2017 conference

The David Rumsey Map Center hosted the first biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography on October 19, 20 and 21, 2017. The conference was designed to encourage cartographic scholarship and shed light to areas that have otherwise been ignored. This particular conference focuses on emerging scholars and gives a broad overview of work around the world, organized by time periods. The conference examined ways to expand the field and draw from experts outside traditional historical cartography. Speakers from around the world discussed the latest in the history of cartography and related fields, while several advanced Stanford students shared their exciting research about how they use maps as part of their scholarship, teaching and research.  

The conference was made possible by the generous support of Barry Lawrence Ruderman. Barry Lawrence Ruderman is a map and atlas dealer based in La Jolla, California, and one of the Founding Friends of the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford.  His website, raremaps.com, is one of the oldest and largest for the sale of antique maps and atlases. Since 2009, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. has contributed over 50,000 digital map images to be placed in the Stanford Digital Repository. To begin with, about 20,000 of these maps can be searched, viewed and downloaded through Stanford's catalog as part of the Barry Lawrence Ruderman Collection; the collection was unveiled during this conference. 

Recordings from this conference are not available.