July/Aug 2022 Features
Editor: Georgia Brown
- News
- Lectures
- Conferences
News:
This edition of News & Notes is all about the WAML Appointed Positions and Committees. WAML has some updates coming to the structure of these positions and committees that went into effect on Friday, July 1, 2022. As the newly minted Features editor, my duties expanded to include: “…features such as an “advice column” (summaries of interesting listserv discussions and/or answering/getting answers to individuals’ questions), interviews with WAML members, spotlights on collections, etc.” If you’d be interested in having your collection spotlighted or being interviewed, please let me know!
In order to better align the appointed positions with WAML’s mission, an ad hoc committee underwent a review of the positions. Some positions were updated, and others were eliminated, depending on the best use of the role in the future. The eliminated positions are Business Manager, Information Bulletin Production Editor, and the Map Librarians Toolbox Editor. The updated positions include Membership Manager, Webmaster, Information Bulletin Editor, Book & Geospatial Resources Review Editor (previously Atlas & Book Review Editor), & Features Editor (previously News & Notes Editor). The committees have undergone a few changes as well. The Web Communications Committee becomes the Communications & Engagement Committee & the Continuing Education Committee Education & Professional Development Committee under the new changes.
Don’t forget about WAML’s Annual Conference on September 19th and 20th!
– Georgia Brown
Lectures:
September 20, 2022 – USA (Online). The California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Les Trager, retired lawyer and member of New York and Washington Map Societies, will discuss his recently published book Ancient Explorers and Their Amazing Maps. Trager will discuss a body of Western 16th-century maps which cannot be explained by the discoveries of European explorers. The meeting was arranged with the assistance of the New York Map Society.
October 27, 2022 – USA (Online). The California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Laura McElfresh (Cartographic Metadata Librarian, University Libraries, University of Minnesota) will discuss “Will Work for Maps”: A History of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Special Map Processing Project. The meeting was arranged with the assistance of the Philip Lee Phillips Society.
November 30, 2022 – USA (Online). The California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Thomas Horst (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Centre for the History of Science and Technology) will discuss The Amazing (Hi-)Story of the Bavarian Army Library Map Collection – Reconstructed 60 Years After Its Restitution to Germany. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the restitution of the Bavarian Army Library to Germany, this paper reconstructs the amazing story of one of the largest collections of military books and maps, that survived destruction during World War II and was taken by American soldiers in 1946 to the US, where it was stored in the Library of Congress. The meeting was arranged with the assistance of the Philip Lee Phillips Society.
December 14, 2022 – USA (Online). The California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 PM Mountain Time, and 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Francis (Frank) Manasek (retired professor, Dartmouth Medical School; former antiquarian map dealer; author of “Collecting Old Maps” and “A Treatise on Moon Maps” will speak about The Birth of Moon Maps: Looking Through the Telescope, 1610-1696. With fifteen Moon maps from 1610 to 1696, Manasek explores some different visual languages used to portray the lunar surface, and implicitly ask if there are any defining elements that link Moon maps to the historiography of terrestrial maps.
Conferences:
September 19-20, 2022 – Online. WAML Annual Conference https://waml.org/conferences/waml-2022. Please keep an eye out for calls for submissions in the coming soon!
September 29-October 1, 2022 – St. Louis. The 63rd Annual Meeting of Society for the History of Discoveries will be held in the Pere Marquette Gallery at St. Louis University, and co-hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The opening reception will take place on Thursday evening (September 29), followed by the conference over the following two days, and a post-conference excursion on Sunday (October 2). The theme is At the Heart of the Continent: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Upper Mississippi Region. Additional details to be announced.
October 5-8, 2022 – Arlington, Texas. The International Map Collectors’ Society Annual Symposium will be a joint meeting with the Virginia Garrett Lectures and the Texas Map Society. It will be hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington and take place at the Central Library, Special Collections. There will be a pre-conference bus trip on October 5, and a three-day post-symposium tour is planned. Preliminary program can be found online and additional details on IMCoS web page. For more information contact Ben Huseman <huseman(at)exchange.uta.edu>.
October 19-22, 2022 – Minneapolis, Minnesota. We cordially invite you to participate in the North American Cartographic Information Society’s (NACIS) 42nd annual meeting at The Depot in downtown Minneapolis. https://nacis.org/annual-meeting/current-meeting/.
October 21-22, 2022 – Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Hybrid). The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 924 S Main St, will be hosting a two-day conference Mapping the Early American South. From the earliest mapping of North America by European navigators to campaigns during the French & Indian War and the American Revolution to further exploration through westward expansion, join us as we delve into how different communities used maps as tools to establish unique visions of the American South. Margaret Pritchard is helping organize this event and she has an impressive list of speakers signed up.
November 4-5, 2022 – Chicago. The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St, will have the 21st installment of the Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography. The theme is Mapping as Performance, addressing the ways in which people create and share maps through action in space. Mapping as Performance brings scholars together from several disciplines, including dance, Indigenous studies, literature, geography, and history. The two days of lectures have been organized into panels focusing on four sub-themes:
– Performing Space, Place, and History in Indigenous North America
– Travel as Mapping
– Mapping Dance
– Surveying as Performance
This year, the Nebenzahl Lectures will fall on the same weekend as the first-ever Newberry Map Fair. Free and open to the public, the fair will welcome collectors, enthusiasts, and a wide array of map-curious people. Register for free.