California Map Society 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.)

Doors will open at 10:00am and presentations will begin sharply at 10:30am. The program will close at approximately 4:15pm, after which the annual members meeting will be held.

I look forward to seeing you!

Thanks,

Tom Paper 

California Map Society, tom@pixeum.org

Speaker	Topic
Rob Simmon	Satellite Imagery: From Space to Story in Data Journalism
Linda Rui Feng	Mapping the Yellow River: An exploration of East Asian mapping practices
Champ Turner	The Globe View in Its Historic and Present Day Context
Evan Thornberry	Current Activities at The David Rumsey Map Center
Chris Hughes	Historic Battle Maps from the 17th and 18th Century
John Pettley	Mapping the Survey Monuments on top of Mount Diablo
Tom Paper	A Cartographic History of San Francisco
Susan Powell & Karen Pfeffer	Student engagement with the map collection at UC Berkeley
Nico Lanza	A History of Data Visualizations