Cartographies of Catastrophes

Conference Programme

The conference takes place in the Aula Uni Bamberg, Dominikanerstaße 2a, Germany, and via Zoom.

Tuesday, 23. November 2021
9:00–12:00CEST	Training with Carol Ludwig and Serafeim Alvanides (UMM GESIS) [for UMM Members]
13:00–14:00CEST	Registration
14:00–14:30CEST	Welcome and Introduction Carmen M. Enss (UMM Bamberg)
14:30-16:00CEST	Keynote Planning the British Historic City: the Impact of World War Two Prof. John Pendlebury (Newcastle)
	Coffee Break
16:30-18:15CEST	Session 1: Cartographies of urban borders Chair: Serafeim Alvanides (GESIS) War destruction and socio-political changes in Polish city plans of Wroclaw Grzegorz Strauchold (Wrocław) and Jakub Tyszkiewicz (Wrocław) Mapping the Metropolis: The physicallity and Mentality of post-partition Calcutta Subhasree Ghosh (Calcutta) Old City of Jerusalem: Counter-mapping a city in conflict Mohamed Fareed (Cairo)
	Coffee Break
18:15CEST	Virtual tour “Catastrophe. What Comes After the End?” An Exhibition on film and disaster. Stefanie Plappert (DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main)
	Greet and meet / Aperò

Wednesday, 24. November 2021
9:00–10:45CEST	Session 2: Cartographies of destruction Chair: Elisa-Maria Hiemer (UMM Herder) Ruins after the Greek Independence war: a spatial picture by the French Scientific Mission of Moreas, 1828 Eleni Gkadolou (Athens) Aerial Reconnaissance Photographs of Bombed Cities in German and Polish Visual Cultures: Tracing the History of Two Photos of Frampol Noemi Quagliati (München) How to Document Urban Destruction? Literary and Cartographic Topographies of Warsaw after WWII Anna Seidel (Berlin) Sketch as a tool for disaster mapping: Alexei Schusev's drawings of destroyed monuments of Istra Anna Vyazemtseva (Moscow/Rome)
	Coffee Break
11:15–12:30CEST	Session 3: Cartographies of reconstruction Chair: Piotr Kisiel (UMM Erkner) Cartographies of frontier urbanism: Documenting destruction and planning reconstruction after border change in Yugoslav Rijeka Gruia Bădescu (Konstanz) Bomb damage, opportunity and rebuilding in post-war Britain Peter J. Larkham (Bimingham) Maps, projects and designs as a link between pre- and post-war history of the city: a case study of Opole Barbara Szczepańska (Wrocław)
	Lunch Break
13:30–14:30CEST	Walk through Bamberg with Georg-Felix Sedlmeyer (UMM Bamberg)
14:30–16:15CEST	Session 4: Cartographies of memory Chair: Birgit Knauer (UMM; TU Wien) Collecting for the Glory of Empire: cartographic cache of disaster settlements from the Turkestan Album Inessa Kouteinikova (Amsterdam) The Front Line as Territory: Mapping Cultural Heritage of the Spanish Civil War in Madrid Nicolás Mariné (Madrid) Transgressing the Map: European-Turkish Contemporary Artists at Work Lora Sariaslan (Amsterdam) Intimate cartographies of the Holocaust Aleksandra Szczepan (Kraków)
	Coffee Break
16:45–18:30CEST	UMM Roundtable Chair: Carol Ludwig (UMM GESIS) and Laura Demeter (UMM Bamberg) The UMM project and data platform. Concluding remarks and the way forward. Serafeim Alvanides (UMM GESIS) Carmen Enss (UMM Bamberg) Birgit Knauer (UMM TU Wien) Elisa-Maria Hiemer (UMM Herder) Piotr Kisiel (UMM Erkner) Klaus Stein (UMM Bamberg) Georg-Felix Sedlmeyer (UMM Bamberg)
	Dinner

Thursday, 25. November 2021
9:00–12:30CEST	Mapping Heritage Transformation Network (MaHeT) – Internal meeting