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, andshould 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]
March 1. "Material Maps in the Digital
Age", NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Faculty (Newberry Library, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the
History of Cartography, 13 June-6 July 2019)
March 31. [Call for Papers deadline]. The ‘XIVth
International Symposium for the Study of Globes’, organized by the International Coronelli Society for the
Study of Globes, in cooperation with the Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen and the
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zurich and St. Gallen, 2-5 October 2019).
* May 17 [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.]
* June 28 [C]. Ian Mumford Award (British Cartographic Society), for university and college
students where cartography, maps or mapping forms the principal subject of research
July 1 [amended date]. [Call for Papers deadline]. II Colóquio Luso-Brasileiro de Teoria e História
da Geografia, organised by the Departamento de Geografia da Universidade de Brasília and the Centro de Estudos
Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa (Brasilia, 6-8 November 2019).
September 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. 55th
International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS). Proposals are invited for 'Mappings' sessions on: ‘Charting a
Global Middle Ages, Challenging the Pre-Modern/Modern Dichotomy’, organised by Felicitas Schmieder
(felicitas.schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de) and Dan Terkla (terkla(at)iwu.edu). (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7-10 May 2020).
September 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. 27th International Medieval Congress (IMC). 'Mappings' sessions, on the theme of
‘Borders’ (or any aspect of medieval mappings) organised by Felicitas Schmieder (felicitas.schmieder(at)fernuni-hagen.de)
and Dan Terkla (terkla(at)iwu.edu). (Leeds, 6-9 July 2020)
* September 27 [C]. [Opens June 2019 for 2020-2021].
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 ["Due to the planned renovation of the Lilly Library, fellowship applications are not being solicited
for 2020 and 2021"]. Mendel Fellowship
(a visiting fellowship mentioning specifically 'geography, navigation and cartography'; also the Everett Helm Visiting
Fellowships - Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington)
October 31. [Call for Papers deadline]. Biennial
Symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap). (São Paulo, Brazil, 11-13 June 2020).
* November 1. [C]. Long-term Fellowships ["Applications for the 2020-21 academic year open August 15, 2019"; this can have a History of Cartography theme]
(Newberry Library)
November 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. 8th International Symposium on the History of Cartography: Mapping the Ottoman realm: Travelers, cartographers and
archaeologists, hosted by the the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and the German Archaeological
Institute (DAI) – Department Istanbul (Istanbul, 21-23 April 2020).
* November 15 [C]. Huntington Library
(applications from 31 August; a range of short- and long-term fellowships - San Marino, California)
* December 1 [C] Bodleian Visiting Fellowships
(short-term Visiting Fellowships for researchers who will benefit from an uninterrupted period of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian
Libraries)
December 20. [Call for Papers deadline]. International Workshop: 'Automatic vectorisation of historical maps', organised by the Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of
the International Cartographic Association in partnership with the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, 13 March 2020).
December 31. [Call for Papers deadline]. International Workshop: 'On the Origin and
Evolution of the Nautical Chart', at the Hydrographic Institute - the third Lisbon meeting dedicated to the History
of Nautical Cartography (Lisbon, 4-5 June 2020)
[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)
* January 17 [C]. Visiting
Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts - Harvard College Library,
Cambridge, Mass.)
