Friday, April 12, 6:00 pm New York (EDT) time, New York, In-Person: the New York Map Society invites members to attend a talk by Chet Van Duzer at Arader Galleries, 1016 Madison Avenue, between 78th and 79th Street, on “Maps and Power.” “Particularly since the 1988 publication of J. B. Harley’s essay “Maps, Knowledge and Power,” the role maps can play in both the symbolism and the administration of political power has been widely recognized and discussed.
Thursday, April 11, 7:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Milwaukee, Hybrid: Tim Wallace (Senior Editor for Geography, The New York Times) presents the 2024 “Maps & America” Arthur Holzheimer Lecture in the American Geographical Society Library: “Newsroom Cartography.”
THURSDAY 11 April 2024. Location: Zoom, 7:00 PM ET/6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/4:00 PM PT. (Sponsored in partnership with California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies). Svalbard, Paradise and Beyond: The Arctic Islands on Medieval and Early Modern Maps.
Thursday, April 11, 2:00 pm New York (EDT) time, London, Online: Susan Schulten (Professor of History, University of Denver) will deliver the International Map Collectors’ Society “Malcolm Young Lecture 2024: “The Cartographic Creativity of Richard Edes Harrison.” From the 1930s through the 1950s, he produced hundreds of stunning maps and graphics that upended the American public’s understanding of geography in a world governed by war and aviation.
Tuesday, April 9, 4:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Faculty House, Columbia University, Hybrid: Chet Van Duzer (member, New York Map Society) will speak on “Animals on Maps and Our Views of the World,” as Seminar 407 of “The Seminar in the Renaissance” “The history of human depictions of animals is as revealing about humans as it is about animals. In this talk I will examine a specific type of depictions of animals, namely those on maps made from the thirteenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, with a focus on animals of the Renaissance.
Tuesday, April 9, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Washington, Online: Library of Congress reference librarians Amelia Raines and Julie Stoner will present “An introduction to the LOC’s fire insurance maps.” This orientation session will highlight the background of fire insurance mapping, the Sanborn map collections, and fire insurance maps made by other companies held in their division.
Sunday, March 24, 2:00 pm New York (ET) time, In-Person: The New York Map Society invites all New York-area map lovers – members and non-members — to join us for a self-guided tour of the New York Historical Society’s immersive exhibit: “New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam.” As a Lifetime or Sustaining member, you can ask me, at kapochunas@gmail.com, to reimburse you, via PayPal, for the admission ticket you will have to buy for March 24 at 2:00 pm: Adults: $24; Seniors/ Educators: $19. Buy your ticket(s) HERE. “On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of a colony that would give rise to New York, this special installation is organized around the Castello Plan, a map depicting New Amsterdam around the peak of its settlement circa 1660.”
THURSDAY 14 March 2024, Location: Zoom, 7:00 PM ET/6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/4:00 PM PT (Arranged with assistance of Rocky Mountain Map Society; sponsored in partnership with California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies). Why We Collect Road Maps: In this well illustrated presentation, Spaid will enumerate reasons why it is important to collect road maps.
Sunday, January 28, 2:00 pm New York (ET) time, New York, In-Person: the New York Map Society presents, for up to 12-15 2024 paid-members-only, Peter Lloyd on The History and Design of Transit Maps. “I have been researching the history and design of the New York City subway maps for a number of years. In 2012 I published “Vignelli: Transit Maps,” based on interviews with Massimo Vignelli, and others, as well as archival research. I am preparing several further volumes documenting the history of the NYC subway map since its inception.”
Thursday, January 25, 12:00 noon New York (ET) time, London, Hybrid: the 33rd Series of “Maps and Society Lectures,” all free, in the history of cartography features Felix de Montety (Université Grenoble Alpes, France) on The Birth of the Isogloss: Remarks on the Problem of Language Borders in the History of Cartography.