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December 3, 2025 - Boston (Online) Brimming with vibrant maps, including many created by the author, “Radical Cartography” investigates the cartographic representation of boundaries, layers, people, projections, color, scale, and time. In this virtual author talk co-hosted by American Ancestors; Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World, cartographer and historian William Rankin argues that it’s time to reimagine what a map can be, and how it can be used. Rankin will be in conversation at 6:00 PM with the Leventhal Center's Associate Curator of Digital & Participatory Geography, Ian Spangler. Register for the event.
December 3-5, 2025 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) The French
School of Asian Studies Hong Kong Center has the pleasure to
invite you to attend the following international conference on The
Territorial Management and its Mapping Process in East Asia.
Organized by the EFEO Hong Kong Center the Institute of Chinese
Studies – The Chinese University of Hong Kong the Lee Shau Kee
Library – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
3
-4 December: Lecture Theatre, G/F, Institute of Chinese Studies, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong
5 December: LG4 Multi-Function
Room, Lee Shau Kee Library, The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology
Mode: On-site Participation / Live streaming for 3-4
December – Click
here to register.
Enquiry: +852 3943 1247 /
<hk.center(at)efeo.net>
December 4, 2025 - London An evening navigating the long history of espionage, cartography, and covert operations. Spies and maps are inseparable tools in intelligence gathering, statecraft and secret missions. Find out how they combine to shape the shadowy world of espionage. A panel discussion of Spies, Maps, and Secret Missions: Deep Into Enemy Territory will be held 19.00 – 20.30 in Pigott Theatre, British Library. Book now.
December 4, 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Noémi Ujházy (University of Nottingham): Mapping Soils in the Early 20th Century and the Material Politics of Internationalism. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
December 6, 2025 - Brussels The Brussels Map Circle announces their annual conference: Models of the Cosmos: On Globes and Their Making. It will be held in Royal Library of Belgium from 09:15-12:30. Speakers include Wouter Bracke, Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Colin Dupont, Willem Jan Neutelings, Thomas Horst and Martina Pippal. If you would like to join this event please advice our Secretary Marie-Anne Dage <marie.anne.dage(at)gmail.com>.
December 6, 2025 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society is switching gears this year, holding our Annual Show & Tell from 2-4pm at Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison Street, in the Westville section of New Haven. It’s a friendly space with a big parking lot and, for those who care, no stairs. Here’s how Show & Tell works: six people give short (10 minute) talks about a map or map topic that interests them. It can be anything cartographic, from an antique map with an interesting backstory to a hand-rendered map to an intriguing map from a publication. If you’d like to give a 10 minute talk, register with Connie Brown, our events manager: <brownie487(at)gmail.com>. No need to register if you’re attending as a member of the audience.
December 6, 2025 - New York Members of the New York Map Society are invited to RSVP to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> to reserve a spot at our Show & Tell and Holiday Social, 4:00pm – 6:00pm New York (ET) time, at Arader Gallery, 1016 Madison Ave. If you have a map to show, please provide details with your RSVP, and expect to discuss your map in about five minutes.
December 9, 2025 - Florence (Hybrid) Rather than lectures, this event series is a staged conversation, clash or celebration of two people with two distinct positions. It's a Match! Petter Hellström and Toby Yuen-Gen Liang on Seeing Blank Spaces brings together two historians, each of whom examines the relationship between knowledge and representation by analyzing the curious presence of blank space on geographical maps and architectural plans of Africa created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Conversation will be held at 15:00 in Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, Via dei Servi 51. No registration is necessary for in-person participation. Please register here to participate online via Zoom.
December 11, 2025 - London (Hybrid) Writer and international journalist Tim Marshall’s iconic bestseller "Prisoners of Geography" has sold over three million copies worldwide, in its original and recent, fully updated edition. His clear and insightful analysis of the global geopolitical landscape in the book and its successors "The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography" has for so many been a vital guide to understanding world history, current conflicts and changing power structures and the possible future. This special event The Future Map of the World, with Tim Marshall explores how the political map of the world may or may not change in the years ahead. Lecture will be held 19.00 – 20.30 in Pigott Theatre, British Library. Book now for in-person attendance or for Zoom online.
December 11, 2025 - Miami (Online) Join Arthur Dunkelman and Cristina Favretto from 1pm to 2pm EST for an online showcase featuring five centuries of cartographic marvels, from whimsical endpapers and enchanting books to vintage posters, brochures, and fantastical faux travel guides. Step into a world where imagination shapes the map, and discover the art of charting dreams. Your adventure begins here! Maps as Fun: Imaginary Realms, Tourist Traps, and Literary Itineraries by University of Miami Libraries will highlight our rich collections in a fascinating corner of cartography: maps of places that never existed, as well as maps created to accompany children’s stories, novels, and promotional literature designed to inspire travel. The presentation will feature a wide variety of examples, such as maps on book endpapers, in travel brochures, on postcards, and on posters, each one revealing how imagination and geography come together. Click here to register.
December 11, 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. Tom Harper (Lead Curator of Antiquarian Mapping, The British Library) will speak about an Overview of the British Library's New Map Exhibition, “Secret Maps”.
December 14, 2025 – San Antonio The Briscoe Western Art Museum is hosting a free presentation by Eliane Dotson on A Brief History of Antique Maps & the Mapping of Texas to accompany their current exhibition, “Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps.” The exhibition features 64 maps from the extraordinary Yana and Marty Davis Map Collection and depicts the evolving landscape, identity, and history of Texas across nearly 500 years. The presentation will be held from 1-2 PM Central time at the Briscoe Museum, 210 W. Market St. Those attending the presentation will receive free entry to the museum. Click here to register.
January 14, 2026 - Oxford The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be having a Field Trip – Mapping the North with Charlotta Forss (Södertörn University, Stockholm). This is an in-person event and booking is essential. For further details, please contact Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk> or 01865 287119.
January 22, 2026 – 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. Mark Giordano (Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Professor of Geography, Georgetown University) will discuss Teaching Geopolitics with Maps. Georgetown University’s “Map of the Modern World” is likely the largest class in the world that still uses maps to teach geopolitics and world affairs. The current instructor will provide examples of how historic and contemporary maps and custom cartography are used to engage students in global issues and help them understand international challenges from multiple perspectives.
January 24, 2026 - Lucerne The Historical Society of Central Switzerland will hold a Central Swiss History Day 2026 – Map History from Central Switzerland. Renowned speakers will present contributions to the map history of Central Switzerland, including a guided tour of the Central and University Library of Lucerne and refreshments during breaks. Click here to register; registration deadline: January 9, 2026.
January 28-30, 2026 - London Do you have an interest in the history of a specific place, landscape and/or historical theme? Would you like to learn more about the evolution of cartography, including how to use old maps in your research? With a focus on mapping practices in Britain and Western Europe between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, this new 3-day Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place / Discovery Course 1 will introduce you to our vast range of physical map collections, historical maps and topographical rare books. Course is offered by Institute of Historical Research.
January 29, 2026 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Elizabeth Chant (University of Warwick): Road Maps, Leisure Travel and Petro-modernity in 20th Century Argentina. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
January 30, 2026 - Killingworth, Connecticut Did you miss Brian Tims’s other talk? Join with the Connecticut Map Society for this encore presentation of Antique Map Collecting 101: Foxing, soiling, and worm holes, oh my! as Brian travels the state in the name of maps. Meeting will be at 6pm in Killingworth Library, 301 Route 81. Click here to view the event on the library’s website and to pre-register (after December 5).
February 9-10, 2026 - Perth, Scotland In 2025, UHI’s Institute for Northern Studies, together with our collaborative partners from the National Library of Scotland and Landscape Research Group, launched Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland. This project brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the ways in which maps have been, and are still, used to interpret and shape Scotland’s understanding of the present, past and future. The project will host a free hybrid conference at UHI Perth to explore this topic with colleagues.
February 12, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) will talk about Map Readings – ‘Lies of the Land: Painted maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France'. 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.
February 19–21, 2026 - San Francisco The Renaissance Society of America will hold its 72nd Annual Meeting at the San Francisco Hilton Union Square. Ricardo Padrón, Asa Mittman, and Dan Terkla will be having a panel Premodern Mapping Today. They are planning to have papers which address any aspect of mapping in the premodern world (pre-1700), from any mapping tradition. Additional information from Ricardo Padrón <padron(at)virginia.edu>.
February 19, 2026 – 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. This meeting is arranged in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Whether a trail map of a serene forest or a plot of historical markers in a bustling city, maps help us understand and connect to the spaces we inhabit, creating a feeling of topophilia, or “love of place”. In this talk Astrotopophilia: A Love of Place with Maps of Space, Sam Cartwright (PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder) will trace the history of planetary cartography from the earliest telescope sketches to today’s high-resolution imagery and explore the indelible link between maps and humanity’s fascination with space.
February 24, 2026 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Adrian Webb will discuss Churchill’s secret chart-makers All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom and joining instructions 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.
February 26, 2026 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Bob Headland (Scott Polar Research Institute): Cartographical Conundrums and Antarctic Sovereignty. Hakluyt Society Speaker. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
March 12, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will talk about The unique large-format print of the General Map of the Qing Empire by Li Mingche李明徹 (1751–1832) in Göttingen: tracing its cartographical origins and journey to a German university. 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.
March 19, 2026 – 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. Louis Miller (Assistant Director for Research and Fellowship Programs and Cartographic Reference and Teaching Librarian, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine) will speak about Resurrecting ‘Rhat Soupe’: Alcohol and Allegorical Maps in Mid-19th Century America.
March 26, 2026 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Mimi Cheng (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz): Aesthetics and Authority in 19th Century Maps of China. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
April 8-10, 2026 - La Plata, Buenos Aires The XI Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía will take place in Sergio Karakachoff Graduate Center – National University of La Plata, located at 7th Street, No. 776. Theme is "Mapear y proyectar. Territorios dibujados, diseñados y representados." Registration is free, and the official languages will be Spanish and Portuguese. Contact email: <xisiahc(at)gmail.com>.
April 10, 2026 - Paris The History Commission of the French Cartography Committee and the National Library of France are joining forces to organise a one-day symposium to coincide with the exhibition “Cartes imaginaires, imaginaire des cartes <Maps of the Imagination, Imagination of Maps>”. The symposium will be held at the François-Mitterrand site of the BnF in Paris. Additional information from Catherine Hofmann <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.
May 5, 2026 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Juliette Dumasy, Université d’Orléans, will discuss The rise of local cartography in Europe, 12th-14th century. All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom and joining instructions 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.
May 7, 2026 – 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) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Anthony Terry (Independent Researcher): The Derrotero Ingles: Unravelling the Mysteries of an early 18th Century English Waggoner in Peru. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
June 4, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will discuss 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 6, 2026 – London The Annual General Meeting of the International Map Collectors' Society will be held at Royal Geographical Society, Additional details to be announced.
June 6-7, 2026 - London The largest Antique Map Fair in Europe, established 1980, is the London Map Fair. It will be held in the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore. Saturday 12.00 pm to 7.00 pm and Sunday 10.00 am to 6.00 pm.
June 18, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. JNick Bolton (CEO, Ordnance Survey) will discuss Ordnance Survey: twenty-first-century National Mapping Agency. 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.
July 7-11, 2026 – Prague & Brno 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>.
July 29-August 1, 2026 – St. John's, Newfoundland The Society for the History of Discoveries annual conference will be held at Memorial University. Wednesday, July 29 we will have a reception and presentation in the evening. Panels will run all day Thursday and Friday, with the Annual Banquet Thursday evening. Saturday, August 1, there will be optional tours/excursions. Additional details remain to be determined.
October 1-3, 2026 – Arlington, Texas The 15th biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography will be conjoined with the Texas Map Society’s annual meeting. Both events will take place in the Central Library at the University of Texas at Arlington. The Virginia Garrett Lectures will take place on Thursday and Friday and will focus on the cartography of Antarctica. The Texas Map Society’s meeting will take place on Saturday. Additional details and registration will be available in May 2026.
October 7-10, 2026 - Denver The Western Association of Map Libraries annual conference will be held at Denver Public Library, 10 W 14th Ave.
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. A pre-symposium tour is planned on 8 November to Nikko and a post-symposium tour is planned for 14-15 September to Kyushu; Japan's most southerly island. Program currently is tentative.