Monday, 30 September 2019
12:00 pm
Registration and Refreshments
1:00 pm–3:00 pm
The transformation of imperial space: The spatial format(s) "empire" across spatial orders (17th–20th c.) Part I
Chair: Geert Castryck (Leipzig U)
Marina Bezzi (Independent Researcher): Geo-historical spatial orders in English and French support for colonial expansion in the 1580s
Matthias Middell (Leipzig U): From empire to nation-state with imperial extension: Examples from a fundamental transformation of spatial orders at the turn of the 18th and 19th century
Megan Maruschke (Leipzig U): 1789 and the new spatial format for empire: The nation-state with imperial extensions
Tanja Bührer (U Bern): The changing significance of “empire” in the long 19th century and the implications on imaginations of space
Coffee Break
3:30 pm–5:30 pm
The transformation of imperial space: The spatial format(s) "empire" across spatial orders (17th–20th c.) Part II
Chair: Megan Maruschke (Leipzig U)
Maria Ivanova (HSE Moscow): The concept of “Great Power” and the changing of spatial order, 1870–1914: The case of the Russian Empire
Julio Decker (U Bristol): Lines in the sand: Colonial railroads and territorialization in German Southwest Africa, 1898–1914
Geert Castryck (Leipzig U): Berlin’s Africa and the evolution from an inter-imperial to an international order, 1880s–1920s
Anne-Isabelle Richard (U Leiden): European empire(s): The colonial case for European cooperation
Coffee Break
6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Keynote
Cemil Aydin (U North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Global space of the Muslim world: Geopolitics, race and religion
7:30 pm Dinner
Tuesday, 1 October 2019
9:00 am–11:00 am
Making the nation state in the context of shifting world orders
Chair: Steffi Marung (Leipzig U)
Alberto Masoero (U Turin): Imperial disorder? The Siberian land survey and the politics of spatial approximation
Mariusz Lukasiewicz (Leipzig U): Gold, industry and race: The South African Republic at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle
Lasse Heerten (Ruhr U Bochum): Portal of re-urbanization: The free port of Hamburg and the transpatial making of a modern port city, c. 1880–1910
Discussant: Elisabeth Kaske (Leipzig U)
Coffee Break
11:30 am–1:30 pm
(Inter)Regionalisms contested and connected: Cold War blocs and new regionalisms in Africa
Chair: Katharina Döring (Leipzig U)
Steffi Marung (Leipzig U): Interregionalisms in the Cold War: The bloc and the Global South
Uwe Müller (GWZO Leipzig): Economic East-South relations in the Cold War. Interests and prospects around 1980
Ulf Engel & Jens Herpolsheimer (both Leipzig U): Africa-European interregionalism after the end of the Cold War
Discussant: Anja Jetschke (U Göttingen)
1:30 pm Lunch Break
2:30 pm–4:30 pm
Religious actors: Interventions in spatial orders and transregional connections
Chair: Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (Leipzig U)
Christoph Kleine (Leipzig U): Transregional networks, spatial imaginaries, and heterotopias: Religious actors as creators, inventors and interpreters of spatial orders
Nikolay Kamenov (Graduate Institute Geneva): Global protestant missions and the nation-state, 1830–1970
Ahmet Gencturk (U Rome/ Ruhr U Bochum): American protestant missionaries in Greece: Discourses, practices, and consequences (1821–1841)
Jens Reinke (Leipzig U): Parochial cosmopolitanism: Negotiating Chineseness in a global Buddhist China
7:00 pm Dinner
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
9:00 am–11:00 am
Challenges to present spatial orders
Chair: Sarah Sippel (Leipzig U)
Frank Meyer (IfL Leipzig) & Judith Miggelbrink (TU Dresden): Transformatory work: A conceptual approach towards an understanding of the role micro-practices in changing spatial order(s)
Khalid Wasim Hassan (Central U Kashmir): Militarisation and spatial orders: Re-production of public spaces in the conflict zone of Indian-administered Kashmir
Melinda Harlov-Csortán (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Protection and heritagization as a new spatial reordering factor: The example of the Fertő-Neusiedlersee cultural landscape UNESCO World Heritage site
Srividya Balasubramanian (Leipzig U): Every village, connected: Variable spatial orders as imagined and actually existing in “Digital India”
Coffee Break
11:30 am–1:30 pm
Cartography between spatial formats and spatial orders
Chair: Sebastian Lentz (IfL Leipzig)
Matthew Edney (U Southern Maine): Cosmography, geopolitics, and the terraqueous globe: Competing global imaginaries in 18th- and 19th-century Europe
Vladimir Kolosov (Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow): The construction of the new Silk Road by means of cartography (tbc)
Jana Moser, Sebastian Lentz, Pierre Cherrier & Laura Pflug (all IfL Leipzig): Communicating spatial orders by means of visual concepts: Educational atlases in the 20th century
Jasper Trautsch (HU Berlin): The emergence of a new spatial world order: World maps and globes in mass media in the mid-20th century
Discussant: Katja Naumann (GWZO Leipzig)
1:30 pm Farewell Lunch