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Calendar of Deadlines in the History of Cartography

(for fellowship and prize applications, submission of paper proposals for meetings, or special issues of journals)

[Note. Most of the fellowship and prize deadlines recur annually [marked with *] and those will therefore be left on this page after the date has passed. Be aware that the date may change from one year to the next, and should always be checked. Where institutions have not yet updated their site, the previous year's deadline is left, followed by a question-mark. Otherwise, the date is followed by [C] indicating that the next deadline has been confirmed]

Latest general updating: 16 June 2017

2017

* January 13 [C]. Visiting Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts - Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.)

January 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. 12th Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, in partnership with the IUAV - Laboratory of Cartography & Gis and Laboratory of Photogrammetry, the AUTH CartoGeoLab - Laboratory of Cartography & Geographical Analysis, and the MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group (Venice, April 26-28, 2017).

* January 15 [C]. Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship (for younger scholars - William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan)

* January 15 [C]. Short- Term Research Fellowships (New York Public Library)

February 3. [Call for Papers deadline]. Society for the History of Discoveries (Milwaukee, 22-23 September, 2017). Contact: Marguerite Ragnow: ragn0001(at)umn.edu Also a separate CfP for, 'Indigenous Discovery and Exploration History: a Thematic Panel and Call for Articles' [in Terrae Incognitae]. Contact: lbeck(at)mta.ca

February 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. International symposium, 'Mapping Asia – Cartographic Encounters between East and West', at Leiden University Library, jointly hosted by the International Cartographic Association’s Commission on the History of Cartography and Leiden University (Leiden, 15-16 September 2017).

February 15 [C]. The Hakluyt Society Research Grant and The Hakluyt Society Short-Term Fellowship
February 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. Pre-ICC Workshop, ‘Charting the Cosmos of Cartography: History – Names – Atlases’, organized by the Commission on the History of Cartography and the Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division, to be held at the latter. The ICA Commission on Atlases and the ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy will also be involved (Washington, D.C., 28-30 June 2017).

March 1. [Call for Papers deadline]. 'Mapping the past, exploiting the future: cartographies and understandings of the Arctic', at the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, London, July 21-22, 2017). [Abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography to: research@rmg.co.uk].

* March 1 [C]. William and Madeline Welder Smith Travel Award (see the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History - University of Texas at Austin)

March 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. 'Canada before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping', at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 12-14, 2017).

March 27. [Call for Papers deadline]. 'International Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage' (DCH2017), organized by CODATA-Germany (The German National Committee to the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology), at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin, August 30-September 1, 2017)

* April 28 [C]. Travel to Collections Grant (Department of Special and Area Studies Collection at the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, for research in the collections (including the Map & Imagery Library)). [NB. Started in 2017.]

* April 30 [C]. [applications open from February] National Library of Australia Fellowships (Canberra)

* May 1 [C]. Graduate Scholar-in-Residence program at the Newberry Library, Chicago (for advanced PhD students for the period September-May).

* May 15 [C]. Society for the History of Discoveries Essay Prize

May 19. [Call for Papers deadline]. Jesuit Cartography. Special Issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies August 2018, Editor: Robert Batchelor.

May 31. [Call for Papers deadline]. I Colóquio Luso-Brasileiro de Teoria e História da Geografia (Lisbon, 2-3 November 2017). [One of the cited themes is 'História do território, cartografia e geopolítica'.]

* June 1 [C]. Walter W Ristow Essay Prize (Washington Map Society)

July 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. 'Enlightening maps: a celebration of 25 years of TOSCA – The Oxford Seminars in Cartography', at the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 22 September 2017). Contact: nick.millea(at) bodleian.ox.ac.uk; send abstract to: elizabeth.baigent(at)geog.ox.ac.uk].

September (?). [Call for Papers deadline]. 17th International Conference of Historical Geographers 2018 (Warsaw, 16-20 July 2018]. [The History of Cartography is specifically mentioned.]

* September 29 [C]. [Opens June 2016 for 2017-18]. Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (fellowship for work on the collections of the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library - of which the The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division forms a part)

* September 30 [C]. Mendel Fellowship (a visiting fellowship mentioning specifically 'geography, navigation and cartography'; also the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships - Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington)

* October 15 [C]. Kislak Short-Term Fellowship (Library of Congress, John W. Kluge Center). [With particular emphasis on Florida, the circum-Caribbean region and Mesoamerica, using the Jay I. Kislak Collection. Cartography is one of the topics mentioned.]

* October 31 [?]. National Maritime Museum Research Fellowships (London, Greenwich)

* November 1 [C]. J.B. Harley Research Fellowships (London)

* November 4 [?]. American Geographical Society Library Fellowships (Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

* November 15 [C]. Long-term Fellowships [which can have a History of Cartography theme] (Newberry Library)

* November 15 [?]. Huntington Library (a range of short- and long-term fellowships - San Marino, California)

* November 30 [C] Hakluyt Society Essay Prize (open to those under the age of 30).

* December 1 [?]. Bibliographical Society of America (Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography).

* December 15 [?] Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship (John Carter Brown Library) [and other JCB fellowships]

* December 15 [C]. Short-term Fellowships in the History of Cartography (Newberry Library)

2018

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

* [different dates, check website]. State Library of New South Wales (various grants for Australian history, e.g. C.H. Currey, Nancy Keesing and Milt Luger Fellowships)

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