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>
Exhibition announcements can
be found at Cartography
- Calendar of Exhibitions.
Click here
for archive of past events.
June 4, 2026 - Chicago The Geographic Society of Chicago presents a BYOM (bring your own map) event. We will meet 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. at The Avondale Tap, 3634 W. Belmont Ave. Mappy Hour: Maps We Love is a new event series that brings together adventurers, nature lovers, and globally curious minds for evenings of inspiration and community-building. Bring a favorite map: beautiful, curious, meaningful, or just plain fun, and share why you love it with fellow cartophiles. Enjoy conversation, storytelling, and a drink as we celebrate the maps that inspire us. No expertise required, just a love of maps! Space may be limited, so please register in advance to save your spot. Bringing a map to share is optional but highly encouraged.
June 4, 2026 - Denver (Online) The Society for History of Discoveries is pleased to host Andrea Duffy for our next virtual lecture! Andrea captivated us at the Annual Meeting in Denver with her presentation on exploration in treacherous mountain ranges. Now she will present additional research related to her new book, “The Nature of Empire: The Environmental Dimensions of Imperialism, 1800-Present,” which investigates the increasing desire of man to "conquer" the extremes of nature through expeditions of geographical exploration. Stay tuned for more information.
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 4, 2026 – Windsor The International Map Collectors' Society is planning a visit to Eton College. Additional information to be announced.
June 6, 2026 – London The Annual General Meeting of the International Map Collectors' Society will take place at 10:00 in the Lowther Room at the Royal Geographical Society, All members are welcome to attend.
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 9, 2026 – Washington (Online) The Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress, will have a Geography & Map Virtual Orientation: Mapping America’s 250th Anniversary with Graphics A250 from 3-4pm. Join the Geography and Map Division online to discover some of our many collection materials related to the 250th anniversary of the United States (A250), from Revolutionary War battle maps, to George Washington’s property maps, to Lewis and Clark’s exploration maps. In celebration of this milestone, learn about our A250-themed partnership with the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS). The partnership will make American Revolution era maps available in multiple accessible formats with audio narration for context and description. The virtual orientation will focus on the process to make the maps accessible and the access points to the maps on the NLS website. There will be time at the end for Questions and Answers. Click here for Zoom registration.
June 13, 2026 - New York The New York Map Society will feature -- for current members and their guests only -- Kris Butler (past president of the Boston Map Society, current board member, Washington Map Society), author of "Drink Maps in Victorian Britain" as part of its Summer Social. Meteing will be at 2:00 pm at Arader Gallery, 1016 Madison Avenue. Appetizers and refreshments -- including beer, of course -- will be served. Reserve your spot(s) by RSVPing <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>.
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.
June 20, 2026 - Stanford (Hybrid) The Northern California Annual Meeting will be held at David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University Library from 10:30am-3:00pm. The meeting is open to all to attend either in-person or virtually. Registration will open soon.
June 22-25, 2026 - Boulder, Colorado (Online) The Summer Skills Seminar, Medieval & Early Modern Cartography: An Introduction, will be held via Zoom from 10am to noon and 1pm to 3pm MDT. This Summer Skills seminar addresses the importance of maps in medieval and early modern society in terms of their production, function, display, and their contribution to a mapping mentality. Over four days we will study different types of maps from Islamic and Christian territories in relation to their form, content, use, and context. This course will not be addressing the geographic accuracy or scientific basis of cartographic works; rather they will be assessed as material, visual, and aesthetic products and as repositories of a newly formulated system of signs that promoted novel ways of seeing. We will work here to integrate maps more fully into art historical discourses while analyzing them as ideological objects. Apply here.
June 23, 2026 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet in Martin Room, 4th floor, History Colorado Center. at 5:30 PM MT. This discussion covers Linda Kozloff-Turner’s project “Gone, But Not Forgotten,” a Boulder County Centennial Farm Documentary featuring photographs and stories from still-operating Centennial Farms. It includes 1880s maps, such as Drumm's, original land ownership details, and accounts of the women who kept these farms in their families for over a century. Registration is required for in-person attendance. Click here when meeting starts for Zoom attendance.
June 25, 2026 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society, in anticipation of July 4th's 250th anniversary celebration, features Stephen J. Hornsby on his book "Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps." Lecture starts at 7:00 pm New York (EDT) time. Anyone can attend via Zoom.
June 25, 2026 - Warwick Matthew H. Edney (Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine) will discuss Materiality and Process: Foundations for Effective Map Histories at Warwick Map History Research Group lecture, University of Warwick. Lecture will be at 1:00pm in room OC0.04, ground floor of the Oculus Building. Please contact Liz Chant <elizabeth.chant(at)warwick.ac.uk> for more details or if you have any questions.
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. Click here for preliminary program. 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. The conference theme is Islands of Discovery. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the multifaceted history and ongoing process of island exploration. Click here for additional details and to register. On Saturday, August 1st, we will have an optional tour of the major historic and cultural sites of St. John's. We will be taking a private bus tour of St. John's through Legend Tours Ltd. To book your spot and read more about the tour, please follow this link here.
August 11, 2026 – Washington (Online) The Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress, will have a Geography & Map Division Virtual Orientation from 3-4pm. Reference librarians will present an introduction to the Geography and Map collections at the Library of Congress. This general orientation session will highlight a wide range of cartographic formats and subject matter. The focus of the session will be on search and discovery of maps and electronic resources in the Library’s new online catalog. 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. Click here for Zoom registration.
September 1-4, 2026 - London (Hybrid) The Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference 2026 will be chaired by Professor Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University, UK), on the theme of Geographies of inequalities: toward just places. The conference will take place in the Society and Imperial College London, and online.
September 8-9, 2026 - Edinburgh The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will have a workshop on 8 September and the British Cartographic Society will hold its annual conference on 9 September. More details will be published shortly.
September 10, 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. It is arranged with the assistance of the New York Map Society. 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. Andrew Kapochunas (New York Map Society Secretary) will show us How to find an image of ancestral Eastern- or Central-European towns on antique topographic maps.
September 12, 2026 - Amsterdam The third Amsterdam Map Fair will be held at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam from 10.00 – 17.00. Free entry to The Maritime Museum, 33 national and international antiquarian map dealers will sell antique nautical charts, maps, atlases, globes and prints. With three lectures.
October 1-2, 2026 – Arlington, Texas The 15th biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography, Frozen Frontiers: 500 Years of Mapping Antarctica, will take place in the Central Library at the University of Texas at Arlington. Additional details and registration will be available in June 2026.
October 3, 2026 – Arlington, Texas The fall meeting of the Texas Map Society will take place in the Central Library at the University of Texas at Arlington. This event is conjoined with the Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography and will focus on Antarctic cartography. Additional details and registration will be available in August 2026.
October 3, 2026 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium The Brussels Map Circle will be having an excursion to MAP-Mercator. More information coming soon.
October 7-10, 2026 - Denver The Western Association of Map Libraries annual conference will be held at Denver Public Library, 10 W 14th Ave.
October 8, 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. It is arranged with the assistance of the Rocky Mountain Map Society. 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. Chris Lane (retired Philadelphia Print Shop West owner and appraiser Antique Road Show) will discuss Mapping Philadelphia.
October 13, 2026 – Washington (Online) The Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress, will have a Geography & Map Virtual Orientation: GIS and Geospatial Resources from 3-14pm. Join us for a virtual orientation that aims to provide an overview of the geospatial resources of the Geography & Map Division, including an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), spatial data formats, and the geospatial activities of the Division. This session will be followed by a Q&A session with GIS specialists. Click here for Zoom registration.
November 9-13, 2026 - Tokyo and Kyoto The International Map Collectors' Society has been invited by the Japan Map Society to participate in a conference, Early interactions between the Western world and Japan seen through historical maps, 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 and registration details are available online.
November 18 - 21, 2026 - Istanbul In commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Kitāb-ı Bahriye, the International Piri Reis and Maritime History Symposium will be held at Piri Reis University. The symposium aims to address the life and works of Piri Reis within their historical context through a multilayered perspective. The symposium will address, through an interdisciplinary approach, topics such as the reflections of Mediterranean-centered maritime experience in the Kitāb-ı Bahriye, Ottoman cartography, the circulation of knowledge during the Age of Geographical Discoveries, maritime strategies in the Mediterranean, and global maritime activities in the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean.
November 24, 2026 - London This year the British Records Association annual conference will be held on the topic of records and archives which take the form of maps or geographical plans and charts. The conference, All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives, will be held at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ.
December 5, 2026 - Brussels Save the date for the next conference of Brussels Map Circle which will focus on nautical cartography!
2027
September 8-12, 2027 – Amsterdam The International Map Collectors' Society will be holding their International Symposium around the weekend of the Amsterdam Map Fair. Dates are tentative and more information to come.
2028
Summer 2028 – Oxford The 32nd International Conference on the History of Cartography will be held in Oxford. Exact dates and additional details to be announced.