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.
October 1-2, 2026 – Arlington, Texas The 15th biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography will take place in the Central Library at the University of Texas at Arlington. This year’s event, Frozen Frontiers: 500 Years of Mapping Antarctica, will explore how the southern continent was imagined, charted, and portrayed on maps from the early modern era to the present day. This event is open to all. Registration is not required but is recommended. Registration guarantees lunch!
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. We will have an exclusive tour of the recently renovated Map Mercator Museum! Please meet at the museum at 9.45 am for the guided tour. The visit will be followed by an optional lunch. Please register using this form.
October 6, 2026 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in Martin Room, on the 4th floor, History Colorado Center. Michael Buehler, owner of Boston Rare Maps, is a long-time dealer and collector of rare maps and historical prints. Where the *%&^# is Polypotamia? Mapping proto-states in the early Republic addresses the question, “What do contemporary maps reveal about state creation in Trans-Appalachia in the years immediately after the Revolution?” This program is illustrated using images of rare, important, and deeply interesting American maps of the era. In-person program is free. Registration is required and link will soon be provided. Click here for Zoom link when meeting starts (no registration necessary).
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 7–10, 2026 - Würzburg The Commission on the History of Cartography of the German Society for Cartography and the D-A-CH Working Group on the History of Cartography, in cooperation with the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, cordially invite you to the 22nd Colloquium on the History of Cartography. On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, there is a Geographical field trip through the city center and meeting of the Map Curators' Commission. Click here for further details regarding the schedule and the final program of the 22nd Würzburg Colloquium on the History of Cartography.
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.
October 15, 2026 -Sint-Andries (Bruges), Belgium Interested in the evolution of Belgian government cartography? This lecture at 20:00 in Cultuurbibliotheek Stock Laureyns, From 1830 to the present: the Belgian government maps, by Philippe De Maeyer maps it out. This year, the National Geographic Institute (NGI) officially celebrates its 50th anniversary. But the story of Belgian cartography begins much earlier. After Belgian independence, it soon became apparent that the young country needed reliable maps. Therefore, the Dépôt de la Guerre et de la Topographie was established in 1832, the predecessor of the current NGI. Through the Military Cartographic Institute and the Military Geographic Institute, this institution grew into the NGI as we know it today. Discover during this fascinating lecture how nearly two centuries of cartography have shaped our image of Belgium and its landscape.
October 21, 2026 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) Envisioning Islands - Public Lecture Series, in English, on Maritime History and Literature by 「島嶼 · 構思」海洋歷史與文學公開講座系列 - Islands in the Song Period by Prof. Johannes Kurz will be held 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (Tea reception starts at 9:30 a.m.) in Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, Chinese University of Hong Kong and on Zoom. This talk will highlight some of the terms helpful to our understanding of islands in the Song dynasty by perusing relevant maps, and officially as well as privately compiled historical works. These may be a first step towards a more in-depth study of what scholars in the Song may have envisioned in regard to distant and not-so distant places surrounded or close by the ocean. Much of this in many cases – a few of which I will touch upon – was still inspired by knowledge written down in previous dynasties. Among the topics covered will be “islands” as markers of foreign countries in maps; physical islands as hiding places, of exile and punishment, and as locations cut off from “culture”; imagined and real islands in modern research. Click here to register.
October 24, 2026 - New York Current-paid-members-only of the New York Map Society are invited to reserve one or more places at a private tour of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University by its Director (and New York Map Society member) Courtney Chartier starting at 2:00 pm. The first two tours in 2023 were a roaring success, with attendees amazed at the breadth of the library’s collection of atlases and maps. All new items will be displayed. Email <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> to reserve your place(s).
October 24, 2026 – Paris A conference, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Cassini's map of France. An encyclopedia of the territory”, Mapping the Kingdom of France, 17th-18th centuries: instruments and methods" by Nathan Godet, Doctor of History, Associate Researcher at the François Viète Center for Epistemology and History of Science and Technology, University of Western Brittany. Location: Hôtel de Soubise, 60 rue des Francs Bourgeois, Prince's Salon at 2:30 pm.
October 26, 2026 – Valletta, Malta The first Albert Ganado Annual Lecture, sponsord by thr Malta Map Society, will be held at the National Library of Malta, 36 Old Treasury Street. The lecture, entitled Kâtip Çelebi's Cihannüma and the Valletta Manuscript: Text, Maps, and Transmission,will be delivered by Mr. Abdullah Seçgin (Manuscript Institute of Türkiye). A reception will follow the lecture. Additional details will be posted on Malta Map Society web page.
October 28, 2026 - Ann Arbor (Hybrid) Artist Elaine S. Wilson will describe her ongoing project, Charting the Wolverine, from its inception in 2008 to its current state with 31 “map-prints” and over 240 watercolors created. She'll describe her research of historic atlases and maps and her adventures on the back roads of Michigan and Indiana along the railroad tracks making watercolors and drawings. Join us in the Clark Library or via Zoom. Charting the Wolverine is a series of digital prints about what you see when you ride Amtrak's Wolverine train from Ann Arbor, MI to Chicago. Lecture is from 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in Clark Presentation Space, Hatcher Library South, Second Floor, Room 240A. Click here to join via Zoom when meeting starts.
October 29-31, 2026 - Budapest 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 20th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH) in partnership with the Ludovika University of Public Service (UNI-NKE), Department of Geography and Natural Sciences, the Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Cartography & Geoinformatics and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, CartoGeoLab - Laboratory of Cartography and Geographical Analysis. The conference is supported by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Research Committee and MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group.
October 29-31, 2026 - Chicago The Chicago
Map Society, the oldest map society in North America, will be
celebrating its 50th anniversary at the Newberry Library, 60 W.
Walton St.
October 29: A dinner, Distinguished historian of
cartography, Matthew Edney, will speak about the legacy of David
Woodward, the first director of the Newberry Library’s Smith
Center for the History of Cartography, and his role in establishing
the society in 1976.
October 30: Opening reception for the Rare
Map and Book Fair, 5:30 to 7:30pm - $40 per person with
advance
registration / $50 per person at the door
October 31: Rare
Map and Book Fair, as well as lectures and workshops, 9am to 5pm
– no charge
October 29, 2026 - Portland, Maine It's that time of year
again... the Osher Map Library
invites you, from 3:30 – 6 PM, to check out a pop-up exhibition
of particularly peculiar materials found in the OML collection! We'll
be open late with a selection of materials on view in the Osher Map
Library Reading Room, plus crafts and snacks in the Cohen Classroom
(Glickman 103), 314 Forest Avenue.
▪️
5 - 5:30 PM: Reception
▪️ 5:30 - 7
PM: Lecture, Reading, and Q&A, followed by a book signing
This
event is FREE and open to all!
November 5, 2026 - Austin, Texas (Online) The Society for History of Discoveries will meet 3:00 - 4:30 pm, CST. Dr. Nathan Braccio (Assistant Professor of History, Furman University) will discuss “A Rude View”: Bewildered Colonists and Northeastern Algonquian Mapmaking. In some of the earliest recorded encounters between Europeans and Algonquian-speaking communities in present-day New England, the Algonquians made maps. While those first maps have not survived, most extant maps from the region before 1650 were made by Algonquians. In this presentation, Dr. Braccio will discuss the features of Northeastern Algonquian mapmaking in the colonial period. You can read more and register here.
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 12, 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. Kory Olson (Professor of French, Stockton University; Secretary and Vice Chair, The International Society of the History of the Map) forthcoming book, “Motoring Africa with Michelin” (Brill) will provide the basis for this presentation: Motoring Africa: Michelin’s Road Maps for an Exotic Continent. In this book, he examines how the tire company presented France’s African colonial space as very drivable and French, prioritizing European-built infrastructure over indigenous peoples and spaces.
November 14, 2026 – Paris A conference, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Cassini's map of France. An encyclopedia of the territory”, The development of world cartography in the 18th century by Hélène Richard, Archivist-paleographer, Honorary Chief Curator of Libraries, Vice-President of the French Naval Academy. Location: Hôtel de Soubise, 60 rue des Francs Bourgeois, Prince's Salon at 2:30 pm.
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 19, 2026 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society will meet 5:30pm – 7:00 pm CT at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. Brendan Whyte will talk about Canberra, Cartography and the Cold War; or, just how good was Soviet military mapping? A Ken Behrens investigation. This presentation will reveal the sources, the detail, and the (in)accuracy of the 1981 Soviet military map of Canberra, Australia, highlighting the utility of — but need for care when using — Soviet military city plans for historical research.
November 21, 2026 - Paris The 25th edition of the Paris Map Fair will take place at Espace Cléry, 17 Rue de Cléry. It will open its doors to visitors at 11 a.m. in the heart of Paris. A cocktail reception will be held the day before, 20 November, and is open to visitors and participating dealers and will feature a premium open bar. The reception will start at 7 PM and last for one hour. Click here to reserve a place for map fair and/or cocktail reception.
November 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.
November 24, 2026 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in Martin Room, on the 4th floor, History Colorado Center. Javier Torre (Professor of Spanish Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Denver) will present A Twice-told trail: retracing the Dominguez Escalante expedition and 250 years of black legend. The project integrates Escalante’s diary and the cartography of Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco with contemporary technologies, including GPS tracking, multimedia documentation (photography, videography, aerial drone footage), and ArcGIS mapping. Furthermore, the second part of this presentation examines how current commemorations of the Domínguez-Escalante expedition continue to misrepresent the history of the Spanish presence in the Americas, effectively perpetuating the Black Legend. Registration is required and link will soon be provided. Click here for Zoom link when meeting starts (no registration necessary).
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.
November 26-27, 2026 - Gotha, Germany The Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czechia) and the University of Erfurt, Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (Gotha, Germany) will be having a two-day in-person workshop including hands-on map activities. The topic will be Cartographies of Crises: Mapping Conflict, Disaster, and Uncertainty (19th–21st Centuries). This workshop focuses on the cartographies of crises from the 19th to the 21st century and seeks to advance research on the thematic mapping of crises. The workshop will be in English and held at University of Erfurt, Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection. Additional information from the organisers: Jitka Močičková (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences): <mocickova(at)hiu.cas.cz> or Dominic Keyssner (University of Erfurt): <dominic.keyssner(at)uni-erfurt.de>.
November 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). 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 (London, WC1H 0AB). 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 <p.jagessar(at)outlook.com >. David Fletcher (Independent Researcher) will speak about A New Picture of the Tudor Realm: Christopher Saxton’s Atlas of England and Wales.
November 28, 2026 – Paris A conference, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Cassini's map of France. An encyclopedia of the territory”, The map of France in all its forms: personalization and trade of copies in the time of the Cassini family " by Thierry Claerr, head of the library of the National Archives and member of the Jean-Mabillon Center, Sylvie Le Goëdec, in charge of documentary studies at the library of the National Archives, and Hélène Richard, Archivist-paleographer, honorary general curator of libraries, Vice-President of the Academy of the Navy. Location: Hôtel de Soubise, 60 rue des Francs Bourgeois, Prince's Salon at 2:30 pm.
December 3, 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 assistance of the California 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. Tom Paper (Managing Partner Webster Pacific, LLC; California Map Society, Board of Directors Member at Large) will discuss Mistakes on Maps. Originally presented to the California Map Society and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this presentation is a witty, visually immersive journey through 20 historical maps, each featuring a fascinating flaw.
December 5, 2026 - Brussels Save the date for the next conference of Brussels Map Circle which will focus on nautical cartography!
December 5, 2026 - Los Angeles The first California Map Society meeting, as far as we know, will be held at the Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles in Lincoln Heights at 3433 North Broadway. Lunch will be included in the registration fee, which we are working with the Adventurers to determine in the next few weeks. If you have a cartographic adventure to share with the Society, or know someone who does, please reply to <andrewstephenhicks(at)gmail.com> and <jonjab(at)ucsb.edu>. We usually allot our speakers about 35 minutes to show and tell their stories.
December 17, 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). 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 (London, WC1H 0AB). 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 <p.jagessar(at)outlook.com >. Giles Darkes (Historic Towns Trust) will discuss Turning an OS into History: Creating Historical Maps for the Historic Towns Trust.
2027
January 14, 2027 – 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. John W. Delano (Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department. of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, University at Albany, State University of New York) will talk about 17th -19th-Century Survey Maps of Towns in New York and New Hampshire: Stories from between the Lines. The colonial lands in the northeastern United States were often heavily forested, wet, and rugged. The early survey teams faced challenges that were recorded in their field books. Despite these challenges, the precision of their measurements was often better than 0.5 degree over distances of 6 miles. In addition, the early settlers on the original 100-acre lots of those northeastern towns also had engaging stories.
January 21, 2027 - 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 Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute (London, WC1H 0AB). 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 <p.jagessar(at)outlook.com >. Kristen Lippincott (Director of The Saxl Project) will discuss A Rediscovered Witness: The Art of Making Celestial Globes in 15th-Century Italy.
January 23, 2027 – Paris A conference, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Cassini's map of France. An encyclopedia of the territory”, The archives of the Map of France: from data entry to transfer to the National Archives by Nadine Gastaldi, general curator of heritage, head of the M\aps and Plans mission of the National Archives and curator of the exhibition. Location: Hôtel de Soubise, 60 rue des Francs Bourgeois, Prince's Salon at 2:30 pm.
February 9, 2027 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Pierre Salvadori will discuss Cartography of the Renaissance north. 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 11, 2027 – 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. John Hessler (founder and director of BIOMAP AI; retired cartographic specialist, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division) will discuss To Save Lives: An Introduction to GeoAI and the Modern Mapping of Infectious Diseases. This talk will introduce listeners to the many newly developed methods in GeoAI (Geospatial Artificial Intelligence), which are being used to study, map and model the spread of infectious diseases around the globe.
February 23, 2027 - London (Online) The next International Map Collector’s Society Show & Tell will be held 6 pm GMT. We invite presenters to share a favorite map from their collection with fellow enthusiasts. If you would like to present a map, please email Stephen Nagler <senagler(at)gmail.com> with the subject line “IMCoS Show & Tell” and a brief description of the map you wish to share. Registration instructions for the meeting will follow.
February 25, 2027 - 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 Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute (London, WC1H 0AB). 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 <p.jagessar(at)outlook.com >. Rachel Herrmann, Hakluyt Society Speaker (Cardiff University) will present Maps of the Mar del Golpho de Mexico, or, what made Florida so weird.
March 12-13, 2027 - Le Havre Cedex, France The Comité Français de Cartographie, Université Le Havre Normandie (Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences), Identités et Cultures Research Group, Le Havre Heritage Library; in partnership with : Institut universitaire de France, Bibliothèque nationale de France, EPHE (Histara), CNRS (Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris) invite you to attend a symposium about Women and Cartography from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The symposium, held at Université Le Havre Normandie, sets out to re-examine the place of women in the making, circulation, and reception of cartographic knowledge up to the 20th century, taking into account the various forms their participation took, the documentary biases inherent in the sources, and contemporary methodological issues. It is part of the broader field of the history of women in science and of the study of the gendered construction of knowledge. Additional information from Lucile Haguet <lucile.haguet(at)lehavre.fr> or Catherine Hofmann <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.
March 19-21, 2027 – Venice The 3rd Venice International Map Fair will be held in Palazzo Pisani – Revedin, Sestiere San Marco 4013/A. The annual spring event of the Venice Map Fair is back, the cartography exhibition and market where internationally renowned exhibitors gather in Venice to display cartographic works, travel books and masterpieces by the most famous landscape artists to an audience of collectors and novices alike. The event is organised by Palazzo Pisani-Revedin and Lux In Art Gallery, which will welcome collectors, enthusiasts and curious visitors to the prestigious palace just a few steps away from the Rialto Bridge.
April 8, 2027 – 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. Emily Bowe, Assistant Director and Genna Kane, Civic Discovery Fellow, Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library, will introduce us to You Are Here (and So Was This): Atlascope and Exploration Through Page, Pixel, and Place. This presentation will introduce the Leventhal Map and Education Center’s Atlascope, a relatively new online resource for researching urban atlases, including fire insurance and real estate atlases.
April 29, 2027 - 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 Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute (London, WC1H 0AB). 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 <p.jagessar(at)outlook.com >. Marissa Griffioen (University of Amsterdam) will discuss Map Encounters in the Dutch Republic (c.1600–1800): Analysing the Material Culture of Early Modern Maps.
May 11, 2027 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Sercan Sağlam will talk about Reading portolan charts: coastal topography, place-names and the historical geography of the Aegean. 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 20, 2027 - 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 Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute (London, WC1H 0AB). 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 <p.jagessar(at)outlook.com >. Anne-Sophie Pratte (Georgetown University in Qatar) will discuss Mapping the Steppe: Mongol Manuscript Maps of the 19th Century.
May 24-28, 2027 - Barcelona The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) Symposium and Workshop will take place in Barcelona. The Symposium is organized in collaboration with the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. In hosting this conference in Barcelona, ISHMap builds on this history through the theme of Mapping Outside the Metropole to think about centers of cultural production outside of the imperial capital. A two-day Workshop (24-26 May 2027) for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, will precede the Symposium. Hands-on activities led by experts in the field may include sessions focusing on data, machine learning, and historical maps, Cold War mapping, early sea charts, and the materiality and production of the maps. The Symposium (26-28 May 2027) will include paper and posters on all aspects of the history of maps and mapping. We particularly welcome proposals that address issues related to mapping outside of the metropole and the central sites of colonial and state power as well as proposals that bring comparative or cross-cultural perspectives to the history of maps and mapping.
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.
September 9-11, 2027 - Ann Arbor, Michigan The Society for the History of Discoveries Annual Meeting will be held at the Clements Library.
October 6–8, 2027 – Stanford (Hybrid) The David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University asks you to please save the date for the next Barry Lawrence Ruderman Lectures on Cartography which will address cartography and the sciences in the modern era, to mark the publication of Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Five of The History of Cartography, edited by Roger Kain and Jude Leimer. Additional details will be posted in early 2027.
October 29-30, 2027 - Winston-Salem The Museum Of Early Southern Decorative Arts asks you to please save the date for a two day map seminar, Mapping the American Revolution, Southern Style. The meeting will focus on events of the Southern Campaign, including those that broke the five year stalemate of the war and led to the British surrender at Yorktown The seminar will also include a map fair each day. Additional details will be posted in early 2027.
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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.