January 11, 2012 - Valletta The next meeting of the committee of the Malta Map Society will be held at 6 pm at the Grand Excelsior Hotel. Additional information from Rod Lyon.
January 14, 2012 – New York The next meeting of the New York Map Society will be at the Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 5th Avenue at 40th Street at 2.30 pm . Using NASA Satellite Radar Maps to Solve a Geology Problem - Canada's Hudson and James Bays are in an area that was heavily glaciated during the last ice age. Since the melting of the ice, the land in this area has continued to rise, with marine beaches in some areas now at 500 or more feet above sea level. The rate of rise and the age of these various marine beaches has proven difficult to calculate. To determine the rise in elevation in lower James Bay during the past four centuries, Map Society Treasurer Leslie Trager will compare Thomas James' 1631 description of the area with modern contour lines generated from NASA satellite radar surveys. Maps from these scans can be made with contour lines at one meter intervals which allow small, relatively subtle features to be revealed. Using this data, it was determined that in the last 400 years the land rose five meters, rather than earlier estimates of only two meters. Aerial photographs taken in summer 2011 and early maps confirm this analysis. Additional information from Heather Kinsinger.
January 14, 2012 – San Bernardino, California
A
program on the maps of Fred T. Perris has been set by the San
Bernardino Historical and Pioneer Society for 1 p.m. Saturday at the
Heritage House on the corner of 8th and D Streets. Admission is free.
Roger Hatheway, the County Transportation Department’s expert
on historical maps, will make the presentation. Hatheway has compiled
a collection of maps prepared by pioneer Fred T, Perris, which Steve
Shaw has put into a PowerPoint program. Perris arrived in San
Bernardino in 1853 with his mother and two sisters, and he
immediately became a favorite of the colony’s founders, Amasa
Lyman and Charles Rich. Although Perris was only 17 at the time,
Lyman had the youngster prepare the architectural drawings for
enlarging the Lugo adobe into a two-story structure with
accommodations for several of his wives and children. In 1857 John La
Croze, the Deputy U.S. Surveyor General for California, began the
survey of the boundary of the Rancho San Bernardino and Perris held
an important position on that crew. After the boundary map was
completed, Perris divided the Rancho into blocks and lots (subdivided
it, in other words) at the instruction of Lyman and Rich. Thus Perris
was involved with major surveys that defined the layout of San
Bernardino. Information: Nick
Cataldo, 909-709-3792.
January 15, 2012 – Mountainville, New Jersey The Tewksbury Historical Society kicks off 2012 with its annual meeting at 1 p.m. at Society Headquarters, 60 Water Street. Preceding a talk by former Seton Hall Professor Maxine N. Lurie, the Society will hold its annual election of officers and the annual business meeting. The meeting and talk are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Come listen and learn about Mapping New Jersey, the latest book from Lurie, a New Jersey historian. She will give a presentation on maps from the book, including local maps, and the history that goes with them.
January 19, 2012 - Helena, Montana In conjunction with the exhibit Mapping Montana: Two Centuries of Cartography, the Montana Historical Society, 225 N. Roberts Street, is sponsoring a series of lectures. Today’s lecture at 6:30 pm is Thompson finishes Sketching & Mapping the Salish Country in One Busy Week. Norman Jacobson, a science teacher and docent, gives a talk on early 19th century mapmaker David Thompson, who spent only a very busy week in the Mission Valley mapping and drawing.
January 19, 2012 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street at 5:30 pm. Rachel Havrelock will discuss River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line. What are the legitimate borders of Israel? Who should determine where they fall? When should the borders become permanent? These are just a few of the controversial questions that surround Israel’s border disputes.
January 19, 2012 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Patrick O'Neill will speak on The Battle of the White House. The year 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, called, by many, America's second war for independence. The talk will focus on a battle that occurred between the burning of Washington and the attack on Fort McHenry. Mr. O'Neill will discuss the historical and battle maps he has had to create, in researching this important battle, because none were in existence. Patrick O'Neill is a historian based in Washington, D.C. He has written two books for the Images of America series, Mount Vernon, and Virginia's Presidential Homes. From 2009-2010, he served as President of the Archeological Society of Virginia. For additional information, contact J. C. McElveen, phone 202-879-3726.
January 21, 2012 – Los Angeles The California Map Society Winter Meeting will be held at the Los Angeles Public Library Main Branch on South Flower Street at West Fifth Street in Los Angeles. The meeting will be jointly sponsored with the Library in the Tabor Auditorium, a beautiful state of the art venue holding about 250. As a co-sponsored Library event the main part of the meeting will be free to the public. Our new Southern California Vice President, Steve Hicks, is organizing the event. If you'd like to help, please feel free to contact him at steve@californiamapsociety.org.
January 24, 2012 - Denver The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM in the Gates Room (5th floor) of the Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway. Lee Whiteley will present Mapping the Nation’s Highways, From ‘Auto Trails’ to Interstates. Maps, road guides, and signs have been used to help motorists along the nation’s highways, from the fearsome bits of slippery, rutted miseries of the auto trails of the 1910s to multi-lane interstates. Before federal aid to highways, local good road clubs maintained and sign-posted roads, which were given colorful and descriptive names such as the Victory Highway, Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, Yellowstone Highway, and National Park-to-Park Highway. These organizations issued the maps and detailed drive guides needed by pioneering motorists. With confusion resulting from literally hundreds of these individually named highways, the federal government began assigning numbers to the nation’s major highways: even numbers for east-west roads and odd numbers for north-south roads. Lee Whiteley is a fourth-generation Coloradan now living in Centennial. He has authored five books on the transportation history of the West. Topics include wagon roads and early automobile highways. Lee and wife Jane are associate producers of the PBS documentary Paving the Way, the National Park-to-Park Highway. Additional information from Lorraine Sherry.
January 24, 2012 - Edinburgh In the autumn the National Library of Scotland introduced two new map reader workshops - one an Introduction to Maps at National Library of Scotland, and the other, Maps for Family and Local History. Due to their popularity, we will be running them again during 2012. Today's workshop will be Introduction to Maps at National Library of Scotland. The workshop begins at 2 pm and last for 90 minutes, led by map curators in the Maps Reading Room, 159 Causewayside. It includes a Powerpoint slideshow illustrating a range of maps, their value and uses, and a practical session exploring maps first hand in the Maps Reading Room. Please book your place in advance by phoning 0131 623 3918.
January 25, 2012 – Philadelphia Please
mark your 2012 calendar for the second meeting of the newly
re-established Philadelphia Map Society to be held 5:30 to 6:30 PM in
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania second floor conference room
(1300 Locust Street). Mr. Torben Jenk has recommended that we preface
our map review with a demonstration by Jeff Locke of Colonial
Instruments of seventeenth and eighteenth century survey tools since
Jeff happens to be scheduled to be in Philadelphia that day. We have
asked Jeff to speak for 1/2 hour and he will use a brief powerpoint I
understand to open discussion on the compass, chain, drawing set and
possibly theodolite he may bring. Jeff may also present a book made
by a colonial survey student to practice his trade. Lee Arnold of HSP
says he would be honored to show these select maps and offer his
insights. The gems which Torben suggested we may especially enjoy
viewing include:
1) Original copper plate of Thomas Holme's
Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia (1683)
2) Thomas Pierson
and Isaac Taylor, 12 Mile Radius New Castle/ "The Figure of the
Circular line Dividing Between the County of New Castle & County
of (Chester)" (4 Dec 1701), their measurements (26 Nov 1701),
and William Penn's instructions (28 Oct 1701) Am 2349 (folio)
3)
British Army map of Philadelphia, 1777. Of610 (ca. 1777) b
4) Plan
of the English Lines near Philadelphia 1777. Of 932* 1778 (from Am
.602)
5) John Hill, Plan of Springettsbury Manor and other
Estates..Cadwallader Collection, Maps, Flat File 4.
We invite Jeff
Locke and Lee Arnold to join all attendees for dinner following the
event at a nearby restaurant. Additional information from Barbara
Drebing Kauffman.
January 26, 2012 – London Maps and Society Twenty-First Programme - Nils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and School of Gender, Culture and History, Södertörn University, Sweden) White Maps of Africa: The Making of Blank Spaces, 1700–1800 - at Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the International Map Collectors’ Society, and Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano-Smith).
January 26, 2012 – Washington “How the States Got Their Shapes Too” is Mark Stein’s new book. Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take 10 years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark Stein’s new book. “How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines” (Smithsonian Press, 2011) is the sequel to Stein’s “How the States Got Their Shapes” (2008). But while the first book told us why the states look as they do, this book tells us who shaped them. Stein will discuss and sign his new work at noon in the Mumford Room, located on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. The event, sponsored by the Center for the Book as part of its Books & Beyond author series, is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.
January 28, 2012 – Paris Catherine Hofmann will talk about Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Site Richelieu, 5 Rue Vivienne, at 10:30. For additional information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
January 28, 2012 - Valletta The next AGM meeting of the of the Malta Map Society will be held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additional information from Rod Lyon.
January 31, 2012 – Paris At 18:30, Bibliothèque nationale de France / Inha, 2, rue Vivienne, Emilie d'Orgeix and Jean-Yves Sarazin will discuss Gaston d'Orleans and his collection of maps and plans. For additional information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
February 1, 2012 – Providence The weekly fellow's brown-bag lunch (bring your own!) -- lunch starts at noon, presentation at about 12:30 pm at Hillel House, on the corner of Brown & Angell streets, close to the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Matthew Edney will discuss Hugh, Earl Percy's Physical Manipulation of his Map of New England at the Start of the American Revolution. Hugh, Earl Percy was one of the British generals stationed in Boston at the start of the Revolution. He had brought with him an impression of the Map of the most Inhabited Part of New England, originally published in London in 1755. This impression is remarkable for Percy's annotations of routes across the region. Close examination of these annotations reveal how Percy progressively physically manipulated the map as he sought to retask a decorative wall map into a specific instrument of military strategy and logistics. Percy's manipulations suggest that this map of New England occupied a perhaps uncomfortable position between the cartographic modes of geographical and topographical/territorial mapping. For more information, contact Val Andrews.
February 1, 2012 - Sydney Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy has had a distinguished career as a clinical immunologist. He has been awarded an AM for services to cartography (as a collector of early maps of Australia) and to the field of immunology. Professor Clancy’s talk, The Mapping of Antarctica, will focus on his knowledge of the historical Antarctic maps. Presentation is from 6.00 PM to 7.00 PM, Dixson Room, Mitchell Building, State Library of NSW.
February 2, 2012 - Helena, Montana In conjunction with the exhibit Mapping Montana: Two Centuries of Cartography, the Montana Historical Society, 225 N. Roberts Street, is sponsoring a series of lectures. Today’s lecture at 6:30 pm is Revealing the Mysteries of Geologic Mapping. Dick Berg, a geologist, will make the intricacies of defining the geology of a mountainous area understandable to the uninitiated. He has been mapping Montana geology for over 40 years.
February 4-5, 2012 - Miami The Miami International Map Fair, the oldest event of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, will be held at the HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street. 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 contact Amanda Israel, Map Fair Coordinator, at HistoryMiami, 101 West Flager St., Miami, FL 33130; telephone: (305) 375-1492; facsimile: (305) 375-1609.
February 9, 2012 – London The International History Department, London School of Economics, Seminar Series 2011-12 is focused on the subject The Uses of Space In Early Modern History 1500-1850. The lecture will be held at the London School of Economics, New Academic Building, room 2.14; at 18.00. All welcome. Prof Michael Heffernan (Nottingham) will discuss Disciplining Space: Geography and Cartography in the Paris Academy of Sciences 1666-1793. Additional information from Series Organiser: Dr Paul Stock.
February 11, 2012 – New York The next meeting of the New York Map Society will be at the Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 5th Avenue at 40th Street at 2.30 pm . Nick Frearson, polar scientist (British Antarctic Survey and Columbia University's Lamont-Doheny Earth Observatory) will address the Society about Operation Icebridge: Mapping Thin Ice Sheets in Antarctica. Nick Frearson will recount tales from a recent expedition in (and over) Antarctica as one of the geophysicists involved in Operation Icebridge's flying lab, a DC-8 fitted out with intriguing and exotic equipment such as an Airborne Topographic Mapper, Gravimeter, Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder, Snow Radar, and a Ku-Band Radar Altimeter. Operation Icebridge scientists record data on the thickness and depth of Antarctic ice sheets and glacial movement in order, in the words of NASA, to “learn more about the trends that could affect sea-level rise and climate around the globe.” Learn what Frearson and his colleagues discovered on this trip, and how polar exploration and mapping have changed since Shackleton's day. Additional information from Heather Kinsinger.
February 15, 2012 - Washington John W Kluge Center and the Law Library of Congress present at 12:00 Noon, Jefferson Building, LJ-WH, Whittall Pavillion; Written in Stone: Roman Land law, Legal Epigraphy and the Search for the Origins of Roman Cartography by John Hessler. The middle of the Bagradas vallley is located southwest of Carthage, between roughly sixty and eighty kilometers from the northern Mediterranean coast, in the region of northern Tunisia known as the Tell interieur. Within the region are found many of the most important legal inscriptions relating to the practice of agriculture, land surveying and tenant farming, all of which provide a window into the how land and estates were managed and how tenant farmers made a living during this time of rapid growth in the Roman population. The area was also one of the most heavily mapped and surveyed by the Romans with many of the original boundary stones still extant. Inscriptions such as those found at Henchir-Mettich and Souk-el-Khmis also provide us with information about the legal system under which agriculture operated, , and perhaps more importantly, gives us hints into the geography and extent of Roman agriculture in North Africa when it was the ‘bread basket’ of the empire. In this talk will Hessler will discuss his travels in Tunisia and Algeria in search of these and other legal inscriptions, and also talk about what these seemingly dry fragments can tell us about the origins of Roman cartography and land ownership law.
February 16, 2012 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street at 5:30 pm. John Long will discuss Collecting Maps on Postcards. Maps on postcards make up an enormous body of miniature maps that include examples of just about every topic and task for which maps are used in the world at large—plus others found only in the postcard world—from entertainment to way-finding.
February 16, 2012 - Helena, Montana In conjunction with the exhibit Mapping Montana: Two Centuries of Cartography, the Montana Historical Society, 225 N. Roberts Street, is sponsoring a series of lectures. Today’s lecture at 6:30 pm is Mapping Archaeological and Historic Sites in Montana. Tim Urbaniak, director of the Montana State University Billings Archaeological Field Team, will present a program demonstrating current technological mapping practices for archaeological and historical projects. Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and three-dimensional scanning applications will be demonstrated through a series of case studies.
February 16, 2012 – London Maps and Society Twenty-First Programme - Francis Herbert (Former Curator of Maps, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)) Maps for The Hakluyt Society, 1847–2010: or, from Cosmas to Cook and computers- at Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the International Map Collectors’ Society, and Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano-Smith). This meeting is sponsored by the Hakluyt Society.
February 16, 2012 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. Sharon MacInnes will speak on Genealogy and Maps: A Perfect Marriage for Tracking Ancestors. Genealogists use, or should use, maps of many different kinds to locate their ancestors, track their migrations, reveal family relationships and uncover historical context in which to place their family history. Dr. MacInnes will explore how genealogists use maps, and how such maps broaden the perspective of a researcher beyond an individual ancestor to the broader family and the society in which they lived. The presentation will use, as an example, a family who migrated from Maryland to Pennsylvania, to West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska. The importance of national, state and county collections, privately published maps, atlases and other documents, online maps and mapping software will be discussed. Dr. Sharon MacInnes has been a dedicated genealogist since 1976. She has completed courses at the National Institute for Genealogical Research, in Washington, D.C. And the Samford Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research, in Birmingham, Alabama. She has compiled and published seven atlases documenting the plat maps for the earliest landowners of seven counties of Pennsylvania. She has also published Early Landowners of Pennsylvania: Land Tracts Transferred from Virginia to Pennsylvania Jurisdiction, 1779-1780. For additional information, contact J. C. McElveen, phone 202-879-3726.
February 23, 2012 - Oxford The Oxford Seminars in Cartography, 19th Annual Series, will have Rachel Hewitt (Wolfson College, Oxford) speak about The Military Survey of Scotland (1747-1755): a family affair? The seminar runs from 5.00pm to 6.30pm at the University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. For further details contact Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119, Fax: 01865 277139. 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.
February 23, 2012 - St. Augustine The St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St., launches its fourth season of art history lectures from 7 to 9 p.m. The second program will feature local historian and Spanish translator, Elizabeth Gessner, talking about The Compass Rose: St. Augustine Cartography. Gessner will offer an aesthetic look at the art of cartography and historical maps. Admission to the lecture is free; however, reservations are required. Call 824-2310 for more information.
February 24-28, 2012 - New York The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers will be held in New York City. A One-Day Workshop, on February 25, at the New York Public Library, to be held as part of the Annual Meeting, is titled Working digitally with historical maps. The last twenty years have seen both extensive work by map librarians to computerize their collections of historic maps AND the development of historical GIS as a distinct sub-discipline, reconstructing past landscapes, both cultural and physical, from historical sources. However, there has been surprisingly little interaction between map library digitization projects and researchers in historical GIS. This workshop will bring together map librarians digitizing their collections with academic researchers using historical maps as sources for GIS systems and historical database. Additional information from Dr Humphrey Southall, Reader in Geography/Director, GB Historical GIS, Dept of Geography, University of Portsmouth, Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE, UK.
February 28, 2012 – Cambridge, England The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St. Andrew’s Street at 5.30pm. Lucy Donkin (Cambridge as of Oct 2011) will speak about Mapping consecration in twelfth-century Italy and beyond. Refreshments will be available after each seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall at tel. 01223 330476.
February 29, 2012 - Duisburg The art historian Tanja Michalsky from the University of the Arts in Berlin will speak about Gerhard Mercator: Wissenschaft und Wissenstransfer. Lecture will be at 19.00 in Stadthistorischen Museum, Johannes-Corputius-Platz 1. Please RSVP to Beate Radosavljevic.
February 29, 2012 - Edinburgh In the autumn the National Library of Scotland introduced two new map reader workshops - one an Introduction to Maps at National Library of Scotland, and the other, Maps for Family and Local History. Due to their popularity, we will be running them again during 2012. Today's workshop will be Maps for Family and Local History. The workshop begins at 2 pm and last for 90 minutes, led by map curators in the Maps Reading Room, 159 Causewayside. It includes a Powerpoint slideshow illustrating a range of maps, their value and uses, and a practical session exploring maps first hand in the Maps Reading Room. Please book your place in advance by phoning 0131 623 3918.
February 29, 2012 – London This year's Gerald Aylmer Seminar, sponsored by the UK National Archives, the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research, is specifically focused on historical GIS. It is being held at the Chancellors' Hall, University of London Senate House. Attendance is free but numbers are limited so please contact Ruth Roberts for an invitation.
March 1-2, 2012 - Essen The Mercator Foundation, Huyssenallee 46, in commemoration of the 500th anniversry of the birth of Mercator, will have a conference Gerhard Mercator: Wissenschaft und Wissenstransfer dedicated to Gerhard Mercator in the context of current research; and ask the question about the significance of his work for today. Attendees will include researchers from the fields of economics and early modern history, legal history, art history, geography and literature. This will be an opportunity to gain insight into the world Mercator.
March 1, 2012 - Helena, Montana In conjunction with the exhibit Mapping Montana: Two Centuries of Cartography, the Montana Historical Society, 225 N. Roberts Street, is sponsoring a series of lectures. Today’s lecture at 6:30 pm is Mapping Helena’s History. Ellen Baumler, author and historian with MHS, will take the audience on a trip through community history, where they can solve some mysteries, and better understand how Helena grew. She’ll use a variety of maps from the 1860s to the present.
March 1, 2012 – London Maps and Society Twenty-First Programme - Dr Hilde De Weerdt (Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford) Reasoning with Maps: Amateur Mapmakers in Imperial China (1100–1300 - at Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the International Map Collectors’ Society, and Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano-Smith).
March 2-3, 2012 – Arlington, Virginia The Washington Antiquarian book Fair will take place at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn, at the Key Bridge, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive. Seventy-five distinguished dealers will offer rare books, maps, prints, autographs and more, for your consideration.
March 8, 2012 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Chet Van Duzer, independent scholar, author of “Johann Schöner’s Globe of 1515 -Transcription and Study,” and currently in Washington for a four month Kislak Fellowship at the Library of Congress to study Waldseemüller's Carta Marina, will discuss his work on the Yale University Martellus map, which was largely unstudied, but turns out to have been a very important source for Waldseemüller in the creation of his 1507 map. He will also address results of his study of the Carta Marina. For additional information, contact J. C. McElveen, phone 202-879-3726.
March 9, 2012 - London Medieval Maps And Diagrams, a one-day Conference at The Warburg Institute. In the past, maps were defined as representations of the surface of the earth or a part of it, but modern cartographical theorists and map historians define maps more widely as forms of graphic representations facilitating 'a spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or events' (J. B. Harley and D. Woodward). This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the relationship between medieval maps and diagrams. Brief presentations (15 minutes each) will concentrate on specific examples, which will be discussed in view of wider topics such as the art of memory, divination, typology, and page layout. The concluding panel will be concerned with the underlying question of the relationship and distinctions between medieval diagrams and maps, with the ways in which they have been examined by scholars in the past, and with how they might be investigated in the future. Registration £25 (£12.50 for concessions) including coffee/tea, and a sandwich lunch. To register please contact: the Warburg Institute. For further information please contact the organisers, Hanna Vorholt and Alessandro Scafi.
March 10, 2012 - Chapel Hill Bob Anthony, Curator of the North Carolina Collection, and Claudia Funke, Curator of Rare Books at UNC-Chapel Hill, have invited the William P. Cumming Map Society to an important event next Spring: Saturday morning in the Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill: The Moseley Manuscript of North Carolina of 1737: Its History and the Hunt for Its Provenance, presented by Michael McNamara of Williamsburg, VA, independent scholar and collector of all things Southern. 9:30 a.m. Coffee and pastries, Main Lobby; 10:00 a.m. Program, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. Additional details from Jay Lester.
March 10, 2012 – New York The next meeting of the New York Map Society will be at the Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 5th Avenue at 40th Street at 2.30 pm . Mercator's World Map: Contribution and Controversy - Syracuse University Professor Mark Monmonier will describe Gerard Mercator's famous conformal cylindrical map projection, the context within which he developed it, and its adoption as a navigation tool. In addition to examining the famous map's role in framing large-scale navigation charts and topographic maps, Professor Monmonier will explore its rise and fall as a geometric framework for whole-world atlas and wall maps. He will also discuss the controversy triggered by German historian Arno Peters, who claimed to have devised a unique antidote to the misuse of the map by persons and organizations unsympathetic to Third World nations. Additional information from Heather Kinsinger.
March 13, 2012 – London The International Map Collectors' Society will hold its annual Collectors' Evening at the Farmers' Club, 3 Whitehall Court, starting at 6 pm. The theme is Gerard Mercator to tie in with the celebration for the 500th anniversary of his birth. Chairman Francis Herbert. All welcome. Small charge for refreshments.
March 15, 2012 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society meets at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street at 5:30 pm. David Buisseret and Carl Kupfer will present The Marquette Map validated; a hoax unhoaxed. The “Marquette Map,” said to have been drawn in 1674 by Father Jacques Marquette and now preserved in Montréal, has been thought by some to be a relatively recent forgery.
March 15, 2012 - Helena, Montana In conjunction with the exhibit Mapping Montana: Two Centuries of Cartography, the Montana Historical Society, 225 N. Roberts Street, is sponsoring a series of lectures. Today’s lecture at 6:30 pm is Online Maps from the Montana State Library. Gerry Daumiller, GIS specialist with Montana State Library, will talk about the variety of maps produced at the State Library for other state agencies.
March 15, 2012 – London Maps and Society Twenty-First Programme - Professor Imre Demhardt (Department of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Alexander von Humboldt and the Scientific Mapping of the Americas - at Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the International Map Collectors’ Society, and Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano-Smith).
March 23, 2012 – Paris Emmanuelle Vagnon and Jean-Yves Sarazin will discuss Mapping of the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth and seventeenth century at Ecole Nationale des Chartes, 19, rue de la Sorbonne. For additional information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
March 24, 2012 – Paris The Bibliothèque nationale de France, Site Richelieu, will be open for visiting département des Cartes et plans and its presentation spaces, collections, and a few treasures of the department. There will be on-site registration for guided tours at 11h and at 15h. For additional information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
March 31, 2012 – Richmond The 2012 Alan M. & Nathalie Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography will be held at Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street. Two lectures by Kent Mountford and J. Court Stevenson will focus on the Chesapeake Bay. Maps will be on display from the Library of Virginia’s collections and the Mariners Museum Library. Additional details to be released. Call 804-692-3813 for more information.
April 14, 28, 2012 – Bethesda Dr. James Goode, speaker at the 2011 Washington Map Society Annual Dinner, will be hosting the Society's Spring Field Trip. Dr. Goode will be taking us through the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana collection, which has recently been donated, by Mr. Small, to George Washington University. There is a great deal of interest in this tour, so please let JC McElveen know, as soon as possible, which day you would like to tour the collection. More details will follow.
April 17-18, 2012 – Barcelona The LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires and the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya are delighted to invite you to the 18th Conference of the LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires which will be held at the facilities of the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, located in Montjuïc area.
April 18, 2012 – June 20, 2012 Wednesdays – Edinburgh For anyone who enjoys studying maps and who has a passion for history, Maps and Mappery in Scottish History, 1100 - 1850 is the perfect course to indulge your interests while developing research skills. A deeper appreciation of maps as an historical source will be cultivated while exploring the rich collections of the National Library of Scotland's Map Library. Maps as both objects and documents will be set in the context of Scotland's history, giving greater awareness of how maps enrich our understanding of Scotland's past. The course is organised in three sections: a general background of Scotland’s maps and mapmakers; a series of six case studies, looking at medieval maps, renaissance maps, town plans, sea charts, military maps and the Ordnance Survey; and finally a look at how maps are being used in historical research today. Each topic will be covered through an informal lecture followed by a workshop, giving hands-on experience in using cartographic evidence in historical research. The class is intended to complement the range of skillsbuilding history classes offered in the University of Edinburgh’s Open Studies programme. Further details can be found on the website. The course runs on Wednesdays from 10-12 noon at the University of Edinburgh and at the Map Library at Causewayside.
April 19-20, 2012 - Barcelona In association with the 18th Conference of the LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires / Maps Expert Group, the ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage and the Institut Cartografic de Catalunya organize the 7th International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage.
April 19, 2012 – London Maps and Society Twenty-First Programme - Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird (School of Advanced Study, University of London) Improved Satin Maps for Ladies' Schools: A New Revenue Stream for Eighteenth-Century Printsellers - at Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the International Map Collectors’ Society, and Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano-Smith).
April 19, 2012 – Washington The Washington Map Society meets at 7 PM in the Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Cassandra Farrell will speak on Civil War Maps at the Library of Virginia. The Library of Virginia has very significant collection of Civil War maps, many done during the War, itself, and some done soon afterwards. Ms. Farrell will describe and illustrate the collection, and will offer suggestions on how research may be conducted on-line, and in person, at the Library. Cassandra Farrell is a Map Specialist and Senior Research Archivist at the Library of Virginia. For additional information, contact J. C. McElveen, phone 202-879-3726.
April 24, 2012 – Milwaukee The Arthur Holzheimer Maps and America Lecture at the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will start with a reception at 5:30 pm. At 6:00 pm Barnet Schecter will discuss Mapping a Life, Mapping a Nation: George Washington and his Vision of America.
April 25-28, 2012 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium The Erfgoedcel Waasland and Ghent University, Department of Geography are delighted to invite you to the international conference Mercator Revisited – Cartography in the Age of Discovery. The event is supported by the International Cartographic Association and the Flemish Government. 2012 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gerard Mercator, and this conference will take place in the city of Sint-Niklaas, 15 km from the town of Rupelmonde where Gerard de Kremer was born on the 5th of March 1512. The conference focuses on the place of cartography in general and of Mercator in specific in the 16th century.
May 8, 2012 – Cambridge, England The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet in Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street at 5.30pm. Annaleigh Margey (London) will speak about Mapping during the Irish plantations, c.1580-1640. Refreshments will be available after each seminar. For further information contact Sarah Bendall at tel. 01223 330476.
May 10-13, 2012 – Kalamazoo The International Congress on Medieval Studies will take place at Western Michigan University. A session sponsored by the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies will discuss Tricks of the Trade: Histories of buying, selling, and acquiring medieval manuscript books and documents. This session will explore the ways in which medieval manuscript books and documents have been bought, sold, and acquired from medieval times to the present by eliciting case studies from scholars interested in issues of provenance. The history of collecting medieval books and documents—the underlying principle of this session--can reveal patterns of use and reception for the texts contained in manuscripts, as well as for the objects themselves, that shed light on modern interpretations of these cultural artifacts. Studies of collecting can also help us to understand the historical economies of the rare book trade. This session will seek papers that address these aspects of the trade as well as provenance history in general. It will also include a demonstration of the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. Additional information from Lynn Ransom.
May 10, 2012 – London Maps and Society Twenty-First Programme - Emeritus Professor Noël Wilkins (Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland Galway) Alexander Nimmo (1783–1832) and Some of His Little-Known Irish Maps and Charts - at Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshment. All are welcome. This lecture series in the history of cartography is convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the International Map Collectors’ Society, and Jonathan Potter of Jonathan Potter Ltd. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano-Smith).
May 12, 2012 - Northern California The Spring California Map Society meeting will be at a location to be announced. The meeting is being organized by Leonard Rothman, our new Northern California Vice President, and is expected to be co-sponsored by The Book Club of California. If you want to help Len with this event, please contact him at len@californiamapsociety.org.
May 12, 2012 – Perth Our next Scottish Maps Forum Seminar, to be held in the AK Bell Library, will be on the theme of Mapping and Printing the world: Scottish Milestones in 19th century publishing.The seminar celebrates the golden age of Scottish map printing and publishing. During this time, Scottish cartographers and map publishers grew to become internationally known household names. This was helped by rapidly expanding markets at home and abroad, and new printing technologies such as lithography, allowing much cheaper mass production and the use of colour. The growth of Edinburgh as an international hub of engraving, printing and publishing, allowed the entire map production process - draughting, engraving, printing and publishing - to be centralised not only within Scotland, but also within particular companies, for the first time in Scottish map history. The cost is £15 (£20 with lunch). Booking forms and further information are available from the Scottish Maps Forum, National Library of Scotland, 159 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PH; Tel: 0131 623 3970; Fax: 0131 623 3971.
May 18-19, 2012 – Washington The Library of Congress' Geography and Map Division in conjunction with the Philip Lee Phillips Society will host a conference titled Visions of the Nation's Capital: Two Hundred Years of Mapping Washington, D.C. The first conference devoted to the history of the mapping of the national capital will cover the period from Pierre Charles L'Enfant's Grand Plan to the present day contributions of the National Park and Planning Commission. For additional information contact Ralph E. Ehrenberg, Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, D.C. 20540-4650.
May 19, 2012 – Washington The Washington Map Society will hold its Annual Dinner Meeting. Additional details to be announced. For additional information, contact J. C. McElveen, phone 202-879-3726.
May 24, 2012 - Oxford The Oxford Seminars in Cartography, 19th Annual Series, will have Alexander Kent (Canterbury Christ Church University) speak about modern European topographic mapping. The seminar runs from 5.00pm to 6.30pm at the University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. For further details contact Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119, Fax: 01865 277139. 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.
May 29, 2012 - Edinburgh In the autumn the National Library of Scotland introduced two new map reader workshops - one an Introduction to Maps at National Library of Scotland, and the other, Maps for Family and Local History. Due to their popularity, we will be running them again during 2012. Today's workshop will be Introduction to Maps at National Library of Scotland. The workshop begins at 2 pm and last for 90 minutes, led by map curators in the Maps Reading Room, 159 Causewayside. It includes a Powerpoint slideshow illustrating a range of maps, their value and uses, and a practical session exploring maps first hand in the Maps Reading Room. Please book your place in advance, starting in April, by phoning 0131 623 3918.
June 11, 2012 – Paris Join Jasmine D. Salachas for Evening Coffee at Zango (15 rue du Cygne, Paris, 1). Jasmine D. Salachas will discuss the missions of the Department of Maps, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and about being prepared on the historical borders of Africa For additional information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
June 14, 2012 - Oxford The Oxford Seminars in Cartography, 19th Annual Series, will have TOSCA Field Trip – Afternoon visit to the Bodleian’s Book Storage Facility at Swindon. Space is limited - for further details please contact: Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119, Fax: 01865 277139. 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.
June 15-16, 2012 – London The International Map Collectors' Society Annual Dinner on Friday with the Malcolm Young Lecture followed by the Annual General Meeting on Saturday at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore. Further details to be announced.
June 16-17, 2012 – London The London Map Fair at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore. Opening hourts Sat. 12pm-7pm, Sun. 10am-5pm.
June 20, 2012 - Edinburgh In the autumn the National Library of Scotland introduced two new map reader workshops - one an Introduction to Maps at National Library of Scotland, and the other, Maps for Family and Local History. Due to their popularity, we will be running them again during 2012. Today's workshop will be Maps for Family and Local History. The workshop begins at 2 pm and last for 90 minutes, led by map curators in the Maps Reading Room, 159 Causewayside. It includes a Powerpoint slideshow illustrating a range of maps, their value and uses, and a practical session exploring maps first hand in the Maps Reading Room. Please book your place in advance, starting in April, by phoning 0131 623 3918.
June 28-July 1, 2012 - Albuquerque Alex Zukas is arranging a panel for the World History Association meeting in the history of cartography. Items to be discussed include the Saint-Sever Beatus mappamundi and 18th-century world/imperial maps. The conference themes are "Frontiers in World History" and "Indigenous Peoples in World History." Additional information from Alex Zukas, Ph.D., Professor of History, Department of Social Sciences, College of Letters and Sciences, National University, 11255 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037; phone 858-642-8461.
June 28-29, 2012 - Budapest The 4th International Symposium of the International Cartographic Association Commission on the History of Cartography will be held at Eötvös Loránd University and is organized by the Commission in collaboration with Dr Zsolt Török of the Department of Geography and Geoinformatics, Eötvös Loránd University. The Symposium theme is Exploration - Discovery - Cartography, and it is open to all cartographers, geographers, historians, map collectors, academics and lay persons interested in the history of cartography.
June 30, 2012 - Budapest The 1st Annual General Meeting of The International Society for the History of the Map will be held. Additional details to come. Contact Secretary, The International Society for the History of the Map, c/o Dean’s Office, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Room 215 South Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU, UK.
July 8-10, 2012 - Brisbane, Australia Global Connection through Mapping, the Brisbane International Geospatial Forum is shaping up to be the largest cartographic event held in Australia for many years. The Forum is planned as a joint effort between the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia and for the first time also with the International Map Trade Association. There will be a significant trade show component for the conference, to be held in the new events spaces at the State Library of Queensland, South Bank, Brisbane. The conference will feature the usual array of expert papers, tours, displays, conference dinner, receptions and so on. It will have the added dimension of a map trade show with exhibits from across the Asia-Pacific region, greater networking opportunities, and an international keynote - tba. All conference events will be based at the State Library, Stanley Place along South Bank, Brisbane's arts and cultural precinct. Additional information from Dr Martin Woods / Curator of Maps, Australian Collections & Reader Services, National Library Of Australia; T +61 2 6262 1280 Mob: 0404193366.
July 26-27, 2012 – Denver The Rocky Mountain Society, Texas Map Society, and University of Denver will be hosting a conference titled The Mapping of North America: Westward Expansion. The conference will be held at the University of Denver, and additional information is available on the website.
July 28-29, 2012 –
Denver The
Rocky Mountain Society, Texas
Map Society, and Denver
Public Library will host a Map
Fair at
the Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway. A free
lecture will be held each day at 2:00 p.m.
Saturday - Mr.
Chris Lane, Co-owner of the Philadelphia Print Shop's Denver Gallery
and frequent appraiser for the Antiques Roadshow TV Series. will
speak about The
Political Development of the Trans-Mississippi United States in
Period Maps.
Sunday
- Don Mcguirk, M.D., author of "The Last Cartographic Myth: Mer
de l'Oest" (AKA Sea of the West) will speak about Sea
of the West; The Mediterranean Sea of North America, that wasn’t.
August 21–26, 2012 – Leipzig, Cologne On the occasion of the 32nd International Geographical Congress to be held at Cologne, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, in collaboration with the International Geographical Union Commission on the History of Geography, organises the international Pre-Congress Cartography and Geographical Knowledge in the Public Sphere, that will take place in Leipzig on August 22, 2012, as well as a Pre-Congress field trip, from Leipzig to Cologne. Full details can be found on the web page. Additional information from Dr. Bruno Schelhaas, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Schongauerstrasse 9, 04328 Leipzig, Germany; Tel: +49 (0)341 600 55 151 Fax: +49 (0)341 600 55 198.
September 9-12, 2012 - Vienna The International Map Collectors' Society will hold its 30th international symposium. In commemoration of Mercator's 500th birthday, the symposium title will be Regional Cartography in the Habsburg Empire during 16th Century and Gerhard Mercator. The symposium will be held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Theatersaal, Sonnenfelsgasse 19. Visits are planned to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Historical Museum of Vienna, Globe Musum, Austrian National Library, and the Wachau area. Additional information from Stefaan Missinne, tel: 43 1 515 81 1627.
September 11-14, 2012 - Lisbon The Fourth Ibero-American Conference on the History of Cartography will be held at the National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande, 83. This event follows editions in 2006 (Buenos Aires), 2008 (México City) and 2010 (São Paulo) and is organized by the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon in collaboration with the Centre for Overseas History of the New University of Lisbon and the National Library of Portugal. Over the past years, the Ibero-American Conference on the History of Cartography has established itself as one of the most important forums for the discussion of the roles played by cartographical images in the making of geographical knowledge. The Lisbon conference has as its overarching theme Cartographers for all the World – Production and circulation of Ibero-American cartographical knowledge: agents and contexts. It pursues three main objectives. Firstly, to build on the fact that we as a community work on a cartographical tradition that pioneered new ways of representing space on a global scale and shaped the great categories we still use today to organize our geographical knowledge of the world. Secondly, we wish to stimulate inquiries into the production, circulation and usage of cartographical artefacts in connection with the cultural and social contexts in which they have operated. Finally, we introduce a focus on cartographers to encourage biographical studies as a crucial element in the exploration of authorship in mapmaking. Working languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English (no simultaneous translation). Additional information from the Scientific Committee of the Conference.
September 16-18, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio The 2012 AutoCarto International Symposium on Automated Cartography will be held immediately prior to the GIScience 2012 meeting (also in Columbus). The Cartography and Geographic Information Society invites cartographers, geographers, geospatial analysts, GIScientists and others conducting research on the cutting edge of the geospatial sciences to attend.
September 21-22, 2012 – Paris A Workshop on Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville will be held at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Richelieu. For additional information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
September 27-29, 2012 – Pasadena The Society for the History of Discoveries will hold its 53rd Annual Meeting at the Huntington Library. Additional information from Ron Fritze.
October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 27, December 4, 2012 - Charlottesville, Virginia Joel Kovarsky will again be offering the course, The Roles of Old Maps: History, Art, Cartography, and the Building of Nations, for the second session of the fall 2012 term of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia. This will consist of six 1.5 hour sessions (from 11 am to 12:30 pm) four of which will be at the Jefferson Library at Monticello and two sessions at the Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Class size will be limited to fifteen people. Course details with registration information will be posted closer to the release of the fall 2012 catalog. Additional details from Joel Kovarsky.
November 3, 2012 – Paris The 11th edition of the Paris Map-fair will be held at its regular venue, the Hotel Ambassador, 19, Bd Haussmann, in the heart of Paris, just 2 minutes from the famous Opera Garnier and the major department stores; and also located not far from Montmartre and the Louvre museum. The fair is organized by the well-known antiquarian book and map dealer Loeb-Larocque and Agnès Talec. The fair includes maps, atlases, globes and a fine selection of travel books. With participants from France, UK, Spain, Italy, USA, Belgium and the Netherlands. There is a collectors / dealer dinner on Friday night.
December 3-4, 2012 – Paris A Workshop on Marine Cartography will be held at Bibliothèque nationale de France / Inha. For additional information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
December 8, 2012 – Brussels The Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle will have their annual conference. Details to be announced.
February 2-3, 2013 - Miami The Miami International Map Fair, the oldest event of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, will be held at the HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street. 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 contact Amanda Israel, Map Fair Coordinator, at HistoryMiami, 101 West Flager St., Miami, FL 33130; telephone: (305) 375-1492; facsimile: (305) 375-1609.
June 30-July 5, 2013 - Helsinki The 25th International Conference on the History of Cartography will be held in the Marina Congress Centre. The conference theme is The Four Elements. Inspiration was derived from the antique symbolism found in many old maps. The four elements in classical antiquity were believed to reflect the building blocks from which the universe was constructed. As the main theme, Earth, Air, Fire and Water symbolize the essential elements in the history of cartography and the importance of cartography in the representation of nature and our understanding of the world. For additional information contact Dr. Antti Jakobsson, conference director, National Land Survey of Finland, PO Box 84, FIN-00521 Helsinki; Tel. 358 50 599 4123.
August 25-30, 2013 - Dresden The 26th International Cartographic Conference returns to Germany again, with ICA conferences being held previously in Germany in Frankfurt in 1962 and Cologne in 1993. The International Cartographic Conferences take place every two years. 2013 sees the conference in the "Florence of the North". It will bring together cartographers and GI Science specialists from across the globe to Dresden for the International Cartographic Conference - ICC 2013. The conference will provide a forum for the presentation of scientific papers illustrating the efforts of the research community, professional papers describing the cutting-edge methods employed by mapping organisations, meetings of the ICA Commissions and Working Groups, furthering their international collaborative efforts to advance knowledge and techniques in cartography, map exhibitions and the chance to meet again with colleagues and friends. For additional information please contact info@icc2013.org.
September 9-11, 2013 – Fairbanks The International Map Collectors' Society will will hold its 31st international symposium in Alaska. Additional information will be coming.
October 24-26, 2013 – Chicago The 18th Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography will be held at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The subject will be Mapping the War of 1812 and Beyond. Additional information from Will Gosner.
October 31-November 3, 2013 – Tampa The Society for the History of Discoveries will hold its annual meeting at the Tampa Bay History Center. Additional information from Ron Fritze.
Summer 2015 – Antwerp The 26th International Conference on the History of Cartography will be hosted by the City of Antwerp and the University of Antwerp. For additional information contact Joost Depuydt; Muriel Geel; FelixArchief, Oudeleeuwenrui 29, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium; Tel.: +32 3 338 94 11.