June 21-23 - Portland, Maine. 'Survey, State, Map': Symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap), at the Osher Map Library. "The formal CFP will be issued in October 2017." Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 January 2018.

July 2-5 - Leeds. International Medieval Congress [IMC] . 'Mappings' on one of three themes: “Mappa Memoriae: Medieval Maps and Memory”, “Text and Image and/on Medieval Maps” and “Shaping the Medieval World”. Details from: (Felicitas.Schmieder(at)FernUni-Hagen.de) and Dan Terkla (terkla(at)iwu.edu). Deadline for Call for Papers: 8 September 2017.

July 15-20 - Warsaw. 17th International Conference of Historical Geographers 2018. [The History of Cartography is specifically mentioned.] Deadline for Call for Papers: 28 October 2017, and for Posters, 11 November 2017.

September 13-15 - Oxford. International symposium: ‘Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea’, jointly organised by the ICA's Commission on the History of Cartography and the Commission on Topographic Mapping, with the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. Deadline for Call for Papers: 1 March 2018.

September 20-23 - Golden, Colorado. Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries,'Great Mountains of the American West', hosted by the Rocky Mountain Map Society and preceded by own their symposium, 'Golden Quest: Mapping the Stampedes'.

September 21-23 – The San Francisco Map Fair, in "the Lodge" at the Regency Center, 1290 Sutter St., with a series of three 40-minute lectures sponsored by the California Map Society.

October 4-6 - Arlington, Texas. The 11th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography, at the University of Texas at Arlington Library; followed by the Fall meeting of the Texas Map Society.

October 10-13 - Gotha. 21st conference of the Map and Geoinformation Curators group (MAGIC), (8-10 October), followed (11-13) by the 19th Kartographiehistorische Colloquium, at the Gotha Perthes Collection, University and Research Library Erfurt/Gotha.

October 14-17 - Manila [and Hong Kong]. 'Thirty-Sixth International Map Collectors' Society Symposium' [IMCoS], organised with The Philippine Map Collectors Society, plus an optional extension to Hong Kong (October 18-20).

November 3 - Los Angeles. California Map Society, Southern California Meeting, in the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.

July 13 - Leiden. Meeting of the International Society of Curators of Early Maps (ISCEM). Details later from ed.dahl(at)sympatico.ca.

July 14-19 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The 28th International Conference on the History of Cartography. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 October 2018.

July 15-20 - Tokyo. 29th International Cartographic Conference.

October 3-5 {date not officially announced yet} - Zurich. XIV symposium of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes.

July 19-23 - Florence. (still subject to change (as at 6 March 2018)) The 30th International Cartographic Conference of the International Cartographic Association.

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-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)

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