The Ohio State University

Cole Lecture 12/3

November 30th, 2007

Juan R. I. Cole, Professor of History, President of the American Global Institute, University of Michigan, is the next speaker in the “2020 Vision: The Future of Scholarship and Publishing,” series. Cole will make his presentation on Monday, December 3, at 3:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr. Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.

Cole is author of the popular blog “Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion,” and is President of the Global Americana Institute. He is also Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the History Department of the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about modern Islamic movements in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. His current research focuses on two contemporary phenomena: 1) Shiite Islam in Iraq and Iran and 2) the “jihadi” or “sacred-war” strain of Muslim radicalism, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban among other groups. Cole speaks Arabic, English, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam, and lived in a number of places in the Muslim world for extended periods of time.

The “2020 Vision” series explores issues of scholarship and publishing in the digital age with national leaders in digital scholarship. “2020 Vision” is sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries and Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR), and supported by the Friends of the Libraries.

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