Map enthusiasts!
The time for the convening of the Seventh Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography, Friday, October 8, 2010, the Fall Meeting of the Texas Map Society, Saturday, October 9, 2010, and the Meeting of the International Cartographic Association Commission on the History of Cartography, Sunday, October 10 through Wednesday, October 13, 2010 is rapidly approaching and registration deadlines are near.
Charting the Cartography of Companies: Company Mapping, 1600-1900 is the theme of the Seventh Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography, which will take place on October 8, 2010, and the accompanying exhibit at UT Arlington Library’s Special Collections. The focus of the event and the exhibit is maps, and how they reflect and shaped the histories of chartered companies. The concept of the chartered company evolved in early modern Europe, where sovereigns, states or nations granted to these types of corporations certain concessions or rights and privileges and bound them to certain obligations under a special charter. The charter defined and limited the companies’ rights, privileges, obligations, and the localities where these were in effect. Often this involved a trading monopoly in a specific geographic area – a geographical component that necessarily involved cartography or the representation of company-related jurisdictions and/or assets on maps.Attendees this year are presented with a special
opportunity to extend their visit and enlarge their horizons for
the next several days as the International Cartographic
Association’s Commission on the History of Cartography
begins their Third International Symposium on the History of
Cartography on October 10 through October 13, 2010.
The Symposium also continues the theme of the Virginia Garrett
lectures and will be open to all cartographers, geographers,
historians, map collectors, academics and lay persons interested
in the history of cartography, especially but not restricted to
the period from the mid-18th to the mid-20th centuries.
Map festivities continue with the Fall Meeting of the Texas Map Society on October 9, 2010. Peter van der Krogt, Professor on the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, and a world-renowned authority on Dutch globes and atlases as well as many other aspects of cartographic history will speak on North America in Dutch Atlases, from the 16th to the 20th Centuries. Watch the Texas Map Society website for more information and updates about other speakers.
View more information, including registration links and hotel information on the Seventh Biennial Virginia Garrett webpage at:
http://library.uta.edu/spco/Garrett2010/
If you have any questions, please contact:
Carolyn Kadri
817-272-7153