Infrastructure has played a crucial role in all empires as a way to access, administrate and control the peripheries, but also to integrate them. By developing infrastructure, the political center promised to supply material goods, security, and knowledge to these regions; at the same time, this infrastructure was also used to project imperial military power.… Read More CfP. Shaping the Periphery, Enabling Movement – Infrastructure in the Caucasus from the Early 19th Century to the Late Soviet Period, Yerevan State University (Armenia), 02.10.2023 – 06.10.2023

Conversion and imperial expansion often coincided. Sacred places of the former dominant religion were destroyed or transformed and provided with symbols of the new religion. Objects of the material world of the old faith were alienated from their original purpose, desecrated and refashioned for the liturgy of the new faith. Existing discourses and rituals were… Read More Locating the Self, Negotiating the Other: Imperial Expansion and Conversion in the Early Modern Period, Department of Eastern European History at the University of Münster, 05.10.2023 – 07.10.2023

From the bipolar setup of the Cold-war era via a unipolar world order following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has moved on to yet another stage of being in flux. It is marked by constant re-negotiations and re-adjustments of centres and balances of power, as well as of security arrangements involving volatile… Read More CfP. (Re-)Ordering Eastern Europe, Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) , Regensburg, 12.10.2023 – 13.10.2023.

Topographic visual media are produced and used in a wide variety of fields, such as science, art, the military, administration, jurisdiction and tourism. The Network Topographic Visual Media aims to understand and examine the functions, applications, and interconnections of topographic representations. Thus, it provides a public platform for academic debate and exchange between research projects… Read More Netzwerk topografische Bildmedien (NtB) / Network Topographic Visual Media. Online Conference, 24.03.2023 – 30.06.2023

For decades now, the history of Earth sciences has been a ground for the development of interdisciplinary research. Historians and scientists from different disciplines have been contributing with methodologies coming from the history of institutions, art history, visual studies, material studies, geoscientific fields (such as integrating geoscientific iconography or retreating historical fieldwork), philosophy, gender studies,… Read More Histories of Earth Sciences: Visual and Interdisciplinary Approaches amid an Environmental Crisis, Center for the History of the Mountains, Material Culture and Earth Sciences, University of Insubria (Vares, Italy), 6 June 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

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

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

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

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