Workshop | State Descriptions Revisited: Historical Forms of Territorial Representations, 18th - 21st Centuries

20-21 January 2022

Leibniz ScienceCampus, Universität Regensburg, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, and the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg

Organizers: Borbála Zsuzsanna Török (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University Duisburg-Essen) and Guido Hausmann (IOS Regensburg)

The workshop “State Descriptions Revisited: Historical Forms of Territorial Representations, 18th - 21st Centuries” investigates the proliferation of the heterogeneous format of state descriptions on a global scale. It considers past representations of political spaces and their political backgrounds, perspectives, and styles, as well as their traces into the present.

This event is organized by Borbála Zsuzsanna Török (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University Duisburg-Essen) and Guido Hausmann (IOS Regensburg). It is a cooperation between the Leibniz ScienceCampus, Universität Regensburg, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, and the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. It takes place on 20-21 January 2022 as a virtual event.

To attend, please register prior to the workshop with Charlotte Mellentin (mellentin@ios-regensburg.de)

Program

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Thursday, January 20, 2022

14.30-15.00 CET    
Welcome Address
Ulf Brunnbauer, Academic Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)

Introduction
Borbala Zsuzsanna Török, Guido Hausmann

15.00-17.00 CET
World-Making and World-Ordering, 17-19^th Centuries
Guido Hausmann (Chair)

Sarah Albiez-Wieck, University of Cologne:
Social Difference and Mobility in the Spanish Empire, 17^th-18^th Centuries

Volker Bauer, Herzog-August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel:
Scaling Staatenkunde. State Description and the Global Community of States in the Series of the German Publisher Renger (1704-1718)

Borbala Zsuzsanna Török:
Staatenkunde Goes Global: Göttingen, Scotland, India Late 18^th – early 19^th Century

Willard Sunderland, University of Cincinatti (Discussant)

17.30-20.00 CET
Legal and Infrastructural Geographies
Katya Boltunova (Chair)

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, MPI Rechtsgeschichte Frankfurt:
Seeing Like a State? Territorial Consolidations, Migration, and Private Law: Chile, 18^th and 19^th Centuries

Bogumil Szady, Catholic University Lublin:
The First (and the Last) Detailed Description of the Pre-Partition Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Marina Loskutova, Higher School of Economics of St. Petersburg, Anton Kotenko, Higher School of Economics of St. Petersburg:
19^th-Century Hydrographic Maps of the Russian Empire as Representations and Instruments of Territorialization

Tibor Bodnár-Király, Eötvös Loránd University:
From Mapping to Measuring: State-Description and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

Borbala Zsuzsanna Török (Discussant)

Friday, January 21, 2022

10.00-12.00 CET
Peripheries from Above and from Below
Borbala Zsuzsanna Török (Chair)

Nilanjana Mukherjee, University of Delhi:
Spatialising the Great Indian Desert

Konrad Clewing, IOS Regensburg:
Dalmatia as an Austrian Province, as Described by its Ruler (1818) and by one Early Geographical Expert (1857)

Andriy Posunko, Dnipro:
Bringing Imperial Order to the Wild Steppes: The Invention of New Russia (Novorossia), Late 18^th-early 19^th centuries

Jörn Happel, Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg (Discussant)

14.00-16.00 CET
Uses of State Descriptions in the Late 19^th - Early 20th Century
Willard Sunderland (Chair)

Katya Boltunova, Higher School of Economics Moscow:
Russia’s Golden Ring in Touristic Descriptions, 19^th - 20^th Century

Zilola Khalilova, Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences Uzbekistan, Tashkent:
Political Knowledge in School Textbooks: On the Creation of Imperial Mentality in Turkestan, 1884-1920

Martin Rohde, University of Halle-Wittenberg:
Illustrating the Empire: Circulating Photographs in Late Habsburg State Descriptions

Guido Hausmann (Discussant)

16.30-19.00 CET
Counter-Concepts and Competing Representations, 20^th - 21^st Centuries
Manuel Bastias Saavedra (Chair)

Guido Hausmann, IOS Regensburg:
World Ordering of Anarchist Geographers: Petr A. Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus (late 19^th - early 20th Century)

Martin Deuerlein, University of Tuebingen:
The Origin of the State? European Descriptions of the Six Nations / Iroquois Confederacy and their Significance for the Indigenous Movement

Karolina Kluczewska, Ghent University:
Visual State- and Nation-Building: Representing the Past, Present and Future in Tajikistan

Anna-Katharina Wöbse, University of Giessen:
Space, Place, Land, and Sea: Framing the Global Wadden Sea

Volker Depkat, University of Regensburg (Discussant)

19.10-19.40
Concluding Discussion