In the framework of our innovative interdisciplinary research project “Coloured Maps” we are organizing a workshop with a cross-cultural approach to discuss the material nature and meaning of colours on maps. In the workshop we will discuss maps and colours, methods and discourses, dyes and analytical approaches. We will focus on European and Asian maps … Continue reading Workshop Maps and Colours (November 2020, Hamburg)
20th Nebenzahl Lectures: Redrawing the World: 1919 and the History of Cartography (Nov. 7-9, 2019, Chicago, IL, USA)
Thursday, November 7, 2019 – Saturday, November 9, 2019 The Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall Free and open to the public. Registration required. Center for the History of Cartography Programs Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lecture Series 1919 was a year of heightened map production around the world. Among the many maps produced immediately after the First World War … Continue reading 20th Nebenzahl Lectures: Redrawing the World: 1919 and the History of Cartography (Nov. 7-9, 2019, Chicago, IL, USA)
Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic (Exhibition/Conference) (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic (open through December 2019) traces the creation and use of maps from the mid-18th century through 1816 to investigate the way maps, as both artworks and practical tools, had political and social meaning. It features historical maps, surveying instruments, books, manuscripts, and other objects to show how … Continue reading Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic (Exhibition/Conference) (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
CFP: 8th SIAHC (Iberoamerican Symposium of History of Cartography) (April, 2020, Barcelona)
8º SIAHC Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía The 8th Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía will take place in Barcelona, 21 - 24 April, 2020 at the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. The call for papers is open through September 30, 2019; submit abstracts at http://siahc.icgc.cat/es_ES/. The symposium theme is the … Continue reading CFP: 8th SIAHC (Iberoamerican Symposium of History of Cartography) (April, 2020, Barcelona)
ICHC Amsterdam Map Exhibits (Summer 2019)
Several exhibitions are opening in June in Amsterdam in coordination with the meeting of the International Conference in the History of Cartography from July 13-19. They include the Universe of Amsterdam: Treasures from the Golden Age of Cartography (June 29-September 22, 2019), National Library of the Netherlands Highlights Exhibition, and the Het Scheepvart (National Maritime) … Continue reading ICHC Amsterdam Map Exhibits (Summer 2019)
Exhibit: How America Mapped Its Meals (Harvard, through March 1)
The Harvard Map Collection exhibit A Fine and Fertile Country: How America Mapped Its Meals welcomes visitors Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm through March 1. The material and virtual exhibition showcases Harvard’s maps of American agriculture, ranging from colonial-era imprints to current GIS data, to demonstrate how food production has been a matter of national concern since the … Continue reading Exhibit: How America Mapped Its Meals (Harvard, through March 1)
Exhibit: Mapping Contagion (NYPL, through May 19)
The New York Public Library's Schwartzmann Building (42nd St and 5th Avenue) hosts Mapping Contagion: Representing Infectious Disease in New York City through May 19, 2019.
Symposium – Mapping the Global Imaginary (Stanford, Feb. 2019)
On February 14th – 15th, 2019 The David Rumsey Map Center (Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA) will host a two-day conference on ‘Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500 – 1900’. The conference is co-sponsored by the Stanford History Department, Global History & Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, England, UK, and the David Rumsey … Continue reading Symposium – Mapping the Global Imaginary (Stanford, Feb. 2019)
The International Society for the History of the Map 