23.11.2017 - 24.11.2017 Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, École doctorale de Sciences Po, Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'Allemagne
Von Tom Menger, Universität zu Köln; Pierre Nobi, Sciences Po-Centre d’Histoire
In their introduction, the organizers, CAMILLE BUAT (Göttingen), AUDE-CÉCILE MONNOT (Paris), and ALEXANDER VAN WICKEREN (Cologne) stressed the empires’ specific relation to space as well as their dual production of imperial space, both administrative and informal. They emphasized the need to pay attention to the multiplicity of actors, connections, and networks at play in this production, and called for links and decompartmentalization between four emergent fields of research: Mental, cartographic, and textual mapping of space, borderlands, fringes and fragmented imperial spaces, the production of imperial space by technological infrastructure, and the trans-imperial spaces and circulations among an “imperial cloud” (Kamissek/Kreienbaum).
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