#  Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 9, 2016** 

 06:00PM - 08:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)**  



 

 



 

## "The Untrustworthy Mr. W. A. Mozart: Cartography and the Visualization of Territory and Time in the German Lands, c.1830s-1860s"

### Speaker:

**Bernhard Struck**, *Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor in Modern European History, School of History, University of St. Andrews.*

### Contact:

**Heather Conrad**  
<hconrad@wcfia.harvard.edu>

### Chair:

**Panagiotis Roilos**, *Faculty Associate*. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

### Abstract:

How were the German Lands seen cartographically between the 1830s and the 1860s? Statistical maps (as thematic maps) were a new way of interpreting territory from c.1830 onward. They provide formerly unknown information on people, languages, religion. However, more information or more accurate maps do not necessarily lead to a more stable understanding of space. Quite the contrary. As objective as mapped dots and numbers may seem, they create a rather messy picture along the borders of the German Lands. This is countered by a new cartographic layer that starts coming up in maps: time and history. How does Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, music, and opera fit into all of this? Well, he does not! Beethoven and Bach are in, Mozart is not.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ 2015–2016 ](/academic-year/2015-2016)
- [ Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives ](/seminars/cultural_politics/schedule)
 
 

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