Annual Fall Meeting
of the
Texas Map Society

The 2004 annual fall meeting will be in conjunction with the Fourth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography. The TMS meeting follow the Garrett Lectures on Saturday, October 2, 2004 and will take place at The University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library, sixth floor atrium.

As an added attraction for this meeting, the TMS Board has invited map and book dealers who are members of the Texas Map Society to display and offer for sale items pertaining to cartography. The dealers will have booths set up in the atrium on the sixth floor of The University of Texas at Arlington's Central Library from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

 

pROGRAM

The University of Texas at Arlington
Central Library, sixth floor Atrium

 

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Registration and Refreshments
Map & Book Sale Opens

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
"Maps of Steel, Concrete, Stone, Glass and Wood:
An Informal Study of Maps as Public Art
on Floors, Walls, and Ceilings"
Stuart Gleichenhaus
Collector, Dallas, Texas

10:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Break

10:30 - 12:00 Noon
Cartographic Scholarship
in the Making

"Images of Retribution: Execution Scenes in Early Modern European Maps"
Alex Hunnicutt
Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas at Arlington

"Depictions of Physical Movement of European Cartographic Images of New World Exploration"
Craig Shupee
Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas at Arlington

"Tools of the Trade: Visualizing the Expansion of English Trade in the Seventeenth Century"
Alistair Maeer
Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas at Arlington

12:00 Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch (provided) 
Annual Meeting with Elections
 

 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
"Days of Glory: Disposition of a Map Collection"
PANEL MODERATOR
John Martin Davis, Jr.

PANEL MEMBERS
Gervais Bell
Collector, Houston, Texas
Murray Hudson
Map Dealer, Halls, Tennessee
Russell L. Martin
Director of the DeGolyer Library
Southern Methodist University

2:00 - 2:15 p.m.
Break

2:15 - 3:15 p.m.
"The World in Your Hands:
American Globes and Globe Makers"
Murray Hudson
Map and Globe Dealer, Halls, Tennessee

3:15 - 3:30p.m.
Break

3:30 - 4: 30 p.m.
"Cartographic Treasures of the
Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library:
Gallery Tour of an Academic Library"
Katherine R. Goodwin
Cartographic Archivist, The University of Texas at Arlington

4:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks
John Crain
President, Texas Map Society

5:30 p.m.
Map and Book Sale
Closes

8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Map and Book Exhibit  and Sales
by
Texas Map Society Dealer Members
 

Introduction

Garrett Lectures Program
Hotel Information Location Information
Registration Form Map & Book Exhibit & Sale (coming soon)
Special Collections Home Texas Map Society Home

For more information about the Garrett Lectures or the Texas Map Society meeting, please contact:

Kit Goodwin
Special Collections, UTA Libraries ∙ Box 19497 ∙ Arlington, Texas 76019-0497
Phone: 817-272-5329 ∙ Fax: 817-272-3360 ∙ email: goodwin@uta.edu