link to join the virtual event through GoToWebinar. Each event
is free and begins at 7:00 PM.
Andrew Lawler (journalist) will
present Uncharted Territory: How Maps Launched—And Nearly
Sank—English Colonization of the New World. Registration
is required. For more information contact Dawn Greggs
<dawn.greggs(at)lva.virginia.gov> at 804.692.3813.
September 23, 30, October 7, 14,
21, 2020 - Singapore (Online) Yale-National
University of Singapore has arranged an exciting series of online
presentations under the title “Unlocking
Historical Maps of Southeast Asia.” Each panel addresses
key themes facing map historians today: circulations, histories,
collections, publics, unlocking. The panels are from 7pm-9pm
Singapore time (7am-9am Eastern time). Registration online.
23
September - What
are the fields of production, reproduction and use in which
historical maps circulate?
30 September - How
do scholars use historical maps in the crafting of their spatial
histories?
7 October - What
cartographic collections are relevant to historical research on
Southeast Asia?
14 October - How
have historical maps be made more accessible to interested
publics?
21 October - What
technical tools unlock the content of maps and enhance
interoperability?
September 25-27, 2020 - San Francisco The San Francisco Map & Print Fair has been canceled.
September 25, 2020 - Stanford (Online) - Join us for the online live opening of Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination, the newest virtual exhibition from the David Rumsey Map Center. It includes charts, maps, and other graphic representations that helped expand our collective sense of reality. Guest curator RJ Andrews will tour the exhibition's themes of nature, time, and society. The opening will take place on Zoom, and follows the schedule 2:45pm PDT - Zoom opens; 3:00pm PDT - Talk by RJ Andrews, followed by Q&A. Register by clicking here. As part of the opening celebration, we have created an exclusive keepsake for the first 300 who register and attend the opening. To receive the keepsake, please enter your mailing address when registering.
September 26, 2020 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will meet virtually on Zoom at 2 PM. Eric Sanderson, author of "The Mannahatta Project" and "Terra Nova," will present an update on his Welikia Project. Welikia means 'my good home' in Lenape, the original Native American language of the NYC region. Registration is required.
October 1-3, 2020 - Arlington, Texas The second regional symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, the 12th Virginia Garrett Lectures, and the Fall meeting of the Texas Map Society at the University of Texas Arlington has been postponed until September 30-October 3, 2021.
October 6, 2020 - Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society Annual Scholar's Lecture will be on Zoom at 5:30 PM MT by Peter H. Wood. Peter is an emeritus professor of early American history from Duke University, best known for his pioneering work on African enslavement in colonial South Carolina. Ever since publishing an article on La Salle in the American Historical Review (April 1984), he has been interested in the extensive and muddled history of early French exploration in the America West. He will discuss Which Rivers Go Where?: French Efforts to Understand and Map the American West, 1670-1700. Registration required: Please email <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
October 7-9, 2020 - Seville The International Committee for the History of Nautical Science has rescheduled the conference on Magellan, Elcano and the circumnavigations to March 1-5, 2021.
October 16-17, 2020 - Venice The Brussels Map Circle and the Italian old map collectors association Roberto Almagià regret that the Joint Cartography Conference has to be canceled because of the Covid-19 situation.
October 20, 2020 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a virtual meeting at 6:00 PM. E.J. Neafsey will speak about The Maps of Marquette and Joliet. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for Zoom Meeting registration information.
October 20, 2020 – Washington and Denver (Online) The Washington Map Society and the Rocky Mountain Map Society are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. 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, 5:00 PM Mountain Time. Chris Lane will be speaking about Prejudice and the Shaping of the American West. This lecture will examine how nineteenth century maps reflected and effected prejudice’s role in the shaping of the American West.
October 21-22, 2020 - Barcelona (Online) The 8º Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía, organized by the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, will be held virtually. The official languages of the symposium are Spanish and Portuguese, and the focus will be The map as an element of cultural connection between America and Europe. Register online.
October 21, 2020 - Portland, Maine (Online) The Osher Map Library invites you to join us 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT for the first annual DiMatteo lecture and the first event in our Fall Lecture Series, Visualizing the Holocaust, presented by Dr. Anne Knowles, McBride Professor of History, University of Maine, and Co-Founder of the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative. The Holocaust was an intensely geographical event that affected people and places across Europe and beyond. This lecture will present dynamic, creative maps and other visualizations from the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, whose interdisciplinary work has helped inspire the "spatial turn" in Holocaust Studies. Registration online.
October 22, 2020 – London (Online) The Thirtieth 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 normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. PJ Mode (Collector and Researcher, Curator of the Persuasive Maps Collection, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, USA) will talk about Persuasive Cartography: Art, Science and Deception. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>
October 22, 2020 – Richmond (Online) Join the Library
of Virginia for the 17th Annual Alan
M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography
which is hosted by the Fry-Jefferson Map Society. The lectures are
presented as a series of virtual events on August 19, 2020, September
23, 2020, and October 22, 2020. Explorations of the Albemarle
Sound region and the first English settlements of the Roanoke
Islands in the 1580s are the topic of the free virtual events.
Join us for one, or all three. Participants will receive an email
closer to the event date from “Education and Outreach”
with a link to join the virtual event through GoToWebinar. Each event
is free and begins at 7:00 PM.
Cassandra Britt Farrell (Library of
Virginia senior map archivist) will discuss 17th-Century Maps of
Virginia, Maryland, & the Southeast, 1590–1720.
Registration
is required. For more information contact Dawn Greggs
<dawn.greggs(at)lva.virginia.gov> at 804.692.3813.
October 31, 2020 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will meet virtually, via Zoom, at 2 PM. Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com if you need Zoom link. Lars Grava will speak on: At the Edge of Empires - Maps of the Baltic States". Lars, in a reprise of his Fall 2019 presentation to the Washington Map Society, will discuss how maps have more than two dimensions, as they also illuminate political, societal, cultural, and economic features of the geographies they depict.
November 3, 2020 – January 26, 2021: Tuesdays –
Hamburg (Online) When we enter a map shop today, we would hardly
find any map without colours. Colours and maps seem to have a strong
relationship. Modern technical possibilities of designing and
printing maps make it easy to create coloured maps. But our today’s
standard is the result of a centuries-long development of the
practise of map production. Colours on printed (and hand-drawn) maps
have been an additional element over a long period of time and were
not a ‘natural part’ of the map like today. In this
sense, the colouring of maps provides insights into the production,
use and interpretation of maps by their producers and users since the
beginning of this process. Therefore, a multi-facetted approach is
essential for a better understanding of hand-coloured maps. With a
cross-cultural historical approach, and a wide range of international
speakers from different disciplines we will address and discuss the
material nature and meaning of colours on maps from their individual
research perspectives. The Centre
for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg,
has a virtual
lecture series: Maps
and Colours. Lecture is via Zoom and is from 4-6 pm. Zoom
link to be announced. Additional information from Diana Lange
<diana.lange(at)hu-berlin.de>, Benjamin van der Linde
<Benjamin.vanderLinde(at)hk24.de>, or Peter Zietlow
<peter.zietlow(at)uni-hamburg.de>.
03 November: Dr
Diana Lange (Hamburg), Dr Benjamin van der Linde (Hamburg) -
Understanding hand-coloured maps-or why maps and colours should
not be studied separately
10 November: Kam Wing Fung
(Hongkong) - Colours in East Asian Celestial Charts and
Cartographical Maps
17 November: Dr Peter Zietlow
(Hamburg) - Identifying colourants - Non- and minimal-invasive
analysis of pigments and dyes
24 November: Nick Millea
(Oxford) - From paint to pixels: pigment analysis on the medieval
Gough Map of Great Britain
08 December: Jun.-Prof. Dr
Hanna Wimmer (Hamburg) - Till we found a sea of green: Colour in
medieval maps
15 December: Dr Nadja Danilenko (Hamburg)
- Color-coding the Islamic world. How the maps in the Book of
Routes and Realms (10th c.) transformed during its transmission
05
January: Dr Anna Boroffka (Hamburg) - Green pearls and blue
waves: On the iconography of water in early colonial maps from
Mexico
12 January: Jun.-Prof. Dr Stephanie Zehnle
(Kiel) - German Paper, Islamic Colours? African Maps of
Cameroon
19 January: Dr.Martijn Storms (Leiden) - The
meaning of colours on early modern property maps
26
January: Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Orleans) - Colours on
French local maps from 14th to 16th century
November 5-6, 2020 - Hamburg In the framework of our innovative interdisciplinary research project “Coloured Maps” we are organizing a workshop with a cross-cultural approach to discuss the material nature and meaning of colours on maps. In the workshop Maps and Colours we will discuss methods and discourses, dyes and analytical approaches. We will focus on European and Asian maps between 15th and 19th century. Registration is available online. If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to contact Diana Lange (Asian maps) <diana.lange(at)hu-berlin.de>, Benjamin van der Linde (European maps; general information) <Benjamin.vanderLinde(at)hk24.de>, or Peter Zietlow (natural science) <peter.zietlow(at)uni-hamburg.de>.
November 12-15, 2020 - New Orleans (Online) The Society for the History of Discoveries has made a difficult decision to hold our 60th Anniversary 2020 SHD Annual Meeting virtually, via Zoom. The theme is New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: Cultural Crossroads. Additional information will be soon posted on our website.
November 12, 2020 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Moravian Archives Lunchtime Lecture Series presents Christian Reuter: Moravian GIS Mapper for Forsyth County, by Dr. Rod Meyer, former Director, Historic Bethabara Park. This lecture will be from 12:15-1:00pm in the Spaugh Lecture/Recital Hall in the Archie K. Davis Center (Moravian Archives), 457 S Church St.
October 21, 2020 - Portland, Maine (Online) The Osher Map Library invites you 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT for our annual Mattson-New York Times Lecture and the second event in our Fall 2020 Lecture Series. Tim Wallace, PhD, Senior Editor for Geography, The New York Times, will discuss Mapping the 2020 Election; a behind-the-scenes look at how the New York Times used maps and geography to help readers understand the political makeup of the country during one of the most complicated election years in recent memory. Registration online.
November 19, 2020 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a virtual meeting at 6:00 PM. Richard Pegg will speak about A Timeline of City Maps. Mapping a World of Cities is a collaborative timeline between ten of the cartographic institutions in the U.S. with the biggest and most comprehensive repositories of digitized maps. We’ve brought together our digital collections under a common theme: the link between cartography and the historical development of cities, from the sixteenth century to the present. With 85 maps of cities all across the world, Mapping a World of Cities showcases what we can do when we collaborate on digital projects, bringing collections strengths from many different institutions into a single virtual experience. Richard Pegg from the MacLean Collection (one of the ten cartographic institutions included) will be hosting a special presentation to the Chicago Map Society in which he introduces the timeline and discusses its development. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for Zoom Meeting registration information.
November 19, 2020 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. 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. Katherine Parker (Research Officer for Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps, and Chair, WMS Walter W. Ristow Prize) will speak about Northern Seas: The Mapping of the North Pacific before the Voyages of James Cook. Before Cook’s third voyage in search of the Northwest Passage (1776-1780), few European ships had sailed north of the traditional Spanish galleon route; those that had were sparsely reported, as in the case of Bering’s Kamchatka expeditions, or dubiously reported, as in the case of the apocryphal Admiral de la Fonte. This presentation will focus on the geographic discourse about the North Pacific prior to Cook’s third voyage, with an especial emphasis on the period 1670-1776. Katie will also provide a short overview of the new map history network H-Maps, an international digital forum sponsored by the International Society for the History of the Map.
November 21, 2020 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will meet virtually, via Zoom, at 2 PM. Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com for Zoom link. Dr. Larry Tise will speak about his recent co-authored book: "Theodore de Bry -- America: The Complete Plates from 1590-1602". Dr. Tise will discuss his research in writing the book and will show many of the beautiful maps and native Americans depicted.
November 24, 2020 – Cambridge, England (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet via Zoom at 5.30 pm. Please register at sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk for the link. Walter Arader (New York) will speak about Mapping anarchy: cartography during the rise of the British East India Company. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330987. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
December 2, 2020 - Portland, Maine (Online) The Osher Map Library invites you to join us 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT for "Make the Map All White:" The Use of Maps in the Suffrage and Prohibition Campaigns, a lecture by Dr. Susan Schulten. Maps were essential instruments in two of the most ambitious challenges to American law in the twentieth century: the suffrage and prohibition campaigns. Persuasive maps have long been deployed in American history and were especially important in generating opposition to slavery in the west in the 1850s. Registration online.
December 3, 2020 – Washington and Chicago (Online) The Washington Map Society and the Chicago Map Society are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. 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. Please join Linda Gartz, for a Zoom discussion about How Federal Government Redlining Maps Segregated America. She will discuss her award-winning book, “Redlined,” and her discovery of the redlining maps used by the federal government to exclude African Americans from the middle-class dream of home ownership. Inspired by a trove of long-hidden family letters, diaries, photos, spanning the 20th Century, “Redlined” interweaves a riveting family story with the history of redlining. Linda will display digitized versions of original redlining maps, share photos, read short excerpts from “Redlined,” and speak about the lasting impact of redlining maps that segregated America. Plenty of time for Q&A.
December 4, 2020 - Paris The naturalist, botanical and zoological gardens share with cartography the willingness to describe the world in a way that is both exhaustive and orderly. The scales, materials, appearances of the representation are certainly different. But it is good, in the map as in the garden, to develop an image of the world that can be read by everyone. Maps and gardens are part of this great scientific effort which consists in making people see and understand the world and its spaces, natural and human. The study day, Du jardin vers le monde et du monde au jardin : la cartographie et l’histoire naturelle [From the garden to the world and from the world to garden: cartography and natural history], organized jointly by the History Commission of the French Cartography Committee and the Museum Libraries Directorate National d'Histoire Naturelle sets out to explore the relationships that have developed between cartography and the garden, in particular at the Jardin des Plantes.Confernece to be held in the auditorium of the Grand Gallery of Evolution, National Museum of Natural History, 36 rue Geoffroy, Saint-Hilaire.
December 5, 2020 - New York The New York Map Society will have a Members-Only Field Trip + Holiday Social. Either (Depending on weather and CDC guidelines): Virtual Field Trip to tour the David Rumsey Map Center, plus a Holiday Social with catered appetizers/drinks at Avenues HQ or...Onsite Field Trip to see "The Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System" and "Panorama of the City of New York," Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens NY 11368. Phone: (718) 592-9700. (15-min.walk from Mets/Willets Point stop on the #7 subway. Parking available). Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com
December 10, 2020 – London (Online) The Thirtieth 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 normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Dr Ronald Grim (formerly Curator of Maps, Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library, USA) will speak about Annotated Atlases: Unravelling Stories of Personal Provenance. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>
December 17, 2020 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a virtual Annual Holiday Party & Silent Auction at 7:00 PM. Details are still being finalized. Though the event may be held virtually, rest assured knowing there will be a variety of interesting cartographic material available on which to bid. We also hope to have the option to continue our tradition of the member “Show and Tell.” If you have an item that you’d like to donate to the auction, or share with the membership, please drop us a line! Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for Zoom Meeting registration information.
January 5, 2021 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. 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. Matthew H. Edney (University of Southern Maine and University of Wisconsin–Madison) will take us through the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education’s current exhibition, Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677–1842, which is their contribution to the marking of the bicentennial of Maine statehood in 1820.
January 21, 2021 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Michael Flaherty will speak about Map Collecting Device Collection. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.
January 21, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth 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 normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Dr Radu Leca (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Heidelberg University, Germany) will discuss Bathymetric Maps of Tokyo Bay: A Transnational History. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>
January 27, 2021 - Vienna Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne, global collector and researcher on the Italian Renaissance, will speak about The Da Vinci globe at 18.30 in the cinema of the Austrian National History Museum, Burgring 7. Missinne will speak about the oldest globe on which the New World is shown for the first time.
January 15-16, 2021 - Paris The annual conference of the Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles has adopted the theme Cartes et cartographie dans le monde anglophone aux 17e et 18e siècles.
February 18, 2021 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Dr. Miquel Gonzalez-Meler will discuss Mapping Climate Change. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.
February 18, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth 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 normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. This meeting is sponsored by the Hakluyt Society. Dr Megan Barford (Curator of Cartography, Royal Museums Greenwich, London), Hakluyt Society Speaker, will speak about Map Collecting at the National Maritime Museum: Histories and Futures. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>
February 22, 2021 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society, in conjunction with the California and Rocky Mountain Map Societies, is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. 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 ET/6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT. Ronald S. Gibbs (former Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Consulting Professor, Stanford University) will talk about On the Brink of Disaster: George Washington and the American Revolution, 1775-1776. In this presentation, we will share the momentous ideas, great personalities, and seemingly incredible outcome of the early years of the American Revolution. Using 18th century maps to show the terrain and tactics, we will experience Gen. George Washington’s tough decisions, near disasters, and ultimate victories. The maps will include depictions of Bunker Hill, New York City, Westchester County, and Trenton. To tell one of the most thrilling stories in American history, we will supplement these great maps with portraits, prints and current day photos.
February 23, 2021 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge) will discuss Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography. 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 330987. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
March 1-5, 2021 - Seville The International Committee for the History of the Nautical Science is pleased to announce the XIX International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science which is coordinated by the Pablo de Olavide University and the Higher Council for Scientific Research. On this occasion, with Seville being the venue and coinciding with the fifth centenary of the first circumnavigation, the conference will have the title: Magellan, Elcano, circumnavigations and great oceanic explorations (XV-XX centuries). The conference will be dedicated to analyzing and discussing scientific and nautical aspects (including cultural, practical and theoretical subjects) connected to Magellan and Elcano’s navigation. The conference will be open to dialogue on scientific issues related to the first oceanic voyages across the oceans, great sailings and other circumnavigations from the 16th to the 21st century. Additional information from <irhns.sevilla(at)gmail.com>.
March 18, 2021 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.
March 23, 2021 – Washington and Denver (Online) The Washington Map Society and the Rocky Mountain Map Society are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. 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, 5:00 PM Mountain Time. Susan Schulten (Professor of History, University of Denver) will discuss “Make the Map All White”: Visual Strategies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments. Maps were essential tools for two of the most ambitious challenges to American law in the twentieth century: the suffrage and prohibition campaigns. Taking their cues from reformers of the nineteenth century, prohibitionists and suffragists used stark, persuasive maps to gain public support. Both movements began with regional strengths—suffrage in the west, prohibition in the south—and designed maps to leverage that regional power for their agendas. As suffrage and prohibition pivoted from state level campaigns to federal amendments after 1913, these maps amplified support across the entire nation. A closer look at the common slogan of the two campaigns, “Make the Map All White,” reveals the degree to which they also navigated—and exploited—racial and ethnic divisions in order to achieve their legislative and constitutional goals.
March/April 2021 – Lisbon The international workshop On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart, postponed from 2020, will take place at the Hydrographic Institute. This will be the third Lisbon meeting dedicated to the History of Nautical Cartography. The first and second were held in 2016 and 2018, and were focused on the history of the medieval portolan chart. This time, the scope has been enlarged as to also include other periods and cartographic models. Additional information from Joaquim Alves Gaspar <alvesgasparj(at)gmail.com>.
April 15, 2021 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.
April 29, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth 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 normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Dr Djoeke van Netten (Department of History, University of Amsterdam) will speak about The Landscape and the Ship. Mapping Seventeenth Century Naval Battles. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>
May 4, 2021 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. There will be a talk about Asian maps, and speaker is to be confirmed. 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 330987. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
May 20, 2021 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Dr. Martin Foys will speak about The Virtual Mappa Project. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.
May 27, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth 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 normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Dr Angelo Cattaneo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome) will discuss What Is a Map? The Case of Fra Mauro's Mappamundi: Author's Intentions, Modern Receptions. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>
June 12-13, 2021 - London The London Map Fair brings together around 40 of the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers as well as hundreds of visiting dealers, collectors, curators and map aficionados from all parts of the world. We exhibit at the historic London venue of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore.
June 17, 2021 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.
July 4-9, 2021 – Bucharest The 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) will be held at Aula Magna of the Central University Library “Carol I”. The main conference theme, Conflict and Cartography, aims to explore the intricate conflictual content of mapping and mapmaking in fields such as war, politics, ideology, cultural or intellectual history. The conference is being organized by the National Museum of Maps and Old Books and the University of Bucharest, in collaboration with Imago Mundi Ltd. Additional information from Christina Toma at <ichc2021(at)gmail.com> or <office(at)muzeulhartilor.ro>
July 19-23, 2021 - Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil The organizing committee of the 57th International Congress of Americanists has the pleasure of inviting the international scientific community to the conference America and its borders: multiple voices, multiple encounters. Teachers, students and researchers from at least 80 countries will have the opportunity to share their knowledge, to exchange experiences, and to live excellent moments of interculturalism in one of the most unique areas of the entire American continent. The complex border processes that have defined, sometimes in unstable ways, the imperial state sovereignty in these regions will be examined in many ways including that of cartography, There will be special activities in Ciudad del Este (Paraguay) and Puerto Iguazú (Argentine) that are neighboring to Foz do Iguaçu.
August 25-27, 2021 - Sydney The State Library of New South Wales, in collaboration with the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, will sponsor a symposium 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. The Mapping the Pacific conference starts with a reception on the evening of 25 August at the State Library. Additional information from Maggie Patton <maggie.patton(at)sl.nsw.gov.au>, Senior Curator.
September 1-4, 2021 - Basel The 20. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium will be held at Kollegiengebäude der Universität. Additional information from Dr. Markus Heinz <kartographiegeschichte(at)sbb.spk-berlin.de> or Dr. des. Noah Regenass < Noah.Regenass(at)unibas.ch>.
September 17-18, 2021 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 924 S Main St, will be hosting a two day conference Mapping and Migration. From the earliest mapping of North America by European navigators to campaigns during the French & Indian War and the American Revolution to further exploration through westward expansion, join us as we delve into how different communities used maps as tools to establish unique visions of the American South. Margaret Pritchard is helping organize this event and she has an impressive list of speakers signed up.
September 30-October 3, 2021 - Arlington, Texas The second regional symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, the 12th Virginia Garrett Lectures, and the Fall meeting of the Texas Map Society will be held at the University of Texas Arlington. The theme is Coordinating Cartographic Collections and the accompanying exhibit will feature recent acquisitions.
Autumn, 2021 – Brussels The International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium will be held in conjunction with the Royal Library.
Autumn, 2022 – Texas The International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium will be held. Details to be announced.
July 2-8, 2023 - Lyon, France The 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography will be held at Université de Lyon 3 Jean Moulin.
Autumn, 2023 – Helsinki The International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium will be held. Details to be announced.