Chicago Map Society

https://www.worldatlas.com/geography/what-are-the-different-types-of-maps.html

What Are The Different Types Of Maps? An overview of the different types of maps including topographic, climatological, thematic maps, weather maps, and politic maps.

The Newberry Library presents
the 22nd Nebenzahl Lecture Series
October 16 – 18, 2025

“Mapping from Mexico: New Narratives for the History of Cartography”

Lectures will be held in-person at the Newberry Library and live-streamed on Zoom.

No admission charge. There are seven lectures by leading scholars on the history of maps and mapping in Mexico, hands-on workshops in making Amate paper, guided tours of some library materials related to Mexico City, the keynote lecture, and a Map Fair on Friday night and Saturday.

The keynote address on Thursday night features Raquel Urroz Kanan, a leading expert on the history of maps in Mexico.

More details: https://www.newberry.org/calendar/22nd-nebenzahl-lecture-series

This program is free and open to all.
Advance registration required.

In Person Registration: https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0057-0014-E9DB3F4FFE224EB4B9BA3FE34FDB3654

Live Stream Registration: https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0057-0014-58486f70a8ab400b849c6374094bfe46

Mapping from Mexico, the 22nd Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography The 2025 Nebenzahl Lectures continue to promote new thinking in map history by asking how orienting our stories from Mexico, looking out toward the rest of the world, challenges common narratives and popular assumptions in the history of mapmaking. Despite the prominent role mapping in Mexico has pl...

The Washington Map Society presents a virtual meeting.

Thursday, June 5, 2026 • 6:00 p.m. CST

Our Fire Sits Here: The French Cartography of Indigenous Coalescence in the Native South

Lecture by Casey Price, recent Ph.D. graduate and visiting teaching professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

A polyglot indigenous group discovered a party of French led by Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette along the Mississippi River in 1673. The Frenchmen recorded Cherokee-sourced geographical information regarding the southeast’s interior, which found its way onto French maps, including Marquette’s Carte da la nouvelle decouverte and Jean Baptiste Franquelin’s Carte da la Louisiane.

The evolution of the indigenously sourced geographic information on French maps during this era provides enticing clues regarding the active coalescence of Cherokee, Creek, and other southeastern indigenous peoples amid increasing colonial pressure.

Casey Price, Ph.D. is a historian of vast early America focusing on the history of cartography and the Native South, specifically the Cherokee. His dissertation was entitled, “Given to This Land: Mapping Settler Colonialism in Kituwah, 1862-1810,” in which he examined the relationship between cartography and settler colonialism in the Cherokee homelands.

https://www.washmapsociety.org/event-6098766

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article) She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”