At the next conference of the Nodo Culturas Cartográficas, Teresa Shawcross, professor at Princeton University, will present her research "Malleable Geographies: mapping China on the Americas in Christopher Columbus' annotation of Marco Polo's description of the world." This Friday, November 14th!

In the latest publication of our Canoa, María Jesús Benites, professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, invites us to explore the European imagination on the Río de la Plata and its connections with the Strait of Magellan and Patagonia.

Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos, professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of Geopam, just published her book "Introducción a la historia marítima de Nueva España". Congratulations!

We invite you to the colloquium "Penser le monde, écrire pour dominer? Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas et l’entreprise géo-historiographique des Habsbourg d’Espagne (1580-1625)", on November 6th and 7th, in Paris. Some members of Geopam will participate in the event. Check it out!

Due to their stinging trichomes, nettles may not have the best reputation. Even so, this wandering herb has numerous uses and properties, explored for centuries in medicine, manufacturing, and even cooking. Learn more in the Herbal Calendar on our CANOA. 🌿🌾

We congratulate Andréa Doré, professor at the Federal University of Paraná and member of Geopam, on the publication of her book "Mapping South American Promises: Potosí, Brazil, and European Visions"!

This Thursday, 9/11, Kaytlin Ramírez Opazo will present her research on maritime visualities of the Port of Arica. The lecture will be in Spanish (link below). We look forward to seeing you there! 🗺️🌊

We invite you to the III Congreso Internacional Naufragios, to take place on November 26-28, 2026, at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile! The Congress is an opportunity to bring together scholars with the aim of discussing Early Modern shipwrecks from different disciplines.

Ornamental plant, ingredient for teas and infusions, detail on Greek columns, herb with magical powers: in these and other situations, the acanthus is a companion plant for humans, ants, bees, and hummingbirds. Read our article about this migratory herb in the Herbal Calendar in CANOA! 🌿🌾

The dandelion is one of the most well-known migratory plants. We find it in parks, on paths, in gardens, and in cracks in the asphalt. Read our article about this small and resilient flower, including its culinary uses! 🌱💮 www.canoageopam.org/post/calenda...

Jaguar-men are present in Indigenous narratives of both the past and present. They serve as a reminder that the past is a valuable source for understanding the many ways in which our behavior as humans varies according to our diverse encounters with other living beings. 🐆

The cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) is the newest addition to our Herbal Calendar of traveling plants! This herb originates from the Mediterranean, but it's in Chile, during the spring, that its intense blue flowers are harvested and its raw stems served in a delicious and sophisticated salad. 🌿🥗

Chicory is the third plant in our Herbal Calendar. Charismatic and with blue flowers, it is the country girl that appears on roadsides and around the edges of plantations. Its multiple medicinal and culinary uses make this plant a longtime companion of humans. 💐🌿

Read the text by Kaytlin Ramírez Opazo, historian at the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile, on images of llamas! Addressing both European and Indigenous perspectives, Kaytlin argues that placing these camelids, so important to the history of the Andes, at the center of visual analysis is an +

With a strong personality, the thornless blackberry grows quickly and travels long distances. From Mexico to Uruguay, this plant has multiple uses and is used by different cultures for a variety of purposes. Check it out in our Herbal Calendar, with a delicious blackberry crumble recipe! 🌿🌱

We invite you to read the essay by Andréa Doré, one of the most recent publications in CANOA! In her text, Andréa demonstrates how the simple details of the landscape, like a tree on top of a hill, can carry meanings that go far beyond spatial orientation. 🌳 Check it out on www.canoageopam.org

Today we invite you to revisit the first entry in our Herbal Calendar of traveling plants, about the yuyo. With yellow flowers and a relative of broccoli and cabbage, the yuyo originated in Hungary to populate fields in Latin America and around the world. 🌿🌱 🔗 www.canoageopam.org/post/calenda...

“🌍 Geopamists of the world! With this image of Phaeton raising his arms to the sky, we present the latest article by our dear Chet in Canoa. 🛶 Enjoy this brilliant piece on depictions of Louis XIV in the cartouches of French maps. We welcome you to both read and share! Check it out 👉 bit.ly/3GmHoIP”

📖 The remarkable pen of @MarioGrana8 ❤️ kicks off CANOA’s new section "Postcards of Curiosity." In it, he shares how visits to the General Archive of the Indies revealed unexpected connections that shed new light on a famous map of Bolivia. Follow along! 👉 bit.ly/3FSg70L%E2%8...

🛎️ Dear Network, Good news! We have a new publication on CANOA 📖 We invite you to dive into the pinnacle of 17th-century missionary masculinity with this text by our dear Javiera Jaque www.canoageopam.org/post/el-mart...

On 24 June, Denise Aparecida Soares de Moura (Unesp-Franca) will give a talk entitled: ‘Territorialidades não estatais e ficção imperial na definição das fronteiras ibero-americanas (1765-1775)’. * Talk in Portuguese! We look forward to seeing you there 🔥

Watch the video of the lecture ‘An Introduction to the Map Collections of the Dutch National Archives’ by Gijs Boink, held on 23 April (in the framework of the Cartographic Cultures Node). www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAsx... #maps #geography

🧭🗺️🛞🦥 Check our updated website 🧭🗺️🛞🦥 www.geopam.org

🗺️🇳🇱“An Introduction to the Map Collections of the Dutch National Archives” The Curator of Maps at the National Archive of the Netherlands, Gijs Boink, will introduce the collections of maps, charts and drawings in the institution’s collections. Join with Teams: shorturl.at/Y4IQO #maps

‘Bahía 1625, historia sobre un lienzo’, has just been premiered. It features two GEOPAM members: Irene Vicente & José Carlos Vilardaga. This 📽️ is part of the exhibition ‘Annus Mirabilis’ which will be on display from 11 April to the end of July at the Naval Museum in Madrid. 🎬 bit.ly/3Yt5Uh9

🧭🗺️The International Colloquium «Mapping Frameworks» Cartography and Territoriality in America" sponsored by GEOPAM, was a great success! We congratulate the organization for these beautiful moments in Seville and Sanlúcar de Barrameda! @mapworks.bsky.social

🗺️🧭This Wednesday 19th starts the International Colloquium : ‘Mapping Frameworks’ Cartography and Territoriality in America, sponsored by our network. Check the programme here bit.ly/3XWlHEU @vpajuelo.bsky.social @mapworks.bsky.social

🗺️🧭🗓️ Schedule 2025 Cartographic Culturas Node #map

📢ATTENTION COMING SOON, SCHEDULE 2025 🗺️🧭🗓️ #maps

👘🗺️🎨🥻We invite you to read Geopam researcher Chet Van Duzer's publication ‘Shouldering the World in a Different Way: Early Modern Images of People Wearing Maps’ in the journal Word & Image. bit.ly/4gwO4Ru

We invite you to visit our node Borders and geopolitics in a more than human world. The node follows three research axes: 🧠Anthropocene 🛶Habitability 🌱Biocultural Approach: Coordinators [email protected] [email protected] geopam.org #geopolitics #GEOPAM

We invite you to know the Node Maritime Scenarios and Experiences and its three axes of action 🌎Representations of the Pacific Ocean 🌊Shipwrecks 🏴‍☠️Piracy: From the North Sea to the South Sea Coordinators: Guadalupe Pinzón Rodrigo Moreno #GEOPAM geopam.org

🗺️🧭🌎Cartographic Cultures aims to foster discussion and research on the history of cartography from the 16th to the 19th centuries, addressing discursive and material elements of maps, their meanings, uses, formats, and production. Coordinators Andréa Doré Chet Van Duzer #GEOPAM geopam.org

🌎🦗🦥🌴🥥 The Americanization of knowledge node of GEOPAM studies processes of transmission, translation, appropriation, assimilation, erasure and negotiation of the African, European, Asian and Amerindian knowledge. Coordinators Mariana Labarca Andrés Vélez #Geopam geopam.org