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November 11, December 5, and December 19, 2024 – Berlin (Hybrid) Dagmar Schäfer (BBAW, MPIWG), Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS Paris; EC-Chronoi and MPIWG), and Ute Tintemann (BBAW), in cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Einstein Center Chronoi; have organized a “Lecture Series: Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture I”. Lectures are at 6 pm (CET) in Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin. As one of the oldest forms of human communication, maps are an important historical record of space. Yet maps are much more than a visual representation of a territory at a given time, but a reflection of the historical, political, religious, and cultural contexts in which they were created. This lecture series invites a critical and fresh look at mapping, its role in the global circulation of knowledge, its influence on state sovereignty and royal authority, colonialism, imperialism, and national identities throughout history.
Click on each of the links below to
register for the in-person meeting. No registration is required for
those attending virtually. Those attending virtually must, at the
time of the meeting, click on the appropriate link below and then
click on the link provided on the line “For a virtual
participation in the event please click here”.
11
November 2024 - Maps
and Mapping in Global Cultural Perspectives: Temporality in Map
History with Mirella Altic,
University of Zagreb, ISHMap President
5
December 2024 - Visualising
Time-Space in East Asia: Mapping ‘Round Heavens & Square
Earth’ from Ancient Rotating Devices to Late Modern Commercial
Maps with Vera
Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, CNRS, Paris; Fellow Einstein Center Chronoi and
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
19
December 2024 - Transcultural
Cartographies: The Japanese Buddhist World Map and the Birth of Asian
Studies in Europe with D.
Max Moerman, Columbia University, New York
November 11, 2024 - Stanford (Hybrid) Join with the David Rumsey Map Center for a presentation by Anton Thomas, an artist-cartographer from New Zealand known for his illustrated maps. One of his maps is Wild World, a vast world map of nature that has 1,642 wild animals roaming it. During his talk, at 3:30pm, Thomas will dive deep into his story, from the endless details of Wild World to the managing of its popularity, from the psychological odyssey of three years drawing one map, to his search for new ideas in the Kenyan wilderness. Please register in advance to attend the talk either in-person or remotely via Zoom.
November 13, 2024 - Portland, Maine The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education invites you to attend the Annual Mattson-New York Times Lecture Join us for an evening of stories from the Map Trade with Laura Ten Eyck of Argosy Gallery and Antiques Road Show. Lecture will be in McGoldrick Center Salons, 35 Bedford Street: 5:30pm reception and meet and greet; 6:00-7:30pm lecture and Q and A. Registration is free with an optional donation to support the Osher Map Library Fund. Register here.
November 19, 2024 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Maurice Whitehead (Venerable English College, Rome) will discuss Maps, meridians and missions: Christopher Maire, SJ (1697–1767), an English cartographer in continental Europe. All are welcome. Click here to receive the link for this seminar. Please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk> if you wish to join the mailing list. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at <sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk>, tel. 01223 330476. The seminars are kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
November 19, 2024 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, at 5:30 pm. Chris Lane will discuss Willful Wildlife: animals in persuasive maps. Persuasive maps are those intended primarily to influence opinion or make a point rather than simply present objective geographic information. The designers of such maps want to send a message to the reader and they use various images to encode this meaning in their maps so that that reader will be able to decode those images and so understand their message. Images of animals are one of the very best ways to encode a message on a map, naturally drawing attention to themselves and the intended meanings generally readily understood by viewers. This lecture will look at how animals have been used on persuasive maps from the seventeenth century to the modern era in many clever, dramatic and humorous ways. Click here to register for in-person attendance. Click here for the Zoom link at the time of the meeting.
November 21, 2024 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. The program Indigenous People and the Chicago Portage will be held in-person and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. In this edition of “Conversations at the Newberry,” historian John William Nelson discusses researching issues of land use and landscape change, focusing on the Indigenous history of Chicago waterways, with Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Eric Hemenway and Raphael Wahwassuck. Lecture will be 6:00pm–7:00pm in Ruggles Hall and Zoom. Advance registration is required.
November 21, 2024 – Washington The Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division will celebrate 25th Annual GIS Day: Mapping Our World. Presented as one of the Library of Congress’ Live at the Library series, this event will feature Dr. Vicki Ferrini (Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) talking about From Paper to Pixels: The Evolution of Ocean Mapping and Exploration. Lecture will be in Jefferson Building, LJ119, 6:30 pm. In addition, G&M staff will be hosting several interactive activities in the Great Hall involving maps and globes from 5pm to 8pm. There will be a display of oceanic collection items between 5pm to 6:30pm and 7:30pm to 8pm in LJ-113. Click here to register for Dr. Ferrini's lecture Click here to register.
November 28, 2024 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Luz Martin del Campo (City University of New York) will speak about Vernacular environmental cartographies: landscapes and navigation unseen in Lacanjá Chansayab, Chiapas, México. 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.
December 4, 2024 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Dr. Neal Asbury (rare map collector, CEO of Legacy Companies, and host of syndicated weekly radio talk show - Neal Asbury’s Made in America) and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts (historian and professor emeritus, Fielding Graduate University) will speak about Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion. Their book "Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas" is available wherever books are sold.
December 5-6, 2024 –
Copenhagen The Danish Royal Library,
Leventhal Map & Education
Center at the Boston Public Library, and the George
Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon invite you to a
program examining historic map collections across the Atlantic. This
1 ½ day symposium, held at the Royal Library, will feature
historians, geographers, and technologists working in digital map
collections. This program is part of the American
Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) project.
December
5 - Scandinavia and the American Revolutionary Era
14:00 -
Roundtable on ARGO: Mapping Scandinavia and the Americas in a
revolutionary age. Stig Svenningsen (Det Kgl. Bibliotek), Garrett
Dash Nelson (Leventhal Center), Alexandra Montgomery (Washington
Library)
15:00: Keynote Lecture, Geopolitics with and without
Geography, Andrew Rhodes (US Embassy, Copenhagen)
17:00:
Reception (Remarks by Alan Leventhal, US Ambassador to
Denmark)
December 6 - Mapping Across the
Atlantic
9:00: Coffee
10:00: Roundtable on Denmark in North
America. Henrik Dupont, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer
12:00: Lunch
break
13:00–14:30: Panel on digital map collections,
digitization, and historical GIS. Christina Vibeke Holck-Clausen
& Stine Dau (Danish Climate Data Agency), Peder Dam (Odense
Museum), Bert Spaan (Allmaps Project)
15:00 - Collections showing
with highlights from the Royal Library map collections
December 6, 2024 - Hamden, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will have our annual Show & Tell, a social event and Map Society favorite, held this year at 7 pm. We’ll provide appetizers and drinks. The location is a home in Hamden with easy street parking. At Show & Tell, 7-10 members will talk for 10 minutes each (we mean business here!) about a map or map topic they’re eager to share. Speakers and audience members alike must RSVP to <connie(at)redstonestudios.com>. Speakers, reserve your spots: they fill up quickly. We’ll provide venue details when you email us.
December 6, 2024 - Paris Following on from the meeting organised on 25 November 2023 in Paris on the intersections between art and cartography, the History Commission of the Comité Français de Cartographie is organising a study day entitled Cartography and Cinema at the National Institut d'histoire de l'art, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne. As we all know, cinema, the main medium of fiction developed during the 20th century, has from the outset been concerned with the representation of the most diverse spaces and landscapes on the surface of the planet. Cartography, in all its forms, has been used to transform geographical places and spaces into a range of narrative supports and focal points. The aim of the Study Day is to explore some of the ways in which cartography has been present in the history of fiction cinema and in cinematographic operations. Additional information from Catherine Hoffman <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.
December 7, 2024 – Brussels The next annual conference of Brussels Map Circle will focus on Cartography of Spain. Speakers include Luis Robles Macias, José M. Garcia Redondo, Piet Lombaerde, and Carme Montaner.. It will be held at KBR (Royal Library of Belgium).
December 11, 2024 – Boston (Online) Join Julia Williams (Gallery & Communications Coordinator at the Leventhal Map & Education Center) together with Boston Public Library Research Services, at 6 pm ET, for Putting Family History on the Map to discuss the use of historic maps for genealogical research. Julia has experience working with New England Historical Genealogical Society as a genealogist on 10 Million Names, a project aimed at recovering the names of the estimated ten million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America. She will also provide a demo of Atlascope, which overlays historic and modern maps so you can easily compare past and present. Register for the event.
December 12, 2024 - Berlin (Hybrid) Dagmar Schäfer (BBAW, MPIWG), Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS Paris; EC-Chronoi and MPIWG), and Ute Tintemann (BBAW) have organized a lecture Japanese Buddhist Astral Sciences (Bonreki) of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Using celestial maps, this presentation by Prof. Dr. D. Max Moerman (Professor and Chair of Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College) will analyze the arguments, images, models, and mechanisms produced by the Japanese Buddhists who attempted to prove the superiority of traditional Buddhist thought over European science until the end of the nineteenth century. Lecture at 15:00 PM (CET), at the Einstein Center Chronoi, Otto-von-Simson-Strasse 7, 14195 Berlin.
December 12, 2024 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) The French School of Asian Studies has the pleasure to invite you to attend the workshop Materiality and Colour in Early Modern Chinese Maps’ Production. This workshop is organized around two papers presenting colour maps of two different coastal regions: the Guangdong Sheet Map (廣東全省圖說, ca. 1739) and the Map of Huai’an Prefecture (Lee Shau Kee Library, late Ming). Robert Batchelor (Chair of the Department of History and Director of Digital Humanities at Georgia Southern University) presents the Map of Guangdong, one of the first surviving polychrome Chinese xylographic cartographic documents. Wang Qianjin (Director of the Institute of Cartography at the National Museum of China) will discuss three late Ming manuscript maps of Huai’an Prefecture (淮安府圖及淮安府附近地圖) and its surrounding districts, created in ink and colour on silk. Workshop is at 3:00 pm-6:30 pm in Lecture Theatre, G/F, Institute Studies, CUHK, Shatin, New Territories. Click here to attend on Zoom. Additional information from +852 3943 1247 or <hk.center(at)efeo.net>.
December 12, 2024 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) will discuss Copying or Creating? Notions of Ingenuity in isolarii from the 15th to 18th century.
December 14, 2024 - New York 1:00 pm New York (ET) time, In-Person: Up to 15 current paid members,only of the New York Map Society are invited to reserve a spot with <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for a private tour of The Old Print Shop in Manhattan, followed by a Holiday Social Hour at a nearby pub for appetizers and drinks.
December 19, 2024 - Chicago (Hybrid) The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. The Society will have it's Annual Holiday Gala.
January 16, 2025 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Ian Spangler, Assistant Curator of Digital and Participatory Geography, and Emily Bowe, Assistant Director, both with the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library will discuss Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World.
January 18, 2025 – New York The New York Map Society invites you to Argosy Book Store, 116 East 59th Street, from 3:00 - 5:00 pm New York (ET) time. All are welcome to attend a book talk and signing event for "The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade," by Nicholas Nugent, with special reference to New York and Salem. This wide-ranging account of a fascinating period of global history uses original maps and contemporary artists’ views to tell the story of how each port developed individually.
January 30. 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti (Università degli Studi di Padova) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) will discuss Map Readings: ‘Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities’. 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 8, 2025 – Richmond The Washington Map Society will visit the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., for a guided tour of their new map exhibition, “Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816-1826.” Cassandra Farrell, Exhibition Curator and Senior Map Archivist, Library of Virginia (Board Member, Washington Map Society) will be our guide. Time to be announced. Snow date March 1, 2025.
February 13, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Margriet Hoogvliet and Anouk de Vries (Universiteit van Amsterdam) will be the speakers. 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 25, 2025 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Finnian O’Cionnaith (Dublin) will present ‘A peculiar survey … for our peculiar purpose’: founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. All are welcome. Joining instructions for Zoom will be circulated nearer the time. Please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk> if you wish to join the mailing list. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at <sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk>, tel. 01223 330476. The seminars are kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
February 27, 2025 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Louise McCarthy and Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité) will discuss Cartographic Science at the Service of Company Propaganda in Early Imperialist Britain (1600–1625). McCarthy and Niayesh are Hakluyt Society Speakers.
March 13, 2025 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. James Cheshire (University College London) will discuss Discoveries from the UCL Map Library.
March 19-22, 2025 - Seville The Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos/Instituto de Historia will have a “Mapping Frameworks” conference Cartografía y territorialidad en América [Cartography and territoriality in America]. The conference aims to open a rich dialogue among specialists in the history of maps, history of science, landscape archaeology, American culture, etc., which reflect on the way of understanding and interpreting spaces in the Americansbetween the 15th and 18th centuries.
March 20, 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. Laura Ten Eyck (Gallery Director, Argosy Book Store in Manhattan and Vice President of New York Map Society) and P. J. Mode (lawyer for more than 40 years in Washington DC and New York City and collector of persuasive maps recently donated to Cornell University) will discuss Just In Case I Don’t Live Forever, What Should Happen To My Collection?. Originally presented to the New York Map Society in January 2020, this presentation will enumerate various ways of donating or disposing of map collections. The topics that will be discussed include selling at an auction, selling to one or more dealers, selling or giving to an institution, and giving to family or friends.
April 3, 2025 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku) will discuss Maps for Development? Finnish Mapping of the Global South, c.1970–2000.
April 17, 2026 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. At 6:00 pm CT Daniel Block will discuss Finding Food: How We Map and Talk About Food Access in Chicago and Beyond.
April 24, 2025 – Washington Kris Butler (Senior Career Coach at Holland & Knight, lawyer, and author of “Drink Maps in Victorian Britain”) will speak about American Drink Maps of the Boston area and towns in Maine and New Hampshire in later editions of Rowntree & Sherwell’s The Temperance Problem and Social Reform. Talk will be at 6:00 pm in Holland & Knight, 800 17th Street, NW. Kris will share new research since the publication of her book on little known versions of United States drink maps made to persuade lawmakers to reduce the number of places to buy alcohol. Craft beer will be served. Security in the building requires registration for this meeting by April 22 and will soon be made available.
May 6, 2025 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Onur Engin (University of Cambridge) will present Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography. All are welcome. Joining instructions for Zoom will be circulated nearer the time. Please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk> if you wish to join the mailing list. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at <sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk>, tel. 01223 330476. The seminars are kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
May 8, 2025 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust) will discuss Marking the Miles: Some annotated maps in National Trust Collections.
May 15, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina) will talk about Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases. 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.
May 29, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet) will discuss Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment. 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 12, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will speak about 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.
July 8-11, 2025 – Paris The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) will hold their annual conference at Campus Condorcet. The theme is Mapping the Cultural Crossroads. A two-day Workshop (8-9 July) for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, will precede the Symposium (10-11 July). Post-event trip to Vincennes with guided tour through the cartographic treasures of the Historical Archives Center kept in the Château de Vincennes, a former fortress and royal residence dating back to 14th century is planned for 12 July. Additional details online.
August 26-29, 2025 - London The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2025 will be held. Additional details to be announced.
September 11-14, 2025 - Portland, Maine The 42nd International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium will be at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, 314 Forest Ave. We will also be working with the University of Southern Maine facilities. The conference title is New Perspectives on Mapping New England and Maritime Canada. The program opens with an evening reception and possible keynote lecture on Thursday. Friday and Saturday will be lectures during the day and dinner on your own. Sunday, the final day, will be a behind the scenes tour and "Treasures of the Collection" in the morning. Then lunch and a walking tour of Portland in the afternoon ending around 3:00 PM. Closing banquet that night. There will be a post-symposium three-day tour of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Forest Monday through Wednesday, September 15-17th. Additional details to be announced. Contact Libby Bischof <elizabeth.bischof(at)maine.edu> for more information.
October 8-10, 2025 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center will host the fifth biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography. To stay in the loop about the conference theme and speakers over the coming months, please sign up for the Ruderman Conference mailing list.
October 31-November 1, 2025 - Winston-Salem The Museum Of Early Southern Decorative Arts asks you to please save the date for a two day map seminar, Mapping America & Its Expansion, as we explore the American Century and America’s westward migration during the 18th and 19th centuries. Moderated by Margaret Pritchard, Former Curator of Prints, Maps, and Wallpaper at Colonial Williamsburg, lecturers will include JC McElveen, Wesley Brown, and Chet Van Duzer. The seminar will also include a map fair.
July 7-11, 2026 – Prague The 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography will have as its primary venue the main building of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6. The theme is Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography. Additional information from <ichc2026(at)hiu.cas.cz>.
November 8-14, 2026 - Tokyo and Kyoto The International Map Collectors' Society has been invited by the Japan Map Society to participate in a conference that they would host for international guests with most of the program in English. Date and program currently are tentative.