2025 Texas Map Society Fall Meeting
ABOUT
Who: Texas Map Society & University of Texas – Arlington Special Collections, the Department of History and Geography, and the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies
What: Fall Meeting + Virginia Garrett Lectures
When: Saturday, October 4
Where: Sixth Floor Parlor, University of Texas – Arlington Library, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX 76019
Cost: $75/Person
Parking: The closest parking to the UTA Library is the Maverick Parking Garage (Floors 3 &4 $14/day): https://www.uta.edu/pats/parking/visitor-parking.php
Hotel: Hilton Arlington, 2401 East Lamar Boulevard, Arlington, Texas, 76006; – $149/night – Click Here to Make a Reservation
SCHEDULE
8:00 – 8:30 Check-In & Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome – TMS President Mylynka Kilgore Cardona
8:45 – 9:30 New Griechen land mit andern anstossenden Landern wie es zu unsern zeiten beschriben ist, Sebastian Munster, ca. 1550 – Imre Demhardt, University of Texas at Arlington
9:30 – 10:15 Mexico Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas (and) Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput, Georg Braun, 1572 – Gene Rhea Tucker, Temple College
10:15 – 10:30 MORNING BREAK
10:30 – 11:15 Planisphere Terrestre Suivant les nouvelle Observations des Astronomes Dressee et presente Roy Tres Chretien par Mr. Cassini le Fils, Pieter van der Aa, 1713 – Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, East Texas A&M University
11:15 – 12:00 A New Map of the World from the Latest Observations Most Humbly Inscribed to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, John Senex, 1721 – Alistair Maeer, Texas Wesleyan University
12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 2:00 Business Meeting & 2026 Meetings Sneak Peak
2:00 – 3:00 Virginia Garrett Award in Cartography previous winners roundtable and presentation of the 2025 Award
3:00 – 3:15 AFTERNOON BREAK
3:15 – 5:30 Open tour of UT-Arlington Special Collections – Dianne Powell Collection exhibit
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TMS Map Corner with David Finfrock
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