Pauley Symposium

Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
"World History and the African Migration Simulation"

Friday, September 22, 2006
7:30pm

About the presenter

Patrick Manning is one of the leading historians of World and African History. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh and the editor of the World History Network, an online journal and producer of scholarly analysis, curriculum, and data. Manning trained as an economic historian of Africa, has continued to work in that area and has also applied the lessons of African historiography to studies of the African diaspora and world history. He directed the World History Center at Northeastern University from 1994 until its closure in 2004. He was project director for "Migration in Modern World History, 1500-2000," a CD-ROM produced at the center. He has since published Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past, and Migration in World History. His current book projects include an interpretation of the African diaspora and a demographic analysis, African Population in the Slave-Trade Era. A John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Manning has held numerous National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Annenberg Foundation grants for his research and teaching.

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Video segment 1
Overview of a graphical modeling approach to African population loss due to slavery

Video segment 2
Other population modeling strategies

Video segment 3
Further examples and implementations of modeling

Video segment 4
Electronic simulation

Video segment 5
Results of this type of analysis; digital hitory as a way of presenting information versus a way of analyzing material

Manning speaking at the Pauley Symposium

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