The Newberry Library opens its annual announcement of grants for research in two modalities: Postdoctoral grants of long duration in order to be among 4 and 9 months. The amount is 4200$ per month. These grants are thought to promote individual academic research and a quality intelectual exchange though the active participation in the grant […]
The municipal archive of Tiana (Barcelona) has begun the restoration of a land or cadastral map dated in 1852, in an action framed in the Restoration Program offered by the Xarxa d’Arxius Municipals of the Diputació de Barcelona. Specifically, it is the “Plano geométrico del termino jurisdiccional de Tiana con su barrio de Montgat” [Geometric […]
Harley grants consists of a help for working in the area of history of cartography from the collections of ancient maps that exist in United Kingdom. The grant can arrive to 2.000,00 £. The deadline to present the proposals is the next November, 1st. Moreover, for the period 2018-2020 it is announced an additional grant […]
The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) – Department Istanbul are preparing the 8th International Symposium on the History of Cartography that will take place in April, between 21st and 23rd of 2020 in Estambul. This edition has called Mapping the Ottoman Realm: travelers, cartographers and archaeologists and it is opened to everyone that would have interest in cartography […]
The next 6th of June the conference Barcelona i la conquesta de Nàpols: El repte d’un canvi geopolític will take place in Barcelona. The conference is organized by the History of Barcelona Museum (MUHBA) and, among other things, our colleage Ramon Pujades will present the cartographic piece recently recover: a map of Italia of Bartolome Pareto made in 1457 in which […]
The next May, 29th at 17:00, the Belgian professor Stefaan Missine will present the book The Da Vinci Globe, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing the last autumn. The presentation has been organised by the GEHC and it will take place at room 401 in Facultat de Geografia i Història of Barcelona University (Carrer Montalegre 6, Barcelona). The act coincides with the […]
In October, from 10th to 12th of 2019, the Second biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography will take place at the David Rumsey Map Center in Stanford. In this edition, the theme will be focused on the relationship between gender, sexuality and cartography. The most part of speakers are experts in maps and cartographic production and their presentations will […]
The GEHC has participated in the 14th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH), celebrated in Tesalonica in May, from 8th to 10th, with two conferences: ROSET R., C. MONTANER, D. BARROT: How to recover and preserve hybrid map series produced at the end of the 20th century. NOBAJAS A.: Towards the systematic vectorisation of historical cartography. You can […]
In May, from 20th to 22nd the Symposium Produire la carte : représentations transfrontalières et interculturelles de l’Antiquité à nos jours will take place in Mulhouse (France) organised by Centre de recherches sur les économies, les sociétés, les arts et les techniques (CRESAT), linked to vUniversité de Haute-Alsace (UHA). The conference has as goal to put foward a reflexion […]
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) offers an exhibition about Le monde en Spheres, a travel from ancient origins of cosmological and astronomical model of concentric spheres until being a familiar object right now. The narrative goes through the reception and evolution of theories and representations in the medieval period, from Arab world as well as Cristian conception. Finally, […]