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2024 Arizona Author Series: Natalie Koch: "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia."

2024 Arizona Author Series: Natalie Koch: "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia."

Dr. Natalie Koch will present a talk about her book Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia as part of the State of Arizona Research Library’s 2024 Arizona Author Series. The talk is at 12 p.m. MST, Thursday, March 14th, and will be held virtually on Zoom. Attendees are encouraged to register to receive the link to the presentation. After the talk, there will be time for questions from the audience.

This presentation will be recorded and made available on our YouTube channel. Registered attendees will receive a link to the recording once it is available. 

About Arid Empire: What is the connection between the Arabian Peninsula and the United States? It may surprise some to learn that the two deserts are inextricably connected. From camel corps during 1850s to farming date palms to science fiction classics such as Dune, Dr. Koch uncovers how these “arid empires” are sites of political, economic, and cultural exchange between countries on opposite sides of the globe.

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Natalie Koch is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and is currently a Fellow at the Wilson Center. She is a political geographer who works on geopolitics, empire, and state power, especially in the Arabian Peninsula. Following her first monograph, The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018), her second monograph, Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia, was published with Verso in January 2023.

This event is part of the 2024 Arizona Author Series. This program is supported by the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Arizona Center for the Book, a Library of Congress Center for the Book Affiliate.

Date:
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Time (MST):
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Time Zone:
Arizona Time (change)
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Attachments:
Registration has closed.

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