{"id":1844957,"date":"2025-09-09T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1844957"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:07:39","slug":"2025-ruderman-conference-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/2025-ruderman-conference-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Ruderman Conference Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fifth biennial <a href=\"https:\/\/ruderman.sites.stanford.edu\">Ruderman Conference on Cartography<\/a>, which will be held 8-10 October 2025 at Stanford\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/library.stanford.edu\/libraries\/david-rumsey-map-center\">David Rumsey Map Center<\/a>, focuses on the cartography of \u201canything but the earth\u2019s surface,\u201d viz., astronomy, geology, oceanography. <a href=\"https:\/\/ruderman.sites.stanford.edu\/schedule\">Schedule<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ruderman.sites.stanford.edu\/speakers\">speakers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ruderman.sites.stanford.edu\/abstracts\">abstracts<\/a> on the website; tickets (free) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/barry-lawrence-ruderman-conference-on-cartography-tickets-1409588801049?aff=oddtdtcreator\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth biennial Ruderman Conference on Cartography, which will be held 8-10 October 2025 at Stanford\u2019s David Rumsey Map Center, focuses on the cartography of \u201canything but the earth\u2019s surface,\u201d viz., astronomy, geology, oceanography. Schedule,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/2025-ruderman-conference-announced\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-09-09T13:07:41+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lyfryne2td27","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lyfryne2td27\",\"cid\":\"bafyreig6w7yq7s575wdeord6v5akr7t675okldgxxkw2d2hme5idtyfymm\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreihg5kgugkpb77qvnoybs44knt3w74lc6uyw7zyd2y2x5mrush4tmm\",\"rev\":\"3lyfrynecnd27\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[1340,400],"class_list":["post-1844957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-conferences","tag-ruderman-conference","tag-rumsey","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4719,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/08\/barry-lawrence-ruderman-conference-on-cartography\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844957,"position":0},"title":"Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 August 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography takes place from 19 to 21 October 2017 at the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University. 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