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| Sunday 9th September 2012 |
| 18.00 - 19.00 | Registration at the Hilton Vienna (Am Stadtpark 1, 1030 Vienna) |
| 18.15 - 20.15 | Welcome-Drink for all participants and honorary guests after the registration at the Hilton Vienna (1st floor)
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| Monday 10th September 2012 |
| 08.00 - 08.30 | Registration (Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Vienna) |
| | Opening ceremony, chaired by Stefaan Missinne (Belgium) |
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| 08.20 - 08.30 | "Alliance Quartett" (Vienna): Johann Strauss Son "Wiener Blut" |
| 08.30 - 08.35 | Stefaan Missinne (Vienna): Welcome statement |
| 08.35 - 08.40 | "Alliance Quartett" (Vienna): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Divertimento in F-Dur, KV 138, Allegro" |
| 08.40 - 08.45 | Hans Kok (Lisse): The 30st IMCoS Symposium |
| 08.45 - 08.50 | Johanna Rachinger (Vienna): Opening statement |
| 08.50 - 08.55 | "Alliance Quartett" (Vienna): Franz Schubert "Walzer and Galopp" |
| 08.55 - 09.10 | Michael Salvator Habsburg-Lothringen (Persenbeug): The Habsburg Empire during the 16th century |
| 09.10 - 09.15 | "Alliance Quartett" (Vienna): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Divertimento in F-Dur, KV 138, Presto" |
| 09.150 - 09.30 | Wouter Bracke (Brussels): A royal source for Mercator: The "Atlas Bruxellensis" by Christiaan Sgrooten |
| | Panel 1, chaired by Petra Svatek (Austria):
Regional cartography in the Habsburg empire during 16th century, part I | |
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| 09.30 - 10.00 | Ferdinand Opll (Vienna): Vienna from the 15th to the middle of the 16th century - topography and townscape |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Helga Hühnel (Vienna): Geographica from the first half of the 16th century in the holdings of the Austrian National Library |
| 10.30 | Group picture: Stairs of the Jesuit Church on the square oposite the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee / Tea break |
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| | Panel 2, chaired by Hans Kok (The Netherlands):
Regional cartography in the Habsburg Empire during 16th century, part II |
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| 11.00 - 11.30 | Petra Svatek (Vienna): The "Typi chorographici provinciarum Austria" (1561) by Wolfgang Lazius |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Richard Pflederer (Williamsburg): Charles V and charting the roads to the "Empire on which the sun never sets" |
| 12.10 - 13.40 | Lunch at the Restaurant "Pfudl" (Bäckerstrasse 22, 1010 Vienna) for RED, GREEN and HONORARY GUESTS groups
Lunch at the Restaurant "Inigo" (Bäckerstrasse 18, 1010 Vienna) for YELLOW group |
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| | Afternoon events |
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| 13.40 - 17.45 |
| Visit to the Woldan Collection of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
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| Visit of the "Hyperglobe" at the Department of Geography of Vienna University (Andreas Riedl: Hyperglobes - spherical displays as virtual 3D-facsimile archives) |
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| Visit to the Historical Museum of the city of Vienna |
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Afternoon rest with tea/coffee/cakes at the
Imperial Hotel (Clubroom; Kärntner Ring 16, 1010 Vienna) |
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| | Evening event |
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| 18.25 | Departure from the meeting-point to go by public transport to the Ambassador's reception |
| 18.30 | Reception at the Residence of H. E. the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium |
| Tuesday 11th September 2012 |
| 08.30 - 09.00 | Registration (Sonnenfelsgasse 19) |
| Panel 3, chaired by Stefaan Missinne (Belgium):
Gerhard Mercator part I |
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| 09.00 - 09.30 | Thomas Horst (Munich): Mercator as a cosmographer - his globes and their relationship to astrology |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Georg Zotti (Vienna): Mercator's celestial globe (1551) |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Klaus A. Vogel (Göttingen): Cosmographicae meditiationes: Gerhard Mercator as universal scientist, theologian and humanist |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee/tea break |
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| | Panel 4, chaired by Patricia Seed (USA):
Gerhard Mercator part II |
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| 11.00 - 11.30 | Peter van der Krogt (Utrecht): Gerard Mercator and his cosmography: how the Atlas became an atlas |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Marica Milanesi (Pavia): Intentio totius cosmographiae |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Jan de Graeve (Brussels): The scientific library of Gerhard Mercator |
| 12.30 - 13.00 | Peter Barber (London): Mercator and his "Atlas of Europe": official obligations and the pursuit of truth |
| 13.10 - 14.10 | Lunch at the Restaurant "Pfudl" (Bäckerstrasse 22, 1010 Vienna) for YELLOW and GREEN groups
Lunch at the Restaurant "Inigo" (Bäckerstrasse 18, 1010 Vienna) for RED group |
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| | Afternoon events |
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| 14.10 - 17.45 |
| Exclusive visit to the world's biggest Globe Museum (Herrengasse 9, 1010 Vienna) |
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| Guided visit to the State Hall of the Austrian National Library and viewing of the map exhibition "Cartographic rarities of the Austrian National Library from the first half of the 16th century" |
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| Visit to a rare collection of early maps, manuscripts and atlases (e. g. Ptolemy 1478) at the Austrian State Archives (War Department; Nottendorfer Gasse 2, 1030 Vienna) |
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Afternoon rest with tea/coffee/cakes at the
Steigenberger Hotel (Restaurant Room; Herrengasse 10, 1010 Vienna) |
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| 17.45 - 18.45 | For speakers, chairs and honorary guests only: exclusive visit to the private globe collection of Fmr. President of "The International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes" Prof. Rudolf Schmidt (limited to 25 persons) |
| | Evening event |
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| 18.45 - 19.30 | Individual transfer to the "10er Marie" |
| 19.30 | Reception and dinner on the invitation of the mayor of Vienna in the "10er Marie", the oldest "Heuriger" of Vienna (Ottakringer Str. 222-224, 1160 Vienna) |
| Wednesday 12th September 2012 |
| 08.00 - 08.30 | Registration incl. for antiquarians (Sonnenfelsgasse 19) |
| | Collector's Corner and cartographic analysis, chaired by Robert Clancy (Australia) |
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| 08.30 - 09.50 | |
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| | Eric Leenders (Antwerp): A surveying symbol connects Gerard Mercator to Jacob van Deventer on the map of Flanders |
| | Patricia Seed (Irvine): Three Mercator projections? A comparison of prints in Rotterdam, Basel, and Paris |
| | Nick Kanas (San Francisco): Celestial maps and frontispieces in the time of Mercator |
| | Zsolt Török (Budapest): 16th century fortification atlases of the Habsburg-Ottoman border zone |
| 09.50 - 10.30 | Coffee/tea break |
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| 10.30 - 11.30 | chaired by Peter Barber (Great Britain) |
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| | Marcel van den Broecke (Bilthoven): Mercator and Ortelius. Two of a kind? |
| | James Sykes (New York): A most fortuitous discovery or So I didn't find a coffee table |
| | Elmar Csaplovics (Dresden): The emergence of early regional maps of Hungary and their influence on the Mercator maps of Hungary |
| 11.30 - 13.10 | Lunch at the restaurant
"Inigo" (Bäckerstrasse 18, 1010 Vienna) |
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| | Excursion by bus to Lower Austria and the UNESCO World Heritage region "Wachau" |
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| 13.20 | Departure from the meeting-point (Weisskirchnerstrasse 3, 1010 Vienna; bus parking in front of the MAK) to the Schallaburg and Melk |
| 14.45 - 16.30 | Guided visit to the renaissance castle Schallaburg (exhibition "The Golden Byzantium and the Orient") |
| | Afternoon rest with coffee/tea/cake at the inner court of the castle |
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| 17.00 - 19.00 | Guided visit to the Benedictine Monastery of Melk with private viewing of the atlases and maps of the monastery |
| 19.30 - 22.00 | Gala-dinner incl. aperitif in the garden, speeches and gifts for the participants at the typical austrian "Wachau" restaurant Loibnerhof on the bank of the river Danube near Dürnstein |
| 22.00 | Depature of the first bus to Vienna |
| 22.30 | Depature of the second bus to Vienna |
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