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NACIS News: July 2025

Date posted: July 28, 2025

Register now for NACIS 2025

Log in to our website with your NACIS account to register at the member or student rate. If you’re not already a member, consider joining! Non-members can also register. Register by October 4th to receive an early-bird discount. Visit the current meeting page to register and for more information about the conference. Don’t forget to book your hotel room early, as our room block often sells out quickly.

Conference schedule

The preliminary conference program is now available. NACIS 2025 will feature more than 100 Main Conference talks, 29 Practical Cartography Day talks, two panels, two Birds of a Feather sessions, a workshop, and a field trip!

Meet our keynote speaker

Richard Schein is Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky. He is a former Fulbright Bicentennial Chair of North American Studies (University of Helsinki) and has been named Distinguished Historical Geographer by the Association of American Geographers. He writes about the American Landscape as a mold and mirror of American life, and especially its place in racialized geographies.

Professor Schein lives in Woodford County Kentucky, home of fast horses and good bourbon, where he is a planning commissioner and president of the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation.

Conference details

Attention presenters: Acceptance emails were sent out July 12th. Please confirm your participation by replying to the acceptance email by Thursday, July 31st. Carefully review your abstract in the preliminary schedule and make sure it’s no more than 100 words long, or we’ll edit it for you. How it appears in Sched is how it will appear in the print program! If you didn’t receive an acceptance email or you have edits to your abstract, please email veep@nacis.org.

Please remember that presenters are required to register for PCD (if presenting on Wednesday) and for the Main Conference (if presenting on Thursday or Friday).

Questions about the Main Conference, workshops, or field trips? Email veep@nacis.org.

Questions about Practical Cartography Day? Email pcd@nacis.org.

Travel grant applications are now open. You can apply here.

Letters of support, confirming registration, are available for international attendees. Contact business@nacis.org.

The deadline for Map Gallery submissions and Student Print and Dynamic Map Competition entries is August 31st.

SUBMIT A MAP

We want your tiny maps

If you’ve ever thought about submitting a map for the gallery, but lack the time or inspiration for a poster-sized entry, this is for you. We’re putting together a Tiny Map Display for the Map Gallery this year, comprised entirely of postcard-sized maps. Here are the specs:

Map must be 4″ x 6″ (standard postcard size)
Map must be able to be pinned to foamboard (no heavy media)

To keep the display tidy, please don’t make it larger or smaller than 4×6. If you want to make an Even Tinier map, please create it on a 4×6 ground.

That’s it! No theme, no other rules. If this sounds like fun, please submit your map via the gallery form by August 31st with the title Tiny Map Display: <name of map>, and we’ll know to include it.

Curious about conference pricing?

Click on this infographic to learn about the conference planning process and timeline, plus the factors that go into determining conference costs.

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