ISHMap 2025 – Paris: Symposium Program – The International Society for the History of the Map

Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Richelieu Site, 5 rue Vivienne

18:00 – 20:00 Opening ceremony of the ISHMap Symposium (Salle des conferences, 3^rd floor) with Keynote:

D. Max MOERMAN, The Japanese Buddhist World Map and its Parisian A Case Study in the Transcultural Circulation of Cartography

Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, Conference Centre (Centre de Colloques), Front Populaire (Auditorium 150)

8:15 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 10:30 Session 1: Exhibiting Maps (Panel)

Moderator: David WEIMER
Eve NETCHINE, “Exhibiting maps at the French National Library: from the cabinet of geography to the exhibition on French colonization (1828-1931)”
Jean-Marc BESSE, “The Cartographic Exhibition at the Tuileries (summer 1875): between scientific issues and national affirmations”
Catherine HOFMANN and Emmanuelle VAGNON, “The Golden Age of Maritime Maps, 2012. The exhibition as cultural crossroads”
Nadine GASTALDI, “Crossing and reviving memories: the exhibition The Art of Science: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyagers, 1800-1804, Australia, 2016”

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15 Session 2: Indigenous Maps/Mapping Indigenous

Moderator: Iris KANTOR
S. Max EDELSON, “Surveying the Proclamation Line: Indigenous Geographies of Eastern North America, 1763-1783”
Agnès TROUILLET, “Retracing Lenape Sovereignty on Seventeenth-Century Maps of the Delaware River”
Luz Evelia MARTIN DEL CAMPO, “The Lacandón Rainforest-Indigenous Vernacular Environmental Maps and Tree (Yaxché) Symbolism in Lacanjá Chansayab, México”
Charlotte de CASTELNAU L’ESTOILE, “The Norman-Tupi alliance in maps : Jacques de Vau de Claye’s maps of Brazil (1579)”

12:15 –13:15 Lunch Break (to be served at the terrace of the EHESS building)

13:15 – 14:45 Session 3: Mapping Qing Frontiers (Panel)

Moderator: Martin HOFMANN
Richard PEGG, “Nineteenth Century Qing Frontiers on the Blue Maps”
Ron PO, “Sea Charts in Early Modern China: Mapping Power and Control”
Anne-Sophie PRATTE, “Homogenizing Regional Maps in Qing China: The 19th Century Huidian Atlas”
Sayantani MUKHERJEE, “Journey to the West: Deconstructing the archive of Himalayan geoknowledge in Qing China”

14:45 – 15:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session

Camila Alvaes ÁVILA, “Historical-Colonial Atlases of Brazil and the Visual Narrative of the State”
Molly BRIGGS, “Chicago Subsumes the Globe: Inverting Scale in Geographic Print Ephemera”
Milena Natividade da CRUZ, “Historical Cartography and Processes of Racialization: The Case of the Mural Maps by Longchamps and Janvier (1754)”
Margiet HOOGVILLET, “European and Global Sources of Dutch Maritime Charts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century”
Elie KING, “Decolonising Art”
Kristina LARSEN, “Emerging Tools for Scholarship with Historical Cartography”
Nicolas LOWE, “Democratizing the Grand Tour: Transcontinental American Guidebooks”
Louise McCARTHY, “Early English maps of Asia in the context of the East India Company’s formative years (1590s-1620s)”
Jitka MOČIČKOVÁ, “Maps on the move: the circulation of cartographic material during the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)”
Anna VUOLANTO, “Coordinates for knowledge: New perspectives on the history and heritage of the A. E. Nordenskiöld Collection”

15:30 – 17:00 Session 4: Boundaries of the Chinese Realm (Panel)

Moderator: Vera DOROFEEVA – LICHTMANN
Patrick BEILLEVAIRE, “French and Japanese borrowings from 18^th-century Chinese maps of the Ryūkyū Islands”
Diana LANGE, “Hybrid maps of Tibet”
Jiajing ZHANG, “The construction of Chinese perceptions of the ‘Western Regions’ from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century”
Mirela ALTIC, “Scientific Revolution and Eurasian Exchange: A Global Perspective of the French Imperial Imaginary of Siam (1686–1687)”

17:00 – 18:00 Session 5: Cross-cultural Phenomenon and Perception of Others

Moderator: Anne-Rieke VAN SCHAIK
Martin HOFMANN, “Mapping Strange Creatures: On the Depiction of Distant Countries in Late Imperial Chinese Cartography”
Nathalie BOULOUX, “Reading a medieval map as a cross-cultural artifact”
Brenda DEGGER, “‘The map below shows Paris as it ought to be rather than as it is’: cartographic satire in the town plans of Little Journeys Towards Paris (1918) by Simeon Strunsky”

18:15 – 19:00. – ISHMap General Meeting (hybrid)

Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, Conference Centre (Centre de Colloques), Front Populaire (Auditorium 150)

9:00 – 10:00 Session 6: Cartographies of (Post-)Colonialism: The Case of Justus Perthes Gotha (Panel)

Moderator: Marissa GRIFFIOEN
Iris SCHRÖDER, “Putting Colonial Goods on Display: Justus Perthes’ Wall Maps and the Rise of Economic Mapping in the Early 20th Century”
Dominic KEYßNER, “Cartographies of Anti-Imperialism? Mapping a (Post-)Colonial World in the Socialist East (1960s–1970s)”
Patrick MÜLLER, “Chinese Coal for the German Empire: Bruno Hassenstein’s Map of Shandong (1898)”

10:00 – 11:00 Session 7: Worlds of Ottoman Mapping and Geographical Discourses (Panel)

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:15 Session 8: Africa: Constructed Images

Moderator: Camille SERCHUK
Thomas J. BASSETT, “Euro-African Mapping of 19th-Century West Africa”
Kory OLSON, “West Africa as a French Playground: Michelin’s 182: Afrique Occidentale”
Iris KANTOR, “The African Pilot and the Atlantic Slave Trade (c.1795-1815)”

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break (to be served at the terrace of the EHESS building)

13:15 – 14:15 Session 9: Imperial Coastlines

Moderator: Martijn STORMS
Oyndrila SARKAR, “Displaying Coasts: Panoramas and Manuscript Maps of Chittagong and Arakan”
Philip JAGESSAR, “Surveying disease, mapping mortality: colonial necrocartographies in early 20th century India”
Robert FROST, “Chasing Alexandria: the reconstruction of an ancient city in 18th and 19th century maps”

14:15 – 15:00 Spotlight Event with Q/A

Juliette DUMASY-RABINEAU, “At the Crossroads between Knowledge and Practice: New Lights on Medieval Mapping”

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:45 Session 10: Domestic and Overseas Encounters

Moderator: Philip JAGESSAR
Marissa GRIFFIOEN, Griffioen, “Everyday Encounters: Map Use in Early Modern Dutch Households (c. 1600-1800)”
Martijn STORMS, “Enduring Encounters: Cartographic Exchange Between Japan and the Netherlands”
Anne-Rieke VAN SCHAIK, “Setting the Sea Battle: The Narrative Power of Maps Depicting the Naval Battle of the Downs (1639)”
Mimi CHENG, “Media and Message in Three Nineteenth-Century Maps of East Asia”

16:45 – 17:45 Session 11: NW Africa as an Epistemological Center in Late-Medieval Portolan Charts (Panel)

Moderator: Juliette DUMASY-RABINEAU
Toby Yuen-Gen LIANG, “Blank Spaces and Empty Descriptions: The Epistemological Construction of Northwest Africa in the Age of Exploration”
Andrew W. DEVEREUX, “From Mali to Mallorca: Mapping Trans-Saharan Networks of Knowledge on Mediterranean Portolan Charts (14th-15th centuries)”
Maravillas AGUIAR AGUILAR and Kevin RODRÍGUEZ WITTMANN, “Mapping beyond Boundaries: 14th-Century Mallorcan Cartography and Merinid Sovereignty in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣà (Morocco)”