Tuesday, September 27 

Panel 1

The mediation of economic imagination. Actors and approaches

03:00 pm – 04:30 pm CEST

Chair: Uwe Müller (GWZO, Leipzig)

Marian Augustina Brainoo (IfL, Leipzig): Economic imaginaries and the global knowledge economy in question

Markus Sattler (IfL, Leipzig): Commodity chains and cognate approaches as spatial imaginations-cum-formats: from cross-national exploitation via development towards community 

The objective of this presentation is to read the commodity chain (and cognate approaches) through the lens of spatial imaginations, formats and spatial orders. It argues to take performativity most seriously and offers some theoretical considerations and empirical exemplifications from the commodity train tradition to evidence this point. The presentations proceeds fourfold. First, I will introduce the reader to the terminology formats, and orders and sketch the debates around imagination/enactment as well as reflexivity/performativity. Second, I will complicate the commodity chain as a self-explanatory spatial format, instead highlighting the multiplicity of phenomena and associated approaches to capturing them. The most important characteristic is a move away from a mostly power-mediated understanding of a “chain” toward a “network” logic and spatial metaphor. Third, I will delineate a contested genealogy of commodity chain approaches, highlighting the notion of “upgrading” as the decisive turning point that facilitated the transformation into a developmentalist tool, devoid of the relational core-periphery language. I argue that scholars and scholarly thought were detrimental in co-envisioning the shift from exploitation towards developmentalism. Forth, and as a small outlook, the presentation asks which kind of conditions can point towards “community” as another way of imagining and enacting (commodity) production.

Participants:

Uwe Müller (GWZO, Leipzig)

Marian Augustina Brainoo (IfL, Leipzig)

Markus Sattler (IfL, Leipzig): 

Markus Sattler is an economic geographer at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, writing his PhD on the contested geographies in the Caucasus region. He seeks to integrate knowledge and production approaches with a grain of postcolonial salt.

Keynote

05:00 pm – 07:00 pm

Cameron Blevins (U of Colorado, Denver): Information, Infrastructure, and the geography of state power

How do states exercise power? What makes a state weak or strong? In this talk, Cameron
Blevins draws on his own research on the American state and its role in the nineteenth-century
western United States. He applies the analytical framework of geography and scale in order to
rethink how state power intersects with the history of information networks and government
infrastructure.

Cameron Blevins (U of Colorado, Denver):

Cameron Blevins is an Associate Professor, Clinical Teaching Track in the History Department
at the University of Colorado Denver, where he teaches courses in US History and digital
humanities. He is also part of the University’s Digital Studies Certificate, an initiative to help
students develop computational skills while understanding the relationship between those
technologies and wider society. A leader in the field of spatial history and digital history, he
explores the application of computational methods such as Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), data visualization, and text mining to the process of researching and teaching history.

Wednesday, September 28

Panel 2

Maps and mappings in knowledge production on conflict and intervention 

09:00 am – 11:00 am CEST

Organizers: Ulf Engel (SFB 1199, Leipzig U) & S. Elisabeth Warnck (Leipzig U)

Comment: Bettina Engels (FU Berlin)

Maps do not only play an important role in media coverage on conflicts and interventions, they also
greatly factor in how researchers study conflict dynamics and intervention. On the one hand,
researchers employ maps to learn about conflict and intervention sites. Maps are utilized as source
material and basis for new datasets. On the other hand, researchers produce conflict and/or
intervention ‘mappings’ themselves to illustrate their research findings and to put them in relation to
space. Further, ‘mappings’ are not limited to cartographic practices and are often understood in
broader terms.
In this panel, we seek to interrogate the role of maps and mappings in knowledge production on
conflict and intervention. The goal is to shed light on different usages of maps and ‘mappings’, their
meanings and mediality, and how they enable and/or obstruct perspectives on conflict and
intervention spaces. We place special emphasis on interventions (military and non-military) and
international as well as regional organizations. Specifically: how are maps employed in researching
interventions and conflict, and what maps are produced by researchers? To that end, we wish to zoom
in on specific use cases of conflict and intervention mappings and discuss an overview of existing
intervention mappings (data projects and maps).

Deniz Cil (University of Maryland): Mapping the Peace: Using Geospatial Data to Advance Research on Peacekeeping and Displacement

In the last decade, the quantitative study of civil conflict has shifted towards the analysis of conflict
dynamics in a geographically disaggregated manner. This move away from analysis centered on the
country as a whole has been made possible by the new availability of geocoded conflict datasets and
motivated by the need to evaluate theoretical arguments cast at the subnational level. This shift also
led to the emergence of other data projects that focus on the effects of conflict and interventions
advancing research on peace and conflict. Two examples of this type of newer data project are the
Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations (Geo-PKO) (Cil et. al 2020) and the Geocoded Conflict Population
Movement (Geo-CPM) datasets (Cil et. al 2020). This presentation starts with a review of these two
datasets, provides visualizations, and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using official IO and NGO
reports and maps for data generation. Particular attention is paid to the inherent tradeoffs between
the depth and breadth of information that can be gathered using maps as a primary source. This
presentation concludes by identifying data gaps in current quantitative conflict research and avenues
for future research that can be addressed with improved geospatial data.

Steven Radil (US Air Force Academy): Mapping Conflict Networks in North and West Africa 

Since 2011, a series of interconnected political crises in numerous states across North and West Africa
have led to a regional explosion of violence, insurgency, and conflict. This lost decade has involved
hundreds of different political militias, rebel organizations, armed identity-based groups, foreign
military interventions, and state security forces, many of which have operated across state boundaries.
This presentation will address the centrality of mapping in making sense of these complexities using
examples and lesson drawn from a multi-year research project into the region’s conflicts. The project,
called the Spatial Conflict Dynamics Initiative, has produced numerous papers and reports for
policymakers, each of which relies heavily on maps and related visuals to communicate essential ideas.
In particular, three issues will be discussed that have been key to informing our efforts to map these
conflicts. First is the challenge in defining the scale of the inquiry, in both a sociological and geographic
sense, and how these choices are expressed by our maps and other visuals. Second is the interplay
between qualitative and quantitative data and how both have been leveraged for effective visual
communication. Lastly is how our mapping efforts have needed to adjust to accommodate important
differences between policymaker and scholarly audiences.

Skollan Elisabeth Warnck (Leipzig U): Intervention ‘Mappings’: A Critical Review 

In the last decades, different types of intervention mappings have proliferated. Researchers and
policymakers alike have tried to make sense of different intervening actors, their military and non-
military practices (e.g., peacekeeping and/or mediation) as well as their implementation successes.
Despite this apparent acceleration of knowledge production, cross-cutting reviews of different existing
intervention mappings are scarce and spatial categories therein are seldomly reviewed. In this
contribution, I address this twofold shortcoming. In doing so, I employ a broad understanding of
mapping that is not limited to cartographic practices but deliberately incorporates aspects of data
production, underlying source material and diverse forms of visualization. I review such mappings with
regards to what intervention type(s) are addressed and how spatial information and references are
provided. Thereby, I place particular emphasis on international and regional organizations as well as
the African context. This paper argues that different types of mappings shape our understanding and
knowledge of where conflict interventions take place and how we ‘see’ them. On that basis, I posit to
advance data-driven research on non-military conflict intervention practices of African regional
organizations, which is attentive to diverse spatial dimensions. This does not only bring in diverse
actors and agency but may also complicate our understanding of intervention practices and, inter-
relatedly, spaces.

Participants:

Ulf Engel (SFB 1199, Leipzig U):

Ulf Engel is professor of ‘Politics in Africa’ at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University,
Germany. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa
University, Ethiopia, and a professor extraordinary in the Department of Political Science at
Stellenbosch University, South Africa. From 2006 to 2019, Engel advised the AU Peace and Security
Department in the fields of conflict prevention, early warning, and preventive diplomacy. He is the
editor of the Yearbook on the African Union (Brill).

Elisabeth Warnck (ANCIP, Leipzig U):

Elisabeth Warnck is a doctoral researcher in the BMBF project on African Non-military Conflict
Intervention Practices (ANCIP) at Leipzig University. After completing her Bachelor in Media Science
and English Studies at Tuebingen University, she studied Global Studies in Leipzig and Roskilde in her
Master. Following her interest in regionalism, African peace and security, and critical geography, she
engages with questions of reconstructing and mapping African regional organizations’ intervention
practices in and through a dataset both methodologically and theoretically in her dissertation project.

Deniz Cil (Maryland U): 

Deniz Cil is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for International Development and Conflict
Management (CIDCM) at the University of Maryland. Her work focuses on conflict resolution, peace
agreement implementation, and the local dynamics of peacekeeping and population movement. Her
research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Smith Richardson
Foundation, and published in International Studies Quarterly and the Journal of Peace Research.

Steven Radil (US Air Force Academy):

Steven Radil is an Assistant Professor of Geospatial Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. A political
geographer with expertise in spatial analysis, geographic information science, and social network
analysis, Dr. Radil’s research examines the geographical dimensions of political violence. He currently
co-leads a research program called the Spatial Conflict Dynamics Initiative that investigates the spatial
dynamics of insurgency and civil war in the Sahel and West Africa. Dr. Radil has also co-authored a
series of major reports on political violence in West Africa, including the recently published Borders
and Conflicts in North and West Africa (OECD, 2022).

Bettina Engels (FU Berlin): 

Bettina Engels is Guest Professor at Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany. Her research and teaching focuses on structural change in the global countryside, radical
transformation, agrarian political economy, and conflicts over natural resources. Her recent work has
been published in the Review of African Political Economy, Political Geography, Geoforum, and the
Journal of Agrarian Change. She is an editor of the Edward Elgar Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies,
the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, and the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE).

Panel 3

Technologies & media as mediators of spatial imaginations

11:30 am – 01:00 pm CEST

Chair: Antje Dietze (SFB 1199)

Sarah Ruth Sippel (SFB 1199 & U Münster) & Moritz Dolinga (SFB 1199): Drones flying over fields autonomously harvested by robots: how agtech reimagines the rural

In recent years, techies have gone farming. Agtech startup companies and venture capital firms focused on
funding new agricultural technologies have been mushrooming in Silicon Valley and beyond. Agri-food tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists promise that in the near future virtually nothing about our food system will remain the same as novel and innovative technologies disrupt every single aspect of how we are
producing, distributing, and consuming food. As the agricultural industry is being disrupted and transformed into a high-tech industry, we will be witnessing a millennial shift from family farms to smart “food factories”. This paper investigates how this “digital revolution in agriculture” is illustrated and visualized in the media. We use a digital ethnography approach to study how agtech stakeholders communicate visually by investigating companies’ websites as well as their presentations on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Concretely, we will ask: what kinds of illustrations and pictures does the agtech sector use to present itself to the world? What kinds of new farming images are represented and promoted via these media, and how is “the rural” reimagined within these presentations? Or, in more illustrative terms, how does the bearded “urban hipster” with his Macbook and vertical garden, the bespectacled engineer from Cal Tech, and the flashy pinstriped suit wearing financial “hot shot” (re)imagine the future of farming? We suggest that within these visual representations the rural is respatialized as a flashy, fancy, and desirable place to create techno-utopian futures.

Manuel Harms (SFB 1199 & TU Dresden): Spaces of ‘superbugs’: Media constructions of AMR-riskscapes

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global/public health threat that is often attributed to countries in the ‘Global South’, with India most prominently constructed as an AMR-riskscape. Scientific and NGO actors in the field have been urging action for several decades, but media attention mainly flares up on special occasions. Examples are news articles after the publication of a particularly worrisome report or dedicated events like the yearly ‘World Antibiotic Awareness Week’, established by the WHO in 2015.
This paper traces how media reporting on the spatial dimensions of microbial agents discursively ties them to specific places and what this implies for constructing these places as riskscapes. Such media discourses often outline future presents/present futures, and thus diffuse not only spatial, but also temporal imminence. However, the implicit and explicit spatial semantics contained in such depictions are counterproductive to tackling AMR, as they foster the imagination of a distant peril, thereby counteracting the call to actions they conjure.
Within the tension field of those who urge action in a relatively closed academic ecosystem (that informs policies, but is not successful in reaching the publics) and media depictions (that are reaching the publics, but follow different dynamics of ‘truth-making’) it becomes evident how spatial imaginations are constructed, contested and negotiated. This, in turn, sheds light on the mechanisms that construct (and make prevail) spatial formats – and vice versa.

Katarina Ristić & Karen Silva Torres (Leipzig U): Transnational protests in social media: cultural transfer and spatial imaginations

Participants:

Antje Dietze (SFB 1199):

Antje Dietze is a researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” and deputy director and coordinator of the Leipzig Centre for the Study of France and the Francophonie. Her field of research is the social and cultural history of Germany, Europe and North America in the 19th and 20th centuries. She focuses on the history of artistic movements, cultural organizations, and the cultural and media industries, using approaches from transnational history and transregional studies, in particular intercultural transfer analysis and GIS-based mapping. Among her publications are co-edited special journal issues on transnational actors (European Review of History nos. 3-4, 2018) and the production and circulation of popular culture (Geschichte und Gesellschaft no. 1, 2020), as well as the forthcoming collective volume Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment: Experiences from Northern, East-Central, and Southern Europe, 1870s–1930s (Routledge 2023).

Sarah Ruth Sippel (SFB 1199 & U Münster):

Sarah Ruth Sippel is professor of economic geography and globalization studies at Münster University. Her research explores the nexus between the financialization of natural resources, the digitization of food and farming, and emerging solidarities within global agri-food systems. She is the Principal Investigator of a four-year research project on digital farming (C04, SFB 1199) funded by the German Research Foundation.

Moritz Dolinga (SFB 1199):

Manuel Harms (SFB 1199 & TU Dresden):

Manuel Harms is a PhD student with TU Dresden and the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 in Leipzig, Germany. In his project, he works on the social life of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance with a regional focus in India. His background is in political science, European ethnology (B.A.; Uni Jena) and anthropology (M.A. Uni Leipzig).

Katarina Ristić (Leipzig U):

Katarina Ristić is a research associate at the Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig
University. Her research deals with post-conflicts transitional justice processes in former
Yugoslavia with the focus on contested globalization projects, media and memory in global
perspective. The recent publications include “Online Transnational Memory Activism and
Commemorations” co-authored with Orli Fridman, in Agency in Transnational Memory
Politics, edited by Jenny Wuestenberg and Aline Sierp. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.
Together with Elisa Satjukow, she edited a special issue of the Comparative Southeast
European Studies journal on the 1999 NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia (2022). Her latest
research focuses on the global circulation of memes and far-right memory activism in digital
media.

Karen Silva Torres (Leipzig U): 

Karen Silva-Torres is a member and lecturer of the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University, where she contributes to the institute’s digital learning strategies and the coordination of the M.A. Global Studies with a Special Emphasis on Peace and Security in Africa. She is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Anthropology and a member of the Graduate School of Global and Area Studies. Her research interests involve media anthropology, journalism and affectivity, social media and political activism, and media and politics in Latin America. Her most recent publication is the co-edited volume Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America, New York and London: Routledge (2021). She is co-founder of the Coloquio de Estudios Latinoamericanos en Leipzig (CEL-Le).

Workshop

Working with spatial data and its visualizations. Imaginations, media, and transfer

02:00 pm – 05:30 pm CEST

Chairs: Antje Dietze, Julius Wilm (both SFB 1199) & Ninja Steinbach-Hüther (SFB 1199 & IfL Leipzig)

Comment: Silvia Gutiérrez (Leipzig U), Daniel Wiegreffe (Leipzig U)

Yasmine Najm (SFB 1199): Visualizing spatial semantics: Example from 19th century French official journals

Sofia Gavrilova, Philipp Meyer, Jana Moser (all SFB 1199 & IfL Leipzig): Re-mapping empirical findings from atlas analysis

Carolina Rozo-Higuera & Kathleen Schlütter (both Leipzig U): The challenge of visualizing knowledge production in motion: Comparative area studies, transregional studies and global studies in Germany 

The goal of our recently started research project “The production of world-knowledge in transition” is a mapping of the German knowledge production related to globalization and Area Studies research (Transregional Studies, Comparative Area Studies, Global Studies). We intend to provide data-based  evidence about the institutional and personal diversity of these knowledge fields in Germany, as well as their connections to other parts of the world. The challenge in doing so is to capture the changes of academic structures and knowledge production while dealing with the fact that these fields of knowledge are still in a phase of consolidation. The project relies on different methodological approaches including bibliometric tools and will produce different kinds of visualizations including cartographic maps. We will present our project and discuss the aspects related to spatial data and visualizations.

Katarina Ristić & Karen Silva Torres (both Leipzig U): Digital transnational activism and space making

Lea Bauer (Leipzig U) & Sarah Ruth Sippel (SFB 1199 & U Münster): Visualizing qualitative research: potentials, challenges, ambivalences

Julius Wilm (SFB 1199): Temporal spatial analysis in GIS as a tool for historical source criticism

Daniel Wiegreffe (Leipzig U): Supporting land reuse of former open pit mining sites through visualized spatial data

Participants:

Antje Dietze (SFB 1199):

Antje Dietze is a researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” and deputy director and coordinator of the Leipzig Centre for the Study of France and the Francophonie. Her field of research is the social and cultural history of Germany, Europe and North America in the 19th and 20th centuries. She focuses on the history of artistic movements, cultural organizations, and the cultural and media industries, using approaches from transnational history and transregional studies, in particular intercultural transfer analysis and GIS-based mapping. Among her publications are co-edited special journal issues on transnational actors (European Review of History nos. 3-4, 2018) and the production and circulation of popular culture (Geschichte und Gesellschaft no. 1, 2020), as well as the forthcoming collective volume Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment: Experiences from Northern, East-Central, and Southern Europe, 1870s–1930s (Routledge 2023).

Julius Wilm (SFB 1199):

Julius Wilm is a postdoctoral researcher at Leipzig University’s Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition.” He obtained his PhD in Anglo-American History from the University of Cologne with a dissertation on free land colonization schemes in the antebellum United States and has taught at the universities of Copenhagen and Lucerne. In 2019–2020 he was the Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History at the German Historical Institute Washington and George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, where he began work on a digital mapping project on the Homestead Act with a particular emphasis on the law’s impact on Native nations throughout the US West between

Ninja Steinbach-Hüther (SFB 1199 & IfL Leipzig):

Ninja Steinbach-Hüther is a researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” and is currently working on spatial semantics and Geography in the long nineteenth century. She earned a PhD in Global Studies from Leipzig University and the
École normale supérieure, Paris, with a study on the circulation of African knowledge. Her academic interests include the circulation of knowledge in a globalizing world, cultural transfers, the theoretical and methodological approaches for the investigation of spatial formats and spatial orders and the actors within these processes. She is particularly interested in Digital Humanities-driven approaches combined with conventional research perspectives to these topics and their applicability in an interdisciplinary research environment. Among her publications are a monography on “Bibliotheksdaten, Kulturtransfer und Digital Humanities” with Leipziger Universitätsverlag in 2020, and her second monography on “Afrikanisches
Wissen in Deutschland und Frankreich” will be published with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in October 2022. She is co-editor of the Trafo blog series “The Digital Humanities Interface”.

Silvia Gutiérre (Leipzig U)

Yasmine Najm (SFB 1199): 

Yasmine Najm is a doctoral candidate at Leipzig University and a member of SFB 1199 “Processes of Globalization under the Global Condition.” Her research focuses on the (re-)spatialization of the French colonial empire in the 19th century, with a particular focus on French Indochina. Before joining SFB 1199, she completed a joint-double degree master’s program in Global Studies at Leipzig University and Global Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Sofia Gavrilova (SFB 1199 & IfL)

Philipp Meyer (SFB 1199 & IfL)

Jana Moser (SFB 1199 & IfL)

Carolina Rozo-Higuera (Leipzig U): 

Carolina Rozo Higuera is a researcher at the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) and currently works together with Kathleen Schlütter on a BMBF funded project focused on the dynamics of knowledge production in German Area Studies withing the last decades. She obtained her PhD in Global Studies at the University of Leipzig with a work on visualizing the subject tendencies of the Global Studies field using bibliometrics. She worked several years as a lecturer in the Information Science Department at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Her thematic background include topics from the information and library sciences and information technology.

Kathleen Schlütter (Leipzig U): 

Kathleen Schlütter is a researcher at the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) and currently works together with Carolina Rozo Higuera on a mapping of the German Area Studies. She obtained her PhD in Global Studies at the University of Leipzig with a work on the transnational influences in French higher education and research policy in the Chirac and Sarkozy years. She gained substantial adminstrative and intercultural expertise by working as deputy head of unit in Franco-German higher education management for several years.Her disciplinary background are cultural studies, French studies and journalism. Current research interests include higher education and research policy within the knowledge-based economy, transnationalization, cultural transfer, History of Science and French History (20th/21st century).

Katarina Ristić (Leipzig U): 

Katarina Ristić is a research associate at the Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig
University. Her research deals with post-conflicts transitional justice processes in former
Yugoslavia with the focus on contested globalization projects, media and memory in global
perspective. The recent publications include “Online Transnational Memory Activism and
Commemorations” co-authored with Orli Fridman, in Agency in Transnational Memory
Politics, edited by Jenny Wuestenberg and Aline Sierp. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.
Together with Elisa Satjukow, she edited a special issue of the Comparative Southeast
European Studies journal on the 1999 NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia (2022). Her latest
research focuses on the global circulation of memes and far-right memory activism in digital
media.

Karen Silva Torres (Leipzig U): 

Karen Silva-Torres is a member and lecturer of the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University, where she contributes to the institute’s digital learning strategies and the coordination of the M.A. Global Studies with a Special Emphasis on Peace and Security in Africa. She is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Anthropology and a member of the Graduate School of Global and Area Studies. Her research interests involve media anthropology, journalism and affectivity, social media and political activism, and media and politics in Latin America. Her most recent publication is the co-edited volume Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America, New York and London: Routledge (2021). She is co-founder of the Coloquio de Estudios Latinoamericanos en Leipzig (CEL-Le).

Lea Bauer (Leipzig U):

Sarah Ruth Sippel (SFB 1199 & U Münster):

Sarah Ruth Sippel is professor of economic geography and globalization studies at Münster University. Her research explores the nexus between the financialization of natural resources, the digitization of food and farming, and emerging solidarities within global agri-food systems. She is the Principal Investigator of a four-year research project on digital farming (C04, SFB 1199) funded by the German Research Foundation.

Julius Wilm (SFB 1199)

Daniel Wiegreffe (Leipzig U):

Daniel Wiegreffe is a permanent researcher at the Image and Signal Processing Group at Leipzig University. His research interests include visual data analysis focusing on biological data, geographical data, and text data. The focus here is on the visual exploration of large and complex data sets so that they can be more effectively analyzed. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2019 from Leipzig University.

Thursday, September 29

Panel 4

Media of spatialization as builders of a (post-) socialist world

09:00 am – 10:30 am CEST

Chairs: Philipp Meyer & Jana Moser (IfL, Leipzig)

The panel will explore media strategies of (post-)socialist spatialization processes. That will give us the perspectives on the media itself, but also on the social and cultural context of their production. Oana-Ramona Ilovan presents insights on the visual discourse of space production in socialist Romania on the basis of various media. Steffi Marung will examine attempts to popularize the idea of socialist solidarity with the non-European world of Asia and Africa through photographs in scientific journals in the early Soviet Union. The C05-project of CRC 1199 will contribute perspectives of digital media and web cartography to ask whether these more interactive media produce different spatializations and require alternative readings than traditional school atlases.

Steffi Marung (Leipzig U): How to see the socialist (br)other? Visual repertoires for the non-European world in the Soviet Union

Philipp Meyer & Jana Moser (both IfL, Leipzig): Towards understanding the spatiality of digital and web-cartography 

Participants:

Oana-Ramona Ilovan (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca)

Philipp Meyer (IfL, Leipzig)

Jana Moser (IfL, Leipzig)

Steffi Marung (Leipzig U)