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 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 […]
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 […]
The organisers of the internacional simposium Mapping Empires – Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea makes a new call for papers (see pdf here) to participate in with contributions (papers and posters) focus on research about cartography centrados en la of Africa, Asia, Oceanía and the Americas, related to exploration and imperial activity, cnot only 19 century, but 18 century and 20 century. Remember: the simposium will […]
From September 13 to 15 of 2018 it will take place in the Weston Library of Oxford, the international simposiumMapping Empires – Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea organized by the Comissió sobre Història de la Cartografia of International Cartographic Association (ICA), the Comissió sobre Cartografia Topogràfica, of the ICA too, and the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford University. Now it is opened the deadline to present […]