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Forthcoming meetings - a quick chronology (2010-2013)


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)

2010
September 1-3 - London. Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG, including a session on "'Terra incognita'? Making space for medieval geographies". Deadline for Call for Papers: 31 January 2010.

September 2-4 - Munich. 15. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, at the Landesamt für Vermessung und Geoinformation, organized by Arbeitsgruppe D-A-CH.

September 12-14 - Santa Fe, New Mexico. 51st annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. See Abstracts. Deadline for Call for Papers: 16 April 2010.

September 24-26 - San Francisco. An international symposium, Legacies of the book: early missionary printing in Asia and the Americas, organized by the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610). [Maps are not mentioned but presumably cartographic proposals would be welcomed.] Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 January 2010.

September 25-28 - Veszprém, Hungary. 'Fresh Water'. XVth International Symposium and Reunion for the International Committee for the History of Nautical Science. Deadline for Call for Papers: 1 March 2010.

October 4-6 - London. Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society, with the theme 'Britain - Power and Influence in the 17th and 18th Centuries', at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, except for the second day at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

October 8-13. Arlington. Three consecutive events at the University of Texas at Arlington with the common theme, "Charting the Cartography of Chartered Companies":

November 4-6 - Chicago. 17th Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography, 'Mapping the Transition from Colony to Nation', at the Newberry Library.

November 5 - Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress' Rare Book Division will sponsor a conference on Galileo, celestial representation, and the birth of astronomical cartography, to celebrate its recent acquisition of an original and uncut copy of the Sidereus Nuncius, originally published 400 years ago by Galileo Galilei, in March, 1610.

November 18-21 - Chicago. 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, including a session: 'Representing Contested Geographies / Multi-National Historical GIS'. Deadline for Call for Papers: 8 February 2010.

December 2-3 - Paris. Colloque international, Cartographier l’Afrique IXe-XIXe siècle / Mapping Africa from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Construction, Transmission and Circulation of Cartographic Knowledge about Africa (Europe, Arab world and Africa), organized by the Centre d’étude des mondes africains (CEMAf). Cosponsored by the CEMAf , the National Library of France and the French Committee of Cartography. Deadline for Call for Papers: 3 May 2010.

December 11. Annual conference of the Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle, on China, in the Royal Library, Brussels.


2011
February 5-6 - 18th Miami International Map Fair, at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.

May 20 - Washington, D.C. Conference, Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography, Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division in conjunction with the Philip Lee Phillips Society.

June - Oxford. A colloquium on the Gough Map at the Bodleian Library, 'The language of maps'.

July 3-8 - Paris. 25th International Cartographic Conference of the International Cartographic Association, including the Commission on the History of Cartography.

July 10-15 - Moscow. 24th International Conference on the History of Cartography. Deadline for Call for Papers: 25 October 2010.

September 22-5 - Portland, Maine. Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine.


2012

July 26-7 - Denver. Conference, "The Mapping of North America: Westward Expansion", followed by the 'Map Fair of the West', both organized by the Rocky Mountain Map Society.

September? - Duisburg. 12th Symposium of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes.


2013
July - Helsinki, Finland. 25th International Conference on the History of Cartography


Posting conference details (for organisers)

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

  • AllConferences.com
  • Calenda (a French site for the social sciences run by Revues.org, but including events outside France as well)
  • Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages (CRLV)
  • Conference Alerts: Academic Conferences Worldwide
  • DIGMAP 'Relevant Events' (focusing more on current map and library conferences)
  • Early Modern England Source (submission forms)
  • Gateway for Historical Geographical-Information-Systems (GIS) in history, for Historical Cartography and for Historical Geography (his-GIS.net)
  • Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom (HERO). Conferences
  • History.transnational (a German site which, inter alia, posts conference announcements - see Deadlines; it is related to H-Soz-u-Kult and Clio-Online)
  • 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'
  • HoBo Events (conferences, book fairs, lectures and seminars in Oxford, Cambridge, London, Edinburgh & elsewhere)
  • H-Soz-u- Kult. 'Termine' [deadlines] (a German calendar site)
  • PapersInvited ('World's largest listing of Calls for Papers')
  • 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.


    Other ways of publicising a conference:


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