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Calendar of Events

This calendar lists events arranged by and sponsored by the Washington Map Society. For a list of other map-related events around the world, please check out the Cartography Calendar of Meeting Events compiled by John Docktor, member of the Board of Directors of the WMS.

Upcoming events

  • Lectures & Map Display at the Library of Congress; Optional Dinner at Hunan Dynasty Restaurant

    • Thursday, May 02, 2024
    • 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • In-Person and Zoom
    Registration is closed

    In-person and virtual events at Library of Congress in conjunction with the Philip Lee Phillips Society. Optional dinner to follow.

    Location: Library of Congress, James Madison Building. Lectures will be held in the Montpelier Room on the 6th floor and also virtually. Tour will be held in the room adjacent to the Montpelier Room.

    Time:  3:00 pm ET/2:00 pm CT/1:00 pm MT/12:00 pm PT

    Title: Extractive Place Naming Practices in Early Modern North America

    Speaker:  Lauren Beck, Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter; Professor of Visual and Material Culture Studies, Mount Allison University, Canada

    Time:  4:00 pm ET - 5:00 pm ET

    Title: Special Map Display

    Time:  5:00 pm ET/4:00 pm CT/3:00 pm MT/2:00 pm PT

    Title: Catawba Cartographies: Remapping the Indigenous Southeast, ca. 1670-1733

    Speaker:  S. Max Edelson, Professor of History, University of Virginia

    Time:  6:30 pm ET - 8:00 pm ET

    Title: Dinner at nearby Hunan Dynasty with the Washington Map Society
    Location: 215 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington, DC


    Planning to attend?   

    Click here to register for in person or virtual attendance at the Library of Congress events.

    Click here to register for the dinner. The cost will be $40.00 cash (including tax and tip).  Dinner reservations must be made by April 24.


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Past events

Thursday, April 11, 2024 WMS Annual Meeting & Leonid Chekin: “Svalbard, Paradise and Beyond: The Arctic Islands on Medieval and Early Modern Maps"
Thursday, March 14, 2024 Gary Spaid: “Why We Collect Road Maps"
Thursday, January 18, 2024 J. C. McElveen: “Herman Moll and John Senex: Mapping North America in the Early 18th Century (from the British Point of View)"
Wednesday, December 06, 2023 Imre Demhardt: “The Changing Map of the Island of Enchantment: Puerto Rico and the Spanish-American War of 1898"
Thursday, November 09, 2023 Dale Loberger: “Using GIS to Tease Information from Historic Maps in the Search for Old Roads"
Thursday, October 26, 2023 Explore the Depths of the Library's Map Collections
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Richard Francaviglia: “The Role of Maps in Films about Exploration and Discovery: Some Latin American Examples"
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 Rodney Kite-Powell: “Key West and the Florida Keys: Mapping the History of the Conch Republic"
Friday, May 19, 2023 Washington Map Society 42nd Annual Dinner - Guest Speakers: Andrew Adamson & Frank Licameli
Friday, May 19, 2023 Library of Congress: “A Globe on a New Plan"
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Chet Van Duzer: “Behold the Mapmaker: Cartographic Self-Portraits"
Thursday, March 16, 2023 George Barros: “Open-Source Maps: Mapping the Russian Invasion of Ukraine"
Thursday, February 16, 2023 Hessler/Discenza/Gilman: “The Mapping of Race in America: The Legacy of Slavery and Redlining from 1860 to Present"
Thursday, January 05, 2023 Andrew Kapochunas: “The Struggle of Mapmakers to Keep Up with Changing Post-WWI Boundaries Between Lithuania and Poland"
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Frank Manasek: “The Birth of Moon Maps: Looking Through the Telescope, 1610-1696"
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Dr. Thomas Horst: “The Amazing (Hi-)Story of the Bavarian Army Library Map Collection – Reconstructed 60 Years After Its Restitution to Germany"
Thursday, October 27, 2022 Explore the Depths of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
Wednesday, October 05, 2022 13th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 Les Trager: “Maps of the Ancient Explorers and Climate Implications"
Thursday, June 16, 2022 Lena Denis: “The Foundation and the Gateway: What Maps Show and Hide about Baltimore and American History"
Thursday, June 16, 2022 Washington Map Society Annual Business Meeting
Friday, May 20, 2022 Washington Map Society 41st Annual Dinner - Guest Speaker Matthew D. Mingus
Friday, May 20, 2022 Phillips Society: "The World of Ptolemy and the Birth of the Cartographic Atlas"
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 Julie Sweetkind-Singer & Gregory March: “World War II Captured Maps"
Tuesday, March 08, 2022 Asa Simon Mittman: “Seeing Across the World: How Medieval Mapmakers Brought Their Monsters Home"
Thursday, February 10, 2022 Barbara Belyea: “Papering the Landscape: Maps of Regime Change in North America"
Thursday, January 13, 2022 Benjamin B. Olshin: “Indigenous Mapping: Cultural and Psychological Sources"
Thursday, December 09, 2021 Peter A. Cowdrey, Jr.: “The Florida Origins of North American Cartography"
Saturday, November 13, 2021 Mapping Ourselves: A Cartographic Introduction to the 2020 Census & Tapestry Segmentation Analysis
Thursday, October 07, 2021 Anthony Mullan: “How Tourist, Business, and Colonization Maps Shaped North American Views of Cuba, 1898-1913"
Thursday, September 09, 2021 Andrew J. Rhodes: “James Monteith: Cartographer, Educator, and Master of the Margins"
Thursday, June 24, 2021 Leah Thomas: “nearly in a circular form”: Mapping the Cherokee Nation through John Marrant’s Narrative (1785)
Monday, May 17, 2021 Matthew Gilmore: Tilting Washington’s National Mall
Monday, May 17, 2021 Washington Map Society Annual Business Meeting
Thursday, April 22, 2021 James Akerman: Reading Maps in 20th-Century Travel Brochures: A Primer

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