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The 49th Annual Meeting of the Society will be held in Arlington Texas from October 5-7,
2008, immediately following the Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History of Cartography (October 3, 2008) and the joint meeting of the Texas Map Society and the Philip Lee Phillips Society of the Library of Congress (October 4, 2008). Virginia Garrett and her husband are Fellows of the Society for the History of Discoveries, and this will be the first meeting we have planned to coincide with their Lecture series. It has been 12 years (1995) since the Society last met in Texas. Again dovetailing with two major cartographic/exploration events will provide our members the ability to come early to partake in events that have been becoming increasingly popular in the past years. Mark your calendars NOW.
More details are available at the 2008 Meeting
Page.
Chicago Illinois was the site of our November 11-13, 2007
meeting. The major exhibition MAPS
had just opened at the Field Museum. From November 8-10, the Nebenzahl Lectures
were offered. A Festival of Maps was being held in Chicago, with activities at other museums and libraries as well. We linked our meeting to all these events. Click on the link above to read about the meeting and see photos of our events.
Antony Adler, of St. John's, Newfoundland, is the winner of the
2007 SHD Essay Contest. His essay is titled, “Uncharted Seas: European Polynesian Encounters in the Age of Discoveries.” He wrote it as his senior comprehensive exam for his B.A. degree in History from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Antony is entering a graduate program in Museum Studies this fall at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Thanks to former President Eric Wolf’s excellent bookkeeping,
you can find within this SHD website
a full listing of those who serve now and have served in the past as
SHD Officers (that includes Presidents, Vice Presidents, Secretary-Treasurers and Council Members) and Editors of
Terrae Incognitae.
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