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 Nico Lanza, current high school student 11:30am / A History of Data Visualizations Susan Powell & Karen Pfeffer 11:45am / Student engagement with the map collection at UC Berkeley Miriam Sweeney, Dave Madeiros, Elena Kadyrova 12:15pm / Modern-day creators of maps and map-art 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
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
Champ Turner, recent college grad
