California conference

1 MAY: CALIFORNIA MAP SOCIETY SPRING CONFERENCE. Both sessions are free and open to the public. To register for the 1 May session, click HERE. To register for the 15 May session, click HERE.  

1 May  Schedule

9:00am – Welcome, Ron Gibbs, CMS President and Tom Paper, CMS Vice President

9:15am – Benjamin Grant, Founder of Overview, on How We Change The Earth. Presentation followed by Q&A. (Ben’s TED talk here and Ben’s books here.)

10:00am – Daniel Crouch, Co-Founder of Daniel Crouch Rare Books, on Contagious Cartography, A Panorama of Pandemics & Plagues. Presentation followed by Q&A. (Prior talks by Daniel here.)

10:45am – Break

11:00am – Steve Hanon, President of New York Map Society, on Maps of Spain in the Age of Discovery. Presentation followed by Q&A. (Steve’s prior presentation to CMS here. Steve’s website here.) 

15 May Schedule

9:00am – Welcome, Ron Gibbs, CMS President and Tom Paper, CMS Vice President

9:15am – Jim Schein, Founder of Schein & Schein, and Tom Paper, Founder of The Digital Gallery, on The Cartographic History of San Francisco. Presentation followed by Q&A. (Jim’s book here.)

10:00am – Courtney Spikes, Historian and CMS Vice President, on The History and Cartography of Waterloo. Presentation followed by Q&A. (Courtney’s prior presentation to CMS on Paris here.)

10:45am – Break

 11:00am – Susan Schulten, American Historian and Professor at University of Denver, on How Maps Made America. Presentation followed by Q&A. (Susan’s books here and here.)