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Professor Emeritus Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Full Professor of Higher Geodesy and Cartography (1979-2015) at the School of Rural & Surveying Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, AUTH. Now member of the CartoGeoLab AUTH

 

 

 

Chair of the Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of the International Cartographic Association (2005-2019)

 

 

 

 

 

Editor e-Perimetron

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTH CartoGeoLab

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAGIC - Map & Geoinformation Curators Group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Les ingénieurs géographes 1812

Links+Maps A list of institutions (in update) providing assets of cartographic heritage

 

 

 

 

 

The Enchanted Forest WiFi Provider and other cartographic miracula and parapherna(lia) of the past and present

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Geo-comments by a friend A gallery of cartoons, with geo-carto content, by Gregoris Georgiou (2014)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MapUtopia, an old blog from Greece (2006-2008) with still interesting material

Events

past

Thessaloniki, 8-10 May 2019 14th ICA Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage

Thessaloniki, 31 October-2 November 2018 15th Hellenic Cartographic Conference

Santorini, 29 September-31 October 2018 Map exhibition about Santorini island, from 1500 BCE to the between the two World Wars 20th century.

Vienna, 14-16 May 2018 CartoTalk and lecturing. International MSc in Cartography, TUWien

Brescia, 3 May 2018 Il mappamondo cinese di Giulio Aleni | more 1 | more 2

Madrid, 18-20 April 2018 13th ICA Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage | Photo album

Thessaloniki, 27 March 2018 E. Livieratos announces the finding about the orientation of the Amphipolis tomb axis towards Delphi. Video | map | press

Thessaloniki, 14 February-2 April 2018 Exhibition of 40 manuscript French maps made in 1685-1687 representing the Cyclades in the Aegean Archipelago. More

Thessaloniki, 15 December 2017-14 January 2018 Exhibition of 6 original copies of Rigas' monumental map, the Charta. Trifold | Poster

Washington DC, 2-7 July 2017 28th International Cartographic Conference

Washington DC, 1 July 2017 28th ICC 2017 Pre-Conference Workshop "Mapping Tools for Non-Mapping Experts: Incorporating Geospatial Visualization Tools in Libraries"

Leucas, 18-31 May 2017 A map exhibition with maps for the "AUTH Tricoglou Library" at the Island of Lefkada Municipality Cultural Centre | Photos

Venice, 26-28 April 2017 12th ICA Conference "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage"

Epanomi, 6 February 2017 "The magic of representation: 10 maps that changed the world" open talk at the Ktima Gerovassiliou. More | Poster | Video Presentation | Video Part 1 | Video Part 2 | Photos

Thessaloniki, 25 January 2017 Presentation of the map collection "Rare Manuscript Representations of Archipelago 330 Years Before" Thessaloniki City Hall. More | Youtube | Video | Audio

Delphi, 10 December 2016 E. Livieratos: "Satirical Maps: a cartography footnote between pop-art and ideology", European Cultural Centre, Delphi

Corfu, 6 December 2016 E. Livieratos: "Maps and History - History with Maps", History Department, Ionian University

Xi'an, 17-26 November 2016 E. Livieratos: Three Seminars on the "International Challenge of Cartographic Heritage in the Era of the Digital" and on "Reflections on the Coupling of the "Belt and Road" Modern Mapping Issues with Relevant Cultural Challenges" addressed to faculty members and master students in geomatics engineering in Chang'an University and in Xi'an University of Science and Technology

Thessaloniki, 2 November 2016 Seminar "Maps in Libraries" addressed to Greek in-service librarians

Thessaloniki, 2-4 November 2016 14th Hellenic Cartographic Conference "Cartography in a Changing World"

Lisbon, 6-9 September 2016 Workshop Explorations in Digital Humanities. Case studies and problem-solving

Lisbon, 6-7 June 2016 1st Workshop on The Origin and Evolution of Portonal Charts

Venezia, 16 Maggio 2016 E. Livieratos: "Matteo Ricci: La Carta, il Tolomeo, la Cina, l'America". Conferenza, Universita IUAV di Venezia, Cotonificio

Riga, 20-22 April 2016 11th ICA Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage

Thessaloniki, 13 January 2016 E. Livieratos: "The World Map by Anthimos Gazis, Vienna 1800". Lecture in the frame of the exhibition "Struggle against Time" at the Museum of Byzantine Culture, 19:30 - 20:30 | Youtube

Athens, 24 November 2015 E. Livieratos: "Between the representational art and ideological influence". In a panel discussion about "Satirical Cartography", Parnassos Literary Society, on the occasion of the celebrations for the Society's 150 years. More

Vienna, 10-12 November 2015 1st ICA European Symposium on Cartography

Rio de Janeiro, 23-28 August 2015 27th International Cartographic Conference

Florence, 23 June 2015 Lecture/talk via Skype to Italian doctoral students in geomatics, participants of 2GG (2 Giorni di Geomatica/2 Days of Geomatics)

Beijing, 3 June 2015 Workshop on Ancient Chinese Maps and Exchange of Chinese-Western Cartographical Culture

Corfu, 27-29 May 2015 10th Jubilee ICA Conference on Digital Aproaches to Cartographic Heritage

Thessaloniki, 7 May 2015 Prof. Ferjan Ormeling received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Facutly of Engineering

Berlin, 13 February 2015 Kolloquium "Geodäsie – Mathematik – Physik – Geophysik" der Leibniz-Sozietät aus Anlass des 75. Geburtstages von Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. mult. Erik W. Grafarend

Thessaloniki, 26 October 2014 E. Livieratos, "1912: The culmination of the 25-year "cartographic formation" of Greece. Signifieds, contexts and reflections". Addressing the 26 October Official Ceremony at the Aristotle University

Patras, 22-24 October 2014 13th Hellenic Cartographic Conference

Thessaloniki, 9 October 2014 E. Livieratos, "Some reflections on the Paper-Images of Holy Mt Athos". Exhibition, Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki

Budapest, 4-5 September 2014 9th ICA Workshop on Digital Aproaches to Cartographic Heritage

Groningen, 3 July 2014 Doctoral thesis defence by Jacky Benavides "Measuring of the Histrorical City", Information Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

Thessaloniki, 11 June 2014 E. Livieratos, "Mirroring geography in maps: the historical cartographic seesaw of East Mediterranean and the Black Sea system"; invited lecture at the 8th South East Europe Energy Dialogue The New Energy Mix, Thessaloniki 11-12 June 2014

Ljubljana, 22-24 May, 2014 19th Conference of the Groupe des Cartothécaires [programme]

Corfu, 13 May, 2014 E. Livieratos, "The language of maps in the representation of Geospace and History". Lecture at the History Department, Ionian University (in Greek) info

Thessaloniki, 10 May 2014 11th International Book Fair: Meeting of the public with the author of the book European cartography and politics: the case of Macedonia (in Greek) Ziti Editions (info | sample)

Thessaloniki, 19 March 2014 Doctoral thesis defence by Maria Pazarli "Rigas Velestinlis Charta of Greece. A cartographic approach" (in Greek) School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Athens, February 11, 2014 About East and West: The World Map by Matteo Ricci (1602-1604). Invited lecture (in Greek), Gennadius Library, Cotsen Hall, ASCSA, Anapiron Polemou 9

Rome, 19-20 September, 2013 8th ICA Workshop on Digital Aproaches to Cartographic Heritage

Thessaloniki 2019: 14th ICA Conference "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage"

The 14th ICA Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage of the ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 8-10 May 2019 hosted by the Aristotle University Central Library and the Museum of Byzantine Culture, organised by AUTH CartoGeoLab

Thessaloniki: "Cartography of Crises"

The 15th Hellenic Cartographic Conference "Cartography of Crises", organised by the Hellenic Cartographic Society took place in Thessaloniki, 31 October-2 Νοvember 2018 in the Museum of Byzantine Culture, supported by the ICA Commission of Cartographic Heritage into the Digital, under the aegis of the ICA.

Santorini: "in semilunar similarity"

The CartoGeoLab AUTH is the designer and producer of this innovative cartographic research exhibition entitled "in semilunar similarity" with historical maps and relevant cartographic heritage representations of the island of Thera/Santorini, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, from 1500 BCE to the between the two World Wars 20th century, in cooperation with the AUTH Library & Information Centre and the L. & E. Bellonias Foundation at Thera. Bellonio Cultural Centre, Santorini, 29 September-31 October 2018

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Vienna: International MSc Cartography

CartoTalk and lecturing, International MSc in Cartography at the Technical University of Vienna, 14-16 May 2018.

Giulio Aleni World Map

A day of scientific presentations dedicated to the Giulio Aleni Chinese World (early 17th c.) Map, Brescia, Italy, 3 May 2018 | more 1 | more 2

Madrid 2018: 13th ICA Conference "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage"

The 13th ICA Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage of the ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital will be held in Madrid, Spain, 18-20 April 2018 hosted by the National Geographical Institute of Spain, organised by AUTH CartoGeoLab. | Photo album

Amphipolis tomb and Delphi

The first announcement by E. Livieratos (27 March 2018) that the axis of the entrance in the Amphipolis tumulus (Kasta or Amphipolis tomb) is oriented to Delphi | video | map | press

Thessaloniki: Archipelago 1685-1687

Exhibition (14 Feb. - 2 Apr. 2018) of 40 manuscript maps made in 1685-1687 by the engineers of Louis XIV representing the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea. The maps are coming from the Recueil Raseau and Recueil Pétré kept respectively in the Tricoglou Library, Aristotle University Library & Information Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece and in the Service historique de la Défense, Vincennes, France, in cooperation with the AUTH Central Library, the General Consulate of France at Thessaloniki and the AUTH CartoGeoLab | more | summary | catalogue

Thessaloniki: 220 years of Rigas' Charta

Exhibition of 6 original copies of Rigas' monumental map, the Charta (15 Dec. 2017-14 Jan. 2018) with title Rigas' Charta: the two (plus) faces. Another reading of the map for the 220 years since its printing in Vienna (1797) and the presentation of a relevant book authored by E. Livieratos published by the AUTH Library on the occasion of its 90 years | more

Washington DC: Mapping Tools for Non-Mapping Experts: Incorporating Geospatial Visualization Tools in Libraries

The ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital is the organizer this one day Pre Conference Workshop in 1 July 2017 in the frame of the 28th International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2–7 July 2017, Washington DC, in association and partership with the Map & Geoinformation Curators Group (MAGIC)

Map exhibition in Leucas

A map exhibition with maps for the "AUTH Tricoglou Library" at the Island of Lefkada Municipality Cultural Centre, Lefkada Isl. (Leucas), 18-31 May 2017

Venice 2017: 12th ICA Conference "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage"

The 12th ICA Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage of the ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital held in Venice, Italy, 26-28 April 2017 hosted by the University Iuav of Venice, Aula Magna, Tolentini, organised by AUTH CartoGeoLab.

The "magic" of representation: 10 maps that changed the world

A talk to the general public, in the beautiful glass pavillion of a nominated greek vineyard, "Ktima Gerovassiliou", in the wine producing village of Epanomi, close to Thessaloniki, about and around the "magic" of maps and their role in representing the broadening and the changing of the world during the centuries; 6 February 2017. More | Poster |Video Presentation | Video Part 1 | Video Part 2| Photos

Rare manuscript maps of Archipelago, 1685-1687

Rare manuscript maps of the Cyclades islands in the central Aegean Sea made by the French in 1685-1687 after the orders of Louis XIV are revealed recentry in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) Library as part of the Tricoglou Collection. These maps are subject of cartographic and historical research carried out in the AUTH CartoGeoLab in partnership with the AUTH Library.
In the frame of the special bilateral cooperation agreement between the AUTH and the Municipality of Thessaloniki in the field of libraries, archives and collections, these exceptional maps are presented for the first time to the public, on 25 January 2017 at the Thessaloniki City Hall. The speakers are AUTH profs I. Hassiotis, E. Livieratos and I. Tzifopoulos. More | Youtube | Video | Audio

Chang'an University in Xi'an

During an invited academic visit in the Chang'an University, Xi'an, China, 17-26.11.2016, discussing research issues on the impact of geomatics in digital humanities with the host Prof. Dr.-Eng. Lichun Sui, head of mapping sciences and engineering, the guest-professors Qingwen Qi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and Chrysoula Boutoura, AUTH CartoGeoLab, Thessaloniki and prof. Sui's Master students, who briefly presented the progress of their on-going research.

Thessaloniki: "Cartography in a Changing World"

The 14th Hellenic Cartographic Conference "Cartography in a Changing World", organised by the Hellenic Cartographic Society will take place in Thessaloniki, 2-4 Νοvember 2016 in the Museum of Byzantine Culture, supported by the ICA Commission of Cartographic Heritage into the Digital

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Thessaloniki: "Maps in Libraries"

The Seminar Maps in Libraries addressed to in-service Greek librarians, Thessaloniki 2 Νοvember 2016, in the Museum of Byzantine Culture, co-organised by the AUTH Library & IC, the AUTH CartoGeoLab and the AUTH Research Committee, endorsed by the ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital

Webpage | Brochure (Greek)

Lisbon Explorations in Digital Humanities

The Portuguese Centre for Global History (CHAM), an inter-University research unit of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and of the Universidade dos Açores, is organising the workshop Explorations in the Digital Humanities. Case studies & Problem-solving for post-graduate students of humanities, Nova University of Lisbon, 6-9 September 2016, with the partership of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Laboratory of Cartography & Geographic Analysis, Thessaloniki, Greece. In the photo the participants of the Workshop-4 "Reading and data mining maps", Lisbon 6 September 2016

The Lisbon Portolan Charts Workshop

With the participants of the 1st International Workshop on the Origin and Evolution of Portolan Charts, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-7 June 2016; organised by the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology at the Navy Museum (Jerónimos Monastery).

The Lisbon Portolan Charts workshop organisers; from left: Tony Campbell (London), Joaquim Alves Gaspar (Lisbon), Evangelos Livieratos (Thessaloniki).

 

 

Riga 2016: 11th ICA Conference "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage"

The 11th Conference of the ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage held in Riga, 20-22 April 2016 | webpage, together with the 20th Conference of the "Map & Geoinformation Curators Group (MAGIC)", in cooperation with the National Library of Latvia and the AUTH CartoGeoLab

Visiting IUAV of Venice

With the colleagues Prof. Fancesco Guerra and Dr Caterina Balletti and the staff of the Phogrammetry Lab and the Cartography & GIS Lab, University IUAV of Venice, March-May 2016.

Left: "Why the Perspective?" a lecture addressed to the students of the Master programme in Architecture of the Modern and Antique, Department of Architecture, Construction and Conservation, University IUAV of Venice, 4 April 2016. Right: "Matteo Ricci: the Map, Ptolemy, China, America" an academic conference at the Department of Architecture, Construction and Conservation, University IUAV of Venice, 16 May 2016.

AUTH honours the new emeriti

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki honored the new AUTH Professors Emeriti. The AUTH Rector Prof. Pericles Mitkas awards Evangelos Livieratos, 21 January 2016.

Anthimos Gazis

"Atlas or Map Containing ...", Vienna 1800 (engraved by Karl Robert Schindelmayer). More

Satirical maps

"Between representational art and ideological influence". More

A new working period (2015-2019) for international Cartographic Heritage

The 16th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the frame of the 27th International Cartographic Conference, 23-28 August 2015, decided to give a new working period (2015-2019) to its Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage, accepting the proposal for a slightly different name which now reads as ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital. The ICA General Assembly has re-elected Evangelos Livieratos as the Chair for the working period 2015-2019. The Commission's new website is now in the address: http://cartography.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage

2GG - Florence

An invited lecture/talk via Skype was addressed in 23 June 2015 to Italian doctoral students in geomatics, from various universities, participants of the annual meeting 2GG (2 Giorni di Geomatica/2 Days of Geomatics) held in Florence, Santa Verdiana, 22-23 June 2015. The meeting was organised by the Italian Association of University Professors of Topography and Cartography (AUTeC)


E. Livieratos lecturing via Skype Italian doctoral students in geomatics participants of the 2GG meeting, Florence, Santa Verdiana, 23 June 2015

Workshop on Ancient Chinese Maps

The Workshop on Ancient Chinese Maps and Exchange of Chinese-Western Cartographical Culture was held in Beijing on 3 June 2015 in the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR). The Workshop was organised by the Commission of Cartography and GIS of the China Society of Surveying & Mapping and Geoinformation under the sponsorship and support of the Zhengzhou University of Information Engineering, the IGSNRR and the State key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System (LREIS).

Academicians, professors, researchers, graduate students participants in the Beijing Workshop on Chinese-Western Cartographic Heritage

Invited academicians, professors, scientists, researchers and graduate students coming from Research Institutes and Labs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from Universities, the National Library of China and other Institutions, presented their research on the issue and participated in discussions for future work and cooperation. Academicians Gao Jun and Zhou Chenghu and Profs Qi Qingwen, Sun Qun, Liqiu Meng, Bai Hongye, Gong Yingyan, Lu Liangzhi, Liang Qizhang and Evangelos Livieratos, presented papers and participated in the closing round table discussion. The International Cartographic Association was represented by the Chair of the Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage (E. Livieratos), the Chair of the Commission on Theoretical Cartography (Qingyun Du) and the Vice Chair of the Commission on Atlases (Qingwen Qi)

Corfu 2015: 10th Jubilee ICA Conference "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage"

The 10th Conference of the ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage, Corfu, 27-29 May 2015 | webpage, with the associated intensive course "Georeference for non-experts" and the map exhibition "Corfu: 18th Century Planimetries of Baronies", in cooperation with the History Department of the Ionian University, the General State Archives of Greece, the Hellenic Cartographic Society and the AUTH-SRSE Cartoheritage Group

 

Ormeling, Dr h.c.

Prof. Ferjan Ormeling, Dr Honoris Causa, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering

Prof. Ferjan Ormeling, Utrecht, received the academic title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering, in a ceremony held on May 7, 2015. The nomination was adressed by the Department of Cadasrte, Photogrammetry and Cartography, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering in recognition of Prof. Ormeling's outstanding contribution to Cartography. The Laudatio was read by Prof. Evangelos Livieratos.
Invitation | Programme | Full video of the ceremony (F. Ormeling's lecture in English from min 52) | Ormeling's lecture full text | Laudatio

e-Perimetron 10th volume

The international web journal e-Perimetron on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps, circulating in 4 issues per year since 2006, enters its 10th volume!

 

Leibniz Society Colloquium

The Colloquium "Geodäsie – Mathematik – Physik – Geophysik" organised by the Leibniz-Sozietät in Berlin, in cooperation with the University of Stuttgart, to honour the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. mult. Erik W. Grafarend, 13 February 2015. More | Photos

20th Anniversary of the Hellenic Cartographic Society

The Hellenic Cartographic Society (HCS) honored its founder Evangelos Livieratos, Chair of the ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage, in the occasion of the HCS 20th Anniversary (1994-2014). The ceremony took place at the opening of the 13th Hellenic Cartographic Conference, held in Patras, 22-24 October 2014, with the ICA President Georg Gartner presenting the honorary distinction

13th Hellenic Cartographic Conference

Patras, 22-24 October 2014 - 13th Hellenic Cartographic Conference: Cartography on the Internet - Current Developments and Perspectives. The Hellenic Cartographic Society / 20 Years 1994-2014. Endorsed by the International Cartographic Association

Budapest 2014: 9th ICA Workshop Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage

Budapest 4-5 September 2014: E. Livieratos with Bengt Rystedt (frm ICA President, Sweden), Ferjan Ormeling (frm ICA Secretary General, Netherlands) and -second rοw- Stuart Dunn (King's College London) and Peter Korsgaard (National Survey and Cadastre, Copenhagen) | webpage | photos: day 1, day 2

Map & Geoinformation Curators Group (MAGIC)

The new international Map & Geoinformation Curators Group (MAGIC)" was established in 23 May 2014 during the 19th Conference of the former "Groupe des Cartothécaires" in Ljubljana

The MAGIC Group decided to join the ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage

Obs!

Worth navigating: the series of virtual map exhibitions, Galerie des cartes et globes produced by the Bibliothèque nationale de France - BnF; Histoire de la Cartographie | Les enjeux de la cartographie site

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