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Forthcoming meetings - a quick chronology (2025-2026)

ORGANISERS - PLEASE CONSULT THE DATES BELOW BEFORE FIXING YOUR OWN!

For further details of the events listed summarily below, for map society meetings, for individual talks,
and for past events, see John Docktor's Calendar

Deadlines in the history of cartography | Posting conference details (for organisers)

For information from previous years (from 2006) link to: < http://www.maphistory.info/confplanarchive**.html > (replacing the asterisks with the last two digits of the year in question)
For past events in the present year, right click and select 'View [page] source'

2025

July 8-11 - Paris. International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) will hold their annual conference at Campus Condorcet, Paris, Aubervilliers. The theme is 'Mapping the Cultural Crossroads'. 8-9 July will be a Workshop and 10-11 the Symposium. Deadline for Call for Papers: 31 October 2024.

August 11-15 - Los Angeles. A California Rare Book School (CalRBS) course on the History of Cartography taught by Ian Fowler, Curator of Maps, History, and Government Information, New York Public Library.

August 26-29 - London. The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers): 'Annual International Conference 2025'. Additional details to be announced.

September 11-14 - Portland, Maine. The 42nd International Map Collectors' Society annual symposium: 'New Perspectives on Mapping New England and Maritime Canada', at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education.

October 8-9 - Rome. Workshop: 'Hang Them Up! New Perspectives on Historical Wall Maps Studies', at the Società Geografica Italiana. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 April 2025.

October 8-10 - Stanford, Califonia. The Fifth biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography.

October 16-18 - Chicago. The Newberry Library will be hosting the 22nd Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography, on the theme "Mapping from Mexico: New Narratives for the History of Cartography".

October 17-18 - Hobart, Tasmania. Annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society ANZMaps, 'Southern Frontiers', at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). Deadline for Call for Papers: 9 May 2025.

October 23-25 - Denver. Annual conference of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 'Mountains as Sites of Myth, Barriers, and Exploration', hosted by the Denver Public Library and the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 April 2025 [extended to 16 May] .

October 30-1 November 1 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Seminar: 'Mapping American Expansion', at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. It will include a map fair.

November 14 - Paris. Symposium: 'Les expositions cartographiques (19e-21e siècles)' / 'Map exhibitions (19th-20th centuries)', INHA (Paris) - Salle Vasari. The papers selected will be published in an issue of the journal of the French Cartography Committee, Cartes & Géomatique, in 2026. Deadline for Call for Papers: 10 May 2025.

December 6 - Brussels Brussels Map Circle annual conference on globes, at the Royal Library of Belgium.

2026

February 19-21 - San Francisco. 'Premodern Mapping Today', a panel at the Renaissance Society of America. Deadline for Call for Papers: 30 July 2025.

April 8-10 - La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. XI Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía. "Mapear y proyectar. Territorios dibujados, diseñados y representados". Deadline for Call for Papers: 31 August 2025.

May [?]- Edinburgh, Workshop: 'Global Histories of Cold War Cartography' Contact: email: julie.gibbings(at)ed.ac.uk

July 7-11 - Prague, Czech Republic. The 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography, to be held at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, with the theme: 'Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography'.

November 8-14 - Tokyo & Kyoto. The International Map Collectors' Society has been invited by the Japan Map Society to participate in a conference that they would host for international guests with most of the programme in English. Date and programme are currently tentative.

Posting conference details (for organisers)

Those who organise conferences, seminars or symposiums are advised to post details to:-

AllConferences.com

AttendConferences

Calenda (a French site for the social sciences run by Revues.org, but including events outside France as well)

Conference Alerts: Academic Conferences Worldwide

Gateway for Historical Geographical-Information-Systems (GIS) in history, for Historical Cartography and for Historical Geography (his-GIS.net)

Transnational, Cross-regional and Global Connections (a German site which, inter alia, posts conference 'Announcements'; it is related to H-Soz-u-Kult and Clio-Online)

H-Maps

H-Net announcement. See also the H-Net Discussion Logs Search (which can be searched for all or specific lists, and for a range of dates)

H-Net 'call for papers'

H-Soz-u-Kult. 'Termine' [deadlines] (a German calendar site)

Maps-L

PapersInvited ('World's largest listing of Calls for Papers')

ResearchBib.Com ('Research Events' - managed from Tokyo)

If you need to select a date and day of the week some years ahead, consult one of the online perpetual calendars, such as Calendar Date (just adjust the year).

Other ways of publicising a conference: