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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Texas Map Society Spring Meeting

Logo.jpg (5980 bytes)    Texas Map Society http://libraries.uta.edu/txmapsociety/ spring meeting this year is in San Antonio, April 3-5. The principal sessions on the 4th include
 

John Hébert, Chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress

Topic: "Cartographic Reflections of the Urrutia Map"

 

David Buisseret, formerly Garrett Chair Holder, UT at Arlington

Topic: "Another Perspective on the Urrutia Map"

 

Richard Kagan, Professor of Early Modern History, John Hopkins University

Topic: "Urban Images in Hispanic Maps"

 

Ricardo Padrón, Associate Professor of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia

Topic: "The Spacious World of Spanish America"

 

John Miller Morris, Associate Professor of Geography, UT at San Antonio

Topic: "Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier"

 

John Wheat, Center for American Studies, UT at Austin

Topic: "From Old Maps to Modern Books; Jack Jackson's Colonial Cartography"

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