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Subject:        Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures
Date:   Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:52:05 -0500
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*Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography*

Friday, October 3, 2008

Sixth Floor, Central Library

The University of Texas at Arlington

Lectures run all day, beginning at 10 a.m.

“Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900” is
the theme for the Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the
History of Cartography. The October 3, 2008, meeting, on the sixth floor
of UT Arlington's Central Library, will begin at 10am and is the anchor
event for several days of map society meetings. Focusing on maps and
their role in the opening of the American West, the talks will examine
the practice of making maps to report the placement of roads, railroads,
Indian lands, and wars as they happened.

The presentations this year are:

· "*Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Explorers in the American Northwest:
Solving the Riddle of the Great Divide*," by John Logan Allen, Professor
Emeritus of the Department of Geography at the University of Wyoming;

· "*Transnational Cartographies: Corporations, States, and the Remapping
of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands*," by Samuel Truett, Associate Professor
of History, University of New Mexico;

· "*Railroads and Roads Through Tribal Lands: Mapping the Pacific
Northwest’s Changing Landscape during the 1850s*" jointly by Ronald
Grim, Head of the Map Collection, Boston Public Library, and Paul D.
McDermott, Professor of Geography (retired), Montgomery College,
Rockville, Maryland;

· "*Maps and the U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-48: Governmental and Private
Mapping Efforts to Report on the Conflict as it Was Happening and in
Response to Official Reports*," John R. Hébert, Chief of the Geography
and Map Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.,

· "*Revisualizing the West: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900*," by UT
Arlington Cartographic Archivist Ben Huseman, whose talk will describe
two map exhibits to be held in conjunction with the lectures, one at the
Amon Carter Museum and another at The University of Texas at Arlington
Library’s Special Collections.

In addition to the Virginia Garrett Lectures, the Texas Map Society and
the Philip Lee Phillips Society will be meeting together at UT Arlington
on Saturday, October 4^th , and the Society for the History of
Discoveries will meet at the University on Sunday, October 5^th –
Tuesday, October 7^th . Members of the Council of North American Map
Societies will also be meeting at UT Arlington during these dates.

The Amon Carter Museum’s map exhibit opens June 28^th and will continue
until October 31^st . On display will be several fine maps from UT
Arlington’s Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library. The maps span
the century, from Aaron Arrowsmith’s great 1796 /Map of the United
States of North America/, with “Additions to 1802” to a colorful 1902
chromolithographed map showing not only the American West but also
territories acquired by the U.S. in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Among the rarest of these gems is a large map of Mexico drawn by John H.
Robinson, a medical doctor who accompanied Zebulon Pike’s famous and
ill-fated western expedition in 1806-1807.

An exhibit of maps at UT Arlington’s Special Collections on the same
theme opens August 25^th and runs through December 20^th . This exhibit
will include numerous impressive smaller maps from the library’s
collection as well as some significant maps generously loaned by the
DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University.

For more information about the Virginia Garrett Lectures or the Texas
Map Society, visit http://library.uta.edu/spco/Garrett2008/main.html ,
or contact Carolyn Kadri in Special Collections, UT Arlington Library,
at 817-272-7153 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.