Subject: CONF: Cartographic Imaginaries (Paris, 11 Jun 25)<\/p>\n
Paris, \u00cele-de-France, FRA, EHESS, Salle 50, Campus Condorcet, 2 Cours des Humanit\u00e9s, Aubervilliers, Jun 11, 2025<\/p>\n
Cartographic Imaginaries: Spaces and Images of Central and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.<\/p>\n
In the 20th century, the collapse of empires (Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian\/Soviet) and multiethnic states (Yugoslavia) reshaped the territories of Central and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The (re)delimitation of these spaces led to the displacement of communities, the restriction of mobility, and the reconfiguration of regions along with their communication networks. Throughout history, cartography has not only recorded imperialist and colonial ambitions but has also played a crucial role in nation-building as these regions redefined themselves. While maps suggest a visual regime based on abstraction, the lived experiences and embodied practices of individuals and communities affected by the transformation of these regions have reframed space in ways that differ from its official representations: migratory routes establishing networks between previously unconnected places; refugees\u2019 memory sketches of their lost homelands expressing cartographic imaginaries; artistic interventions in space echoing Situationist drift, offering an experiential approach to space that reveals hidden connections and narratives within the urban and social fabric. These embodied and phenomenological approaches constitute a form of \u201csituated\u201d spatial knowledge, as introduced by Donna Haraway in her seminal essay Situated Knowledges (1988), which had a significant impact on the discipline of geography. The concept of \u201csituated knowledge\u201d has influenced methodologies of spatial studies by highlighting how geographical knowledge often reflects colonial, nationalist, patriarchal, or capitalist frameworks. Similarly, the rise of a \u201cspatial turn\u201d in studies focused on Central and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia has paved the way for a critical re-reading of territorial and identitarian narratives while promoting multi-situated and decentralized approaches.<\/p>\n
This graduate conference invites participants to explore the various meanings that the concept of ‘map’ can assume\u2014not only as a material and functional tool but also as a vessel for the imagination. In a sense, inventing a new cartography corresponds to developing new scientific methodologies. In the era of globalization, global and transnational perspectives in the humanities and social sciences also encourage questioning the cartographies and historiographies developed in the 20th century, particularly in the field of art history. In this context, Piotr Piotrowski, in his essay \u201cOn the Spatial Turn or a Horizontal History of Art\u201d (in Art in the Age of Globalization, 2022), advocates for \u201cpluralist art-historical narratives\u201d and calls for the emergence of a polyphonic, multi-situated, and multidimensional (art) history. Following his lead, many scholars challenge the vertical and universalizing conception of art history, and the standards established and imposed by Western powers.<\/p>\n
Beyond its methodological implications, cartography also refers to a visual regime, inviting us to reflect on how images\u2014artistic or otherwise\u2014alter our perception of space. It can be viewed as a visual atlas, a collage of images establishing various spatial connections, reminiscent of The Mnemosyne Atlas by art historian Aby Warburg. Maps also serve as an artistic medium and material through which dominant spatial narratives are reconsidered or contested.<\/p>\n
How, then, can we approach visual practices and objects that offer subversive cartographies, reimagining and remapping the territories of Central and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia? How do images\u2014artistic or otherwise\u2014challenge the geographical and cartographic knowledge produced within (post-)imperialist, colonial, or nationalist frameworks? What do artists from these regions teach us about the malleability, plasticity, and fluidity of their geographies? Against the claims of objectivity and positivism put forth by imperial, colonial, and nationalist cartographies, how can we weave memories, affects, and dreams\u2014echoing Bachelard\u2019s insights\u2014into the register of space and geography?<\/p>\n
This graduate conference aims to foster critical reflection on these spatial reconfigurations and their resonances in both historical and contemporary contexts. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that re-examine the past and present of this vast region through various disciplines and fields of study, including migration studies, urban and cultural studies, sociology, history, art history, visual anthropology, political science, and critical geography. Contributions focusing on visual objects and practices are particularly encouraged. By adopting a multi-situated approach, we seek to open new perspectives on how visual and material culture challenges spatial and geographical knowledge.<\/p>\n
PROGRAM
\n9h30-10h : Accueil caf\u00e9 \/ Welcome Coffee<\/p>\n
10h-10h30 : Mot de bienvenue de Marc AYMES, directeur du CETOBaC \/ Opening remarks by Marc Aymes, director of CETOBaC<\/p>\n
10h30- 10h45 : Introduction, Alessandro GALLICCHIO (Acad\u00e9mie de France \u00e0 Rome – Villa M\u00e9dicis)<\/p>\n
10h45-11h45. Visions urbaines et architecturales dans l\u2019espace (post-)sovi\u00e9tique \/ Urban and Architectural Visions in the (Post-)Soviet Space<\/p>\n
WOLKENSTEIN Paul, CREE, INALCO \u00ab De la conception \u00e0 la r\u00e9ception : repr\u00e9senter l\u2019architecture brejn\u00e9vienne en Asie centrale \u00bb
\nPACHEO \u2013 VASCONCELLOS Rachel, CERCEC- EHESS\/ CNRS, Universit\u00e9 de Sao-Paulo, Labur-USP, \u00ab Pour une critique de l\u2019urbanisme prospectif : propositions th\u00e9oriques et m\u00e9thodologiques pour l’analyse de projets de \u201cvilles du futur\u201d en Russie \u00bb<\/p>\n
11h45-12h : Pause-caf\u00e9 \/ Coffee break<\/p>\n
12h-13h. Fabriques spatiales du pouvoir et m\u00e9moire en Turquie contemporaine \/ Spatial Constructs of Power and Memory in Contemporary Turkey<\/p>\n
YAKARLAR Tu\u011fberk, University of Ottawa, \u00ab Mapping Civilization: Turkey\u2019s Cartographic Imaginary and Intra-Civilizational Tensions \u00bb
\nK\u0130LAVUZ P\u0130NAR Elsa, EHESS – CETOBAC \/ CESOR, \u201cCartographier la m\u00e9moire : visibilit\u00e9 et s\u00e9curisation du Mus\u00e9e juif d\u2019Istanbul dans l\u2019espace urbain<\/p>\n
13h-14h30 : Pause d\u00e9jeuner \/ Lunch break<\/p>\n
14h30 -15h30. Cartes en tension : r\u00e9cits militaires et reconfigurations de l\u2019espace \/ Maps in Tension: Military Narratives and Reconfigurations of Space<\/p>\n
RAZAVI Roxanne, CESPRA, EHESS, \u00ab Cartographies terrestres et c\u00e9lestes en Iran : temporalit\u00e9s religieuses et reconfiguration des espaces pendant la \u00ab D\u00e9fense sacr\u00e9e \u00bb (1980-1988) \u00bb
\nPHELIPPOT Geoffrey, EHESS – CAK, Le Danube fortifi\u00e9 : cartographie et vues urbaines de l\u2019Europe centrale et orientale au XVIIe si\u00e8cle
\n15h30-16h : Pause-caf\u00e9 \/ Coffee break<\/p>\n
16h-17h30. Espaces contest\u00e9s : contre-cartographies et gestes artistiques contemporains \/ Contested Spaces: Counter-Cartographies and Contemporary Artistic Gestures<\/p>\n
REHERMAN Judith, Karlsruher Institut f\u00fcr Technologie \u2013 KIT, \u00ab Present Tense, Absent Homeland: Mona Hatoum and the Politics of Mapping \u00bb
\nKARADA\u011e Althea, CERMOM-INALCO, \u00ab Traverser, performer, transgresser: contre-cartographies des artistes femmes contemporaines de Turquie \u00bb
\nDE MARTINO Anna, Centre Georg Simmel \u2013 EHESS\/ Universit\u00e9 de Catane, \u00ab Performer la fronti\u00e8re, enqu\u00eater le geste cartographique \u00bb<\/p>\n
17h30-17h45 : Conclusion de la journ\u00e9e \/ Closing remarks<\/p>\n
18h-19h : I\u2019m glad you’re still here. Performance artistique par Sa\u0161a Tati\u0107 suivie d\u2019une discussion \/ Artistic performance by Sa\u0161a Tati\u0107 followed by a conversation<\/p>\n
19h-21h : Cocktail dinatoire (Faculty Club, campus Condorcet) \/ Dinner reception<\/p>\n
Reference \/ Quellennachweis: Subject: CONF: Cartographic Imaginaries (Paris, 11 Jun 25) Paris, \u00cele-de-France, FRA, EHESS, Salle 50, Campus Condorcet, 2 Cours des Humanit\u00e9s, Aubervilliers, Jun 11, 2025 Cartographic Imaginaries: Spaces and Images of Central and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. In the 20th century, the collapse of empires (Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian\/Soviet) and multiethnic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nCONF: Cartographic Imaginaries (Paris, 11 Jun 25). In: ArtHist.net, Jun 6, 2025.
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