BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_643006_0 SUMMARY:Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives DESCRIPTION:

"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.

LOCATION:CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20160309T230000Z DTEND:20160310T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR