Cartography - Archive 2020 Calendar of Events


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January 11, 2020 - Boston Join us from 10am – 12pm to learn about Boston’s land-making by examining historic maps. The Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., is partnering with Friends of the Boston Harborwalk. Garrett Dash Nelson, Curator of Maps and Director of Geographic Scholarship at the Leventhal Center, will give a curatorial interpretation of some of the collection’s most important maps of the harbor, and also offer an introduction to the library’s digital resources for exploring georeferenced maps. No charge, but space is limited. Please register.



January 11, 2020 – Mount Vernon, Virginia The Washington Map Society will have a field trip to Mount Vernon for a talk on Washington's Globe and viewing of maps in their vault.
10:00 AM: Library tour with a talk on Washington's globe and a visit inside the library vault to view cartographic artifacts (Cost: $10 per person)
11:15 AM: Guided tour of the Mansion (Cost: included with library tour)
12:30 PM: Buffet lunch at the Mount Vernon Inn Restaurant with fellow WMS members (Cost: $24 per person)
Please note that you are not required to attend all of the activities on the field trip, and you may simply join us for a portion of the itinerary if you prefer. Advance registration is required for this event, and space is limited to the first 40 people. Due to these space limitations, each WMS member may bring one non-WMS guest. For more details and to register, please contact Eliane Dotson at president(at)wmsdc.org.



January 14, 2020 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 5:30 PM in Gates Room, 5th Floor, Denver Public Library, 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. Jim Niehues will explain how he creates his famous ski area maps. Additional information from Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu>.



January 15, 2010 - London A seminar Digital Mapping and National Histories will be held 5:30PM - 8:00PM in The Court Room, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street. This event launches ‘English Places’: the exciting new app from the Victoria County History, which puts authoritative histories of places across England at your fingertips, whether you’re browsing at home or out and about exploring. Please join us to celebrate the launch, and for our broader discussion of digital mapping projects, place and public history. The launch will be introduced by Catherine Clarke, Professor in the History of People, Place and Community, IHR and will follow a panel session which will discuss digital mapping platforms in academic and public history contexts.



January 16, 2020 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at 5:30 pm in Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. Chuck Olsen will discuss 17 Fascinating World Map Oddities. Take a trip around the planet to discover the cultural and historical backstories behind some of the most unusual international and interstate borders on the map! Charles “Chuck” Olsen (who holds a BA in International Relations and an MBA in International Business from the University of Wisconsin - Madison) is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel with twenty-one years of service who has visited over thirty countries. He is a globe collector with a lifelong passion for cartography and cultural geography.



January 16, 2020 - 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. Jon Quixley (co-author, with RCE Quixley, of Antique Maps of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, 1966, 2018) will present How Cornwall took shape from Saxton to the Ordnance Survey, with quirks and gaffes on the way. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith).



January 18, 2020 - Milan The 8th Milan Map Fair will be held at the Hotel Michelangelo Milan, Piazza Luigi di Savoia 6, from 11:00 to 18:00.



January 22, 2020 – 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. Julian Munby (Oxford Archaeology) will discuss Where was the Field of Cloth of Gold? - a new look at Tudor mapping of the Calais Pale. 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 25, 2020 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 2 PM in Avenues HQ, 16th Floor, 11 East 26th Street (between Madison and Fifth Avenues). Bring Photo ID for entry. PJ Mode and Laura Ten Eyck will host a discussion on Donating your map collection. RSVPs to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com are requested, but not required.



January 26, 2020 – Valenciennes, France Among the cartographic treasures preserved in the defense archives at the Château de Vincennes is a very large handwritten color map (160 x 143 cm approximately). This map signed "Naudin, engineer order of the king" was drawn up at the time of the battle of Malplaquet (September 11, 1709). It is the first map which shows on a large scale (1: 28800) the heart of the county of Hainaut (Valenciennes region, Mons, Landrecies, Avesnes), a good part of which has just been conquered by France. Jean-Louis Renteux will discuss Jean-Baptiste Naudin's “very special Hainaut” map (circa 1709-1728) from 15.00 - 17.00 at Museum of Fine Arts of Valenciennes, Boulevard Watteau.



January 26, 2020 - Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle will meet at time and place to be announced for the annual winner social. Additional information from Theodore Edwards <williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com>.



January 29, 2020 - Floriana, Malta The next executive committee meeting of the Malta Map Society will be held at the Malta Historical Society’s headquarters at 41 Lion Street. The meeting will start at 5.30pm and there is a full programme for the coming year to discuss. Additional information from Rod Lyon <galleon(at)onvol.net>.


February 6, 2020 – 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. Elizabeth Baigent will discuss ‘This land is your land; this land is my land’: how maps shape our collective allegiance to territory and help us stake claims to individual ownership of it. Click here to book a free place. Additional information from Nick Millea at nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk



February 11, 2020 - Boston Boston by Map by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., offers an introduction into the history of Boston, using maps from the Boston Public Library's cartographic collections. In this class you will explore how to use Atlascope, a new tool for exploring historical urban atlases of Boston. This workshop, from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, is located in the instructional computer lab on the mezzanine level of the Johnson Building at the Central Library in Copley Square. Registration is required.



February 13, 2020 – Nicosia The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and the Association of Cypriot Archaeologists are hosting a lecture by Maria Iacovou, Professor of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus. On the occasion of the lecture, which is entitled, An unintentional colonial gift: Herbert Horatio Kitchener and the antiquity of the toponymic history of Cyprus, the Cultural Foundation will put on display a set of relevant maps from the Foundation’s Map Collection.



February 14, 2020 - Le Quesnoy, France Among the cartographic treasures preserved in the defense archives at the Château de Vincennes is a very large handwritten color map (160 x 143 cm approximately). This map signed "Naudin, engineer order of the king" was drawn up at the time of the battle of Malplaquet (September 11, 1709). It is the first map which shows on a large scale (1: 28800) the heart of the county of Hainaut (Valenciennes region, Mons, Landrecies, Avesnes), a good part of which has just been conquered by France. Jean-Louis Renteux will discuss Jean-Baptiste Naudin's “very special Hainaut” map (circa 1709-1728) from 18.30 - 20.00 at Centre Cernay, Place Leclerc.



February 18, 2020 - Brussels Colin Dupont (Maps and plans KBR) presents his book Cartographie et pouvoir au XVIe siècle: l'atlas de Jacques de Deventer. You are welcome for this presentation at 17.30 in KBR - section des Cartes et Plans, Mont des Arts 28, you only have to register.



February 18, 2020 – 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. Brian Hynek will present Mapping Mars through Time: From Fantasy to Scientific Understanding. Additional information from Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu>.



February 18, 2020 - Vienna The Society of the Friends of the Austrian Academy of Sciences will have Professor Stefaan Missinne present a lecture hosted by the Medical University of Vienna Library covering his ground-breaking work on the discovery of the Leonardo da Vinci Globe from 1504. Lecture is at 7pm in Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien, Billrothhaus, Große Bibliothek, Frankgasse 8. Registration requested by email to andrea.traxler(at)oeaw.ac.at.



February 19, 2020 - Leonia, New Jersey Billy Neumann, historian and photographer, will be presenting a program at 7pm about Robert Erskine: Mapmaker for the Revolutionary War. Erskine was mapmaker to George Washington. The program is at the Leonia United Methodist Church, 396, Broad Avenue, and is sponsored by the Englewood Historical Society and historical groups from Leonia, Fairview, Ridgefield, Fort Lee, and West New York.



February 20, 2020 – Bruges Prof. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze will discuss Jacob van Deventer, a man with a plan at 20:00h in Sint-Lodewijkscollege, Magdalenastraat 30. As usual, there is also a small exhibition with sources (maps, atlases, books, etc.) from our collection and we end the evening with a drink.



February 20, 2020 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at 5:30 pm in Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. Jim Akerman will discuss Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War.



February 20, 2020 - 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. Philip Curtis (Director, The Map House, London) will discuss When Maps Go to War: Pictorial Conflict Maps, 1900-1950. Enquiries: Tony Campbell < tony(at)tonycampbell.info > or +44 (0)20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano-Smith).



February 20, 2020 - Williamsburg Williamsburg Map Circle meets 5:00pm in Williamsburg Landing, APA Auditorium. Our member Joseph Catanzaro is a volunteer at Special Collections at the College of William and Mary’s Swem Library. He recently assisted with the research on the John Womack Wright Collection of Maps, a collection of 80 large-scale maps of regions of France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Spain drawn by French cartographers and published in the early to mid-18th Century. Joe’s presentation, The Mapping of France, the Emergence of Scientific Cartography, will explore the beginning of the widespread use of science and the most modern instrumentation as adopted by the French Royal Academy of Sciences. He will describe the effort led by the Academy to produce the first large-scale, topographic map of France. Additional information from Theodore Edwards <williamsburgmapcircle(at)gmail.com>.



February 21, 2020 - Milwaukee The Map Society of Wisconsin meets at 3:00 PM in the American Geographical Society Library, 3rd floor, East Wing, of the UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. This event is being co-sponsored by the AGS Library as part of its "Academic Adventurers" lecture series. John Janssen (UWM School of Fresehwater Sciences), Kimberly Beckmann (UWM Peck School of the Arts) and Brennan Dow (Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources) will discuss Milwaukee Harbor: Mapping Unseen Underwater Habitats and Highways. As usual, there will be light refreshments and a display of maps relating to the talk.



February 25, 2020 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, at 5.30 pm. John Davies (Independent scholar) and Alex Kent (Canterbury Christ Church University) will speak about Secret Soviet maps of Cambridge and the world. 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 25, 2020 - Washington Washington Map Society board member Harold Meinheit, from 12:00 - 1:30 PM, in Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Whittall Pavilion, 10 First Street SE will present Boundaries and Brigands: James McCarthy and the Mapping of Siam. For more information contact Harold Meinheit at meinheit(at)hotmail.com.



February 28, 2020 - Oxford Join us for an interactive exploration of the finest maps in the Bodleian's collections: Library Lates: Talking Maps. Through talks, tours, workshops and hands-on art activities, discover how maps can tell us who we are, as well as where we are. Guided by ancient maps and contemporary works, journey from the medieval Mediterranean to Stephen Walter's "Brexitland." Meet 7-9.30pm in Blackwell Hall. Alongside these drop-in events running throughout the evening, we will also have some timed talks:
Layla Curtis - Disrupting Cartography – 7.30–8pm
Stephen Walter - Brexitland, and the Breaking Down of Place - 8.30–9pm
Admission is free, but reservations are requested.



February 29, 2020 – New York The New York Map Society will meet at 2 PM in Avenues HQ, 16th Floor, 11 East 26th Street (between Madison and Fifth Avenues). Bring Photo ID for entry. Andrew Kapochunas: will present New York's Newtown Creek: Death and Resurrection -- A Chronicle in Maps and Photographs. RSVPs to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com are requested, but not required.


March 2, 2020 - Sydney The State Library of New South Wales hosts Chet Van Duzer to give a talk Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches, at 6-7 pm in Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Building. 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. In this talk Chet will discuss the early history and development of cartouches, examine some of their sources, and explain their symbolism of several remarkable cartouches in detail.



March 3, 2020 - Maldon Maldon District Council has hosted a series of five free heritage winter talks each year since 2002. The fifth and last lecture in this year's series will be at 7pm at the Friends Meeting House in Butt Lane. It will feature an in-depth discussion by special guest John Smith; Maldon on the Map: sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. This talk demonstrates how manuscript and printed maps can be used to investigate and illustrate Maldon's history and topography.



March 4, 2020 - Melbourne The Digital Studio of the University of Melbourne hosts Chet Van Duzer to give a talk Multispectral Imaging for the Study of Early Renaissance Cartography from 1pm - 2pm. In this seminar Chet Van Duzer will give an account of a recent project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to make multispectral images of a world map made by Henricus Martellus in about 1491, which is held by the Beinecke Library at Yale.



March 5, 2020 - Canberra The National Library of Australia hosts Chet Van Duzer to give a talk Dreams of a Great Southern Land: The Southern Ring Continent, from 6-7 pm. Join Chet Van Duzer, Cartographic Historian and Board member of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester, as he explores the early modern belief that there had to be a substantial landmass in the south to counterbalance the continents in the north. There is no charge to attend, but registration is requested if you wish to attend.



March 6, 2020 -Glasgow Discover maps at Kelvin Hall will be discussed from 2-3.30pm at Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street. With a collection of over two million maps, there’s everything from early manuscripts and printed maps, to the latest digital mapping. The session will include an introduction to maps collections, highlighting their map images website, with more than 200,000 maps. There will also be a demonstration on how to use their geo-references, and spy tool viewers, along with how to purchase maps. Admission is free but booking is essential.



March 7, 2020 – Richmond The Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, will hold a Map Genealogy Workshop / More Than Just a Pretty Picture: Maps and Research at the Library of Virginia from 9:30 AM–12:30 PM. Senior map archivist Cassandra Farrell will discuss the different types of maps that are helpful in genealogical research. Genealogists and those researching their family history will learn about the different symbols used and how to read a map (Who is the author? Where was it published? What is the prime meridian?). Registration is required. For more information, contact Ashley Ramey at ashley.ramey(at)lva.virginia.gov or 804.692.3001.



March 11, 2020 - Edmonton The Edmonton Map Society winter meeting will be in Lounge, Claridge House, 11027 87 Avenue at 7:00 P.M. Our topic will be Alex McPhee's Province of Alberta. How a project of personally traveling to every Alberta county sparked the desire to create the most detailed provincial reference map of all time. Included are a great many features never before printed on a single map: every Hutterite colony, every abandoned railway right-of-way, every campground, every Indian reserve surrender, forest fire burn scars to 2019. Choice details and the map's historical background will be explained, before a copy is unrolled on the table for public inspection. Additional information from David L. Jones <djones(at)ualberta.ca>.



March 14, 2020 – Hartford Regretfully, the Connecticut Map Society is cancelling our event with UConn geographer, Ken Foote, given the uncertain health climate. We will re-schedule his talk for the Fall 2020 season.



March 14-15, 2020 - Miami After much consideration and in the best interest of everyone’s health, HistoryMiami Museum has decided to cancel the 27th Annual Miami International Map Fair. Contact Hilda Masip (HMasip(at)historymiami.org), Phone 305.375.1618.



March 14, 2020 – New York With an abundance of caution, given the rapidly escalating global and domestic corona virus outbreak, The New York Map Society has decided it would be in the best health interests of planned and potential attendees at our March 14 event to cancel the event, and reschedule later.



March 19, 2020 - Chicago Unfortunately due to ongoing concerns about the coronavirus, the Chicago Map Society believes it's in the best interest of our membership and speaker to cancel the meeting at the Newberry Library.



March 19, 2020 - London We are really sorry to have to announce that the “Maps and Society” lecture at the Warburg Institute has had to be cancelled on the orders of the University. The reason is, of course, the current threat of the virus COVID-19.



March 22, 2020 - Milwaukee Due to the precautions being taken at UW-Milwaukee because of the covid-19 virus, we are unfortunately canceling the Map Society of Wisconsin scheduled event.



March 22, 2020 - Scarborough, Maine The Scarborough Public Library must postpone the lecture by Matthew Edney.



March 24, 2020 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society must cancel Dr. Peter's talk.



March 25, 2020 - Floriana, Malta Due to the coronavirus the annual general meeting of the Malta Map Society has to be canceled.



March 26-29, 2020 - Strasbourg, France The 15th Atlastage [Atlas Days], Mapping Europe in the Nineteenth Century, will be held in partnership with the Protestant Academy, Haus Villigst, Schwerte. It is the first time that the event has taken place outside Germany. There are opportunities to display, share and trade. The French location is an opportunity to explore the influence of French cartography on the mapping of nineteenth century Germany. Additional information from Jurgen Spanhorst: <pan(at)schwerte.de> or Francis Fischer <francis.fischer90(at)sfr.fr>.



March 26, 2020 – Washington In consideration of the current health risks, the Washington Map Society has canceled the meeting which was scheduled for tonight.



March 28, 2020 - Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania The Philadelphia Map Society meeting at Brandywine River Museum has been canceled.



March 31, 2020 – Stanford Due to concerns arising from the COVID-19 outbreak, the event in the David Rumsey Map Center is postponed.


April 3-4, 2020 - Naples The fourth edition of the Naples Map, Atlas & Travel Book Fair will be taking place at Grand Hotel Oriente, Via Armando Diaz, 44.



April 5, 2020 - Canterbury The Medieval Canterbury Weekend has been canceled.



April 6-10, 2020 – Denver The American Association of Geographers is facilitating a virtual annual meeting in response to restrictions on travel and gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual conference will offer more than 150 sessions and panels.



April 16, 2020 - Chicago The Newberry Library is closed and the Chicago Map Society meeting is canceled.



April 18, 2020 – New York The New York Map Society meeting is canceled.



April 21-24, 2020 - Barcelona The 8th Iberoamerican Symposium of History of Cartography has been canceled.



April 21-23, 2020 – Istanbul The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography must report the Turkish Council for Higher Education advises that meetings with international participation are postponed. Hence the 8th International Symposium on the History of Cartography: Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and Archaeologists is postponed to a later date.



April 21, 2020 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society meeting is canceled.



April 25, 2020 - Richmond The health and safety of our visitors, employees, volunteers, and community are top priorities at the Library of Virginia. The 2020 Alan M. & Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography will be canceled.



April 25, 2020 - San Francisco The California Map Society, Northern California Spring Conference will now be held virtually.
10:00-10:10 am | Welcome – President Jon Jablonski and Vice President Ron Gibbs
10:10-11:00 am | Courtney Spikes, Los Angeles, CA. Mapping Paris After Haussmann. In 1860, Emperor Napoleon III unilaterally altered the map of Paris - doubling its size and quadrupling the population. City planner Baron Haussmann, deep into his 20-year renovation project, reconfigured the map of France’s capital into the ‘city of light’ we celebrate today. Courtney earned her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA. She lectures at Loyola Marymount University and serves as a historical consultant for television and feature films. Presentation followed by Q&A.
11:00-11:45 am | Juliet Rothman, San Francisco and Fred DeJarlais, Capitola, CA. Calafia: Bringing a Professional Cartographic Journal to Life. Juliet and Fred, editor and publisher of the journal, will discuss the arduous, but rewarding path of transforming the Society’s newsletter into a publication that reflects the multifaceted interests of our members and attracts the attention of the wider cartographic world. Presentation followed by Q&A
11:45-12:15 pm | Business Meeting
Registration: No registration is required for members. Instructions for joining the virtual conference will be emailed to all members about one week in advance. Non-members should email Dr. Ron Gibbs <ron(at)californiamapsociety.org> to register and receive instructions for joining the conference.



April 30, 2020 - London We are really sorry to have to announce that the “Maps and Society” lecture at the Warburg Institute has had to be canceled on the orders of the University. The reason is, of course, the current threat of the virus COVID-19.



April 30, 2020 - Milwaukee The annual Holzheimer "Maps and America" Lecture in the American Geographical Society Library has been canceled.



April 30, 2020 – Washington The Washington Map Society scheduled meeting has been canceled.


May 5, 2020 – Cambridge The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meeting has been postponed.



May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2020 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society annual “Map Month” has been postponed, consistent with Denver Public Library’s current policy.



May 6-7, 2020 - London The George Bellas Greenough Map Bicentenary Meeting has been canceled.



May 7, 2020 - Chicago The Newberry Library is closed and the Chicago Map Society meeting is canceled.



May 7-10, 2020 - Kalamazoo, Michigan The International Congress on Medieval Studies has been canceled.



May 8, 2020 - Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center is closed but our events are being moved to an online format. Chet Van Duzer is an independent American historian of cartography specializing in medieval and Renaissance maps. He will speak about Portraying the World Anew: Chet Van Duzer on Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. Please note that this talk will be live, and held online via Zoom. The schedule is as follows: 3:00pm - Zoom opens; 3:15-4:15pm - Talk by Chet Van Duzer, followed by Q&A. This talk is free and open to the public, but requires pre-registration so we can send a Zoom link. Please register here.



May 9, 2020 – Queens, New York The New York Map Society Field Trip is canceled.



May 12-14, 2020 – Leith, Scotland The International Map Collectors' Society visit to Edinburgh's port town hs been canceled.



May 14, 2020 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society is following the lead of other map societies and offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM. Cassandra Farrell, Senior Map Archivist at Library of Virginia and WMS Board Member will speak about Vacationing in Virginia, 19th Century Style: Plan of Fauquier White Sulphur Springs with Proposed Building Lot. Earlier this year, the Library of Virginia acquired a manuscript plan of Fauquier White Sulphur Springs. Cassandra Farrell will discuss her research regarding Fauquier White Sulphur Springs and the surveyors involved in the plat's creation. This meeting was originally scheduled for 26 March 2020 so we are thrilled that Cassandra agreed to reschedule it as a Zoom meeting.



May 15, 2020 – Perth Due to the coronavirus the Scottish Maps Forum seminar has been postponed.



May 15, 2020 – Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center is closed but our events are being moved to an online format. Disease maps have become increasingly common in our world today. Disease maps shape public perception of disease — they influence the way we view specific populations and assign responsibility for disease. Lauren Killingsworth, 2017 Ristow Prize Winner for academic achievement in the history of cartography (“Mapping Public Health In Nineteenth-Century Oxford”), will speak about Mapping an Epidemic: Lauren Killingsworth on Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India. Please note that this talk will be live, and held online via Zoom. The schedule is as follows: 3:00pm - Zoom opens; 3:15-4:15pm - Talk by Lauren Killingsworth, followed by Q&A. This talk is free and open to the public, but requires pre-registration so we can send a Zoom link. Please register here.



May 15, 2020 – Tysons, Virginia The Washington Map Society annual dinner meeting has been canceled.



May 21, 2020 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society meeting is canceled.



May 22, 2020 - Aberystwyth, Wales The Wales Map Symposium 2020 has been canceled.



May 27, 2020 - Boston (Online) - The Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library will have a series of live "Curator Conversations" from 1-2 PM. Same Data, Different Stories features curator Garrett Dash Nelson and guest Maggie Owens, Principal Research Analyst and Planner for the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. Using design tools and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, Owens created maps and data visualizations; the resulting work underscores how mapmakers’ perspectives influence the products they make. The event will be streamed live on the Leventhal Center’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Please RSVP to receive a link sent to your email.


May 27, June 1, 3, 2020 – Charlottesville (Online) The history of the earliest contact between the peoples of Europe and the Indigenous cultures of the Americas produced some of the most historically important and rare pieces of cartography ever created. The Nahuatl and Mixtec cultures of Mexico made maps unlike those of Europeans, and used a complex combination of hieroglyphs, iconography, and land measurement to produce beautiful examples of cartography that are at once histories, legal documents, and ethnobotanical records. This series of three seminars will introduce participants to the materials, language, and the artists who made three of the most important of these cartographic histories to survive from the sixteenth century—the Oztoticpac Lands Map, the Codex Quetzalecatzin, and the Huexotzinco Codex—all of which are in the collections of the Library of Congress. John Hessler will discuss Searching for a Lost World: A Curator’s Look at Indigenous Mapping in the Early Americas (1500–1575) in a 3 part Zoom Webinar Series, 7–7:45pm, EST. Each session will consist of a 30-minute lecture followed by15 minutes for Q&A. Everyone is welcome to attend: to register, click here. Your registration will be automatically accepted. You will receive an email reminder the day before each session in the series. The day of the series, we will send you the Zoom URL and password. Please direct any questions to Rare Book School Programs at rbsprograms@virginia.edu.



May 28, 2020 – Hartford The Connecticut Map Society field trip is canceled.



May 28, 2020 – Oxford The 27th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography meeting scheduled for today has been canceled.



May 29-30, 2020 - Houston The Texas Map Society 2020 Spring Meeting has been canceled.



June 3, 2020 - Boston (Online) - The Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library will have a series of live "Curator Conversations" from 1-2 PM. Twisted Data: Gerrymandering, GIS, and Visual Information features Curator Garrett Dash Nelson talking with Alasdair Rae, Professorial Fellow in Urban Studies and Planning at The University of Sheffield (UK), who created a chart of gerrymandered congressional districts. The event will be streamed live on the Leventhal Center’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Please RSVP to receive a link sent to your email.



June 4-5, 2020- Lisbon Following careful consideration of the rapidly changing coronavirus pandemic, we’ve decided to postpone the international workshop On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart for Spring 2021 (March/April).



June 4-7, 2020 - London The RAI/RGS conference “Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past Present and Future” is canceled.



June 4, 2020 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. The Zoom link will be sent to you the day before the meeting. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM eastern time. Andrew Rhodes, winner of the 2019 Dr. Walter W. Ristow Prize, will present his Ristow Prize essay, The Geographic President: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Used Maps to Make and Communicate Strategy. (See the cover story in "The Portolan" issue 107 (Spring 2020)). He will summarize the key points of his paper, illustrated with historical maps and photographs, and discuss some of the other cartographic history of the FDR administration. Andrew will also discuss how the FDR example relates to other research, including his recent article in Texas National Security Review, "Thinking in Space: The Role of Geography in National Security Decision-Making."



June 5, 2020 – London The International Map Collectors' Society 40th Anniversary Dinner has been canceled.



June 5, 2020 – Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center is closed but our events are being moved to an online format. Peter Hiller, the Jo Mora Trust Collection Curator, has been enamored with the art of Joseph Jacinto "Jo" Mora (1876-1947) since he came upon Mora’s cartes (maps) in the mid 1990's - to the extent of having recently written an extensive biography about Jo published in October 2019 by the Book Club of California. Peter Hiller on Jo Mora: Pictorial Maps and Beyond will be presented today. Please note that this talk will be live, and held online via Zoom. The schedule is as follows: 3:00pm - Zoom opens; 3:15-4:15pm - Talk by Peter Hiller, followed by Q&A. This talk is free and open to the public, but requires pre-registration so we can send a Zoom link. Please register here.



June 6-7, 2020 - London The London Map Fair has been canceled.



June 7, 2020 – Hartford The Connecticut Map Society meeting is canceled.



June 10, 2020 - Boston (Online) - The Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library will have a series of live "Curator Conversations" from 1-2 PM. Persuasive Cartography features Curator Garrett Dash Nelson who welcomes guest Judith Tyner, Professor Emerita of Geography at California State University, Long Beach. Tyner coined the term that gives this segment its title; she will discuss how maps are used to influence opinions and beliefs. The event will be streamed live on the Leventhal Center’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Please RSVP to receive a link sent to your email.



June 12-13, 2020 - São Paulo, Brazil (Online) The Trustees of the International Society for the History of the Map invite you to the ISHMap biennial symposium to be held virtually with keynote speaker Dr. Jaguaribe. Program schedule; with time in New York, São Paulo, London, Tokyo, San Francisco, Mexico City, Paris, and Berlin; is on-line. To register to attend the conference click here. Deadline for attendee registration (guaranteed link to online meeting): June 4, 2020. Additional information from Dr. Carla Lois at ishmap.secretary(at)gmail.com.



June 13, 2020 – New York The New York Map Society meeting is canceled.



June 17, 2020 - Boston (Online) - The Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library will have a series of live "Curator Conversations" from 1-2 PM. What You See Is What You Get - Or Is It? features Curator Garrett Dash Nelson who leads a lively discussion with map collector and researcher PJ Mode, whose love for old and unusual maps of the world led to a fascination with unconventional maps whose purpose is not fact-based, but more persuasive. The event will be streamed live on the Leventhal Center’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Please RSVP to receive a link sent to your email.



June 18, 2020 – Lake Forest, Illinois The Chicago Map Society field trip to the MacLean Collection has been canceled.


July 1, 2020 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM eastern time. Join Kris Butler as she talks about Late 19th Century Drink Maps of the UK: A Virtual Journey and Beer Tasting. We will go on a virtual road trip across the UK in search of drink maps and historic beer styles. These lovely maps, created by temperance groups, were meant to shock people by showing in a flash the abundance of places to obtain alcohol in their towns. All of the maps have text on them encouraging people to take action- usually by pressuring local magistrates to stop renewing the annually granted liquor licenses. And they’re beautiful! In addition to seeing the maps and learning about a few historic beer styles, you’ll hear tales of unexpected adventures in tiny archives and grand libraries alike – including lost maps, missing librarians, hidden text, and surprise encounters. After you register, you’ll receive the zoom link, password, and a beer list so you can taste along during class. Three historic beer styles will be discussed, but the beers you purchase don’t have to be exact.



July 6-9, 2020 – Leeds It is with great sadness that we have decided to cancel this year’s 7th International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, as a result of the outbreak of coronavirus



July 9-10, 2020 - Columbia (Online) The virtual seminar (in Spanish) Historical and cartographic narratives of the Amazon River: from the 18th century to the present day will be free. Various cartographies of the Amazonian riparian space will be discussed, as well as the discourses, social, and environmental tensions by means of which the Amazonian rivers have been understood, represented and territorialized. The seminar is organized by the Amazonian cultural center of the Colombian National Bank (Banco de la Republica) in collaboration with the GET and IMANI research groups from the National University of Colombia, and the Razón Cartográfica network. Register online.



July 16-17, 2020 - London A two-day interdisciplinary conference Mapping Space | Mapping Time | Mapping Texts has been canceled.



July 30, 2020 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM eastern time. Garrett Dash Nelson, Curator of Maps and Director of Geographic Education at the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library will be speaking about Leventhal Map and Education Center’s new exhibition Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception. Virtual exhibition can be viewed online.


August 19, 2020 – Richmond (Online) Join the Library of Virginia for the 17th Annual Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography which is hosted by the Fry-Jefferson Map Society. The lectures are presented as a series of virtual events on August 19, 2020, September 23, 2020, and October 22, 2020. Explorations of the Albemarle Sound region and the first English settlements of the Roanoke Islands in the 1580s are the topic of the free virtual events. Join us for one, or all three. Participants will receive an email closer to the event date from “Education and Outreach” with a link to join the virtual event through GoToWebinar. Each event is free and begins at 7:00 PM.
Larry Tise will discuss The First American Coloring Books: Theodore de Bry's Grand Voyages, 1590–1602. Registration is required. For more information contact Dawn Greggs <dawn.greggs(at)lva.virginia.gov> at 804.692.3813.



August 27, 2020 - Columbia (Online) Neil Safier (John Carter Brown Library) will address the virtual seminar Amazonia Cartográfica: tierras calientes, paraísos ignotos, y discursos geográficos from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. UTC-05 (5:00 to 7:00 p.m. EDT). The transmission of the seminar will be made through Facebook live and You Tube. The seminar is organized by Grupo de Estudios Transfronterizos and Razón Cartográfica.



August 27, 2020 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM eastern time. Libby Bischof, Executive Director of the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, will be discussing her recent exhibition, Mapping the Classroom: Teaching Geography and History in the 19th and 20th Century New England. Libby Bischof, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education and Professor of History at the University of Southern Maine. A visual historian, Bischof curated Mapping the Classroom for the OML in 2019. A digital version of the gallery exhibit is available online.


September 6-9, 2020 - Sydney Sadly the International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium at the State Library of New South Wales has also fallen to the Covid-19 shutdown, and is now postponed to August 2021.



September 8, 2020 - Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society invites you to a Zoom-hosted Favorite Maps event at 5:30 PM MT! Members will share a favorite map in a 10 minute “lightning talk” or listen and learn from others. R.S.V.P. to Naomi Heiser, Program Director <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> to receive a Zoom invitation to join the meeting. Anyone is welcome to join, whether presenting or not!



September 8, 2020 – Vienna The annual ordinary meeting of the General Assembly of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes will take place at 5:00 p.m. at Austrian National Library, Reading Room of the Map Department, Josefsplatz 1.



September 10-12, 2020 - Basel The 20. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium has been postponed until next year.



September 10, 2020 – Canberra (Online) Despite recent headwinds the Australian and New Zealand Map Society in cooperation with the National Library of Australia and The Hakluyt Society, is holding a one day online symposium by the National Library of Australia with the theme Mapping Pacific Places. Registration required. This will be a free online event open to all.



September 10, 2020 – Washington (Online) The Washington Map Society, in conjunction with the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division and the Johns Hopkins University, is offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM eastern time. John Hessler (Specialist in Computational Geography and Geographic Information Science at the Library of Congress and Professor of Evolutionary Computation in the Graduate School of Advanced Studies at the Johns Hopkins University) will discuss Mapping Covid-19 from Phylodynamics to Contact Tracing. Hessler will provide an introduction to the computational techniques and the algorithmic methods that cartographers and epidemiologists are using to map the spread and origins of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 virus). He will look at methodologies for mapping the virus' nucleotide and amino acid mutations and examine how the virus spread to the United States, looking closely at the massive amounts of complex geospatial data generated by GISAID (originally known as Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data).



September 11, 2020 - Bern There will be an introduction and tour of the exhibition Die Schöpfkarte in the event hall 1st basement, Bibliothek Münstergasse, Münstergasse 61. The 500th birthday of Thomas Schöpf (1520–1577) is the time to appreciate his 1.3x1.9 meter map of Bern. 5:30 p.m. Welcome; Introduction by Michael Schläfli, head of the map collection, and Martin Kohler, map collection employee, followed by an exhibition tour. 6:30 p.m. free exhibition tour; 7:00 p.m. End of the event.



September 11-12, 2020 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts two day conference Mapping and Migration has been rescheduled for September 17-18, 2021.



September 12, 2020 - Portland, Maine (Online) Please join us for the opening reception and lecture of our Maine Bicentennial exhibit: Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677-1842, curated by Osher Map Library Faculty Scholar, Dr. Matthew Edney. The virtual lecture will be held from 3:00pm – 4:30pm. Free registration is available online.



September 17, 2020 - Chicago (Online) In our first virtually hosted meeting of the Fall 2020 program year, Chicago Map Society member Dan Vohasek will be sharing the story behind one of the city’s most iconic pictorial maps; Walter Conley and O.E. Steltzer’s, A Map of Chicago Incorporated as a Town August 5 1833. What started as Dan’s first map purchase ended up taking him down a rabbit hole from which he has never emerged, and we are excited to have him share what he has discovered thus far. Meeting will start at 6:00PM CT. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for Zoom Meeting registration information.



September 21-25, 2020 – Vienna (Online) The Central European Cartographic Conference, EuroCarto 2020 will take place as a virtual event. Attendance will be free for all registered participants. Already paid registrations will be refunded. Please register online. Registration is limited to 400 people. Please register early.



September 22, 2020 – Washington and Denver (Online) The Washington Map Society and the Rocky Mountain Map Society are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time. Derek van Westrum will discuss A Mile High Above What Exactly? Denver is the "Mile High City," and Colorado is famous for its collection of "14ers". But how exactly are such "heights above sea level" determined at locations so far from the sea? And what if Derek told you that in the next couple of years, the US is actually set to replace mean sea level with an entirely new basis for its height system? He will describe how the new system will work, why you're gonna love it, and what it might mean for some of those, um, lower 14ers. [It's a general audience talk that explains datums, the new datum, and has some fun with what *might* happen to Sunshine Peak]. Derek van Westrum received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Colorado and spent the next 15 years making instruments that measure changes in Earth's gravity. Since 2014, he has managed NOAA's gravity lab at the Table Mountain facility, north of Boulder - somehow finding the one division at NOAA that doesn't actually work directly with the Ocean or the Atmosphere.



September 23, 2020 – Richmond (Online) Join the Library of Virginia for the 17th Annual Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography which is hosted by the Fry-Jefferson Map Society. The lectures are presented as a series of virtual events on August 19, 2020, September 23, 2020, and October 22, 2020. Explorations of the Albemarle Sound region and the first English settlements of the Roanoke Islands in the 1580s are the topic of the free virtual events. Join us for one, or all three. Participants will receive an email closer to the event date from “Education and Outreach” with a link to join the virtual event through GoToWebinar. Each event is free and begins at 7:00 PM.
Andrew Lawler (journalist) will present Uncharted Territory: How Maps Launched—And Nearly Sank—English Colonization of the New World. Registration is required. For more information contact Dawn Greggs <dawn.greggs(at)lva.virginia.gov> at 804.692.3813.



September 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, 2020 - Singapore (Online) Yale-National University of Singapore has arranged an exciting series of online presentations under the title “Unlocking Historical Maps of Southeast Asia.” Each panel addresses key themes facing map historians today: circulations, histories, collections, publics, unlocking. The panels are from 7pm-9pm Singapore time (7am-9am Eastern time). Registration online.
23 September - What are the fields of production, reproduction and use in which historical maps circulate?
30 September - How do scholars use historical maps in the crafting of their spatial histories?
7 October - What cartographic collections are relevant to historical research on Southeast Asia?
14 October - How have historical maps be made more accessible to interested publics?
21 October - What technical tools unlock the content of maps and enhance interoperability?



September 25-27, 2020 - San Francisco The San Francisco Map & Print Fair has been canceled.



September 25, 2020 - Stanford (Online) - Join us for the online live opening of Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination, the newest virtual exhibition from the David Rumsey Map Center. It includes charts, maps, and other graphic representations that helped expand our collective sense of reality. Guest curator RJ Andrews will tour the exhibition's themes of nature, time, and society. The opening will take place on Zoom, and follows the schedule 2:45pm PDT - Zoom opens; 3:00pm PDT - Talk by RJ Andrews, followed by Q&A. Register by clicking here. As part of the opening celebration, we have created an exclusive keepsake for the first 300 who register and attend the opening. To receive the keepsake, please enter your mailing address when registering.



September 26, 2020 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will meet virtually on Zoom at 2 PM. Eric Sanderson, author of "The Mannahatta Project" and "Terra Nova," will present an update on his Welikia Project. Welikia means 'my good home' in Lenape, the original Native American language of the NYC region. Registration is required.


October 1-3, 2020 - Arlington, Texas The second regional symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, the 12th Virginia Garrett Lectures, and the Fall meeting of the Texas Map Society at the University of Texas Arlington has been postponed until September 30-October 3, 2021.



October 6, 2020 - Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society Annual Scholar's Lecture will be on Zoom at 5:30 PM MT by Peter H. Wood. Peter is an emeritus professor of early American history from Duke University, best known for his pioneering work on African enslavement in colonial South Carolina. Ever since publishing an article on La Salle in the American Historical Review (April 1984), he has been interested in the extensive and muddled history of early French exploration in the America West. He will discuss Which Rivers Go Where?: French Efforts to Understand and Map the American West, 1670-1700. Registration required: Please email <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.



October 7-9, 2020 - Seville The International Committee for the History of Nautical Science has rescheduled the conference on Magellan, Elcano and the circumnavigations to March 1-5, 2021.



October 14, 2020 - Washington (Online) The Washington Rare Book Group will have a virtual presentation from 12:00 to 1:00 PM Eastern Time. Chet Van Duzer will speak about Colored as its Creators Intended: Hand-Painted Maps in the 1513 Edition of Ptolemy’s Geography. Chet will begin by examining the “workshop coloring scheme” in the 1482 and 1486 editions of Ptolemy’s Geography—the coloring scheme offered by the books’ producers. He then introduces the 1513 edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, whose maps were made by Martin Waldseemüller, and presents the results of his census of all of the extant hand-colored exemplars of the book to identify the coloring scheme intended by the creators of that edition. His research results shed light not only on Waldseemüller’s workshop practices and early modern hand-coloring techniques, but on the cartographic and aesthetic philosophy behind the coloring of these maps. Attendees must RSVP by Tuesday October 13th so that they can receive an email with login instructions prior to the event. The Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants 24-48 hours in advance of the program.



October 15, 2020 – Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will be have a virtual Zoom meeting at 6:00PM CT. E.J. Neafsey will discuss The Voyages of Marquette and Jolliet in 1673-1675 as Described in the Jesuit Relations. In 1673 Jolliet and Marquette and five other men made their famous journey to the Mississippi, leaving from St. Ignace. The story of these events will be told in the words of the “Jesuit Relations,” annual reports sent back to Paris by the Jesuit missionaries in New France at that time. Contact Curtis Wright at curtis.personett(at)gmail.com for Zoom login instructions.



October 16-17, 2020 - Venice The Brussels Map Circle and the Italian old map collectors association Roberto Almagià regret that the Joint Cartography Conference has to be canceled because of the Covid-19 situation.



October 20, 2020 – Washington and Denver (Online) The Washington Map Society and the Rocky Mountain Map Society are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time. Chris Lane will be speaking about Prejudice and the Shaping of the American West. This lecture will examine how nineteenth century maps reflected and effected prejudice’s role in the shaping of the American West.



October 21-22, 2020 - Barcelona (Online) The 8º Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía, organized by the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, will be held virtually. The official languages of the symposium are Spanish and Portuguese, and the focus will be The map as an element of cultural connection between America and Europe. Register online.



October 21, 2020 - Portland, Maine (Online) The Osher Map Library invites you to join us 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT for the first annual DiMatteo lecture and the first event in our Fall Lecture Series, Visualizing the Holocaust, presented by Dr. Anne Knowles, McBride Professor of History, University of Maine, and Co-Founder of the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative. The Holocaust was an intensely geographical event that affected people and places across Europe and beyond. This lecture will present dynamic, creative maps and other visualizations from the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, whose interdisciplinary work has helped inspire the "spatial turn" in Holocaust Studies. Registration online.



October 21-25, 2020 – San Francisco (Online) Due to COVID-19 the traditional in-person San Francisco Map & Print Fair at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has been canceled until 2021. However, with the advancement and widespread adoption of video conference technology, we are happy to bring the San Francisco Map & Print Fair to you virtually. Through the virtual platform by Collectible Events, virtual attendees will be able to browse and purchase hundreds of maps and prints from the comfort and safety of their home or office starting at 10:00 AM Eastern time. Additionally, there will be lectures offered by the California Map Society.



October 22, 2020 – London (Online) The Thirtieth 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 normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. PJ Mode (Collector and Researcher, Curator of the Persuasive Maps Collection, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, USA) will talk about Persuasive Cartography: Art, Science and Deception. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>



October 22, 2020 – Richmond (Online) Join the Library of Virginia for the 17th Annual Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography which is hosted by the Fry-Jefferson Map Society. The lectures are presented as a series of virtual events on August 19, 2020, September 23, 2020, and October 22, 2020. Explorations of the Albemarle Sound region and the first English settlements of the Roanoke Islands in the 1580s are the topic of the free virtual events. Join us for one, or all three. Participants will receive an email closer to the event date from “Education and Outreach” with a link to join the virtual event through GoToWebinar. Each event is free and begins at 7:00 PM.
Cassandra Britt Farrell (Library of Virginia senior map archivist) will discuss 17th-Century Maps of Virginia, Maryland, & the Southeast, 1590–1720. Registration is required. For more information contact Dawn Greggs <dawn.greggs(at)lva.virginia.gov> at 804.692.3813.



October 23, 2020 – Brussels The next seminar at Research Center on Ancient, Medieval & Early Modern Culture featuring speaker Luis Robles has been canceled because of Covid restrictions.



October 23, 2020 - Stanford (Online) The California Map Society, in partnership with the David Rumsey Map Center, sponsors a student essay competition each year. The essay winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000. The winner for the 2019-20 competition is Arman Kassam. We are delighted that he will be speaking on his winning essay Mappaemundi as Self-Portrait: Deference and Dissidence in the Worlds of Guaman Poma and Urbano Monte at 2:45-4:15 pm. In this online talk, Arman plans on discussing the fascinating intersections between two different amateur cartographers on separate ends of the early 16th-century Spanish Empire. The stories of Urbano Monte, a Milanese nobleman engaged in a personal project concerning universal knowledge, and Guaman Poma, a Quechua nobleman who subversively asserted his right to territory in the Nueva Corónica, intertwine in unexpected ways. Register for this Zoom meeting.



October 24, 2020 – Los Angeles (Online) The California Map Society southern California Fall Conference will be virtual. To attend please click here to register. Your confirmation email will provide the Zoom link.
10:30-10:45 am | Welcome – President Ron Gibbs, immediate past President Jon Jablonski and Vice President Courtney Spikes
10:45-11:30 am | Nick Kanas,
Celestial Maps in Art. Presentation followed by Q&A.
11:30-12:15 am | Ryan Mattke,
Mapping Prejudice: Cartographic Activism and Primary Sources, 1930s-1950s. Presentation followed by Q&A.
12:15-12:30 pm | Break
12:30-1:15 pm | Courtney Scarborough,
California Kelp Groves: 1912 and now. Presentation followed by Q&A.
1:15-1:30 pm | Closing – President Ron Gibbs and immediate past President Jon Jablonski



October 29, 2020 – Williamsburg (Online) The Williamsburg Map Circle is pleased to announce that Dr. Ronald Grim’s postponed April 2020 lecture has been rescheduled as a Zoom meeting. Please join us at 5:30 pm for America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century. Please email Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> to let us know if you would like to join us for the webinar. We will send you further information including log in instructions as it becomes available.



October 30, 2020 - Providence, Rhode Island (Online) To launch the John Carter Brown Library's exploration of early American astronomy, join guest curators Thomás Haddad (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Nydia Pineda (University of California, San Diego) as they present a guided tour of their new online exhibition Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas with Professor Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Director & Librarian Neil Safier will moderate the conversation and the question-and-answer period to follow. Lecture starts at 3:00pm. Please, register in advance for this event at https://brown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lc--opzgsGdcJDV9QoV08GhVSuIH1Mqg_



October 31, 2020 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will meet virtually, via Zoom, at 2 PM. Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com if you need Zoom link. Lars Grava will speak on: At the Edge of Empires - Maps of the Baltic States. Lars, in a reprise of his Fall 2019 presentation to the Washington Map Society, will discuss how maps have more than two dimensions, as they also illuminate political, societal, cultural, and economic features of the geographies they depict.



November 3, 2020 – January 26, 2021: Tuesdays – Hamburg (Online) When we enter a map shop today, we would hardly find any map without colours. Colours and maps seem to have a strong relationship. Modern technical possibilities of designing and printing maps make it easy to create coloured maps. But our today’s standard is the result of a centuries-long development of the practise of map production. Colours on printed (and hand-drawn) maps have been an additional element over a long period of time and were not a ‘natural part’ of the map like today. In this sense, the colouring of maps provides insights into the production, use and interpretation of maps by their producers and users since the beginning of this process. Therefore, a multi-facetted approach is essential for a better understanding of hand-coloured maps. With a cross-cultural historical approach, and a wide range of international speakers from different disciplines we will address and discuss the material nature and meaning of colours on maps from their individual research perspectives. The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg, has a virtual lecture series: Maps and Colours. Lecture is via Zoom and is from 16.15 - 17.45. Zoom link to be announced. Additional information from Diana Lange <diana.lange(at)hu-berlin.de>, Benjamin van der Linde <Benjamin.vanderLinde(at)hk24.de>, or Peter Zietlow <peter.zietlow(at)uni-hamburg.de>.
03 November: Dr Diana Lange (Hamburg), Dr Benjamin van der Linde (Hamburg) - Understanding hand-coloured maps-or why maps and colours should not be studied separately
10 November: Kam Wing Fung (Hongkong) - Colours in East Asian Celestial Charts and Cartographical Maps
17 November: Dr Peter Zietlow (Hamburg) - Identifying colourants - Non- and minimal-invasive analysis of pigments and dyes
24 November: Nick Millea (Oxford) - From paint to pixels: pigment analysis on the medieval Gough Map of Great Britain
08 December: Jun.-Prof. Dr Hanna Wimmer (Hamburg) - Till we found a sea of green: Colour in medieval maps
15 December: Dr Nadja Danilenko (Hamburg) - Color-coding the Islamic world. How the maps in the Book of Routes and Realms (10th c.) transformed during its transmission
05 January: Dr Anna Boroffka (Hamburg) - Green pearls and blue waves: On the iconography of water in early colonial maps from Mexico
12 January: Jun.-Prof. Dr Stephanie Zehnle (Kiel) - German Paper, Islamic Colours? African Maps of Cameroon
19 January: Dr.Martijn Storms (Leiden) - The meaning of colours on early modern property maps
26 January: Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Orleans) - Colours on French local maps from 14th to 16th century



November 5-6, 2020 - Hamburg In the framework of our innovative interdisciplinary research project “Coloured Maps” we are organizing a workshop with a cross-cultural approach to discuss the material nature and meaning of colours on maps. In the workshop Maps and Colours we will discuss methods and discourses, dyes and analytical approaches. We will focus on European and Asian maps between 15th and 19th century. Registration is available online. If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to contact Diana Lange (Asian maps) <diana.lange(at)hu-berlin.de>, Benjamin van der Linde (European maps; general information) <Benjamin.vanderLinde(at)hk24.de>, or Peter Zietlow (natural science) <peter.zietlow(at)uni-hamburg.de>.



November 6, 2020 - Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center will have a webinar 2:45-4:15 pm. Ana Pulido Rull will discuss Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain. Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration, indigenous artists from colonial Mexico crafted more than 200 maps to be used as evidence in litigation over land distribution. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de tierra, tell the stories of hundreds of Natives and Spaniards who engaged in legal proceedings either to request land, to oppose a petition, or to negotiate its terms. Ana Pulido Rull spent various years examining these striking painted maps and reading the court records from the land disputes at the Mexican National Archives. Click here to register.



November 12, 2020 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Moravian Archives Lunchtime Lecture Series presents Christian Reuter: Moravian GIS Mapper for Forsyth County, by Dr. Rod Meyer, former Director, Historic Bethabara Park. This lecture will be from 12:15-1:00pm in the Spaugh Lecture/Recital Hall in the Archie K. Davis Center (Moravian Archives), 457 S Church St.



November 12, 2020 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a virtual meeting at 6:00 PM. Richard Pegg will speak about A Timeline of City Maps. Mapping a World of Cities is a collaborative timeline between ten of the cartographic institutions in the U.S. with the biggest and most comprehensive repositories of digitized maps. We’ve brought together our digital collections under a common theme: the link between cartography and the historical development of cities, from the sixteenth century to the present. With 85 maps of cities all across the world, Mapping a World of Cities showcases what we can do when we collaborate on digital projects, bringing collections strengths from many different institutions into a single virtual experience. Richard Pegg from the MacLean Collection (one of the ten cartographic institutions included) will be hosting a special presentation to the Chicago Map Society in which he introduces the timeline and discusses its development. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for Zoom Meeting registration information.



November 13-14, 2020 - New Orleans (Online) The Society for the History of Discoveries has made a difficult decision to hold our 60th Anniversary 2020 SHD Annual Meeting virtually, via Zoom. The theme is New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: Cultural Crossroads. Conference schedule and Zoom registration link are online. Meeting is 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Time each day.



November 17, 2020 - Dublin (Online) The Royal Irish Academy invited Arnold Horner (formerly taught geography at University College Dublin) to present a virtual lecture Man, maps and map history: John Andrews, 1927–2019. He will discuss the life and work of John Andrews, cartographic historian and geographer, who died on 15 November 2019. There will be a short response by Keith Lilley. John Andrews was a pioneer and leading expert in studies of the history of cartography (map-making) in Ireland. He taught geography at Trinity College Dublin between 1954 and 1990, becoming Associate Professor in 1977 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1978. He is particularly associated with two major Academy projects, the Atlas of Ireland (published 1979) and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (established 1981 and ongoing). This lecture will be presented live on YouTube at 19:30. Register to attend and you will receive a link in advance.



November 18, 2020 - Washington (Online) The Library of Congress will celebrate "GIS Day 2020" with a streaming conference Mapping the Pandemic: Cases, Mutations & Vaccines, featuring geographic information science professionals and analysts who are documenting the outbreak of COVID-19. Experts from multiple institutions will discuss the geospatial and genomic data being used to fight the pandemic and examine how mapping and geographic information science technologies are helping public health officials, emergency rooms, epidemiologists and the general public navigate and understand the spread of the disease, and the allocation of precious resources, like vaccines. The following presentations will premiere at 1 p.m. ET with closed captions on both the Library’s YouTube page and main website.
Este Geraghty, chief medical officer, Esri, discussing The Role of GIS in Fighting the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Ensheng Dong, Center for System Science and Engineering, John Hopkins University, presenting on building the Johns Hopkins COVID dashboard, Historic First: Mapping the Pandemic in Real Time
Mike Schoelen, Esri Health and Human Services, discussing the distribution of vaccines and personal protective equipment, Driven by GIS: A Resilient Supply Chain for COVID-19
John Hessler, Library of Congress and Johns Hopkins University, discussing how mutations of the virus are being tracked globally, More Than Just Cases: Mapping the Genome and Mutations of SARS-CoV-2



November 19, 2020 - Paris (Online) On the occasion of the celebration of 300 years of French hydrography (creation of the deposit of maps and plans on November 19, 1720), the Shom (Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy) and the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac combine for a study day devoted to hydrography in "extra-European" waters. Hydrographier les lointains, XVIIIème – XXème siècle will examine the movement of people and maps between the distant shores of the Empire and a Parisian "computing center", the repository, where this knowledge is accumulated and transmitted. The program can be seen on the YouTube channel of musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.



November 19, 2020 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Katherine Parker (Research Officer for Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps, and Chair, WMS Walter W. Ristow Prize) will speak about Northern Seas: The Mapping of the North Pacific before the Voyages of James Cook. Before Cook’s third voyage in search of the Northwest Passage (1776-1780), few European ships had sailed north of the traditional Spanish galleon route; those that had were sparsely reported, as in the case of Bering’s Kamchatka expeditions, or dubiously reported, as in the case of the apocryphal Admiral de la Fonte. This presentation will focus on the geographic discourse about the North Pacific prior to Cook’s third voyage, with an especial emphasis on the period 1670-1776. Katie will also provide a short overview of the new map history network H-Maps, an international digital forum sponsored by the International Society for the History of the Map.



November 20, 2020 - New York (Online) New York University's Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Network presents Chet Van Duzer on Joining the New World to Asia: Revisions to an Unstudied World Map c. 1535. British Library, Sloane MS 117, ff. 1r-4r contains a manuscript world map in two hemispheres that has been dated to about 1530 and has been mentioned in the cartographic literature several times, but never properly studied. The most remarkable feature of the map are the revisions in the hemisphere devoted to the New World, which can be seen in multispectral images of these folios. Originally, the map showed the New World as separate from Asia, but it was changed to show the New World as being connected to Asia. The map thus vividly demonstrates the difficulty Europeans faced in interpreting the new discoveries in the West, and in deciding what the relationship was between those discoveries and Asia—this confusion dates back to Christopher Columbus, who thought that the lands he encountered after crossing the Atlantic were in Asia. It has not been previously noted that the two hemispheres, prior to the revisions, were based on the inset hemispheric maps at the top of Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map. Register for this 12:30 pm Eastern talk in advance by writing to: nyumargin(at)gmail.com.



November 21, 2020 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will meet virtually, via Zoom, at 2 PM. Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY(at)gmail.com for Zoom link. Dr. Larry Tise will speak about his recent co-authored book: "Theodore de Bry -- America: The Complete Plates from 1590-1602". Dr. Tise will discuss his research in writing the book and will show many of the beautiful maps and native Americans depicted.



November 21, 2020 – Piscataway, New Jersey (Online) As part of the 2020 Annual African Studies Association virtual meeting there will be a panel from 8:00 to 9:45pm (Eastern Standard Time) on the topic of: Online Research & Teaching with Africa Maps: Tips, Techniques, Examples & Resources. The program will include presentations by: Gerald Rizzo, President, Afriterra, The Catrographic Free Library; William Worger, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles; Henry Lovejoy, University of Colorado Boulder; Paul Lovejoy, Department of History, York University; and Andrew Apter, Acting Director of the African Studies Program at UCLA. The session will be Moderated by: Tim Weiskel, Africa Map Circle, Coordinator. Further information is available on the African Studies Association's 2020 Annual Meeting website and weblog entry.



November 24, 2020 – Cambridge, England (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet via Zoom at 5.30 pm. For details on how to join, please send an email to events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk for the link. Julian Candiah (Kuala Lumpur and Cambridge) will speak about The Straits of Malacca: A Cartographic Journey using Nautical Sea Charts. For further information contact Sarah Bendall (sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk) at tel. 01223 330987. The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.


December 1, 2020 - Belfast (Online) The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has invited Annaleigh Margey to give the 2020 D.A. Chart Seminar on Maps with the topic of Ulster’s cartography and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a distinct watershed in the history of settlement in Ireland. The advent of formal English, and later, British, plantation policies brought a wave of new settlers, and later, settlements, across Ireland. Historians and historical geographers have long debated the impacts of these settlements, with studies focusing on the political, social, cultural, ethnographic, landscape, changes, emerging through the intervening centuries. Amongst the most significant changes were those to the landscape of Ireland, with new boundaries, rural and urban settlements, architecture; all distinguishing the plantation phase of Irish history. This seminar will seek to grapple with a set of source materials for these changes: namely the surveys and maps produced by Englishmen in Ireland during the decades of plantation. It will focus specifically on Ulster, examining how, in a post-plantation analysis, these surveys and maps, can be used to inform our understanding of the multiplicity of impacts and changes, from political to landscape, that occurred in the province. Lecture is 19:00 - 20:15 GMT and registration is required.



December 1, 2020 - London (Online) National Committee for Information Resources on Asia will sponsor a free virtual conference Cartographic discoveries - Asian maps in UK collections from 13:00-17:00 UTC/GMT. For the conference programme and details of how to register see the website.



December 2, 2020 - Montevideo (Online) The Interdisciplinary Space of the University of the Republic and the National Historical Museum of Uruguay invite you to participate in the virtual symposium Imaginar, medir y ordenar. Diálogos entre historia, cartografía y agrimensura [Imagine, Measure and Order. Dialogues between history, cartography and surveying] will be held from 9:00 - 18:30 (Uruguay GMT-3 time). Free entry but requires registration at: educativa(at)mhn.gub.uy . This symposium will have the participation of Uruguayan, Argentine and Brazilian academics, trained in history, surveying and geography, who have dedicated themselves to researching and teaching topics related to the production and circulation of cartographic images at various scales, formats and styles.



December 2, 2020 - Portland, Maine (Online) The Osher Map Library invites you to join us 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT for "Make the Map All White:" The Use of Maps in the Suffrage and Prohibition Campaigns, a lecture by Dr. Susan Schulten. Maps were essential instruments in two of the most ambitious challenges to American law in the twentieth century: the suffrage and prohibition campaigns. Persuasive maps have long been deployed in American history and were especially important in generating opposition to slavery in the west in the 1850s. Registration online.



December 3, 2020 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time. Please join Linda Gartz, for a Zoom discussion about How Federal Government Redlining Maps Segregated America. She will discuss her award-winning book, “Redlined,” and her discovery of the redlining maps used by the federal government to exclude African Americans from the middle-class dream of home ownership. Inspired by a trove of long-hidden family letters, diaries, photos, spanning the 20th Century, “Redlined” interweaves a riveting family story with the history of redlining. Linda will display digitized versions of original redlining maps, share photos, read short excerpts from “Redlined,” and speak about the lasting impact of redlining maps that segregated America. Plenty of time for Q&A.



December 4, 2020 - Paris The naturalist, botanical and zoological gardens share with cartography the willingness to describe the world in a way that is both exhaustive and orderly. The scales, materials, appearances of the representation are certainly different. But it is good, in the map as in the garden, to develop an image of the world that can be read by everyone. Maps and gardens are part of this great scientific effort which consists in making people see and understand the world and its spaces, natural and human. The study day, Du jardin vers le monde et du monde au jardin : la cartographie et l’histoire naturelle [From the garden to the world and from the world to garden: cartography and natural history], organized jointly by the History Commission of the French Cartography Committee and the Museum Libraries Directorate National d'Histoire Naturelle sets out to explore the relationships that have developed between cartography and the garden, in particular at the Jardin des Plantes.Confernece was to be held in the auditorium of the Grand Gallery of Evolution, National Museum of Natural History, 36 rue Geoffroy, Saint-Hilaire. However it was recently announced that the study day is postponed to a date still undetermined due to the health crisis



December 4, 2020 - Stanford (Online) The David Rumsey Map Center will have a webinar 2:45-4:15 pm. Nick Kanas will discuss Mapping the Heavens: Celestial Cartography from Ancient to Modern Times. In this online talk, Nick Kanas will explore the evolution of celestial cartography. Click here to register.



December 8, 2020 – Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will have at virtual meeting at 5:30 PM MT. On June 20, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson gave the following instructions to his secretary Meriwether Lewis: “The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River, and such principal stream of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregan (sic), Colorado or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent ….” More than a century earlier, a west-flowing river to the Pacific had been postulated by Father Jacques Marquette, Louis Hennepin and others. Don McGuirk, a retired pediatrician with a keen interest in early maps, will present Maps and the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery. This presentation will discuss maps that may have affected Jefferson’s directions to Lewis, the maps available to Lewis and Clark during their exploration, and the first maps to reflect their labors. Contact naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu for Zoom instructions.



December 9, 2020 - New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Show and Tell via Zoom starting at 7:00 PM. Registration is not required. After a one week period (November 10-17) during which only Sustaining Members of the New York Map Society will be given an opportunity to secure one of 12 five-minute spots to present a map, submissions will be open, first come, first serve, to current members of any map society, upon society identification, to kapochunas(at)gmail.com.



December 9-14, 2020 - Paris (Online) The 2020 edition of the Paris Map & Instrument fair will now take place virtually. Due to COVID-19 the traditional in-person fair at Hotel Ambassador has been canceled until 2021. However, with the advancement and widespread adoption of video conference technology, we are happy to bring the Fair to you virtually through the virtual platform by Collectible Events. Virtual attendees will be able to browse and purchase hundreds of maps and prints, connect with dealers via zoom video, and sit in on live presentations by leading map experts. Zoom link can be found in following links:
    December 9 - 6:00 pm (CET – Paris) or 12:00 pm (EST – New York): Andrew Kapochunas (New York Map Society) The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: the French Connection.
    December 10 - 7:00 pm (CET – Paris) or 1:00 pm (EST – New York): International Map Collectors Society speaker
Origins of the Earliest Printed Country Maps of France.
    December 11 - 6:00 pm (CET – Paris) or 12:00 pm (EST – New York): Wes Brown (Rocky Mountain Map Society)
Delisle Maps of North American Louisiana and the West
    December 11 - 7:00 pm (CET – Paris) or 1:00 pm (EST – New York): Nick Kanas (California Map Society)
Terrestrial and Celestial Pictorial Maps



December 9, 2020 - Portland, Maine (Online) The Osher Map Library invites you 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT for our annual Mattson-New York Times Lecture in our Fall 2020 Lecture Series. Tim Wallace, PhD, Senior Editor for Geography, The New York Times, will discuss Mapping the 2020 Election; a behind-the-scenes look at how the New York Times used maps and geography to help readers understand the political makeup of the country during one of the most complicated election years in recent memory. Registration online.



December 10, 2020 – London (Online) The Thirtieth 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 normally 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. However, under present circumstances it will be a virtual meeting (Zoom) unless otherwise informed (times are uncertain and not every meeting can be guaranteed as described). Those wishing to attend should go to the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register (there is no charge), after which you will be sent a registration link with guidelines. Dr Ronald Grim (formerly Curator of Maps, Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library, USA) will speak about Annotated Atlases: Unravelling Stories of Personal Provenance. Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>



December 10, 2020 – London (Online) British Cartographic Society lecture will be held 7.30–9pm. The British Cartographic Society is indebted to the Royal Geographical Society for their kind permission in allowing us to show the video lecture presented by Barbara Bond to our members. The lecture was originally delivered to the RGS in London on 22 January 2018. Barbara's lecture, Mapping Escapes in World War II: M19's wartime escape and evasion mapping programme, covers the background and role of MI9, its map production programme and the involvement of commercial companies, and the methods of getting the escape aids and maps into the PoW camps. She describes the coded correspondence with the camps and how the code worked. The ingenious work carried out in the camps by the PoWs, planning and executing the escapes, is described and Airey Neave's escape from Colditz is used as an example of how the maps aided successful escapes. Barbara is not able to give her lecture live due to the unreliable internet connection in her part of the country. She has, however, kindly agreed to try to be available online to take questions immediately after the lecture and we have planned a back-up option should her connection fail. Please book your free space through Eventbrite. Please note, spaces are limited to 100 people.



December 12, 2020 – Los Angeles (Online) California Map Society Greater Los Angeles Mappers (GLAM) will have a virtual GLAM Holiday Cocoa Meeting from 10:30am – 12:00 noon. Bring your favorite cup of hot cocoa, coffee, or a bubbly mimosa as we celebrate the end of 2020 at the Greater Los Angeles Mappers final gathering of the year! GLAM invites all of our CMS members and supporters to share a treasured map, map-related item, holiday decoration, article, or just a story you'd like to tell to our friendly community of fellow map-lovers. All are welcome to participate, even first-timers! Click here to register for this virtual event and you'll be emailed the zoom link prior to our event date.



December 17, 2020 - Chicago (Online) The Chicago Map Society will have a virtual Annual Holiday Party & Silent Auction at 7:00 PM. Details are still being finalized. Though the event may be held virtually, rest assured knowing there will be a variety of interesting cartographic material available on which to bid. We also hope to have the option to continue our tradition of the member “Show and Tell.” If you have an item that you’d like to donate to the auction, or share with the membership, please drop us a line! Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for Zoom Meeting registration information.



December 17, 2020 – Oxford (Online) The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Join by clicking here. Garrett Dash Nelson (Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library) will discuss Election illusions: the 2020 US Presidential race and the perils of politics as a game of maps. Additional information from Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.