This is the second year the workshop has been open, according to IU. It will last from Friday to Saturday.
The MIRT workshop is designed to encourage new directions in international, area and global studies, including collaborations within the humanities, social sciences and professional schools at IU, according to the University.
Ethington is a professor of history, political science and spatial studies at the University of Southern California.
Urban history is a specific field that examines the process of urbanization for cities and towns.
Ethington is speaking about the challenges and opportunities the digital age presents in the context of international collaboration and research in a talk called “International Scholarship from the Age of Empire to the Age of Digital Globalism,” according to the University.
Ethington’s most recent work is “Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles Since 13,000 BP.” It describes the global history of Los Angeles, the second largest United States city.
His work includes a large-scale museum installation of geo-historical visualizations, “ghost maps,” which are two-dimensional cartography designed to show historical time and theoretical writings of a spatial theory of history, according to the University.
In addition to his other work, Ethington also wrote the documentary screenplay for “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman” with Dustin Hoffman. The award-winning documentary was released in 2008.
Last year, fellowships were awarded at the workshops to both faculty and graduate students, enabling them to conduct work abroad, according to the University.
Kathrine Schulze
