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Conferences, Classes, & Exhibits
Upcoming
April 6, 2021 – Denver (Online) The Rocky Mountain Map Society hosted a talk at 5:30 PM MT. Wesley Brown will speak about The Delisle Maps of North American, Louisiana, and the West. As the result of mostly French exploration in the continent’s mid-section around 1700, French father and son team Claude and Guillaume Delisle produced superb maps that revolutionized understanding of the North American interior, and were copied for decades.
April 8, 2021 – Milwaukee (Online) The American Geographical Society Library will hosted their annual Maps & America lecture at 6:00 PM CST. Tom Patterson, retired US National Park Service Cartographer, spoke on Mapping Grand Canyon National Park, where he discussed four recently published maps of Grand Canyon National Park that owe their design inspiration to renowned mapmakers of the twentieth century. Email Marcy Bidney (bidney@uwm.edu) or Georgia Brown (browngl@uwm.edu) for more information.
April 15, 2021 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society hosted Dr. Matthew Edney will discuss The History of Cartography: Celebration of Volume 4, Cartography in the European Enlightenment.
April 17, 2021 – New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Ana Pulido Rull will speak on her new book “Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain”. Registration is not required.
April 19, 2021 – Bristol (Online) In association with the ‘Borders and Borderlands’ research network at the University of Bristol, the Historic Towns Trust is delighted to present a series of online lectures. Lecture will be delivered via Zoom 5.00pm to 6.00pm, and is free to attend. Register for the lecture via Eventbrite. Professor Vanessa Harding will speak about Early Tudor London: On the Brink of Transformation? London in 1520
April 22, 2021 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. James Akerman, Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and Curator of Maps at the Newberry Library, Chicago, will give a presentation, entitled Reading Maps in 20th-Century Travel Brochures: A Primer.
April 29, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>
May 4, 2021 – Cambridge (Online) The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography will meet virtually on Zoom at 1:00 pm (UK time). Peter Geldart (Philippine Map Collectors Society) will speak about Nicholas Norton Nicols and his maps of Mindanao. All are welcome. For details on how to join, please send an email to events(at)emma.cam.ac.uk The seminar is kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge.
May 6-7, 2021 – Budapest (Online) The Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of the International Cartographic Association, is organising the 15th Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage jointly with the 22nd Conference of the Map & Geoinformation Curators Group – MAGIC on Challenges in Modern Map Librarianship. The joint conference will be held online in partnership with the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University.
May 15, 2021 – New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Cartographic historian and New York Map Society member Chet Van Duzer will speak on Shipwrecks, Treasure, and Maps at the End of the Seventeenth Century: The Manuscript Atlases of William Hack. Registration is not required. In this talk, following a look at some of the equipment available in the 16th and 17th centuries for recovering material from shipwrecks, Chet will discuss the manuscript atlases made by the English cartographer William Hack in the latter part of the 17th century.
May 17, 2021 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom . Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Michael Gilmore will speak about Tilting Washington’s National Mall.
May 19, 2021 – Vienna (Online) The Anthropological Society in Vienna has invited Prof. Dr. Stefaan Missinne, globe collector and researcher on the Italian Renaissance, to speak about The Da Vinci Globe. Dating from 1504, it is the oldest globe on which the New World is shown for the first time. Missinne will present his research on this globe which appears in his book “The Da Vinci Globe”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Lecture will be at 18.30 via zoom. Contact <ag(at)nhm-wien.ac.at> for the Zoom link.
May 20, 2021 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Dr. Martin Foys will speak about The Virtual Mappa Project. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.
May 20, 2021 – Oxford (Online) The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Join by clicking here. Chet Van Duzer (The Lazarus Project, University of Rochester) will discuss Shipwrecks and treasure in the manuscript maps of William Hack. Additional information from Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
May 27, 2021 – London (Online) The Thirtieth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography are convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Enquiries: Tony Campbell <tony(at)tonycampbell.info> or Catherine Delano-Smith< c.delano-smith(at) qmul.ac.uk>
June 3, 2021 – Oxford (Online) The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Join by clicking here. Katherine Parker (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. / Hakluyt Society) will discuss Revision and erasure: indigenous presence and maps of southern Patagonia, 1670-1750. Additional information from Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
June 12-13, 2021 – London The London Map Fair brings together around 40 of the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers as well as hundreds of visiting dealers, collectors, curators and map aficionados from all parts of the world. We exhibit at the historic London venue of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore.
June 12, 2021 – New York (Online) The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Historian Lindsay Frederick Braun will speak on (tentatively) Mapping in 19th Century Africa. Registration is not required. Braun’s work over the last decade and a half has involved surveying, mapping, and struggles over land and landscape in South Africa between the middle of the 19th century and the First World War.
June 17, 2021 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Email contact(at)chicagomapsociety.org for additional information.
June 24, 2021 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom . Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Leah Thomas will discuss “nearly in a circular form”: Mapping the Cherokee Nation through John Marrant’s Narrative (1785).
June 28, 2021 – Bristol (Online) In association with the ‘Borders and Borderlands’ research network at the University of Bristol, the Historic Towns Trust is delighted to present a series of online lectures. Lecture will be delivered via Zoom 5.00pm to 6.00pm, and is free to attend. Register for the lecture via Eventbrite. Helen Fulton and Giles Darkes will discuss Making Bristol Medieval.
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March 4, 2021 – Boston The Leventhal Map and Education Center explored Cambridge By Map. How old is the Cambridge Public Library? What was Cambridge like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? How has the city changed, and how has it stayed the same? Using Atlascope, the Leventhal Map & Education Center’s user-friendly portal for exploring urban atlases, the presenter dove into the historical geography of Cambridge. Come learn about how the community has changed over time, and discover how to research the history of your own house and neighborhood.
March 9, 16, and 23, 2021 – Ann Arbor In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, “The History of Cartography Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment” (University of Chicago Press) appeared. Cartography in the European Enlightenment: How to build a reference work in three easy conversations is a 3- part Discover Series Zoom Webinar hosted by the Clements Library involving Mary Pedley, Matthew Edney, Gotfried Hagen and Karl Longstreth.
March 10, 2021 – Portland The Osher Map Library presents: Iyoka Eli-Wihtamakʷ Kətahkinawal–This is How We Name Our Lands: Mapping Penobscot Place Names, a panel discussion on the making of the 2016 Penobscot Nation Cultural and and Historic Preservation Department Map and Gazetteer, as we learn from Language Masters, Historians, Artists, and Cartographers, on the intersections of place, language, art, culture, and cartography.
March 11, 2021 – Oxford (Online) The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography will be virtual this year. Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Join by clicking here. James Akerman (Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library, Chicago) will present A view from the road: travel mapping and American identity. Additional information from Nick Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119.
March 11-13, 2021 – Paris XVII Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les champs culturels en Amérique latine International Colloquium, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, will be about The use of maps. Mapping in Latin America (XIX-XXI centuries). The colloquium corresponds to our desire for convergence between diverse disciplinary practices. Thus, both literature scholars and historians, and of course geographers, can participate in reflection: the former with their reading and deciphering practices, historians by their approach to maps as social, discursive and epistemic products.
March 16, 2021- London (Online) The London Group of Historical Geographers has organised fortnightly themed seminars that are interdisciplinary in focus. Isabella Alexander (University of Technology Sydney) presented on Copyright, maps and the circulation of geographical knowledge in 18th-century Britain. This talk explores the role of law in producing, using and circulating geographical knowledge through an examination of the emergence and application of copyright legislation in eighteenth-century Britain. This talk investigates this tension through an examination of a number of legal disputes that arose relating to the unauthorised copying of maps and road books.
March 17, 2021 – Nantwich, Cheshire (Online) Members of the Research Group at Nantwich Museum is giving a new series of illustrated online talks about different aspects of life in our historic town. The talks will be delivered using Zoom, and will open at 1:50 pm for a 2 pm start. This talk featured Keith Lawrence on Mapping Nantwich from Speed to the Ordnance Survey.
March 18, 2021 – Chicago The Chicago Map Society met at 7:00 PM. Dr. Benjamin Olshin spoke about Art, the Mughals, and Jahangir’s Globe. Dr. Olshin will look at the fascinating South Asian tradition of Mughal paintings, which appeared during the Mughal Empire that flourished from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The globe is rendered in particular detail — but what was the artist’s source for this image? And what is its meaning in this curious work of art?
March 18, 2021 – Paris (Online) Cartes et révolution conférences, sponsored by École Pratique des Hautes Études, has a series of lectures about the cartography of insurgent Greece. Today’s lecture will be about The maps of Greece by Colonel Lapie and Franz von Weiss, 1821-1829. Take part in the seminar from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
March 20, 2021 – New York (Online) Judith A. Tyner spoke on her new book “Women in American Cartography.” Registration is not required.
March 23, 2021 – USA (Online) The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies offered this virtual lecture via Zoom. Susan Schulten (Professor of History, University of Denver) discussed “Make the Map All White”: Visual Strategies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments. Maps were essential tools for two of the most ambitious challenges to American law in the twentieth century: the suffrage and prohibition campaigns.
March 25, 2021 – Oxford (Online) The Oxford Seminars in Cartography held an online conference about Women and Maps from 13:00-18:00 (UK time). Mapping, and closely linked professions such as surveying, exploration, navigation, hydrography, and printing, have conventionally been associated with men: as makers, patrons, users, and interpreters. Sometimes those assumptions reflect reality, but sometimes they do not. This conference explores the place of women and the feminine in maps and mapping, with no chronological or geographical bounds, and a broad understanding of ‘maps’.
March 26, 2021 – Stanford (Online) This was a live opening of Mapping the Islamic World: The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires, the David Rumsey Map Center’s newest virtual exhibition. Guest curator Alexandria Brown-Hejazi, Stanford PhD candidate, will discuss the maps and cartographic studies of Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia, and Mughal India. Our thanks to the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies for their co-sponsorship which made this exhibition possible. Talk by Alexandria Brown-Hejazi, followed by Q&A. For more information, click here.
March 29, 2021 – Bristol (Online) In association with the ‘Borders and Borderlands’ research network at the University of Bristol, the Historic Towns Trust is delighted to present a series of online lectures. Lectures delivered via Zoom 7.30pm to 8.30pm, and is free to attend.
News Maps & Websites of Interest
- The We Are Here: Sharing Stories Digitization Initiative team has developed a new (to LAC) feature to display a list of collections digitized by the project using Google Maps. This feature aids in visualizing the geographic locations of the communities depicted in the collection. If you have a moment, please take a look and enjoy a virtual tour across Canada.
- The Princeton astrophysics’ map projection: “Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, ‘radically different’ way to see the world.”
- A new world map projection vies for dominance (New York Times)
- The AAA’s Covid-19 Travel Restriction Map shows state and county level travel restrictions.
- How 20th-century Black mapmakers called out racism (The Conversation)
- Climate change doesn’t care about your flood insurance policy (Bloomberg)
- How dueling mapmakers drove humanity to Mars (National Geographic)
- A stirring profile of a young climate activist using her mapping powers to push the Catholic Church towards change. (New Yorker)
- Ice maps of Mars could guide future space exploration (Space)
- Apple Maps has a new Waze-like traffic report feature (The Verge)
- Amnesty International is building a crowdsourced map of surveillance cameras in global cities (Fast Company)
- How different countries have helped those who’ve lost income during the pandemic (Visual Capitalist)
- In the U.S., electoral redistricting is shaping up to be a major political war (Axios)
- Why snow maps deserve your scrutiny (Washington Post)