-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:52:05 -0500 From: O'malley, Erin <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> *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]>.