Until September 29, 2019, you can visit, in the Saló del Tinell in Barcelona, the exhibition The medieval metamorphosis, XIII-XV centuries, from the project Barcelona Mediterranean Capital of the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA). Among the materials of the exhibition there are several cartographic pieces of interest: The drawing of 1389 that represents the engraved […]
Until June, 9th of 2019 the exhibition La mar de cartas: fondos cartográficos del MMC can be visited in the Naos room at the Museo Marítimo del Cantábrico (MMC) in Santander. It is a collection of 40 works from the reserve repository of the MMC. It contains original works of Francisco Coello, Gerardus Mercator, Georg Braun and Tofiño, between […]
The 8 Iberoamerican Symposium of History of Cartography (SIAHC) will take place in Barcelona in April 2020, 21-24th. The organizer will be the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) in collaboration with the Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia (GEHC). The motto chosen for this occasion is El mapa como elemento de conexión cultural entre América y Europa. On […]
The next April, 4th at 18 h., at the Sala Gran de la Facultat de Geografia i Història of Barcelona University, an In Memoriam event for our colleague Tomàs Vidal Benito will take place. On it, some friends and colleagues will take part in order to help us to remember the figure, life and works of our friend.
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 […]
On Sunday, February 24, 2019, the geographer and member of the Study Group on the History of Cartography (GEHC) Tomàs Vidal Bendito (Maó, 1941) died in Palma de Mallorca. Disciple of the geographers Jean Bisson and Joan Vilà-Valentí, he completed his undergraduate thesis on the evolution of agriculture and rural property on the island of […]
The Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa has just released a new website about cartography of Cuba, which contains more than 5300 maps, plans and interesting files kept, mostly, at the Archivo General Militar de Madrid. Moreover, there are contributions from the Archivo Cartográfico y de Estudios Geográficos del Centro Geográfico del Ejército and from the Archivo del Museo Naval. Most of this cartography […]
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, […]
Recently the platform of collaborative projects ComunidadBNE of the National Library of Spain (BNE) has been presented, which allows to participate to someone who is interested in, in labelling, transcription, identification and geolocalization of texts, photos and all kid of documents of its holdings. Between the projects that they are developing robot now highlights the transcription of Descripción geográfica […]