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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

  • Henrik Dupont: "Mapping Greenland, from the 18th to 20th Centuries”

    • Tuesday, October 14, 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Zoom

    Sponsored in partnership with California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies.

    Location: Zoom

    Time:  7:00 PM ET/ 6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/ 4:00 PM PT

    Title: “Mapping Greenland, from the 18th to 20th Centuries”

    Speaker:  Henrik Dupont

    Summary: TBD

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  • Nebenzahl Lecture Series: "Mapping from Mexico: New Narratives for the History of Cartography"

    • Thursday, October 16, 2025
    • 10:00 AM
    • Saturday, October 18, 2025
    • 4:00 PM
    • Newberry Library, Chicago, IL

    The Newberry Library presents the 22nd Nebenzahl Lecture Series on "Mapping from Mexico: New Narratives for the History of Cartography." This event is not sponsored by the Washington Map Society, however several WMS members will be speakers and attendees at the seminar.


    Schedule of Events:

    Thursday, October 16
    10am–12pm: Lectures
    1:30–5pm: Artist workshops and talks, exhibition tours, and collection presentations
    6–7:30pm: Keynote address

    Friday, October 17
    9:30am–12:30pm: Lectures 
    2–5pm: Artist workshops and talks, exhibition tours, and collection presentations 
    5–8pm: Map and book fair opening

    Saturday, October 18
    9am–5pm: Map and book fair continues
    10–11am: Lectures 
    11am–12:30pm: Roundtable with all the speakers 
    10am–4pm: Artist workshops and talks, exhibition tours, and collection presentations

    This program is free and open to all. Advance registration required. Registration will open at a later date. For more information, please click here.

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  • MESDA Map Seminar: "Mapping American Expansion"

    • Thursday, October 30, 2025
    • 3:30 PM
    • Saturday, November 01, 2025
    • 5:00 PM
    • Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, NC

    The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) will be holding a 2-day seminar on "Mapping American Expansion." This event is not sponsored by the Washington Map Society, however several WMS members will be speakers at the seminar.

    Schedule of Events:

    Thursday, October 30, 2025
    3:30pm - Advance Registration Required: Moravian Archives Vault Tour

    Friday, October 31, 2025
    9:30am - Lectures
    12:20pm - Lunch
    1:20pm - Lectures
    2:30-5:00pm - Map Fair
    3:30pm - Advance Registration Required: Moravian Archives Vault Tour
    5:00pm - Reception & Keynote Lecture

    Saturday, November 1, 2025
    10:00am - Lectures
    12:10pm -Lunch
    1:15pm - Lectures
    4:00pm - MESDA Open House & Galleries Open

    The lectures will be accessible both in person and virtually. For more information and to register, please click here.

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Past events

Thursday, June 05, 2025 WMS Annual Meeting & Casey Price: "'Our Fire Sits Here': The French Cartography of Indigenous Coalescence in the Native South”
Thursday, May 08, 2025 Map Day at Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Saturday, April 26, 2025 Map Day at Library of Virginia
Thursday, April 24, 2025 Kris Butler: "American Drink Maps of the Boston area and towns in Maine and New Hampshire in later editions of Rowntree & Sherwell’s The Temperance Problem and Social Reform"
Thursday, March 20, 2025 Laura Ten Eyck, P. J. Mode & Eliane Dotson: "Just in Case I Don't Live Forever, What Should Happen to My Collection?"
Saturday, February 08, 2025 Cassandra Farrell: "Guided Tour of LVA's New Map Exhibition, 'Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816-1826'"
Thursday, January 16, 2025 Ian Spangler & Emily Bowe: "A Look Behind 'Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew our World'"
Wednesday, December 04, 2024 Dr. Neal Asbury & Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts: "Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion"
Thursday, November 21, 2024 Library of Congress: "LOC 25th Annual GIS Day and Ocean Mapping"
Thursday, November 07, 2024 Matthew Edney: "What’s Different about Map Making in the Nineteenth Century, and therefore in Volume Five of The History of Cartography?"
Thursday, October 10, 2024 Dr. Catherine Gibson: "Mapmakers in Action - Drawing Borders in the Baltic, 1919-1920"
Thursday, September 19, 2024 Library of Congress: "Mapping in the Islamic Tradition"
Thursday, June 20, 2024 Heiko Muehr: “Mapping German Americans and Their Communities"
Saturday, May 25, 2024 Patrick Crowley: “Solving Graveyard Mysteries through Old Maps"
Thursday, May 02, 2024 Lectures & Map Display at the Library of Congress; Optional Dinner at Hunan Dynasty Restaurant
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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