16 Jun 2021 5:00pm - 6:30pm Online via Zoom

Description

*We apologise but this lecture has been postponed- we will make a new date available as soon as possible.*

Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, of Indian, Russian, and French-stock, educated at Dartmouth and Columbia, Karen Pinto is into maps of all kinds and sizes. She specialises in the history of Islamic cartography and its intersections between Ottoman, European, and other worldly cartographic traditions and has spent the better part of two decades hunting down maps in Oriental manuscript collections around the world. She has a 2000-strong image repository of Islamic maps—many that have never been published before. Her book Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration was published by the University of Chicago Press in November 2016 and won a 2017 OAT (Outstanding Academic Title) award from Choice. She has won numerous grants including a 2013-14 NEH fellowship for her work on Islamic maps of the Mediterranean. She has published articles on medieval Islamic and Ottoman maps and is working on books on “Islamo- Christian Cartographic Connections” and the “Mediterranean in the Islamic Cartographic Imagination.”

Along with her work on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, she is interested in Digital Humanities and Spatial Studies and encourages students and scholars to contact her if they are interested in these subjects.

Attendance is free but spaces may be limited, so please email to reserve a space in the Zoom audience. Please be aware that we will take a recording of this event, which may include any questions and responses delivered by the audience.

 


gloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For information about gloknos or ARTEFACT please contact the administrator in the first instance.


Programme

15 April 2021

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (University of Chicago) – Strauss in Beijing

13 May 2021

Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University) – The View from the Land, 1947-1981: ‘Modernity’ in British Agriculture, Farm, Nation and Community

27 May 2021

Patricia Owens (University of Oxford) – Women’s International Thought: Toward a New Canon?

2 June 2021

Tahu Kukutai (University of Waikato) – Indigenous Data Sovereignty

9 June 2021

Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) – Ali al-Sharafi’s oeuvre as something other than simply local or global

16 June 2021

Karen C Pinto (Loyola University of Maryland) – Islamicate Territorial Imaginations: Maps, Birds, and Related Machinations

17 June 2021

Kalwant Bhopal (University of Bristol) – Title TBC

23 June 2021

Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary University of London) – Salvage, Service, or Militancy: Missions, unions, and states in maritime Arab world

9 July 2021

Sarah de Rijcke (Leiden Univeristy) – Title TBC

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