Welcome to the site of the 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography 2022 – ICHC 2022.
The conference is being organized by the National Museum of Maps and Old Books in Bucharest and the University of Bucharest, in collaboration with Imago Mundi Ltd. ICHC will be held in the first two days of conference in the Ion Heliade Rădulescu amphitheatre of Romanian Academy Library and in the last second days at the Carol I Hall of the Central University Library “Carol I” of Bucharest, with some sessions to be held in the amphitheaters of the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest. The conferences will be accompanied by a suite of exhibitions showcasing the collections of several Bucharest institutions.
The main conference theme, ‘Conflict and Cartography’, aims to explore the intricate conflictual content of mapping and mapmaking in fields such as war, politics, ideology, cultural or intellectual history. The themes of the conference are (1) Imperial and Anti-Imperial Cartographies, (2) Frontier Cartographies, (3) Cartographies of Nostalgia and Imagination, (4) Cartographies of Difference and Map Consumption.
As always, papers on any other aspect of the history of cartography will be also considered.
The official language of the conference will be English, and all abstracts and presentations must be in that language. There will be no simultaneous translation.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Bucharest in July 2022!