Thursday, 4 October
1:00-1:30pm
Opening and Introduction
1:30pm-3.00pm and 3:30pm-5:00pm (with Coffee Break)
Panel 1: Imagining the world: cartography, the arts and cultural practices
Chair: Matthias Middell (Leipzig)
Maren Möhring (Leipzig): The „World under one roof“. Arranging and performing „the world“ in the entertainment complex „Haus Vaterland“ in Berlin
Elize Mazadiego (Leuven): Conceptual cartography: Charting conceptual art’s global imaginary
Pierre Cherrier (Leipzig): From the principle of terrestrial unity to the world system: a study of graphical interconnections in cartographic representations of the world of in atlases and French textbooks
Laura Pflug (Leipzig): Re-Mapping the world: Chinese cartographic visualizations from the ‘long nineteenth century’
Nilanjana Mukherjee (New Delhi): Deconstructing the frontier in the Himalayas: Reading spatial alterities
Coffee Break
5:30pm-7:00pm
Keynote: Derek Gregory (Vancouver), N.N.
Introduction: Sebastian Lentz (Leipzig)
7:30pm
Dinner
Friday, 5 October
9:00am-11:00am
Panel 2: Imaginations from a Perspective of Re-Figuration of Space
Chair: Sebastian Lentz (Leipzig)
Miro Born/ Ylva Kürten (Berlin): Photo elicitation method as an approach towards geographical imaginations
Nina Baur (Berlin): Spatial Knowledge in Consumer-Producer-Interactions
Arne Janz/ Joshua Schröder (Berlin): Control centres as places of imagination of a polycontextural spatiality
Martin Schinagl (Berlin): Machines of Spatial Imagination - Digital Agency in Urban Planning
Coffee Break
11:30am-1:00pm
Panel 3: Competing imaginations of territoriality
Chair: Antje Dietze (Leipzig)
Ursula Rao (Leipzig): Virtual gaps and spatial imaginations in India’s urban banking infrastructure
Geert Castryck (Leipzig): Conflicting imaginations of territory in Berlin's Africa: colonial border disputes in the Great Lakes Region (1890-1925)
Kai Roder (Leipzig): Tearing down fences, building walls - The state, territoriality and the nation in Tanzania’s neo-extractive turn
1:00pm-2:30pm
Lunch
2:30pm-4:00pm
Panel 4: Imagining emancipation transregionally: decolonization and anti-slavery movements
Chair: Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (Leipzig)
Martha Schoolman (Florida): The country and the city in the hemispheric 1850s
Claudia Rauhut (Leipzig/ Berlin): Imaginations of global reparatory justice: The Caribbean case for slavery reparations
Ernst van der Wal (Stellenbosch): Killing Rhodes: Memorialised spaces, decolonisation and the imagining of new histories
Coffee Break
4:30pm-6:00pm
Panel 5: Roundtable: Spatial Imaginations (Maren Möhring/ Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez/ Ute Wardenga, all Leipzig
6:30pm
Dinner
Saturday, 6 October
9:30am-11am
Panel 6: Transforming the empire: spatial imaginations through the lens of the urban and the frontier
Chair: Steffi Marung (Leipzig)
Tracie Wilson (Halle/ Leipzig): Intimate labor in the city: Lviv as center and periphery in late Habsburg Galicia
Kristina Jonutytė (Halle): Imaginaries at work in a Siberian urban renewal: Partial worlds in the indigenisation of post-Soviet Ulan-Ude
Chechesh Kudachinova (Ongudai), “About this part of the world that is so important to us:” the 'Great Imaginary Game' and Russian spatial perceptions of Central Asia
11:30am-1:00pm
Panel 7: Re-imagining the global economy
Chair: Ulf Engel (Leipzig)
Alexander van Wickeren (Cologne): Imaginations of the “World Market”, cigar export and agricultural knowledge culture in the South Rhine Valley around mid-19th century
Crister S. Garrett (Leipzig): The Trump presidency, critical geopolitical agency and the contested politics of Transpacific geoeconomics
Robrecht Declercq (Ghent): Competing Copperbelts. Spatial imaginations of Katanga (Belgian Congo) as a modern mining space (1900-1930)
1:00pm-2:00pm
Concluding Discussion
2:00pm
Farewell Lunch