Open Gulf Symposium and Exhibit

How have colonial and imperial regimes imagined and represented the Persian Gulf?

Co-sponsored by the Department of History, CESTA, and Stanford Libraries, this all-day symposium and exhibit on May 23 explore how the British, Ottoman and American empires documented the human and non-human geography, resources, and landscapes of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It features historical maps and artifacts from the collections of the Branner Earth Sciences Library and the David Rumsey Map Center alongside cartographic visualizations created by the OpenGulf research collective.

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