The Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT), University of Lisbon, announces the celebration of the third conference on the history of nautical cartography On the origin and evolution of the nautical chart, which will be held at the Instituto Hidrográfico from Lisbon on June 4 and 5, 2020. On this occasion […]
The VIII Colombian-Mexican Symposium of Geographical Research: Geographical Knowledge of Global South (VIII-SCMIG) will have place in Bogota, Colombia, from October, 10th to October, 12th tendrá lugar en Bogotá, Colombia, 2019. In this edition three thematic lines have been proposed : Territorial retreat: Contemporary perspectives of cartographic thought Change the regard: geographical knowledge from latinoamericano peripheries s Geography and […]
The American Philosophical Society (APS) invites to academics from all domains to present proposals of presentations for an international and interdisciplinar conference that will focus on the power of maps and the politics of border establishment. The event has the title The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders and it will take place in Philadelphia, […]
The Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana (AISU) organices every two years a congress about urban history, where experts talk about, among other things, the representation of the city. The current edition will take place in Bologna, in September, 11th to 14th. The motto is The Global city. The urban condition as a pervasive phenomenon and a great number of sessions […]
On July, 12th of 2019, it will take place at the University of Utrecht the workshop Controlling the Waters: Seas, Lakes and Rivers on Historic Maps and Charts. The theme will focus on the representation of cartographic heritage, from marine masses to river network; may be with the aim of managing them or risk, or in order […]
The Work Group of public Spanish-Portuguese map libraries (Ibercarto) will make a meeting in the Faculdade de Ciências de l’Universidade do Porto in November 2018, from 15 to 17. The motto is Cartography: knowledge source and knowledge instrument. It will be structured in different blocks: Technical treatment of new cartographic resources Practices and instruments of access to archives and university map […]