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Residues of the Past: (De)constructing urban histories. Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Erkner, 24.07.2023 – 27.07.2023

The focus of the summer school is to examine how historical strata have been understood, constructed, and interpreted in different European cities from the post-war period to the present day. Residues of the Past: (De)constructing urban histories On the one hand, the participants will learn how historic buildings were integrated into the post-war reconstruction plans… Read More Residues of the Past: (De)constructing urban histories. Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Erkner, 24.07.2023 – 27.07.2023

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CfP. Die Zukunft der Geographischen Landeskunde? Regionalgeographische Beiträge in den Area Studies. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023, Frankfurt am Main, 19.09.2023 – 23.09.2023

Die Fachsitzung beim Deutschen Kongress für Geographie 2023 in Frankfurt am Main nähert sich der Frage, ob die Arbeit von Geograph:innen im Kontext der Area Studies als Fortentwicklung regionalgeographischer Ansätze in der Traditionslinie der Geographischen Landeskunde betrachtet werden können. Die Zukunft der Geographischen Landeskunde? Regionalgeographische Beiträge in den Area Studies Die Vorträge geben Einblicke in… Read More CfP. Die Zukunft der Geographischen Landeskunde? Regionalgeographische Beiträge in den Area Studies. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023, Frankfurt am Main, 19.09.2023 – 23.09.2023

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CfP. Knowing the planet: Environment, technology and development in the 19th and 20th centuries. European University Institute, Firenze, 26.01.2024 – 26.01.2024

This one-day workshop will interrogate the relationship between environment and technology in developmental projects, practices, and discourses during the 19th and 20th centuries. While histories of environment and histories of technology have each moved in exciting, interdisciplinary directions in recent years, there has been little work analysing the relationship between environment and technology in global… Read More CfP. Knowing the planet: Environment, technology and development in the 19th and 20th centuries. European University Institute, Firenze, 26.01.2024 – 26.01.2024

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Geographien des Verlusts, Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Frankfurt am Main, 19.09.2023 – 23.09.2023

Geographien des Verlusts entstehen im Zusammenspiel von historischen, gesellschaftspolitischen, kulturellen, räumlichen und planetarischen Transformationen. In Geographie und Geschichtswissenschaft erscheint die systematische und konzeptionelle Erschließung von Verlust als Desiderat, was angesichts der Ubiquität von Krisendiagnosen im Anthropozän überrascht. Der Call for Papers lädt ein, die Geographien des Verlusts in konzeptionellen und empirischen Beiträgen zu erkunden. Geographien… Read More Geographien des Verlusts, Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Frankfurt am Main, 19.09.2023 – 23.09.2023

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CfP. Regionale Entwicklungsprozesse und territoriale Erinnerungsräume, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 13.02.2023 – 23.09.2023

Projekte der Stadt-, Regional- und Landschaftsplanung sind in der Regel territorial gebundene Vorhaben, die zukünftige Entwicklungen von Städten, Gemeinden und Kreisen betreffen. Dabei werden die Territorien einzelner Gebiete im Kontext von Wirtschafts- und Kommunalkooperationen zumeist überschritten, wobei es hier durchaus passieren kann, dass Kooperationen wiederholend nicht zu Stande kommen. Solche Entwicklungen führen manche Akteure in… Read More CfP. Regionale Entwicklungsprozesse und territoriale Erinnerungsräume, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 13.02.2023 – 23.09.2023

2022, Publikationen

Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner, and Meike Knittel, (eds.) (2022) Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850. Brill: Leiden.

The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the… Read More Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner, and Meike Knittel, (eds.) (2022) Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850. Brill: Leiden.

2022, Publikationen

Lachlan Fleetwood (2022): Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world’s highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking… Read More Lachlan Fleetwood (2022): Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

2023, Publikationen

Jacobo García Álvarez and Paloma Puente Lozano (eds.) (2023): Beneath the Lines: Borders and Boundary-Making from the 18th to the 20th Century. Springer: Cham:

This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood. Written by scholars from Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, the essays included in this volume provide a… Read More Jacobo García Álvarez and Paloma Puente Lozano (eds.) (2023): Beneath the Lines: Borders and Boundary-Making from the 18th to the 20th Century. Springer: Cham:

2021, Publikationen

Kyle J. Gardner (2021): The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India–China Border, 1846–1962. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepôt of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history of the rise of geopolitics and the first comprehensive history of Ladakh’s encounter with the British Empire.… Read More Kyle J. Gardner (2021): The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India–China Border, 1846–1962. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

2022, Publikationen

John Rennie Short (2022): The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century: Power, State and Territory. Anthem: London.

he publication of the National Atlas of Finland in 1899 marks the beginning of the era of the modern national atlas. It is a period that coincides neatly with the twentieth century. The modern national atlas mirrors and embodies some of the important themes of this turbulent century, including the complex connections between nation, state… Read More John Rennie Short (2022): The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century: Power, State and Territory. Anthem: London.