Conference Programme
The presentations should be up to 20 minutes long. We kindly ask you to not exceed this timeframe to preserve ample time for discussions. To access the abstracts of the panels, click on the title of the panel you are interested in.
Thursday, 24th November 2022
11:00–12:30 Sandwiches and Registration
12:30–14:00 Panel 1: Definitions of “Asia”
Official Welcome by Iris Schröder, Professor of Global History and Director of the Centre for Transcultural Studies
Sandeep Bhardwaj (Ashoka University, India) – Defining “Asia”: Multiple Views of Asian Geography in the Indian Discourse (1919–1947)
Sofia Gavrilova (IfL Leipzig) – Imagining “Soviet Asia”: Late Imperial and Early Soviet Cartography of Central Asia
José Miguel Vidal Kunstmann (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) – Accommodation, Centrality, and Symmetry in Lü Fu呂撫 (1671–1742)’s “Comprehensive Map of Heaven and Earth” (Tiandi quantu天地全圖, 1722)
Chair: Claudia Berger

Map folders of the Perthes Collection © Gotha Research Library
14:15–16:45 Visit to the Perthes Collection
Welcome by Petra Weigel, Head of the Perthes Collection/Gotha Research LibraryPresentations of a selection of artefacts by Iris Schröder, Patrick Müller, Frances O’Morchoe and Claudia Berger
16:45–17:15 Coffee Break
17:15–18:45 Panel 2: Knowledge Production
Ines Eben von Racknitz (FU Berlin) – Mapping War in China: The Case of the Taiping Rebellion in 1858–1860
Diana Lange (Universität Hamburg) – Knowledge, Science and Empires: the Mapping of Tibet in Europe and Asia
Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS-EHESS, France/ MPIWG Berlin) – Chinese Manuscript Map of the Qing Empire (ca. 1819–1832), rediscovered in the Göttingen State and University Library: a Hybrid Cartography Case
Chair: Annika Dörner
19:00 Conference Dinner (Restaurant Pagenhaus)
Friday, 25th November 2022
9:00–9:30 Coffee Reception
9:30–11:00 Panel 3: Borderlands
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University, USA) – Hindu Kush Maps in the Cartographic History of Afghanistan
Yonglin Jiang (Bryn Mawr College, USA) – Mapping a Miao Place: The Construction of the Colonized “Miao Territory” in Qing Dynasty Cartography
Chechesh Kudachinova (Universität Mannheim) – Closing The Gap Between Two Empires: The Altay Mountains in Russian Imperial Imaginaries and Realities
Chair: Frances O’Morchoe
11:00–13:00 Sandwiches & Coffee
13:00–14:30 Panel 4: Japan – Localities and Globalisation
Michael Kinski, Koray Birenheide, Luca Ciani (Universität Frankfurt) – An Early Modern Japanese Map goes Digital. The On Edo ezu as an Interactive Resource
Mengfei Pan (Kokugakuin University, Japan) – Mapping the Local Persona: Cartographic Directories in Meiji Japan
Jonas Rüegg (Harvard/Universität Zürich)– Nan’yō, or: The Invention of Japan’s Pacific
Chair: Claudia Berger
14:30–15:00 Coffee Break
15:00–16:30 Conclusion of the Event
You can also click here to download the conference programme: Download Programme
Registration
If you are interested in registering for the conference, please approach the conference team. We welcome researchers and students alike to join us for inspiring discussions and debates. However, due to spatial restrictions, registration prior to the conference is necessary.
In accordance with the Covid guidelines of Erfurt University, we would ask everyone to wear a mask inside buildings. Also, we kindly ask all attendees to test before each conference day. For presenters, self-tests are provided; another opportunity is testing at local test centres. Information on German federal policy regarding COVID-19 is accessible here.