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Programme and Registration

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

Detail of: Zweiter Theil der Karte von Asien […]. Verfasst von Herrn d’Anville. Nach den neuesten Karten verbessert herausgegeben von Herrn F.A. Schraembl. Wien 1786.
Gotha Research Library, Perthes Collection, SPK 30.01.02 C (01), Bl. 3. (CC BY-SA 4.0)



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 Library

Presentations of a selection of artefacts by Iris Schröder, Patrick Müller, Frances O’Morchoe and Claudia Berger

 

16:45–17:15 Coffee Break

 

Annotations by Cartographers.
Gotha Research Library, Perthes Collection, SPK 30.16 B (01), Bl. 1. (CC BY-SA 4.0)



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

 
https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/ufb_derivate_00017931/SPK-30-35-A-01_00005.tif?logicalDiv=log_9a85a4-819d-9dda-b43f9cb62

Detail of a sketch map (1885).
Gotha Research Library, Perthes Collection, SPK 30.35 A (01), Bl. 4. (CC BY-SA 4.0)



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

 

Bruno Hassenstein reworking a map.
Gotha Research Library, Perthes Collection, SPK 30.15.b.06 A (01), Bl. 10. (CC BY-SA 4.0)



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.