The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

About the events

The Oxford Seminars in Cartography have been taking place since 1993, with interested cartographers meeting regularly for a programme of lectures and field trips exploring all facets of mapping and cartography. The seminars are co-convened by Elizabeth Baigent from the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and Nick Millea, Map Curator at the Bodleian Library.

All are welcome. Events take place online via Zoom, and times listed are UK time.

Programme for 2025-26

Ordnance Survey: Twenty-First Century National Mapping Agency

Thursday 18 June 2026
16.30–18.00 (BST/GMT+1)

Nick Bolton (CEO, Ordnance Survey)

Event information

All events take place online via Zoom. Times listed are UK time.
You will receive instructions for joining the webinars in your booking confirmation email, under 'Order details'. Please check your junk/spam email folder. If you have not received a link to join the event, please email: tosca@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Acknowledgements

The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by:

Friends of TOSCA
Bodleian Libraries
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Charles Close Society
Lovell Johns Ltd

Book tickets

27 November 2025 – 18 June 2026

16.30–18.00 (UK time)

Free and all welcome, booking required

Online via Zoom

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Contact

tosca@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
01865 287119

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Past events

Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth century

Thursday 4 June 2026
16.30–18.00 (BST/GMT+1)

Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)

The unique large-format print of the General Map of the Qing Empire by Li Mingche (李明徹, 1751–1832) in Göttingen: tracing its cartographical origins and journey to a German university

Thursday 12 March 2026
16.30–18.00 (UK time/GMT)

Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)

Map Readings – ‘Lies of the Land: Painted maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France’

Thursday 12 February 2026
16.30–18.00 (GMT)

Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) in conversation with Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Mapping Sense of Place: Travels and Maps of May Morris

Thursday 27 November 2025
16.30–18.00 (GMT)

Pragya Agarwal (Newnham College, University of Cambridge)

The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

About the events

Programme for 2025-26

Ordnance Survey: Twenty-First Century National Mapping Agency

Event information