The Commission aims to hold annual meetings, alternatingly as Workshops in conjunction with the International Cartographic Conference and as International Symposia.
The following meetings have been organised in the past:
- Workshop in conjunction with the 30th ICC, University of Florence, Firenze, 13 December 2021
- Workshop in conjunction with the 12th Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography, University of Texas at Arlington Central Library, Arlington, 30 September 2021
- 8th International Symposium, German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul, 21-23 April 2020
- Workshop in conjunction with the 29th ICC, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, 15 July 2019
- Workshop in conjunction with the 28th ICHC, Utrecht University Library, 12 July 2019
- 7th International Symposium, Weston Library, Oxford, 13-15 September 2018
- Regional Symposium Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters between East and West, Leiden University Libraries, Leiden, 15-16 September 2017
- Workshop in conjunction with the 28th ICC, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 28-30 June 2017
- 6th International Symposium, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik (IUC), 13-15 October 2016
- 5th International Symposium, Ghent University, 2-5 December 2014
- Special session at the 25th ICHC, Helsinki, 30 June – 5 July 2013
- Workshop in conjunction with the 26th ICC, Leibniz Institüt fur Länderkunde, Leipzig, 22-23 August 2013
- 4th International Symposium, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 28-29 June 2012
- Workshop in conjunction with the 25th ICC, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 2 July 2011
- 3rd International Symposium, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), 10-13 October 2010
- 2nd International Symposium, Portsmouth University, 10-12 September 2008
- 1st International Symposium, Utrecht University, 21-23 August 2006