(for fellowship and prize applications, submission of paper proposals
for meetings or special issues of journals, conference registration, etc.)
[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 be checked]
* January 10. Long-term
Fellowships [which can have a History of Cartography theme] (Newberry Library)
* January 15 (but open since previous October).
Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship (for younger scholars - William L. Clements
Library, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan)
* January 18.
Visiting Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic
Arts - Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.)
February 1. [Call for Papers deadline]. 'Land, Landscape and
Environment, 1500-1750', Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading (14-16 July 2008). ['cartography, maps and signs'
are mentioned].
March 1. [Call for Papers deadline]. 'Ways of knowing the field: International Conference on the History of Fieldwork, Cartography and
Scientific Exploration', at Carlsberg Academy, organized by the
Danish Network for the History and Sociology of Scientific Fieldwork and Expeditions, and the Danish Research School in
Philosophy, History of Ideas and History of Science (Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, 13-15 August 2008).
http://www.wisc.edu/irh/
* March 14. David Woodward Memorial Fellowship (University of Wisconsin-Madison) [formerly the Arthur and
Janet Holzheimer Fellowship, and sponsored by them]
March 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. Journée d'étude, 'Cartes, climats et milieux, de l'Antiquité à nos jours',
organized by the Commission "Histoire de la cartographie" du Comité français de cartographie (Paris, November/December 2008 [date to
be announced]. For details see the MapHist message.
March 31. [Call for Papers deadline]. Shifting boundaries -
cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries, a symposium on the history of cartography, organized by the International
Cartographic Association, Commission on the History of Cartography (Portsmouth, England, 8-12 September 2008).
April 7. [Call for Papers deadline]. A weekend conference, 'Medieval Seas', at Rye College, East Sussex [one
of the suggested topics is 'cartography and world view'].
* April 15 [also October 15].
Mendel Fellowship (a visiting fellowship mentioning specifically 'geography, navigation and
cartography'; also the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships - Lilly Library, Indiana University
Libraries, Bloomington)
* September 29.
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (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)
* October 15 [also April 15].
Mendel Fellowship (a visiting fellowship mentioning specifically 'geography, navigation and
cartography'; also the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships - Lilly Library, Indiana University
Libraries, Bloomington)
