On 30 September 2021 the ICA Commission is organizing the online workshop Coordinating Cartographic Collections, in conjunction with the 12th Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography (University of Texas at Arlington) and the Fall Meeting of the Texas Map Society. The ICA Workshop, due to the varying international Covid19 situation and travel restrictions, […]
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA) invites proposals for papers for its 2021 online conference on women and maps. Mapping, and closely linked professions such as surveying, exploration, navigation, hydrography, and printing, have conventionally been associated with men: as makers, patrons, users, and interpreters. Sometimes those assumptions reflect reality, but sometimes they do not. This […]
The next edition of the International Congress of Geography, the 34th International Geographical Congress, will be held in Istanbul, from August 16 to 20, 2021, with the main theme “Geography: Bridging the Continents”. The main topics for this edition are: Globalization vs localization Climate change Migrations and conflicts Earth and disasters Studies on Eurasia and the Middle East […]
The International Committee for the History of Nautical Science is pleased to announce the 19th edition of the International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science (IRHNS XIX) that will finally be held, after a postponement caused by the COVID-19 crisis, in Seville between March 1 and 5, 2021, coordinated by the Universidad Pablo de Olavide y […]
The next annual meeting of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles will be held at the Université Paris-Diderot on January 15 and 16, 2021, and the theme will be Maps and Mapping in English-speaking Countries in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The organisers have made a call for papers that can be downloaded here in French. The […]
Within the framework of the research work Coloured Maps (2018-2021) financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), several institutions in Hamburg organize a conference to deal with the material substrate and the meaning of colours from different cultural approaches in cartography. We will talk about maps and colours, methods and discourses, […]