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California Map Society Spring Conference - June 28, 2025

  • 28 Jun 2025
  • 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • David Rumsey Map Center


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


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