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SUMMARY:Islamicate Territorial Imaginations: Maps\, Birds\, and Related Ma
 chinations - Karen C Pinto [gloknos lecture] - Karen C Pinto
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:*gloknos Annual Lecture Series – Karen C Pinto – 16 June 2
 021 | 17:00-18:30*\n\n*Speaker:*\nBorn and raised in Karachi\, Pakistan\, 
 of Indian\, Russian\, and French-stock\, educated at Dartmouth and Columbi
 a\, Karen Pinto is into maps of all kinds and sizes. She specialises in th
 e history of Islamic cartography and its intersections between Ottoman\, E
 uropean\, and other worldly cartographic traditions and has spent the bett
 er part of two decades hunting down maps in Oriental manuscript collection
 s around the world. She has a 2000-strong image repository of Islamic maps
 —many that have never been published before. Her book Medieval Islamic M
 aps: An Exploration was published by The University of Chicago Press in No
 vember 2016 and won a 2017 OAT (Outstanding Academic Title) award from Cho
 ice. She has won numerous grants including a 2013-14 NEH fellowship for he
 r work on Islamic maps of the Mediterranean. She has published articles on
  medieval Islamic and Ottoman maps and is working on books on “Islamo- C
 hristian Cartographic Connections” and the “Mediterranean in the Islam
 ic Cartographic Imagination.”\n\nAlong with her work on Middle Eastern a
 nd Islamic Studies\, she is interested in Digital Humanities and Spatial S
 tudies and encourages students and scholars to contact her if they are int
 erested in these subjects.\n\n*Attendance is free but spaces may be limite
 d\, so please "email":mailto:sjp229@cam.ac.uk to reserve a space in the Zo
 om audience. Please be aware that we will take a recording of this event\,
  which may include any questions and responses delivered by the audience.*
 \n\n*See the full 2021 lecture series online "here":http://gloknos.ac.uk/r
 esearch/activities/the-gloknos-annual-lecture-series*\n\n*gloknos is initi
 ally funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consoli
 dator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (20
 17-2022) ERC grant no. 724451.*
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