Special Collections Division the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Vol. XIV * No. 1 * Spring 2000

Virginia Garrett Lectures To Be October 6

Collections Division, the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography, and the Friends of the UTA Libraries will sponsor the Second Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography. The lectures will be on the sixth floor of UTA’s Central Library and will begin at 10:00 a.m. The theme of the lectures will be Maps and Popular Culture.

The speakers and their topics for the Garrett Lectures are:

James Akerman, director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, "Riders Wanted: Maps as Promotional Tools in the American Transportation Industry"; Tom Conley, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, "Worlds Apart: Maps in Classical Cinema and the Modern Movie"; Richard Francaviglia, director of UTA’s Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography, "Cover the Earth: The Role of Maps in Advertising and Promotion"; Mark Monmonier, professor of geography at Syracuse University, "Maps in the Media: News, Factoids, Explanations, and Entertainment"; Dennis Reinhartz, professor of history at UTA, "Making it Real: The Mapping of the Fictional, Fantastic, and Futuristic."

The registration fee for the Virginia Garrett Lectures will be $35.00. This includes lunch, a reception, and dinner. There will also be a meeting of the Texas Map Society at UTA the following day, October 7. People registering for both the October 6 Garrett Lectures and the October 7 Texas Map Society meeting can do so for $55.00. The Garrett Lectures are underwritten, in part, by the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Endowment.

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

Katherine Goodwin
Special Collections Division
UTA Libraries
Box 19497
Arlington, TX 76019-0497
(817) 272-5329 (phone)
(817) 272-3360 (fax)
e-mail: goodwin@uta.edu

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