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San Francisco, USA
Organisation: Ricardo Padron, Asa Mittman, Dan Terkla
A call for papers for a special session on premodern mapping during the next conference of the Renaissance Society of America (19-21 February 2026). Organizers invite abstracts addressing any aspect of mapping in the premodern world (pre-1700), from any mapping tradition. They welcome papers of any kind, from those that address a single map, text, or object to those that address broad questions in the theory or historiography of maps and mapping. They are especially interested in papers that push scholarly conversations about maps and mapping in novel directions, including work that will eventually appear in collections or monographs.
URL: https://www.rsa.org/forms/FormResponseView.asp?id=9A68C625-3[...]


Stanford (California), USA
Organisation: California Map Society

Program

  • Rob Simmon, Satellite Imagery: From Space to Story in Data Journalism
  • Linda Rui Feng, Mapping the Yellow River: An exploration of East Asian mapping practices
  • Champ Turner, The Globe View in Its Historic and Present Day Context
  • Evan Thornberry, Current Activities at The David Rumsey Map Center
  • Chris Hughes, Historic Battle Maps from the 17th and 18th Century
  • John Pettley, Mapping the Survey Monuments on top of Mount Diablo
  • Tom Paper, A Cartographic History of San Francisco
  • Susan Powell & Karen Pfeffer, Student engagement with the map collection at UC Berkeley
  • Nico Lanza, TBD

Information and registration on the webpage of the Society.
Venue: David Rumsey Map Center


Paris, France
Organisation: ISHMAP
The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) announces its VII Symposium and III Workshop that will take place in Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), Paris, France, from 8 to 11 July 2025. Symposium is organized in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary laboratory Géographie-cités (member of French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)). More information here


Portland (Maine), USA
Organisation: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education in Portland
The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education in Portland, Maine, will host the 2025 conference, showcasing their extensive collections dating back to 1475, and utilizing the facilities of the University of Southern Maine, including the newly built McGoldrick Center for Student and Career Success.
URL: https://www.imcos.org/6826-2/


Rome, Italy
Organisation: The Historical Wall Maps Research Grou
The Historical Wall Maps Research Group, an international collective of historians and geographers dedicated to advancing the study of modern historical wall maps, is pleased to announce a call for papers for the workshop "Hang Them Up! New Perspectives on Historical Wall Maps Studies," which will take place on October 8-9, 2025, at the Società Geografica Italiana in Rome.
The main aim of the event is to bring together experts from different fields to explore the historical and comparative dimensions of wall maps, their cultural significance and impact on geographical knowledge across different periods and regions, and finally the possibilities for their preservation and digitization.
More information here.
Venue: Società Geografica Italiana
Language: English


Stanford (California), USA
Organisation: David Rumsey Map Center
The fifth biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography will be held at the David Rumsey Map Center on October 8, 9 and 10, 2025. The conference, themed "Above and Below," will feature talks on cartography of anything but the earth's surface, from the ocean depths to the stars. The conference is co-sponsored by Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps, Inc.
URL: https://ruderman.sites.stanford.edu/


Chicago and online, USA
Organisation: 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.


Hobart, Tasmania
Organisation: 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/


Denver, Colorado, USA
Organisation: Society for the History of Discovers
Mountains 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-&-Conferences
Brussels Map Circle event


Liège, Belgium
Organisation: BIMCC
Our 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. Download here the provisional invitation.
Please register before 30 September using this form.


Winston-Salem, NC, USA and online
As 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


Paris, France
Organisation: History Commission of the French Cartography Committee
This one-day symposium is a continuation of the previous meetings on ‘Art and Cartography’ (2023) and ‘Cartography and Cinema’ (2024), in which cartography and its history were examined from the angle of their presence in modern and contemporary visual cultures. The aim of this new day is to consider the various aspects of the encounter between cartography and the general public.
Maps have long been exhibited, more or less permanently, in the galleries of major palaces and public buildings. Think, for example, of the Vatican Map Gallery or the world map room in the Farnese Palace in Caprarola. But it is not to these perennial cartographic settings, which are already well known, that this Study Day aims to focus its analysis, but rather on temporary installations.
Since the nineteenth century, cartography has been the focus of a great many temporary exhibitions, both specialist and more general. Like works of art or scientific objects, maps, globes, models, relief maps and observation instruments were considered worthy of public interest. Take, for example, the enthusiastic response to the exhibition entitled ‘Cartes et figures de la Terre' [Maps and Figures of the Earth], presented at the Centre Pompidou in 1980. Exhibitions devoted to the history of cartography, or certain aspects of it, are regularly held at scientific gatherings (geography congresses or learned societies), at international fairs and, of course, in libraries, museums and archive centres.
Venue: INHA (Paris) - Salle Vasari


Paris, France
Organisation: Librairie Loeb-Larocque
24th Exhibition of Antique Maps, Globe and Scientific Instruments.
Venue: Hôtel Ambassador Mariott, 16 bvd Haussmann 75009 Paris
Time schedule: 11.00-18.00
URL: https://www.map-fair.com/paris/ENG


La Plata, Argentina
This 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