Based upon his recently published book Ancient Explorers and Their Amazing Maps, Les Trager will discuss a body of Western 16th Century Maps which cannot be explained by the discoveries of European explorers. He will show that the leading 16th century map-makers understood that they were copying maps made by the “ancients.”
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 7:00 pm New York (ET): the New York Map Society presents Rick Smit, a map collector living in The Netherlands, speaking about his Berghaus Map of Syria, published 1835 by the German publishing house Justus Perthes. He will explain the sources Berghaus used, the context under which the map was published, and the new elevation depiction method applied in making the map: hachures.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 7:00 pm New York (ET) time: Jennifer Thermes, author and map illustrator, will discuss her award-winning book “Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island.” From before its earliest settlement to the vibrant metropolis that exists today, the island of Manhattan has always been a place of struggle, growth, and radical transformation.
Renowned poster experts present their favorite posters with maps.
Holiday Show & Tell, Raffle, and Elections.
The 2020 Census, along with the American Community Survey, provide a snapshot of the demographics of the American population like no other sources available. Combined they tell the story of the spatial distribution of everything from health care, cell phone ownership, housing expenditures and the level of poverty in the United States by age, gender and race.
Shannon Mattern will discuss the class she teaches at New York City’s The New School: Mapping the Field.
Anthony Mullan (Library of Congresss) will discuss late 19th century maps of Cuba.
John Hessler (Library of Congress) will speak on It Came From a Blue Sky: Mapping Bats and Spillover of Covid-19.
Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University on “Adventures in Academic Cartography.”