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