[ecrea] Call for Papers: Mapping, Mercator and Modernity: The Impact of the Digital

Call for Papers: Mapping, Mercator and Modernity: The Impact of the Digital
Workshop 25th-26th April 2017
Venue: Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, 
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Schifferstr. 196, 47059 Duisburg

This funded workshop will explore the relationships between mapping, 
linearity, imaginaries of control and global cooperation. What drives 
the growing demand for mapping and visualizations of the world? Does 
this reflect an increased capacity for contestation or of control and 
regulation or perhaps even a retreat from the world? What is at stake in 
the fact that maps and visualizations are not the world but leave an 
irreducible gap? How does the digital transform the politics of maps and 
mapping?

This workshop is part of a two-day event, including a public forum, the 
8th Käte Hamburger Dialogue. Participants will include:
Claudia Aradau, Reader in International Politics, King’s College London
David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, University of
Westminster, London
Mark Duffield, Emeritus Professor at the Global Insecurities Centre, 
University of Bristol
Anna Feigenbaum, Principal Academic in Digital Storytelling, Faculty of 
Media and Communication Bournemouth University
Ute Schneider, Professor of Social and Economic History, Historical 
Institute, University Duisburg-Essen (tbc)

The workshop and Dialogue form part of a Mercator project interrogating 
the transformation of technologies of global cooperation with the 
questioning of the epistemological and ontological assumptions of 
modernity. Gerhard Mercator lived in Duisburg for the last 40 years of 
his life (1552-1594). As a major founder of both the linear time and 
space of modernity, Mercator is most famous for his world map, the 
projection of the world in 1569 making straight lines match fixed 
courses of sail. Intended for mariners’ use, the map became the accepted 
view of the world despite its famous distortions.
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We would be particularly interested in papers including (but not 
necessarily limited to) the following themes:
* The power and importance of mapping as a technology for understanding, 
constructing and intervening in the world.
* The impact of the digital on what we understand as mapping in relation 
to time and space.
* The political possibilities of thinking and mapping otherwise and the 
implications for global cooperation.

Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Elena Simon, 
(simon /at/ gcr21.uni-due.de) by 10 March 2017. Draft papers will be circulated 
before the workshop with the possibility that we may produce a 
collective publication.

The workshop is funded by Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global 
Cooperation Research, Universität Duisburg-Essen 
https://www.gcr21.org/welcome-to-the-centre-for-global-cooperation-research/cache/no_cache/ 
so please state if you wish to be considered for funding for 
transport/accommodation.


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