11 February 2014

[LECTURE] Global History from the Asian Perspectives and GIS by Dr. Tsukasa Mizushima



The UP Department of Geography invites everyone to a lecture:

Global History from the Asian  Perspectives and GIS 

by Dr. Tsukasa Mizushima
Professor of History
Faculty of Letters and 
Graduate School of the Humanities and Sociology
The University of Tokyo

13 February 2014, Thursday
1:30pm
PH 207, Palma Hall, UP Diliman 


Dr. Tsukasa Mizushima is a specialist in the history of India. He has concentrated his research efforts on agrarian societies in South India for the past three decades. However, since the 1980s, he also has conducted his fieldwork among overseas Indians in Malaysia. 

His research interest, more recently, focuses on Global History, and Geographical Information System(GIS) to analyze social and ecological changes from 18th century onwards in Tamilnadu by combining a large number of digitized village-level sources with satellite information .