The Sociedad Geográfica Española (SGE) with the collaboration of the Asociación Española de Geografía (AGE) announce the First LiteraTerra Prize for geographical literary essay, which was born with the purpose of stimulating and recognising non-fiction literary creation inspired by the territory and the landscape, through the distinction and publication of unpublished original works. They are […]
The Harley Fellowships –the only ones of their kind in Europe– provide support for those working on the history of cartography, from any discipline, doing research in historical map collections in the United Kingdom. Awards range up to £2000. In light of the current coronavirus outbreak, you are reminded that you are responsible for checking […]
Until May 6, 2021, the digital exhibition Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception, organised by the Leventhal Map & Education Center of the Boston Public Library, will be accessible. The exhibition examines the many ways in which maps and data can “bend the lines”, distort reality. It starts from the fact that […]
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 […]
Until October 30, you can visit the 300 aniversario de la Real y Militar Academia de Matemáticas de Barcelona exhibition organised by the Centro de Historia y Cultura Militar Pirenaico, attached to the spanish Army. The exhibition traces the history of the Academia, founded in 1720, and contains reproductions of collections from the Archivo General Militar de Segovia […]
The next edition of the International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) is underway, organized by Imago Mundi Ltd. in collaboration with the National Museum of Maps and Old Books in Bucharest and the University of Bucharest. It will take place on July 4-9, 2021 and is titled Conflict and Cartography. The deadline for […]
The 8th Ibero-American Symposium on the History of Cartography (8th SIAHC) will be held, on second call and through a virtual platform, on October 21 and 22, 2020. The advance of the COVID-19 pandemic forced the suspension of the presencial symposium that It had to be held in Barcelona last April and that has led us […]
The International Cartographic Association (ICA) celebrated its 60th anniversary last year and decided to create the ICA Working Group on the History of ICA with the intention of documenting the activity carried out by the organisation since its foundation and preserving the documentation it has generated. More information about the group’s work topic here. The […]
On September 2, a GEHC representation visited the exhibition Mapes, País, Futur by the hand of our colleague Carme Montaner, who is the organiser. We already gave news of this exhibition when it started. The centenary of the exhibition organised by the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya in 1919 is commemorated. Many of the maps are the […]
In the latest issue of the periodical publication Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, a series of texts compiled by Francesc Nadal, coordinator of the Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia (GEHC), has been published in the Notes i Documentació section, with the title Diccionari de mapes parcel·laris i agrimensors a Catalunya (segles XVIII-XIX). This work presents, […]