California Map Society (CMS) Conference

Saturday, June 28, 2025

David Rumsey Map Center

Green Library, Stanford University

10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Join us on June 28, 2025, for a gathering of map, history, art and science lovers, to hear from a superb group of speakers about historic and modern-day maps. To register for attending either in-person, click here. To register to attend by Zoom, click here. (Registration handled by David Rumsey Map Center. Their event page is here.)

Doors will open at 10:00am and presentations will begin sharply at 10:30am. The program will close at approximately 4:30pm, after which the CMS annual business meeting will be held.

I look forward to seeing you!

Thanks,

Tom Paper 

California Map Society, tom@pixeum.org

Speaker	Start Time / Topic
Champ Turner, recent college grad	10:40am / The Globe View in Its Historic and Present Day Context
Chris Hughes, current college student	11:05am / Historic Battle Maps from the 17th and 18th Century
Susan Powell & Karen Pfeffer	11:30am / Student engagement with the map collection at UC Berkeley
Miriam Sweeney, Dave Medeiros, Elena Kadyrova	11:55am / Modern-day creators of maps and map-art
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN	12:35pm / Coupa Cafe
Evan Thornberry	1:40pm / Current Activities at The David Rumsey Map Center
John Pettley	2:05pm / Mapping the Survey Monuments on top of Mount Diablo
Linda Rui Feng	2:30pm / Mapping the Yellow River: An exploration of East Asian mapping practices
Rob Simmon	3:05pm / Satellite Imagery: From Space to Story in Data Journalism
Tom Paper	3:30pm / A Cartographic History of San Francisco