March 20-22 - Boston. Panel at the Renaissance Society of America's Annual Conference, 'Lost and Found in Translation: Cartographic History Between Literary and Visual Studies'. Organized by the editorial team at Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. Deadline for Call for Papers: 31 July 2024.

June 16-20 - London. 'A History of Maps and Mapping', the London Rare Book School course, convened by Katherine Parker.

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

September 12-14 - 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 8-10 - Stanford, Califonia. The Fifth biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography.

October 31-1 November - Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Seminar: 'Mapping America and its Expansion', at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. It will include a map fair.

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.

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:

• Internet discussion lists and forums
• Journals and Newsletters
• Map societies
• Weblogs