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Chicago and online,
USAOrganisation: The Newberry Library
Mapping from Mexico: New Narratives for the History of Cartography
The 2025 Nebenzahl Lectures continue to promote new thinking in map history by asking how orienting our stories from Mexico, looking out toward the rest of the world, challenges common narratives and popular assumptions in the history of mapmaking. Despite the prominent role mapping in Mexico has played, cartographic histories are often told from a European perspective. But how do the stories we tell, methodological assumptions we make, and categories we define about maps and map history change when we treat sites of production and reception in Mexico—from Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Puebla to the borderlands—with the same specificity map history has given to European centers?
Program and information are to be found here.
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Hobart,
TasmaniaOrganisation: Australian and New Zealand Map Society This event will explore how cartography has shaped exploration and knowledge of the Southern Hemisphere, from early speculative maps to modern technologies. Discussions will examine the challenges, innovations, and lasting impacts of mapping some of the world’s most remote and extreme regions across the hemisphere’s vast oceans.URL: https://anzmaps.org/
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Denver, Colorado,
USAOrganisation: Society for the History of DiscoversMountains have long fascinated people of all varieties, acting as sites of exploration, conflict, and discovery. From the famed Mount Olympus of the Greek gods to the Rocky Mountains of the final frontier, and to the fantastical mountains found in cartography, they have mystified and captivated, both halting and encouraging progress.URL: https://discoveryhistory.org/Meetings-&-ConferencesBrussels Map Circle event
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Liège,
BelgiumOrganisation: BIMCCOur next excursion, focusing on geological mapping, will take place in Liège. The programme includes visits to the Belgian Geological Society, CLADIC (Liège Coal Industry Archives and Documentation Centre), a brief tour in Liège and visits to the State Archives and Castle of Warfusée.
Registration closed.
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Winston-Salem, NC,
USA and onlineAs a young nation emerged, Americans quickly turned their attention to the West, continuing to expand westward in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the Louisiana Purchase, Mexican Cession, and other land deals. As they did so, they utilized maps to chart their course and realize their vision of an expanded America.
More information and registration can be found here.Venue: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
London,
UKThe Harley Fellowships - the only one of their kind in Europe – provide support for those working on the history of cartography, from any discipline, doing the equivalent of post-graduate level work in the historical map collections of the United Kingdom. Awards range up to £2000.
The closing date for applications is 1st November.
All information on this page.
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London and Online,
UK and OnlineA series of lectures on the history of maps and mapping worldwide, from earliest times to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural factors of the maps’ context, production, and use.
To attend online, register here.
Programme
6 November 2025 - Simon Morris (London Topographical Society): Mapping Local London — London Parish Maps to 1900
4 December 2025 - Noémi Ujházy (University of Nottingham): Mapping Soils in the Early 20th Century and the Material Politics of Internationalism
29 January 2026 - Elizabeth Chant (University of Warwick): Road Maps, Leisure Travel and Petro-modernity in 20th Century Argentina
26 February 2026 - Bob Headland (Scott Polar Research Institute): Cartographical Conundrums and Antarctic Sovereignty. Hakluyt Society Speaker
26 March 2026 - Mimi Cheng (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz): Aesthetics and Authority in 19th Century Maps of China
7 May 2026 - Anthony Terry (Independent Researcher): The Derrotero Ingles: Unravelling the Mysteries of an early 18th Century English Waggoner in Peru
Convenors: Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London).
Paris,
FranceOrganisation: the History Commission of the French Cartography CommitteeThe Comité Français de Cartographie's History Committee, with the support of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the CNRS and the EPHE-Histara, is organising a one-day symposium on ‘Cartographic Exhibitions’ on 14 November 2025 at the Institut national d'histoire de l'Art (INHA) in Paris.
Programme
9h15 Accueil
9h30 Introduction par Jean-Marc Besse et Catherine Hofmann
Première session : Les cartes dans les expositions d’art et d’histoire (1980-2025). Modératrices : Emile d’Orgeix, Emmanuelle Vagnon.
9h45 Jean-Marc Besse, Une exposition fondatrice ? "Cartes et Figures de la Terre", Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1980
10h15 Guillaume Monsaingeon, Mappamundi, 2011-2013, une double exposition d'art contemporain
Pause
11h00 Hélène Maurin, Mettre en valeur et faire connaître les collections cartographiques des Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie dans l’exposition Le relief de notre territoire et d’ailleurs (2019-2021)
11h30 Enali de Biaggi, Axelle Chassagnette et Claire Cunty, Les expositions cartographiques de l’ICHC 2024 : cinq moments pour donner à voir la diversité des fonds lyonnais
12h15 Pause déjeuner
Deuxième session : Les cartes dans le contexte des expositions internationales (1855-1931). Modérateur : Jean-Marc Besse.
14h00 Wouter Bracke, La première exposition géographique internationale (1871) : entre nationalisme et universalisme scientifique
14h30 Thomas Roche, Cartes et globes dans les expositions universelles à Paris (1855-1937)
15h00 Luc Menapace, Exposer la cartographie à l’Exposition universelle de Paris de 1867
Pause
15h45 Eva Chodejovska, Maps of Prague exposed at the 1891-Prague General Exhibition
16h15 Kory Olson, Visiter l’empire à travers les cartes : l’Exposition coloniale à Vincennes (1931)
Brussels,
BelgiumOrganisation: The Brussels Map CIrcle (BIMCC)Download the handout of the conference here.
Programme
9:15 - Welcome address
9:30 - Wouter Bracke, New Findings on Two KBR Cimelia: The Sanuto and the Mercator Gores
10:00 - Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Who Made the Murad III Globes and Armillary Sphere in 1579? Toward a New Attribution
10:30 - Break
11:00 - Colin Dupont, Globes by Merzbach and Falk-Fabian and the Institut national de géographie (Brussels, 1875-1898): a Success Story?
11:30 - Willem Jan Neutelings, Around the World in 200 Globes, Stories of the Twentieth Century
12:00 - Thomas Horst and Martina Pippal, The Hunt Lenox Globe and its Replicas – New Scientific Results and an Accidental Find
12:30 - End
Registration: If you would like to join this event please advice our Secretary Marie-Anne Dage.
Free for members and KBR staff. Accompanying persons and non-Members are invited to pay EUR 20.00 on our bank account IBAN BE52 0682 4754 2209 | BIC: GKCCBEBB and to mention in the bank transfer 'Conference 2025' and the name of the person.Venue: KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) Contact: Marie-Anne Dage
E-mail: marie.anne.dage@gmail.comTime schedule: 9:15-12:30
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La Plata,
ArgentinaThis eleventh symposium aims to reflect on the cartographic operations involved in the design and projection of cities, territories and landscapes, as well as to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first symposium held. The validity of this academic space, which brings together specialists from different disciplines around the history of cartography, invites us to take a balance on the current state of this field of study, and to evaluate its projection in the Ibero-American world.Language: Spanish and Portuguese
Paris,
FranceOrganisation: History Commission of the French Cartography Committee and the National Library of FranceCartography is popular today for two reasons: it appeals to a wide audience, beyond its practical usefulness; and it is not just a matter for specialists. If by ‘popular culture’ we mean the productions disseminated by the cultural industries since the rise of the serialised novel, we can see that the link between cartography and popular culture has only grown stronger with the rise of visual media, television series and video games. Maps are often at the heart of transmedia storytelling, a strategy that deploys a universe or story across several complementary media and invites the audience to explore these different media for an enriched experience.
The History Commission of the French Cartography Committee and the National Library of France organise a one-day symposium on 10 April 2026 at François-Mitterrand. A call for paper is open until 10 November 2025. More information here.Venue: François-Mitterrand (BnF)
