Calendar of Deadlines in the history of cartography

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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 or [P] for permanently fixed dates

Latest general updating: 1 January 2020

2020

January 6. [Call for Papers deadline]. George Bellas Greenough Map Bicentenary Meeting, University College London and The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly.(London, 6-7 May 2020).

January 8. [Call for Papers deadline]. A panel: 'Colonial map collections: new approaches and methodologies', for the Royal Anthropological Institute and Royal Geographical Society's conference: "Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past Present and Future” (London, 4-7 June 2020.

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

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

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

January 16. [Call for Papers deadline]. A multi-disciplinary forum and symposium: 'Cartographies of the Imagination', at OmVed Gardens, London N6, 18 April 2020.

* January 17 [C]. Visiting Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts - Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.)

January 31 [extended]. [Call for Papers deadline]. Spring Meeting of the Texas Map Society : 'Exploring Space(s): Discovering Texas and Beyond' (Houston, Texas, 29-30 May 2020). Contact: mylynka.cardona(at)tamuc.edu.

* January 31 [C]. Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research Fellowships for use, inter alia, with cartographic material from the Stephen S. Clark Library, Unversity of Michigan)

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

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

March 1. [Call for Papers deadline]. Workshop: 'Maps and Colours', organised by the Museum am Rothenbaum - Hanseatic Business Archive foundation/Hamburg Chamber of Commerce - Centre for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)/Universität Hamburg (5-6 November 2020)

* March 2 [C]. 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)

March 20. [Call for Papers deadline]. Journée d’études: ‘Du jardin vers le monde et du monde au jardin : la cartographie et l’histoire naturelle’, Auditorium de la Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (Paris, 4 December 2020)

* March 20 [C]. Leventhal Map & Education Center Public Research Fellows in History and Geography (between one and three weeks in residence at the LMEC, Boston)

March 31. [Call for Papers deadline]. 'XIX International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science: Magellan, Elcano and the circumnavigations' [IRHNS XIX] (Seville, 7-9 October 2020).

* April 1 (also October 1) [C]. Explokart Fellowship (Amsterdam) - for information contact: info(at)cart-hist- cathedra.nl

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

April 19. [Call for Papers deadline]. 20. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Kollegiengebäude der Universität (Basel, Switzerland, 10-12 September 2020)

April 30. [Call for Papers deadline]. Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries (SHD), at the Williams Research Center, Historic New Orleans Collection. Celebrating the Society's 60th anniversary (New Orleans, 12-15 November 2020].

* April 30 [?]. National Library of Australia Fellowships (Canberra)

* May 1 [P]. Helen Wallis Fellowship (British Library)

* May 15 [?]. Graduate Scholar-in-Residence program at the Newberry Library, Chicago (for advanced PhD students for the period September-May).

* May 15 [P]. Society for the History of Discoveries Student Prize

* May 17 [?]. 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 1 [P]. Walter W Ristow Essay Prize (Washington Map Society)

* June 28 [?]. Ian Mumford Award (British Cartographic Society), for university and college students where cartography, maps or mapping forms the principal subject of research

* September 15 [?]. Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg)

* September 27 [?]. [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)

* September 30 [?]. [Open from June 1st].The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust Award (for 'advanced research in the History of the Book', with maps specifically included)

* October 1 (also April 1) [C]. Explokart Fellowship (Amsterdam) - for information contact: info(at)cart-hist- cathedra.nl

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

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

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

* November 30 [?] Hakluyt Society Essay Prize.

* December 1 [?] Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship (John Carter Brown Library) [and other JCB fellowships]

* December 1 [?] 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 15 [?]. Short-term Fellowships in the History of Cartography (Newberry Library)

* December 15 [?]. American Geographical Society Library Fellowships (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

[deadline date unknown]. William and Madeline Welder Smith Travel Award (see the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History - University of Texas at Austin)

[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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