In August 2004, the Circulation of Knowledge conference—jointly organized in Halifax, Nova Scotia by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, the British Society for History of Science, and the History of Science Society—set out challenges to the then-dominant centre-periphery models of the origins and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Jim Secord’s keynote address,… Read More CfP. Circulating Knowledge – 20 Years On Conference/Symposium Research, Translation, Teaching. University of King’s College Kjipuktuk – Halifax Mi’kma’ki – Nova Scotia, CANADA, August 7-10, 2024.

Contemporary scholarship in historical geography and in the histories of geography is increasingly informed by decolonial, pluriversal, feminist, antiracist and anticolonial approaches. However, we still see too many academic and non-academic historical narratives in our discipline that uncritically address past (or worse present) geographies that are strictly associated with colonialism, patriarchy, legacies of slavery or… Read More CfP: Decolonial histories of geography. IGU Thematic Conference: Connecting Geographies from the Global South, Quito 15-17 May 2024.

Der Spatial Turn in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften ist längst erwachsen geworden. Seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten beschäftigen sich Forschende mit geographischen Aspekten bei der Untersuchung vergangener Lebenswelten. Die Geographiegeschichte ist keine reine Disziplingeschichte mehr, sondern hat sich im weiten Feld der Wissenschafts- und Wissensgeschichte weiterentwickelt. Auch Historikerinnen und Historiker sowie Forschende im Kontext der… Read More Zeiten – Räume – Wissen: Aktuelle Perspektiven der Geographiegeschichte │ Times – Spaces – Knowledge: Recent Perspectives in the History of Geography, Department of Geography at the University of Bonn on 28 and 29 June 2024