FIFTH BIENNIAL VIRGINIA GARRETT LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY

Friday, October 6, 2006

The University of Texas at Arlington Central Library, Sixth Floor Atrium

 

 

Mapping the Sacred: Belief and Religion in the History of Cartography Program


 

9:30-10:00 a.m.
Registration and Refreshments

10:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Welcome, Introductions and Opening Remarks
Dennis Reinhartz
Master of Ceremonies
Professor of History, The University of Texas at Arlington

 

Speakers

10:15-11:15 a.m.
Session I

"Jewish Cartography Between
Tradition and Imitation"

Rehav Rubin
Chairman, Dept. of Geography,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

11:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Break

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Session II
"On the Trail of the Trail to Sun's House:
Navajo Maps and Religion"

Klara Bonsack Kelly

Independent Cultural Resources consultant
Navajoland, U.S.A.

and

Harris Francis, Navajo
American Indian Cultural Rights Protection Consultant

12:30 - 1:30 p. m.
Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Session III

"Traces of the Diabolic and the
Divine in Islamic Maps"

Karen C. Pinto

Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

2:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Break

 

2:45 - 3:45 p.m.
Session IV

"Mapmakers of New Zion:
the Significance of Cartography in Mormon History, 1830-2005"

Richard Francaviglia

Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies
and the History of Cartography,
The University of Texas at Arlington

3:45 - 4:00 p.m.
Remarks

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Reception and Exhibition Opening

Mapping the Sacred: Belief and Religion
in the History of Cartography

7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Dinner in the Atrium

8:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Session V
"To Draw is to Understand:
Mapping the Bible Text"

Catherine Delano-Smith

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research
University of London, England

9:00 - 9:15 p.m.
Closing Remarks

Ann E. Hodges

Special Collections Program Coordinator
The University of Texas at Arlington Library

 

 

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

Carolyn Kadri
Special Collections, UT Arlington Library
Box 19497 * Arlington, TX 76019-0497
Phone: 817.272.7153 * Fax: 817.272.3360
Email: kadri@uta.edu

 


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