A two-day Workshop (8–9 July) for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography precedes the Symposium. A total of four workshop sessions are offered to participants at three locations, the National Archives, the National Library of France (BNF) and the Condorcet Conference Centre, Hands-on activities led by top experts in the field include work on the collection of East and Southeast Asian maps, a discussion on curating digitalized and digital-born maps, sessions focusing on themes on colonial mapping and local knowledge as well as on materiality and production of maps. The group of attendees is limited to a maximum of 25 people to ensure sufficient time for knowledge exchange and mentoring of participants. Each participant will present their on-going project and receive feedback.

Workshop Schedule

8 July 2025 morning,

Venue: National Archives

  • 9:00-10:00 – Introduction (M. Altic) – overall presentation of the workshop’s topic; self-introduce of the participants and their current projects. Note that each participant will contribute one slide to a shared slideshow and introduce themselves (3 minutes).
  • 10:00-13:00 – Session I “Maps and Materiality”, by Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) and Nadine Gastaldi (Archives nationales) with assistance of Bertrand Sainte-Marthe, head of Restauration Department of Archives nationales
  • 13:00-14:00 – lunch (served in the Archives)
  • 14:00-14:30 – walk from Archives nationales to BnF (20 mins walk)

8 July 2025, afternoon,

venue: Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Richelieu Site

  • 14:30-17:30 – Session II “Deconstruction the Colonial Map”, by Kory Olson (Stockton University) and Olivier Loiseaux (BnF)

9 July 2025

Venue: Campus Condorcet Conference Center (Centre de Colloques)

  • 9:00-10:00 – Meeting of participants with workshops leaders, mentoring of the participants, feedback on their projects (3rd floor lecture room)
  • 10:00-13:00 – Session III “East and South-East Asia as a Mapping Crossroads: Examples from the BnF Map Collection” by Paola Calanca (EHESS) and Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (EHESS) with contributing guests
  • 13:00-14:00 lunch (catering) served at Condorcet venue
  • 14:00-17:00 – Session IV “Curating Born Digital Maps” by Martin Davis (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) and Pierre Bonneau (BnF)\

Full Workshop program with abstracts are below

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