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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: 15 August 2019

2019

* 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]. 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)

* January 18 [C]. Short-Term Research Fellowships (New York Public Library)

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

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

February 1. [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.

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

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

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 15. [Call for Papers deadline]. Conference: 'The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders', American Philosophical Society Library (Philadelphia, 10-12 October 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).

April 20 [amended date]. [Call for Papers deadline]. Workshop: Cartography as a Cultural Encounter: How East and West have Mapped and Influenced Each Other, jointly organized by the ICA Commissions on the History of Cartography and on Topographic Mapping (Tokyo, 15 July 2019).

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

* May 15 [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 Student Prize

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

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

* 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)

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

September 30. [Call for Papers deadline]. 8º Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía (8 SIAHC): 'El mapa como elemento de conexión cultural entre América y Europa', at the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC). (Barcelona, 21-24 April 2020).

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

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

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

* November 30 [C] Hakluyt Society Essay Prize.

* 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 [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)

2020

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

* 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)

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