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! 👏
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🌊📖 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.
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The fort was built on the banks of the Guaporé River in 1775 to mark the Portuguese presence on the frontiers between the Iberian empires in South America. See some photos from the trip! 🧭🏕🌳
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...
Abstracts (250-350 words) will be accepted until January 16, 2026 at the email addresses of the coordinators or at JECM2026@miuandes.cl
Maria Gandini (jgandini@unsam.edu.ar)
Javiera Hidalgo (javieraj@vt.edu)
Malena Palmero (mlpalmero@unsam.edu.ar)
Diego Mellado Gomez (diego.mellado@usach.cl)
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"
Join us to discover the vision behind this great exhibition and glimpse the extraordinary world of cartographic imagination.
Available on Geopam's YouTube channel:
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!
Travel accounts from remote and unknown territories offer perspectives from the ship that allowed explorers to “narrate the lived experience, describe the observed world, and draw new maps in order to possess it.”
www.canoageopam.org/post/los-inh...
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.
This book recapitulates the history of New Spain from a maritime perspective. It seeks to explain how, after this territory became part of global networks, it became a central zone in the maritime networks that developed in the Atlantic and the Pacific.
🔗 historicas.unam.mx/publicacione...
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. 🌿🌾
Why was South America referred to as Peru, Peruana, or América Peruana? What role did Potosí play in shaping such designations? And how did these perceptions affect Brazil? The book offers new insights into such questions, exploring continuities and shifts in European maps of South America.
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"!
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/j/8981811263...
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! 🗺️🌊
Scholars interested in participating should submit their proposals in Spanish or English to congresonaufragios@gmail.com by March 31, 2026.
Check out the website for more information: sites.google.com/view/congres...
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.
