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January 17, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Mike Flaherty will discuss Melchoir Huebinger and the Making of the First Automobile Atlas of Iowa. He will present a lecture on the maps and atlases produced by the nearly forgotten German immigrant cartographer and surveyor Melchoir Huebinger. His mapping of Iowa and Illinois spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s and included the production of vanity subscription atlases, military, flood, geologic and soil maps, production of general purpose state atlas, early automobile maps and route guides, and culminated in his incredible 1912 twenty-dollar "Good Roads Automobile Atlas of Iowa."
January 17, 2019 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Desiree Krikken (PhD student, Department of Modern History, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) will speak about Bears with Measuring Chains. Early Modern Land Surveyors and the Record of European Physical Space. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
January 22, 2019 - Denver – The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room. Dr. Donald L. McGuirk will present Geographies Unrealized: The Short Story of Four Cartographic myths of North America. A mysterious inland sea. An immense island off the coast. A narrow land passage between the Atlantic and Pacific. Learn the origins of these and other cartographic concoctions, and trace their influence through centuries of North American map-making. Lecture is free and open to the Public.
January 24, 2019 – Oxford The 26th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography runs from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG. Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm. Nick Millea (Bodleian Libraries) will discuss Talking Maps: Cartographic conversations from the Bodleian’s forthcoming exhibition. Additional information from Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk), Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
January 24, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Paulette Hasier, chief of the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress, will discuss her personal interests in the history of cartography. She will also explain her mandate to take the Geography and Map Division in new directions more attuned to today’s cartographic technology. This does not mean abandoning the historic treasures of the Library, but rather using technical means to make them more readily available to researchers and aficionados alike. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
January 25, 2019 - Amsterdam Prof. Kees Zandvliet (research assistant at the Amsterdam Museum and professor of early modern history at the University of Amsterdam) will talk about Joan Blaeu, Geertruid Vermeulen en hun kinderen revisited at 2 pm at Nina van Leerzaal, Oude Turfmarkt 129. Please register in advance for this lecture.
January 26, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 2 pm at Avenues: The World School Headquarters, 17th Floor Boardroom, 11 East 26th St. (between Madison and Fifth Avenues), New York City. Daniel Crouch will reprise the presentation he gave at the September 2018 San Francisco Map Fair: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Daniel's talk will explore some of the earliest and greatest exponents of cartographic data visualization. Additional information from Andrew Kapochunas <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>.
January 30, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The next Malta Map Society committee meeting will be at 6pm at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
January 31, 2019 - Oxford The Oxford Seminars in Cartography Field Trip will be hosted by John Hawkins (St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Dundee University). He will present Old maps of Oxford: some myths and misconceptions. Booking essential - for further details, please contact: nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 287119.
February 1-3, 2019 - Miami The Twenty-sixth Annual Miami International Map Fair will be held at HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street. Contact Hilda Masip (HMasip(at)historymiami.org), Phone 305.375.1618.
February 6, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 6:30 pm in Avenues: The World School, headquarters, 17th Floor Boardroom, 11 East 26th St. (between Madison and Fifth Avenues). Scott Max Edelson will speak about his book The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence. After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Edelson’s "The New Map of Empire" pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution.
February 11, 2019 - Boston Afriterra and the Boston Map Society invite you a talk by Gerald J. Rizzo MD (Afriterra Foundation) and Robert A. Bellinger (Suffolk University) about Riverine Geography and the Trans-Atlantic Horizon from 5:00-8:00 at 400 Commonwealth Avenue. Learn about the first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of Jamestown in 1619.
February 12, 2019 - Boston The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, will present Boston By Map from 6-7pm. Interested in Boston history? Like old maps of the city? Our Boston by Map will show you how to use historic maps to illustrate Boston’s history. It will include a brief survey of historic maps of Boston, where to find them online, and how to compare them by overlaying digital images. We’ll also take a short look at the georeferencing and map set tools on the Leventhal Map Center’s digital collections.
February 13, 2019 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall, will host a talk with Chet Van Duzer about his research on Urbano Monte's World Map from 1587. Chet Van Duzer is an independent American historian of cartography specializing in medieval and Renaissance maps -- mappaemundi, nautical charts, and the maps in Ptolemy's Geography -- with an emphasis on determining the sources cartographers used for the texts, images, and geographical features on maps. He is also a board member of the Lazarus Project that focuses on multispectral imaging of cultural heritage objects. In 2018, he completed a three-month research fellowship at the David Rumsey Map Center and the John Carter Brown Library focused on the Urbano Monte planisphere. The fellowship was made possible by a donation from David and Abby Rumsey. The talk will cover the context for Urbano Monte's interest in cartography generally, Japan specifically, and examine possible sources of Monte's place names in Japan. Doors open: 2.30 pm, Event: 3.00 - 4.00 pm. The talk is free but requires advance registration.
February 14-15, 2019 - Stanford A conference on Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900 will be held at the David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall. Maps have long been used to bring imaginary places to life, from Thomas More's Utopia to JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. But the role of the imagination in mapping extends well beyond the depiction of fantasy realms. Some cartographers have conjured places that were only rumored to exist but that they hoped could one day be charted. Others have drawn on their creative faculties to map sites that were only hazily known. Not a few cartographers have intentionally imposed illusory elements on their maps, whether in jest or in earnest (to mislead enemies, to foil would be plagiarists, or to score political or philosophical points). In the broadest sense, all maps are works of the imagination: at the moment of creation, the mapmaker translates a mental image into a visual and textual medium that can be shared. The various contexts that shape this process, the forms chosen for sharing spatial visions, and the nature of the resulting maps’ relationship to perceived reality all form important aspects of the study of cartography. This conference, co-organized by the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick and the History Department of Stanford University—is designed to showcase research and facilitate conversation about the role of the imagination in the cartographic enterprise writ large. Attendance is free and open to the public and includes a reception at Green Library on Thursday, February 14th, 2019. but pre-registration is required.
February 14, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Kass Kassebaum will tell us about Washington’s Mapmaker: Colonel Robert Erskine, First Surveyor General. Robert Erskine (1735–1780) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who came to the colonies in 1771 to run the ironworks at Ringwood, New Jersey and later became sympathetic to the movement for independence. General George Washington appointed him as Geographer and Surveyor General of the Continental Army at the rank of colonel; Erskine drew more than 275 maps, mostly of the Northeast region. His untimely death as the war was ending is largely responsible for his relative anonymity among the heroes of the Revolution. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
February 15, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The 55th meeting of the executive committee of the Malta Map Society will be at 6pm at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. An important subject for discussion is the 10th anniversary of the M M S. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
February 19, 2019 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room. Dr. Thomas J. Noel will speak about Colorado: A Historical Atlas, and Color-Oddities. Don't miss Tom "Dr. Colorado" Noel's presentation on his book “Colorado: A Historical Atlas.” His book maps 90 chapters of Colorado history from Mesa Verde to the present. Tom will also share with us “Color-Oddities: Strangest Things about the Highest State.” Tom is a professor of history at CU-Denver. He has authored or contributed to 53 books, and is a former longtime Sunday columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post. He appears regularly as Dr. Colorado on Channel 9's Colorado & Company. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry <lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net>.
February 21, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Please join us as we celebrate the publication of Emily Talen’s book Neighborhood, which is a critical evaluation of the idea of neighborhood. Through the exploration of cross-cultural and cross-temporal commonalities of the ways in which neighborhood articulation exposes conflicting purposes, and the varying levels of realization of neighborhood design, this book assesses the historical record and current relevance of neighborhood.
February 21, 2019 - Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Sylvain Piron (EHESS, Paris) will speak about Le monde dans un panier d'osier. Les superpositions cartographiques d'Opicinus de Canistris at 18:30 in Salle du Conseil FIAL - Place Blaise Pascal 1.
February 23, 2019 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2 pm at Kline Biology Tower, Yale, University, 219 Prospect Street, just beneath the first floor. Metered parking is available in the area. From Prospect Street, you’ll see the Tower—it’s the tallest building in the area. Directions here. There’s a map renaissance afoot, and it’s called GIS. You can’t be a bona fide map aficionado without knowing about this incredible cartographic development and its commendable, heroic consequences. Yale’s digital exhibit shows just one of our Connecticut universities various uses of GIS technology. Join us!
February 26, 2019 - Boston The Boston Map Society will meet Holland & Knight, 10 St James Avenue, 11th floor. The program begins with a reception from 5 to 6 pm, and then a talk by Chet Van Duzer titled An Introduction to the Wonders of Cartographic Cartouches.
February 26, 2019 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Steph Mastoris (National Museum Wales) will discuss The Welbeck Atlas of 1629 to 1640 –William Senior’s last commission from the Cavendish family. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
February 27, 2019 - Manila The Philippine Map Collectors Society general membership meeting will be at Arya Residences, BGC, Tower 2 Function Room, Terrace Level (TL) starting at 6:00 PM. Jonathan Wattis will speak about Baguio in Maps, Plans and Views c1900 - 1970 and Philip Bowring will speak about The Philippine Place in Nusanturia.
February 27, 2019 – Philadelphia The Philadelphia Map Society will meet from 5:30-7:30 PM at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St. University of Pennsylvania Prof. Dr. Amy Hillier of the Cartographic Modeling Lab will share the multi-year development of an exemplary online research tool The Ward: Race & Class in Du Bois' Seventh Ward. Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois in 1896 was hired by the University of Pennsylvania at the behest of Susan P. Wharton to study residents of the Seventh Ward where the African American population was then focused, between Spruce and South Street, from Sixth to Twenty-Third. He conducted door-to-door interviews, preparing hand-drawn maps noting economic status and identifying the small portion of criminal class, in contrast to what he felt were city founders' biases that city crime arose in the Seventh Ward. Amy's team correlated Dr. Du Bois' maps with census and other data to provide detailed profiles of residents. Please review maps and analysis in W.E.B. Du Bois' The Philadelphia Negro (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899, 1996) prior to this talk. Amy will join us for dinner nearby. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman <philamapsociety(at)gmail.com>.
February 28, 2019 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr Elizabeth Haines (Department of History, University of Bristol) will speak about Labour Recruitment, Taxation and Location: Mapping (and Failing to Map) Mobile Populations in Early Twentieth Century Southern Africa. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
February 28 – March 1, 2019 - Tempe, Arizona 2019 marks 100 years of Grand Canyon National Park and 150 years since John Wesley Powell’s famous expedition marked the first significant geo-scientific survey of the Grand Canyon. Arizona State University will sponsor The Mapping Grand Canyon Conference which explores the art, science, and practice of Grand Canyon cartography. Join this celebration and critical examination of the cartographic history of a global landscape icon. Free and open to all, the conference promises a full two-day program of map-based story-telling, transdisciplinary analysis, state-of-the-art geospatial and cartographic demonstrations, engaging hands-on activities, and open community dialogue. There is no cost to attend the Conference. However, space is limited, so be sure to register to reserve your spot!
March 4, 2019 - Stanford In honor of the “Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad,” the David Rumsey Map Center will host a pop-up exhibit of the Judah Map and talks by Richard White and Hilton Obenzinger. Created by Theodore D. Judah in 1861, this manuscript map titled: “Central Pacific Railroad Proposed Alignment Map” (aka the Judah Map) measures 2.5 feet wide by 66 feet long. The map is on loan from the California State Archives for digitization at Stanford Libraries. We will begin the event with a pop-up exhibit of the actual map and the digital companion image. The map is composed of four maps in one continuous roll titled Barmore Station to Clipper Gap, Rattlesnake Bluffs to the summit of the Sierra Nevada; from the summit to the Truckee River; and Dutch Flat to Rattlesnake Bluffs respectively. Each map includes a table of alignments and Judah's proposed route, part of which were not built on this alignment. The pop-up exhibit will be followed by talks with Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford and author of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America and followed by a talk with Hilton Oberzinger, Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford. Tentative Schedule: Doors open: 2 pm, Pop Up Exhibit: 2 pm to 3 pm, Richard White Talk: 3.15 pm, Hilton Obenzinger Talk: 4 pm, Center Closes: 4.45 pm. Please note that the exhibit of the map will be limited to the beginning of the event. The event is free but requires advance registration.
March 6, 2019 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall, will host a talk with Betsy Mason about All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey. Betsy Mason is an award-winning science journalist who writes about everything from animal behavior to particle physics. She also writes about maps and has co-written a cartography blog at Wired and National Geographic with Greg Miller for five years. Mason and Miller’s new book “All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey” (National Geographic) is a gorgeously illustrated collection of intriguing stories about maps, mapmakers, and cartography. It features more than 200 maps from all over the globe and throughout history, including the original plans for Washington D.C., 19th-century maps of neural circuits, and the elusive schematics for the Death Star. Betsy will share the stories behind several of her favorite maps in the book, including some from the David Rumsey Map Center. Doors open: 2.30 pm, Event: 3.00 - 4.00 pm. The talk is free but requires advance registration.
March 10, 2019 - Stratford, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2pm at Stratford Library, Lovell Room, 2203 Main Street. Are you intrigued by old maps, and perhaps collect them too? Are you confused and tongue-tied by jargon such as “foxing” or “neat line”, or simply not sure where to start or how to develop your collection? Come join us as Brian Tims of the Connecticut Map Society enlightens us about collecting (and, most importantly, enjoying) antique and vintage maps of all types. His presentation, Antique Map Collecting 101: Foxing, soiling, and worm holes, oh my!, will walk you through the land of collecting, including how to define your collection, where to search for and acquire maps, evaluating them, negotiating, and preserving your collection. This event is free and open to the public. Bring a friend, or two!
March 11, 2019 - Edmonton The
next meeting of the Edmonton Map Society will be at our usual
location, Claridge House, 11027 87th Avenue at 7:00 pm. Our speakers
will be:
John Horrigan will give a review of his
recent trip to London and Majorca. The Naval Museum is currently
presenting a 'Tudor and Stuart Explorers' exhibit. The Molyneux
Globes are on limited display at the Middle Temple Library and a
Palma museum has five portolan charts. In addition, he visited
several London map dealers and noticed there are a lot of sundials in
Majorca.
David Jones will introduce you to the
Brussels Map Circle, its web page and its publication "Maps in
History."
Additional information from David L. Jones
<djones(at)ualberta.ca>.
March 13-14, 2019 - Regensburg, Germany Southeast and East European History of the University of Regensburg invites you to the workshop Maps in Libraries 2019. The advancing digitization of library holdings allows easier access to resources that were previously poorly represented by the traditional catalogue. This also includes map collections: In digital environments, they are searchable beyond verbal indexing. Crucial for this is adding geographical coordinates as new values to the map metadata (via georeferencing). With the help of coordinates not only the retrieval of cartographic documents can be improved by visual geosearch systems, they can also be linked to other information – outside of the catalogue. The workshop Maps in Libraries provides a forum to discuss the results and perspectives of these developments. How is the response to new access points to map content? How are the data used - and do we even know about it? How are map documents found in a diversified landscape of portals and digital libraries? Who belongs to the target group of these new services - and is there one at all?
March 16, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The annual general meeting of the Malta Map Society will be at 10:30 am at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. An important subject for discussion is the 10th anniversary of the M M S. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
March 19, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 6:30 pm in New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman [Main] Building, 5th Ave. at 42nd St. Christina Dando will speak on Maps in Motion: American Public Map Making of the Progressive Era. Christina E. Dando is Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She received her B.A. in Geography and English from the University of North Dakota and her M.S. and Ph.D.s in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is interested in gender and geography: how landscape and environment have long been gendered, as well as how gender impacts human experience and interaction with the environment. She is a member of the American Association of Geographers and of the Society of Woman Geographers. There is no charge to attend but it is recommended that you register in advance.
March 20, 2019 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle will meet at our usual place at 5:00 pm -- The Jamestown-Yorktown room at Williamsburg Landing. Paul Mapp is a faculty member at William and Mary also involved with the Omohundro Institute which specializes in early history of North and South America. He will discuss The Elusive West. Mapp will reconstruct French, Spanish, British, and American Indian ideas about unknown regions in the West, especially the elusive Northwest Passage. He will show that a Pacific focus is crucial to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years' War. Additional information from Theodore Edwards <williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com>.
March 21, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Please join us as we celebrate the publication of Susan Schulten’s book, A History of America in 100 Maps.
March 21, 2019 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Professor Martin Brueckner (English Department and Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware, USA) will speak about The Rise of Monumental Maps in America: Aesthetics, Technology, and Material Culture. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
March 21, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Matthew Edney, Univ of Southern Maine; Osher Map Library; Director, History of Cartography Project, will speak about The History of Cartography Project: Its Past, Future, and Lasting Importance. In 1977, David Woodward and J. B. Harley conceived of The History of Cartography to encourage connoisseurs of maps, devotees of map history, and specialists dedicated to identifying and describing early maps to also consider how and why people have made and used maps - from mere documents to cultural artifacts. The effort exploded beyond their wildest expectations, expanding from a four book series to six broadly inclusive and increasingly large volumes, some with multiple books. It also fostered an unprecedented sense of community among map scholars around the world. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
March 23, 2019 – Brussels The Brussels Map Circle 2019 Map Afternoon will be held 12.00 - 16.30 at Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts /Kunstberg. As usual, the Afternoon will be organised in close cooperation with the Maps and Plans Department of the Royal Library who will show some very interesting items from their collection. On the other hand, every participant is invited to bring along a map, object, book or anything else of cartographic interest of his own to be presented and discussed by the present fellow members. Always an excellent occasion to learn more in a convival atmosphere. If you have the intention to show an item of your collection, please let it know to the organising team with an e-mail at mapaf(at)bimcc.org. You are kindly invited at 12.00 to start the afternoon with a reception and sandwich lunch plus dessert. Please register for this exclusive event via our website.
March 24, 2019 – Brussels Members of the Brussels Map Circle are kindly invited at 10.30 to visit the exhibition Pictura Loquens under the guidance of Jan De Graeve, member of the Circle and President of the Société royale des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique (SRBIB) which organized the exhibition. Although this exhibition is not exclusively focused on cartography, it presents many maps and atlasses of Ortelius, Mercator, Goos, Coignet and Verbist and should be of interest to our Members. Venue: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Rue de Bemel 23, 1150 Brussels.
March 28, 2019 - Philadelphia Join Free Library of Philadelphia's Map Collection curator Megan MacCall for an exploration of the colorful Art of Pictorial Maps! A popular trend during the 20th century, pictorial maps are creative and colorful, often imbibed with humor and historical narrative. The presentation will feature notable examples from the Map Collection with an opportunity for participants to view the maps firsthand. This free event will take place in the Skyline Room, 4th floor of the Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street. However it is requested that you register in advance.
April 2, 2019 - Philadelphia From 6:30-8:00 PM at Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, you can hear Scott Heerman, Professor at University of Miami, speak on The Slave Next Door: Mapping Haitian Slavery in Philadelphia. In the 1790s, self-liberated slaves in Haiti fought for their independence from French colonial rule. While the Haitian people ultimately won their independence, hundreds of slaveholders fled from Santo Domingo to Philadelphia during the conflict, bringing their slaves with them and perpetuating their captivity. Under the guidance of historian Scott Heerman, you’ll use historical maps and documents to rethink what it meant to be enslaved during this time and reexamine what it meant to be an abolitionist. Sign up online.
April 3, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The executive committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be at 6:00 PM at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
April 3, 2019 – Philadelphia The Philadelphia Map Society will meet from 5:30-7:30 PM at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St. Dr. Larry E. Tise, Historian, East Carolina University, will present How Maps Made America. Larry has researched both manuscript and printed maps generated by explorers, surveyors, and real estate promoters ranging from the earliest European ventures to North America to the locations of river dams and transportation systems in the twentieth century. He will share with us some of his unusual discoveries, including the origins of hand-colored engraved maps beginning in the 16th century. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman <philamapsociety(at)gmail.com>.
April 3, 2019 – Vienna The Philosophy of Technology and Media team is pleased to announce a presentation given by Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne, The Leonardo da Vinci Globe - 1504. An Aristotelian Case Study. The presentation is based on six years of research from 2012-2018 and a resultant publication with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The talk is a special adaptation of this material for the University of Vienna and its Department of Philosophy. It will take place from 15:00 to 16:30 in Hörsaal 31 of the University's main building, Universitätsring 1.
April 3-7, 2019 - Washington Join the American Association of Geographers at the AAG Annual Meeting for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. The AAG Annual Meeting is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in geography and related disciplines. All scholars, researchers, and students are welcome. The five-day conference will host more than 7,000 geographers from around the world and feature over 5,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers.
April 5-6, 2019 - Naples The 3rd Naples Map Fair will be held at the Grand Hotel Oriente, Via Armando Diaz, 44.
April 6, 2019 – New York On the heels of Brian Tims’ “Collecting 101” workshop in March, the Connecticut Map Society travels to the fabled Argosy Bookstore, one of Manhattan’s treasures. At 2 pm, we’ll gather on the 2nd floor’s Rare Maps & Prints Gallery, 116 E 59th St, (between Park & Lexington Aves) presided over by Laura Ten Eyck, who is also Antique Road Show’s map expert. Laura is a delightful host, knowledgeable, amusing, and easy-going—she’ll give a presentation and answer questions. If you are itching to buy, the inventory comprises a huge range of prices, from double digits up. But you don’t have to be a collector—or potential collector—to savor the Argosy’s map collection. And because cartophiles tend to be bibliophiles, you’ll want to leave time to visit Argosy’s new, used, and rare books. As a courtesy to Laura, we ask that you RSVP to ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com.
April 9, 2019 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room. Dr. Thomas J. Michael Buehler, owner of Boston Rare Maps, will speak on The Role of the Modern Map Dealer. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry <lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net>.
April 9, 2019 - New York Ian Fowler, Curator and Geospatial Librarian for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at the New York Public Library, speaks from 6:30 - 8:00 at The Netherland Club of New York, Warwick Hotel, 65 West 54th St.: Cartographic Visions of New Netherland & New Amsterdam: Depictions of Resources and Peoples. In this lecture Ian will take us on an exploration of the history of the shifting populations of Manhattan Island, from the Lenape, through the Dutch, and onto modern times, using maps representing the land as interpreted by these groups and also the way these groups have been represented in the cartographic record. Register here to attend.
April 9. 2019 – Providence Map Night is a one-night-only display of historic maps related to our current Archives exhibition called “Waterways: Past and Present.” It runs from 4:30pm to 7:00pm at The Rhode Island State Archives, 337 Westminster Street. The Archives has a vast collection of maps, most of which are too large to be shown in our exhibition cases. But we’ll have large, restored maps on display – some nearly 200 years old! Map Night is a unique chance for people to see first-hand how the face of Providence has changed over the years.
April 10, 2019 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle will meet at our usual 5:00 pm time and usual location at Williamsburg Landing. Our Map Circle member, Bob Spencer, will present U.S. State Borders: How They Were Determined. What were the original borders of Virginia? How were the borders changed? Why is there a Mason-Dixon line? Why does Michigan have an upper peninsula? What was unusual about the admission of Texas? What was the Republic of West Florida? Additional information from Theodore Edwards <williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com>
April 11, 2019 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall, will host a talk with Patrick Ellis about City Models: From Panstereorama to the Present. David Rumsey recently digitized an immense model of San Francisco built by the WPA. It includes every structure of the city circa 1939, carved in miniature. Historians of cartography swap stories of such models today; they are uncommon cartographic spectacles—one cast in stone, here; another printed in plastic, there. At one time, these models were common enough to warrant their own designated name: panstereoramas. Based on material that will appear in Ellis’ forthcoming book, “Aeroscopics: Media Archaeology of the Bird’s Eye View,” this talk will survey the phenomenon of the miniature, model city—from plan-relief, to panstereorama, to the present—focusing in particular on such objects in the Balloon Era. At that time, the model city, heretofore a military artifact, was repurposed as a mass media approximation of the aerial view. The intrinsic scale effects of miniaturizing a city for a cartographic purpose doubled as the visual effects of elevation: these were maps that also served as balloon rides. Doors open: 2.30 pm, Event: 3.00 - 4.00 pm. The talk is free but requires advance registration.
April 11, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 5 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Eliane Dotson, president of the Washington Map Society and owner of Old World Auctions, will speak about How to Evaluate a Map. For additional information contact Bert Johnson at mandraki(at)verizon.net.
April 13, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 2:00 pm in The World School, headquarters, 17th Floor, Boardroom, 11 East 26th St. (between Madison and Fifth Avenues). Susan Schulten will speak on How Maps Illuminate and Complicate the Past. Across five centuries, America has been defined through maps. Whether handmaidens of diplomacy, tools of statecraft, instruments of reform, or advertisements, maps document particular moments in time but also shape the course of history. Join us as we explore a diverse array of materials that both illuminate and complicate our understanding of the past. Meeting is free and open-to-the-public but please RSVP to: MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com.
April 13, 2019 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall, will host the California Map Society Northern California Spring Conference from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Speakers include Nick Kanas, Robert Augustyn, Greg Miller, Stace Maples and Hannah Binzen Wild, Leonard Rothman, and Leonard Rothman. The talks are free but require advanced registration.
April 14, 2019 - New York Susan Schulten, author of "The Geographical Imagination in America" and the newly published "History of America in 100 Maps," explores some of the maps — strange and surprising, real and imaginary — that have mattered across the country’s history, and how, like the little-known precursors to Saul Steinberg’s iconic New Yorker view of the nation, they often go beyond terrain to challenge our understanding of representation. She will speak about On the Poetic License of Maps at 11:00 am in Weill Art Gallery, 92nd Street Y (between 91st & 92nd street), 1395 Lexington Avenue. Tickets for the event, $42, may be purchased here.
April 18, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Kevin Lewis will talk about Illinois Counties.
April 18, 2019 - Dundee,
Scotland
Thomas Wise was the 19th century Dundee-born doctor
and estate owner who worked in India as a physician and surgeon, and
is famous in West Bengal for establishing the first hospital in
Chinsurah. World leading Tibetology map expert Dr Diana Lange of
Humbolt University, Germany will speak about The ‘Tibet
Collection’ of 19th Century Dundee-raised doctor Thomas Wise at
6 pm in the McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum.
April 23, 2019 - Auburn, Maine The Androscoggin Historical Society will present a program on the history of mapping and how Lewiston-Auburn fits in those trends. Matthew Edney of the Osher Map Library in Portland will talk about 19th Century Maps at 7 p.m. at the society’s Davis-Wagg Museum on the third floor of the Androscoggin County Building, 2 Turner St.
April 25, 2019 – Athus, Belgium Michel Trigalet, Head of Section at the Arlon State Archives, will speak at Library and library Hubert June, 64 Grand Rue, at 8:00 pm. He will present Tracing and Managing Political and Administrative Boundaries: Available Archives in Luxembourg (19th - 20th Century). He will present many photos of old maps and show boundary changes with both neighboring countries and within the province.
April 25, 2018 - Milwaukee The 30th Holzheimer "Maps and America" Lecture will be held at 6pm, with a reception starting at 5:30pm, in the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Third Floor, East Wing, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. Chet van Duzer will speak about Depicting and concealing unknown regions at the northern limits of North America on early maps and Lauren Beck will speak on Indigenous and European visualizations of the North West Passage. Additional information from Marcy M Bidney <bidney(at)uwm.edu>.
April 25, 2019 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall, will host an exhibition opening and a symposium of talks that explore the shared terrain of maps and art. The symposium and exhibition mark the celebration of the third anniversary of the opening of the David Rumsey Map Center. Maps and Art Exploring Shared Terrain will include wide-ranging conversations about maps, art, and the cartographic imagination. Speakers include SFMOMA Librarian David Senior; Emilie Keldie, Director of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation; Lisa Le Feuvre, Director of the Holt-Smithson Foundation; Joshua Jelly-Schapiro from the New York University Institute for Public Knowledge; and Jordan Stein from KADIST, San Francisco. The event is free but pre-registration is required.
April 27, 2019 - Richmond The 2019 Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography will be held at the Library of Virginia, 800 E Broad St. Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby will speak on Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps. He is the Director of the Canadian American Center at the University of Maine and focuses his research on historical geography and American cartography in the early 20th Century. Eliane Dotson, owner of Old World Auctions and President of the Washington Map Society will speak on Putting the "Art" back in Cartography. An exhibition of pictorial maps from the Library’s collections will also be on display throughout the day. While the lectures do not begin until 1:00 pm, there are several activities offered during the morning which include the map exhibition, map appraisals by Old World Auctions, and tours of the Conservation Lab (reservations required). A workshop on "Exploring Maps in LVA's DigiTool" will be offered at 11:00 am by the Library of Virginia’s senior map archivist, Cassandra Britt Farrell (reservations required). Box lunches are offered for advanced purchase only. Registration is required to attend the lectures. Additional information from Dawn Greggs <dawn.gregs(at)lva..virginia.gov> at 804-692-3813.
April 28, 2019 – Kortrijk, Belgium Fons Verheyde recently inventoried the 17th century maps of the Bersacques surveyor family in Rijksarchief Kortrijk, Guido Gezellestraat 1. In this lecture, Map Of South-West Flanders: Masterpieces of Surveyors the Bersacques, he tells how the beautiful figurative maps came about and how (South) West Flanders was literally mapped. Lecture from 11 am to 12 pm.There will be an exhibition of the maps from 10 am to 6 pm.
May 2, 2019 - London The Twenty-Eighth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Jeremy Brown (PhD student, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the British Library) will speak about Democratising the Grand Tour: Self-reliant Travel and the First Italian Road Atlases in the 1770s. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, Educational Trust and The International Map Collectors' Society.
May 2, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 6:30 pm in New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman [Main] Building, 5th Ave. at 42nd St. Matthew Edney will speak on The History of Cartography Project. Edney is a professor of geography and (since 2007) the Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, with responsibility for courses in map history. He is also “faculty scholar” in the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, Portland, Maine. Since 2005 he has directed the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
May 3-5, 2019 - Chicago The 5th Chicago International Map Fair will be held at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The Chicago Map Fair is sponsored by the History in Your Hands Foundation (HIYHF), a non-profit organization with a mission to provide classrooms with authentic, historical objects in an effort to help foster a more enriched learning experience. The lecture series portion of the Chicago Map Fair will be sponsored by the Chicago Map Society.
May 7, 2019 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Natasha Pairaudeau (Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge) & Marie de Rugy (Wolfson College Cambridge) will discuss Burmese cloth maps and itineraries in Cambridge University collections. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2019 - Denver
The Rocky Mountain Map Society will celebrate its annual “Map
Month” with a series of four lectures in Denver Public Library,
Conference Room B2, 10 West Fourteenth Ave., on Tuesdays from 5:30 PM
to 6:30 PM. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry
<lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net>.
May 7:
Christopher W. Lane. Images of Colorado: A century of printed
views, 1822-1922.
May 14: Wesley Brown. The
Cartographic Roots of Colorado: 1540 to 1861.
May
21: Tom Overton. The Mapping of Colorado: 1861 to WWI.
May
28: Christopher W. Lane. The first comprehensive survey of
Colorado: F.V. Hayden 1869 to 1876.
May 7, 2019 - Edmonton The next meeting of the Edmonton Map Society will be at Claridge House, 11027 87th Avenue at 7:00 pm. Our speaker will be Dan Duda, Map Librarian at Memorial University of NFLD, who will speak about Marketing the Empire: The Mazawattee Tea Atlas. This one cent, 20 page, atlas was used as an educational and marketing tool for the Mazawattee Tea Company, but arguably its message was greater than simply selling tea! Additional information from David L. Jones <djones(at)ualberta.ca>.
May 8, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be at 5:30 PM at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
May 8-10, 2019 - Thessaloniki, Greece 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 14th Conference: Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage in partnership with the AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, supported by the MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group. The Conference is kindly hosted by the AUTH Library & Information Centre and by the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki.
May 9-12, 2019 – Kalamazoo, Michigan The fifty-forth International Congress on Medieval Studies meets on the campus of Western Michigan University. As many of you know, Felicitas Schmieder and Dan Terkla have organized “Mappings” sessions at the past three years of this ICMS at Kalamazoo, and you are invited you to join them. Currently they seek paper, panel discussion, and roundtable proposals that concur with one of our accepted ICMS “Mappings” rubrics: 1) “Pictura et Scriptura on/and Medieval Maps; 2) “Skin and Ink: The Materiality of Medieval Maps and Their Codicological Analogs”; 3) “‘Build it and they [hopefully won’t] come’: Placement and Displacement on Medieval Maps” and 4) “Seeing What’s no Longer There: New Imaging Technologies and Medieval Maps.” Proposals are due by September 21, 2018. Contact Felicitas Schmieder <felicitas.schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de> or Dan Terkla <terkla(at)iwu.edu> for additional information.
Another session has been organized by Giovanna Montenegro. Papers are sought for “Re-Mapping/Re-Reading Pre-Modern Travel Narratives and Maps.” This panel seeks papers that explore ways through which pre-modern travel narratives can be read geographically; also it seeks ways to read maps that were influenced by literature, i.e. literary cartographies. In what ways are late Medieval and early Renaissance maps shaped by literature? Inversely, how are travel narratives and chronicles shaped by the cartographic tradition. Proposals are due by September 21, 2018. Additional information from Giovanna Montenegro <gmontene(at)binghamton.edu>.
May 10, 2019 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center, 557 Escondido Mall, will sponsor our annual lecture series co-sponsored by the California Map Society. It will feature Dr. Stephen Hornsby, director of the Canadian-American Center and Professor of Geography and Canadian Studies at the University of Maine. His research focuses on the historical geography of northeastern North America and the Atlantic world, and on the history of cartography. He has written and co-edited several prize-winning books, including “Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of the Atlantic Neptune” (2011), “Historical Atlas of Maine” (2015), and “Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps” (2017). Among his current research projects and the subject of his talk is the impact of the hippie counter-culture on popular cartography. This topic should appeal to those interested in the history of American cartography and who lived through and experienced the hippie movement in the Bay area. The Rumsey Center program will also feature the winner of the California Map Society/Rumsey Map Center Graduate Student Essay Competition. Doors open 2.30 pm, 3.00 pm: TBD: Student Essay Competition Winner, 4.00 pm: Professor Stephen Hornsby. The talks are free but require advanced registration.
May 16, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets in Rettinger Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a social half-hour. Michael Conzen will discuss Chicago Diagrammed: Frank Glossop and the Mapping of Business Before and After the Fire. As befits any great metropolis, Chicago lays claim to a rich history of being mapped as a city, despite its relatively short history. (We are still nearly two decades shy of the city’s bicentennial). The pantheon of Chicago’s well-known cartographers, however, lacks one figure who should be in the line-up. The name of Frank Glossop (1838-1889) does not easily roll off the tongues of Chicago’s map historians, but it should. This talk will review his life story and assess the role that his unusual mapping ultimately played in his restless search for a stable living and for respect as a Chicago booster.
May 17, 2019 - Boulder, Colorado The Earth Sciences & Map Library, 2200 Colorado Ave., University of Colorado Boulder, will host host a reception from 12:00-2:00 PM for the exhibition Protect This Land: Making Change Through Visualization which showcases a range of western maps alongside works by notable artists and student creations. Professor Melanie Yazzie and her star printmaking students, whose works are featured in the show, will offer remarks.
May 17, 2019 - Mclean, Virginia The Washington Map Society annual dinner and lecture will be at Maggiano's Little Italy, 2001 International Dr, in Tyson Galleria II. Cocktails at 6 PM and dinner at 7:00 PM. After dinner, J. C. McElveen will speak about A Romp Through 19th Century Westward Expansion: From Lewis & Clark to Custer's Last Stand. In the 73 years between the Louisiana Purchase and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the United States expanded from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and, in the West, from essentially the 32nd parallel of north latitude to the 49th parallel. This expansion encompassed the enormous Louisiana Territory, Texas, the Oregon Country and the Spanish Southwest. At the beginning of the 19th century, this land was essentially unexplored by Americans, with inhabited areas occupied by Native Americans. J. C. will examine, with laser-like precision, barely allowing you to finish your dessert, how and why this expansion occurred, and what happened to the Native American population of the West as a result. Additional information and ability to make dinner reservations can be found online.
May 18, 2019 – Zuid Holland, The Netherlands The members of the Brussels Map Circle have the opportunity to visit the large private HEK collection in the Netherlands. Hans Kok will be our guide. Hans is a long time Member of our Circle. He is also Chairman of the Executive Committee of IMCoS. The program starts at 14.00 after lunch in the village it will include 17th century atlases, maps and some associated items like octant, compass, sextant, copperplates, etc. After the visit we’ll have a friendly drink in a place, still to be decided. The venue locations addresses, contact telephone numbers, etc. will be communicated to the participants after they register for the event.
May 18, 2019 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society meets at 2pm at New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street. Panel discussion: The Art of the Illustrated Map, moderated by renowned artist/cartographer and author John Roman. If you’re a CT cartographer who creates illustrated maps, we invite you to apply for a spot on our panel (we’ll feature 4-5 cartographers)--contact us at ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com. We will also feature the works of artist/mapmakers; if you qualify, bring one piece to the event for a pop-up exhibit in the library’s lecture room.
May 20-22, 2019 - Mulhouse, France The conference, Cross-border and Intercultural Representations from Ancient History to Today, aims to reflect on and debate the cartography of transboundary and intercultural phenomena. Through an international lens, and drawing from multiple disciplines, it ought to contribute to the conceptualisation of maps independent of political borders by inviting us to think about them across three axes: time (How compatible have intercultural phenomena and cartographic enterprises been throughout history?), space (what are the possible approaches when mapping intercultural or cross-border phenomena depending on the area of study, of creation and of diffusion of maps?), and method (how/why can making maps show such phenomena?). Conference will be held at Campus Fonderie – Université de Haute-Alsace, 16 rue de la Fonderie. Additional information from Benjamin Furst <benjamin.furst(at)uha.fr>.
May 21, 2019 - Mechelen, Belgium Ferraris: The man behind the map; a talk in Dutch by Karen De Coene at Stadsarchief Mechelen, Nokerstraat 2, at 20:00. Ferraris. His name sounds familiar for many map lovers. However, the lecture is not exclusive for them, nor for the surveyor or for the geographer, who are looking for their hero in the past and are expecting a discourse on triangular geometry, map projection and printing techniques. Instead, this evening talk is about noblemen climbing up the social ladder, about an aristocrat desirous to make a fortune, about a warlord with many military victories, and above all, about a man who dearly loved his wife.
May 23, 2019 – Oxford The 26th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography runs from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG. Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm. Yossi Rapaport (Queen Mary, University of London) will speak about Before the portolan charts: lost maps of the sea in the Fatimid Book of Curiosities. Additional information from Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk), Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
May 24-25, 2019 - Duisburg-Essen, Germany The 8th Map History Colloquium offers a platform for the interdisciplinary promotion of young scientists in the field of cartographic history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The event will be supported by distinguished researchers: Ingrid Baumgärtner (Kassel), Ute Schneider (Essen) and Martina Stercken (Zurich). It will be held in University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, Senate Hall. Additional information from Nils Bennemann <nils.bennemann(at)uni.due.de>.
May 31, 2019 - Aberystwyth, Wales Carto-Cymru / The
Wales Map Symposium 2019 will be held at the National Library of
Wales. This year's theme will be Humphrey Llwyd - Inventor of
Britain – An appraisal of the work and influence of the father
of Welsh cartography.
Morning
talks from 9.30-12.30 include:
Humphrey
Llwyd and his Mapping Worlds - Keith Lilley, Professor of
Historical Geography, Queen’s University Belfast
The
whole world in his hands: Abraham Ortelius and his Theatrum orbis
terrarum - Joost Depuydt, Curator of Typographical and Technical
Collections, Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp.
Humphrey
Llwyd ac Enwau Lleoedd (Humphrey Llwyd and place names) - James
January-McCann, Place Names Officer, Royal Commission on the Ancient
and Historical Monuments of Wales
During the afternoon there will
be an opportunity to have a guided tour around the Humphrey Llwyd
exhibition with Huw Thomas, the Map Curator at the National Library
of Wales. There will be four tours 1.30, 2.30 (Welsh), 3.30 and
4.30pm. Tours last approximately 40 minutes followed by a brief talk
about the houses of Humphrey Llwyd by Richard Suggett to accompany a
display in the reading room of the Royal Commission. Only 20 people
per tour, booking essential on the day - first come, first served.
Tickets available for £10 (including morning refreshments). For
tickets phone: 01970 632 548 or visit webpage.
June 1, 2019 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society will have The Start of a Map Society Tradition from 2-4 pm. We can’t help noticing that you like to socialize. We saw that at our very first brainstorming party in 2016, and we saw it again at our two successive Show & Tell parties. So we’d like to institute a tradition: an end-of-season wine & cheese party where we chat freely/brainstorm about cartography and our map society. We welcome your thoughts, and delight in your interests! For comfort and venue variety, we’ll hold the party at a map-filled New Haven abode; to protect the owner, we won’t tell you where until you RSVP yes. To RSVP, email us at ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com.
June 6, 2019 – Oxford The 26th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography runs from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG. Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm. Charlotta Forss (Bodleian Libraries and Stockholms University) will speak about Rivers and ice: Early Modern maps of the far North. Additional information from Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk), Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
June 7, 2019 – London The International Map Collectors' Society Annual Dinner & Malcolm Young Lecture will be at the Civil Service Club, 13-15 Great Scotland Yard starting with a Champagne Reception at 6:20pm. Our speaker this year will be Mario Cams, Asst. Professor at the University of Macao/China (studied at the Royal University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium, on the "Novus Atlas Sinensis" (1655): The Story Behind Europe’s First Atlas of East Asia. The talk, at 7:00pm, will look at just how the Atlas Sinensis by Blaeu/Martini came about. Dinner at 8pm, followed by presentation of the Helen Wallis / IMCoS Award. Dress code: Jacket and tie, no jeans.
June 7, 2019 - Paris As part of the exhibition The World in Spheres, the Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, Quai François Mauriac, will have a symposium Globes et sphères, 2000 ans d’histoire on the objects that are at the heart of the exhibition: the globes and armillaries, scientific instruments and works of art marked by a centuries-old history. The history of these objects, which for more than 2000 years embodied the spherical model of the universe, can be approached in many aspects: conception and material production, terrestrial or celestial cartography, diffusion and uses, symbolic and representation in Arts. The symposium proposes to take a look at this heritage, which is often overlooked.
June 8, 2019 – London The International Map Collectors' Society Annual General Meeting will be held at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore at 10:00 AM.
June 8-9, 2019 – London The London Map Fair, the largest antique map fair in Europe, established 1980, brings together around 40 of the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers as well as hundreds of visiting dealers, collectors, curators and map aficionados from all parts of the world. Map Fair is held in Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore.
June 12, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The next committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be at 5:30 PM at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
June 13, 2019 – London The biennial Eila Campbell Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Laura Vaughan on her recent book, Mapping Society: The spatial dimensions of social cartography. Lecture is at at 18.30, in the Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, University of London. Free entry, but booking is required.. This is an hour lecture, closing with a short Q&A session. A drinks reception will follow.
June 15, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 2:00 pm in The World School, headquarters, 17th Floor, Boardroom, 11 East 26th St. (between Madison and Fifth Avenues). We will have a members-only Show and Tell, followed by an end-of-program year Social Hour at a TBD nearby bar. If you'd like to present a map, please RSVP to: kapochunas(at)gmail.com, or if you'd just like to attend, please RSVP to: MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com.
June 20, 2019 – Lake Forest, Illinois The Chicago Map Society meets at the MacLean Collection at 5:30 PM. Peter Nekola will address What Does it Mean to Map a Forest? Cartography and Geographical Knowledge in the Lake Superior Country in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Many of us have almost instinctively come to think of maps as representing locations; where things are as opposed to how they work. But mapping a forest as a simple location may tell us very little about the forest itself. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the thickly forested "Northwoods" of the Lake Superior Country provided the world with vast amounts of timber, while the rocks beneath them offered some of the world's largest deposits of iron and copper. Both endeavors relied on extensive mapping initiatives to locate and extract these resources, in the process changing the landscape drastically. It is no coincidence that these forests were also the site of several of the world's first published ecological surveys. Locating, assessing, extracting, and, eventually, managing, conserving and preserving the Northwoods demanded sophisticated reasoning, which was made possible by developing increasingly complex maps that represented not just objects but patterns, conditions, and relations. In the end such maps would allow future generations to "see the forest for the trees." This talk will offer a brief history of these maps and an explanation of how they worked. It will be accompanied by an exhibition including many of the original maps from the MacLean Collection that will appear in Professor Nekola's forthcoming book “Mapping the Northwoods: Cartography and Geographical Knowledge in the Lake Superior Country, from Industry to Conservation.”
June 22, 2019 – Wilmington The Philadelphia Map Society will meet 10 to 11:30 AM at Winterthur Museum and Gardens. Meeting in the Brown Center there, Lori Schnick, who works alongside Linda Eirhart, Director of Horticulture and Curator of Plants, will demonstrate how digital mapping is used to manage their exemplary gardens. Lunch in the Visitor Center and optional garden tour are possibilities for the afternoon. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman <philamapsociety(at)gmail.com>.
July 1-4, 2019 - Leeds The twenty-fifth International Medieval Congress meets at the University of Leeds. As many of you know, Felicitas Schmieder and Dan Terkla have organized “Mappings” sessions at the past eight years of this IMC at Leeds, and you are invited you to join them. They plan panel and roundtable discussions that concur with the IMC theme of 'Materialities.' Proposals are due by September 21, 2018. Contact Felicitas Schmieder <felicitas.schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de> or Dan Terkla <terkla(at)iwu.edu> for additional information.
July 10, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be at 5:30 PM at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
July 12, 2019 – Philadelphia The Philadelphia Map Society is invited at 11:30 AM to join in for a cocktail reception and luncheon at the Philadelphia Club (1301 Walnut Street) to honor our own Dr. Larry Tise who will be the Philadelphia Club Distinguished Speaker. Larry will share his research over many years preparing this long awaited book containing the copperplate engravings from Theodore de Bry’s famous Grand Voyages (9 volumes). Just released by Taschen, the world’s leading publisher of art books, Larry's book is now in Taschen bookstores all over the world and can also be found online from all major book services. (Please let me know if you would like to purchase a book and we may have an exclusive discount.) Please RSVP to Barbara Drebing Kauffman <philamapsociety(at)gmail.com> for the cocktail reception and luncheon by July 5. The cost is $48 per person. Since the Club has requested one check from our group, please RSVP and then bring your check to the luncheon made out to Barbara Drebing Kauffman.
July 12, 2019 - Utrecht It is a tradition that the International Cartographic Association Commission on the History of Cartography and the International Conference on the History of Cartography jointly organize a pre-ICHC event. For the 28th ICHC we have teamed up with the Map Collection of Utrecht University and will together host a workshop entitled Controlling the Waters: Seas, Lakes and Rivers on Historic Maps and Charts. Besides presentations the day will involve a keynote address by Prof. Dr. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (University of Amsterdam) and a special map exhibit. Additional information from Imre Demhardt, Chair of ICA Commission on the History of Cartography: demhardt(at)uta.edu or Marco van Egmond, Curator of Maps, Atlases and Printed Works at Utrecht University Library: m.vanegmond(at)uu.nl.
July 13, 2019 – Leiden The International Society of Curators of Early Maps (ISCEM) will be held. Details to be announced. Contact Ed Dahl at ed.dahl(at)sympatico.ca for additional information.
July 14-19, 2019 – Amsterdam The Board of Imago Mundi Ltd and the Explokart Research Group of the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam have great pleasure in announcing that the 28th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) will be held at the Koninklijk Instituut voor Tropen, Mauritskade 63. The theme of the conference will be Old Maps, New Perspectives / Studying the History of Cartography in the 21st Century. For additional information contact Prof. Dr. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze / Marleen Smit MA at Special Collections – University of Amsterdam, ICHC2019, Oude Turfmarkt 129, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands; info(at)ichc2019.amsterdam
July 15, 2019 – Tokyo In conjunction with the 29th International Cartographic Conference, the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping take pleasure in inviting you to their joint international preconference workshop: Cartography as a Cultural Encounter: How East and West have Mapped and Influenced Each Other. The workshop will be held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation located in the beautiful Tokyo bay area. For additional information please check the website or contact Mirela Altic, Vice-Chair of ICA Commission on the History of Cartography: mirela.altic(at)gmail.com or Alexander Kent, Chair ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping: alexander.kent(at)canterbury.ac.uk.
July 15-20, 2019 - Tokyo The 29th International Cartographic Conference of the International Cartographic Association will be held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation and Tokyo International Exchange Center. The theme will be Mapping everything for everyone.
July 16, 2019 - Golden, Colorado The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 6-8 PM at Colorado School of Mines, Arthur Lakes Library. Christopher J.J. Thiry has been the Map & GIS Librarian at the Arthur Lakes Library since 1995. He will speak about Historic Mining Maps in the Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines. One of the driving motivations of U.S. settlement of the Rocky Mountains was mining. Beginning in the late 1850s, valuable minerals attracted fortune seekers to Colorado. As government organizations helped settle the lawlessness of mining districts, it was necessary to accurately map who had rights to plots of land. Maps painted a picture of mining’s booms and busts, noted prospectors’ names, and showed the development of Colorado’s famous mountain towns. Some of the original maps are works of art. This talk will illustrate Colorado’s historical mining maps using the rich collection of the Arthur Lakes Library. Additional information from Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu>
July 26, 2019 – Silver Spring, Maryland Join us as NOAA opens its doors, at 1301 East-West Highway, from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, to share the latest in nautical cartography and highlight the field of charting and GIS through nautical cartography-themed posters, presentations, tours, and exhibits. Although this event is open to the public, advance registration is required.
July 31, 2019 – Oxford There will be a lunchtime talk 1:00-1:45pm in conjunction with the exhibition Talking Maps. The talk will be held in Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street. Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Libraries will speak about The Gough Map of Great Britain: can a 600-year-old map reveal any new secrets? Click here to book a free place. Additional information from Nick Millea at nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk
August 1, 2019 – Washington Chet Van Duzer will discuss his new research in an almost unknown episode in the production of manuscript nautical charts in The Use of Hand-Stamps in the Decoration of Renaissance Nautical Charts by the prolific Italian cartographer Vesconte Maggiolo and his son Jacopo in making their charts. Conference is at 3:00pm in Rosenwald Room, LJ 205, Jefferson Building, 2nd Floor, Library of Congress. The Maggiolos used their stamps to set down faint outlines of sovereigns, the tents of sovereigns in Africa and Asia, cities, land animals such as elephants and unicorns, and ships. The talk will be of not only to the history of cartography and of cartographic workshop practices but also to historians of Renaissance print culture.
August 6, 2019 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 5:30 PM in Gates Room, 5th Floor, Denver Public Library, 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. Dr. Ronald E. Grim, Curator of Maps (retired), Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library; will speak about In the Footsteps of the Crime: Tracking and Recovering Maps Stolen by Forbes Smiley. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry <lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net>.
August 14, 2019 - Manila The
forthcoming general membership meeting of the Philippine Map
Collectors Society will be at 6 pm in the function room of Arya
Residences Tower II, BGC. We will again have three very interesting
presentations during this meeting, as follows:
The Upside-Down
1554 Ramusio Map of Southeast Asia by John Silva
Nomadic
Papua by Dr. Richard Jackson
Croquis de la Isla de Mindanao
1898 by Christian Perez
Additional information from Rudolf J.
H. Lietz <gallery(at)gop.com.ph>
August 28-30, 2019 - London The three-day RGS-IBG Annual International Conference attracts over 1,800 geographers from around the world. Session 1 on 28 August includes a panel about "Historical and cartographical imaginaries." One of the speakers will be Stefaan Missinne (Austrian Society for the History of Science, Austria) who will present The Da Vinci Globe. This presentation in the commemorative year of Leonardo da Vinci brings the conference participant through a fabulous journey of maps, riddles, rebuses, iconographic symbols and enigmatic phrase. The presentation details 500 years of mystery, fine scholarship and expert forensic testing at numerous material science laboratories the world over.
September 2-7, 2019 - Bucharest The 12th Congress of South-East European Studies will examine Political, Social and Religious Dynamics in South-East Europe. One of the conference panels Between the Imperial Eye and the Local Gaze. Cartographies of SouthEast Europe, organized by Robert Born (Leipzig) and Marian Coman (Bucharest), is dedicated to the cartographic history of south-eastern Europe.
September 5-6, 2019 – Oxford The International Map Collectors' Society is planning a visit to the exhibition Talking Maps at the Bodleian Library. Nick Milleau, who is curating the exhibition with Jerry Brotton, will be showing us around. Following this we will be holding the annual Collectors’ Meeting at Wadham College. We plan to arrange a group dinner for Thursday, a visit to another map collection in Oxford and time to browse, and maybe buy, at the map shop Sanders of Oxford. Additional details will be posted on the website.
September 5, 2019 - Zurich In 1857, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher commissioned the British colonial official William Edmund Hay to prepare the largest panoramic map of Tibet from that period. The multi-part map, which is now part of the Wise Collection of the British Library, is complemented by drawings of ceremonies, rituals and ethnographic details. Dr. Diana Lange will present Mapping Tibet: Ein tibetischer Lama zeichnet Karten für Major Hay in the Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich, Pelikanstrasse 40. Lecture is from 19:00 to 20:30.
September 9-11, 2019 - Rome The Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut Für Kunstgeschichte announces a two-day workshop "Travelling maps". Cartography's Nomadic Languages Across Art, Literature, Politics and Media at Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22. The workshop aims to extend the research horizons developed in the last years around the cartographic dispositive, to deepen the methodologies of the so called “cartographic turn” and revise its categories of analysis in an interdisciplinary interplay. From many different angles, but focusing together on the cartographic forms of space production and representation, different scholars will gather in this forum to share and discuss their perspectives. Additional informaion from paulinyi(at)@biblhertz.it
September 10, 2019 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 5:30 PM in Training Room, 7th Floor, Denver Public Library, 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. Dr. Craig H. Jones, Professor of Geological Sciences at CU Boulder, will speak about How the Sierra Nevada Made Colorado. The Colorado we live in today functions as it does because of events in the Sierra Nevada. From where and how we recreate to the water that comes out of the tap, decisions and policies arose from the time of the California Gold Rush, and those decisions and policies originated in the peculiarities of the geology of the Sierra. In this talk we will trace, through a variety of maps, the changes to American law and custom that arose in the Sierra and took root in Colorado. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry <lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net>.
September 11, 2019 – Southampton The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold its Annual Workshop in Ordnance Survey Head Office. The workshop theme will be Map collection development: dispersal, disposal and digital transition. Additional information from Paula Williams; Curator | Maps, Mountaineering & Polar Collections; National Library of Scotland; 33 Salisbury Place; Edinburgh EH9 1SL; Tel: +44 (0) 131 623 4671; Email: p.williams(at)nls.uk.
September 11-12, 2019 - Southampton The 2019 British Cartographic Society and Society of Cartographers Annual Conference will be held at Great Britain's National Mapping Agency - Ordnance Survey. This enlightening two-day event attracts specialists from commercial, academic, and governmental organisations whose common interest lies in using and promoting maps as a valuable communication device. It provides both a valuable and enjoyable opportunity to learn and share information about recent projects, join focused discussion groups and network with colleagues and experts sharing the same interest.
September 11, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Naval Lodge No. 4, 330 Pennsylvania Ave SE. Dr. Ron Grim, retired director Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at Boston Public Library, will discuss In the Footsteps of the Crime. (Recovering a Map Masterpiece Stolen by E. Forbes Smiley). It deals with Ron’s successful efforts to recover a map masterpiece stolen from Boston Public Library by E. Forbes Smiley long before Ron ever got there.
September 12, 2019 – Oxford There will be a lunchtime talk 1:00-1:45pm in conjunction with the exhibition Talking Maps. The talk will be held in Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street. Jerry Brotton will discuss The Selden Map of China and Global Mapmaking. Click here to book a free place. Additional information from Nick Millea at nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 16, 2019 - Plymouth, Minnesota Drawing on information from maps in the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, Curator Dr. Marquerite Ragnow will speak about Vikings and the Early Maps of Scandinavia. She will share Scandinavia's role in the history of cartography, including the infamous Vinland Map, which just might be the earliest map of North America. Presentation will be 7-8 p.m. in Hennepin County Library - Plymouth, 15700 36th Ave. N. Registration to attend is required.
September 19-22, 2019 - Alpine, Texas The topic of the fall meeting of the Texas Map Society is Five Centuries of Mexican Maps. The meeting will be held in the Museum of the Big Bend on the Sul Ross State University campus, 400 N Harrison St.
September 19, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at 5:30 pm in Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. Andrew Johnston will discuss Mapping the Solar System.We are delighted to start our new program year with Dr. Andrew Johnston of the Adler Planetarium. As the Adler’s Vice President for Astronomy and Collections, Dr. Johnston oversees astronomy research, collections care, and history research. His presentation will take us across the cosmos for a history of astronomical observations and celestial cartography. We will explore how these challenges evolved through the twentieth century: How fifty years ago during the Apollo missions, the problem of navigating to the Moon was solved; how the paths of robotic missions to other planets were plotted; and, the ways that astronomers and engineers visualized planetary orbits and complex space trajectories.
September 21, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society meets at 2:00 pm at Avenues HQ, 17th Floor Boardroom, 11 East 26th Street (between Madison and Fifth Avenues). Bring Photo ID for entry. Chet Van Duzer will speak on Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches. The decorative frames on maps called cartouches were an important cartographic design element from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, and continue to be used on twenty-first century maps. Although cartouches are one of the most visually engaging elements on maps, and despite the fact that it is often through the decoration of the cartouche that the cartographer speaks most directly to the viewer, revealing his or her interests or prejudices, there is no detailed study of them, no discussion of their earliest history or development, and no attempt to interpret the symbolism of a large number of them together. In this talk I will discuss the early history and development of cartouches, examine someof their sources, and explain the symbolism of several remarkable cartouches in detail. Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com
September 25, 2019 – Boston The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center asks are you interested in Boston history? Like old maps of the city? This class, Boston by Map, will show you how to use historic maps to illustrate Boston’s history. It will include a brief survey of historic maps of Boston, where to find them online, and how to compare them by overlaying digital images. We’ll also take a short look at the georeferencing and map set tools on the Leventhal Map & Education Center’s digital collections. This event is free, but seats are limited. Seats will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis, starting at 5:45. Note: this event is taking place in the Community Learning Center classroom on the mezzanine of the Johnson Building in the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St. Questions? Email us: info(at)leventhalmap.org.
September 25, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The next Malta Map Society committee meeting will be at 6pm at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
September 27-29, 2019 - San Francisco The San Francisco Map Fair will take place in the Forum at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. The Map Fair is sponsored by the History in Your Hands Foundation, a non-profit organization with a mission to provide classrooms with authentic, historical objects in an effort to help foster a more enriched learning experience. The lecture series portion of the San Francisco Map Fair will be sponsored by the California Map Society. It will consist of three 40 minute lectures followed by a 10 minute Q & A period. Details online.
September 28, 2019 - Boston The Connecticut Map Society will meet at Noon in the Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street for a guided tour of the exhibit: “America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century.” This is the first of a two-part exhibit about American mapping in the 19th century. Once we’ve toured the exhibit, we could repair to the nearby Globe Bar and Cafe to discuss the exhibit over lunch. Free to members and non-members alike. RSVP required via our email address: ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com.
October 2-5, 2019 - Zurich and St. Gallen, Switzerland The XIVth International Symposium for the Study of Globes will be held by the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes in cooperation with the Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum (Swiss National Museum), the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen (library of the abbey of St Gallen) and the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Central Library – the cantonal, city and university library of Zurich). Additional information from Jan Mokre <vincenzo(at)coronelli.org>.
October 8, 2019 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 5:30 PM in Gates Room, 5th Floor, Denver Public Library, 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. Dr. Dennis Reinhartz will deliver the Annual Scholar Lecture. He will speak about Rationalization of Empire: The Cartographic Legacy of Spanish Military Engineers for the Greater Southwest. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry <lorraine.sherry(at)comcast.net>.
October 9, 2019 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle will meet in the A. P. Anderson Auditorium in Williamsburg Landing, and the time will be at 5pm. Evelyn Edson will speak about Sailing the Aegean Sea: A 15th Century Adventure. Additional information from Theodore Edwards <williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com>.
October 10-12, 2019 - Philadelphia The American Philosophical Society Library, 105 South Fifth Street, will have a conference investigating The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders. This three-day conference will be held in conjunction with the APS Museum’s exhibit, “Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic,” which traces the creation and use of maps from the mid-eighteenth century through the early republic to show the different ways in which maps produced and extended the physical, political, and ideological boundaries of the new nation while creating and reinforcing structural inequalities. Conference is free to attend and you must register via the website. Lunch will be provided. Additional information from Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at alink(at)amphilsoc.org.
October 10-12, 2019 - Stanford The David Rumsey Map Center is excited to announce the second “Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography” to be held at the Center. For this year’s meeting, all the papers will focus on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and cartography. While some scholars have examined the interplay of gender identities and mapping, particularly with regard to the role of women as buyers and sellers in the historical map market, this work remains isolated and has yet to make a significant impact on the wider field. This conference hopes to offer a counterpoint to this trend by bringing together diverse approaches and hosting interdisciplinary discussions. While all the invited speakers are experts in maps and mapping, they will also bring their specialties in queer, women’s, and gender studies to bear on the nuanced ways in which maps are conditioned by and help to construct, and transgress, gendered and sexualized norms and spaces. Paper topics include mapping masculinity in French Vietnam, women in American cartographic history, the gendered cartographic language of medieval texts, the digital mapping of homosexual spaces, and much more. For more details and to register, please click here.
October 12, 2019 – Oxford This year sees the 50th anniversary of the British Historic Towns Atlas, first published in 1969. To mark this, the Historic Towns Trust (HTT) has teamed up with Oxford University Department for Continuing Education to hold a day-school looking at Mapping the Town: 50 Years of the British Historic Towns Atlas. This programme includes lectures by Dr Peter Addyman on York and Professor Martin Biddle on Winchester. As well as the lectures, there will also be an interactive session exploring historic maps of Oxford.
October 14-16, 2019 – Strasbourg, France Symposium Faire connaître les mondes en découverte [Make the world in discovery known] is sponsored by Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire, University of Strasbourg and University of Paris VII-Diderot. The symposium addresses the process by which the worlds in discovery are brought to the knowledge of a more or less wide audience. Innovative explorations have long been the subject of media, with filters that have given some place to fiction, to fantasy and to the actors' strategies. Media have changed dramatically over time: oral narratives or writings, maps, images of all kinds and more recently photographs, films, reports, television, the Internet... Today, discovery is not limited to the terrestrial space. It spreads into the sidereal universe, but also into spaces of fiction that, through myths, art, literature and philosophical tales, have never been absent from the worlds in discovery. These newly explored or invented universes are also "worlds in discovery", which help to popularize the media and which the symposium will take into account. The conference will focus on the process of discovery in its social context, the links between discoverers and media, the mechanisms of transmission by the media, the societal effects of media coverage of discoveries. The contributions can be of various disciplines, geography, history, sociology, literature, political science, etc. Reflection is not limited to any specific period of history or place of discovery. Symposium will be held in auditorium of the BNUS and working languages are French, English, and German.
October 15, 2019 - London Professor James Welu will discuss Maps in 17th Century Dutch Paintings: A Look At and Beyond Rembrandt’s Circles. Lecture will be at 7pm at Kenwood House, Hampstead Lane, NW3. Since Rembrandt lived and worked in Amsterdam when the city led the world in map production, it is no surprise that the two large circles in his self-portrait at Kenwood have often been interpreted as a doublehemisphere world map. But was this the artist’s intention? To answer the question, this lecture explores the practice of including cartographic material in 17th century Dutch paintings, with special attention to Rembrandt’s contemporaries who popularised the tradition.
October 15-16, 2019 - Paris and Orléans An international symposium, La cartographie à grande échelle en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance : formes, acteurs, pratiques [Medieval and Early Modern Large-scale Cartography in Europe], organized on the occasion of the exhibition at the National Archives “Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes / Vues et figures de l'espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance [When artists drew maps / Views and Figures of French Space, Middle Ages and Renaissance]” has been organized by Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Université d’Orléans), Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University), and Emmanuelle Vagnon (LAMOP-CNRS). Symposium will meet 15 October in Paris, Hôtel Soubise, Musée des Archives Nationales and on 16 October in Orléans, Hôtel Dupanloup. Additional information on the website. For additional information contact Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau <juliette.dumasy(at)univ-orleans.fr>.
October 17, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at 5:30 pm in Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. Laura Dassow Walls (William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English, University of Notre Dame) will present Mapping the Impossible: Humboldt in the New World. Please join us for a special presentation at the Newberry Library to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Alexander von Humboldt’s birth. In conjunction with the Chicago Sister Cities International program, this meeting will feature a keynote presentation by Prof. Laura Dassow Walls, as well as a sneak peek of the new documentary on von Humboldt, “La mirada del explorador.”
October 17, 2019 – Kew, Richmond The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the National Archives of the UK and the Cyprus High Commission in the UK, organized a lecture An unintentional colonial gift: Herbert Horatio Kitchener and Cyprus: the antiquity of the toponymic history of Cyprus. Dr. Maria Iacovou, Professor of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus, will present important information regarding H.H. Kitchener and his work. Lecture is at the National Archives.
October 17, 2019 - London The Twenty-Ninth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr James A. Welu (Director Emeritus, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA) will speak about Vermeer’s “Mania for Maps”. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith).
October 19, 2019 - Loveland, Colorado Rocky Mountain Map Society Board member Chris Lane will be giving his talk The First Comprehensive Survey of Colorado: Ferdinand V. Hayden, 1869-1876 at the of the Oregon-California Trails Association, Colorado-Cherokee Trail Chapter meeting. Lecture is from 2:00 – 4:00 pm in the Loveland Museum, 503 North Lincoln Avenue.
October 19, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society meets at 2:00 pm at Avenues HQ, 17th Floor Boardroom, 11 East 26th Street (between Madison and Fifth Avenues). Bring Photo ID for entry. John Huth will expand upon his book: "The Lost Art of Finding Our Way." He will examine the post-smartphone world with an eye to the losses we have incurred in exchange for boundless information at our fingertips. His book is a guide to the “primitive” (and yet, incredibly sophisticated) techniques by which our forebears charted, measured, predicted, and navigated their place in space. Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com
October 22, 2019 – Oxford In the past year the Sheldon Tapestry Maps of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire dating from the late Tudor period have all been displayed in the Bodleian’s Weston Library; the final member of this set, Warwickshire, is on display just over 40 miles away in Warwick. The Weston Library is hosting a one-day symposium, From Weston House to the Weston Library: the Sheldon Tapestry Maps at the Bodleian, to celebrate these stunning cartographic masterpieces, exploring their historical context in terms of mapmaking and their place in society; marveling at conservation work; and bringing the tapestries up to date with the latest research on both their content and creation. Symposium will be in Lecture Theatre, Weston Library from 9.00am to 3.45pm. Speakers include Peter Barber, Hilary Turner, National Trust textiles conservation experts, Bodleian maps and conservation staff, and many more. Join us for a day of presentations by expert speakers, and learn of the results of the most recent research and conservation work. Tickets: £20 per person. Booking is essential.
October 22, 2019 - Oxford With reference to his own visit to Assam in 2018, Oxford local historian and author Mark Davies will outline some of the many obstacles faced by his ancestor Thomas Wood when mapping the River Brahmaputra (India’s only male river!) for the first time in the 1790s (and subsequently while surveying long sections of the Ganges and also the Irrawaddy in Burma). The frustration of the topographical, climatic, bureaucratic, military and political constraints led Wood (1765-1834), a surveyor in the British East India Company, ultimately to ‘beg to be relieved from this duty’. The challenges of making the first maps of the River Brahmaputra in Assam, India will be presented at the University Exploration Club in Earth Sciences at 7.30pm.
October 23, 2019 - Floriana, Malta The next Malta Map Society executive committee meeting will be at 5:30 pm at the Malta Historical Society headquarters at 41 Lion Street. We will discuss arrangements for the November 23 seminar to mark the 10th anniversary of the Map Society. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
October 23, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Naval Lodge No. 4, 330 Pennsylvania Ave SE. Nick Kanas will speak about Heavenly Maps. Nick Kanas, M.D., is a Professor Emeritus (Psychiatry) at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He has conducted NASA-funded research, has been an amateur astronomer for nearly 60 years, and has collected antiquarian celestial maps, books, and prints for over 35 years. He has given a number of talks on celestial cartography to amateur and professional groups, and he has written two books on the subject: "Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography," now in its 3rd edition, and "Solar System Maps: From Antiquity to the Space Age." Dr. Kanas will discuss this history of star mapping using striking images from antiquarian sources.
October 24, 2019 – Boston Join us in Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St.to celebrate the launch of a landmark volume, The Atlas of Boston History: Tracing Boston’s Development through Maps. A food and drink reception will be held at 5 pm at the Newsfeed Café , followed by a 6:30 presentation from the book’s editor, historian Nancy S. Seasholes, in Rabb Hall. The evening will conclude with a book signing by Nancy and other Atlas contributors. Attendance is free, and no RSVPs are required. We hope you will be able to join us. This event is made possible through the collaboration of The University of Chicago Press, the Boston Map Society, and the Leventhal Map & Education Center.
October 24-27, 2019 - Whitehorse, Yukon Our Trails Bring Us Together / Haa deiyí wóoshxh haa ła.ât / Łä̀chʼi tän kwäga dūjal du / Celebrating the Kohklux Maps at 150 Years is a multi-disciplinary conference which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the drawing of the Kohklux Maps by Chilkat Tlingit chief Kohklux and his people at Klukwan, Alaska for American scientist George Davidson. These are the oldest surviving maps of south-east Alaska and southern Yukon, and the oldest known maps drawn by Indigenous people in this part of the world. 11 years later, Hän river pilot Paul Kandik drew the Kandik Map for French Canadian fur trader François Mercier, documenting the region around the Yukon, Tanana, and upper Kuskokwim rivers. Using these maps as a starting point, join us to explore themes such as trade alliances, astronomy, Indigenous languages and place names, mapmaking, travel and journey experiences, and more. This conference, in the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, will offer a forum for the exchange of new research, stories, and memories between community knowledge-keepers, academics, historians, and others.
October 25, 2019 - Stanford Oliver Lewis, California Map Society Essay Competition Winner, will present his paper Maps as Mirrors and Methods of Colonialism in Hawai`i in the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University. His presentation investigates the use of maps in the colonization of Hawai`i. The transcription of the Hawaiian language paired with the European ideologies of land tenure and ownership were tools of which to name and claim land. By looking at maps of Hawai`i, Lewis was able to track both colonization tools as well as the colonization process. These maps act as colonial landmarks, showing the evolution of the written Hawaiian language, the disappearance of communal land, and the early depictions of property lines and land ownership transactions between Hawaiians and Foreigners. 4:00pm: Center opens; 4:30-5:30pm: Presentation by Oliver Lewis; 6:00pm: Center closes. The talk is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.
October 26, 2019 - Los Angeles The California Map Society is pleased to announce that our fall meeting will be held at the Westchester- Loyola Village branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, located at 7114 W Manchester Avenue.
October 26, 2019 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2 pm in The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street (between Orange and Church Streets). Chet Van Duzer wull speak about Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches. The decorative frames on maps called cartouches were an important cartographic design element from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, and continue to be used on twenty-first century maps. Although cartouches are one of the most visually engaging elements on maps, and despite the fact that it is often through the decoration of the cartouche that the cartographer speaks most directly to the viewer, revealing his or her interests or prejudices, there is no detailed study of them, no discussion of their earliest history or development, and no attempt to interpret the symbolism of a large number of them together. In this talk Van Duzer will discuss the early history and development of cartouches, examine some of their sources, and explain the symbolism of several remarkable cartouches in detail. Free; open to members and non-members. However, we’d appreciate an RSVP via our email address: ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com.
October 30, 2019 – London Laurence Worms is to deliver the Iain Stevenson Memorial Lecture 2019: Taking Mapping to the World. Lecture will be from 18.00 to 19.00 followed by a drinks reception, 19.00 to 20.00 in the Court Room, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street. Laurence Worms, a former president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, has contributed to both the Chicago University Press History of Cartography and the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, as well as compiling articles for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Oxford Companion to the Book. He is the co-author of “British Map Engravers,” the standard work on the subject, and has written and lectured widely on various aspects of the British map trade. In this lecture he will break new ground, based on fresh and current research, in looking at the map trade transporting itself across the globe. You may book on-line or contact for additional information <IESEvents(at)sas.ac.uk>, phone 020 7862 8683.
October 30, 2019 - Valletta, Malta Two lectures will be given at the prestigious Casino Maltese at 6.30pm as a tribute to Dr. Albert Ganado who will be the guest of honour. Dr. Valerio Vanesio (Archivist of the Malta Study Center, Hill Museum and Monastic Library, Minnesota) will speak about The Cabrei of the Langue of Italy Understanding Archival Description as a Resource for Cartographers and Geographers. Daniel K. Gullo (Curator of the Malta Study Center Hill Museum and Monastic Library, Minnesota) will discuss Mapping Maltese Slavery in the early 18th Century – Records from the Archives of the Confraternity of Charity.
October 31, 2019 - Amsterdam SPUI25 are hosting an event with Stefaan Missinne, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, da Vinci expert, and author of The Da Vinci Globe. Published recently by Cambridge Scholars, the book brings the reader along a fabulous journey of scholars, maps, and riddles, to present painstaking evidence that one of the world’s earliest known globes – found after a chance discovery at a London map fair in 2012 – was in fact crafted by Leonardo da Vinci. The event is free but booking is required.
November 2, 2019 – New York The New York Map Society meets at 2:00 pm at Avenues HQ, 17th Floor Boardroom, 11 East 26th Street (between Madison and Fifth Avenues). Bring Photo ID for entry. Ian Fowler (Curator and Geospatial Librarian for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at The New York Public Library) will speak on Cartographic Visions of New Netherland and New Amsterdam. Ian will take us on an exploration of the history of the shifting populations of Manhattan Island, from the Lenape, through the Dutch, and onto modern times, using maps representing the land as interpreted by these groups and also the way these groups have been represented in the cartographic record. Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com
November 2, 2019 – Richmond The Fry-Jefferson Map Society fall lecture will be held at Library of Virginia Conference Rooms, 800 E. Broad St, from 10:00–11:30 AM. Mark A. Olinger, Director, Department of Planning & Development Review, City of Richmond, will speak about Richmond City Planning: Evolution Through Maps. He will discuss the history of city planning in Richmond and how it relates to current efforts to improve the city. This talk coincides with the Library’s recent acquisition of a collection of fascinating historical planning charts and maps from the archives of City Hall. A few items from this collection will be on display during the program. Preregistration required. For more information on this program or membership to the Fry-Jefferson Map Society, contact Dawn Greggs at dawn.greggs(at)lva.virginia.gov or 804.692.3813.
November 3, 2019 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium The Brussels Map Circle invites you to a guided visit of the exhibition Missie à la carte - missionarissen en cartographie at the Mercator Museum, Zamanstraat 49. We will meet the curator at 14.30 at the reception desk of the Museum. No need to register, just show up. Entrance fee EUR 6.00, drink in the in situ café afterwards included!
November 5, 2019 - Edmonton The Edmonton Map Society will meet 7:00 P.M. in Lounge, Claridge House, 11027 87 Avenue. Our speaker will be Joseph Patrouch who will talk in general terms about the Wirth Institute's various activities relating to the histories of Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarians, and World War I, including about the recent Peel Library acquisition of a set of photograph portfolios titled "Austria-Hungary under Arms" published during the war. He will mention the Kellett Collection and last year's exhibition "Forgotten Fronts." Additional information from David L. Jones <djones(at)ualberta.ca>
November 5, 2019 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle will meet at our usual location in the Jamestown-Yorktown room in Williamsburg Landing, and the time will be at 5pm. JC McElveen will present California or Bust! : Crossing the Sierra Nevadas. Additional information from Theodore Edwards <williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com>.
November 6-8, 2019 - Brasilia The 2nd Luso-Brazilian Colloquium on Geography Theory and History is organized jointly by the Department of Geography of the University of Brasília (GEA│UnB) and the Center for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon (CEG-IGOT│ULisboa). The inaugural session will take place at the Portuguese Cultural Center in Brasilia, with the presence of the Portuguese Ambassador in Brazil. The remaining sessions will be held at University of Brasília.
November 7, 2019 - Charlottesville, Virginia Humboldt, Jefferson and the Opening of the American West is the title of an all-day symposium to be held at University of Virginia. Speakers will include Joel Kovarsky, Alan Taylor, Ricardo Padron, Sandra Rebok, and Kent Mathewson. In addition to the lectures there will be 4 two-person panels. Cartography is but one component of this symposium. This symposium aims to analyze Humboldt's impact on the launching of modern American science, starting with his visit to the United States, extending in time through the 19th century, and in space across the growing nation with the westward expansion. The key question is how his six-week exploration of a geographically limited part of the East Coast gave rise to his unprecedented influence.
November 7-9, 2019 – Chicago The 20th Kenneth
Nebenzahl Lectures in the History of Cartography will be held at the
Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. This year’s series, titled
“Redrawing the World: 1919 and the History of Cartography,”
commemorates the Centennial of the landmark Paris Peace Conference
that led to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The series is
being organized this year by Peter Nekola (Philosophy, Luther
College). He has invited eight others from around the world to
present lectures pondering the geopolitical and cartographic impact
of the treaty, which relied heavily on cartography in shaping its
vision of the world and its future.
Mirela Altic, University of
Zagreb, Drafting the State of the South Slavs: New Cartography for
a New Order
Lindsay Frederick Braun, University of Oregon,
Mapping a New Vision of Britain's African Empire, 1919-1939
Daniel
Foliard, University of Paris, Nanterre, "More than one
Palestine": Nationalist Cartographies, the Middle East and the
1919 Peace Negotiations in Paris
Jason Hansen, Furman
University, Cartographies of Victimhood: Envisioning the Nation
after the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919-1920
Tze-ki Hon, City
University of Hong Kong, From Connectivity to Geobody: the 1919
Moment and China's Role in the World
Peter Nekola, Luther
College, Science and Reasoning in the Delegation Maps of 1919:
Humans' Last and Greatest Attempt to Naturalize Borders, Nations, and
Territories
William Rankin, Yale University, Mapping,
Science, and War
Steven Seegel, University of Northern
Colorado, Skin, Lines, Borders: Geographic Expertise and the
Mapping of Eastern Europe in 1919
Penelope Sinanoglou, Wake
Forest University, Lines of Control, Lines of Contestation:
Cartography and British Imperial Politics in the Middle East
Mandates, 1919-1948
Registration is free and open to the
public, though we require advanced registration. To register or for
more information, please contact Smith Center Program Assistant
Madeline Crispell <crispellm(at)newberry.org> at
(312)-255-3575.
November 8, 2019 – Stanford The Map sessions of the Primary Source Symposium sponsored by Stanford’s Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies to be held at the Stanford Humanities Center on November 7 and 8, 2019 will be held at the David Rumsey Map Center on the morning of November 8.
November 9, 2019 - Hartford, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2 pm in the Connecticut Historical Society, 1 Elizabeth Street. We will tour the exhibition War, Maps, Mystery: Dutch Mapmaker Bernard Romans and the American Revolution. Bernard Romans came to the American colonies in 1757 during the French and Indian War surveying for the British along the Atlantic seaboard. Romans became a supporter of American independence, joined the Continental Army, and eventually settled in Wethersfield, CT. Both the British and Americans used Romans’ maps during the American Revolution. In 1780, he was captured by the British and died in 1784, mysteriously, while a prisoner. Incredibly rare maps from the CHS collection, published by Romans and his contemporaries, as well as earlier maps from the 17th and 18th century, will be displayed. Open to members and non-members alike. However, we require an RSVP via our email address: ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com. Space is limited—reserve soon.
November 9, 2019 - Paris The 18th Paris Map, Globes, Scientific Instruments Fair will be held 11h00 - 18h00 in Hôtel Ambassador, 16 Bd Haussmann. Free entry. There will be a cocktail reception at 19h00 on 8 November.
November 12, 2019 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet in Denver Public Library, Conference Center Room B2, lower level, at 5:30 PM. Dr. Henry Lovejoy will discuss Mapping Uncertainty and Unlocking Ancestry in Trans- Atlantic Migrations of the Historic Slave Trade. Dr. Lovejoy’s interdisciplinary mapping project explores the relationship between conflict, slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world. While scholars have amassed large amounts of data related to the transatlantic slave trade, a more pressing question lingers: Where did those 12.7 million people come from within pre-colonial West Africa before boarding slave ships destined for the Americas? Africa lacks reliable historical maps compared to other heavily populated regions of the world. Dr. Lovejoy’s digital mapping project seeks to visualize and calculate the probabilities of African origins of enslaved people in diaspora. Additional information from Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu>.
November 13, 2019 – Manila
The Philippine Map Collectors Society will meet at 6:00 PM in
Arya Residences, BGC, Tower 2 Function Room, Terrace Level (TL).
Presentations:
The Trip to Spain by Bunny Fabella and Jaime
González
The Map That Never Was: Alexander Dalrymple's
Chart of the Philipinas by Peter Geldart
The Indigenous
Intermediary in Dampier's and Forrest's Travel Accounts on Mindanao
by Professor Anna Testa de Ocampo
Additional information from
gallery(at)gop.com.ph
November 13, 2019 – Washington The U.S. Capitol Historical Society is pleased to announce an upcoming brown bag lecture 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM at Ketchum Hall, VFW Building; 200 Maryland Ave. NE. Don Hawkins (independent historical cartographer) will discuss A Really Close Look at the L’Enfant Manuscript Plan of Washington. Hawkins will discuss observations gleaned from viewing high resolution scans to study the version of L'Enfant's manuscript plan for Washington held at the Library of Congress. Talk is free and open to the public; pre-registration here is requested.
November 13, 2019 - Washington The program for GIS DAY 2019 / In the Shadows of Notre Dame: Geographic Information Science (GIS), Three-Dimensional Mapping and Cultural Heritage Preservation will take place at the Library of Congress from 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM, in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Room-119. The Keynote remarks, “Cultural Heritage Preservation, GIS and Congressional Policy,” will be given by Senator John Boozman of Arkansas, Co-Chair of the Congressional French Caucus, with opening remarks by the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. The fire that whipped through the great Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, in April of 2019, stunned people the world over. Like the archaeological sites in the Middle East that have recently disappeared because of terrorism and war, this iconic symbol of cultural heritage reminded us of both our shared humanity and our mortality. Today the combined technologies of digital mapping, laser imaging and computer vision, while not able to bring back what has been lost to the ravages of time and disaster can, at least, give us hope that some of what these architectural wonders meant to the world can be restored. This conference, which celebrates Geographic Information Sciences Day 2019, brings together speakers from across the technological spectrum to talk about how these technologies are employed in cultural heritage preservation and why their systematic application is so important to the maintenance our shared historical past. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Sponsored by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division & Prints and Photographs. For more info contact John Hessler <jhes(at)loc.gov>.
November 14-17, 2019 - Gainesville The 2019 Society for the History of Discoveries Annual Meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Florida. The theme is The Caribbean: A Cultural Encounter. There will be an opening reception on the Thursday evening of the 14th, followed by conference on campus on November 15-16, and tour on Sunday, the 17th to the nearby town of St. Augustine. Registration is available online.
November 14, 2019 - Waco, Texas In celebration of the release of the new book, “Mapping Texas: A Cartographic Journey, 1561-1860,” The Texas Collection at Baylor University will host an author lecture and book signing from 6 to 8 p.m. in Kayser Auditorium in the Hankamer Academic Center, 1428 S. Fifth St., on the Baylor campus. “Mapping Texas” (Baylor University Press, 2019) is the impressive result of a collective effort from John Wilson, interim dean of University Libraries; Rachel DeShong, map curator of The Texas Collection; and Sierra Wilson, print production coordinator at the University of Chicago Press, who will speak about their project.
November 16, 2019 - Swarthmore The Philadelphia Map Society will meet from10:30 to noon in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, first floor McCabe Library. We will view local manuscript maps in Quaker family collections and maps used in social movements from the Friends activism files. Free. Lunch to follow at Broad Table Tavern in the new Inn at Swarthmore. Manuscript maps never cataloged may be presented for us. Additional information from Barbara Drebing Kauffman <philamapsociety(at)gmail.com>.
November 18, 2019 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Naval Lodge No. 4, 330 Pennsylvania Ave SE. Lars Grava, JD will present Maps of the Baltic States - Caught Between Empires. Mr. Grava works for the World Bank. He will present selected antiquarian maps of the territories that are now the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, with a focus on his ancestral homeland of Latvia. The collection provides a fascinating insight into a turbulent geographical area which has been subject to the German Teutonic Knights, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Mr. Grava has over 400 maps from all these eras, from a collection begun by his father and carried on by himself.
November 19, 2019 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. Hugh Torrens (University of Keele) will speak about Geologist William Smith (1769-1839) and his struggles to both earn a living, and finance his scientific and cartographic projects to 1820. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330476. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
November 19, 2019 - Richmond Join author and historian Susan Schulten for a talk on her latest book, A History of America in 100 Maps, from 5:30 PM–6:30 PM at Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street. Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form.
November 20, 2019 – Arezzo On the occasion of the commemoration of 500 years Leonardo da Vinci and the celebrations of Leonardo “De Divina Proportione” in the territories of Arezzo, Prof. Stefaan Missinne, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Da Vinci expert has been invited to present the scientific evidence published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2018. The title of the presentation is: Il Mappamondo di Leonardo da Vinci del 1504 [The Leonardo da Vinci Globe from 1504]. It will start at 17:30 and will take place at the Accademia Petrarca, Via del Orto 28. Free entry.
November 20, 2019 – Oxford The 27th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography runs from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG. Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm. Juliette Dumasy (Université d’Orléans) will speak about The Albi map [after 1312]: an early example of the French local map tradition. Additional information from Nick Millea (nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk), Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
November 21, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at 5:30 pm in Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. The Windy City Historians will discuss The Place Native Americans Called “Chicagoua”. It’s all about “Location, Location, Location” and the word ‘Chicago’ has referred to at least three geographic locations, multiple rivers and creeks, and two portage routes, begging the question, What if our Chicago isn’t really Chicago? For more than three decades retired attorney and historian John Swenson has worked on unraveling historic confusion to reveal an entirely new interpretation of the history and French discovery of Chicago. Join us as Mr. Swenson provides a new spin on early Chicago history. We’ll hear about his deep dive into original French documents, secondary sources, and early maps to find a second “Chicagoua” portage near Frankfort as well as an ancient Indian mound in suburban Olympia Fields. This history was first captured in interviews on a Windy City Historians’ podcast; co-hosts Christopher Lynch and Patrick McBriarty will rejoin Mr. Swenson to support the telling of this potentially groundbreaking work.
November 21, 2019 – Florence On the occasion of the commemoration of 500 years Leonardo da Vinci, Prof. Stefaan Missinne, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Da Vinci expert will present the scientific evidence published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2018. The title of the presentation is: The Leonardo da Vinci Globe from 1504. This premiere for the city of Florence will introduced by Prof. Dr. Leonardo Rombai. It will start at 17:00 and will take place at the University of Florence, Room 102, Via Laura 48.
November 21, 2019 – Oxford There will be a lunchtime talk 1:00-1:45pm in conjunction with the exhibition Talking Maps. The talk will be held in Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street. Alexander Kent & John Davies will discuss Secret Soviet maps of Britain and the World. Click here to book a free place. Additional information from Nick Millea at nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 23, 2019 – Valletta The Malta Map Society will have a conference and seminar to mark the 10th anniversary of the Map Society. Titled Imago Melitae, it will be held in De Paule Hall at the Presidential Palace in San Anton Gardens and is sponsored by the President of Malta; H.E. Dr. George Vella. He is an avid collector of antique maps and a member of the Malta Map Society. There will be 7 speakers and the papers presented will be published. Additional information from David Roderick Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.
November 26, 2019 - Freiburg Prof. em. Dr. Marino Maggetti talk about Wie bedeutend war die von der Weid’sche Kantonskarte von 1668 für die schweizerische und europäische Kartografie? [How important was Von der Weid's canton map of 1668 for Swiss and European cartography?] Talk is at 7:30 pm in Franciscan Monastery, Murtengasse 8.
November 28, 2019 – Oxford The 27th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will have a field trip to visit the Bodleian Libraries where Maddy Slaven and Sallyanne Gilchrist will discuss Which way up? – mounting a map exhibition. Booking is essential. Contact Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
December 3, 2019 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 5:30 PM in Gates Room, 5th Floor, Denver Public Library, 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. Dr. Amy Newbury will talk about Creating Connections and Geospatial Intelligence for a Better World. Maxar is a commercial company which develops, owns and operates a fleet of very high-resolution Earth imaging satellites which take images 24 hours a day, in wavelengths ranging from visible to the short-wave infrared. In this talk Dr. Newbury, Chief Instrument Engineer, will give examples of how Maxar’s imagery is used for an ever-increasing set of applications, including disaster relief, disease eradication, and the basis for the maps we all carry on our smartphones. Additional information from Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu>.
December 3, 2019 - London The Brunswick Prison Camp Map Printers is the little-known story of how a clandestine press was made and run by a group of industrious men in a German prisoner of war camp (Oflag-79) in order to mass produce escape maps, towards the end of the second world war. With Mark Evans’ knowledge of his father’s experiences as a prisoner in the camp and Ken Burnley’s life in printing, together they will bring this incredible story to life and shed light on the background, context and the circumstances in how these maps – all to scale and printed in three or four colours – were produced in secret, including the technicalities of their hand-made press, making of inks and printing. Lecture is from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane Fleet Street. Tickets are required.
December 5, 2019 - London The Twenty-Ninth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Dr Mordechay Lewy (Ambassador (retired) Bonn, Germany) will speak on The apocalyptic Abyssinian: Transferring an Islamic motif to Europe and giving Horn of Africa an eschatological meaning after the fall of Acre. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith).
December 5, 2019 – Oxford There will be a lunchtime talk 1:00-1:45pm in conjunction with the exhibition Talking Maps. The talk will be held in Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street. Hilary Turner will discuss ‘To beautify his hall’: Ralph Sheldon’s tapestry maps in the Bodleian Library. Click here to book a free place. Additional information from Nick Millea at nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk
December 5, 2019 - Oxford Dr. Diana Lange (Humboldt University, Berlin) will give the Fifth Annual Aris Lecture on Tibet. She will speak about A Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Tibetan World: Reading Illustrated Mid-19th Century Maps of Tibet. In 1857 a Tibetan lama was engaged by William Edmund Hay, Assistant Commissioner in the Western Himalayas, to create what later became known as the “Wise Collection” in the British Library. The lama produced the first extant map made by an indigenous map-maker that shows the whole panorama of Tibet, accompanied by numerous drawings of places, buildings, and local customs. As a product of a collaborative project between two players of different cultural backgrounds, the maps and drawings reveal the lama’s complex and in-depth knowledge of Tibet, while at the same time providing a nuanced interpretation of Tibet by an "insider" for an "outsider". This lecture presents the results of researching these illustrated maps over a period of ten years. Lecture is 18:00 to 19:00 in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College.
December 5-6, 2019 - Rome Year 2019 marks two important anniversaries in the history of travels and explorations. It is indeed 500 years after Ferdinand Magellan’s departure for the first circumnavigation of Earth and 50 years after the first Lunar landing by Apollo 11. Taking an opportunity from the commemoration of both events, the Italian Centre for Geo-Historical Studies and the “Giuseppe Caraci” geo-cartographic Laboratory of the Humanities Department – Roma Tre University, along with the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma, is organizing an International Conference Travels and Modernity. From the Great Geographical Explorations to Extraterrestrial Worlds. The event will focus on the importance of explorations and travels in pushing forward the evolution of thought and culture in science as well as in general perception, from politics to religion, from anthropology to history of art, from pharmacopoeia to food supply. One of the presentations is by Stefaan Missinne, The Leonardo da Vinci Globe of 1504 and the Circumnavigation of Magellan.
December 6, 2019 – Middlefield, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will will have our 3rd Annual Show & Tell. We will meet at 7 pm in an elegant, beautifully restored farmhouse. Members only: RSVP required via our email address <ctmapsociety(at)gmail.com>: when you respond, we’ll provide the address. For two years, you’ve loved this event, so you’ll like the 2019 version as well. Six or seven members (paid up members only) give 10 minute talks each about a favorite map or maps of any type. We’ll provide appetizers, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages. If you’d like to give a presentation, let us know.
December 7, 2019 - Tervuren, Belgium The Brussels Map Circle Conference 2019 is planned in the Africa Museum from 10.00 - 17.00. The theme is Mapping Africa. There will be lectures by Prof. Em. Elri Liebenberg and Prof. Dr. Imre Demhardt. Following lunch there will be a presentation of a selection of maps from the collection of the Museum by Wulf Bodenstein. Please register to attend the conference.
December 9, 2019 - New York Celebrate the public release of a 3D digital model of The New York Public Library's famous Hunt-Lenox Globe—one of the first to depict the New World. Lecture is 12:00-3:00 pm in Room 216, The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue. Featuring Gregory Heyworth, director, the Lazarus Project; Josh Romphf, software developer, University of Rochester's Digital Scholarship Lab; and Chet Van Duzer, researcher in residence, John Carter Brown Library. The release of this new digital model makes the Hunt-Lenox Globe accessible as it never has been before—rotatable and zoomable in digital space—to users around the world. The model is the result of a collaboration between The New York Public Library, the Lazarus Project, and the University of Rochester, with financial support from the Kress Foundation. Members of the team responsible for creating the digital model will deliver talks and demonstrate the its capability, placing the globe within a historical and technological context. The event is free, but registration is requested.
December 10, 2019 - Stanford Was Leonardo da Vinci's World Map the First to Name America? A Quincentennial Reappraisal with Christopher Tyler will be held at David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University. This 500th anniversary year of Leonardo’s death in 1519 is an appropriate moment for a reappraisal of his largely unrecognized contribution to global cartography. An obscure page of his notebooks in the Codex Atlanticus contains a world map in a unique octant projection, validated by the inclusion of sketch of this projection on a separate page, where he explores many forms of global projection. Christopher's talk will reassess the dating of Leonardo’s unique mappamundi to suggest that it predates the famous map of Waldseemüller (1507), and may thus have been the first map in history to use the name 'America'. 3:15pm: Center Opens; 3:30-4:30pm: Talk by Christopher Tyler; 5:00pm: Center Closes. The talk is free and open to the public, but requires advance registration.
December 13-14, 2019 - London For over a century, scholars have wrestled with how to imagine, explain, and convey geographical space. The conference Lines on a Map: Crafting and Contesting Borders in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond asks participants to analyse their own assumptions about and models of early modern historical spaces by engaging with and interrogating how actors themselves described, drew, and defined geographic spaces—whether discrete urban vistas, vast colonial projects, regional chorographies, interiors unmapped (by Europeans), or ever-changing maritime and riverine waters. The conference will be held at The Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street. Addional information from Rachel Herrmann <HerrmannR(at)cardiff.ac.uk>.
December 19, 2019 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at 5:30 pm in Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. We hope that you will join us for our annual Holiday Gala, which will feature an especially full smorgasbord of holiday treats for your dining and drinking pleasure. We will continue our tradition of pairing this party with our “Members’ Night,” which allows our members to showcase a special item in their personal collections. In the past, we’ve enjoyed hearing about maps, atlases, globes, and “cartifacts”—old, new, borrowed, and blue (yes, we have seen blueprints). You will be given five to ten minutes to talk about your item, which we can display on an easel; you may also use the projector in Ruggles to make a PowerPoint presentation or display a pdf image.