The video of the WMS member meeting on November 7, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine. The title of the presentation is "What's Different about Map Makers in the Nineteenth Century, and therefore in Volume Five of The History of Cartography?"
The video of the WMS member meeting on October 10, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Dr. Catherine Gibson, University of Tartu, Estonia. The title of the presentation is "Mapmakers in Action - Drawing Borders in the Baltic, 1919-1920."
Portolan Issue #120 has just been published and is now available on this website to members. Check out the Table of Contents here.
The video of the WMS member meeting on June 20, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Heiko Mühr, University of California Berkeley. The title of the presentation is "Mapping German Americans and Their Communities: Heinz Klose and His 1974 Ethnographic Atlas."
The video of the WMS member meeting on April 11, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Leonid Chekin, World Bank Group. The title of the presentation is "Svalbard, Paradise and Beyond: The Arctic Islands on Medieval and Early Modern Maps."
Portolan Issue #119 has just been published and is now available on this website to members. Check out the Table of Contents here.
The video of the WMS member meeting on March 14, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Gary Spaid, Past President of the Road Map Collectors Association. The title of the presentation is "Why We Collect Road Maps."
The video of the WMS member meeting on January 18, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was J. C. McElveen, Vice Chair of the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society. The title of the presentation is "Herman Moll and John Senex: Mapping North America in the Early 18th Century (from the British Point of View)."
The video of the WMS member meeting on December 6, 2023 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Dr. Imre Demhardt, University of Texas at Arlington. The title of the presentation is "The Changing Map of the Island of Enchantment: Puerto Rico and the Spanish-American War of 1898."
Each year the Washington Map Society offers the Ristow Prize in honor of the late Dr. Walter W. Ristow, one of the nation’s premier map librarians and cartographic authors. Dr. Ristow was for many years head of the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress and was the founding president of the Washington Map Society.
Luis A. Robles Macías, a PhD candidate in History at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), is the winner of the 2023 Dr. Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography for his paper entitled "Polar Hemispheres: The Overlooked Alternative to Nautical Planispheres in Renaissance Iberia." Luis obtained his engineering degree at the University of Seville and a Master of Science at the Institut Français du Pétrole (France) and McGill University (Canada) in 2001. He has since pursued a professional career in clean energy that has taken him to France, California, and Belgium. In parallel Luis became interested in the mathematical aspects of old maps and in the circulation of geographical knowledge in the Renaissance, which resulted in several academic publications. He eventually embarked on a PhD in History at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), devoted to the life and works of sixteenth-century mapmaker Juan Vespucci. The defense of the thesis is scheduled for January 2024. Luis has been a scientific advisor to the MEDEA-Chart European research project on portolan charts and since 2020 is the editor of Maps in History, the magazine of the Brussels Map Circle. His winning paper will be published in a future issue of The Portolan.
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