Maps and Mapping in Global Cultural Perspectives: Temporality in Map History

Globalisation in the field of map history implies that the flow of knowledge comes from different places and belief-systems. It is multidirectional in every sense, challenging a Eurocentric cultural model in cartography. The fact that globalisation has non-Western as well as Western origins, giving prominence to China, South Asia, Africa and the world of Islam, emphasises a feature of globalisation that has been generally underestimated and overlooked. This interpretive approach, in which the maps are seen as the result of the interactions of cultures over a long period of time, highlights the way in which non-Western civilisations have interacted, absorbed, and reworked the imposed imperial cartographic knowledge of the Europeans.

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PROGRAM

• Welcome
  Christoph Markschies (President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW))
   
• Introduction & Chair
  Dagmar Schäfer (Member of BBAW, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science)
   
• Maps and Mapping in Global Cultural Perspectives: Temporality in Map History
  Mirela Altic (University of Zagreb, ISHMap President)
  
  Discussant:
  Markus Heinz (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK)

THE LECTURE SERIES

Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture I

The lecture series is jointly organised by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Einstein Center Chronoi.