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Fifth Biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography

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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.
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Tentative program

Wednesday, October 8

  • 1:00-5:00pm Doors open to view exhibition
  • 4:45-5:00pm Opening remarks: Evan Thornberry and David Rumsey
  • 5:00-6:00pm Keynote by Betsy Mason, Science Journalist: Illuminating the Deep: How Marie Tharp’s pioneering maps revealed the ocean floor
  • 6:00-7:00pm Reception in the Green Library Rotunda

    • Thursday, October 9

  • 11:00am-12:00pm Presentation Session 1
    • Luca Scholtz, University of Manchester: Mapping Anthropogenic Weather
    • Dustin Schroeder, Stanford University: Mapping the Subsurface Processes of Ice Sheets and Icy Moons with Ice Penetrating Radar
  • 12:00-1:30pm Lunch break on your own
  • 1:30-3:00pm Presentation Session 2
    • Rob Simmon, Cartographer: Beyond the Image: Mapping Clouds, Oceans, and Energy from Space
    • Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center
    • Angel Abbud-Madrid, Colorado School of Mines: The View from Above: Mapping Earth and Worlds Beyond
  • 3:00-3:30pm Coffee break in the Bender Room
  • 3:30-4:30pm Keynote by Peter Bellerby, Bellerby & Co.: Worlds within words: 21st century globemaking

  • Friday, October 10

  • 10:30am-12:00pm Collection Field Trip, Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries
  • 12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch break on your own
  • 1:30-3:00pm Presentation Session 3
    • Laura Trethewey, Journalist: Seeing the Unseen: An Exploration of Ocean Mapping, Past and Present
    • Ved Chirayath, University of Miami: Inventing NASA Space Exploration Technologies for our Blue Planet & Beyond
    • Johannes Mattes, Austrian Academy of Sciences: How Was the Subterranean Made Knowable? Mapping, Trust, and the Limits of Early Modern Vision
  • 3:00-3:30pm Coffee break in the Bender Room
  • 3:30-4:30pm Presentation Session 4
      Gregory Staple & Markus Kristeya, TeleGeography, Inc.: Mapping Tomorrow
    • 4:30-4:45pm Closing Remarks
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