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March 2, 2023 – London (Online) The Thirty-Second Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Peter Barber (formerly Map Library, British Library), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London). Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at the Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm (admission free). Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. Enquiries: <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>. Circumstances are still not normal, though, and although we are anxious to return to the usual in-person meetings as soon as possible, uncertainty over the continuing pandemic means that only some meetings are scheduled to be in-person and that even these may have to be switched to be remote should conditions dictate. Those planning to attend a meeting (there is no charge) please consult the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register and, for the remote meetings, to be sent a link with guidelines. In all cases, however, do please check online for the location and form of each meeting in case of last-minute changes. Dr Bertie Mandelblatt (George S. Parker II '52 Curator of Maps and Prints, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island) will discuss Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery: the Vicomte de Rochambeau and Cartographic Dreams of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Caribbean. Speaker from the Hakluyt Society (remote - GMT)
March 4, 2023 - Bruges The Brussels Map Circle will visit the Pieter Pourbus. Master of Maps exhibition in Groeningemuseum, Dijver 12. Meet at 10.00. Please register by mail before 1 March 2023 to <pierre.dumolin(at)skynet.be> and mention if you participate in the lunch.
March 4, 2022 - San Francisco (Hybrid) Join with Bay Area Map Group Meeting at 10am, for an in-person gathering of friends at the home of Tom Paper and Eleanor Bigelow, in San Francisco. You can share a map or just hang out and listen. If you plan to share, please email Tom <tom(at)websterpacific.com>. To register for attending in-person, click here. You can also Zoom in here around 10:30am (no registration necessary) but please understand the Zoom will be low-tech and sharing will be limited to those in-person.
March 7, 2023 - Denver (Hybrid) Susan Schulten (Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Denver) will speak to the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Meeting starts at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado, Research Center, downtown Denver. Attendees should enter the building at the staff entrance, on Lincoln St. between 12th and 13th Avenues. There will be a greeter at that door for the RMMS event. Shulten will discuss How Emma Willard Mapped Time. Emma Willard was among the nineteenth century’s most influential educators. She broke new ground in female education, shaped the advent of public schooling, and was widely known for her textbooks and atlases. Central to this success was her conviction that history and geography were not just interdependent subjects, but best learned through visuals. To that end, from the 1820 through the 1860s she produced a wide array of graphics that show us a mind reckoning with the very meaning of time and space through an era of unprecedented expansion, dislocation, and conflict. Please email naomi.heiser@colorado.edu for the Zoom link and any questions.
March 8, 2023 - Austin (Online) The Harry Ransom Center is home to one of only three intact copies of the first state of Joan Blaeu’s nearly 7' x 10’ (2m x 3m) wall map of the world, a map that stands as one of early modern Europe’s greatest cartographic achievements. At its size and price, copies of Blaeu's map would have been destined almost exclusively for the walls of the powerful and affluent, but we know almost nothing about the particular history of the Center’s copy before 1969, when it appeared in a catalog from the New York bookseller, H.P. Kraus. The map itself, however, does carry with it some clues about its past, ones that the Center's conservation and exhibitions teams took pains to preserve as they painstakingly worked to stabilize and frame it for display in our galleries. Grappling with a Monumental Map: Joan Blaeu's Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula (1648) is a virtual program with the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Speakers are Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, PhD (Associate Director for Preservation and Conservation at the Harry Ransom Center) and Aaron Pratt, PhD (Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center). Free & online via Zoom 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST. Register here.
March 9, 2023 - Bruges Cultuurbibliotheek Stock Laureyns, Magdalenastraat 30, invites Philippe De Maeyer to give a lecture Hoe sociaaleconomische, wetenschappelijke en technische ontwikkelingen de 19de eeuwse cartografie hertekenden [How socio-economic, scientific and technical developments redrawn 19th century cartography]. The consequences of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution reshaped Western European society. This cartographic revolution for Belgium is discussed on the basis of map series from the nineteenth century. New economic models, social relations and needs also created new demands for inventories. As an industrial power in the mid-nineteenth century, the challenges in present-day Belgium were all the greater. Thematic maps based on better topographical backgrounds provided an answer to the new questions.Lecture will be at 20.00. Contact: Claude Anthierens: Telephone: +32 50 40 68 55, E-mail: info(at)cultuurbibliotheek.be
March 9, 2023 - Paris The Bibliothèque Nationale de France Richelieu, 5 rue Vivienne, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm will have a conference Cartographies du Monde et Projets Cosmographiques à la Renaissance [Cartographies Of The World And Cosmographic Projects During The Renaissance]. As part of the cycle of conferences around the history of cartography from Antiquity to the present day, this session focuses on world maps and cosmographic projects during the Renaissance. Lecture by Georges Tolias , EPHE, historical and philological sciences section.
March 15, 2023 - Bamberg (Online) The UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium warmly invites you to the third semester of our online, midday academic talks on issues connected to our research interests on mapping man-made and natural catastrophes, heritage, urban planning, and digital tools used for researching these. Meetings take place every third Wednesday of each month at noon (Central European (Summer) Time (CET/CEST)). They will last for an hour (including Q&A) and will provide an exciting platform to discuss with international scholars their research and exchange ideas. If interested, please email us at <talks.urbanmetamapping(at)uni-bamberg.de> to receive access to our Zoom meeting room. We look forward to you joining us for the UrbanMetaMapping Seminar Series! Łukasz Musiaka (Uniwersytet Łódźki): Post World War II recovery of small towns. Past and present challenges of spatial transformation in the Recovered Territories of Poland
March 15, 2023 – Ocean View, Delaware The Historic Village in Ocean View announces the next presentation in its 2023 Lecture Series will be held at 7 p.m. at Hall’s Store Education and Visitor Center, 32 West Ave. George Kent, Ocean View resident and Principal Cartographer and Mapping Supervisor at the Delaware State Highway Department (1965-2013), will discuss the history of Delaware mapping and the State’s long battle with border disputes. How was the southern boundary starting point of Delaware selected on a deserted beach at Fenwick Island? Who in the world is Thomas West? Why did early maps of Delaware display the west direction pointing up? Where is the Mason Dixon line? This lecture is free to the public.
March 16, 2023 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St., at 5:30 pm with a social half-hour, followed by an hour presentation. Susan Schulten, Professor of History (University of Denver) will speak about Emma Willard, Maps of History.
March 16, 2023 - USA (Online) The 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, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. George Barros (Geospatial Intelligence Team Lead and Russia Analyst, Institute for the Study of War, Washington, DC) will discuss Open-Source Maps: Mapping the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. This briefing will focus on the Institute for the Study of War’s open-source methodology as their team collects, processes, analyzes, and interprets data that supports their maps and written prose assessments. The brief will also present analytical decisions ISW has made on how they structure maps, what they show and do not show, how they do source characterization, caveat confidence levels, and leverage remote sensing technology.
March 16, 2023 - Vancouver Join us for an end-of-day author talk and social event at Koerner Library, University of British Columbia, from 4:30pm - 5:00pm! Map enthusiast Kris Bulter's "The Drink Map Book: British Temperance Maps of the 1800s" is due out next spring. She will discuss A two minute walk between beers: Legislative attempts to map alcohol ‘needs' of 19th century British neighborhoods. In the midst of rapidly growing cities and soaring rates of alcohol consumption, British temperance groups faced resistance in the accepted notion of ’neighbourhood needs’ and widespread belief in healthful drinking. In response, they created maps to show the lawmakers entrusted with granting liquor licenses just how many public houses were already cramped together. These ‘Drink Maps’ were convincing. One judge explained his decision, after refusing to renew half the liquor license in his town, that no man could complain about having to walk just two minutes to purchase his next beer. After this short talk we will walk as a group to one of our nearby campus pubs for a social mappy hour.
March 18, 2023 - Zurich Magnificent atlases – georeference old maps will be presented 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m in Hermann-Escher-Saal, Zentralbibliothek Zürich. We invite you to work with us on this exciting task. With your commitment, you contribute to a treasure trove of maps from the 15th-17th centuries. century by making it easier to read and compare. Georeferencing on the "Old Maps Online" web platform is intuitive and mostly simple. But there are also a few challenging nuts and bolts waiting for those who are particularly interested. On the research trip through the old atlases, you will not only gain an insight into the development of the atlases with their maps, which were increasingly elaborate and magnificently designed up to the 17th century. You will also discover how the outlines of landmasses on maps have changed as the world has been explored, or how borders have shifted as a result of conflicts. There are also imaginary islands and sea monsters to be discovered in the ocean and wild animals on land.
March 21, 2023 – Vienna The Institute for Strategy and Security Policy of the Austrian National Defense Academy kindly invites you to the scientific public lecture entitled: The da Vinci Globe dating from 1504 and the first division of the world by Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne, RGS Fellow. Lecture is at 5:00 p.m.at the Austrian National Defense Academy, Sala Terrena, Stiftgasse 2a. Please note that the Austrian National Defence Academy is a military area. Access is only possible for guests with a confirmed registration via email and who show a valid photo and ID. The registration via Email at <lvak.iss(at)bmlv.gv.at> is open until 15 March 2023.
March 22, 2023 - Zurich The famous St. Galler Globus has been online since the end of November 2022. The St. Gallen Globe is one of the most important cultural and historical objects in Switzerland. Research in recent years has shown that it was designed by Tileman Stella and completed around 1576. It combines heaven and earth on the same spherical surface. The original belongs to the Zurich Central Library and is now in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. A true-to-the-original replica is in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. The newly developed online globe makes it possible to conveniently view all the details of the 2.3 meter high instrument, regardless of time and place. Der virtuelle St. Galler Globus. Ein Werkstattgespräch [The virtual St. Gallen globe. A workshop talk] will be held in Hermann-Escher-Saal, Zentralbibliothek Zürich from 18:00 – 19:00.
March 23, 2023 – London (Hybrid) The Thirty-Second Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Peter Barber (formerly Map Library, British Library), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London). Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at the Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm (admission free). Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. Enquiries: <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>. Circumstances are still not normal, though, and although we are anxious to return to the usual in-person meetings as soon as possible, uncertainty over the continuing pandemic means that only some meetings are scheduled to be in-person and that even these may have to be switched to be remote should conditions dictate. Those planning to attend a meeting (there is no charge) please consult the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register and, for the remote meetings, to be sent a link with guidelines. In all cases, however, do please check online for the location and form of each meeting in case of last-minute changes. LauraLee Brott (PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) will discuss The graphics of knowledge in the twelfth-century Tournai maps of Asia and Palestine (in-person).
March 23, 2023 - Sheffield (Online) The British Association for Local History, in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, will have a virtual lecture starting at 7:00pm. The Layers of London website brings together historic maps of London, covering 2,000 years of history, with content that has been created and uploaded by community groups, individuals and organisations across the capital and beyond. This talk by Matthew Davies will explore the origins and development of the project, introducing some of the techniques used to create the maps, as well as some of the important maps layers themselves. Book now online.
March 23, 2023 - Stanford (Online) Tracing Sea Routes on Maps: A Conversation on the European and Asian Contexts With Sara Caputo and Elke Papelitzky will be presented by the David Rumsey Map Center 12:00 - 1:30pm. Two leading experts will discuss the appearance and function of sea routes on European and East Asian maps, showing the interconnections of the early modern global maritime world. We have all seen tracks marching across the oceans of a map. Have you ever wondered where they came from and why they are there? In this online event, Sara Caputo (Cambridge) and Elke Papelitzky (KU Leuven) will share their ongoing research on route lines on European and East Asian maps, respectively. They will each give a brief presentation, followed by a conversation moderated by Katherine Parker (BLR Antique Maps). Register here.
March 24, 2023 – Berlin (Online) Topographic visual media have been and continue to be produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. Accordingly, the field of investigation includes maps and sea charts, topographic sketches, diagrams and plans, the mapping of planets and seas, and virtual spaces in computer graphics as well as landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There are many overlaps between these visual media in terms of techniques and types of spatial representation. Thus, we aim to understand and examine their functions and applications with regard to these interconnections. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to provide a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects and approaches from different disciplines, e.g. image, media and cultural studies, history of art or history of cartography. In our workshops, current research projects on topographic visual media are presented and discussed. Christian Welzbacher (Technische Universität Berlin) will speak about Building administration (Office of public works) in Prussia and the use of plans, maps and topographical drawings. The workshop will take place online via zoom starting at 14:00 CET. If you wish to register please subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us at <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> .
March 29, 2023 - Canberra (Hybrid) In-person (National Library, Canberra) and online, Meet the Author: Allen Mawer discusses his new book on Magellan from 5:30-6:30 pm AEDT. 500 years have now passed since Ferdinand Magellan’s famous voyage, the most audacious in maritime history. In his new book "East by West", Allen Mawer closely examines the historical sources, charts and eyewitness records, considering afresh what we know of Magellan and the details of his voyage. Allen Mawer is an author and historian who has written many well-received books on Canberra, Australian folklore, whaling and exploration. His best-known works in these genres are, respectively, Canberry Tales, Wild Colonial Boys, Ahab’s Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling and Incognita: The Invention and Discovery of Terra Australis. Allen is the President of the Canberra & District Historical Society and in a former life was a Senior Executive Service officer in the Australian Public Service. In conversation with Allen will be Dr Martin Woods, current President of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, and Curator of Maps at the National Library from 2005-2018. Book tickets here.
April 6, 2023 - Portland, Maine (Hybrid) All are invited to join with the Osher Map Library for the 2023 DiMatteo Lecture with Dr. Bill Rankin from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM. Dr. Rankin will present his lecture, Radical Cartography: Visual Argument in the Age of Data. This talk is an exploration of how new kinds of cartography can challenge the entrenched politics of mainstream mapping. By combining historical research on the history of data maps with Rankin’s own work as a cartographer over the last twenty years, it argues that contemporary cartography should be guided not just by new data or new technology, but by a new set of values. This lecture will take place in-person at Hannaford Hall in the Abromson Center on the University of Southern Maine Portland campus, and the event will be livestreamed on YouTube via this link.
April 6, 2023 - Sheffield (Online) The British Association for Local History, in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, will have a virtual lecture starting at 7:00pm. John Moore (retired librarian, University of Glasgow) will discuss Mapping Urban Britain from the Past to the Past: a Scottish view on three episodes in cartographic history. Three specific undertakings in the history of urban mapping in Great Britain over the last two centuries will be considered from a particularly Scottish point of view, beginning with the work of John Wood, a 19th century Edinburgh-based cartographer whose plans of Scottish towns, dating from 1818 to 1844 are reasonably well-known. Current research has identified a further series of plans of towns across much of England and Wales which warrant investigation. A century later, the Ordnance Survey produced an equally rare series of Town Maps at the uniform scale of six inches to the mile, in which Dundee was the only Scottish burgh surveyed. Both these sets of plans mapped the contemporary urban environment. Finally, the work of the Historic Towns Trust in the production of historical maps will be considered. Book now online.
April 11, 2023 - Denver (Online) Eliane Dotson (Old World Auctions) will present What’s My Map Worth? How to Value Antique Maps to the Rocky Mountain Map Society at 5:30 MT. Most of us have maps, whether in drawers, framed on walls, or in our attics. Have you ever wondered what your maps are worth? Join guest speaker, Eliane Dotson, as she shares secrets of the trade on how to value antique maps. Learn the difference between various types of values, such as insurance appraisals, dealer prices, and auction estimates. Discover which key factors most affect the value of a map, including color, state/edition, published format, and condition. Learn where to find information on current and historical prices for maps and how to evaluate the validity of the data. Although valuing antique maps takes many years to master, this lecture will guide both new and experienced collectors to a better understanding of why some maps are worth more than others, and will offer a step-by-step process to value your own collection. Contact Naomi E Heiser <Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu> for Zoom link.
April 13, 2023 – Miami (Online) Join Chet Van Duzer in conversation with Arthur Dunkelman, curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection as they look at the kinds of equipment available for recovering materials from shipwrecks in the late 17th century and discuss the manuscript atlases made by the English cartographer William Hack. The lecture Shipwrecks, Treasures, and Maps at the End of the 17th Century: The manuscript atlases of William Hack will be held 1:00-2:30 pm (EDT) online. Click here to reserve a spot. William Hack's beautiful maps, copied from a "derrotero" (sailing directions with maps) captured from a Spanish ship in 1680, show the locations of several shipwrecks, unusual in 17th-century maps. His later atlases also include indications of the amount of treasure on those ships. Van Duzer argues that this change was inspired by William Phips' spectacular recovery of treasure from a Spanish wreck in 1687. Phips' recovery increased appreciation of shipwrecks as a potential economic resource and the addition of information about sunken treasure to his atlases created an extra source of value in his works, as guides for the discovery of treasure.
April 13, 2023 - Paris The Bibliothèque Nationale de France Richelieu, 5 rue Vivienne, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm will have a conference La Cartographie Marine : des Portulans à Beautemps-Beaupré (XIIIE-XVIIIE Siècle) [NAUTICAL Cartography: Portolans At Beautemps-Beaupré (13th-18th Century)]. As part of the new cycle of lectures on the history of cartography from antiquity to the present day, this session focuses on marine cartography: portolans at Beautemps-Beaupré. Lecture from Catherine Hofmann, General Curator, BnF, Department of Maps and Plans.
April 13, 2023 – Williamsburg The Williamsburg Map Circle announces that John Delano will be presenting our next lecture at 5 pm at The Williamsburg Landing, APA Auditorium. Due to irreconcilable differences between the English colonists and the Powhatan Chiefdom, the English constructed a 5-mile long, wooden barrier (i.e. palisade) across a portion of the peninsula between College Creek and Queens Creek to separate the two cultures. The topic of John's Lecture will be The Locations of the 1634 and 1646 Palisades in Middle Plantation. Please let Ellen Spore <ellen.spore(at)gmail.com> know if you will be able to attend.
April 19, 2023 - USA (Online) The 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, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Chet Van Duzer (current recipient of Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship; and Board Member, The Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester) will present Behold the Mapmaker: Cartographic Self-Portraits. The lives of early modern cartographers are poorly documented compared with those of contemporary writers and painters, yet a source for insights into the lives of cartographers—the self-portraits that they sometimes include in their maps—is largely unexplored. These self-portraits are an important part of the social history of cartography, of how cartographers chose to present themselves; they also function as visual signatures, guarantees of quality, and expressions of pride. In this talk, Chet will examine some of the more striking and evocative cartographic self-portraits from the earliest surviving case in the fourteenth century to examples from pictorial maps of the twentieth century.
April 21, 2023 – Berlin (Online) Topographic visual media have been and continue to be produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. Accordingly, the field of investigation includes maps and sea charts, topographic sketches, diagrams and plans, the mapping of planets and seas, and virtual spaces in computer graphics as well as landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There are many overlaps between these visual media in terms of techniques and types of spatial representation. Thus, we aim to understand and examine their functions and applications with regard to these interconnections. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to provide a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects and approaches from different disciplines, e.g. image, media and cultural studies, history of art or history of cartography. In our workshops, current research projects on topographic visual media are presented and discussed. Anette Baumann (Justus Liebig Universität Gießen) will speak about Visualisierte Evidenz. Inaugenscheinnahmen und Augenscheinkarten am Reichskammergericht (1495-1806) in German. The workshop will take place online via zoom starting at 14:00 CET. If you wish to register please subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us at <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> .
April 22, 2023 - Brussels The Brussels Map Circle 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held in Boardroom / Raadzaal / Salle du conseil, Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts / Kunstberg from 10.00 – 11.45. The 2023 Map Afternoon will be organised in close cooperation with the Maps and Plans Department of the Royal Library of Belgium who will show some very interesting items from their collection. On the other hand, every participant is invited to bring along a map, object, book or anything else of cartographic interest 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 be know to Henri Godts at <henri(at)arenbergauctions.com>. Meeting will be 14.00-16.00 in Map Room / Cartes et Plans / Kaarten en Plannen, Royal Library of Belgium.
April 27, 2023 – Minneapolis (Online) The Society for the History of Discoveries will continue to have a virtual lecture series this year. Cameron Strang (History, University of Nevada – Las Vegas) will speak at 2:30pm (Central). His topic, Runaway Pathfinders and American Exploration, will be related to his recent research on Native American and African-American explorers. Please save the date and expect to receive additional details and registration information soon.
May 2, 2023 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography meets at 5.30pm UK time. Martijn Storms, Leiden University Libraries, will discuss Maps that made history: the map collections of Leiden University Libraries. All are welcome. All seminars will be on Zoom. For joining instructions, please send an email to <events(at)emma.cam.ca.uk> a few days before each seminar. 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 2, 9, 16, and 30, 2023 - Denver The Rocky
Mountain Map Society and History
Colorado will be sponsoring Map
May-hem 2023 this month. Meetings wll be held on Tuesdays at
6:00 pm in History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway. It is uncertain at
this time if the meetings will be on Zoom. Contact Naomi E Heiser
<Naomi.Heiser(at)Colorado.edu> for additional details.
May
2nd - Wes Brown: The Cartographic Roots of Colorado
May
9th - Chris W. Lane: Unveiling of the Continent’s Spine: the
discovery and mapping of the Rocky Mountains
May
16th - Steve Hoffenberg: Drawing the Line: War, Treaty and
Exploration
May 30th - Tom Overton:
Early Maps of Denver
May 4, 11, and 25, 2023 - Miami (Online) University of
Miami Libraries Special
Collections will be hosting, using Zoom software, Conversations
On Cartography. All presentations will begin at 1 pm (EDT)
and are free and open to the public. Please contact the University of
Miami Libraries at <library.events(at)miami.edu> for more
information.
May 4: Ballerinas,
Butterflies, and Bucky Balls: Three Architects Redesign the World Map
for the Modern Age with Matthew Edney
May
11: What Makes a Map Persuasive? Or Not? with PJ Mode
May
25: It Came from a Blue Sky: Mapping the Origins and Spread of
SARS-CoV-2 and other Zoonotic Diseases with John Hessler
May 4, 2023 - Milwaukee (Hybrid) The 2023 Maps & America / The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series at the American Geographical Society Library in Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., will feature Dr. Karen Lewis (Chair, Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, and Associate Professor, Architecture Section at the Ohio State University) who will discuss Unquiet Journeys: Mapping the Underground Railroad. Her visualizations of the Underground Railroad was featured in 2022 in "Crossings: Mapping American Journeys”, an exhibition at the Newberry Library, which visualized three stories of men and women who escaped slavery and created their Underground Railroads. 5:30pm Reception, 6:00pm Lecture. Registration is required for this event. You may attend in-person or via Zoom. Register here.
May 4, 2023 - Oxford (Online) The 30th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Madeline Hewitson (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford) will discuss ‘An illustrated encyclopaedia of this great and varied universe’: Mapping the Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936. Click here to book your place. Additional information from 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 5, 2023 - Los Angeles The California Map Society is proud to support UCLA’s Center for Early Global Studies to present a one-day conference: The Intermingling of Cartography and Literature in the Early Modern Period in UCLA - Royce Hall, 9:00AM – 5:00PM. Registration is free for this event, although you will need to pay for parking at UCLA. Click here to RSVP. Organized by Chet Van Duzer <chet(dot)van(dot)duzer(at)gmail(dot)com> and Steve McCormick <mccormicks(at)wlu(dot)edu>, the program of the conference offers rich and diverse perspectives on the interactions between literature and cartography in the early modern period.
May 11, 2023 - Paris The Bibliothèque Nationale de France Richelieu, 5 rue Vivienne, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm will have a conference Cartographie Et Art Militaire (XVIIE-XIXE Siècle) [Cartography And Military Art (17th-19th Century)]. As part of the new cycle of lectures on the history of cartography from antiquity to the present day, this session focuses on the relationship between cartography and military art from the 17th to the 19th century. Lecture by Isabelle Warmoes, design engineer, Museum of Relief Maps.
May 12, 2023 - Aberystwyth, Wales (Hybrid) You are invited
to join us in person or online for Carto-Cymru - The Wales Map
Symposium 2023 - 'Mapping the nation'. Held by The National
Library of Wales and The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic
Monuments of Wales, in association with The Charles Close Society for
the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, at The National
Library of Wales, Penglais Rd. The theme of this years event is
'Mapping the nation' – exploring the work of the Ordnance
Survey, how approaches to mapping the landscape have changed over
time and how historical OS maps can help us to understand our
physical environment both past and present. Presentations start at
9:30:
'Excavating' the Map: Landscapes of the Early Ordnance
Survey in Great Britain and Ireland – Keith Lilley, Professor
of Historical Geography, Queen’s University, Belfast.
The
Blue & Black MS Drawings for the 1:2500 – Dr Rob Wheeler,
Honorary Secretary, Charles Close Society.
Mapping the milestones
in Ordnance Survey’s history – Jess Baker, Technical
Relationship Consultant, Ordnance Survey.
The Meresmen and the
Parish Boundaries of Wales – Scott Lloyd, Royal Commission on
the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Not just maps of
Wales: OS mapping at the National Library – Huw Thomas, Map
Curator, The National Library of Wales.
Wales on the Map –
Mike Parker.
Tickets are: £25 in person (including buffet
lunch) £15 online. Book tickets for in-person
attendance or for online
participation.
May 13, 2023 – Amsterdam The Brussels Map Circle will visit the Allard Pierson Museum, Oude Turfmarkt 127-129, to see the exhibition Open kaart [Open map]. The exhibit displays seven centuries of cartography in the Netherlands and takes a look into the future. If you wish to register for this visit please let Marie-Anne Dage, Brussels Map Circle secretary, <secretary(at)bimcc.org> know before Tuesday 28 February.
May 16-18, 2023 - Leith International Map Collectors' Society has visited Edinburgh before, but the base for this excursion to Leith will reveal another side to the city. Participants may meet about 6.00pm on 16th May for a short walking tour of Leith, led by Diana Webster, followed by an optional meal. As Leith is Edinburgh’s port and seaside, there is a maritime thread running through the activities, which will include a visit to the National Library of Scotland Map Room on 17th May, where Paula Williams will introduce a display of three types of collection: Business (Stevenson: lighthouse, railway and harbour engineers), Private (the recently acquired Smith collection) and Country House (Newhailes). Nautical charts will accompany a talk by Dr Andrew Cook on Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), who was the first Hydrographer of the Admiralty after working for the East India Company. Dalrymple was born at Newhailes, a Palladian mansion just outside Edinburgh, and in the afternoon a visit has been arranged. On the following day, 18th May, we start with a tour of Trinity House of Leith, a small architectural gem built in 1816, although the Incorporation of Mariners and Shipmasters can be traced to 1380, founded to support injured and retired seamen and their dependents. This has an eclectic collection of maritime memorabilia, including navigation instruments, donated by its merchant seamen members. On previous Scottish excursions, IMCoS has visited the Highlands, so this time, in the afternoon and evening, there will be a trip southward towards the Borders. This section of the programme is in preparation, but it is hoped to include the outdoor relief Polish Map of Scotland.
May 18, 2023 – London (Online) The Thirty-Second Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Peter Barber (formerly Map Library, British Library), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London). Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at the Warburg Institute at 5.00 pm (admission free). Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. Enquiries: <c.delano-smith(at)qmul.ac.uk>. Circumstances are still not normal, though, and although we are anxious to return to the usual in-person meetings as soon as possible, uncertainty over the continuing pandemic means that only some meetings are scheduled to be in-person and that even these may have to be switched to be remote should conditions dictate. Those planning to attend a meeting (there is no charge) please consult the Warburg Institute's What's On page to register and, for the remote meetings, to be sent a link with guidelines. In all cases, however, do please check online for the location and form of each meeting in case of last-minute changes. Dr Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS Researcher, LARHRA, Lyon) will discuss Magnetism Matters: Early Modern Commerce, Practices and Frameworks in the Iberian Empires.
May 19, 2023 – McLean, Virginia The Washington Map Society 42nd annual dinner and lecture will be at Maggiano's Little Italy, 2001 International Dr, in Tyson Galleria II. Andrew Adamson (principal Heritage Charts) and Frank Licameli (Enrollment/Recruiting Operations Officer, Department of Military Science, George Mason University) will speak about F. W. Des Barres’ Great Folly: An Examination of Des Barres’ Foray into the Realm of Political Mapping and the Little-known Plans He Created to that End. Registration is available.
May 19, 2023 – Washington The Washington Map Society, in conjunction with Philip Lee Phillips Society, will meet at 10:00 AM ET in Library of Congress, Rare Books Department’s Rosenwald Room. Jackie Coleburn (Library of Congress, Rare Book Cataloger) and Anthony Mullan (Geography and Map Division, Cartographic Specialist [retired]) will discuss A Globe on a New Plan: Peter Parley’s Innovative Teaching of Geography to Children in 19th Century America. Additional details to be announced.
May 24-26, 2023 - Thessaloniki, Greece The Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of the International Cartographic Association, continuing the tradition of its annual Cartoheritage Conferences, since 2006, is organising the 17th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH), in partnership with the AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, supported by the MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group. The Conference is kindly hosted by the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki.
May 25-26, 2023 - Lisbon There will be an International Workshop On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart at Hydrographic Office (Instituto Hidrográfico). This meeting aims to further the discussion opened in two previous workshops held in Lisbon in 2016 and 2018, and attended by leading experts on the History of Cartography. Additional information from Joaquim Alves Gaspar <alvesgasparj(at)gmail.com>.
May 25, 2023 - Oxford The 30th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will have a Field Trip - A jolly for Peter Jolly: maps from the British Cartographic Society Awards collection by the Bodleian Map Room Team. Booking is essential for this Field Trip. 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 26, 2023 – Berlin (Online) Topographic visual media have been and continue to be produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. Accordingly, the field of investigation includes maps and sea charts, topographic sketches, diagrams and plans, the mapping of planets and seas, and virtual spaces in computer graphics as well as landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There are many overlaps between these visual media in terms of techniques and types of spatial representation. Thus, we aim to understand and examine their functions and applications with regard to these interconnections. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to provide a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects and approaches from different disciplines, e.g. image, media and cultural studies, history of art or history of cartography. In our workshops, current research projects on topographic visual media are presented and discussed. Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) will speak about Mutation, Mediation, Meditation: Early Modern World Maps and their Frames. The workshop will take place online via zoom starting at 14:00 CET. If you wish to register please subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us at <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> .
May 30-31, 2023 - Brussels (Hybrid) The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and the Belgian Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences will jointly host an international conference Conquering the World through Cartography: The Imperialist Turn in 19th and 20th Century Mapping. The Call for Papers is open till 15 March 2023 and can be found here. The symposium will be held in English and organized as a hybrid event both face-to-face at the Palace of the Academies and via livestream.
June 6 and 13, 2023 - London (Online) The International Map Collectors' Society annual Malcolm Young lecture will be in a slightly different format. There will be two online lectures, rather than a single physical one during Map Fair weekend. Dennis Reinharz, Emeritus Profession of History at the University of Texas in Arlington, will present two lectures about Misconceptions: Russia and the West. Additional details to be announced.
June 10-11, 2023 - London The London Map Fair is the largest Antique Map Fair in Europe. It will be held at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 1 Kensington Gore: Saturday 12.00 pm to 7.00 pm and Sunday 10.00 am to 6.00 pm. Paul Hughes (master mariner, marine consultant and author: 'Greenvill Collins and the Dutch, Spanish and Colonial origins of the Greenwich Meridian') will give a lecture on Saturday at 2:30 pm.
June 11-16, 3023 – Charlottesville Matthew Edney will be teaching H-65 Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900' at the Rare Book School. The course will meet on the University of Virginia campus. Indeed, while the main UVa library (with RBS quarters) continues its multi-year renovations, RBS meets in Thomas Jefferson's famed rotunda and lawn.
June 14, 2023 - USA (Online) The 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, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Rodney Kite-Powell (Director, Touchton Map Center, Tamp Bay History Center) will present Key West and the Florida Keys: Mapping the History of the Conch Republic.
June 17, 2023 - Stanford The California Map Society Spring Conference will be held at the Rumsey Center Map Center 10 AM to 4 PM. Additional details to be announced.
June 30, 2023 – Berlin (Online) Topographic visual media have been and continue to be produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. Accordingly, the field of investigation includes maps and sea charts, topographic sketches, diagrams and plans, the mapping of planets and seas, and virtual spaces in computer graphics as well as landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There are many overlaps between these visual media in terms of techniques and types of spatial representation. Thus, we aim to understand and examine their functions and applications with regard to these interconnections. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to provide a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects and approaches from different disciplines, e.g. image, media and cultural studies, history of art or history of cartography. In our workshops, current research projects on topographic visual media are presented and discussed. Petra Svatek (Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna) will speak about Cartography and Politics at the Department of Geography of Vienna University 1900-1945. The workshop will take place online via zoom starting at 14:00 CET. If you wish to register please subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us at <ntb(at)kunstgeschichte.org> .
July 10-14, 2023 – Berlin The International Society for the History of the Map will hold its “VII Symposium” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. The symposium theme, Intersections in Map History, invites consideration of the impact of seemingly contradictory perspectives such as insider and outsider knowledge expertise, and art and science, on map making and use. The first two days will be devoted to a Workshop for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, and the symposium will follow. Questions may be directed to co-hosts Diana Lange <diana.lange(at)uni-hamburg.de> or Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann <vera.dorofeeva-lichtmann(at)ehess.fr>.
August 13-18, 2023 – Cape Town The 31st International Cartographic Conference and 19th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association will have the theme Smart Cartography for Sustainable Development. The venue is the world-class Cape Town International Convention Centre.
August 22-24, 2023 – Helsinki The International Map Collectors' Society 40th annual symposium is organized by Cartographic Society of Finland and Chartarum Amici. Sponsored by National Land Survey of Finland, City of Helsinki and John Nurminen Foundation. There will be an optional pre-conference tour of Helsinki on August 21, and an optional post-conference tour August 25-27. For more information contact Antti Jakobsson <antti.jakobsson(at)maanmittauslaitos.fi>.
August 29-31, 2023 - London The three-day Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference attracts over 2000 geographers from around the world. This year, the conference will will be held in the The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore.
September 12, 2023 - USA (Online) The 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, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Richard Francaviglia (Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Arlington; currently Associated Scholar, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon) will discuss The Role of Maps in Films about Exploration and Discovery: Some Latin American Examples. Filmmakers have long used maps on screen to chart the progress of characters going from one place to another -- for example, explorers taking a ship from the Old World to the New. However, cinematically speaking, maps serve many other purposes as well. In this presentation, Francaviglia will discuss the varied ways that films depicting the process of exploration and discovery in South America employ maps.
September 20, 2023 - Cambridge The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will hold its Annual Workshop in person at the British Antarctic Survey. The Map Curators’ Group is for anyone interested in using and sharing maps, bound together by a shared interest in curating, maintaining, and sharing our map collections. Our annual workshops offer the opportunity to share expertise and learn from each other. This workshop is part of the British Cartographic Society’s 60th anniversary conference. The MCG workshop theme will be: Exploring Maps. Additional information from Williams, Paula <P.Williams(at)NLS.UK>.
September 20, 2023 - Rochester, Massachusetts Charlie Rowley will present a program Mapping Rochester at the monthly meeting of the Rochester Historical Society. Meeting is at 7:00 PM at the East Rochester Church at 355 County Road.
September 21-24, 2023 – Minneapolis The “Annual Conference 2023” of the Society for the History of Discoveries is titled Worlds of Exploration. The conference will be hosted by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota. There will be a Thursday evening reception and a post-conference excursion in Minneapolis.
September 27-30, 2023 - Berlin The International Coronelli Society will have its XV International Symposium About Globes in the Humboldt Hall of the Staatsbibliothek, Unter den Linden 8. The production of globes only began in Berlin in the late 18th century, but developed into an internationally very successful production in the 19th century. Researchers of globe studies and all interested parties are invited to this symposium. The topics of the symposium are all aspects of globe studies - in particular the history of globes and their position in the socio-economic context, but also contributions to globe-related instruments such as armillary spheres, planetariums, telluriums and lunariums. Conference languages are German and English (no translation).
July 1-5, 2024 - Lyon, France Imago Mundi and the University of Lyon will be glad to welcome you back to France during the 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography, postponed from 2023. The idea of organizing the conference in Lyon with the theme Confluences - Interdisciplinarity and New Challenges in the History of Cartography is inspired by the very location of the city, as a confluence between North and South, between Saône and Rhône rivers, the Rhône Valley and the Alps. The official language of the conference will be English, and all presentations must be in that language. There will be no simultaneous translation. There will be a pre-conference visit to Paris and Bibliothèque Nationale de France on June 29th, and a post-conference tour on July 6th. Additional information from <ichc2024(at)univ-lyon3.fr>.
September 4-7, 2024 – Basel The 21. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium will be held. Additional details to be announced.
October 16-19, 2024 - Valletta, Malta The 41st International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium, Imago Melitae 2024, will feature six lectures by well-known figures in the cartographic world will be given along with visits to the National Library, MUZA and Lascaris War Rooms in Valletta, the Maritime Museum and the Inquisitors Palace in Vittoriosa, and the National and Ecclesiastical Archives in Rabat and Mdina. Further details to be announced.