Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann

Thèmes de recherches et projets en cours 

• Conceptions of terrestrial space in the emerging Chinese Empire, as derived from transmitted and manuscript texts dating from the Warring States period through the Han dynasty, ca. 4th century BC – 2nd century AD: their nature, structure and functions, descriptive and graphic forms of spatial representation. 
• The impact of the early spatial concepts on the general maps of the Chinese Empire [extant maps dating from the early 12th century onwards]; the Song dynasty (960-1279) maps related to classical texts being the initial case – adaptations and revisions of the early concepts to the needs of the later cartography. The importance of the traditional Chinese maps for comprehending the early Chinese terrestrial descriptions, maps as parts of the Chinese commentarial tradition. 
• Innovative spatial concepts, beginning from cartography of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and their adjustment to the early spatial ideas.
• Transmission of the Chinese spatial concepts manifest in the Chinese cartography into the early European maps of East Asia.

Projets en cours:

• “TRANSLATION TERROIRS – East Asia Between Autochthonous and Western Cartographic Languages” Project N° DFG-SCHA_936-5-1, 2019-2022, co-directed with Dagmar Schäfer, Director of Dept. III of the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/translation-terroirs-east-asia-between-autochthonous-and-european-cartographic
• “Popular Ming Field Allocation Maps: Between Origins and Afterlife” https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/popular-ming-field-allocation-maps-between-origins-and-afterlife", Working Group FENYE IN LOCAL GAZETTEERS (Max-Planck Institutes for the History of Science -MPIWG, Berlin), directed by Chen Shih-Pei, 2021-2023 https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/fenye-local-gazetteers

Communications (Colloques, journées d'études) 

Colloques à venir (organisation) :

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE HISTORY OF THE MAP SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP:
ISHMAP-2023 (co-organised with Jordana Dym, ISHMap President, and Diana Lange, Humbold University, Berlin)
10-14 July 2023, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
https://ishmap.wordpress.com/ishmap-2023-berlin-symposium

On-line workshop: TYPOLOGIES OF EAST ASIAN MAPS IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
(co-organised with Diana Lange, CSMC, Hamburg – Humboldt University, Berlin )
2-3 December 2022, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures – CSMC (The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts), University of Hamburg
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/en/register-workshop33

COLLOQUES ET ATELIERS ORGANISÉS

Cartographic materials from pre-modern East Asia
and approaches to their analysis
Center for General Education, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
co-organised with YING Jia-Ming 英家銘and Alexei Volkov
24.12.2020

Panel “FORMAL APPROACHES TO STUDIES OF TRADITIONAL MAPS OF EAST ASIA”
(co-organised with Alexei Volkov, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
15th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA)
19-23.08.2019 Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
http://ichsea2019.org/program.php

International Workshop
“Analysis of Pre-Modern Maps of East Asia: Methods and Approaches”
(co-organised together with Dagmar Schäfer, Director of Dept. III of the MPIWG 
Yang Yulei 楊雨蕾, Zhejiang University, and Cathleen Paethe, Subject Librarian for Chinese Studies, MPIWG)
22-24.07.2019, MPIWG, Berlin
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/analysis-pre-modern-maps-east-asi…
in the framework of the Project: 
“TRANSLATION TERROIRS – East Asia Between Autochthonous and Western Cartographic Languages” Project N° DFG-SCHA_936-5-1, 2019-2021
co-directed with Dagmar Schäfer, Director of Dept. III of the MPIWG, Berlin
domiciliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG), Berlin
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/translation-terroirs-…
https://www.spp2130.de/index.php/en/overview/
https://www.spp2130.de/index.php/uebersicht-projekte/
[SPP 2130 Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit (1450-1800) / 
Translation cultures of Early Modern times (1450-1800) 
https://www.spp2130.de/]


Post-conference workshop 
ON THE USE OF CHARTS AND SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR NAVIGATION AND PILOTING, 
24.11.2018, EHESS (co-organised with Paola Calanca, EFEO-CCJ), 
https://ccj.hypotheses.org/23249
related to the international conference
MARITIME KNOWLEDGE FOR ASIAN SEAS: An interdisciplinary dialogue 
between maritime historians and archaeologists
(Organized by the SEAFARING RESEARCH PROGRAMME with the financial support of the ANR, the CCKF, the EFEO, the CRCAO and the assistance of the EHESS, and the IEA)
21-23.11.2018, EFEO-IEA-EHESS
https://ccj.hypotheses.org/23103

Panel: “Cultural Identities in the Zhou World: The State of Chu Revisited”
21st European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) Conference
(co-organized with Yuri Pines, Hebrew University) 
23-28.08.2016, Petersburg, Russia
http://www.eacs2016.spbu.ru/schedule-2016/

A series of two workshops on mapping East Asia (co-organised with Noémi Godefroy, INALCO – CRJ, UMR 8173 Chine-Corée-Japon, CNRS-EHESS)
II. “Cartography in Transition in Modern & Contemporary East Asia (18th-21st centuries)”
2.11.2016, EHESS, Paris
https://www.ehess.fr/fr/node/10089

I. “Deciphering Sino-Korean Atlases and Japanese Maps: Current Research Problems in East Asian Cartography Studies”
21.03.2016, EHESS, Paris
https://www.ehess.fr/fr/node/8914

Panel “Re-discovered Maps of East and South-East Asia”
(co-organised with Martin Hofmann, University of Heidelberg)
14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA)
6–10.07.2015, Paris 
(member of the Organizing Committee)
http://14ichsea.sciencesconf.org, https://14ichsea.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/22.html

Panel “Symbols, Signs and other Elements of Representation Codes 
in East Asian Maps”
25th International Conference on the History of Cartography 
30.06 – 5.07.2013, Helsinki, Finland
http://ichc2013.fi

Panel “Traditional Chinese Cartography: New Aspects and Perspectives”
19th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
5–8.09.2012, Paris (Université Paris Diderot – INALCO), France
http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/eacs-easl

Workshop L'Asie Orientale dans les traditions cartographiques asiatiques et occidentales: différences, interrelations, interactions
22.11. 2010, Paris (EHESS), France
http://actualites.ehess.fr/nouvelle4177.html

Panel “Visual Representations in Science and Pseudo-Science in Pre-Modern and Non-Western Cultures”
(co-organized with Prof. Alexei Volkov, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
23rd International Congress of History of Science and Technology
28.07–02.08.2009, Budapest, Hungary
http://www.conferences.hu/ichs09

Panel “Authority in Transition: Cosmic and Temporal Implications of 
Time-Place-Precedent in Ancient China”
11th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
15–20.08.2005, Munich, Germany
http://www.igm.med.lmu.de/aktuell/ichsea.html

Panel “Geographical Conceptions of Pre-Modern China” 
(co-organized with Professor Marina Kravtsova, Institute of Oriental 
Studies at St.Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences) 
14th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies 
26–28.08.2002, Moscow, Russia

EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN EXCHANGES IN EAST ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
From Image to Action: The Dynamics of Visual Representation in Chinese Intellectual
and Religious Culture
3–5.09.2001, Paris, Collège de France
(member of the Organizing Committee)

Panel “Typological Parallels in Pre-Modern Geographical Knowledge: 
Non-Geographical Geographies” 
(co-organized with Natalia Lozovsky, University of Colorado, USA) 
21st International Congress of History of Science
8–14.07.2001, Mexico City

International Workshop Creating and Representing Sacred Spaces (financed by the DFG)
29.06 – 2.07. 2000, Ostasiatisches Seminar der Universität Göttingen, Germany


PRESENTATIONS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY

“Rare Hand-Coloured Printed Map of the Qing Empire (ca. 1819-1832) Rediscovered in the Göttingen State and University Library: a Hybrid Cartography Case”
MAPPING ASIA. CARTOGRAPHY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TERRITORIALITY
24-25 November 2022, Gotha (University of Erfurt)
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschungszentrum-gotha/veranstaltungen/progr…

“Map of the ‘Great Qing Everlastingly Unified’ reformatted according to the modern Western cartography standards: a version by Li Mingche 李明徹 (1751-1832)”
THE SURVEYING TURN IN CARTOGRAPHY: 
Revolutionizing Maps and Charts in the 18th and 19th Centuries
The 9th International Symposium on the History of Cartography , (ICA Commission on the History of Cartography)
24-26 October 2022, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
https://history.icaci.org/berlin-2022/

“The Cartographic Odyssey of Daikokuya Kōdayū (1751 – 1828): The Maps of Japan drawn for the Russian Empire”, in co-authorship with Ekaterina Simonova-Gudzenkp
29th International Conference for the History of Cartography
4-8 July 2022, Bucharest University
https://ichc2022.muzeulhartilor.ro

“Japan and East Asia in the earliest nautical chart with isogonic lines 
(drawn between 1572-1592, attributed to Luis Teixeira)”
3rd International Workshop On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart (Project MEDEA-CHART, Faculdade de Ciências – Universidade de Lisboa)
6-8 October, 2021, Lisbon (virtual conference)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UoZI0x8jbweEGBnBCswclB3Y-jmzqGP

“Teaching Geography to the Japanese Community in Latin America:
A Manuscript Copy (1886) of Yamada Yukimoto’s Printed World Map (1879-1883)”
2020 International Society for the History of the Map [ISHMap] symposium
11-13.06.2020, São Paulo (Mario Andrade Library), Brazil
https://ishmap.wordpress.com/annual-meeting/ishmap-symposium-2020-sao-p…

Key-note speach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-zMC-huTec&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Session 1: Map Fixations - Borderlands (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gofI0kQ-3VU&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Session 2: Mapping Brazil (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxp2Db_BGyo&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Book Chat 1: Atlas of Boston History (ISHMap 2020 Symposium)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPAWTDMnMtA&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Session 3: Max Fixations - Toponomies and Allegories (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2df5WyWZf9w&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp… 4: Maps and Materiality (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3arG2e73tjc&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Book Chat 2A: Mapping the Middle East (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMhxOB2SmzE&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Book Chat 2B: American Knowledges (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYAZvQeNte0&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Plenary Session: Maps of the Invisible (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh0BRayJDjE&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Plenary Session: Cartographies in Community (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kiebfIcJYM&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Book Chat 3: New Models: Matthew Edney and Matthieu Noucher (ISHMap Symposium 2020 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wPJVyhTNMM&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Session 5: Maps and the Teaching of Geography (ISHMap 2020 Symposium)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEYKLlqUH2Y&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Session 6: Disputes, Wars, Surveillance (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmyzh7kOE4&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Book Chat 4: Global Imperial (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8VHjlgP4k0&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Session 7: Mapping Across Cultures (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQPzX1N38eI&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…
Session 8: Mapping Movement (ISHMap Symposium 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBZ23BcFKSQ&list=PLs8d-CM_Nh20LTYdkBVUp…



“Japan and East Asia in the earliest nautical chart with isogonic lines 
(drawn between 1572-1592, attributed to Luís Teixeira)”
3rd International Workshop on the Origins and Evolution of the Nautical Charts
(Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology – IUCHST and Medea-Chart project)
4-5.06.2020 reported to Spring-Summer 2021, Lisbon (Instituto Hidrográfico), Portugal
https://www.portmeeting.org/

Poster: A Manuscript Japanese World Map [1886] in the Banco Santos Collection (São Paulo, Brazil): a Japanese Map-maker in Latin America? 
28th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC 2019)
14-19.07.2019, Amsterdam https://ichc2019.amsterdam/programme

“Mapping the Chinese Empire Through a Network of Communicating Waterways: 
Two Late Qing Dynasty Maps in the collection of the MPIWG (Berlin) and Their Origins”
(in co-authorship with Yang Yulei 楊雨蕾, Zhejiang University)
Pre-conference workshop of the ICHC 2019 https://ichc2019.amsterdam/pre-conference/ica-utrecht
CONTROLLING THE WATERS: SEAS, LAKES AND RIVERS ON HISTORIC MAPS AND CHARTS
Case Studies from the Lowlands, Europe and the World over the last 500 years
12.07.2019, Utrecht University Library
https://ichc2019.amsterdam/pre-conference/ica-utrecht
organised by the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography

“The First Printed European Map of China [Ortelius 1584]: Confusions over its Authorship Identification (Luis Jorge de Barbuda, fl. 1575-1599 ?) 
and Traces of the Chinese Cartographical Influence”
27th International Conference on the History of Cartography
9–14.07.2017, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/ichc2017/
(Travel grant from the American Friends of J.B.Harley Research Fellowships and the Brazilian and Minas Gerais Scientific Fund Agencies)

“Islands as Mountains Standing out from the Sea:
Kunlun [Island(s)] 崑崙[山／島] in Chinese Cartography”
3rd Symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap): Encounters and Translations: Mapping and Writing the Waters of the World 
3-4.06.2016, Lisbon, Portugal
http://ciuhct.org/pt/activity/ishmap-symposium-lisbon-2016
http://ciuhct.org/events/portmeeting/Index.htm

“Recently Identified Manuscript Map of the Chinese Empire 
[late 18th-early 19th cc., SUB Goettingen]” (poster presentation)
26th International Conference on the History of Cartography
12-17.07.2015, Belgium, Antwerp
http://www.ichc2015.be

Poster: “Trees as Cartographic Symbols in Chinese Cartography”
25th International Conference on the History of Cartography 
30.06 – 5.07.2013, Helsinki, Finland
http://ichc2013.fi

“Kunlun Mountain(s) and Kunlun Island(s):
Island as a Mountain Standing out from the Sea”
海洋、空間意識與文化交會─第二屆輿圖學國際學術研討會 
Oceans, Consciousness of Space and Cultural Interflow: 
The Second International Symposium of Cartography
27–29.November 2012, Academia Sinica – The Old Palace Museum, Taibei, Taiwan
(invited participant)

“The “Western Region” through the History of Chinese Cartography 
and the Transmission of Chinese Cartographical Images into Western Maps of China”
24th International Conference on the History of Cartography
July 9-15, 2011, The Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia
(Travel grant from the American Friends of J.B.Harley Research Fellowships)

“Kunlun Mountain from Early Texts to Representations in Maps:
Shifting Cosmological Positions”
Panel VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE IN PRE-MODERN AND NON-WESTERN CULTURES
23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography
July 12-17, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

“Diversity in the Representation of the Yellow River Source in Chinese Cartography”
(Poster)
22nd International Conference on the History of Cartography 
8–13.07.2007, Bern University, Switzerland 
(Travel grant from the American Friends of J.B.Harley Research Fellowships)

“Concurring Conceptions of the Yellow River Source:
From Descriptions to Cartographic Representations”
ECAI [Electronic Cultural Atlases Initiative www.ecai.org, Berkeley, USA] Congress of Cultural Atlases III: Time & Space in Eurasia
29–31.05.2007, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

“Reconsidering Reconsidered Loss of Ancient Chinese Maps”
21st International Conference on the History of Cartography 
17–22.07.2005, Eötvös Lorànd University, Budapest, Hungary
http://lazarus.elte.hu/~zoltorok/ichc2005.htm
(Travel grant from the American Friends of J.B.Harley Research Fellowships)

“Spiritual Landscape of the ‘Classic of Mountains and Seas’ and the Reception of this Text by Chinese Historians of Geography”
29th International Geographical Congress 
(Meeting of the IGU Study Group on the Cultural Approach in Geography, 14-16 August 2000)
14–18.08.2000, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea



PRESENTATIONS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

“Formal Approaches to Studies of Traditional Maps of East Asia: State of the Art and General Remarks.” 
Panel “FORMAL APPROACHES TO STUDIES OF TRADITIONAL MAPS OF EAST ASIA”
(co-organised with Alexei Volkov, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
15th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA)
19-23.08.2019 Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
http://ichsea2019.org/program.php

“‘Cosmograph’-Tailored Maps in Late East Asian Cosmography”
ICTSA2017 Kyoto University International Symposium: 
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRADITIONAL SCIENCES IN ASIA 2017 
25-28.10.2017 Kyoto, Japan
http://wdc2.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp
(invited participant) 

“Manuscript Japanese world map (1886) from the Banco Santos Collection:
De-centred Ways of Knowledge Transmission”
Panel: De-centered science, for real?: 
Transits of mining chemistry, medicine and natural history
25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
23-29.07.2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.ichst2017.sbhc.org.br/

“Re-discovered manuscript map of the Chinese Empire by Li Mingche 李明徹 (1751-1832) from the Göttingen State and University Library”
Panel RE-DISCOVERED MAPS OF EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA)
6–10.07.2015, Paris 
http://14ichsea.sciencesconf.org

“Maps in Exchanges Between Europe and East A sia:
The Case of the First Printed Western Map of China 
by Luis Jorge de Barbuda (?) [Ortelius 1584]”
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES:
PORTUGAL AND EAST ASIA V:
Visual and textual representations in 
exchanges between Europe and East Asia
葡萄牙與東亞數學科學 系列會議之五
歐洲與東亞交流中的文本和視覺呈現
7–9.11.2014, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
(invited participant)

“Spatial Arrangement of Healing Plants in the Shanhaijing 
(Itineraries of Mountains and Seas, compiled about the 1st century BC)”
Symposium S079-B “Materia medica and Pharmacy: from Medicinal Virtues to the Active Principal of Plants”
Symposium S079-A, session chair
24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine
21–28.07.2013, University of Manchester, GB
http://www.ichstm2013.com

“Kunlun Mountain: From Descriptions in Early Chinese Texts through Depictions in East Asian Maps to Western Cartography”
23rd International Congress of History of Science and Technology
28.07 – 2.08.2009, Budapest, Hungary

“Contradicting Representations of the Yellow River Source in Song Cartography”
11th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
15–20.08.2005, Munich, Germany
http://www.igm.med.lmu.de/aktuell/ichsea.html
(invited participant)

“Formation and Evolution of the Conception of the ‘Nine Provinces’ (Jiu zhou): 
A Critical Evaluation of the Early Sources”
3rd International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Records of Science and Technology
31.03–04.04.2003, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

“Geographical Treatises in the Dynastic Histories: ‘No Man’s Land’ between Sinology and the History of Science”
21st International Conference of History of Science
8–14.07.2001, Mexico City

“The Ming tang wei: a Description of a Ritual or a Prescriptive Scheme (tu)?”
9th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia. 
23–27.08.1999, National University of Singapore, Singapore

“Why ‘The Classic of Mountains and Seas’ (the Shan hai jing) Contains 
Topographically Inaccurate Data”
20th International Congress of History of Science 
20–26.07.1997, Université de Liège, Belgium

“Topographical Accuracy or Conceptual Organization of Space? 
(Some remarks on the system of locations found in the Shan hai jing)”.
8th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
26–31.08.1996, Seoul National University, South Korea

“Spatial Composition of Ancient Chinese Texts”
Workshop History of Science - History of Text
30.03–2.04.1995, Einstein Forum, Potsdam & Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 
Berlin-Wannsee, Germany
(invited participant)

“Conceptual Organization of Space and Spatial Composition 
of a Cosmographic Text”
7th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
2–7.08.1993, Kansai Science City, Kyoto District, Japan

“‘The Directions of Kingdoms’ (Guo feng) as a Geographical Scheme”
6th International Conference on the History of Science in China
2–7.08.1990, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, Great Britain



PRESENTATIONS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON THE HISTORY OF CHINA AND EAST ASIA

“Kunlun Mountains Raising from the Sea: Cartographical Representations and
Cosmographical Origins” MARITIME KNOWLEDGE FOR ASIAN SEAS
An interdisciplinary dialogue between maritime historians and archaeologists
(Organized by the SEAFARING RESEARCH PROGRAMME with the financial support of the ANR, the CCKF, the EFEO, the CRCAO and the assistance of the EHESS, and the IEA)
21-23.11.2018, Paris (EFEO- IEA-EHESS) https://ccj.hypotheses.org/23103

“The Crucial Role of the Han River in the Chu Conception of Space: Questioning ‘No Chu-related Traits’ in the Rong Cheng shi Version of the ‘Nine Provinces’”
21st EACS Conference, Panel: Cultural Identities in the Zhou World: The State of Chu Revisited (panel co-organized with Yuri Pines, Hebrew University) 
23-28.08.2016, Petersburg, Russia
http://www.eacs2016.spbu.ru/schedule-2016/

“Trees as Cartographic Symbols in Chinese Maps: 
from the Wheel Maps back to Fangmatan”
Panel TRADITIONAL CHINESE CARTOGRAPHY: NEW ASPECTS AND PERSPECTIVES
19th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
5-8.09.2012, Université Paris Diderot – INALCO, Paris, France

“Rong Cheng shi 容成氏description of Yu’s labours and transmitted versions:
fusion or confusion?”
EXCAVATED AND PURCHASED CHINESE MANUSCRIPTS
4th Workshop of the European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts
4–5.07.2012, Collège de France, Paris, France

“The Usage of Toponyms in the Rong Cheng Shi Manuscript description of the ‘Nine Provinces’: Comparison with Transmitted Descriptions”
3rd Conference of the European Association of Chinese Manuscript Studies
26–29.06.2008, University of Zürich, Switzerland
(invited participant)

“Ritual Practices for Constructing Terrestrial Space (Warring States-Early Han).” International Conference Rituals, Pantheons and Techniques: A History of Chinese Religion before the Tang 
14–21.12.2006, Paris, France

“New Sources on the ‘Nine Provinces’, the Basic Model of 
Representing Territorial Space in China”
8th International Conference on China (8th Chinese Cultural Week)
17–22.01.2005, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (ISCSP-UTL), Centro de Estudos Chineses, 
Lisbon, Portugal
(invited participant)

“Evaluation and Classification of the Shan hai jing in Chinese Official Historiography”
15th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies 
25–29.08.2004 University of Heidelberg (Sinologisches Seminar), Germany
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/eacs2004/content/abstracts/section-c…

“Early Imperial Historiography in China and the Shan hai jing”.
ICANAS-37 – International Congress of Asian and North African Studies
16–21.08.2004 Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia
(presentation was accepted by the Organisation Committee, but did not take place, along with about a hundred of papers, due to the problems with the conference planning)

Two presentations in absentia at the 18th Conference of the Warring States Project
4–6.12.2003, Amherst, USA
http://www.umass.edu/wsp/conferences/wswg/18/index.html

“The Recently Discovered Rong Cheng Shi Version of the ‘Nine Provinces’”
The 17th Conference of the Warring States Project http://www.umass.edu/wsp/conferences/wswg/17/index.html
17–18.09.2003, Leiden University, Netherlands
(invited participant)

“Geography as Part of Historiography: 
Geographical Treatises in Chinese Dynastic Histories”
Cognitive Historiography and Normative Historiography:
Searching for the Role of History in the 21st Century
27–29.03.2003, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan
(invited participant)

“‘Historical Introduction’ to the Hanshu Dilizhi as Theoretical Foundation of the Conception of ‘Terrestrial Organization’ (di li).”
14th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies 
26–28.08.2002 Institute of the Far East, Moscow, Russia

“Mapping Without Maps: The Case of the Shan hai jing (‘Classic of Mountains and Seas’)”
EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN EXCHANGES IN EAST ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
From Image to Action: The Dynamics of Visual Representation in Chinese Intellectual and Religious Culture
3–5.09.2001, Paris, Collège de France

“Studies of the Early Geographical Treatises in the Early Dynastic Histories”
XXXVI ICANAS - International Congress of Asian and North African Studies
27.08– 2.09.2000, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
(invited participant)

“System of Local Spirits in the Shan hai jing: Sacred Cosmography”
The First International Convention of Asia Scholars
25–28.06.1998, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands 

“Conception of Terrestrial Organization in the Shan hai jing”
11th Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies
4-7.09.1996, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

“The Role of ‘Position’ (wei) in Ancient Chinese Terrestrial Representations”
10th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies
(34th Conference of European Sinologists)
29.08–1.09.1994, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic



PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

“Cartographic Journey of a Drift Away Sailor: Maps of Japan by Daikokuya
Kōdayū 大黒屋 光太夫 (1751 – 1828).”
Cartographic materials from pre-modern East Asia
and approaches to their analysis
Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
24 December 2020 (presential – virtual)

General discussant
Worldviews Displaced: Maps and Mapping between Western Europe and East Asia (16th & 17th centuries), co-organised by Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky
University of Macau (virtual workshop), 27-28 August 2020 (virtual)

“Spatial Models in the YU GONG and the SHANHAIJING: A Review.”
International Workshop THE GEOMETRIES OF POLITY: 
Exploring Cosmological Orders Over the History of China and the South Pacific
7-8.01.2020 University of Virginia (Brooks Hall), Charlottesville, USA

“An Insular Conception of the Imperial Realm in Late Qing China and its Origins: Two Late Qing Dynasty Maps in the collection of the MPIWG (Berlin)”
Religion and Cosmology in Pre-modern China: 
Missionaries and Transmission of Scientific Information
二十世紀以前中國的宗教與宇宙觀—傳教士與科學訊息的傳播
6-7.12.2019 National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學
https://tinyurl.com/y59bqm66

“From Mountains and Rivers to the Floating Sand: Representation of the Western Region 西域 _through the History of the Chinese Cartography” 
从山水到流沙：中国地图史中的西域 
International Workshop 
Imagined Ecologies: Maps and Natural Histories in Late Imperial China
想象的生态：明清时期的地图与博物学国际学术研讨会 
17-19.05.2019, Boya College of the Sun Yat-sen University
中山大学博雅学院, Guangzhou, P.R.C. http://lac.sysu.edu.cn

“Tracing the “Maps of the Under-Heaven” 天下圖 (Korean Ch’ônhado, Chinese Tianxiatu) of the mid-18th century from the cosmographical schemes in the Chinese Almanacs of Auspicious Images (Xiangji beiyao tongshu象吉備要通書, early 17th century)”
International Workshop Maps, Diagrams, and Texts: 
History of Representations of Space in East and Southeast Asia
15.06.2018, National Tsing Hua University, Center for General Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan

“Manuscript Japanese world map (1886) from the Banco Santos Collection:
De-centred Ways of Knowledge Transmission, PART II”
Colloquium HISTORY OF SCIENCE – PUC-SP: 20 YEARS
31.07-01.08.2017, Casa das Rosas, São Paulo, Brazil
http://www.pucsp.br/pos/cesima/eventos/Programacao_coloquio17.html

“Tracing the Origins of ‘Cosmograph’-Tailored Maps in Late East Asia:
‘Sino-Korean’ Atlases (mid. 18th century) as an Echo of Early Chinese Cosmography”
Spatial Imagination in Early and Medieval China
25-27.05.2017, University of Pittsburgh, USA

“Authentic and Reconstructed Historical Maps for Elucidating the Early Chinese Terrestrial Descriptions” 
International Conference Reasoning and Representation with Diagrams: History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in the East and the West
24-25.11.2016, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
http://wanghsienchun.wixsite.com/diagrams

“The ‘wheel’ world maps and the maps of China in the Sino-Korean Atlases (18th-19th centuries) and the history of their study”
Workshop Deciphering Sino-Korean Atlases and Japanese Maps: Current Research Problems in East Asian Cartography Studies (co-organised with Noémi Godefroy, INALCO – CRJ, UMR 8173 Chine-Corée-Japon, CNRS-EHESS)
21.03.2016, Paris
https://www.ehess.fr/fr/node/8914

“Is a cardinally-oriented model of space always spatio-temporal? 
Confusing absence of explicit temporal dimension in the Shanhaijing”
Workshop Temporal Dimensions of Space in Imperial China
20.06.2015 East Asia Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany

“Maps and Their Makers: Confusions of One Authorship Identification
(Luis Jorge de Barbuda and the Map of China in Ortelius 1584)”
Visual Representations in Pre-Modern Science and Technology 前現代科學技術的視覺呈現  
23.05.2015 National Tsing Hua University (Education Hall) Hsinchu, Taiwan

“Complex history of exchanging maps and cartographical ideas 
between China and Europe: recently discovered manuscript map of China 
in the Göttingen State and University Library (late 18th- early 19th century)”
科學知識的傳播：延續與轉變 工作坊
Transmission of Scientific Knowledge: Continuity and Change
International Workshop in the Framework the Research Project 
MULTICULTURALISM OF MONSOON ASIA 季風亞洲與多元文化  
5.06.2014 National Tsing Hua University (College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Hsinchu, Taiwan

“Sino-Korean Atlases Rediscovered and Reconsidered”
International Workshop on East Asian Cartographical Traditions
in the Framework the Research Project 
MULTICULTURALISM OF MONSOON ASIA 季風亞洲與多元文化  
18.04.2014 National Tsing Hua University 
(College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Hsinchu, Taiwan

“First Insights into the Usage of Trees as Cartographical Symbols”
Visual representations in traditional science: 
geographical maps and mathematical diagrams in East and West
傳統科學中的視覺呈現：東西方的地理圖與數學圖形 
International Workshop in the Framework of the Research Project 
Multiculturalism in Monsoon Asia 李風亞洲與多元文化 : 國際學術研討會
31.05.2013 National Tsing Hua University (Education Hall)
Hsinchu, Taiwan

“A Westernised Japanese World Map (1886) from the Banco Santos Collection (São Paulo, Brazil): A Complex East-West Interaction”
東西科技的對話：近現代跨文化的科技交流 國際研討會
International Workshop 
Dialogues between East and West: cross-cultural transmission of science and technology from the 16th to the 20th century
1-2.12.2012 National Tsing Hua University (College of Humanities and Social Sciences) 
Hsinchu, Taiwan
http://rchss.nthu.edu.tw/rchss/index.php#anchor312

“Sino-Korean Atlases: an East Asian Cartographical 
Enterprise in Trend of Atlas Production”
International Workshop in the Framework of the Research Project 
Multiculturalism in Monsoon Asia 李風亞洲與多元文化 : 國際學術研討會
3-4.06.2012 National Tsing Hua University (College of Humanities and Social Sciences) 
Hsinchu, Taiwan
(invited lecture)

“Representations of the “Western Region” 
through the history of Chinese cartography”
International Conference Source Materials in History of Science and Technology and Their Interpretation: Problems and Approaches
3.12.2010, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

“Représentations de la « Région occidentale » à travers l’histoire de la cartographie chinoise, et transmission des images chinoises dans la cartographie occidentale”
Workshop L'Asie Orientale dans les traditions cartographiques asiatiques et occidentales: différences, interrelations, interactions
22.11. 2010, Paris (EHESS), France

“Kunlun Mountain and the Quest for the Yellow River Source: 
A Case of the Eternal Return”
Visual Representations in Pre-Modern and Non-Western Science and Technology
December 12-13, 2009, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan

“The System of Local Guardian Spirits in the ‘Classic of Mountains and Seas’ 
(Shan hai jing)”
International Workshop “Representing and Creating Sacred Spaces” 
29.06–2.07.2000, Ostasiatisches Seminar der Universität Göttingen, Germany

 

Publications 

Articles in Collections of Papers 

- “Ritual Practices for Constructing Terrestrial Space (Warring States-Early Han).” In: HdO Early Chinese Religion. Part One : Shang through Han (1250 BC – 220 AD), eds. John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019 (revised 2009), pp. 595-644.
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789047442424
https://www.academia.edu/22612032
ISBN : 978-90-04-16835-0 (hardback)
ISBN : 978-90-04-20603-8 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-90-47-44242-4 (e-book)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004168350.i-1312 (volume)


- “The First Map of China Printed in Europe [Ortelius 1584] Reconsidered: Confusions of its Authorship and the Influence of the Chinese Cartography”. In: HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES: PORTUGAL AND EAST ASIA V – Visual and Textual Representations in Exchanges Between Europe and East Asia, eds. Luís Saraiva and Catherine Jami, Singapore – London: World Scientific, 2018, pp. 139-169.
https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813233256_0007
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10796
ISBN (hardcover): 978-981-3233-24-9, ISBN (ebook): 978-981-3233-26-3

Review of the volume by Robert Batchelor in: Imago Mundi, vol. 71:2 (2019), pp. 218-219, 
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2019.1607084

- “‘Inversed Cosmographs’ in Late East Asian Cartography and the Atlas Production Trend,” in: East-West Encounter in the Science of Heaven and Earth 天と地の科学, edited by Tokimasa Takeda 武田時昌 and Bill M. Mak 麥文彪. Kyoto: Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 京都大學人文科學研究所, 2019, pp. 144-174. https://www.academia.edu/39008442
[The complete volume can be downloaded here: http://www.billmak.com/storage/Mak_Takeda%202019.pdf http://www.billmak.com/astronomy/]



- “A Manuscript Japanese World Map (1886) from the Banco Santos Collection (São Paulo, Brazil): De-centred Ways of Knowledge Transmission.” In: ROTAS, MAPAS & INTERCÂMBIOS DA HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA, eds. Ana-Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb, José-Luiz Goldfarb, Márcia H. M. Ferraz, Silvia I. Waisse and Luciana Costa Thomaz. São Paulo: EDUC—Editora da PUC-SP, 2020, pp. 25-45.
ISBN: ISBN 978-65-87387-04-8
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=gtbpDwAAQBAJ
https://j.pucsp.br/noticia/rotas-mapas-intercambios-da-historia-da-cien…
https://ehgo.hypotheses.org/96


- (in co-authorship with Ekaterina Simonova-Gudzenko) “Lost in Transmission: Maps of Japan by Daikokuya Kōdayū 大黒屋 光太夫 (1751 – 1828).” In: ÜBERSETZUNGSPOLITIKEN / TRANSLATION POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF TRANSLATION, eds. Antje Flüchter, Andreas Gipper, Susanne Greilich and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink. Stuttgart: Metzler, forthcoming.

Journal Articles

- “The Han River as the Central Axis and Predominance of Waterways: Questioning the Claim of ‘No Chu-related Traits’ in the View of Terrestrial Space in the Rong Cheng shi Manuscript (4th c. BC).” Early China, vol. 44 (2021): 143-235, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/eac.2021.7; author’s version: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03511306

- “Map Translation as Source and Process: from Print to Manuscript” 
(the case of Julius Klaproth [1783-1835]), in RESEARCH METHODS PRIMARY SOURCES. Marlborough: Adam Matthew Digital, 2021, 24 pages. DOI: 10.47594/RMPS_0102.

Book Reviews

Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters between East and West. Regional Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2017. Edited by Martijn Storms, Mario Cams, Imre Josef Demhardt and Ferjan Ormeling. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-90405-4 (cloth); ISBN 978-3-319-90406-1 (eBook). Pp. 299.
IMAGO MUNDI 71 :2 (2019), pp. 219-220. DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2019.1607085
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2019.1607085




 

Activité de vulgarisation et de communication 

PLANETE TERRE by Sylvan Kahn [FRANCE CULTURE]
“Monde chinois, arabes et européens: la circulation des savoirs géographiques”
23.01.2013 14:00
http://carnetsjapon.hypotheses.org/2902

Prix et distinctions 

- Visiting Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2017-2022)
- Visiting Fellow, Zhejiang University, Faculty of History, Research Centre for International Relations, PRC (May 2018) 
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1996-1998, short resumptions in of the AvH Stipend in 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019)
- Research Fellow IKGF [INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES]
Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe (December 2016 - November 2016)
- Visiting Researcher, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (March-August 2014)
- Diderot Post-Doctoral Fellowship (FMSH), April 1993 - June 1995

Travel grants from the AMERICAN FRIENDS OF J.B.HARLEY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (2005, 2007, 2011, 2017)

Autres informations 

Membre associé
UMR 8504 GEOGRAPHIES-CITES (EQUIPE E.H.G.O Épistémologie et Histoire de la Géographie)

Participation dans les comités éditorials

Editorial Committee of the Géographie et cultures (2000-2008) http://gc.revues.org
Editoral Committee of the East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (EASTM) http://www.eastm.org/index.php/journal, 2010 – till present time

Board of the Brill Research Perspectives in Map History (since 2020)
https://brill.com/view/journals/rpmh/rpmh-overview.xml


Professional Memberships
International Society for the History of the Map
https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2017/12/13/the-status-of-ishmap
Society for the Study of Early China (SSEC)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/ssec
International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine
Treasurer of the Society (2005-2008) http://www.nri.org.uk/ISHEASTM.html
Financial report delivered at the 12th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, 14-18.07.2008, Baltimore, USA
Member of the Organising Committee of the 14th ICHSEA (Paris, 2015)
European Association of Chinese Studies http://chinesestudies.eu/
European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/eascm
International Society for the Critical Study of Divination e.V. https://iscsd.de/index.html
Association of Graduates of the Institute of Asian and African Countries (AVISAA),
Moscow State University https://www.ovisaa.ru