Please note the attached announcement of short-term, post-doctoral and digital fellowships at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. The Clements Library houses a significant map collection, including atlases from the 16th to 19th centuries, and a core collection of manuscript maps from the period of the American Revolution, as well as … Continue reading RESEARCH: Clements Library Fellowships, 2020
Exhibit/Conference: Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes (Archives Nationales, Paris, France), starting September 25, 2019
The exhibition “Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes : vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance” (When artists drew maps. Views and figures of France from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance) will be held at the Archives nationales (Paris) from 25 September 2019 to 7 January 2020. Bringing together over 100 … Continue reading Exhibit/Conference: Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes (Archives Nationales, Paris, France), starting September 25, 2019
Workshop Maps and Colours (November 2020, Hamburg)
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)
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)
The International Society for the History of the Map 