Conferences – Page 3 – The Map Room

Third ISHMap Symposium

Published on 18 March 20168 May 2018 by Jonathan Crowe

Also in Lisbon, also in June: the third symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map. Its theme: Encounters and Translations: Mapping and Writing the Waters of the World. It takes place 3-4 June 2016 at the National Library of Portugal in Lisbon—just before the portolan chart workshop. [via]

International Workshop on Portolan Charts

Published on 18 March 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

maggiolo-portolan — Vesconte Maggiolo, Portolan chart, 1541. Kartenabteilung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Reproduced from Wikimedia Commons.

The program for the First International Workshop on the Origin and Evolution of Portolan Charts, which takes place 5-6 June 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal, is now live. The conference focuses on the history of portolan charts and the analytical techniques used to study them. [via]

Conference on GIS and Ancient History

Published on 8 March 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

Mapping the Past: GIS Approaches to Ancient History, a conference hosted by the Ancient World Mapping Center (the folks behind the Barrington Atlas), takes place at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, from 7 to 9 April 2016. It’s open to the public. Here’s the full schedule. [via]

Previously: Antiquity à la Carte.

Cartographic Summit

Published on 5 February 20165 February 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

Esri and the International Cartographic Association are hosting the Cartographic Summit: Future of Mapping, which takes place next week, 8-10 February, at Esri headquarters in Redland, California. It looks like the sessions will be streamed online. [via]

Fictional Maps International Conference

Published on 16 January 201616 January 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

The Fictional Maps International Conference, which I mentioned on my personal blog last August, takes place next weekend in Katowice, Poland. Of course I can’t be there. But the conference program is now online; abstracts are also available in this ebook.

Dubrovnik Symposium

Published on 15 January 201616 January 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

The 6th International Symposium on the History of Cartography will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in October 2016. “The joint organizers invite contributions (papers and posters) on the dissemination of cartographic knowledge and the effectiveness thereof in diverse cartographic cultures and their related user groups around the globe. This includes the technological and conceptual aspects of cartographic production (maps, charts, globes, atlases, educational tools etc.), the usability of these techniques and the resulting products, as well as the conditions of the map trade as a changing network of private enterprises and official institutions, and the role of diverse audiences in the creation, circulation, consumption and ultimate preservation of knowledge.” Deadline for submissions is February 15. [via]

Fictional Maps International Conference

Published on 28 August 201518 November 2017 by Jonathan Crowe

The Fictional Maps International Conference, an academic conference on the use of maps in fiction, will take place from January 21 to 23, 2016 at the University of Silesia’s Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library in Katowice, Poland. Stefan Ekman, the author of Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings (my review), is the keynote speaker. Deadline for submitting abstracts is October 30.

If you’ve been following along, you will instantly understand that this is very much relevant to my interests, and though it’s been an awfully long time since I’ve been in academic mode, I might have to figure out a way to go to this.