Conferences

The 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography will take in the main building of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague. The theme is ‘Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography’. Click here for the preliminary programme. For additional information, contact ichc2026@hiu.cas.cz.

The annual conference of the Society for the History of Discoveries will be held at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland. In the evening of Wednesday July 29, there will be a reception and presentation. Panels will run on Thursday and Friday, with the Annual Banquet on Thursday evening. The theme of the conference is ‘Islands of Discovery’. [...]

The Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference 2026 will be chaired by Professor Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University, UK), on the theme of ‘Geographies of inequalities: toward just places’. The conference will take place in the Society and in Imperial College London, as well as online.

The British Cartographic Society will hold its annual conference on 8 and 9 September. The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will celebrate its 60th anniversary by hosting a workshop at the National Library of Scotland, from 10:00-17:30 (BST). The morning session will see the group visit the Map Library in the Causewayside [...]

The Annual Conference of the Western Association of Map Libraries will be held at Denver Public Library.