📍 New on CANOA 🛶 Can a map hide political satire? 🗺️ Our colleague Chet Van Duzer reads a Dutch map by Nicolaes Visscher II, where Phaeton—who lost control of the sun's chariot—becomes an allegory of Louis XIV's boundless ambition. www.canoageopam.org/post/alegori...

ALEGORIA POLÍTICA DE LUÍS XIV EM UM MAPA HOLANDÊS DA FRANÇA

Chet Van DuzerLazarus Project, University of Rochester, United States. | GEOPAMBrenda Yasmin DeggerTradutora, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil | GEOPAM Durante minhas pesquisas sobre cartuchos c...

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🗺️📖 New publication! Our researcher José María García Redondo has published a new article in Imago Mundi on the oldest known map printed in the Americas, revealing its role in the scientific, political and social debates of colonial Mexico. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0308...

GEOPAM researcher José María García Redondo is part of the organising team for the International Seminar “Spaces, Representations, Agents and Forms of Resistance in the Early Modern World”. 💻 Online broadcast: saco.csic.es/call/yugatrqz

🌍 Our colleague from GEOPAM José María García Redondo will be participating in the International Seminar “Artisans of the Territory: Nature, Knowledge, and Processes of Territorialisation in the Hispanic Monarchy (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)”. mapworks.ih.csic.es

CfP de Seyni Gueye, una de nuestras colegas de Geopam, forma parte del comité organizador del coloquio internacional “El imperio en los límites: construcciones del territorio colonial americano (siglos XVI y XVII)”. 🌎🗺️

Our colleage Vanina María Tagle is organising a Pre-LASA colonial session on Monday 25 of May. Everybody welcome to attend! 🤩

We are happy to share that the GEOPAM website has now been updated. We invite you to explore the site, discover our new content, projects, publications, and recent activities 🌎📚👀 🔗 www.geopam.org

Our colleague Paolo Vignolo will be presenting at two events tomorrow! 🎤 Join him for thoughtful conversations about history, memory, and how we make sense of the past through words, images, and narratives 📚✨ Don’t miss these engaging discussions!

✨📣 A new publication from our colleagues Carmen Channing and Vicente Pajuelo in Revista de Indias: "The failed Scottish Colony in Darien (1698-1700): an entangled history". Congratulations on your paper! 👏 revistadeindias.revistas.csic.es/index.php/re...

🌊📖 New publication! Four of our colleagues contributed to a new article in Revista de Indias exploring how expeditions reshaped the “unknown” and ideas of habitability - a really fresh look to a fascinating topic! 🌎✨ 🔗 revistadeindias.revistas.csic.es/index.php/re...

Our researcher Elizabeth Montañez Sanabria will take part in “Encontros Piratas” 🏴‍☠️🌊📚 📅 14 April 2026 🗺️ Talk: Pirates, cartography, and circulation of information 📡 Live on YouTube ▶️ @EncontrosPiratas Join us! 🙌

🌊📖 New publication! Edited by two of our researchers, Guadalupe Pinzón and Flor Trejo, Geografías acuáticas. Espacios de conectividad y sociabilidad explores rivers, seas, and lakes in Mesoamerica, New Spain, and Mexico as spaces of connection and sociability. 🔗 historicas.unam.mx/publicacione...

📍Sanlúcar de Barrameda A few moments from our visit to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, where we wrapped up the conference “Mapping Frameworks: Cartography and Territoriality in the Americas”.🗺️ Read Carmen Channing’s insights on our website. Available in Research → Experiences of Place. www.geopam.org

Our colleagues from Brazil, professors Junia Furtado, Andréa Doré, and Maria de Fátima Costa, embarked on an expedition to the Real Forte Príncipe da Beira, on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, in November 2025. 🧭🏕🌳

🎙️ Our researcher, Javiera Jaque, will present “Indigenous Funerary Rites in Seventeenth-century Santiago de Chile: Confraternal Festive Practices and Death” at the Americas Initiative Guest Speaker Series. 📅 March 3, 2026 | 4 pm 📍 SO 112, Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton)

📚✨ NEW PUBLICATION ✨📚 Geopam researcher Sabrina Guerra Moscoso has contributed to New Directions in Hispanic Atlantic History. In her chapter, she explores the transoceanic circulation of botanical knowledge from a maritime and environmental perspective 🌱🚢. 🔗 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

New Directions in Hispanic Atlantic History | Francisco A. Eissa-Barro

This book brings the latest research and evolving historiographical developments on the Hispanic Atlantic world to a student audience. It highlights how the

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Our colleague from GEOPAM, Javiera Jaque Hidalgo, is organizing a panel at the XV Jornadas de Estudios Coloniales y Modernos, in Santiago, Chile, from July 27 to 31, 2026! "Fronteras Móviles, Historias Situadas: Representaciones de los Márgenes del Imperio Español"

On October 28, our Cartographic Cultures series offered an exclusive preview of the upcoming exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, titled "Imaginary Maps, Imaginaries of Maps." This fascinating event was led by the exhibition’s two curators, Cristina Ion and Julie Garel-Grislinde.

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. 🌿🥗