Participants must register by 1 May. Attendees must register by 1 July.

ISHMap Symposium and Workshop – 2025

Mapping the Cultural Crossroads
Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), Paris, France
July 8-11, 2025

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Keynote and Spotlight

Venues

Event Calendar

Practical Information

Conveners

Symposium Program

Workshop Program

Trip to Vincennes

A two-day Workshop (8-9 July) for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, will precede the Symposium. Hands-on activities led by four experts in the field may include work with the collection of Asian maps kept in National Library of France, discussion on curating digitalized and digital-born maps, sessions focusing on the themes on post-colonial mapping and local knowledge, materiality and production of the maps, and the use and circulation of maps.

The Symposium (9 to 11 July) will focus on mapping the cultural crossroads. We particularly welcome proposals that address cultural aspects of cartography, particularly cross-cultural exchanges and global circulation of knowledge. Proposals that address or inspire comparative approaches in map history are especially welcome.

A post-event trip to Vincennes with a guided tour through the cartographic treasures of the Historical Archives Center kept in the Château de Vincennes, a former fortress and royal residence dating back to 14th century is planned for 12 July.

Building on the successful 2023 Symposium and Workshop held in Berlin, Germany, we are pleased to plan an in-person event.

For information about travel to and within France, as well as venue location and possible lodging, a Practical Information page will be available on ISHMap’s website closer to the event dates.

EVENT CALENDAR

1 July 2025: Registration for non-participants (attendees) closes

8-9 July 2025: ISHMap III Workshop (in person), at three venues:

  • Archives nationales (AN), Paris (Session 1)
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris (Session 2)
  • Campus Condorcet, Conference Centre (Centre de Colloques) (Sessions 3 and 4)

9 July 2025 evening: ISHMap 2025 Keynote (hybrid)

  • Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)

10-11 July 2025: ISHMap VIII Symposium (in person)

  • Campus Condorcet, Conference Centre (Centre de Colloques)

12 July 2025: Post-event trip to Vincennes with visit to Map Collection of the Historical Military Archives (Service historique de la défense)

VENUES

Archives nationales, CARAN – Centre de Recherches des Archives nationales, 11 rue des Quatre-Fils, Paris, will host Session 1 of the III ISHMap Workshop in the morning of 8 July 2025. It’s a central French national archives founded in 1790. Its CARAN Centre (centre d’accueil et de recherche des Archives Nationales), opened in 1988 just near the main building of the archive, housing the various reading rooms which had hitherto coexisted. Archives nationales is a home of the extensive Map Collection as well as a Conservation Department where the maps are restored.

Bibliothèque nationales de France (BnF), Richelieu Site, 5 rue Vivienne, Paris, will host Session 3 of the III ISHMap Workshop in the afternoon of 8 July 2025. BnF will also host the opening ceremony of the ISHMap Symposium with keynote (Salle des conferences, 3rd floor), reception will be offered at Salle Emilie du Châtelet (ground floor). Mind that BnF has 4 sites (Richelieu, Arsenal, Opéra and François-Mitterrand) and the ISHMap event will be hosted at the Richelieu site which makes the historic home of the National Library of France and its exceptional collections. In 1721, the King’s Library moved there. In September 2022, it fully reopened after twelve years of renovation and modernization, becoming a place open to all in the heart of Paris. It includes a research library, a new museum, a new temporary exhibition space, the Oval Room, which is free and open to all, a garden, a bookstore, and a café. It is also a home of its famous Map Collection.

Campus Condorcet Conference Center (Centre du Colloques), Front Populaire at Aubervilliers, will host Sessions 3 and 4 of the III ISHMap Workshop (9 July 2025) and the VIII ISHMap Symposium (10-11 July 2025). It is located north of the Paris city centre at Aubervilliers (c. 20 mins by metro) as the newest Parisian hub of education and scholarship. One of its focal points is the brand-new Conference Centre (Centre du Colloques) that opens onto the Place du Front Populaire, just a few steps from the metro station (Line 12). It hosts educational and cultural events such as talks, seminars, and conferences of national and international merit. With auditoriums and seminar rooms of varying sizes, it is designed to be a space where knowledge is shared.

Conveners

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

  • Mirela Altic, University of Zagreb (Croatia), Chair, ISHMap Trustees
  • Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, University of Orléans (France)
  • Nadine Gastaldi, Curator of Maps and Plans, Archives nationales, Paris (France)
  • Eve Netchine, Director of the Maps Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  • Mirela Altic, University of Zagreb (Croatia), Chair, ISHMap Trustees
  • Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, University of Orléans (France)
  • Kory Olson, Stockton University (US), ISHMap Trustees
  • David Weimer, Newberry Library, Vice-Chair, ISHMap Trustees


About the Map.

The banner map is from Environs de Paris published in Guittet’s 1862 Nouvel Atlas Topographique.