June 30, 2008 - July 4, 2008 and July 14-18, 2008 - London The Institute of English Studies in the University of London will run the second London Rare Books School, a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House, which is the centre of the University of London's federal system. One of the week 1 courses (30 June - 4 July) will be A History of Maps and Mapping with course tutors Dr Catherine Delano-Smith and Mrs Sarah Tyacke. On week 2 (14 July - 18 July) Dr Catherine Delano-Smith and Mrs Sarah Tyacke will tutor Mapping land & sea before 1800.
July 1, 9, 16, 17, 2008 - United Kingdom The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and The British
Cartographic Society (BCS) are pleased to announce 4 joint events to be held around the UK in July 2008. Entitled Better
Mapping, these one day seminars, featuring a number of expert presenters, will introduce a range of topics and easy
methods that will demonstrate how good cartographic practice can greatly improve the quality, accuracy and effectiveness
of your digital and hard copy maps. The use of geographic information, digital mapping software and GIS is ever
increasing. Never before has the importance of understanding the fundamentals of good map design been more important.
A poorly designed map can at least diminish effective communication of information to users and at worst mislead,
perhaps seriously. Split into two halves, the morning's session entitled 'The Making of a Map' will look at issues such as
basic principles, communication, clarity and accuracy. The afternoon session entitled 'How to Create a Better Map' will
draw from material from one of Britain's leading cartographic designers, Mary Spence MBE, President of BCS. This will
include selecting the correct information for maps plus design issues such as line styles, weights, colour and text. AGI and
BCS believe these events will be of tremendous interest to all individuals involved in creating and outputting maps and
welcome you to attend one of the following venues and dates:
1st July: Cardiff - Millennium Stadium
9th July: Edinburgh - Scottish Health Service Centre
16th July: Leeds - Thackray Museum
17th July: London - Royal Statistical Society
July 3, 2008 - London The latest Archives for London seminar provides a fascinating insight into London's most significant maps. John Fisher, head of prints and maps at Guildhall Library, shares his knowledge and experience of London map history at the Archives for London July seminar. John will provide a history of the most significant large scale printed maps of London, 1560s-1860s. He will demonstrate the importance of maps for archival research discussing the historical value of each of the maps, and particularly how they can reveal alternative insights into family and local history. John will illustrate his seminar with a chance for attendees to examine and compare original maps from the period. This is great opportunity to inspect the 16th century picture map, Ogilby and Morgan's plan (1676), Rocque's plan (1746), Horwood's plan (1799-1819) and the large scale Ordnance Survey plan of the 1860s/70s. Lecture is at 6:00pm (doors 5:30pm) - 7:30pm at London Metropolitan Archives - Huntley Room, 40 Northampton Road. Refreshments will be available. The seminar is an open forum and you are encouraged to ask questions and exchange news. Please guarantee your place by contacting Nicola Avery: t: 020 7332 3816 AfL seminars are free to all, but preference is given to members if events are oversubscribed. If you book but are then unable to attend please let Nicola know so someone else can join us
July 8-10, 2008 - Greenwich Dr Luciana Martins' (Birkbeck College, University of London) lecture Geographical exploration and the elusive mapping of the Amazon is one of many lectures to be given at the Scientific Voyaging: Histories and Comparisons conference. This is a major international conference on relations between maritime exploration and the sciences between the eighteenth century and modern times sponsored by the National Maritime Museum, in association with the Royal Society and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
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. Well, actually behind the Library, in Bryant Park, at 2:30 pm. If you like, bring your own snack and drinks. Map Society Secretary Heather Kinsinger will lead an informal discussion on members' and attendees' personal map collections and interests. We'll also compare notes, offer assistance and recommendations, and chat about your - and our - plans for the future. At 4:00 pm, those of you who'd like to, will adjourn to the historic Oyster Bar in the lower part of Grand Central Terminal. The Oyster Bar is a historic and scenic piece of New York City history. We will meet at the bar area. We hope to see you all there. Members and non-members are welcome to this meeting. In case of rain, we'll meet at the Oyster Bar at 2:30 pm to enjoy some indoor socializing. Contact John Woram for additional information.
July 15, 2008 - Washington How the States Got Their Shapes to be discussed at the Library of Congress. Why does West Virginia have a finger creeping up the side of Pennsylvania? Why are California and Texas so large when so many of the states in the Midwest are roughly the same size and shape? Why are Alabama and Mississippi almost exact mirror images of each other? Mark Stein will provide answers to these questions, and many more, when he discusses and signs his new book, "How the States Got Their Shapes," at noon in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave.
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 14, 2008 - Littleton, Colorado Lorena Orvananos Donohue, a Rocky Mountain Map Society member, and the Deputy Director of the Littleton Historical Museum has graciously invited the RMMS membership to a wonderful presentation by Jim Jereb at 7:00 p.m. in the Friends Lecture Hall, Littleton Historical Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St.; phone 303-795-3950. The program will begin with examples of the three main lithographic surfaces: traditional stone, aluminum plate, and the newest, polyester sheets. With the polyester sheets, Jereb will demonstrate the inking and printing of a prepared plate to illustrate the nature of the lithographic process. This will be followed by a power point presentation showing lithographic images from the late 18th century to the present. The presentation will focus on artistic applications, with references to the processes employed in commercial applications. Mr. Jereb holds an M.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Wyoming, Laramie where he served as an Instructor Assistant from 1985-1990. From 1990 to the present he is Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking Department, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri. He repairs works of art on paper for museums and private collectors and serves as the historical and technical consultant for the printing section of the Wyoming Territorial Prison Historical Site in Laramie, Wyoming.
August 19, 2008 - Richmond Cassandra Farrell, the Library of Virginia's map specialist and a senior research archivist, will discuss More Than Just a Pretty Picture: The Map Collection at the Library of Virginia in the Conference Room of the Library of Virginia, 800 E Broad Street from noon to 1 PM.
August 23, 2008 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina The William P. Cumming Map Society will gather for a program in the Wilson Library on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. Our hosts and speakers will include Elizabeth Chenault, Co-manager, Rare Book Collection and Librarian for Public Services, and Nicholas Graham, North Carolina Maps Project Librarian in the Carolina Digital Library and Archives.Libby will discuss and show a variety of maps neatly tucked away in "non-map" books. She will have on display a number of examples from the remarkable Rare Book Collection in the Wilson Library. These maps, though frequently garnering less attention than their atlas siblings, include some true cartographic gems. Nick will give us a preview of the extraordinary work he has been performing as head of a three-year collaborative effort between the North Carolina State Archives, the UNC-Chapel Hill Library, and the Outer Banks History Center. This prodigious project, North Carolina Maps, will eventually digitize around 1,500 maps from the three partner institutions, including nearly all original NC maps published prior to 1923. The exact schedule has not been set, but our intent is a 2 or 2.5 hour late morning affair. If you anticipate attending and wish to receive final details, please contact Jay Lester.
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, Mapping 2008: Making the Most of Maps, 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 - IMCoS Hungary Weekend. It will include a visit to the Baroque Reading Room, a special map exhibition and a bus tour to the Hungarian plains. Before leaving we will visit Lake Balaton and taste the fiery Hungarian wine on its shore. Additional details from Dr. Zsolt Torok.
September 8-11, 2008 - Shepherdstown, West Virginia 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 AutoCarto 2008, an international research symposium on computer-based cartography. The seventeenth in the AutoCarto series, the symposium will be held at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center --only an hour from Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport.
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's Fry-Jefferson Map Society seeks to develop,
enhance and promote the cartographic collections of the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad Street. The fall meeting will
feature Henry Taliaferro and Willie Balderson. Taliaferro will consider the landmark Joshua Fry-Peter Jefferson map in
its social and historical matrix, asking why cartographic progress in Virginia stagnated or stultified at the end of the 17th
century, and why and how conditions changed or evolved to lead to the creation of the magnificent Fry-Jefferson map in
the mid-18th century. Henry G. Taliaferro is author of "The Atlas of John Custis 1698" in Degrees of Latitude, Mapping
Colonial America (Williamsburg 2002) and other studies. He also is a principal in the New York antiquarian map firm of
Cohen and Taliaferro LLC. Willie Balderson will present/reenact the steps involved in taking up land in Virginia. Willie
Balderson is a specialist in 18th century surveying techniques for Colonial Williamsburg. The schedule is:
11:00 a.m. - Behind-the-scenes tour in library, including some cartographic rarities in Special Collections
12 noon - Box lunch
1:00 p.m. - Speakers. Henry Taliaferro talk, Q&A; break; Willie Balderson presentation, Q&A
3:00 p.m. - Informal reception in Library
3:00 p.m. - (Concurrent with reception.) Series of brief tours of the exhibit From Williamsburg to Wills Creek: The
Fry-Jefferson Map.
There is a $15 charge for lunch. The program itself is free to Fry-Jefferson Society members; $5 charge for others. For
reservations (mandatory for box lunch) and more information on the Fry-Jefferson Society, call 804-692-3900.
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 25-28, 2008 - Cleveland The joint conference of Online Audiovisual Catalogers and Music OCLC Users Group will take place between Friday, September 26 and Sunday, September 28, 2008. Paige Andrew presents an all-day Map Cataloging Preconference on Thursday, September 25. Since space is limited, those interested in attending are urged to register promptly. Attendees of the full conference will enjoy four workshops on cataloging various non-book materials, keynote speech by Lynne Howarth (former Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto); closing address by Janet Swan Hill (Associate Director for Technical Services, University of Colorado); and a session on RDA, to name just a few highlights.
September 25, 2008 - 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. 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 Dennis Gurtz, 301-926-1743.
September 26-28, 2008 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania The Philadelphia Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation will have a meeting on Surveying and Cartography. There will be panel discussions and displays of surveying and mapmaking techniques that compare today's technology with that of 200 years ago. For more information call Rebecca West (888) 701-3434.
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 4, 2008 - Richmond The Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad Street, from 10 AM-12 noon, will offer the program From Compass to GPS: The History and Future of Mapping in Virginia. This program is given in conjunction with the exhibition From Williamsburg to Will's Creek: The Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia. Learn about the history of surveying, as well as contemporary tools, techniques, and applications for current mapping technology. See historic interpreter Willie Balderson as he portrays an 18th century surveyor. Members of the Virginia Association of Surveyors will demonstrate modern surveying equipment and techniques. As an added benefit for educators, Teaching American History Fellows will also demonstrate methods for using GIS mapping technology resources to teach history and social studies. Visitors can also view the sources and sequels of 1755 Fry-Jefferson map, created by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, as well as land surveys, and antique surveying equipment. The program is free and parking is available underneath the Library. The Library of Virginia. For directions or further information please contact Susan Gilliam at 804-692-3999.
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 17, 2008 - Leiden The Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle will visit Leiden University Library's Bodel Nyenhuis Map Collection. Bodel Nyenhuis (1797-1872) was a pioneer in cartography. He worked in the book business and collected books and maps. He left his collection to the University of Leiden. The Bodel Nyenhuis Collection has a new curator, Martijn Storms. He is willing to prepare a special map exhibition during the afternoon. He will guide us through the collection, rich with van Keulen manuscript maps, sea charts, VOC maps, colonial maps a.o. He will also show us the library. The visit will, as usual, be free of charge and is limited up to 20 participants, with preference for paid-up BIMCC members. The visit is conducted in English. The registrations will be dealt with a first come, first served basis. Registrations can be sent by email.
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. The grounds of the museum, which includes the mansion, are most attractive. With the foliage in its full fall glory, this should be a delightful outing! Please register with Howard Lange at 703-532-1605. The total cost of admission, lunch in the Tea Room, and the presentation is only $29. Please send your check payable to "WMS" by October 11 to the WMS Treasurer: Don Perkins, 5904 Mt. Eagle Drive, Apt 118, Alexandria, VA 22303-2535.
October 30, 2008 - 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. Jeremy Pool, WMS member and new president of the Boston Map Society, but more relevantly the publisher of the Antique Map Price Record, will address the Society on the 25 year history of the Price Record. His talk will give a sense of how and why the Antique Map Price Record began and how it has changed over the years. He will answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the Price Record, such as: What data is included, and why? Is it a price guide? Does it have uses other than looking for price information? Are dealer and auction data handled in the same way? Do dealers like or dislike the availability, to collectors, of the Price Record? Can it be used to judge rarity? He will also discuss insights into trends in the antiquarian map trade provided by the over 120,000 records. Finally, he will describe the recently added Map Collection Manager which allows collectors to catalog their own collections. Jeremy became publisher of the Map Record in 2001. He has since retired as a software developer, but remains an active collector of Arctic and North Atlantic maps.
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.
November 8, 2008 - Paris The seventh edition of the Paris Map-fair will be held again in Hotel Ambassador, 16, Blvd Haussmann, in the heart of Paris; just 2 minutes from the famous Opera Garnier and the major department stores, also located near Montmartre and the Louvre museum. Opening hours are 11.00 - 18.00. The fair is organized by Loeb-Larocque and Agnès Talec. This year the fair will be enlarged with a fine selection of travel books. With participants from France, UK, Spain, Italy, USA, Belgium and the Netherlands. The fair is a one-day event with an cocktail reception and dinner on Friday night, November 7th. Reservation for the dinner is required and open to all, seat availability is limited, reserve now.
November 13, 2008 - 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. Zeno's Mice: Martin Waldseemüller, Johannes Schöner, and the Rise of Theoretical Cartography 1490-1525 is the imposing title of the talk that John Hessler, of the Library of Congress, will present. One of the most remarkable features of the extant manuscripts of the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Schöner, who was the original owner of the Waldseemüller 1507 and 1516 world maps now in the Library of Congress, comes from his annotations in the various editions of Ptolemy's Geography that he owned. This literature is characterized by a great number of handwritten corrections and complex annotations that show his thinking about theoretical cartography and the state of the art in the early sixteenth century. Schöner's library contained some of the most important books on cartography and geography that were available at the time, including copies of the 1482, 1509 and 1513 editions of Ptolemy's Geography, the Cosmographiae Introductio, and of course the only surviving copies of the 1507 and 1516 World Maps by Martin Waldseemüller. John will examine many of Schöner's manuscripts and show for the first time how he used the Waldseemuller maps and other materials in his library not only for the production of his globes but also in the development of new methods of mathematical cartography. By examining Schöner's manuscripts and by looking closely at the complex mathematical and cartographic problems that he was trying to solve, John we will show the difficulties of researching Renaissance cartography and try to dismiss many of the myths and platitudes that have plagued Waldseemüller scholarship for more than a century. Dr. John Hessler is Senior Reference Librarian in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. He has written extensively on the history of Renaissance cartography and is the author of a new translation of and commentary on Waldseemüller's seminal text the Cosmographiae Introductio, entitled, The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio (2008). He is currently at work on a biography of Johannes Schöner (forthcoming, 2009).
November 20, 2008 - Richmond Bill Barker of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will be portraying Thomas Jefferson at 6:00 P.M. at the Library of Virginia. This program is being offered in connection with the exhibition, From Williamsburg to Wills Creek: The Fry-Jefferson Map, that will be on display at the Library. Mr. Barker will speak on Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, and work by his father, Peter Jefferson, on the Fry-Jefferson map created in 1755. The program is free and parking is available underneath the Library. The Library of Virginia is located at 800 East Broad Street. For directions or further information please contact Susan Gilliam at 804-692-3999.
November 25, 2008 - Cambridge, England The Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography 2008-2009 meets at 5.30 pm in the Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute) will speak on technical aspects of the Hereford mappa mundi. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at 01223 330476.
November 28-29, 2008 - Breda The 11th European Map and Book Fair will be held at Grote Kerk. Open Friday 28 November 14.00 - 20.00; Saturday 29 November 11.00 - 17.00. Additional information from Foundation Historical Cartography of the Netherlands, Seeligsingel 10, NL-4811CN, Breda, tel. +31.76.5228428.
December 1-5, 2008 - Sao Paolo
In honor of the centennial of the birth of Pierre Monbeig, pioneering Professor of Geography in the University of Sao
Paulo, there will be an international history of geography seminar entitled Geografia: Tradições e Perspectivas
[Geography: Traditions and Perspectives] at the Department of Geography, University of Sao Paulo. There will be a
session about history of cartography. Additional information from Ana Pereira or Clenes Louzeiro at 3091-1134 or
3091-3775.
December 13, 2008 - Brussels The Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle will have their Annual Study Session at
a place to be announced. Provisional programme:
Peter van der Krogt (Prof. Utrecht University): Latin and cartography. This will be a practical session and not a
grammatical course. He will translate and comments short Latin cartouche texts. He has published a superb article on the
use of Latin on maps (available in Dutch and English).
Martijn Storms (Curator Bodel Nyenhuis Collection Leiden): The evolution of the compass-windrose from the beginning
to the beautiful designs in use during the sixteenth-seventeenth century. He will comment on their use and significance.
Eric Leenders & Jan De Graeve: Topography in practice. How did your town get on the right spot on the 16th century
maps? How accurate was this? The process of triangulation and the results, obtained in that period, will be demonstrated
on the regional wall maps from J. van Deventer.
Francis Herbert (Former Chief of the map room of the Royal Geographical Society): On the North Pole. He will show us
the cartographic evolution of the maps of the North Pole with emphasis on the passage trials to the west and the east.
H. Decleir (Prof. Geography, VU Brussels): Prospective cartography of the North Pole. Climate changes caracterised by
ice melting will not only change the face of the earth but will lead to redesign our maps. The opening to the west in a near
future is highly probable. Will the opening to the east also follow? Pictures by satellites will enhance the conference
January 15, 2009 - 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. Anthony P. Mullen, of the Library of Congress, will present Jouhan de la Guilbaudiere, his "Buccaneer's Atlas", and the Beginning of French Commerce along the Pacific Coast of South America ca. 1700. This presentation concerns a ca. 1696 manuscript atlas of sailing directions including bays, harbors, inlets, significant coastal features, and towns along the Pacific Coast from Tierra del Fuego to California. The atlas text was written by Guilbaudiere, a freebooter, or a type of pirate, who was involved in raids along the Pacific Coast possibly as early as the 1680s. The atlas text is accompanied by 35 striking watercolor plans and maps that were drafted by an engineer named Hanche [Hanicle?]. It is likely that the atlas was prepared for Danycan de l'Épine, the most prominent ship owner and outfitter in Saint-Malo (France). In 1698, Danycan partially sponsored an expedition to Tierra del Fuego, and the coast of Chile and Peru, with the aim of establishing a French outpost in Tierra del Fuego and examining the prospects for trade along the Pacific coast.
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.
February 17, 2009 - Cambridge, England The Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography 2008-2009 meets at 5.30 pm in the Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Frances Willmoth (Jesus College, Cambridge) will speak about Jonas Moore's map of the Fens. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at 01223 330476.
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.
May 19, 2009 - Cambridge, England The Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography 2008-2009 meets at 5.30 pm in the Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Brian Campbell (Queen's, Belfast) will discuss Roman surveying. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. For any enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at 01223 330476.
May 28-29, 2009 - Los Angeles "Mapping Medieval Geographies:" Cartography and Geographical Thought in the Latin West and Beyond: 300-1600 is the topic for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ahmanson Conference at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California. Geography as it was understood and practiced in the Middle Ages, within both eastern and western traditions, and as represented both graphically and textually, is a subject of renewed interest and importance among historians, philologists and geographers. This conference aims to promote an exchange between those of different disciplines working on geographical ideas and thinking from late Antiquity to the Renaissance on the themes of 'Translation, transmission, transculturation', and 'Mapping, imagining, placing'. Key speakers are: Daniel Birkholz (Univ. Texas at Austin), Veronica della Dora (Univ. Bristol), Kathy Lavezzo (Univ. Iowa), Natalia Lozovsky (UC Berkeley), Andrew Merrills (Univ. Leicester), Meg Roland (Marylhurst Univ.), Emilie Savage-Smith (Univ. Oxford), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute, London). Additional information from Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Box 951485, 302 Royce Hall, Los Angeles CA 90095-1485; 310-825-1880.
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. Two optional pre-conference meetings have been scheduled for Saturday, July 11:
(1) The biennial meeting of the International Society of Curators of Early Maps (ISCEM).
(2) A session organised by the International Cartographic Association (ICA).
Two optional post-conference tours have been arranged:
(1) A day trip to ruins of Tycho Brahe's observatory Uranienborg on the Island of Hven on Saturday, July 18.
(2) A three-day tour, from Sunday, July 19 to Tuesday, July 21, with a circuit of the Øresund Region of Northern Zealand
in Denmark and Skåne in Southern Sweden.
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.
October 11-13, 2009 Raleigh, North Carolina The Society for the History of Discoveries will hold its 50th annual meeting immediately follow the October 9-10 events/seminar commemorating the 300th anniversary of the publication of John Lawson's "A New Voyage to Carolina," and be held in the same seminar venue, the North Carolina Museum of History. More details to be announced.
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. The meeting will be held at Escuela Militar del Libertador Bernardo O`Higgins (Liberator Bernado O'Higgins Military School). For additional information email or phone 56 - 2 -4109369 or 56 - 2 - 4109422.
Autumn 2010 - London The International Map Collectors' Society will hold its 28th international symposium. Theme will be England: Pursuit of Power and Glory in the 17th Century.
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 - Ontario The International Map Collectors' Society is planning to hold its 30th international symposium in Canada.