UrbanMetaMapping Semester Talks

Monthly on Wednesday, 11⁰⁰–12⁰⁰ (CET/CEST) via zoom.

Registration via: talks.urbanmetamapping@uni-bamberg.de

Please note that from September 2023 the talks start at 11:00 CE(S)T, we moved one hour forward.

The UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium warmly invites you to our online, midday academic talks on issues connected to our research interests on mapping man-made and natural catastrophes, heritage, urban planning, and digital tools used for researching these.

Meetings take place once a month on Wednesday at 11:00 (Central European (Summer) Time (CET/CEST)). They will last for an hour (including Q&A) and will provide an exciting platform to discuss with international scholars their research and exchange ideas. If interested, please email us at talks.urbanmetamapping@uni-bamberg.de to receive access to our Zoom meeting room. We look forward to you joining us for the UrbanMetaMapping Seminar Series!

Program SS 2024 (pdf)

April, 3

Defining Partnership: Navigating the Social Relationship of Participation in Heritage Conservation Practice

Jamesha M. Gibson, Independent Researcher, USA
May, 8

Preservation and management of urban heritage in the postrevolution period: the Medina of Sousse as case study.

Zeineb Youssef, ISAM Mahdia – University of Monastir, Tunisia
June, 5

Urban Planning and Architecture in German-occupied Poland (1939–1945): Creating Spaces of Totalitarian Colonization as Exemplified by the City of Radom

Jakub Frejtag, University of Warsaw

Program WS 2023/24 (pdf)

September, 20

Cartography of dissonance: Mapping communist heritage through guided tours of post-socialist cities

Jovana Janinovic, University of Montenegro
October, 19 – 20

Urban Narratives: Rebuilding and Rebranding European Cities from the 20th Century until Present Day

UMM Conference at Herder Institute, Marburg and online
November, 16 – 17

Cities in Transition. A Review of Historical Discourses, Planning Decisions and Conservation Strategies

UMM Conference at TU Wien
December, 6

The tabula rasa of Hiroshima and the Post-war Urban Reconstruction in Japan

Pina (Giusi) Ciotoli, Sapienza University of Rome
January, 17

Tracing Landscape Transformations of Pre-war Housing Estates on the Example of Wrocław, Frankfurt, and Berlin

Aleksandra Gierko, Wrocław University of Technology
February, 7

Mapping Bombing Attacks on France During the Great War

David Hager, Université de Picardie Jules Verne Amiens
March, 6

Renaming the Streetscape in Postsocialist Romania: A Quantitative Approach at the National Level

Mihai S. Rusu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Program SS 2023

April, 19

Periodizing Vienna: Capturing stability and change in local planning configurations - agency, structure, institutions, discourse

Johannes Suitner, TU Wien
May, 17

Territories of a Spanish Autarky: Cultural Complexities on the Construction of Anthropogenic Landscapes

Isabel Rodríguez de la Rosa (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura)
June, 21

Iconisation of war destruction images. The case of Szczecin.

Tabitha Redepenning, Herder Institut Marburg

Program WS 2022/23 (pdf)

September, 21

Healthy, beautiful Vienna. City, cityscape and urban transformation in the interwar period

Birgit Knauer, Technische Universität Wien
October, 19

UMM Conference Keynote: Geographical Information Systems for understanding the geographies of the past (10⁰⁰–11³⁰)

Ian Gregory, University of Lancaster, at the »Mapping “Post-Conflict” Cities« conference
November, 16

Commemorative street naming practices in the border towns Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice

Małgorzata Fabiszak, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań and Isabelle Buchstaller, University of Duisburg-Essen
December, 21

Traveling along Skopje's Main Street and Square 1911-2019

Christina E. Kramer, University of Toronto
January, 18

Abrechnung mit der Geschichte. Denkmalstürze zwischen Dekommunisierung und Dekolonisierung

Arnold Bartetzky, Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)
February, 15

From War Documentation to Social Planning. Functional change of the war damage maps in Duisburg before and after 1945

Andreas Pilger, Stadtarchiv Duisburg
March, 15

Post World War II recovery of small towns. Past and present challenges of spatial transformation in the Recovered Territories of Poland

Łukasz Musiaka, Uniwersytet Łódźki

Program SS 2022 (pdf)

April, 20

“Go home, bus! You come from, where Corona is!” The use of spatial metaphors as a tool for reducing complexity in times of a crisis.

Dominik Kremer, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
May, 18

Adapting and Reusing the Built Environment in a Postwar and Postdisplacement City

Sofia Dyak, Center for Urban History, Lviv
June, 22

Living heritage or heritage destruction? Mapping Bagan's Transformation between 1995 and 2011

Clara Rellensmann, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
July, 20

Spatiotemporal analysis of odonymic changes in Leipzig and Poznań over 100 years

Serafeim Alvanides, GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

[postponed, TBA]

Program WS 2021/22 (pdf)

September, 15

Relics of war: identifying and mapping 'destroyed' churches in modern landscapes

Peter Larkham, Birmingham City University and David Adams, University of Birmingham
October, 20

Conservation, planning and regeneration in the post-war British city: the case of York

John Pendlebury, Newcastle University
November, 17

Grand narratives and little places: Deconstructing small towns’ imaginaries in the Czech lands and Germany (ca. 1900–1940)

Jaroslav Ira, Charles University Prague
December, 15

Making sense of ruins: Approaches of post-war urban reconstruction and dealing with the past after 1945

Gruia Badescu, University of Konstanz
January, 19

Szczecin 1945: Between German heritage and constructing a Polish identity

Radosław Ptaszyński, University of Szczecin
February, 16

Spatializing the war front: The Civil War in the city of Madrid through the mapping of its remains

Nicolás Mariné, Technical University of Madrid
March, 16

Digital maps of the conflict in the Eastern Ukraine

Mykola Makhortykh, University of Bern

Program SS 2024 (pdf)

Program WS 2023/24 (pdf)

Urban Narratives: Rebuilding and Rebranding European Cities from the 20th Century until Present Day

Cities in Transition. A Review of Historical Discourses, Planning Decisions and Conservation Strategies

Program SS 2023

Program WS 2022/23 (pdf)

Program SS 2022 (pdf)

Spatiotemporal analysis of odonymic changes in Leipzig and Poznań over 100 years

Program WS 2021/22 (pdf)