Maps and Measurements in Islamic Cartography
Tolmacheva, Marina - University of Washington
2010-09-15 11:43:00-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - MLB Lecture Room B (1420)
Duration: 01:18:20

This lecture will address the intercultural diversity of scientific heritage traditions in Islamic geography and cartography. Muslim geographers and astronomers derived some of the basic concepts of projection, space, orientation, etc. from diverse and sometimes incompatible sources. The lecture will demonstrate the major cartographical templates of the Muslim Middle Ages, discuss the use of itineraries and distance measurements alongside geographical coordinates, and give examples of some unanswered questions in pre-modern Arabic cartography.

Marina Tolmacheva is Professor of History at the University of Washington, where she teaches Islamic civilization and Middle East history.

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Colloquium "Designing Nations: Maps and Statistical Modeling in the Middle East."

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The Worldmapper Project and the State of the World Today
Newman, Mark - University of Michigan
2010-09-22 11:41:18-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - MLB Lecture Room B (1420)
Duration: 01:15:07

Mark Newman is the Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, and with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Colloquium "Designing Nations: Maps and Statistical Modeling in the Middle East."

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Mapping the Countries of the World by Development and Morality: the Perceptions of Ordinary People
Thornton, Arland - University of Michigan
2010-09-29 11:44:24-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - MLB Lecture Room B (1420)
Duration: 01:20:59

Arland Thornton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, where he is also a Research Professor at the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center. He is a social demographer who has served as president of the Population Association of America and currently holds a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. For much of his career, Thornton has focused on the study of family and demographic issues, with a particular emphasis on marriage, cohabitation, divorce, childbearing, intergenerational relations, and gender roles. He has received four awards for his books as well as a distinguished career award from the American Sociological Association.
During the past decade Thornton has devoted considerable time and energy studying developmental idealism and its influence in many areas of the world. His 2001 presidential address to the Population Association of America focused on this topic, as does his award-winning book entitled Reading History Sideways: the Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life. Of particular importance for Thornton’s current work are the ways in which values, beliefs, and people have been and are being distributed around the world. His work (in collaboration with others) has involved conceptualization, measurement, and analysis of data from several countries, including Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Malawi, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, the U.S., and Vietnam.

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Colloquium "Designing Nations: Maps and Statistical Modeling in the Middle East."

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Subjective Cartography - Mapping Palestine through Visual Art and Personal Narratives
Millman, Toby - Independent Scholar
2010-10-06 11:50:07-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - MLB Lecture Room B (1420)
Duration: 01:09:44

Toby Millman is an Independent Scholar. Her web site is www.tobymillman.com

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Colloquium "Designing Nations: Maps and Statistical Modeling in the Middle East."

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Mapping Early Modern Ottoman Space: Inlands, and Outlands
Brummett, Palmira - University of Tennessee
2010-10-27 11:45:35-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - MLB Lecture Room B (1420)
Duration: 01:14:05

Palmira Brummett is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. Professor Brummett teaches Middle Eastern history, world history, and rhetorics of cross-cultural encounter (East-West, national, gendered). She is interested in the ways in which identities are imagined and constructed. Her specialty is the Ottoman empire, particularly its history of commerce and communication in the Afro-Eurasian sphere.

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Colloquium "Designing Nations: Maps and Statistical Modeling in the Middle East."

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Mapping the Iranian and Arabic Blogospheres
Etling, Bruce - Harvard University
2010-11-03 11:48:12-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - MLB Lecture Room B (1420)
Duration: 00:57:45

Bruce Etling, Harvard University, directs the Internet & Democracy Project at the Berkman Center. Before joining Berkman, Bruce was the Director of USAID’s Office of Democracy and Governance in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has also worked on democracy programs for USAID in Russia and Cambodia. Before USAID, he worked on a large independent media development program in the NIS and Central and Eastern Europe for the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). He first joined Harvard Law School as part of the Afghan Legal History Project at the Islamic Legal Studies Program. Bruce's current research interests include the Iranian, Arabic, and Russian blogospheres, online organizing, and the Internet's impact on the Georgian-Russian conflict over South Ossetia. He blogs at the Internet & Democracy Blog. Bruce has a Master's degree in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a Bachelor's degree from West Virginia University in Russian, Slavic Studies, and International Studies.

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Colloquium "Designing Nations: Maps and Statistical Modeling in the Middle East."

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Mapping, Counting, Graphing - The Young Turks' Turkification Policy 1913-1918
Dundar, Fuat - Brandeis University
2010-11-10 11:44:27-05:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - MLB Lecture Room B (1420)
Duration: 01:08:59

Fuat Dundar is a Junior Fellow at Brandeis University. Dundar was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he completed and published a book entitled Crime of Numbers: the Role of Statistics in the Armenian Issue. He completed his dissertation at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, published in Turkish, with the title Modern Turkey’s Cipher: The Ethnic Engineering of the CUP.

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Colloquium "Designing Nations: Maps and Statistical Modeling in the Middle East."

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