Cartography - Archive 2025 Calendar of Events

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January 14, 2025 - Boston (Online) Luis F. Alvarez León will speak at 6:30 pm ET at a virtual meeting of The Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library: The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism. In this talk, based on his recent book “The Map in the Machine”, Luis F. Alvarez León (Associate Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College) examines how digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, charting these changes through MapQuest and Google Maps to the rise of IP geolocation, ridesharing, and a new Earth Observation satellite ecosystem. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial technologies underpin the construction, operation, and refinement of markets for digital goods and services. Register for the event.

January 16, 2025 - Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. 5:30 p.m. – social hour (delicious finger food and light refreshments); 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Frederick E. Nelson: Echoes from a Thawing Cold War: Re-Evaluating the Cartography of Permafrost. Register in advance for this Zoom meeting.

January 16, 2025 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Ian Spangler, Assistant Curator of Digital and Participatory Geography, and Emily Bowe, Assistant Director, both with the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library will discuss Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World.

January 18, 2025 – New York The New York Map Society invites you to Argosy Book Store, 116 East 59th Street, from 3:00 - 5:00 pm New York (ET) time. All are welcome to attend a book talk and signing event for "The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade," by Nicholas Nugent, with special reference to New York and Salem. This wide-ranging account of a fascinating period of global history uses original maps and contemporary artists’ views to tell the story of how each port developed individually.

January 21, 2025 – Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado Center, downtown Denver. Program will be in the MDC Room on the 4th Floor, across from the Martin Room. Please enter the building at the main (front) entrance. Vincent Szilagyi will speak about The Emin Pasha Expedition: Exploring the last "blank space" in Darkest Africa. Led by famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley, the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition was the final European exploratory expedition into Africa. What was supposed to be a quick humanitarian relief mission turned into a long, brutal and bloody slog through the last unmapped section of Africa. Come hear a tale of suffering, betrayal, murder, slavery, cannibalism and triumph in "Darkest Africa". Click here for Zoom link at the time meeting starts (no registration necessary).

January 22, 2025 - Berlin (Hybrid) Maps belong to the oldest forms of human communication and thus represent an important historical record of space. Yet, maps are much more than just a visual presentation of a territory during a certain period of time, but a reflection on historical, political, religious and cultural contexts in which they were compiled. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Einstein Center Chronoi jointly organized a lecture series Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II. This is the second part of a series of lectures held November-December, 2024. Lectures are at 6 pm (CET) in Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin. Registration for in-person and virtual attendance is required and can be done from the meeting web page. Today there will be a panel discussion about How Plague became Globally Visible – Mapping as Method in Modern Western Medicine.

January 22, 2025 - Richmond (Online) Please join with Library of Virginia from 12:00pm – 1:00pm for a virtual presentation on the ambitious 19th-century mapping project that resulted in the publication of the first official map of the Commonwealth — one of the first official state maps in the nation: Making the “General Map of Virginia”. The Library of Virginia’s senior map archivist, Cassandra Farrell, will discuss the efforts and surveying teams involved in producing the detailed manuscript maps for each county that were required to create the Virginia state map — often called “the general map” in correspondence from the time. This event complements the Library’s exhibition “Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816–1826,” on view through June 7, 2025. For more information, contact Anne McCrery at <anne.mccrery(at)lva.virginia.gov> or 804.692.3568. This is a free event, but registration is required. The Zoom link and password will be sent to you in an email upon registration.

January 24, 2025 - Chicago The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St., will have a "Map History Seminar" from 10:00am–12:00pm. The Seminar aims to support interdisciplinary research in the history of maps and mapping in any period or specialty. The seminar uses a workshop model where attendees will read a pre-circulated paper from the presenter and attend ready to discuss. Some meetings will be virtual and some in person. Bertie Mandelblatt (John Carter Brown Library) will discuss Liberté, égalité, and fraternité in the Lesser Antilles? / Imperial Toponymy, Slavery and Revolutionary Cartography in the Caribbean. This event is free, but all participants must register in advance. Space is limited, so please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend. Register and Request Paper.

January 25, 2025 - Philadelphia Join the New York Map Society and Andrew Kapochunas in exploring objects from Philadelphia's Parkway Central Library Map Collection in a curated talk by their Special Collections staff. It's an open-to-the-public drop-in event not requiring registration that will be held at 1901 Vine Street, between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway. Meet at 11:00 am. In the library's own words: "The Map Collection houses over 130,000 current and historical maps, and covers every area of the world, with a focus on Philadelphia and adjacent regions." Additional information from <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>.

January 30. 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti (Università degli Studi di Padova) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) will discuss Map Readings: ‘Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities’. Click here to book your place. For further details please contact: Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.

February 1, 2025 - Avon, Connecticut 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 with the Connecticut Map Society as our president, Brian Tims, enlightens us about collecting (and, most importantly, enjoying) antique and vintage maps of all types. Brian will be your sherpa as he walks 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! Meet at 1pm in Avon Free Public Library, Community Room, 281 Country Club Road, Avon, CT 0600. Click here to view the event Antique Map Collecting 101: Foxing, soiling, and worm holes, oh my! on the library’s website and to pre-register, which is encouraged.

February 8, 2025 – Richmond The Washington Map Society will visit the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., for a guided tour of their new map exhibition, “Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816-1826.” Cassandra Farrell, Exhibition Curator and Senior Map Archivist, Library of Virginia (Board Member, Washington Map Society) will be our guide. Registration for this event is required. Coffee beginning at 10 AM and tour 11 AM to Noon. Early afternoon - lunch at Secret Sandwich Society, 501 E Grace Street (each paying for his/her own). Snow date March 1, 2025.

February 12, 2025 – London (Online) The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold its annual business meeting at 2pm on Teams. If you have any items for the agenda, or would like attend, please contact <martin.davis(at)cartography.org.uk> or <debbie.hall(at)cartography.org.uk> by Friday 7th February. We will send a meeting link and any papers in advance.

February 12, 2025 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Daniël Pletinckx will speak about Jan Bale, an excellent surveyor from the 17th century at 8:00 p.m. in SteM Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14.

February 13, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Margriet Hoogvliet and Anouk de Vries (Universiteit van Amsterdam) will be the speakers. Click here to book your place. For further details please contact: Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.

February 20, 2025 - Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. 5:30 p.m. – social hour (delicious finger food and light refreshments); 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Hayley Cotter Legal Maps & Maritime Space: The case of John Selden’s Mare clausum. Register in advance for this Zoom meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

February 22, 2025 – New York Up to 12 New York Map Society 2025 members are invited to attend (via an RSVP to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>) the Downtown Brooklyn condo of two members for an exploration of New York City zoning, budget and civic infrastructure data via maps. Meeting will start at 2:00 pm New York (ET) time. "The State of New York" and how its $114 billion budget is spent will be shown. A variety of items will be showcased, including Department of Education districts and their budgets, parks and relative park spend, zones where heavy manufacturing is allowed to take place, property tax revenues, and much, much more.

February 25, 2025 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Finnian O’Cionnaith (Dublin) will present ‘A peculiar survey … for our peculiar purpose’: founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. All are welcome. Please register for the talk and the Zoom link will be sent to you. Please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk> if you wish to join the mailing list. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at <sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk>, tel. 01223 330476. The seminars are kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.

February 26, 2025 - London (Online) The next Show & Tell’ from the International Map Collectors' Society takes place by Zoom at 6pm UK time. This year, in conjunction with “Venice in Peril”, we have a presentation on the conservation of a major Coronelli Globe. We also aim for variety – with 7 mainly new presenters this time, looking at maps ranging from a Blaeu map of a French region to a Lufthansa air map ‘with a Cold War twist’. Register if you wish to join the event. As soon as you have completed the very brief Registration Form, you will receive an automated confirmation of your intent to attend and will also receive a ‘reminder’ email the day before the ‘Show & Tell’ takes place. Both confirmation and reminder will contain the Zoom joining link.

February 26, 2025 – Richmond Please join the Williamsburg Map Circle at 10am for a curator-led tour of the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., new map exhibition, “Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816-1826.” Cassandra Farrell, Exhibition Curator and Senior Map Archivist, Library of Virginia (a long term member of the Williamsburg Map Circle) will be our guide.

February 27, 2025 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Louise McCarthy and Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité) will discuss Cartographic Science at the Service of Company Propaganda in Early Imperialist Britain (1600–1625). McCarthy and Niayesh are Hakluyt Society Speakers.

February 28, 2025 - Chicago The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St., will have a "Map History Seminar" from 11:00am–1:00pm. The Seminar aims to support interdisciplinary research in the history of maps and mapping in any period or specialty. The seminar uses a workshop model where attendees will read a pre-circulated paper from the presenter and attend ready to discuss. Some meetings will be virtual and some in person. Christina Dando (University of Nebraska) will discuss American "Redlining" Maps as Iconic Images. This event is free, but all participants must register in advance. Space is limited, so please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend. Register and Request Paper.

March 6, 2025 - Berlin (Hybrid) Maps belong to the oldest forms of human communication and thus represent an important historical record of space. Yet, maps are much more than just a visual presentation of a territory during a certain period of time, but a reflection on historical, political, religious and cultural contexts in which they were compiled. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Einstein Center Chronoi jointly organized a lecture series Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II. This is the second part of a series of lectures held November-December, 2024. Lectures are at 6 pm (CET) in Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin. Registration for in-person and virtual attendance is required and can be done from the meeting web page. Today there will be a Lecture by Zsolt G. Török (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) with Dialogue about Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography: Making Maps and Imaging Germany.

March 8, 2025 – New York The New York Map Society invites current members, only, to RSVP to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> for one of a maximum of 20 places for a private tour of an upcoming exhibition at the Grolier Club: Wish You Were Here: Guidebooks, Viewbooks, Photobooks, and Maps of New York City, 1807-1940 (Second Floor). Our tour guide will be Mark D. Tomasko, curator of the exhibition, which features more than 130 objects – guidebooks, viewbooks, photobooks, maps, and pamphlets -- from his collection. Tour will be at 2:00 pm New York (EST).

March 11, 2025 – Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado Center, downtown Denver. Program will be in the MDC Room on the 4th Floor, across from the Martin Room. Please enter the building at the main (front) entrance. Ethan Gannett (President and Mapping Chair for the Colorado-Cherokee Trail Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA) where he is Vice President of the national organization) will talk about Mapping the Historic Cherokee Trail in Colorado. The Colorado portion of the Cherokee Trail was used to connect from the Santa Fe Trail at Bent’s Old Fort to the California Trail at Fort Bridger, Wyoming for Cherokee and white emigrants to seek their riches in the 1849 California Gold Rush. It was a major artery for emigrants and settlers in Colorado in the 1850s-1860s, long before the Overland Stage Company claimed its routes. Click here for Zoom link at the time meeting starts (no registration necessary).

March 12, 2025 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Ward Bohé and Bram Vannieuwenhuyze will discuss Mercator - a look behind the scenes of the future cartography museum at 8:00 p.m. in SteM Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14.

March 13, 2025 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. James Cheshire (University College London) will discuss Discoveries from the UCL Map Library.

March 19, 2025 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) The French School of Asian Studies (EFEO), Hong Kong Center, has the pleasure to invite you to attend the following talk by Prof. Li Xiaocong (Emeritus Professor, Peking University, Department of History) The Chinese Map Collection of the Società Geografica Italiana. Lecture will be held in Art Museum, West Wing, 1F, CUHK, Shatin, New Territories at 4:00 pm-6:30 pm. Click hear to receive the broadcast of meeting.

March 19-22, 2025 - Seville The Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos/Instituto de Historia will have a “Mapping Frameworks” conference Cartografía y territorialidad en América [Cartography and territoriality in America]. The conference aims to open a rich dialogue among specialists in the history of maps, history of science, landscape archaeology, American culture, etc., which reflect on the way of understanding and interpreting spaces in the Americans between the 15th and 18th centuries.

March 20–22, 2025 - Boston The Renaissance Society of America and Shakespeare Association of America will hold a joint conference. Organized by the editorial team at Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, there will be a panel session during the conference, Lost and Found in Translation: Cartographic History Between Literary and Visual Studies. The session will highlight and practice new directions in cartographic history.

March 20, 2025 – Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. 5:30 p.m. – social hour (delicious finger food and light refreshments); 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Emily Lyon, Touring “Our USA”: Seeing U.S. Empire through the Pictorial Maps of Ruth Taylor White. Click here to join Zoom meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

March 20, 2025 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Laura Ten Eyck (Gallery Director, Argosy Book Store in Manhattan and Vice President of New York Map Society), P. J. Mode (lawyer for more than 40 years in Washington DC and New York City and collector of persuasive maps recently donated to Cornell University), and Eliane Dotson (owner of Old World Auctions) will discuss Just In Case I Don’t Live Forever, What Should Happen To My Collection?. Originally presented to the New York Map Society in January 2020, this presentation will enumerate various ways of donating or disposing of map collections. The topics that will be discussed include selling at an auction, selling to one or more dealers, selling or giving to an institution, and giving to family or friends.

March: 22, 2025 - Oxford Nick Millea (Map Curator) shall be talking at 2.30pm on All Maps Lead to Weston: 10 years of cartographic adventures in the Weston Library. Lecture is 2.30–3.15pm in the Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre at the Weston Library. Booking is required.

March: 26, 2025 - Oxford (Hybrid) Maps and journeys intersect in many ways. In this talk, Adventures in Maps, Debbie Hall (Senior Library Assistant in the Bodleian Map Room and author of the book "Adventures in Maps") tells the stories of twenty historical journeys, routes and adventures, followed through the maps that made them. This lecture will be held 1–2pm (GMT) in person in the Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre at the Weston Library and online via Zoom. Booking is required for in person or online attendance.

March 27, 2025 - Berlin (Hybrid) Maps belong to the oldest forms of human communication and thus represent an important historical record of space. Yet, maps are much more than just a visual presentation of a territory during a certain period of time, but a reflection on historical, political, religious and cultural contexts in which they were compiled. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Einstein Center Chronoi jointly organized a lecture series Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II. This is the second part of a series of lectures held November-December, 2024. Lectures are at 6 pm (CET) in Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin. Registration for in-person and virtual attendance is required and can be done from the meeting web page. Today there will be Lectures by Nils Güttler (Universität Wien) and Felix de Montety (Université Grenobles-Alpes) with Dialogue about Thematic Mapping in 18th to 19th-century Germany.

March 27, 2025 – Chicago You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for a special program at the Newberry Library. 5:30 p.m. – social hour (delicious finger food and light refreshments); 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Jerry Brotton. North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orient themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. In this trans-historical and cross-cultural talk, Jerry Brotton explores the cartographic history of the cardinal directions, and how they are changing in our current online geospatial world.

March 28, 2025 - Amsterdam Allard Pierson will sponsor a program Jansoniuslezing - Circling the Square. De zeventiende eeuwse ontmoeting tussen Oost-Aziatische en Europese kaarten, Maps produced by European missionaries in China in the 17th century fulfilled an important role in the history of cartography. Jesuits were said to have unilaterally brought ‘scientific’ cartography into Asia from Europe, making the question of whether or not European cartography had a major influence on East Asian maps during that period central. In this lecture, Mario Cams turns the question around: how did Chinese cartography enrich European maps? Registration is free but required. Venue: Singelkerk, Singel 452.

March 29, 2025 - Brussels The Annual General Meeting and Map Afternoon of the Brussels Map Circle will be held at Map Room of KBR (Royal Library of Belgium). The AGM will starts at 10.00. The Map Afternoon at 14.00. Our Map Afternoon welcomes everyone, whether you are a member or not. Every participant is invited to bring along a map, object, book or anything else of cartographic interest from his own collection to be presented and discussed by the present fellow members. Always an excellent occasion to learn more in a convivial atmosphere. If you have the intention to show an item, please let it know to Henri Godts <henri(at)arenbergauctions.com>. Entrance fee for non-Members is €5.00 which should be prepaid on our bank account IBAN BE52 0682 4754 2209 BIC: GKCCBEBB.

April 2, 2025 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Mario Cams will speak about Squaring the Circle: The Seventeenth-Century Encounter between East Asian and European World Maps at 8:00 p.m. in SteM Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14.

April 3, 2025 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku) will discuss Maps for Development? Finnish Mapping of the Global South, c.1970–2000.

April 4-6, 2025 - Zurich The 19th International Atlas Days will be held at Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Zähringerpl. 6. The program “The Swiss Atlas Cartography – Precision and Innovation between Snow and Rocks” will reconstruct the development of Swiss cartography in lectures and by inspecting the maps in detail. Due to the special nature of Swiss cartography, the scope of the event will not only include the private publishers of the 19th and 20th centuries, as has been the case in previous events, but will also examine aspects of early private cartography and official cartography. A guided tour of the history of maps in the Swiss National Museum rounds off the program. Registration is required.

April 8, 2025 - Berlin (Hybrid) Maps belong to the oldest forms of human communication and thus represent an important historical record of space. Yet, maps are much more than just a visual presentation of a territory during a certain period of time, but a reflection on historical, political, religious and cultural contexts in which they were compiled. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Einstein Center Chronoi jointly organized a lecture series Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II. This is the second part of a series of lectures held November-December, 2024. Lectures are at 6 pm (CET) in Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin. Registration for in-person and virtual attendance is required and can be done from the meeting web page. Today there will be a Roundtable with Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Goce Naumov, Goce Delćev, and Cinzia Pappi discussing House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies.

April 8, 2025 - Cambridge, Massachusetts (Hybrid) Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture present Chet Van Duzer (Lazarus Project, University of Rochester) and Peter Girguis (Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University) who will talk about Sea Monsters on Maps: Myth, Mystery, and Marine Life. Lecture is in Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm. Register to attend in person or online.

April 11, 2025 – London The International Map Collectors' Society will visit from 10.30am to 1.00pm the Royal Geographical Society map collection in Kensington near Hyde Park. It will be hosted by Katherine Parker, Cartographic Collections Manager of the RGS, who will be well-known to many members. The RGS is less than a 10-minute walk from the Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum, so you have a big choice of how to spend the rest of your day. The cost will be £10.00. The full programme and booking information is on the IMCoS website. There will only be 25 places, so book early. If you have any questions, please send an email to UK Representative Mark Clark <markclark368(at)gmail.com>.

April 17, 2026 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will meet at 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St. At 6:00 pm CT Daniel Block will discuss Finding Food: How We Map and Talk About Food Access in Chicago and Beyond.

April 17, 2025 - Williamsburg Please join the Williamsburg Map Circle at Williamsburg Landing, APA Auditorium at 5pm. Jay Gaidmore, Marian and Alan McLeod Director of Special Collections at The Swem Library Map Collection, will offer us a discussion of the library's cartographic collection and how to access it. Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you will be able to join us on the 17th. We are looking forward to seeing you all.

April 22, 2025 – Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado Center, downtown Denver. History-storyteller Kurtis Kelly has performed throughout the Front Range as Enos Mills and many other notable Colorado figures. He will discuss Enos Mills: Chasing a Dream for Colorado. Take a journey through this first-person narrative inspired by adventurous times when grizzlies still roamed Colorado and a national park was an elusive dream. Come celebrate the 155th birthday of Enos Mills the day of the program. Click here to register for in-person attendance. Click here when program starts for Zoom attendance.

April 24, 2025 – Milwaukee (Hybrid) The annual Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series will be held at the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There will be a reception at 5:30 pm and the lecture will begin at 6 pm. The speakers are Ian Spangler, Assistant Curator of Digital and Participatory Geography and Emily Bowe, Assistant Director, both of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. The title of their talk is Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographer Redrew our World. Registration is required for this in-person and virtual event.

April 24, 2025 – Washington (Hybrid) Kris Butler (Senior Career Coach at Holland & Knight, lawyer, and author of “Drink Maps in Victorian Britain”) will speak about American Drink Maps of the Boston area and towns in Maine and New Hampshire in later editions of Rowntree & Sherwell’s The Temperance Problem and Social Reform. Talk will be at 6:00 pm in Holland & Knight, 800 17th Street, NW. Kris will share new research since the publication of her book on little known versions of United States drink maps made to persuade lawmakers to reduce the number of places to buy alcohol. Craft beer will be served. Security in the building requires registration for in-person attendance for this meeting by April 22. Click here to stream the meeting once it starts at 6:00pm.

April 26, 2025 – Richmond Map Day at Library of Virginia, 800 E Broad St., will have:
10:00 am - Noon: Map appraisals by Old World Auctions; conservation assessments by Leslie Courtois, LVA Conservator; and guided tours of map exhibition, “Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816-1826,” by Cassandra Farrell, Exhibition Curator and Senior Map Archivist.
Noon - 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm, Program Presentations
First Speaker: Ronald Grim, Vice President and Program Chair, Washington Map Society, with presentation entitled “‘Compiled from Official Sources,’ The First Official State Maps.”
Second Speaker: Martin Brückner, Professor of English and Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware, with presentation entitled, “Selling Virginia: State Maps and the Marketplace, 1800-1840.”
This is a free event, but registration is required.

April 29, 2025 - Wellington (Hybrid) Derek Leask will make a presentation at 5:30 p.m. NZ (1:30 AM Eastern Time USA) to the Friends of the Turnbull Library about his Atlas of the New Zealand Wars. The book is about five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 and provide remarkable new insight into the deep conflicts running through nineteenth-century Aotearoa. This is a public meeting at the National Library auditorium in Wellington and will be streamed on Zoom. Register here.

April 30, 2025 - Hong Kong (Hybrid) The French School of Asian Studies (EFEO), Hong Kong Center, has the pleasure to invite you to attend the following talk by Prof. Radu Leca (Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University) Orankai and the Geographical Imaginary of the Qing in Early Modern Japan. Lecture is at 4:30 pm-6:30 pm in Art Museum, West Wing, 2/F, CUHK, Shatin, New Territories. Online broadcasting. Enquiry; +852 3943 1247 / <hk.center(at)efeo.net>.

May 1, 2025 - Ipswich We all take maps for granted today, but in the sixteenth century maps were new-fangled things, viewed by some with suspicion. In this talk, John Darby (c.1553-1608/9) of Bramford, Suffolk, surveyor, map-maker and artist, Dr Vivienne Aldous will use a case-study of one of the early East Anglian map-makers, John Darby, to investigate the uses to which early maps were put and how they quite quickly became a well-understood medium. Lecture is at 6:30 - 8pm GMT+1 in University of Suffolk, Waterfront Building Neptune Quay. Reserve a spot.

May 1, 2025 - Stanford Join the David Rumsey Map Center for a talk about chronomapping, a methodology developed by Dr. Ben Gitai of EPF Lausanne that integrates techniques from the fields of architecture, hydrology, urban planning, climatology, and more disciplines to investigate land transformation through time. The methodology is a means to produce new conceptual frameworks of territories and habitats across time, designed to counterbalance the short-sightedness of much development in the Western world. The talk, Mapping Time, Space and Habitat Talk, takes place from 3:30-4:30pm. Please register to attend.

May 6, 2025 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Onur Engin (University of Cambridge) will present Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography. All are welcome. Please register for the talk and the Zoom link will be sent to you. Please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk> if you wish to join the mailing list. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at <sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk>, tel. 01223 330476. The seminars are kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.

May 6, 2025 - Washington The Washington Rare Book Group invites you to join us for our next lunchtime lecture: Episodes in the History of Printing Maps by Chet Van Duzer. Lecture will be in Rare Book Classroom, LJ-129, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress at 12:00p.m. Following a brief introduction to the woodblock and copperplate printing of maps, which includes examination of surviving woodblocks and copperplates, Chet examines several episodes in the history of map printing that are particularly revealing of the details of the process.

May 7, 2025 – Chicago (Hybrid) The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St., will have a meeting from 6:00-7:00pm. Barbara Mundy, in conversation with Lia Markey and David Weimer, will discuss The 1524 Cortés Map of Tenochtitlán, Mexico. This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. Register here.

May 8, 2025 - London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT). All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the newly developed auditorium at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend please register in advance to reserve your place in-person or to receive a Zoom link on the day: Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>. Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust) will discuss Marking the Miles: Some annotated maps in National Trust Collections.

May 8, 2025 – Washington The Library of Congress Geography and Map Division and Philip Lee Phillips Society will meet in LOC Jefferson Building, LJ119 (Mahogany Row). Title: Exploring Map Surrounds. Two presentations with speakers discussing the significance of cartouches and watermarks on maps from Library of Congress collections.
First speaker (1:45pm): Chet Van Duzer, Historian of cartography, PLPS Fellow, and board member of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester, with presentation entitled “Drawing Identity: Cartographic Self-Portraits in the 20th and 21st Centuries.”
2:45 – 3:15pm ET: Break with refreshments and Geography and Map display.
Second speaker (3:15pm): Dr. Juliet Wiersema, Pre-Hispanic and Spanish Colonial Art History at University of Texas-San Antonio, and Meghan Hill, Preservation Science Specialist at the Library of Congress with presentation entitled, “Sights on Spice. A Historical and Material Exploration of William Hack’s A Description of the Sea Coasts … East Indies”
Click here to register.

May 10, 2025 – Middletown, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2:00pm in Wesleyan University (Earth & Environmental Sciences Department, Exley Science Center, Church/Pine Street, 4th floor, room 405). Ellen Thomas and Joop Varekamp, curators of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History at Wesleyan, will enlighten us about Edwin Howell: Mapping Early Explorations of the American West, within the context of the early explorations of the American West. We will look at some of the relief maps on display at Wesleyan, notably the Grand Canyon Map by Howell, as well as an 1894 curved relief map of the geology of the U.S. Other relief maps and models of volcanoes can also be inspected. We will look at some geological maps of the western U.S. with associated photographs.

May 14, 2025 - London (Online) The International Map Collectors’ Society announces that this year’s Malcolm Young Lecture will be delivered on Zoom so that all IMCoS members have an opportunity to hear this world class material. The lecture will be delivered by Rodney Kite-Powell (Director of the Touchton Map Library and Florida Center for Cartographic Education at the Tampa Bay History Center) at 18:00 - 19:30 GMT on the topic of the Tampa Cortés Letter, a letter with map created by Hernán Cortés after his conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1522. The map is significant as the first printed map showing the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán and the first printed map of the Gulf of Mexico with the name "Florida". Registration is free.

May 14, 2025 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Wouter Bracke will discuss Maps of Congo from the library of Leopold II at 8:00 p.m. in SteM Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14.

May 15, 2025 – Chicago (Hybrid) You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for an informative program at the Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St. 5:30 p.m. – social hour (delicious finger food and light refreshments); 6:00 p.m. – presentation by Richard Condit Biogeography: The Science of Mapping Life and How it Matters in Conserving Species. Register for Zoom link.

May 15, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina) will talk about Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases. Click here to book your place. For further details please contact: Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.

May 16, 2025 - Aberystwyth, Ceredigion (Hybrid) Carto-Cymru - The Wales Map Symposium 2025 will be held by the National Library of Wales. Our theme this year is "The Art of Maps" and we will be exploring how artists have used maps or been influenced by them when creating works of art, as well how as the artistic elements of maps and mapmaking have changed over time. Click to register for in-person or online attendance. Additional information from Huw Thomas <huw.thomas(at)llyfrgell.cymru>.

May 16, 2025 - Boston Every place goes through changes, even the cities, countries, and empires we think will be around until the end of time. Sometimes environmental shifts or disasters bring about a catastrophic collapse. Other times human whims and desires lead to the decimation of historic areas, irreversibly altering the very fabric of the region. Through the maps on display in this From The Vault, we can revisit these places of the past. From the historic counterparts of modern day cities or the ancient ruins of a fallen society, Changed/Forgotten will show us just how much has changed, how much has been forgotten, and yet how much still remains from a time gone by. This free showing will be hosted in the Leventhal Map & Education Center with a staff member available to answer questions. Drop in any time between 2:00PM - 4:00PM. No reservation is required.

May 20, 2025 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado Center, downtown Denver. Stephen Hoffenberg will speak about The Cartography of the Indian Country. Please register for in-person attendance and get a free ticket for entry to History Colorado for this event. No registration required for Zoom link. Just click here when meeting starts.

May 20-23, 2025 - Ottawa We warmly invite you to join Carleton University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers from May 20 to 23, held jointly with the 50th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the Canadian Cartographic Association from May 20 to 21.

May 22, 2025 – Brussels The Brussels Map Circle will have the next lecture on the renovation of the Mercator Museum by Ward Bohé. Lecture will be in Map Room of KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) at 17.00-19.00. Please register: Marie-Anne Dage, Brussels Map Circle Secretary, <marie.anne.dage(at)gmail.com>.

May 23, 2025 - Stanford Join with the David Rumsey Map Center for a symposium OpenGulf: Creating Open Historical Data about the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf from 9am-12pm. The symposium marks the publication of a comprehensive dataset of geocoded place names derived from a seminal twentieth-century British colonial Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, and Oman. Register to attend.

May 24, 2025 - New York The New York Map Society will visit the the Morgan Library and Museum for a one-hour Highlights Tour led by a Museum Educator. The tour, starting at 1:30pm, will include an overview of the museum’s history, architecture, historic buildings, and collections, including "The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World,” which showcases a number of fascinating medieval maps. Reserve your place via RSVP to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com>.

May 29, 2025 - Oxford (Online) The 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time). Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet) will discuss Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment. Click here to book your place. For further details please contact: Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.

May 31, 2025 – New Haven The Connecticut Map Society will meet at 2-4 pm in Mitchell Library (the New Haven Public Library's Westville branch, 37 Harrison Street, parking is available next to the library). Cartographer and Connecticut Map Society founder and board member Connie Brown will talk about Manuscript Mapmaking 101: A Workshop. She will share techniques for creating your own hand-drawn maps. Is there a place or a trip you’d like to map? Your childhood home, a family migration, a journey you’d like to commemorate cartographically? Bring a commercial paper map, laptop, or iPad for reference—or skip the research and make a memory map. Materials provided. You must pre-register for this workshop: email <connie(at)redstonestudios.com>. Sign up soon: there are only 20 spots.

June 1-6, 2025 - Charlottesville Matthew Edney will be teaching a week-long seminar, H-65, Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900, at Rare Book School, University of Virginia. The course is intended for students, faculty, librarians, dealers, collectors, and anyone interested in early maps, whether beginners or experts. It includes broad introduction to maps and their materiality; particular consideration of atlases, maps in books, and bibliographical practices; hands-on printing with letterpress and intaglio presses; and in-class examination of maps and books from RBS's own collections.

June 5, 2025 - Richmond Please join The Library of Virginia Foundation for a presentation of select maps from the Elise H. Wright collection and other recent acquisitions, including the 5th state of "Joshua Fry's and Peter Jefferson's A Map of the most Inhabited Part of Virginia...(1775-1782)" and the 1st state of Cornelis van Wytfliet's "Norumbega et Virginia, 1597". We will also say farewell to the exhibition "Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816-1826", which closes on June 7. Please RSVP by June 3.

June 5, 2025 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Casey Price (Recent Ph.D. Graduate and Visiting Teaching Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) will discuss Our Fire Sits Here’: The French Cartography of Indigenous Coalescence in the Native South.

June 6, 2025 – Oxford The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society is planning a one day event. In the morning will be a map cataloguing training session, aimed at people who look after map, book or manuscript collections and would like further training on dealing with maps. The afternoon will be the MCG Workshop. Both events will be in person, at the Bahari Room, Weston Library, and people are welcome to sign up for either or both parts. Registration is required. Additional information from <martin.davis(at)cartography.org.uk> or <debbie.hall(at)cartography.org.uk>.

June 7, 2025 – London The Annual General Meeting of the International Map Collectors' Society will be held at 10am in the Library, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore.

June 7-8, 2025 - London The London Map Fair will be at its usual location of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore. At 14:30 on Saturday, journalist and author Nicholas Nugen will speak about Spices, Maps and the origins of global sea trade.

June 10, 2025 – Washington (Online) Reference librarians will give a brief overview of maps and other cartographic items from World War II that can be found in the Geography and Map collections at the Library of Congress. The session will be 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern). This session will highlight items made by American forces, as well as captured maps made by the Axis powers. The breadth and content of these items and how they came to the Geography and Map Division will be discussed. Participants will learn how to search for and access them online or in person. The focus of the session will be on maps and online resources available to all patrons any time or place in the world, but attendees will also learn how to prepare for a future trip to the reading room. After the presentation, staff look forward to answering additional questions from attendees. Register for this session.

June 11, 2025 – Chicago You are invited to join the Chicago Map Society for a special field trip at the MacLean Collection. 4:30 p.m. – doors open, light refreshments; 5:00 p.m. – presentation by Dr. Patrick Ellis from the University of Tampa: Ongoing Research at the MacLean Collection. Note: This limited-attendance event is for current members of the Chicago Map Society only, however, there is still time to join. Members: click here to reserve. Non-members: click here to join.

June 11, 2025 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Djoeke van Netten will discuss Frozen sea and melting ice. Cartography of the North Pole at 8:00 p.m. in SteM Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14.

June 12, 2025 - Oxford (Online) Today's meeting of 32nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography has been canceled.

June 12, 2025 – Vienna An International Conference on the History of Map Collecting Vienna, Central Europe and Beyond will be at University of Vienna. The conference will be organised jointly by the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting (Austria) and Moravian Library in Brno (Czech Republic) and will be accompanied by a poster exhibition on Bernard Paul Moll composite atlas preserved at Moravian Library which originated in Vienna in the 18th century. Should you have further questions, please contact the organizers Eva Chodějovská <chodejovska(at)mzk.cz> and Silvia Tammaro <silvia.tammaro(at)univie.ac.at>).

June 14, 2025 - Brooklyn The New York Map Society offers a private tour at 2:00pm for up to 20 current and former members (current members getting precedence) of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, 923 Putnam Ave, normally open only by appointment. RSVP to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> to attend, and include what material you'd like displayed.

June 15, 2025 - Kingston, New York Take a journey through time with this illustrated talk, Ulster in Maps: 1752 – 1951. Phil Ryan (adjunct professor in the Media and Communication Dept., The City College of New York) will explore how Ulster County has evolved through a fascinating collection of historic maps from 1752 to 1951. From early land use and transportation routes to emerging towns and shifting boundaries, these maps reveal the county’s transformation over a century. Join former Ulster County Historical Society Board President Phil Ryan for an engaging presentation, with opportunities to ask questions and closely examine the featured maps after the talk. Talk will be in Ulster County Historical Society Museum, 2682 State Route 209, from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm. This event is free, but seating is limited—please reserve your spot in advance.

June 16-20, 2025 - London Maps are simultaneously ubiquitous in everyday life yet also strangely absent from much scholarly work outside the niche field of the history of cartography. How to catalogue, study, and discuss maps as historical sources for research is a subject that draws insight from critical bibliography, the history of the book, historical geography, and other subjects, making it an interdisciplinary and dynamic field. A History of Maps and Mapping is a London Rare Book School course (University of London, Senate House, Malet Street), convened by Katherine Parker.

June 16-20, 2025 - Mexico City Since 1987 and during twenty meetings, an academic network has been consolidated between the geographic community of Latin America and the Caribbean, to face the social, economic, political, environmental and cultural challenges that the region faces. From the diversity of the territories, based on research and teaching, spaces have been built to promote the exchange of knowledge and expertise, which contribute to consolidating the identity of the geographies in the region. For this reason, the National Autonomous University of Mexico is pleased to host the "XX Meeting of Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean" at the Ciudad Universitaria campus in Mexico City. André Reyes Novaes (UERJ - BR), Carolina Martinez (CONICET - AR) and Mariana Lamego (UERJ - BR) will host a session History of cartography and geographical imagination in Latin America. This panel aims to discuss the role of cartographic images in shaping imaginative geographies in Latin America. More information from <mariana.lamego(at)uerj.br>.

June 22, 2025 – Bethany, Connecticut The Connecticut Map Society will have a Field Trip to Whitlock Book Barn, 20 Sperry Road, at 2:00pm. A Connecticut treasure, Whitlock’s Book Barn has been in business since 1948. In its two red barns, you’ll find hundreds of used books and maps. Because map lovers tend to be book lovers, we think this field trip is for you. Store Manager Meg Turner will preside, describing the store’s history and showing us a selection of maps from the collection. Thereafter, you’re free to browse their maps and books.

June 27, 2025 - Paris The CartAsia programme, launched in 2024 as part of the Bibliothèque nationale de France's four-year research plan, is studying a large body of East Asian cartography held in the library's collections. Conducted by the Department of Maps and Plans, with the support of a number of scientific and institutional partners in France and around the world, the aim of the project is to raise awareness of and provide access to this dispersed and hitherto difficult-to-identify collection. This second study day, La cartographie d'Asie de l'Est à la BnF : construction et composition d’une collection nationale (XVIIe-XXe siècle), will focus on the Korean corpus and on the major collections of East Asian cartography held in Parisian institutions. It will be held in Richelieu – Salle des conferences, 5, rue Vivienne. Additional information from Catherine Hofmann <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.

June 28, 2025 - Stanford (Hybrid) The California Map Society spring conference will be in David Rumsey Map Center, Green Library, Stanford University, from 10:00 am - 4:30 pm. Hear from a superb group of speakers about historic and modern-day maps. To register for attending either in-person, click here. To register to attend by Zoom, click here.

July 8-11, 2025 – Paris The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) will hold their annual conference at Campus Condorcet. The theme is Mapping the Cultural Crossroads. A two-day Workshop (8-9 July) for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, will precede the Symposium (10-11 July). Post-event trip to Vincennes with guided tour through the cartographic treasures of the Historical Archives Center kept in the Château de Vincennes, a former fortress and royal residence dating back to 14th century is planned for 12 July. The Annual General Meeting will be held in person and online at 18:15 Paris time on 10 July. Click here to join the Annual Meeting. Additional details online.

July 24, 2025 - Boulder Join with the Rocky Mountain Map Society for Summer social event at CU Map Library, in the Benson Earth Sciences building (2200 Colorado Ave.)! There will be:
     10:00 -11:00 Optional viewing time for Topophilia exhibition
     11:00 -12:00 “Astrotopophilia” lecture by Sam Cartwright. This talk will trace the history of planetary cartography from the earliest telescope sketches to today’s high-resolution imagery.
     12:00 -1:00 Lunch and participant show-and-tell (bring a map!) RMMS will provide a choice of sandwich options, simple sides and beverages. $10 contribution per person, please. Please RSVP to Naomi Heiser <naomi.heiser(at)colorado.edu> so we know how many lunches to provide.
     1:00 - 2:00 Optional viewing time for Topophilia exhibition

August 5, 2025 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado Center. Program will be in the Martin Room, on the 4th floor. Mark S. Hanson purchased a cabin in Tarryall Valley where Mark began field mapping and researching the area’s mining history, eventually leading to his book Tarryall Gold: From Rush to Hush which he will discuss. We will offer this program in person and via Zoom. To attend by Zoom, click here when program starts.

August 8, 2025 - Boston If we organized maps by something like their length, would we still see patterns emerge? Could we learn something about geography and history from looking at the longest maps in a library? It turns out, the answer is “Yes.” In this Cartography at Length: The Longest Maps in the Library — From the Vault Collections Showing, we dive into some of the longest and tallest maps in the LMEC archives, all of which are at least 3 times as wide as they are tall (or vice versa). Drop in any time between 2:00PM - 4:00PM in Leventhal Map & Education Center, Central Library in Copley Square. No reservation is required.

August 11–15, 2025 - Los Angeles Ian Fowler (Curator of Maps, History, and Government Information; New York Public Library) will be teaching a California Rare Book School course on the History of Cartography at UCLA. This course is designed to provide a general overview of the history of mapping in the western world as well as the use of cartographic resources in modern day teaching and research.

August 12, 2025 – Washington (Online) Join Library of Congress reference librarians for an introduction to the Geography and Map collections at the Library of Congress. The session will be 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern). This orientation session, aimed at the general public, will highlight a wide range of cartographic formats and subject matter. The focus of the session will be on maps and online resources available to all patrons any time or place in the world. Topics covered will also include search tips and tricks, research and collection guides, ways to engage with the collections online, and how to prepare for a future trip to the reading room. After the presentation, staff look forward to answering additional questions from attendees. Register for this session.

August 26-29, 2025 – Birmingham (Hybrid) The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2025 will be held at the University of Birmingham. It will be chaired by Professor Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham, UK), on the theme of “Geographies of creativity/creative geographies”. Registration for the conference is open.