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Compiled by Wulf Bodenstein and Glenn Van den Bosch

E v e n t s

14e Dordtse Boekenmarkt in het teken van cartografie en schoolkaarten
5 July 2009
Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Op de eerste zondag van juli, nu dus 5 juli 2009, wordt al weer de 14e Dordtse Boekenmarkt georganiseerd in de historische binnenstad. De boekenmarkt is geopend van 10.00 tot 17.30 uur en deelname is alleen mogelijk door professionele antiquaren, die ook als zodanig zijn ingeschreven bij de Kamer van Koophandel.
Het thema is cartografie en schoolkaarten. Wij hopen dat de deelnemers kun best zullen doen om dit thema zo goed mogelijk te vertalen in de opbouw van de kraam.
Het parcours van de Dordtse Boekenmarkt bevindt zich binnen de historische binnenstad.
Contact: Esther Snelders, Stichting Dordrecht Marketing
Telephone: +31 78 639 6006, e-mail: info@dordtseboekenmarkt.nl
de Dordtse Boekenmarkt, Postbus 423, 3400 AK Dordrecht
URI: http://www.dordtseboekenmarkt.nl/
23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC2009)
12 to 17 July 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark
URI: http://www.ichc2009.dk/
Colloquium 'Mapping Medieval Chester'
30 - 31 July 2009
Swansea, UK
This colloquium will launch the digital materials produced by the project and provide a forum for wider discussion of place and identity in the medieval city, as well as concepts of ‘mapping’ in the Middle Ages and today. The colloquium will feature papers on medieval Chester, but we are also seeking inter-disciplinary contributions relating to the medieval city more generally.
The ‘Mapping Medieval Chester’ project has brought together scholars working in the disciplines of literary studies, geography, archaeology and history to explore how material and imagined urban landscapes construct and convey a sense of place-identity. The focus of the research project itself is the city of Chester and the identities that its inhabitants formed between c.1200 and 1500. A key aspect of the project is to integrate geographical and literary mappings of the medieval city using cartographic and textual sources and using these to understand more how urban landscapes in the Middle Ages were interpreted and navigated by local inhabitants.
Mark Faulkner therefore invite 20-minute paper proposals (abstracts of around 300 words) on any subject relating to the project’s broad themes of place and identity in the medieval European city. Proposals should be sent to Mark Faulkner (e-mail: m.j.faulkner@swan.ac.uk) by 23 February 2009.
URI: http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk/index.html
27th International IMCoS Symposium
6 - 9 September 2009
Oslo, Norway
The theme of the Symposium is 'The Mapping and Exploration of Norway and the North.' With its speakers from Norway and other countries, the hosting of Norway's National Library and State Mapping Authority, and visits to museums and other sites (and sights!), the Symposium program will provide a wonderful experience of Norway and a fascinating review of its cartographic tradition.
This website provides more information about the Symposium, including details of the program, the speakers, and the optional post-Symposium trip to the north of Norway and the fjords along the west coast. As it is updated, it will include links to other sites of interest to visitors and on-line registration capability. So please bookmark the site and check it regularly for new information.
E-mail: contact@imcosnorway2009.com
URI: http://www.imcosnorway2009.com/hjem.cfm
'Géographie des mers' - 20e édition du Festival International de Géographie de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
1 - 4 October 2009
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France
URI: http://www.fig-saintdie.com/
Grand Celebration and Exhibition to mark Osher Map Library's Reopening
15 - 18 October 2009
Portland, USA
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education - Grand Celebration and Exhibition to mark Osher Map Library's Reopening
  • 15 Oct 2009: The exhibition 'American Treasures' opens in new University of Southern Maine Gallery
  • 16 Oct 2009: (late afternoon/evening) Public lecture and reception
  • 17 Oct 2009: One-day conference: New directions in the study of early American cartographers
    Four scholars who pursue new and exciting directions in the study of mapping of early America (pre-1840) explore the relevancy of map studies for history and historical geography. There will be generous opportunities for discussion and conversation, as well as for taking guided tours of the library’s new facilities.
    • Jean-François Palomino. Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec; co-author of La mesure d’un continent / Mapping a Continent (Sillery, Québec, 2007).
    • William Gustav Gartner. Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin–Madison; author of 'Mapmaking in the Central Andes' in The History of Cartography vol. 2.3 (Chicago, 1998).
    • Max Edelson. Department of History, University of Virginia; author of Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (Harvard, 2006).
    • Lina Del Castillo. Department of History, Iowa State University; author of 'The Science of Nation Building: A History of Geographic Sciences in Colombia, 1821–1921' (University of Miami, 2007).
    The conference is also the inaugural meeting of the biennial Maine Forum for Map History. Place: Abromson Center and University of Southern Maine, Portland campus, USM Registration: USD 75.00. Registration before 15 August is encouraged! Secure server: https://webapp.usm.maine.edu/DCPEOnline/addRegCONFPage1.do?offeringId=100045247
  • 18 Oct 2009: (afternoon) open-house, ribbon-cutting, tours, family fun for the community.
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04104-9301, USA
URI: http://www.usm.maine.edu/maps
The Artemidorus Papyrus and Its (ancient ?) map of ... where... ?
5 November 2009
London
by Professor Richard Talbert (Department of Classics, University of North Carolina)
The Warburg Institute, Nineteenth Series 2009-2010
Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute).
Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute, University of London,Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 17.00.
Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are most welcome.
Tel +44 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano Smith) or info@tonycampbell.info
8th Paris Map Fair
7 November 2009
Paris, France
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, 6 November. Reservation for the dinner is required and open to all, seat availability is limited.
Opening hours are 11.00 - 18.00.
Hôtel Ambassador, 16 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris.
URI: http://www.map-fair.com/
ICC2009 - 24th International Cartography Conference of the International Cartographic Association (ICA)
15 - 21 November 2009
Santiago de Chile
URI: http://www.icc2009.cl
Jonas Moore’s map of the Fens, 1658
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Cambridge, UK
Dr Frances Willmoth (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Cambridge Seminars in the history of cartography
Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge.
At 17.00. Venue: Harrods Room, Emmanuel College.
All are welcome. For further information and to join the mailing list, contact Sarah Bendall, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP, sarah.bendall@emma.cam.ac.uk, telephone 01223 330476.
URI: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/maps/camsem0910.html
Toponymic Landscapes: Ways of Seeing Patagonia in Early Argentinean Maps
3 December 2009
London
by Dr Carla Lois (Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad de La Plata)
The Warburg Institute, Nineteenth Series 2009-2010
Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute).
Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute, University of London,Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 17.00.
Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are most welcome.
Tel +44 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano Smith) or info@tonycampbell.info
Seller, Pepys and the late-seventeenth-century London map trade
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Cambridge, UK
Laurence Worms (Ash Rare Books)
Cambridge Seminars in the history of cartography
Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge.
At 17.00. Venue: Harrods Room, Emmanuel College.
All are welcome. For further information and to join the mailing list, contact Sarah Bendall, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP, sarah.bendall@emma.cam.ac.uk, telephone 01223 330476.
URI: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/maps/camsem0910.html
The history of the Ordnance Survey
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Cambridge, UK
Rachel Hewitt (University of Glamorgan)
Cambridge Seminars in the history of cartography
Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge.
At 17.00. Venue: Gardner Room, Emmanuel College.
All are welcome. For further information and to join the mailing list, contact Sarah Bendall, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP, sarah.bendall@emma.cam.ac.uk, telephone 01223 330476.
URI: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/maps/camsem0910.html
24th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC)
10 - 15 July 2011
Moscow, Russia
25th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC)
July 2013
Helsinki, Finland
The Board of Directors of Imago Mundi Ltd is delighted to announce that Helsinki has been chosen as the venue for the 25th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC). This will take place in July 2013.

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Atlas Ferraris
Schlüssel-Carte zur Zusammensetzung der Cabinet-Carte deren Niederlanden; sheet 162 (sample) (52K)

Schlüssel-Carte zur Zusammensetzung der Cabinet-Carte deren Niederlanden; sheet 162 (sample)

On 7 May 2009 was presented in Brussels, in the Palace of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, De grote atlas van Ferraris | Le grand atlas de Ferraris. It is a large and heavy book with a complete facsimile of the 275 manuscript sheets of the Schlüssel-Carte zur Zusammensetzung der Cabinet-Carte deren Niederlanden. An introduction by Wouter Bracke and an index with 3000 place-names complete the book.
The map elaborated under the direction of Joseph Jean François, count de Ferraris, was the first coherent and detailed topographical work of the territories presently occupied by Belgium. The original scale of the map was 7.5 lines for hundred toises i.e. 1:11 520. The scale of the facsimile is 1:20 000, similar to today's topographical map of Belgium. The work was presented on 10 December 1777 to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790.
Bibliographical data. De grote atlas van Ferraris | Le grand atlas de Ferraris. Tielt (Belgium): Uitgeverij Lannoo in cooperation with Éditions Racine, the Royal Library of Belgium and the National Geographical Institute, 2009. pp 600, 405 x 510 mm, ISBN 978-90-209-8138-4.
The presentation of the book was accompanied by speeches by Patrick Lefevre, General Director of the Royal Library of Belgium, by delegates of Sabine Laruelle and Peter De Crem, ministers of the federal government, by Maarten Van Steenbergen, delegate of the publisher and Wouter Bracke, head of the section Cartes et Plans | Kaarten en plannen of the Royal Library of Belgium.
An exhibition, held in the above mentioned Palace of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, just next to the Royal Library of Belgium, illustrates the work of Joseph Jean François, count de Ferraris, with details about the making of the map: origins, sources, copies, topographical instruments. Large scale reproductions of maps give an idea of the landscape of the countryside at the end of eighteenth century, just before the early industrialization.
Press review:
Let us also indicate that an on-line reproduction of the map can be viewed on the Web site of the Royal Library of Belgium: http://belgica.kbr.be/fr/search/search_fr.html
URI (fr): http://www.racine.be/content/racine/wbnl/listview/2/index.jsp?titelcode=16098&fondsid=27
URI (nl): http://www.lannoo.com/content/lannoo/wbnl/listview/1/index.jsp?titelcode=16098&fondsid=12
Posted on 7 and 14 May 2009
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the American Library of Congress. It has been launched on 21 April 2009.
The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries. It aims to expand non-English and non-western content on the Internet, and contribute to scholarly research. The library intends to make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials.
As of launch, the library has 1,170 items, and the interface is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
URI: http://www.wdl.org/fr/
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Posted on 23 April 2009
L’œil, la Terre et le cartographe by Philippe Rekacewicz
About the 2009 issue of the Atlas of the Monde Diplomatique.
Que se passe-t-il quand les anciennes représentations ne fonctionnent plus et que les nouvelles n’ont pas encore pris corps ? Le rôle du cartographe, au carrefour de la science, de la technologie, de l’éthique, de la politique et même de l’art, est alors de tenter de saisir, grâce à la richesse du langage des crayons, le nouveau, l’inattendu, l’inédit...
URI: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2009/03/REKACEWICZ/16880
Posted on 7 March 2009
Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570-1641) - Characteristics and development of a sample of on verso map texts
Ortelius verso text (1268K)

Example of a text on verso of the map of Africa, edition 1592

Our longstanding member and supporter, Marcel van den Broecke, on 20 February 2009 successfully defended his second doctoral thesis, this time at Utrecht University, on Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570-1641) - Characteristics and development of a sample of on verso map texts.
Texts on the verso of maps that appeared in atlases until about the second half of the 17th century have been largely ignored by map enthusiasts and researchers, mainly on account of difficulties with the languages in which they were produced. Among the 35 editions of the Theatrum 13 are in Latin, 5 in German, French, and Spanish, 4 in Dutch, 2 in Italian and one in English.
Marcel van den Broecke over the years has established himself as the specialist on maps published by Ortelius. He has become known to many of our members through his commercial outlet in The Netherlands and through his many publications, of which the cartobibliography Ortelius Atlas Maps published by Hesselink in 1996 has become an indispensable companion for all those with an interest in Ortelius.
For this work, van den Broecke has chosen the texts on the verso of ten maps from the Theatrum which he translates and analyses in-depth. A full review will appear in a forthcoming BIMCC Newsletter.
URI: http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2009-0204-201006/UUindex.html
Posted on 2 March 2009
By Wulf Bodenstein
Le Grand Atlas de Ferraris - Le premier atlas de la Belgique | De Grote Atlas van Ferraris - De eerste atlas van België
2009-05-07 10-28-31 (742K)
8 May 2009 - 10 October 2009
Brussels
Palais de Charles de Lorraine | Paleis van Karel van Lotharingen
Wednesday and Saturday, from 13.00 to 17.00
URI (nl): http://www.kbr.be/actualites/expos/dossiers/ferraris/ferraris_nl.html
URI (fr): http://www.kbr.be/actualites/expos/dossiers/ferraris/ferraris_fr.html






Exploring the Early Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection
13 December 2007 - indefinite (Ongoing Exhibition)
Washington, USA
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3 000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.
This ongoing exhibition has three major themes: Pre-Contact America; Explorations and Encounters; and Aftermath of the Encounter. Like the Jay I. Kislak Collection itself, the exhibition provides glimpses into the complex and fascinating past of the Americas. It provides insight into indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native American and European explorers and settlers, and the pivotal changes caused by the meeting of the American and European worlds. The last theme explores the profound growth of knowledge, particularly in natural history and geography, resulting from the encounters. This section includes two extraordinary maps by Martin Waldseemüller created in 1507 and 1516, which depict a world enlarged by the presence of the Western Hemisphere.
This installation begins the public’s direct and permanent access to a remarkable private collection and the collection’s full availability for research and scholarly exploration. Throughout the exhibition, interactive presentations enable visitors to learn directly from the artifacts, books, documents, paintings, and maps.
Northwest Gallery, Second Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building.
Monday - Saturday, 10.00 h to 17.00 h.
URI: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/
The legacy of the Netherlands
Indefinite exhibition
The Hague, The Netherlands
A thousand years of Dutch history based on treasures from the National Library of the Netherlands and the National Archives.
At Prins Willem Alexanderhof. Open Monday till Saturday: 9.00 - 17.00, Tuesday evenings 17.00 - 20.00, Sunday: 12.00 - 17.00.
Tel. +31 070 3140911/070 3315400.
URI: http://www.deverdiepingvannederland.nl/adres.html
Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection
No dates, but on-line display!
Savannah, USA
Highlights include 1597 maps from the earliest atlas of the Americas, 1776 military maps, and other 18th- and 19th-century maps, many of them hand colored. Cartographers include Wytfliet, Hondius, Monath, Lotter, d'Anville, Faden, Lodge, Cary, and Wyld.
lst Floor Map Galleries. Newton Center for British-American Studies, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (2 doors north of the Savannah Visitors Center). Open to the public free of charge Monday-Friday 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday 13.00 - 17.00.
For further information or to arrange group tours, Maureen Burke (e-mail: smburke@sysconn.com).
URI: http://www.scad.edu/museum/