May 19-22 - Leuven, Belgium [Online Workshop]. 'Mapping Practices and Transpacific Transfers of Geographic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries', organized in the context of the ERC-funded project “TRANSPACIFIC: The Structure and Impact of Trans-Pacific Trade, 16th to 18th Centuries: The Manila Galleon Trade Beyond Silver and Silks” (ERC-2018-AdG, 833143). Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 November 2021.

May 26-27 - Stanford, California [Hybrid]. Conference at the David Rumsey Map Center: 'Re-Mapping Sovereignty, Representing Geopolitical Complexity.' Details to follow.

June 4 - Stanford, California [Hybrid]. The 'Annual Spring Conference' of the California Map Society is "tentatively scheduled". Registration will open in April 2022.

June 5-10. Charlottesville. A 30-hour course by Matthew Edney,: 'Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900' In person at the University of Virginia.

June 9-10 - Barcelona. Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia(GEHC), conference: Ciutat i territori a la cartografia espanyola: una perspectiva històrica

July 4-7 - Leeds, England. International Medieval Congress: Conflict and Integration: Crossing Medieval Borders. Deadline for Call for Papers: 5 September 2021.

July 4-8 - Bucharest, Romania. [In-person and online - postponed from July 2021]. The 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC, 'Conflict and Cartography'.

August 31-3 September - Berlin. [Postponed from a meeting in Basel in March 2022.] 20. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, to be held at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

September 14-17 - Basel, Switzerland. [Postponed from 2020 and 2021]. 20. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Kollegiengebäude der Universität. The existing programme will probably need to be adjusted only slightly, so there will probably be no new Call for Papers. Detailed planning will resume in March 2022.

September 22-24 - Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 16th Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH), in partnership with the Faculty of Geography, Babes–Bolyai University, supported by MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 March 2022.

September 29-1 October - St Louis, Missouri. 63rd annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 July 2022.

October 5-8 - Arlington, Texas. 39th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS)

October 14-15 - Venice. [Cancelled]. Joint Cartography Conference, organised by the Brussels Map Circle and the Associazione Culturale "Roberto Almagià" - Associazione Italiana Collezionisti di Cartografia Antica.

October 19-21 - Erkner, Germany. Conference: 'Mapping “Post-Conflict” Cities' [Themes include 'methodologies employed to create, develop, communicate and analyse maps of damaged cities, with a particular interest in digital humanities methods']. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 April 2022.

October 21-22 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina. [Postponed from 17-18 September 2021] A conference: 'Cartography & Culture: Mapping the Early American South', with a focus on 'Mapping and Migration', at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.

October 24-6 - Berlin. International symposium: ‘The Surveying Turn in Cartography: Revolutionizing maps and charts in the 18th and 19th Centuries’, organised by the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Deadline for Call for Papers: 1 June 2022.

November 4-6 - Chicago. 21st Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography: Mapping as Performance (addressing the ways in which people create and share maps through action in space).

November 24-25 - Erfurt, Germany. ‘Mapping Asia: Cartography and the Construction of Territoriality’, a conference hosted by the Centre for Transcultural Studies and the Gotha Perthes Collection, Erfurt University. Deadline for Call for Papers: 17 April 2022.

November 25 - Paris. Journée d’études: 'L’histoire de la cartographie et son écriture à l’épreuve du renouvellement', Centre des colloques, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, organised by the Comité Français de Cartographie (commission ‘histoire’). Deadline for Call for Papers: 6 June 2022.

July 2-8 - Lyon, France. [Postponed to 2024]. The 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography, at the Université de Lyon 3 Jean Moulin.

August 13-18 - Cape Town. The 19th General Assembly and the 31st International Cartographic Conference of the International Cartographic Association.

August 22-24. Helsinki. 40th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS).

September 4-7 - Basel. 21. Kartographiehistorische Colloquium.

October 16-19 - Valletta, Malta. 41st International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS)

Those who organise conferences, seminars or symposiums are advised to post details to:-

AllConferences.com

AttendConferences

Calenda (a French site for the social sciences run by Revues.org, but including events outside France as well)

Conference Alerts: Academic Conferences Worldwide

Gateway for Historical Geographical-Information-Systems (GIS) in history, for Historical Cartography and for Historical Geography (his-GIS.net)

Transnational, Cross-regional and Global Connections (a German site which, inter alia, posts conference 'Announcements'; it is related to H-Soz-u-Kult and Clio-Online)

H-Maps

H-Net announcement. See also the H-Net Discussion Logs Search (which can be searched for all or specific lists, and for a range of dates)

H-Net 'call for papers'

H-Soz-u-Kult. 'Termine' [deadlines] (a German calendar site)

Maps-L

PapersInvited ('World's largest listing of Calls for Papers')

ResearchBib.Com ('Research Events' - managed from Tokyo)

If you need to select a date and day of the week some years ahead, consult one of the online perpetual calendars, such as Calendar Date (just adjust the year).

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