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Obituary: Monique Pelletier

Monique Pelletier (1934-2020)

Monique Pelletier nous a quittés le 21 janvier 2020, à l’âge de 85 ans.

Monique Pelletier est née à Issy-les-Moulineaux le 9 septembre 1934. Archiviste-paléographe, elle a consacré sa thèse de l’École des Chartes au Grand Conseil, de Charles VII à François 1er. Toute sa carrière de conservateur s’est déroulée à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, où elle  a exercé deux postes différents : de 1960 à 1977, elle a assuré la direction de la publication du « nouveau catalogue général » pour les publications arrivées à la BnF entre 1960 et 1970. À ce titre, elle a participé à la définition des normes internationales de description bibliographique. Puis en 1977, elle est nommée directeur du département des Cartes et plans, poste où elle resta 22 ans, jusqu’en 1999.

Monique Pelletier savait aussi encourager les travaux des chercheurs. Elle a accueilli dans le Département plusieurs « pensionnaires » détachés à l’issue de leurs études à l’École normale Supérieure et elle a su leur proposer des travaux intéressants, inscrits dans des problématiques contemporaines. Elle a également toujours été disponible pour aider les amateurs qui se lançaient dans des recherches.

Elle s’est engagée très vite dans les travaux du Comité français de cartographie dont elle fut présidente de 1988 à 1995. Elle a pris la direction de sa revue, Le monde des cartes, en 1992 et cela jusqu’à ces toutes dernières années.

Elle a su s’engager dans les organisations ou les associations professionnelles françaises ou internationales liées à l’histoire de la cartographie et y avoir une place éminente : elle a été membre de la section de géographie du CTHS dès 1977, avant d’en assurer la présidence vingt ans plus tard ; elle a présidé la commission histoire de la cartographie de l’Association cartographique internationale (1987-1995) ; elle a participé également aux travaux du « groupe des cartothécaires » de LIBER, aux travaux d’Imago Mundi, de Cartographica Helvetica, etc.

Ainsi l’activité de Monique Pelletier était à l’image de sa personnalité combattive et généreuse, toujours prête à se lancer dans de nouveaux projets, mais en sachant les mener à bien et à encourager ceux qui souhaitaient se lancer dans la même voie qu’elle. Les témoignages qui accompagnent l’ouvrage Tours et contours de la Terre sont à ce titre très émouvants et montrent la richesse de cette personnalité hors du commun.

Hélène Richard

Category: General News

Honorary Fellowship for Anne Ruas

Anne Ruas receiving the ICA Honorary FellowshipAnne Ruas receiving the ICA Honorary FellowshipDuring ICC 2017, Anne Ruas received the ICA Honorary Fellowship. Below you can read Menno-Jan Kraak‘s laudation:

Dear Ann,

It is a great pleasure to address you for this occasion to hand you the ICA Honorary Fellowship. This award is for cartographers of international reputation who have made special contribution to the ICA.

You fit this category well because during a long ICA career you have been active as Co-chair of the Commission on Generalization and Multiple representation (2003–2007), as Vice-President (2007–2015), but also you have been President of ICC 2011, Paris. And you are still committed to ICA because currently you are one of the two Editors of our International Journal of Cartography (2015–).

But what many people do not know is that you have other talents too. You are a good football player. I remember we both played in the red-team during a legendary ICA Commission match in Leicester many years ago.

Ann, I congratulate you with this honor and would like to hand you the medal and certificate now.

ICA Awards Ceremony at ICC2017

In the ICA Awards Ceremony at ICC2017, the following awards were presented in recognition of contributions to the ICA:

ICA Awardees 2017

From left to right: Igor Drecki, Cynthia Brewer, Timothy Trainor, Menno-Jan Kraak, Anne Ruas, William Cartwright, Matthew Rice, Aileen Buckley

ICA Honorary Fellowship

The ICA Honorary Fellowship is for cartographers of international reputation who have made special contribution to the ICA. It includes a bronze medal.

  • William Cartwright, Australia
  • Anne Ruas, France
    • Co-chair of the Commission on Generalization and Multiple Representation (2003–2007)
    • Vice-President (2007–2015)
    • President of ICC 2011, Paris
    • Editor of the International Journal of Cartography (2015–)
  • Timothy Trainor, USA
    • Chair or Co-chair of the Commission on National and Regional Atlases (1995–2007)
    • Chair of Census Cartography Working Group (2007–2011)
    • Vice-President (2007–2015)

Diplomas for outstanding services to ICA

The Diplomas for outstanding services to ICA are for colleagues who have made special contribution to the ICA as commission officers or conference organizers.

  • Igor Drecki, New Zealand
  • Aileen R. Buckley, USA
    • ICC2017 Organizing Committee member
  • Cynthia A. Brewer, USA
    • ICC2017 Organizing Committee member
  • Matthew Rice, USA
    • ICC2017 Organizing Committee member

 
Overview of ICA Awards presented at ICC2015

Congratulations to all awardees!

Colloque Temps, art & cartographie

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If you are interested in the relationships between Maps, Art and Time (and if you speak French…) this might be a great event to attend: Colloque “Temps, art & cartographie: La sémiologie dans tous les sens”. This colloquy will take at the University of Strasbourg (France) on March 16–18, 2016. Deadline for submitting abstracts: October 31, 2015.

Sébastien Caquard,
ICA Commission on Art & Cartography

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ICA at the 37th session of the General Conference of UNESCO

37th session of the General Conference of UNESCO

37th session of the General Conference of UNESCO

Anne Ruas at the ICA booth

Anne Ruas at the ICA booth

The ICA was present during the 37th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, November 2013, Paris. Anne Ruas run a booth and gave a talk to present the activities of our association during the Non Governmental Organizations event. The role of map and geographical information for development and education was particularly emphasized. Having a better, quicker description of our world, its resources, its events, is a major importance.

The ICA is a leading international organization that plays an important role to improve the expertise and processes to make the information more readable and more accessible for all. Different contacts were taken with other organizations from Mali or Kenya such as SIL International which deals with the studies of minority languages and cultures around the world.

Category: General News

New book on toponyms in cartography published

Peter Jordan & Ferjan Ormeling (eds.), Toponyms in Cartography. ISBN 978-3-8300-6700-9

Peter Jordan & Ferjan Ormeling (eds.), Toponyms in Cartography. ISBN 978-3-8300-6700-9

The proceedings of the toponymic sessions at the 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3–8 July 2011 are now published in the book Toponyms in Cartography, edited by Peter Jordan & Ferjan Ormeling.

The ICA’s 25th International Cartographic Conference in Paris in July 2011 is special from a toponymical point of view because it marks the first meeting of the joint ICA-IGU Commission on Toponymy. Toponymy has been a regular theme for international cartographic conferences for decades, and it is only proper that this has been institutionalized now. The subject of toponymy is now not only dealt within an onomastical context at the biannual ICOS meetings, and within an administrative context at the biannual UNGEGN meetings, but also within a geo-cartographic context at joint ICA-IGU meetings.

The toponymical contributions to the Paris International Cartographic Conference are diverse, both geographically and thematically. Geographically, the focus is on Brazil and on Europe, with a paper on Tunis as a Mediterranean extension of Europe. The subjects range from the collection of geographical names to the operation of names servers, from the use of exonyms in school atlases to the creation of names data bases and from the reconstruction of former namescapes to the creation of new ones.

February’s Map of the Month is the hydrographic map Port de Djibouti

Port de Djibouti

We are happy to announce the Map of the Month for February: “Port de Djibouti” by the French Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency. It received the second jury’s prize in the category “Hydrographic or Maritime Navigation Charts” at the International Cartographic Exhibition at ICC 2011 in Paris.

Zoom in and get more details here!

Category: General News

Updates to the ICA website due to ICC 2011 in Paris

The 15th General Assembly of the ICA took place at the last International Cartographic Conference in Paris, France from 3rd to 8th of July 2011. In the picture above you can see the new executive committee together with the new commission chairs. We finally managed to incorporate all necessary changes into the ICA website:

If you think there is some important information missing or if you find an error on the website, please don’t hesitate to contact Manuela and Felix at website@icaci.org.

Category: General News
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