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Lecture series : Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II


Berlin, Germany
Organisation: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Einstein Center Chronoi
This series of lectures invites a critical and fresh view on mapping, its role in the global circulation of knowledge, influence on state sovereignty and royal authority, colonialism, imperialism, national identities throughout history.
  • 6 March 2025 - Zsolt G. Török, Eötvös Loránd University, Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography: Making Maps and Imaging Germany. Discussant: Petra Svatek, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
  • 27 March 2025 - Thematic Mapping in 18th to 19th-century Germany
    • Nils Güttler, Universität Wien, Mapping the environment: the Humboldtian tradition. Discussant: Marta Hanson, Academy of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Affiliate of MPIWG
    • Felix de Montety, Université Grenobles-Alpes, Mapping Languages: from Gottfried Hensel’s “Europa Polyglotta” (1741) to Julius Klaproth’s “Asia Polyglotta” (1823). Discussant: Ute Tintemann, BBAW
  • 8 April 2025 - Roundtable: House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies
    • Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, CNRS, Paris; Fellow Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin and Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
    • Goce Naumov, Goce Delćev University and Educator at the Museum of Macedonia., Fellow and Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
    • Cinzia Pappi, Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
    • Discussant: Paul Delnero, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Fellow Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
Time schedule: 18.00 CET
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