Upcoming Events:

• Photos of two of the world maps in the Harris Maps Collection were on display at the Capital Museum in Beijing until May 27, 2011 in an exhibit organized by The University of Melbourne, Australia titled: “Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan-Aboriginal Trade.”
   

• The exhibition is now on display at the Melbourne Museum in Australia from July 23 – Oct. 17, 2011
   

• Next the exhibition will move to the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in 2012.
  
  (In a book titled Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan-Aboriginal Trade by Professor Marcia Langton she includes photos of the two Harris Maps in the exhibit.)

Recent Presentations:

• June 7, 2011
  Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library
  Monterey Park, CA
   

• June 11, 2011
  Presentation
  U.S. Chinese Art Museum
  Oakland, CA

• February 12, 2011
  Luncheon & Presentation
  Circumnavigators Club, Washington, DC Chapter
  Rockville, MD
   

• October 14, 2010
  Seton Hall University
  South Orange, NJ
   

• September 20, 2010
  Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina)
  Nanaimo, BC, Canada
   

• September 16, 2010
  Asian Centre Auditorium
  Vancouver, BC, Canada
  
  Co-sponsored by:
  Asian Studies Library, UBC
  St. John's College, UBC
  Historical Map Society of British Columbia
  Vancouver, BC, Canada
   

• September 14, 2010
  Ventura County Maritime Museum
  Oxnard , CA
  
  Sponsored by:
  World Affairs Council of America, California Central Coast
   

• September 13, 2010
  Cerritos Public Library
  Cerritos, CA 90703
  
  Sponsored by:
  California Historical Society of Southern California
   

• September 11, 2010
  U.S. Chinese Art Museum
  Oakland, CA
   

• July 19, 2010
  Symposium: "Ancient China's Navigation Science-Technology and Impacts"
  
  Tsinghua University
  Institute of Transportation Engineering
  Beijing, China
   

• July 9, 2010
  National Library of China
  Exhibition Hall of Rare Collections
  
  Beijing, China
   

• July 5, 2010
  Zheng He Symposium
  Melaka, Malaysia
  
  

Charlotte has previously spoken at numerous locations including the Library of Congress, the University of London, the University of Maryland, City University of NY, Portland State University, Stanford University, China Institute NYC, and Simon Fraser, Vancouver, BC. Her book Secret Maps of the Ancient World was listed in fall 2008 as a new publication by WCILCOS (The World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies.) This book appeared in March 2009 at the National Library Show for American College and Research Libraries in Seattle, at the London (England) Book Fair in April 2009, and at the book fair of the American Library Association in Chicago in July 2009.