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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 and noted]

Latest general updating: 8 August 2018

2018

* January 12 [C]. Visiting Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts - Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.)

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

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."

* January 15. [C]. California Map Society / Rumsey Map Center Paper Award.

January 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. 13th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (Madrid, 18-20 April 2018)

* January 31 [C]. The Hakluyt Society Short-Term Fellowship

January 31. [Call for Articles deadline]. Special Issue of The Cartographic Journal: 'Topographic Mapping: Past, Present and Future' (planned for November 2018).

* February 1 [C]. New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

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

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

March 1. [Call for Papers deadline]. 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 (Oxford, 13-15 September 2018).

March 15. [Call for Papers deadline - extended deadline]. Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, hosted by the Rocky Mountain Map Society (Golden, Colorado, 20-22 September 2018). Contact: mirela.altic(at)gmail.com

April 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. Conference: ‘Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900' (David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University Libraries, 14-15 February 2019).

* April [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 1 [C]. Helen Wallis Fellowship (British Library)

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

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

July 31. [Call for Papers deadline]. XVIII International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science: 'Atlantic Navigation' (Ponta Delgada (Azores), 12-14 November 2018). Please send your submissions including an abstract of 200 words before July, 31, with a short CV, to arsnautica@gmail.com

September 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Proposals are invited for a session: 'Re-Mapping/Re-Reading Pre-Modern Travel Narratives and Maps' ((Kalamazoo, Michigan, 9-12 May 2019), sponsored by Mediaevalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide. Contact Giovanna Montenegro: gmontene(at)binghamton.edu

* September 16 [C]. Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg)

September 20. [Call for Papers deadline]. 12th Congress of South-East European Studies: 'Political, Social and Religious Dynamics in South East Europe / Dynamiques politiques, sociales et religieuses dans le Sud-Est européen' (Bucharest, 2-7 September 2019), including a panel: 'Cartographies of Southeast Europe / Entre la surveillance impériale et le regard local / Cartographies de l'Europe du Sud-Est', organised by Robert Born and Marian Coman for the Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Européen. For further details see ISHMap-List.

September 21. [Call for Papers deadline]. The 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 9-12 May 2019). Proposals are invited for 'Mappings' sessions on: 1) “Pictura et Scriptura on/and Medieval Maps; 2) “Skin and Ink: The Materiality of Medieval Maps and Their Codicological Analogs”; 3) “‘Build it and they [hopefully won’t] come’: Placement and Displacement on Medieval Maps” and 4) “Seeing What’s no Longer There: New Imaging Technologies and Medieval Maps”, organised by Felicitas Schmieder (felicitas.schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de) and Dan Terkla (terkla(at) iwu.edu).

September 21. [Call for Papers deadline]. 25th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (Leeds, 1-4 July 2019). 'Mappings' sessions, on the theme of 'Materialities', organised by Felicitas Schmieder (felicitas.schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de) and Dan Terkla (terkla(at)iwu.edu).

* September 28 [C]. [Opens June 2018 for 2019-2020]. 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. The 28th International Conference on the History of Cartography (Amsterdam, 14-19 July 2019).

* October 15 ['Currently not available' - seen 28 March 2018]. 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 27 [?]. National Maritime Museum Research Fellowships (London, Greenwich)

* November 1. [C]. Long-term Fellowships [which can have a History of Cartography theme] (Newberry Library)

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

* November 15 [C]. Huntington Library (applications from 31 August; a range of short- and long-term fellowships - San Marino, California)

November 30. [Call for Papers deadline]. Conference: Making the Map: Cross-border and Intercultural Representations from Ancient History to Today (Mulhouse, France, 20-22 May 2019).

November 30. [Call for Papers deadline]. Workshop of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography: 'Controlling the Waters: Seas, Lakes and Rivers on Historic Maps and Charts' (Utrecht, 12 July 2019), co-organised with the Map Collection of Utrecht University.

* November 30 [C]. The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust Award (for 'advanced research in the History of the Book', with maps specifically included)

* November 30 [C] Hakluyt Society Essay Prize.

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

* December 1 [C] 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)

December 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. First International GeoPortOst Workshop on Maps in Libraries 2019 (Regensburg, Germany, 13-14 March 2019), organized by the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in cooperation with the Chair of Southeast and East European History of the University of Regensburg.

* December 16 [C]. American Geographical Society Library Fellowships (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

[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)

2019

January 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. The 14th Conference: Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH) (Thessaloniki, Greece, 8-10 May 2019)

* January 15 [C]. Brian Leigh Dunnigan Fellowship in the History of Cartography (William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan)

* February 15 [C]. Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship (John W. Kluge Center and the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society at the Library of Congress)

March 11. California Map Society / Rumsey Map Center Paper Award (open to undergraduate and graduate students in California that use the Center's map resources in a substantive way)

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