Schemel Forum: The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine

This talk will focus on how various actors, institutions and governments engage in “map wars” in order to further different and often incommensurable geopolitical visions of contested territories.

How have maps become entangled with politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building in Israel/Palestine? This talk will focus on how various actors, institutions and governments engage in “map wars” in order to further different and often incommensurable geopolitical visions of contested territories.

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The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine
Christine Leuenberger, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University
Friday, October 23
VIA ZOOM- link will be emailed; Noon to 1:30 p.m.

$10 per World Affairs Seminar/ Free to The University of Scranton Staff, Students, Faculty and Schemel Forum Members

To register contact: Alicen.Morrison@Scranton.Edu