WMS MEETINGS & EVENTS 1979 TO PRESENT

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1	WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY MEMBER MEETINGS & EVENTS 1979 - PRESENT
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3	Including Field Trips and Workshops
4	A number of presentations were made at the Annual Meeting of the Society: these typically occurred in May
5	A number of the presentations were either summarized or became ariticles or were books reviewed for The Portolan, with issue number noted
6	This compilation is the result of two very dedicated WMS volunteers: Hubert (Bert) Johson and Thomas (Tom ) Sander
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12	No.	Date	Presenter	Topic	Presenter Affiliation	Issue	Video?
13	432	11/9/2023	Dale Loberger	Using GIS to Tease Information from Historic Maps in the Search for Old Roads	GIS Professional (GISP)		X
14	431	10/26/2023	Brent Lane	John White's 1585 Map of North Carolina	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		X
15	430	10/26/2023	Ernesto Capello	Mapping Mountains	Macalester College		X
16	429	9/12/2023	Richard Francaviglia	The Role of Maps in Films about Exploration and Discovery: Some Latin American Examples	University of Texas at Arlington		X
17	428	6/14/2023	Rodney Kite-Powell	Key West and the Florida Keys: Mapping the History of the Conch Republic	Tampa Bay History Center		X
18	427	5/19/2023	Andrew Adamson & Frank Licameli	F. W. Des Barres' Great Folly: An Examination of Des Barres' Foray into the Realm of Political Mapping and the Little-known Plans He Created to that End	Heritage Charts & George Mason University		X
19	426	4/19/2023	Chet van Duzer	Behold the Mapmaker: Cartographic Self-Portraits	Philip Lee Phillips Society
20	425	3/16/2023	George Barros	Open-Source Maps: Mapping the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	Institute for the Study of War		X
21	424	2/16/2023	John Hessler, Catherine Discenza & Anika Fenn Gilman	The Mapping of Race in America: The Legacy of Slavery and Redlining from 1860 to Present	Library of Congress		X
22	423	1/5/2023	Andrew Kapochunas	The Struggle of Mapmakers to Keep Up with Changing Post-WWI Boundaries Between Lithuania and Poland	Secretary of New York Map Society	117	X
23	422	12/14/2022	Frank Manasek	The Birth of Moon Maps: Looking Through the Telescope, 1610-1696	Dartmouth Medical School; Former antiquarian map dealer		X
24	421	11/30/2022	Thomas Horst	The Amazing (Hi-)Story of the Bavarian Army Library Map Collection - Reconstructed 60 Years After Its Restitution to Germany	University of Lisbon, Portugal		X
25	420	9/20/2022	Les Trager	Maps of the Ancient Explorers and Climate Implications	New York & Washington Map Societies		X
26	419	6/16/2022	Lena Denis	The Foundation and the Gateway: What Maps Show and Hide about Baltimore and American History	Johns Hopkins University		X
27	418	5/20/2022	Matthew D. Mingus	Mapping a Defeated Germany in the Aftermath of World War II	University of New Mexico-Gallup	116	X
28	417	4/20/2022	Julie Sweetkind-Singer & Gregory March	World War II Captured Maps: The Army Map Service and Two University Libraries	Stanford University & University of Tennessee, Knoxville	116	X
29	416	3/8/2022	Asa Simon Mittman	Seeing Across the World: How Medieval Mapmakers Brought their Monsters Home	California State University, Chico		X
30	415	2/10/2022	Barbara Belyea	Papering the Landscape: Maps of Regime Change in North America	University of Calgary		X
31	414	1/13/2022	Benjamin B. Olshin	Indigenous Mapping: Cultural and Psychological Sources	University of the Arts in Philadelphia	114	X
32	413	12/9/2021	Peter A. Cowdrey, Jr.	The Florida Origins of North American Cartography	Cognetta Family Trust Collection of Historic Florida Maps		X
33	412	11/13/2021	John Hessler & Meagan Snow	Mapping Ourselves: A Cartographic Introduction to the 2020 Census & Tapestry Segmentation Analysis	Library of Congress		X
34	411	10/7/2021	Tony Mullan	How Tourist, Business, and Colonization Maps Shaped North American Views of Cuba, 1898-1913	Library of Congress
35	410	9/9/2021	Andrew Rhodes	James Monteith: Cartographer, Educator, and Master of the Margins	Washington Map Society		X
36	409	6/24/2021	Leah Thomas	"nearly in a circular form": Mapping the Cherokee Nation through John Marrant's Narrative (1785)	Viriginia State University
37	408	5/17/2021	Matthew Gilmore	Tilting Washington's National Mall	Washington Map Society		X
38	407	4/22/2021	James Akerman	Reading Maps in the 20th Century Travel Brochures: A Primer	Newberry Library		X
39	406	3/23/2021	Susan Schulten	Mape the Map All White: Visual Strategies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments	University of Denver		X
40	405	2/22/2021	Ronald S. Gibbs	On the Brink of Disaster: George Washington and the American Revolution 1775-1776	University of Colorado		X
41	404	1/31/2021	Jeanne Nielsen Clelland	What Can Mathematics Tell Us About Fairness for Redistricting?	University of Colorado		X
42	403	1/31/2021	John Hessler	Algorithmic Democracy: Supercomputers, NP-harness & the New Science of Gerrymandering	Library of Congress		X
43	402	1/1/2021	Matthew H. Edney	Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677-1842	University of Southern Maine		X
44	401	12/3/2020	Linda Gartz	How Federal Government Redlining Maps Segregated America	Documentary Producer, Author		X
45	400	11/19/2020	Katherine Parker	Northern Seas: The Mapping of the North Pacific before the Voyages of James Cook	WMS Ristow Prize Chair		X
46	399	10/20/2020	Christopher W. Lane	Prejudice and the Shaping of the American West	Philadelphia Print Shop West		X
47	398	9/22/2020	Derek van Westrum	A Mile High Above What Exactly?	Table Mountain Gravity Observatory		X
48	397	9/10/2020	John Hessler	Mapping Covid-19 from Phylodynamics to Contact Tracing	Library of Congress	108	X
49	396	8/27/2020	Libby Bischof	Mapping the Classroom: Teaching Geography and History in the 18th and 20th Century New England	University of Southern Maine		X
50	395	7/30/2020	Garrett Dash Nelson	Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception	Leventhal Map & Education Center		X
51	394	6/4/2020	Andrew Rhodes	The Geographic President: How FDR Used Maps to Make and Communicate Strategy	Ristow Prize Winner	107	X
52	393	5/14/2020	Cassandra Farrell	Vacationing in Virginia, 19th Century Style: Plan of Fauquier White Sulphur Springs with Proposed Building Lots	Library of Virginia
53	392	1/11/2020	Field Trip	to Mount Vernon for a Library tour and talk on Washington's Globe	Mount Vernon Society	108
54	391	11/18/2019	Lars Grava	Maps of the Baltic State - Caught Between Empires	World Bank	109	X
55	390	10/23/2019	Nick Kanas	Heavenly Maps	Royal Astronomical Society	110	X
56	389	9/11/2019	Ronald Grim	In the Footsteps of Crime (Recovering a Map Masterpiece Stolen by E. Forbes Smiley)	Leventhal Map & Education Center	107	X
57	388	5/17/2019	J. C. McElveen	A Romp Through 19th Century Westward Expansion: From Lewis & Clark to Custer's Last Stand	Washington Map Society		X
58	387	4/11/2019	Eliane Dotson	What's My Map Worth? How to Value Antique Maps?	Old World Auctions		X
59	386	3/21/2019	Matthew H. Edney	The History of Cartography Project: Its Past, Future and Lasting Importance	University of Southern Maine		X
60	385	2/14/2019	Kass Kassebaum	Washington's Mapmaker: Colonel Robert Erskine, First Surveyor General	Department of the Geographer		X
61	384	1/24/2019	Paulette Hasier	The Map Collection of the G&M: New Directions	Library of Congress	105	X
62	383	12/6/2018	Ralph Ehrenberg	Flying by the Seat of Your Pants: Rand McNally and Post Office Belt Maps, 1918-1926	Library of Congress		X
63	382	11/3/2018	Field Trip	to Baltimore MD for open house of WMS Member Robert Gensler to see maps related to Age of Discovery and Early America	Washington Map Society
64	381	10/25/2018	Evelyn Edson	Sailing the Aegean Sea: A Renaissance Journey in Maps	Virginia Piedmont Community College		X
65	380	9/20/2018	Chas Langelan	The Lost Original Survey Maps of Georgetown	Surveyors Historical Society	104	X
66	379	5/4/2018	Max Edelson	The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence	University of Virginia	100	X
67	378	4/12/2018	Mark Monmonier	Patents and Plato: Map-related Patents in General, and One Clever Inventor in Particular	Syracuse University		X
68	377	3/8/2018	John Hessler	Mapping Indigenous Spaces: the Rare Codex Quetzalecatzin Comes to the Library of Congress	Library of Congress	102	X
69	376	2/15/2018	Leslie Trager	Henry Hudson: Cree History and Ancient Maps	Washington Map Society		X
70	375	1/11/2018	Christian J. Koot	A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herman's Chesapeake	Washington Map Society	102	X
71	374	11/9/2017	Donald L. McGuirk	A Survey of the Stars and Stripes on Early Maps, 1777-1795	Washington Map Society	103	X
72	373	10/12/2017	Lorna Hainesworth	Meriwether Lewis's Survey at Cumberland Gap	Surveyors Historical Society	101	X
73	372	9/14/2017	Chet van Duzer	Lighting the Way from Henrius Martellus to Martin Waldseemuller: Multispectral Imaging and Early Renaissance Cartography	Library of Congress		X
74	371	5/25/2017	Stephen Hornsby	Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps	University of Maine	100	X
75	370	3/18/2017	Field Trip	to the National Museum of the American Indian to see exhibits: "The Great Inca Road: Engineering & Empire and Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations"	Smithsonian Institute
76	369	2/16/2017	Sven Furhmann	How to Fold a Map	George Mason University		X
77	368	1/12/2017	Workshop	Member Meeting: Display and Discuss Their Maps	Washington Map Society
78	367	12/8/2016	Shelley S. Mastran	Early Roads and Settlements in Northern Virginia: A Cartographic Perspective	Reston Historic Trust	99	X
79	366	11/17/2016	P. J. Mode	Maps and Messages: Deconstructing Persuasive Cartography	Washington Map Society	100	X
80	365	10/13/2016	Kimball Brace	Red vs. Blue, a History of Political Mapping and the Use of Color	Election Data Services		X
81	364	9/8/2016	Cheryl LaRoche	Mapping the Underground Railroad	University of Maryland	98
82	363	5/13/2016	Hubert O. Johnson III	The Wind Rose - Flower of Antiquity or Mythical Black Orchid	Washington Map Society
83	362	4/16/2016	Field Trip	to Richmond VA for the Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lectures on the History of Cartography: Donald Hawkins on Alexandria, In and Out of the District of Columbia, 1791-1865 and Dennis Gurtz on Iconic Maps of Washington DC	Library of Virginia
84	361	4/14/2016	Edward C. Papenfuse	Thomas Holdsworth Poppleton and the Surveyor's Map that Made Baltimore	Archives, State of Maryland	99
85	360	3/24/2016	John Hessler	Watching the Apocalypse: Using GIS and Social Media to Map Refugees	Library of Congress
86	359	2/18/2016	John Rennie Short	The National Atlas	University of Maryland	97
87	358	1/21/2016	Geoffrey Martin	On the History of the Book …" American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical Science"	American Association of Geographers	96
88	357	12/17/2015	Matthew Gilmore	The Real Plan of the District of Columbia: the 1893-1908 Map of the Permanent System of Highways	Washington Map Society	98
89	356	12/3/2015	Jay Lester	Carolina Comparative Cartography: Mouzon and Others	Washington Map Society	96
90	355	11/19/2015	Chas Langelan	Surveyor-Soldier Henry B. Looker - Visionary Government Reformer	Washington Map Society	96
91	354	10/15/2015	Ralph E. Ehrenberg	Mapping Mr. Madison's War: American Military Cartography during the War of 1812	Library of Congress
92	353	9/17/2015	Petra Svatek	Academic Cartography in Vienna 1848-1900	University of Vienna, Austria	97
93	352	5/14/2015	Pam Scott	Benjamin Latrobe: Architect and Surveyor of the United States Capitol	Washington Map Society
94	351	4/16/2015	Workshop	Panel Discussion about Antiquarian Map Acquisition and Sales with Eliane Dotson, Bill Stanley and Harry Newman	Washington Map Society
95	350	3/19/2015	Shenk & Benson	Washington's World	Mount Vernon Society	94
96	349	1/15/2015	J. C. McElveen	From Sea to Shining Sea: The Pacific Railroad Surveys	Washington Map Society
97	348	12/11/2014	Joel Kovarsky	True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson's Cartographic Vision	University of Virginia	92
98	347	11/13/2014	Patrick O'Neill	" … To Annoy or Destroy the Enemy …" The Battle of the White House after the Burning of Washington	Archeological Society of Virginia	92
99	346	10/23/2014	Michael Blanding	Map Thief	Washington Map Society	90
100	345	9/18/2014	Workshop	Geography and Map Division Open House	Library of Congress