Organised by Cartographic Society of Finland and Chartarum Amici
Sponsored by National Land Survey of Finland, City of Helsinki and John Nurminen Foundation
WELCOME
40th
IMCOS International Symposium
August 22-24, 2023
In Helsinki, Finland
Programme
Monday 21 August
Morning
Optional pre-conference tour of Helsinki
Afternoon
Pasila Office Center, Opastinsilta 12, Helsinki
17.00–19.00 Registration begins
Presentation on the History of Finland (optional)
Map exhibition and Reception by the National Land Survey of Finland
Tuesday 22 August
Theme: Mapping of Finland and the Baltic region 1
House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki
09.30–10.00 Registration
10.00–10.30 Opening ceremony
10.30–11.00 Mapping of Finland as part of Sweden and Russia (Antti Jakobsson)
11.00–11.30 Coffee break
11.30–12.00 Helsinki on maps (Martti Helminen)
12.00–12.30 Nordenskiöld and his maps (Leena Miekkavaara & Anna Vuolanto)
12.30–14.00 Lunch break at own cost
14.00–16.00 Visit to the National Library and the Nordenskiöld collection (Anna Vuolanto)
19.00– Reception by the City of Helsinki, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13, Helsinki
Wednesday 23 August
Theme: Mapping of Finland and the Baltic region 2
House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki
09.30–10.00 Imagining, illustrating and defining the Baltic Sea region on maps – Examples from the Middle Ages to the present (Marjo Nurminen)
10.00–10.30 The Seventh Zone – Northern maritime history (Mikko Huhtamies)
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–11.30 The 18th century Finnish reconnaissance mapping and its connection to the Central European cabinet maps (Erkki-Sakari Harju)
11.30–12.00 Russian mapping of Finland (Jan Strang)
12.00–13.30 Lunch at own cost
13.30 –16.00 Visit to the National archives, war maps (Ville Vuolle & Erkki-Sakari Harju), Rauhankatu 17, Helsinki
18.00– Reception by John Nurminen foundation, Pasilankatu 2, Helsinki
Thursday 24 August
Theme: Mapping Power and Propaganda
House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki
09.30–10.00 Mapping the Arctic War (Aleksi Rikkinen)
10.00–10.30 Maps in the British Empire: John Arrowsmith and the business of mapmaking in the mid-nineteenth century Britain (Johanna Skurnik)
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00 –11.30 Mapping Indigenous Land: treatment of Sámi toponymy in the production of topographic maps in Norway as an example (Kaisa Rautio Helander)
11.30–12.00 Mapping propaganda (Katariina Kosonen)
12.00-13.30 Lunch at own cost
13.30–15.30 Visit to Helsinki City museum
18.00 Ferry to Suomenlinna, Kauppatori, Helsinki
19.00 – Closing dinner in Suomenlinna
Friday 25 – Sunday 27 August
Optional post-conference tour in Eastern part of Finland