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List of past events

• March 3, 2022 Lecture by Alex Gil: "Mapping the Gap: Intersections, Counter-Surveillance and the Mapping Divide" More Information
• March 2, 2022 Lecture by Majd al-Shihabi: "Community ownership and open data: where is the balance?" More Information
• March 1, 2022 Lecture by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira: "'If Englande crie out, this Norumbega offreth the remedie': American Imaginaries after Cartography" More Information
• February 28, 2022 Lecture by Andria Olson: "Pancakes & Silver: Historic Map Reading, Data Extraction, and 3D Visualization" More Information
• November 18, 2021 Virtual Talk: Nainoa Thompson, President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. More Information
• July 15, 2021 Workshop: Finding & Using Maps Online
• June 25, 2021 Virtual Talk: Wild World: a confluence of art, geography, and nature with Anton Thomas. More information
• May 21, 2021 Virtual Talk: The Quarantine Atlas with Laura Bliss. More information
• May 20, 2021 Workshop: Finding & Using Maps Online
• Apr 23, 2021 Virtual Talk: Hands-On Mapping: The Story of a Blind Cartographer with Joshua Miele/DRMC 5th Anniversary Celebration. More information
• Apr 14, 2021 Workshop: Finding & Using Maps Online
• Mar 26, 2021 Virtual Exhibition Opening: Mapping the Islamic World: The Ottoman, Safavid, & Mughal Empires with Alexandria Brown-Hejazi. More information
• Feb 26, 2021 Mini-Symposium: Fire, Fire Mapping, and Fire Breaks. More information
• Feb 24, 2021 Workshop: Finding & Using Maps Online
• Jan 27, 2021 Workshop: Finding & Using Maps Online
• Jan 22, 2021 Virtual Book Launch: "Time in Maps". More information
• Dec 4, 2020 Virtual Talk: Nick Kanas on "Mapping the Heavens: Celestial Cartography from Ancient to Modern Times, More information
• November 6, 2020 Virtual Talk: Ana Pulido Rull on "Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain" 
• October 23, 2020 Arman Kassam on "Mappaemundi as Self-Portrait: Deference and Dissidence in the Worlds of Guaman Poma and Urbano Monte"
• Oct 21, 2020 Workshop: Finding & Using Maps Online
• September 25, 2020 Virtual Exhibition Opening: Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination with RJ Andrews. For more information please visit this page.
• June 5, 2020 Peter Hiller on Jo Mora: Pictorial Maps and Beyond. For more information please visit this page.
• May 15, 2020 Mapping an Epidemic: Lauren Killingsworth on Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India. For more information please visit this page.
• May 8, 2020 Portraying the World Anew: Chet Van Duzer on Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. For more information please visit this page.
• April 24, 2020 When Measurements Were Monuments: Emanuele Lugli's The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness. For more information please visit this page.
• February 10, 2020 Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data. Learn how to make maps, charts, and diagrams people can believe in with data storyteller RJ Andrews. For more information please visit this page.
  
• December 10, 2019 Was Leonardo da Vinci's World Map the First to Name America? A Talk with Christopher Tyler. For more information please visit this page. 
• December 5-6, 2019 Fantastic Futures 2019 Conference Workshop and Unconference. For more information please visit this page. 
• November 13, 2019 GISDay@Stanford 2019. For more information visit this page. 
• November 8, 2019 Primary Source Symposium Map Session. For more information visit this page.
• October 29, 2019 Linking the Past, Forging the Future: A Symposium on Chained Bindings in Forms Old and New. For information visit this page. 
• October 25, 2019 Oliver Lewis: Maps as Mirrors and Methods of Colonialism in Hawai'i: California Map Society Essay Competition Winner Presentation. For more information visit this page. 
• October 22, 2019 North America: A Cartographic Odyssey: A Talk with Anton Thomas. For more information visit this page.
• October 10-12, 2019 Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography 2019: Gender, Sexuality, Cartography. For more information visit this page.
• May 30, 2019 Murals of Tibet: A talk with Photographer Thomas Laird.  For more information visit this page.
• May 23, 2019 Book Launch with Thomas Mullaney: The Chinese Deathscape. For more information visit this page.
• May 10, 2019 California Map Society/Rumsey Map Center Annual Lecture. For more information visit this page.
• April 25, 2019, Coordinates: Maps and Art Exploring Shared Terrain | Exhibit Opening and Symposium of talks | Exhibition dates April 25 - September 30, 2019. For more information visit this page.
• April 13, 2019, California Map Society Northern California Spring Conference.  For more information visit this page.
• April 11, 2019, City Models from Panstereorama to the Present, a talk with Patrick Ellis. For more information visit this page.
• March 6, 2019, Talk with Betsy Mason: All over the Map. For more information visit this page.
• March 4, 2019, Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Featuring the 66-foot-long Judah Map and talks by Richard White and Hilton Obenzinger.For more information visit this page.
• February 14-15, 2019, Conference on 'Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900' For more information visit this page.
• February 13, 2019, Talk with Chet Van Duzer: New Research on Urbano Monte's 1587 World Map. For more information visit this page.
• December 6, 2018, Dr. Ed Lu: Charting the High Frontier of Space. For more information visit this page.
• November 6, 2018, Mapping Activism. For more information please visit this page and explore the Activism@Stanford exhibit.
• November 5, 2018, Panel Discussion: Nature in the City Map. For more information please visit this page.
• October 24, 2018, Drawing a continent by hand: a pictorial map of North America. For more information please visit this page.
• October 18, 2018, Historical Atlas of Hasidism by Professor Marcin Wodziński. For more information please visit this page. 
• May 24, 2018, Talk with RJ Andrews: Data Storytelling with Thematic Maps: The Design Genius of Charles Joseph Minard. For more information please visit this page.
• April 24, 2018, Understanding Ice: The James B. Case Memorial Symposium. For more information please visit this page.
  
• April 5, 2018, California Map Society Annual Talks and Essay Competition Winner. Men, Myths, and Maps by Imre Demhardt; and Enlightened cartography: Mapping Imperial Russia by Ken Neff. For more information visit this page. 
• March 15, 2018, Exemplars of Cartography through maps of the Holy Lands. For more information explore the digital collection in Seachworks.
• March 5, 2018, Student Activism at Stanford: Map Launch. For more information explore the Activism@Stanford exhibit.
• February 23, 2018, Making the World Go 'Round: How Urbano Monte Created his Map of 1587. For more information visit this page. 
• December 7, 2017, Petr Pridal Talk: Old Maps Online, GIS, and Cutting-Edge Technology. For more please visit this page.
• November 15, 2017, GIS Day. For more, please visit this page.
• Asian Representations and Constructions of Space
• May 10, 2018, Maps and Ships: Maritime Trade in the China Seas from the 16th to 18th Centuries. For more information visit this page.
• March 15, 2018, Visualizing Time and Space through Foreign Eyes in Medieval China: From the Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna to Amoghavajra’s Xiuyao jing. For more information visit this page.
• February 12, 2018, Illuminating the World before 1492: China, the Islamic World, and the Cross-Cultural Mapping of Asia; for more information visit this page.
• October 12, 3pm-5pm; Eric Huntington (Postdoctoral Fellow, Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford): "Frames of Scale and Geo-Spatial Transformations in the Buddhist Maṇḍala”. For more, visit this page.
• October 26, 10am-12pm; Jon Felt (Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University): "The Empire and the Ecumene: Regionalism After the Han Empire" For more, visit this page.
• November 27, 10am-12pm; a Joint session with Kären Wigen (Professor of History, Stanford University) and D. Max Moerman (Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, Columbia University): "Imagining 'Asia': Foreign and Native Worldviews in Constructions of Early Modern Japanese Cartography”. For more, please visit this page.

• November 10, 2017, Time in Space: Representing Time in Maps.  For further information, visit this website.Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography, October 19-21, 2017. For more more information, go to the website here.

• May 22, 2017, 9 am - 12.30 pm: "If You Weren't" is a symposium of talks, games, discussions on roles of alternate and augmented reality, in conjunction with the book: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay. Free, but registration required. Please Visit this page for details.

• May 20th, 2017, 8.30 am - 9 pm: California Map Society Meeting (One Day Conference, including map talks): Registration and fees. Please visit this page for details.

• May 4th, 2017, 6 pm: Essay Competition Winner + Richard Brown and Paul Cohen Talk: Free, but registration required. Please Visit this page for details.