2022 Virginia Garrett Lectures Schedule

Session 1: “Big Tex”: The Literary, Historical, Cultural & Natural Geographies of the Lone Star State, Charles Travis IV, PhD, UT Arlington [Parlor] 

This presentation sponsored by Michael Foley.

This break sponsored by McBride Rare Books.

Session 2: Maps and Indigenous History in the Texas Borderlands, Juliana Barr, PhD, Duke University [Parlor]

 This presentation sponsored by The Antiquarium.

Break

This break sponsored by Jack Franke in honor of Dennis Reinhartz.

Session 3: Some Spanish Manuscript Cartography – Hernán Cortes through Juan Pedro Walker, Dennis Reinhartz, PhD, UT Arlington, Emeritus [Parlor] 

This presentation sponsored by the Texas General Land Office.

Session 4: How Maps Doomed La Salle's 1684 Attempt to Colonize the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Jim Bruseth, PhD, Texas Historical Commission [Parlor] 

 This presentation sponsored by Boston Rare Maps.

Break

This break sponsored by Robert Augustyn Rare Maps & Prints.

Session 5: The Shape of Texas: Mexican Texas to Early Statehood, 1835-1850, Gerald Saxon, PhD, UT Arlington [Parlor]

This presentation sponsored by Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps, Inc.

Break 

 This break sponsored by Old World Auctions.

This presentation sponsored by the Texas Map Society.

Session 7: Piquet Post, Key to Texas, Doorway to the Interior of Texas: Understanding the Alamo Role in the Texas Revolution, Bruce Winders, PhD, Schreiner University [Parlor] 

This presentation sponsored by The Garrett Family in honor of Ben Huseman and Imre Demhardt

Break

This break sponsored by the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

Break

 This break sponsored by William Reese Company.

Session 9: The View from Above: Mapping our Borderless World, Angel Abbud-Madrid, PhD, Colorado School of Mines [Parlor] 

This presentation sponsored by Wes Brown.

Session 10: My Favorite Map, David Finfrock, Host [Parlor]