Interdisziplinärer Workshop am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie an der Universität Wien in Kooperation mit dem Forum urban_land_scapes, dem Forschungsschwerpunkt Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft aus historisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie – Sektion Stadt und der Abteilung Kulturwissenschaft der Kunstuniversität Linz. Workshop: Urban Space & Landscapes: Stadt- und Raumforschung im Nexus von Theorie und Empirie Forschende… Read More Urban Space & Landscapes: Stadt- und Raumforschung im Nexus von Theorie und Empirie, Wien, 25.11.2021 – 26.11.2021.

Wegen der Einschränkungen aufgrund des Corona-Virus muss leider die geplante Sommerschule auf den 2.–6. August 2021 verschoben werden. Owing to restrictions imposed due to the Corona Virus the Sommerschool has been rescheduled for 2-6 August 2021. News vom 19.01.2020 The Summer School in Ancient Geography at Freie Universität Berlin is an intensive one-week course, primarily… Read More 2nd Summer School in Ancient Geography at Freie Universität Berlin (August 2-6, 2021) Mapping the „World of Herodotus“ or Restoring Hecataeus’ Mapping? Case Study: The Danube-Tributary Account in Hdt. 4.48-51 (AB Geus)

Submitted absracts/papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least two experts and carefully evaluated based on scientific originality, potential interest in the community, proper documentation of prior work, clarity of presentation, technical correctness, correct use of language. Accepted abstracts/papers will appear in one of the publications of ICA events, published in the… Read More ICC2021 – International Cartographic Conference, Florence, Italy, December 14-18, 2021.

Im Rahmen des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderten Projektes (Förderlinie: e-heritage) des Forschungskollegs Transkulturelle Studien/Sammlung Perthes und der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha der Universität Erfurt zum Thema „Kartographien Afrikas und Asiens (1800–1945). Ein Digitalisierungsprojekt zur Sammlung Perthes Gotha (KarAfAs)“ ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle einer/eines Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin/Mitarbeiters zu besetzen. Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L (100 %).… Read More Stellenausschreibung: 1 Wiss. Mitarb. (m/w/d) „Kartographien Afrikas und Asiens (1800–1945). Ein Digitalisierungsprojekt zur Sammlung Perthes Gotha“ (Univ. Erfurt)

An important contribution to coming to terms with the past is the juridical, historic and cultural investigation and discourse on places of past violence. Often this process is experiencing different phases and focuses, depending on the current role these “traumatic places” have been assigned by a country’s society. Be it primarily to provide juridical evidence,… Read More Spaces of Memory, Elisabeth-Käsemann-Stiftung , Stuttgart, 19.01.2021

Traveling has become a natural part of modern life. As a result of the 2020 COVID-19 epidemic, it is no longer a self-evident right to move from one country to the other or even to travel within national boundaries. The conference intends to offer an opportunity to reflect critically upon the history and nature of… Read More Cultures of Travel: Tourism, Pilgrimage, Migration, 22.10.2021 – 23.10.2021, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan.

According to geographer Jacques Lévy „cospatialité” is „une des interspatialités caractérisée par la mise en relation de deux espaces occupant la même etendue”. Under purely Euclidean conditions, co-spatiality is essentially impossible. The concept, however, invites us to search for places or spaces that are used, imagined or interpreted by different groups, simultaneously or consecutively, for… Read More Co-spatiality: Changing rules of double use, excluding, inviting, imagining. University of Erfurt (Augustinerkloster), 11.11.2020 – 13.11.2020

The Ca’ Foscari University of Venice is presently looking for an Assistant Professor (Non-Tenured Track) / Ricercatore (RTD-A) with an outstanding scholarly profile in the following research areas of the FARE/ERC endeavor: *Early-Modern History of the Earth Sciences: with a particular focus on the intellectual and practical contexts of geology, as connected with cosmological thought;… Read More Assistant Professor (Non-Tenured Track) / Ricercatore (RTD-A) in *Early-Modern History of the Earth Sciences, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Deadline: October 29, 2020 at 12:00 (Venicetime)

The International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) is the only scholarly conference solely dedicated to advancing knowledge of the history of maps and mapmaking, regardless of geographical region, language, period or topic. The conference promotes free and unfettered global cooperation and collaboration among cartographic scholars from any academic discipline, curators, collectors, dealers and… Read More 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography 2021 – ICHC 2021, Bucharest, Romania, 4-9 July 2021.