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Online, Online
Organisation: Network Topographical Visual Media
The Network Topographical Visual Media announce a series of online-workshops on the topic of Border Topographies: Objects, Performances, Infrastructures. The series is curated by Sasha Rossman. Six speakers will present work exploring how borders and border crossings come into view – or are enacted and performed – through a variety of media and practices. The talks will range historically from the early modern period to today and will examine a broad array of media including contemporary border infrastructures of migration in Greece, printed textiles ("indiennes"), maps of Louisiana, bells, board games, and digital mapping projects that track connections between French colonial sugar plantations and the 18th-century Parisian art market. Investigating the myriad ways in which borders and boundaries make themselves manifest necessarily involves examining how they are mediated through objects and practices. This series of talks invites participants to do just that, and to consider border topographies as part of an expansive media-scape.
  • 25 Oct 2024, 16.00–17.30 (CET) - Emily Lake Kang, University of California, Berkeley - All Aboard? Play, Landscape, and Access in George Thistleton's Game 'Across the Continent' (1872)
  • 29 Nov 2024, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Alaa Dia, Universität Basel - Counter-Mapping as Methodological Tools for Uncovering Hidden Spatial Narratives of Marginalized Populations on Borders
  • 13 Dec 2024, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Alex Rodriguez Suarez, Barcelona - Travelling Bells: Sounds and Material Culture across Borders
  • 31 Jan 2025, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Adrian Anagnost, Tulane University, New Orleans - Mapping Wetlands in la Basse-Louisiane: Indigenous and European Cartographic Knowledges
  • 28 Feb 2025, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Meredith Martin, New York University - Remapping the "Paris" Art World in Haiti/Saint-Domingue
  • 28 Mar 2025, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Chonja Lee, Université de Neuchâtel - Topography as Ornament – Textile Stripes, Borders, and Maps
The workshops will take place online via zoom. If you would like to participate, please contact the network.

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London and Online, UK and Online
A 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

  • 31 October 2024 - Jordana Dym (Skidmore College, NY) - Looking Down, Looking Up: Wall and School Maps in Guatemala, 1860-1936
  • 12 December 2024 - Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) - Copying or Creating? Notions of Ingenuity in isolarii from the 15th to 18th century'
  • 27 February 2025 - Louise McCarthy and Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité) - Cartographic Science at the Service of Company Propaganda in Early Imperialist Britain (1600–1625). Hakluyt Society Speakers
  • 13 March 2025 - James Cheshire (University College London) - Discoveries from the UCL Map Library
  • 3 April 2025 - Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku) - Maps for Development? Finnish Mapping of the Global South, c.1970–2000
  • 8 May 2025 - Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust) - Marking the Miles: Some annotated maps in National Trust Collections

    • Convenors: Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London) with Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute).

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Online (Oxford), UK
  • 28 Nov 2024, Luz Martin del Campo (City University of New York, Vernacular environmental cartographies – landscapes and navigation unseen in Lacanjá Chansayab, Chiapas, México
  • 30 Jan 2025, Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti (Università degli Studi di Padova) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Map Readings – ‘Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities’
  • 13 Feb 2025, Margriet Hoogvliet and Anouk de Vries (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Discussing decolonising cartographic heritage: theory, maps, and Dutch Brazil
  • 15 May 2025, Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina), Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
  • 29 May 2025, Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet), Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
  • 12 June 2025, Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris), Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
Contact: Nick Millea
E-mail: nick.millea@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Time schedule: 16.30-18.00 UK Time
URL: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca

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Cambridge/Online, UK/Online
  • 19 November 2024, 5.30pm UK time - Maurice Whitehead, Venerable English College, Rome - Maps, meridians and missions: Christopher Maire, SJ (1697–1767), an English cartographer in continental Europe
  • 25 February 2025, 5.30pm UK time - Finnian O’Cionnaith, Dublin - ‘A peculiar survey … for our peculiar purpose’: founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland
  • 6 May 2025, 5.30pm UK time - Onur Engin, University of Cambridge - Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography
More information can be found here.
E-mail: sarah.bendall@emma.cam.ac.uk

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Berlin, Germany
Organisation: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Einstein Center Chronoi
This series of lectures invites a critical and fresh view on mapping, its role in the global circulation of knowledge, influence on state sovereignty and royal authority, colonialism, imperialism, national identities throughout history.
  • 6 March 2025 - Zsolt G. Török, Eötvös Loránd University, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography: Making Maps and Imaging Germany. Discussant: Petra Svatek, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
  • 27 March 2025 - Thematic Mapping in 18th to 19th-century Germany
    • Nils Güttler, Universität Wien, Mapping the environment: the Humboldtian tradition. Discussant: Marta Hanson, Academy of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Affiliate of MPIWG
    • Felix de Montety, Université Grenobles-Alpes, Mapping Languages: from Gottfried Hensel’s “Europa Polyglotta” (1741) to Julius Klaproth’s “Asia Polyglotta” (1823). Discussant: Ute Tintemann, BBAW
  • 8 April 2025 - Roundtable: House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies
    • Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, CNRS, Paris; Fellow Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin and Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
    • Goce Naumov, Goce Delćev University and Educator at the Museum of Macedonia., Fellow and Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
    • Cinzia Pappi, Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
    • Discussant: Paul Delnero, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Fellow Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
Time schedule: 18.00 CET
URL: https://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-maps-and-m[...]


Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Organisation: STeM
The new cartography museum ‘MAP-Mercator’ will open its doors in Sint-Niklaas in December 2025.
On a total area of 1,150 m², some 400 maps, atlases, globes and instruments, including four Flemish masterpieces, will be presented in an innovative, multimedia experience context. The museum asks the question ‘What is a map?’ and further explores why and how maps were/are made and used. For each theme, links are made to the use of maps today. Visitors are even invited to use advanced techniques to design a map of their own lives. Scientist and professor of historical cartography Bram Vannieuwenhuyze and project coordinator and curator Ward Bohé immerse you in the story of ‘the making of’. How does a thematic exhibition plan come about? What criteria do we use when selecting objects? What know-how is behind digital presentation techniques? You will get answers to these and many other questions. And, of course, we serve up a solid preview of what it will all look like.
Venue: Museumpaviljoen - STeM
Language: Dutch
Time schedule: 20.00
URL: https://www.museasintniklaas.be/activiteiten/mercatorlezing-[...]

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Bruges, Belgium
Mapathon 1571 is looking for volunteers to connect Antonius Claeissens' painted map of the Brugse Vrije with today's landscape. To carry out this geographical positioning as correctly as possible, we are looking for hundreds of reference points on the 16th-century map that can still be found in today's landscape. People who know the region well are invaluable here!
Venue: City archive Bruges
Language: Dutch
URL: https://mappingpourbus.ugent.be/


Amsterdam, NL
Organisation: Allard Pierson
Maps produced by European missionaries in China in the 17th century fulfilled an important role in the history of cartography. Jesuits were said to have unilaterally brought ‘scientific’ cartography into Asia from Europe, making the question of whether or not European cartography had a major influence on East Asian maps during that period central. In this lecture, Mario Cams turns the question around: how did Chinese cartography enrich European maps?

Programma

Chair: Paula van Gestel – van het Schip, Explokart
  • 14.15-14.30: Door opening
  • 14.30-16.00: Welcome address by Els van der Plas (director Allard Pierson) and Jansoniuslezing by Mario Cams (KULeuven)
  • Drinks in Singelkerk

Registration is free but required.
Venue: Singelkerk, Singel 452, Amsterdam
Language: NL
Brussels Map Circle event


Brussels, Belgium
Organisation: The Brussels Map Circle (BIMCC)

Annual General Meeting

10.00-12.00
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) opens only for Brussels Map Circle active members. All members are encouraged to become Active Member by applying to the President at least three weeks before the meeting .
A personal invitation to this AGM with the agenda and the possibility of proxy vote will be sent out to all Active Members by separate mail at least two weeks before the meeting.

Map Afternoon

14.00-17.00
The MAPAF will be organised in close cooperation with the Maps and Plans Department of the Royal Library of Belgium. Every participant is invited to bring along a map, object, book or anything else of cartographic interest from his own collection to be presented and discussed by the present fellow members. Always an excellent occasion to learn more in a convivial atmosphere. If you have the intention to show an item, please let it know to Henri Godts at henri@arenbergauctions.com
  • No entrance fee for Members.
  • Entrance fee for non-Members: EUR 5.00.
  • Fees are to be prepaid on our bank account before the MAPAF: IBAN BE52 0682 4754 2209 BIC: GKCCBEBB.
  • No cash payments during the event please.

Practical

  • Public transport: Central Station and metro station Central Station / Centraal Station / Gare Centrale.
  • Public parking: Interparking Albertine-Square.
    Venue: Map Room of KBR (Royal Library of Belgium)

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    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

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    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/

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    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/

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    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