April 29-30, 2008 - West Lafayette, Indiana Presenting historic maps using CONTENTdm, JPEG2000, and Google Maps will be presented by Terri Holtze, and Rachel Howard (University of Louisville). This is one of the presentations at the 2008 Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group meeting at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. If you have questions, please contact: Carl Snow, Purdue University, 1-765-494-2764.
April 30 - May 4, 2008 - Gotha A Workshop and International Atlas Days 2008 will discuss Justus Perthes and More. For additional information and registration contact Jürgen Espenhorst, Villigster Str. 32, 58239 Schwerte; Tel.: 02304 / 72284, Fax: 02304 / 78010.
May 3, 2008 - Baltimore The Washington Map Society will have a field trip to Baltimore. In the morning, at 10:30 am, we will visit the Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument St., to view an exhibition that will include its original Mason-Dixon map. A curator will discuss the map of the "boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania," printed by Robert Kennedy in Philadelphia in 1768. The map documents a survey by astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon that took the two men took almost six years to complete. Commissioners for both colonies signed this print of Mason and Dixon's "true and exact" plan in 1768 and affixed their wax seals. (Three of them were later to sign the Declaration of Independence.) The exhibit will feature additional historic maps and documents recording the eighty-year dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, alongside samples of surveying instruments of the day. At 2:00 pm, we will visit the Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles St., just three blocks from the Historical Society, for a tour of Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. This is the most significant map exhibition in Baltimore since the great show more than 50 years ago. Organized by The Field Museum and the Newberry Library, this special exhibition will draw on the outstanding exhibitions that recently closed in Chicago. It will include some of the world's greatest cartographic treasures, not only maps made by great cartographers of the Middle Ages and the age of exploration, but also seldom-seen artifacts that broaden our knowledge of the almost universal human activity of map-making. Highlights include three maps by Leonardo da Vinci, J. R. R. Tolkien's map of Minas Tirith, and Thomas Jefferson's map of the proposed contours of the states of the Union. Our guide to the exhibition will be Will Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books. Please register for one or both of these tours. Restaurants for lunch are convenient to the museums. There should be ample parking at the Maryland Historical Society. Group rates per person for the tours are $8 for the Walters and $3 ($2 for seniors) at the Maryland Historical Society. Sign up with Howard Lange at 703-532-1605.
May 6, 2008 - Cambridge, England The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet at 5.30pm in Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Tom Koch (Adjunct Professor of Medical Geography at the University of British Columbia, and Adjunct Professor of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University) will present Cholera mapping from 1819 to 1854: before John Snow and the Broad Street outbreak. All are welcome. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at tel. 01223 330476. Refreshments will be available after the seminar.
May 8, 2008 - London Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme - Professor Tom Koch (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia; and Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, B.C.). Cholera in 1850s London: John Snow, His Contemporaries, and the Broad Street Map Revisited - at University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library) and Dr. Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London). The programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The International Map Collectors' Society, Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd., and Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books. It is supported by Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography.
May 8, 2008 - London Join Simon Foxell to hear his lecture Mapping London at 19.00, as part of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) London City lectures. For more than 500 years, London's mapmakers have restlessly invented new ways of showing the untameable city they live in. Simon explores how London thinks about itself as a city as seen through the amazing array of maps, old and new, created to describe it. All RGS-IBG members welcome. Non-members are also invited, there is no charge for entry but places must be pre-booked by contacting Joanna Wells. The lecture is being held at Chartered Accountants Hall at One Moorgate Place, London EC2R 6EA. Doors open 18.00, bar available.
May 8, 2008 - Oxford Rouben Galichian will give an illustrated talk entitled Armenia in old maps and Old Armenian maps. The talk will take place at 5 pm in the Oriental Institute, Lecture room 1, Pusey Lane.
May 8-11, 2008 - Kalamazoo The 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place at Western Michigan University. Included will be papers that address geography, travel, cartography, and imagined worlds.
May 9, 2008 - London A Cryptosphere Symposium will mark the closing of the exhibition and completion of the first artist residency at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG. During his 15 month residency, Simeon Nelson investigated thousands of the Society's extensive map collection dating back to the fifteenth century. He focused on maps that consider mythical places as physical locations and the evolution of Western cartography. This symposium will consist of a talk by the artist in front of his installation and presentations by Dr Alessandro Scafi, Warburg Institute and University of Bologna and Professor Felix Driver, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway College, University of London. A panel discussion will follow moderated by Dr Catherine Souch, Head of Higher Education and Research at the RGS-IBG. Drinks and refreshments will be provided. The symposium will look at the motivations of the artist and his experience at the RGS-IBG as artist in residence. Nelson is interested in what he describes as the 'Cryptosphere', which he perceives as, 'the sum of all withheld and hidden information in a given system'. He has developed new body of work, specifically locating the mythological and ornamental within the physical and temporal world: Paradise, Utopia and Hell are addressed alongside the development of cartography as a science via a large gallery installation in which a cartographically-inspired architectural grid attempts to contain ambiguous ornaments that, unwilling to be held by the grid's rigid embrace, spill out over the pavilion floor. To book a place please contact Vandana Patel on 020 7591 3052.
May 10, 2008 - New York The New York Map Society will meet at 2:30 pm, at the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center. Guest speaker Michael Buehler will discuss Strategies for Collecting Old Maps, including conditions and costs as well as establishing a relationship with a dealer. Mr. Buehler is an antiquarian dealer specializing in antique and rare maps of New England and the North East. Map dealing for Michael is not only a business, but also a passion which he enjoys sharing with others. He is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABBA), the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MARIAB), the Boston Map Society, the Washington Map Society, as well as the North American Historic Print Collectors Society. Contact John Woram for additional information.
May 10, 2008 - Seattle In light of new evidence contained in recently discovered maps and shipwrecks, 2008 China in Asia Workshop: Maritime Asia in the Early Modern World considers the connections of maritime Asia to world history in the early modern era and China's relations with Southeast Asia in particular. This is the second in a series of annual meetings on China in Asia jointly sponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute, the UW East Asia Center, and the USC East Asian Studies Center with funding from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI program. The symposium is from 9:00AM to 5:00PM at Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 202, University of Washington. Three of the six talks are about cartography. For further information, please contact Prof. William Lavely or Prof. R. Bin Wong.
May 13-16, 2008 - Vancouver Carto 2008 Conference is a joint conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA) and the Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA), to be held at the University of British Columbia. Both organizations cover a variety of interests with some overlap. ACMLA is interested in map collections and cartographic archives including such topics as: acquisition, "cataloguing", GIS, digitization, training, research, etc. CCA has several interest groups including education, map design, graphic literacy, and the history of cartography. The late Dr. Richard Ruggles was one of the founders of CCA, and he and Ed Dahl started the History of Cartography Interest Group. With the formation of that group, there was less historical cartography and geography at the ACMLA conferences, which thereafter tended to concentrate more on the uses of computers in map production and in map librarianship for map access and control, and assisting patrons in locating needed maps, or creating maps to meet their needs using available data. CCA has undergone similar changes. The full program is available online. There are 13 sessions, involving 32 papers, plus the Keynote address by David Rumsey, and a Poster Session (1 of the 5 posters is of historical interest). There are 5 papers in the 2 History of Cartography sessions, with Rumsey the first speaker in the first session. In addition to the paper sessions, one evening is devoted to orienteering (a CCA favourite), one afternoon to an optional field trip (to Steveston, a former fishing village with two historic sites: a cannery and a shipyard. Steveston is now a part of the city of Richmond, just south of Vancouver). ACMLA has usually featured a field trip, which might be a map producer, a special map collection, or an introduction to the local historical geography.
May 15, 2008 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at 5:30 with a reception, and 6 PM lecture at the Towner Fellows' Lounge, Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. Kim Flagstad (President FIS Tracking Services) will present Mapping Sailboat Races in Real Time. While sailboat races are adrenaline-producing occasions for the crew, for interested parties ashore, those hours are about as exciting as watching paint dry. Once a boat disappears over the horizon, friends, family, and spectators are effectively in the dark until the boat comes in sight of the finish, hundreds of miles away. Now, through an exciting new application of GPS and web-based tracking displays, it is possible for folks on shore to view an entire race in real time. FIS Tracking Services, LLC, of Rolling Meadows developed the "Flash Tracker" race tracking system which has been used to map the Chicago-Mackinac races since 2005. Other world-class races followed by "Flash Tracker" include the 2007 TransPac, a race from Long Beach to Honolulu, one of the top three long distance races in the world. Kim Flagstad, the President of FIS Tracking Services, will explain the underlying tracking technology and demonstrate the kinds of animated maps produced.
May 15-17, 2008 - Greenwich, London International interdisciplinary conference at the National Maritime Museum, Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552-1616): life, times, legacy. This interdisciplinary conference will address the significance of the work of Richard Hakluyt, the prolific collector and editor of first-hand discovery and adventure narratives, and author of "The Principall Navigations" (1589), expanded as "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation," 3 volumes (1598-1600). Jointly organized by the National Maritime Museum, The Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University and the National University of Ireland, Galway. Plenary Speakers include Professor Mary Fuller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor Peter Mancall (University of Southern California), Dr Joan-Pau Rubiés (London School of Economics), and Professor Sarah Tyacke (Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow). Additional information from Research Administrator, National Maritime Museum.
May 16, 2008 - Washington The Washington Map Society will have its Annual Dinner at the Law Office of Jones Day, 51 Louisiana Ave NW, with a dramatic view of the US Capitol and Capitol Hill. Cocktails at 6:15 PM and dinner at 7 PM. President Bill Stanley will talk about James McNeill Whistler: Cartographer. A registration form is available online. For further information, contact Howard Lange 703-532-1605.
May 22, 2008 - London The Department of Geography at the University of Portsmouth, and the Great Britain Historical GIS, are collaborating with the Institute of Historical Research to offer a one day introduction to maps and geographical information. This is not a "GIS training course", and much of the focus will be on the different ways of working digitally with historic maps. There will also be a strong emphasis on data standards that need to be addressed in map digitisation projects. Two of the course tutors are cartographic historians, and we hope that the course will attract librarians as well as academic historians. The course is open to postgraduates, academics and all who are interested in using geographical information for historical research purposes. More details and booking form at: http://www.history.ac.uk/training/courses/gis.htm.
May 22, 2008 - Oxford The 15th Annual Series of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography meets from 5.00pm to 6.30pm at the University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Giles Darkes (Cartographic Consultant) will discuss From A-uo to Zyryan: mapping the world's languages. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by the Friends of TOSCA, ESRI (UK) Ltd, Oxford Cartographers, and the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. Additional information from Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119, Fax: 01865 277139.
May 23, 2008 - Los Angeles The UCLA Department of Geography will hold a Memorial Day for Denis Cosgrove. During the day, from 10.30am-5pm, will be a symposium on landscape studies, held under the auspices of the Alexander von Humboldt chair of Geography, of which Denis was the inaugural holder at Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum. Then, at 5pm, will be a more personal memorial service. If you should have any questions, please contact cosgrovememorial@geog.ucla.edu.
May 29, 2008 - London Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme - Rose Mitchell (The National Archives, London). Castles in the Air? Sixteenth-Century Fortification Plans in The National Archives - at University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library) and Dr. Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London). The programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of The International Map Collectors' Society, Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd., and Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books. It is supported by Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography.
May 29, 2008 - Oxford One of the papers at the Medieval Visual Culture Seminar this term is on medieval maps of Jerusalem. Dr Hanna Vorholt (Warburg Institute, London) will give a paper entitled Copying the Holy Land: Remarks on some English maps of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries at the Medieval Visual Culture Seminar. The seminar takes place between 13.00 and 14.00 in the Goodhart Seminar Room, University College. Please feel free to bring a sandwich lunch.
May 30, 2008 - London A special event to celebrate the career of Denis Cosgrove (1948-2008), Denis Cosgrove: Geography and Vision, will take place at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore. It will include the launch of Denis' new book, "Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World" (I.B. Tauris, 2008). There will be a series of informal talks on aspects of Denis' work as a researcher, teacher and colleague. Speakers include Steve Daniels, Felix Driver, David Pepper, David Atkinson, Neil Roberts, Catherine Delano-Smith, Jim Duncan, Peter Jackson, Ola Söderstrom, Jerry Brotton, Luciana Martins, Veronica Della Dora, Emily and Isla Cosgrove. Tea and coffee will be served from 4pm, presentations are scheduled for 5pm, and a wine reception/book launch will take place from 7pm. All welcome. The organizers would be grateful if those planning to attend could send an email to RHED@rgs.org.
May 30, 2008 - Milwaukee The American Geographical Society Library will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its move to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a dinner, an awards ceremony, and the annual Holzheimer Maps and America lecture, this year presented by Alastair Pearson, University of Portsmouth (UK) and Michael Heffernan, University of Nottingham (UK). Their presentation is entitled Ordering the South: The Mapping of Hispanic America by the American Geographical Society. One of North America's foremost geography and map collections, the AGS Library was transferred to the UWM Libraries in 1978 following a nationwide selection process by the Society. Medals will be awarded to two AGS members, one posthumously, instrumental in the preservation of the Library and its move to Milwaukee: Richard H. Nolte (1920-2007), diplomat and Middle East expert, and John E. Gould, Chairman of the AGS Council. The nineteenth annual Maps and America lecture, sponsored by Art and Jan Holzheimer of Highland Park, IL, begins at 4:30 p.m. and the awards ceremony at 6 p.m. Both are free and open to the public, and will be held in the AGS Library, third floor east wing of the Golda Meir Library. The celebratory dinner begins at 7:30 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center and costs $45 per person. Reservations are required by May 16. For more information on the dinner or the other events, please call 414-229-6282 or contact Christopher Baruth, Curator of the AGS Library
May 30, 2008 - June 1, 2008 - Sant'Anatolia di Narco The third meeting of the Italian Map Collector Society, at Sala Conferenze Istituto Tecnico Agrario della Valnerina, will have as its theme I costruttori di mappe - Arte, Scienza, Immaginazione e modelli culturali nell'opera del cartografo [The designing of maps - Arts, Science, Imagination and cultural patterns of the cartographer]. There will also be an exhibition, at Chiesa Madonna delle Grazie, of Regional Maps of Italy of the XVI Century with a printed catalog. A map and book fair will be held May 31 and June 1 at Palestra Comunale. Additional information from Comune di Sant'Anatolia di Narco, Anna Napoleoni, tel. 0743.613149 - fax 0743.613148.
May 31, 2008 - Sausalito, California The California Map Society will visit the Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway. Additional information from Philp R. Simon.
June 6-7, 2008 - London The International Map Collectors' Society's June weekend will start on Friday, June 6th at the East India Club, 16 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LH. First we will have the Malcolm Young Lecture by Nick Millea, Map Librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. His talk will be The Gough Map: Britain's oldest road map or a statement of empire. This will be followed by our annual dinner and presentation of the IMCoS-Helen Wallis Award. Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday, June 7th at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW1 2AR at 10am. Registration forms will be included with your Spring issue of the IMCoS Journal.
June 7, 2008 - Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a Field Trip to the Morton Arboretum, to view exhibition and hear a presentation on Mapping Pre-Settlement Vegetation in Illinois. Times, directions, and further details to come.
June 7-8, 2008 - London The London Map Fair is held at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore. It will
be open on Saturday June 7th from 12.00-19.00 and on Sunday June 8th from 10.00-17.00. Still the only specialist map
fair in the UK and the largest in Europe, with 40 international exhibitors offering maps, charts, town plans, atlases,
globes, views and reference books of all periods and to suit all pockets. Tickets for the map fair can be printed off at the
Map Fair web page. There will be lectures at 14.30 daily in the Ondaatje Theatre. All are welcome. Our distinguished
inaugural guest speakers are Peter Barber and Laurence Worms.
Saturday June 7th: Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections, British Library: Fixing the image: the mapping of London
297-1900. The mapping of London has been marked by the appearance of a limited number of influential images that
provided the model for subsequent commercially-published maps. These 'great maps' were intended to impress and they
carry interesting cultural and political messages about the times in which they were created. Side-by-side were the
smaller maps generally created in London for use by Londoners. These reveal very different Londons from the images
contained in the big maps. Taken together they provide an interesting commentary on Londoners and their relations with
the wider world through the ages.
Sunday June 8th: Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books & the London Rare Books School: Fixing the Map Trade: The
London of the 18th Century London Mapmakers. An exploration of the locally produced maps of London of the
eighteenth century, not as a means of defining London, but as a means of defining the map trade itself - in terms of
location, local preoccupations, collaboration and rivalry, increasing sophistication, growing ambition, and ultimate
maturity.
June 10, 2008 - Golden, Colorado The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet 6:30-8:30 PM at the Colorado School of Mines, Map Collection, 1400 Illinois; phone 303-273-3697. Chris Thiry, the Librarian, will be our host. The Map Room has over 209,000 maps. The jewels of the collection are the over 1,200 unique, mostly hand-drawn maps. The majority of the collection covers Colorado and the Intermountain West and pertains to gold or silver. There will be a tour of the Map Room and a show-and-tell featuring some of the more unique items. Everyone will be welcome to explore the collection and examine the maps. Additional information from Dave Cole at 970-203-1264.
June 21, 2008 - Newbury Following the success of their 80th Anniversary Seminar in June 2007, the Defence Surveyors' Association has decided to run another, similar, seminar at the Royal School of Military Survey, Denison Barracks, Hermitage, Nr Newbury, Berks, entitled Maps & Surveys 2008. The seminar will include subjects from the spectrum of mainly British military surveying and mapping in the 19th to 21st centuries. The seminar will consist of seven 35 minute presentations running from about 10-30a.m. to 5-00p.m. Tea and coffee during morning and afternoon breaks and a finger-buffet lunch will be included in the entrance fee which will be £12. Further details from the seminar organisers Col. (Retd.) M.A. Nolan, Tel (01635) 253167; or Maj. (Retd.) A. Gordon, Tel (01264) 359700.
June 26-27, 2008 - Barcelona The 3rd International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage will be held at the Institut Cartografic de Catalunya. Additional information from Evangelos Livieratos.
July 12, 2008 - New York The New York Map Society will meet at the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street for Our Second Annual Summertime Social. Last year's event was a great success, so we're repeating it this month. Here's the details: "Brown Bag" It: Bring your own sandwich and soda and meet the rest of us for lunch at the south end of the Library's outdoor terrace on Fifth Avenue at 1:30 pm. If it's raining, just proceed to the Library Map Room (Room 117) and we'll have our lunch there instead. At 2:30 pm we will go to Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center. Once again, our invited guest speakers this month are you, our members and guests. Society president Sy Amkraut will lead an informal round-table discussion in which we can all discuss our personal collections and interests, compare notes, offer assistance to others, and chat about your-and our-plans for the future. Contact John Woram for additional information.
August 11-13, 2008 - Cambridge, England Dr Lucy Donkin will teach a course Mapping the Middle Ages. The course explores the medieval worldview through a wide range of cartographical material, from illustrated itineraries to mappaemundi, paying particular attention to the treatment of the British Isles. Questions of context and function will be discussed with reference to the ways in which the maps reflect geographical knowledge; express religious and cultural ideas; and represent the past and present. Additional information from Courses Registrar, Madingley Hall, Madingley, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; phone 01954 280399.
August 13-15, 2008 - Copenhagen. Ways of knowing the field: International Conference on the History of Fieldwork, Cartography and Scientific Exploration, at Carlsberg Academy, organized by the Danish Network for the History and Sociology of Scientific Fieldwork and Expeditions, and the Danish Research School in Philosophy, History of Ideas and History of Science. This conference aims to bring together leading historians from a number of disciplines to explore different ways of knowing the field as they have been conducted within a range of technological and scientific practices.
August 27-29, 2008 - London The Royal Geographical Society / Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference will have the theme Geographies that Matter. The 3-day event attracts over 1,000 geographers from around the world.
September 1-4, 2008 - Aberdeen, Scotland The Ancient University of Aberdeen is the venue for the 44th Annual Summer School of the Society of Cartographers. Plans are in progress to provide a programme to interest every delegate and offer the well-established mix of lectures, workshops, visits and social gatherings. Additional information from Mike Wood.
September 1-3, 2008 - Auckland, New Zealand GeoCart'2008 National Cartographic Conference and SIRC 2008 at the University of Auckland. The theme of the Conference is "Geospatial Vision: New Dimensions in Cartography". The Conference will host the National Cartographic Exhibition and GeoExpo'2008 - a Commercial Exhibition. In addition, there will be a book associated with the conference, collating internationally refereed papers presented at the Conference and published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. On behalf of the Organising Committee you are extended a warm invitation to participate in GeoCart'2008 and SIRC 2008. For additional information, visit our website or contact Igor Drecki, New Zealand Cartographic Society.
September 3-4, 2008 - Newport Pagnell, England The British Cartographic Society Map Curators' Group Workshop is to be held in the morning at the De Vere Harben House Hotel . The theme this year is the map library as a GIS lab. In the afternoon there will be a visit to the Military Intelligence Museum at Chicksands, Shefford, Bedfordshire. The Military Intelligence Museum as a whole comprises 5 collections. These are the Intelligence Corps Museum, the Medmenham Collection. The 'Y' Service at Chicksands display, the USAF AT Chicksands display and the BRIXMIS display. In addition there are also escape and evasion maps from World War II and the red volume produced by MI9 during World War II. The Curator Mrs Helen O'Hara will be available on this afternoon to host the visit. Additional information from Ann Sutherland.
September 3-6, 2008 - Newport Pagnell, England The British Cartographic Society Annual Symposium will be held at the De Veres Harben House. For more information contact admin@cartography.ac.uk.
September 5-7, 2008 - Budapest The International Map Collectors' Society will make a trip to this city for a map symposium. It will include a visit to the Baroque Reading Room, a special map exhibition and a bus tour to the Hungarian plains. We will also be offered Hungarian specialities and wines to taste. Before leaving we will be taken on a guided walk through the multicultural city of Pecs and see 10th century Christian tombs, the cathedral and Turkish church. Additional details from Dr. Zsolt Torok.
September 10-12, 2008 - Portsmouth The International Cartographic Association Commission on the History of Cartography is planning a Symposium on the History of Cartography entitled Shifting boundaries - cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries which will take place at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. The meeting will be open to all cartographers, geographers, historians, map collectors, academics and lay persons interested in the history of cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries.
September 13, 2008 - New York The New York Map Society will meet at 2:30 pm, at the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center. Barbara Mundy will discuss Mapping the New World for The Spanish Kings: Indigenous Artists and the Creation of Colonial Cartography. Dr. Mundy is an associate professor in the department of Art History and Music at Fordham University in New York City, specializing in pre-Columbian and Latin American art. Contact John Woram for additional information.
September 13, 2008 - Richmond The Library of Virginia Foundation has formed the Fry-Jefferson Map Society to develop, enhance and promote the cartographic collections of the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad Street. This years meeting will feature Henry Taliaferro to speak on the Fry-Jefferson map, and Willie Balderson to present/reenact the steps involved in taking up land. Call 804-692-3900 to learn more about the Fry-Jefferson Society or to make reservations for this program.
September 19-20, 2008 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Antique Map Fair, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Map Society, will be held at the Denver Public Library, 13th & Broadway. Open Friday 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm and Saturday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm.
September 25-27, 2008 - Berne The second conference of the Forum Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa (FOSE) will be an Interdisciplinary Conference: Mapping Eastern Europe. It is aimed especially at new scholars and at experts on Eastern European history, but also at scholars from all disciplines that deal with Eastern Europe and its cartographic representation through the ages. Conference proposals of no more than one page, accompanied by a short CV with a list of publications, are accepted until September 30, 2007. Papers can be presented in German, English or French. A publication of the conference proceedings is planned. Additional information from Forum Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa (FOSE), c/o Schweizerische Osteuropabibliothek, Hallerstrasse 6, CH-3000 Bern 9.
September 25, 2008 - Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Prof. Kenneth Martis will make a presentation titled The History of the Election Map. Election district boundary maps emerged as early as the 1790s in the United States, but the first real election map probably appeared in France circa 1870. Prof. Martis will trace the emergence of statistical maps of U.S. presidential election results by counties in the 1880s, through intricate and artistic renderings of election mapping in Germany in the early 20th century, publication of the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States in 1932, development of spatial statistical analysis and modeling in the 1950s and 60s, to the impact of Geographical Information Science today. Prof. Martis will draw illustrations and analysis from his forthcoming article in the multivolume "History of Cartography." Kenneth C. Martis is a Professor of Geography at West Virginia University and is the first awardee of that institution's highest academic honor, Benedum Distinguished Scholar. He has taught at West Virginia for over thirty years. He is the author or co-author of six award winning books on the United States Congress and American politics, including "The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts: 1789-1983;" "The Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1788-1989;" and "The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress:1789-1989." For further information, contact Howard Lange 703-532-1605.
October 3, 2008 - Arlington The biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History of Cartography will be held at Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library. The topic of the lectures will be Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900. We have an outstanding program planned, with presentations by John Logan Allen, University of Wyoming; Samuel Truett, University of New Mexico; Ronald Grim, Boston Public Library; Paul D. McDermott, Montgomery College; John R. Hébert, Library of Congress; and Ben Huseman, University of Texas at Arlington. Contact Carolyn Kadri for additional information.
October 4, 2008 - Arlington The Texas Map Society will have a joint meeting with the Philip Lee Phillips Society of the Library of Congress at Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library. Contact Carolyn Kadri for additional information.
October 5-7, 2008 - Arlington The Society for the History of Discoveries will hold its annual meeting immediately after the Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History of Cartography and the joint meeting of the Texas Map Society and the Philip Lee Phillips Society of the Library of Congress For additional information contact Gerald Saxon.
October 18, 2008 - Winchester, Virginia The Washington Map Society will make a field trip to the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. An exhibition entitled Jed Hotchkiss - Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker will feature about 60 maps and sketches by this important mapmaker. The exhibition will include manuscript maps from the Library of Congress and The Handley Regional Library, Winchester, as well as high quality digital images. Richard W. Stephenson (Library of Congress, retired), who is co-curator along with Robert Grogg (National Park Service, retired), will lead a tour of the exhibition beginning at 11:00 am. Following lunch in the tea room on the grounds, Mr. Stephenson will make an illustrated presentation, after which we will have a tour of the 18th century mansion built by Robert Wood, son of the surveyor and founder of Winchester, James Wood.
November 6-8, 2008 - Hamburg 14. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium Museum für Kommunikation Gorch-Fock-Wall 1; Organizer: Arbeitsgruppe D-A-CH. For additional information contact: Dr. Markus Heinz, Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Map Department, Potsdamer Str. 33, D-10785 Berlin; Phone ++49-30-266 2725, Fax ++49-30-266 3010.
December 13, 2008 - Brussels The Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle tentatively plan to have their Annual Study Session at a place to be announced.
February 7-8, 2009 - Miami The Miami International Map Fair, the oldest event of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, will be held at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida 33130. Dealers from around the world exhibit and sell antique maps. Visitors are invited to bring in maps of their own for expert opinions and attend educational programs. While many of the attendees are serious map collectors, this event is building awareness of antique maps and encouraging new collectors. For information and registration materials, contact Marcia Kanner, Map Fair Coordinator, at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida using the above address or by telephone at (305) 375-1492; facsimile: (305) 375-1609.
March 6-7, 2009 - Rosslyn, Virginia The Washington Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at Holiday Inn at Key Bridge, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive. Rare books, maps, prints, autographs and more will be presented by 75 distinguished dealers. Open Friday 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
March 7, 2009 - San Antonio The Texas Map Society will have their spring meeting. Contact Kit Goodwin for additional information.
April 14-17, 2009 - Sevilla The Escuela De Estudios Hispano-Americanos and Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Científicas are sponsoring an international symposium entitled Poblar la inmensidad: sociedades, conflictos y representaciones en los márgenes del Imperio Hispánico (XV-XIX). One of the themes will be the history of cartography in the Spanish Empire. Additional information from the website.
July 12-17, 2009 - Copenhagen Due to the difficulties of navigating the Far North, the early cartography of the region has been characterized by a blurring of the boundaries between fact and fiction, and a strong interplay between textual sources and cartography. These traits will be the subject of Maps, Myths and Narratives: Cartography of the Far North - the focus of the 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography. Conference venue is the new 'Black Diamond' building of the Royal Library. Pre-registration is available online or from Henrik Dupont, Research Librarian, Department of Maps, The Royal Library, Slotsholmen, POB 2149, DK-1016 Copenhagen K.
September 6-9, 2009 - Oslo The International Map Collectors' Society will hold its 27th international symposium. The main theme will be mapping of Scandinavia and the Arctic. A post-symposium tour is being planned. Additional information from Pål Sagen, P.O.Box 3893, Ullevål Stadion, NO-0805 Oslo, Norway; phone: +47 2242 7800, fax: +47 2233 3651.
October 3, 2009 - Arlington The Texas Map Society will meet at Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library. Contact Kit Goodwin for additional information.
November 15-21, 2009 - Santiago, Chile The mission of the International Cartographic Association is to promote the discipline and profession of cartography in an international context. The 24th International Cartography Conference will address The World's Geo-Spatial Solutions.
Autumn 2010 - London The International Map Collectors' Society will hold its 28th international symposium.
July 2011 - Moscow The 24th International Conference on the History of Cartography will be held in Moscow.
Autumn 2011 - Japan The International Map Collectors' Society is planning to hold its 29th international symposium in Japan.
Autumn 2012 - Canada The International Map Collectors' Society is planning to hold its 30th international symposium in Canada.