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January 7, 2026 - London (Online) The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, London invites you to watch the British Archaeological Association lecture live on YouTube at 5:30pm. Dr David Harrison (retired Clerk of the House of Commons) will discuss Mapping England and Wales in the Late Middle Ages: roads, transport infrastructure and key destinations. This lecture focuses on the evidence for the major national roads of England and Wales in the late Middle Ages and the key destinations they linked, including accounts from contemporary travellers, itineraries, maps, and the surviving bridges. It pinpoints the major cities and towns that the roads connected, as well as great monastic houses, palaces, and castles in use during the period 1450-1500. It also marks historic battlefields—many clustered along the main north-south routes.
January 15, 2026 - 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 Wendy Sheppard, John Mellor, Barb Clausen, and Jared Streeter from the mapping unit at the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). They will discuss How Illinois Maps Itself: the history of mapping at IDOT, the current official State of Illinois highway map, the 100th anniversary of Route 66 map for the celebration in 2026, and IDOT’s move towards interactive maps.
January 15, 2026 - Oxford Maps have played a central role in our understanding of what and where 'the north' is. At the same time, for much of history the northernmost reaches of our world have been difficult to navigate and verify – from mythical islands on medieval maps to the itineraries of Arctic explorers in the 19th century. This has inspired inventive mapping strategies, as well as ongoing struggles to define what constitutes believable cartographic information. In conversation with Samuel Fanous, Charlotta Forss (Associate Professor in History at Södertörn University, Stockholm) will share a cartographic journey across six centuries, exploring the rich and sometimes contentious history of how mapmakers have understood and processed knowledge about a region they described as ‘the north’. Mapping the North / Myth, Exploration, Encounter will be held at 13.00–14.00 (GMT) in the Weston Library. Booking is essential. For further details, please contact: <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk> or 01865 287119.
January 16-17, 2026 - Milan The 10th Milan Map Fair returns: the international fair of antique cartography and city views in the heart of Milan. The exhibition will showcase its precious specimens at the Rotonda del Pellegrini, Via delle Ore n. 3, a short walk from the Duomo. The international fair dedicated to cartography and antique prints, which, due to the importance of the pieces offered, has established itself as the most important in Italy, will host dealers from all over Italy and important European and US exhibitors. Hours: January 16 – 2:30 PM/6:00 PM - January 17 – 10:30 AM/5:00 PM. Admission is free.
January 20, 2026 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado, 1200 N Broadway. In 1860, Jefferson Territory overlapped Utah, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Kansas. Federal law included territories in the decennial census, providing more flexibility in counting residents than states received. Census data was originally collected to allocate representatives and manage taxation. Today, online census records provide detailed insights into families, communities, and migration. Census takers sometimes made mistakes but rarely missed entire settled areas. Nancy Prince will discuss The Influence of Four 1860 Territorial Censuses on the Development of the Colorado Map. Please register and get a free ticket for entry to History Colorado for this event, or click here when meeting starts for the Zoom conference (no registration required for Zoom).
January 22, 2026 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Mark Giordano (Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Professor of Geography, Georgetown University) will discuss Teaching Geopolitics with Maps. Georgetown University’s “Map of the Modern World” is likely the largest class in the world that still uses maps to teach geopolitics and world affairs. The current instructor will provide examples of how historic and contemporary maps and custom cartography are used to engage students in global issues and help them understand international challenges from multiple perspectives.
January 22, 2026 - Wiliamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle is pleased to announce that our own Bill Barker (Retired Archivist from the Mariner's Museum) will be speaking on the topic of Manuscript British Track Charts from the Napoleonic Wars currently in the Collection of the Mariners' Museum Library. He will be presenting his talk at 5PM at The Williamsburg Landing, APA Auditorium. Please RSVP to Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com>.
January 24, 2026 - Chicago Join us 12:00pm–3:00pm for our winter NewberryFest, designed to help both new and returning visitors learn more about the Newberry. This year's cartography-focused event will lean into our extensive collection of maps from across time and place and take over the first floor of the library, providing unique opportunities for engagement, education, and enjoyment! NewberryFest is a free and open to all. Come face-to-face with extraordinary maps and related items from our collections and have your questions answered by our expert librarians and curators. Learn from our map curator about how to find and enjoy materials in our collection in Ruggles Hall from 12 to 12:30pm.
January 24, 2026 - Lucerne The Historical Society of Central Switzerland will hold a Central Swiss History Day 2026 – Map History from Central Switzerland. Renowned speakers will present contributions to the map history of Central Switzerland, including a guided tour of the Central and University Library of Lucerne and refreshments during breaks. Click here to register; registration deadline: January 9, 2026.
January 27, 2026 - New York (Online) Jonah Rosenberg, new President of the New York Map Society and head of rare books at Arader Galleries, will speak at 7:00pm (ET) about Dutch Gold: Mapping Dominance in the 17th century, the first in a planned lecture series by Jonah. Dutch (and adjacent) mapping is the gold-standard for the 17th century, and the atlases of the Golden Age are among the most eagerly sought cartographic prizes. Rosenberg will survey the charts, put them in the context of exploration and in printmaking in the era, and share some highlights of the Arader Gallery collections. RSVP to <kapochunas(at)gmail.com> to receive a Zoom link nearer the day.
January 28-30, 2026 - London Do you have an interest in the history of a specific place, landscape and/or historical theme? Would you like to learn more about the evolution of cartography, including how to use old maps in your research? With a focus on mapping practices in Britain and Western Europe between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, this new 3-day Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place / Discovery Course 1 will introduce you to our vast range of physical map collections, historical maps and topographical rare books. Course is offered by Institute of Historical Research.
January 29, 2026 – London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's Maps and Society lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Elizabeth Chant (University of Warwick): Road Maps, Leisure Travel and Petro-modernity in 20th Century Argentina. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
January 30, 2026 - Killingworth, Connecticut Did you miss Brian Tims’s other talk? Join with the Connecticut Map Society for this encore presentation of Antique Map Collecting 101: Foxing, soiling, and worm holes, oh my! as Brian travels the state in the name of maps. Meeting will be at 6pm in Killingworth Library, 301 Route 81. Click here to view the event on the library’s website and to pre-register (after December 5).
February 6, 2026 - Edinburgh - Ever wondered what secrets lie in a map? Or wanted to go behind the scenes of a major collection? Do you just love maps? Join with the National Library of Scotland, Causewayside Building, for the Map Festival, a day dedicated to all things cartographic. Discover the amazing maps and aerial photographs held by: Edinburgh City Archives, Historic Environment Scotland, National Collection of Aerial Photography, National Library of Scotland, National Records of Scotland, and University of Edinburgh. This is a hands-on event for everyone. This is a free drop-in event between 10:30AM to 4:00PM.
February 9, 2026 - London (Online) The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold its annual business meeting at 2pm on Teams. If you would like attend, or have any items for the agenda, please contact <martin.davis(at)cartography.org.uk> or <debbie.hall(at)cartography.org.uk> by Friday 6th February. We will send a meeting link and any papers in advance.
February 10, 2025 - Perth (Hybrid) A Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland conference will be held 9am-6pm at UHI Perth. The research project is a collaboration between The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies and our partners from the National Library of Scotland and Landscape Research Group. Though the purpose of a map may superficially be merely functional, educational or descriptive, the very act of its production will have necessitated some level of selectivity. Such selectivity can include the features presented, the scale used, where the map is centered, the annotations used and where boundaries and borders are placed. This project asks why and how such choices are made and how these choices have impacted the way that geography, cosmology, history, geology and identity has been perceived in Scotland. Registration required.
February 12, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) will talk about Map Readings – ‘Lies of the Land: Painted maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France'. 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 12, 2026 - Philadelphia (Hybrid) Emanuele Lugli (Stanford University & the 2025-2026 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies) will talk about The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe. In early modern Europe, fashion and cartography shared far more common ground than is usually acknowledged. Popular costume books, much like geographical atlases, helped shape emerging ideas of nationhood, while maps disseminated notions of local dress across the world. Yet despite these shared aims, the connection between the two fields has gone largely unnoticed. This talk argues that this overlooked convergence is precisely where fashion, as we understand it, first took shape. Lecture will be held 5:15 - 6:30 pm EST at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th Floor, 3420 Walnut Street. Register for in-person or online attendance.
February 17, 2026 - New York (Online) New York Map Society Secretary Andrew Kapochunas has, for over a decade, helped people find an image of their ancestral village on an antique map. After recent presentations to JewishGen’s LitvakSIG group and the St. Louis Genealogical Society he’s decided to show How to find any village in Central and Eastern Europe on an antique topographical map to a map audience. In this Zoom lecture, at 7:00pm (ET), he will explain the step-by-step process he himself follows as he searches for images of three towns with which he has deep personal connections. RSVP to <kapochunas@gmail.com> to receive a Zoom link nearer the day.
February 19, 2026 - 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 Kris Butler Drink Maps. Take a journey through drunken Victorian Britain told through maps made to convince law makers to stop granting liquor licenses. A “drink map” may sound like a pub guide, yet it refers to late 19th century maps designed to shock people by showing at a glance the numerous places where alcohol could be purchased. Did these lovely temperance tools inspire anger – or did they just make people thirsty? Admire lovely examples while hearing the story.
February 19–21, 2026 - San Francisco The Renaissance Society of America will hold its 72nd Annual Meeting at the San Francisco Hilton Union Square. Ricardo Padrón, Asa Mittman, and Dan Terkla will be having a panel Premodern Mapping Today. They are planning to have papers which address any aspect of mapping in the premodern world (pre-1700), from any mapping tradition. Additional information from Ricardo Padrón <padron(at)virginia.edu>.
February 19, 2026 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. This meeting is arranged in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Whether a trail map of a serene forest or a plot of historical markers in a bustling city, maps help us understand and connect to the spaces we inhabit, creating a feeling of topophilia, or “love of place”. In this talk Astrotopophilia: A Love of Place with Maps of Space, Sam Cartwright (PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder) will trace the history of planetary cartography from the earliest telescope sketches to today’s high-resolution imagery and explore the indelible link between maps and humanity’s fascination with space.
February 24, 2026 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Adrian Webb will discuss Churchill’s secret chart-makers All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom and joining instructions will be circulated nearer the time. Please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk> if you wish to join the mailing list. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at <sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk>, tel. 01223 330476.
February 24, 2026 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado, 1200 N Broadway. Michael Buehler (owner of Boston Rare Maps) will discuss Where the *%&^# is Polypotamia? Mapping proto-states in the early Republic. This program addresses the question, “What do contemporary maps reveal about state creation in Trans-Appalachia in the years immediately after the Revolution?” This program is illustrated using images of rare, important, and deeply interesting American maps of the era. Please register and get a free ticket for entry to History Colorado for this event, or click here when meeting starts for the Zoom conference (no registration required for Zoom).
February 26, 2026 – London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's Maps and Society lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Bob Headland (Scott Polar Research Institute): Cartographical Conundrums and Antarctic Sovereignty. Hakluyt Society Speaker. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
March 7, 2026 - Perth Maps don’t just show us where places are – they show us how people saw the world. Chris Fleet (Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland) will explore a History of Perth in Ten Maps, each offering a glimpse into the city and its people over 400 years. From state integration and military conquest to civic improvement and developing communications, he’ll look at why these maps were made, how they reveal changing priorities over time, and how easy it is to explore them on the National Library’s Maps website. This event is free at 14:30 in the Bell Library, Perth, but prebooking is required.
March 12, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will talk about The unique large-format print of the General Map of the Qing Empire by Li Mingche李明徹 (1751–1832) in Göttingen: tracing its cartographical origins and journey to a German university. 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.
March 17, 2026 - London Steve Hanon will be running the next International Map Collector’s Society Show & Tell. If you are interested in participating, please email him at <steve.hanon(at)gmail.com>. Additional details to be released.
March 19, 2026 - 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. – Mark Cruse will discuss Marco Polo, Amerasia, and French Exploration in the Sixteenth Century. This illustrated lecture discusses the ways in which Marco Polo’s book, The Description of the World, shaped expectations about the inhabitants, resources, and size of the Americas in sixteenth-century France. Polo composed his book in French in 1298, and the French nobility were among its earliest and most devoted readers. Polo’s Description was an essential reference for French cartography, cosmography, and exploration for centuries, and offers crucial insight into France’s early colonial activity.
March 19, 2026 – Washington (Online) Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Louis Miller (Assistant Director for Research and Fellowship Programs and Cartographic Reference and Teaching Librarian, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine) will speak about Resurrecting ‘Rhat Soupe’: Alcohol and Allegorical Maps in Mid-19th Century America.
March 24, 2026 - Denver (Hybrid) The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado, 1200 N Broadway. Learn about one of the earliest European expeditions through present-day Colorado with History Colorado curator Jeremy Morton as we tour the exhibition Expedition 1776: The Journey of Domínguez & Escalante. The tour will be preceded by a brief talk by Wesley Brown about maps in the exhibit.
March 26, 2026 – London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's Maps and Society lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Mimi Cheng (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz): Aesthetics and Authority in 19th Century Maps of China. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
April 8-10, 2026 - La Plata, Buenos Aires The XI Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía will take place in Sergio Karakachoff Graduate Center – National University of La Plata, located at 7th Street, No. 776. Theme is "Mapear y proyectar. Territorios dibujados, diseñados y representados." Registration is free, and the official languages will be Spanish and Portuguese. Contact email: <xisiahc(at)gmail.com>.
April 10, 2026 - Paris The History Commission of the French Cartography Committee and the National Library of France are joining forces to organise a one-day symposium to coincide with the exhibition “Cartes imaginaires, imaginaire des cartes <Maps of the Imagination, Imagination of Maps>”. The symposium will be held at the François-Mitterrand site of the BnF in Paris. Additional information from Catherine Hofmann <catherine.hofmann(at)bnf.fr>.
April 16, 2026 - 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. – Nicholas Lowe will be speaking. Lowe is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer, educator and curator whose work is known for its contextual and documentary approaches. He holds tenure at the School Of The Art Institute of Chicago as the John H Bryan Chair of Historic Preservation. He is a board member of the International Panorama Council.
April 23, 2026 – Washington The Washington Map Society will meet at 3:30 pm in the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st Street, NW for a curator led Tour of the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection. Kasey M. Sease (Curator, Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection) will introduce society members to the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection and D.C. history exhibitions on view. Guests will have the opportunity to explore maps off-display in the Albert H. Small Center for National Capital Area Studies. At 6:00 pm the group reconvenes for social gathering at Tonic Restaurant (formerly Quigley’s Pharmacy) across the street at 2036 G Street, NW. Tatter Tots and first Tincture of Tonic will be provided. Social Hour organized by Andrew Reynolds (Membership Chair) and Ronald Grim (Program Chair). Registration limited to 30 people. Link for registration will be available later in January.
May 5, 2026 - Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm UK time. Juliette Dumasy, Université d’Orléans, will discuss The rise of local cartography in Europe, 12th-14th century. All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom and joining instructions will be circulated nearer the time. Please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk> if you wish to join the mailing list. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at <sarah.bendall(at)emma.cam.ac.uk>, tel. 01223 330476.
May 7, 2026 – London (Hybrid) We're very pleased to invite you to this year's Maps and Society lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will start at the usual time of 5pm (GMT) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person. For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the Teaching Suite at the Warburg Institute and will be followed by refreshments. For those wishing to attend online, please register online in advance to receive a Zoom link on the day. Anthony Terry (Independent Researcher): The Derrotero Ingles: Unravelling the Mysteries of an early 18th Century English Waggoner in Peru. Any enquiries, please email <c.delano-smith(at)sas.ac.uk> or <philip.jagessar(at)kcl.ac.uk>.
May 21, 2026 - 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. – John Scheckter will discuss Our 3 Majors Killed Here: Public and Private Maps of World War I. After the Australian Imperial Force evacuated Gallipoli in 1915, Major R. F. Fitz-Gerald acquired a souvenir map of the battle zone, and marked it with symbols and captions to show his own experience there. We will look closely at this map, its origins and purposes, and at Fitz-Gerald’s continued practice of overwriting and annotating documents, as he transformed mass-produced, often banal, public records of war into meaningful, even therapeutic, personal memoranda of survival.
June 4, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will discuss Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth century. Click here to book your place. For further details please contact: Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.
June 6, 2026 – London The Annual General Meeting of the International Map Collectors' Society will be held at Royal Geographical Society, Additional details to be announced.
June 6-7, 2026 - London The largest Antique Map Fair in Europe, established 1980, is the London Map Fair. It will be held in the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore. Saturday 12.00 pm to 7.00 pm and Sunday 10.00 am to 6.00 pm.
June 18, 2026 - Oxford (Online) The 33nd Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom Webinar. JNick Bolton (CEO, Ordnance Survey) will discuss Ordnance Survey: twenty-first-century National Mapping Agency. Click here to book your place. For further details please contact: Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by: The Friends of TOSCA / The Bodleian Libraries / The School of Geography and the Environment / The Charles Close Society / Lovell Johns Ltd.
July 7-11, 2026 – Prague & Brno The 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography will have as its primary venue the main building of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6. The theme is Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography. Additional information from <ichc2026(at)hiu.cas.cz>.
July 29-August 1, 2026 – St. John's, Newfoundland The Society for the History of Discoveries annual conference will be held at Memorial University. Wednesday, July 29 we will have a reception and presentation in the evening. Panels will run all day Thursday and Friday, with the Annual Banquet Thursday evening. Saturday, August 1, there will be optional tours/excursions. Additional details remain to be determined.
September 8-9, 2026 - Edinburgh The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will have a workshop on 8 September and the British Cartographic Society will hold its annual conference on 9 September. More details will be published shortly.
September 12, 2026 - Amsterdam The third Amsterdam Map Fair will be held at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam from 10.00 – 17.00. Free entry to The Maritime Museum, 33 national and international antiquarian map dealers will sell antique nautical charts, maps, atlases, globes and prints. With three lectures.
October 1-3, 2026 – Arlington, Texas The 15th biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography will be conjoined with the Texas Map Society’s annual meeting. Both events will take place in the Central Library at the University of Texas at Arlington. The Virginia Garrett Lectures will take place on Thursday and Friday and will focus on the cartography of Antarctica. The Texas Map Society’s meeting will take place on Saturday. Additional details and registration will be available in May 2026.
October 7-10, 2026 - Denver The Western Association of Map Libraries annual conference will be held at Denver Public Library, 10 W 14th Ave.
November 9-13, 2026 - Tokyo and Kyoto The International Map Collectors' Society has been invited by the Japan Map Society to participate in a conference that they would host for international guests with most of the program in English. A pre-symposium tour is planned on 8 November to Nikko and a post-symposium tour is planned for 14-15 September to Kyushu; Japan's most southerly island. Program currently is tentative.
2027
September 8-12, 2027 – Amsterdam The International Map Collectors' Society will be holding their International Symposium around the weekend of the Amsterdam Map Fair. Dates are tentative and more information to come.