Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 Developing a Historical Geography of Buddhist Tibet

DateTimeLocation
Wednesday, November 3, 201012:00PM - 2:00PMSeminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Description

Historical geographer Karl Ryavec will discuss his work on a regional systems model of Tibet. For this project he is mapping the macroregional structure of the area from 2000 census data, and then using data about the founding of Buddhist temples in history to study how the macroregional structure compares to the past, working with an assumption that clusters of temple foundings indicate richer areas with more population and agricultural resources.

A prominent cultural and historical geographer of Tibet, KARL RYAVEC is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. He is the author of the forthcoming An Historical Atlas of Tibet. See more at http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/biographyryavec.aspx


Speakers

Karl Ryavec
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point


Sponsors

Department for the Study of Religion

Religion in the Public Sphere

Co-Sponsors

Asian Institute

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