Programme

Virtual Workshop "Maps and Colours"
05. and 06.11.2020 in Hamburg

05.11.2020
Introduction

10:00 (Hamburg) / 04:00 (New York) / 18:00 (Seoul)
Welcome @ Hamburg

Session 1: Theoretical Approaches

10:30 (Hamburg) / 04:30 (New York) / 18:30 (Seoul)
1 Jörn Seemann, Ball State University, United States
Maps, Colours and Culture: A Brief Cartographic History

11:00 (Hamburg) / 05:00 (New York) / 19:00 (Seoul)
Coffee Break

11:30 (Hamburg) / 05:30 (New York) / 19:30 (Seoul)
2 Diana Lange, MARKK Hamburg
Talking about Colours on Maps: ‘Colour Systems’, ‘Colour Schemes’ and ‘Colour Codes’

12:00 (Hamburg) / 06:00 (New York) / 20:00 (Seoul)
3 Benjamin van der Linde, Hanseatisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Hamburg
How not to Colour Maps: Discourses and Changes of European Map Colour Styles

12:30 (Hamburg) / 06:30 (New York) / 20:30 (Seoul)
Lunch Break

Session 2-1: Material Sciences I

13:30 (Hamburg) / 07:30 (New York) / 21:30 (Seoul)
4 Peter Zietlow, Universität Hamburg
Non-invasive Colour Analysis: Capabilities and Challenges Upon Studying Maps

14:00 (Hamburg) / 08:00 (New York) / 22:00 (Seoul)
5 Lucia Pereira Pardo (and Neil Johnston), The National Archives, Kew, Richmond
Revealing the Practice of Tudor Mapmakers. Non-invasive Chemical Analysis of the Pigments in 16th – 17th Century Maps of Ireland

14:30 (Hamburg) / 08:30 (New York) / 22:30 (Seoul)
Coffee Break

Session 2-2: Material Sciences II

15:00 (Hamburg) / 09:00 (New York) / 23:00 (Seoul)
6 David Messinger, Rochester Institute for Technology
Pigment Analysis Through Hyperspectral Imaging of Two Medieval Maps: the Gough Map of Britain and the Selden Map of China

15:30 (Hamburg) / 09:30 (New York) / 23:30 (Seoul)
7 Haida Liang, Nottingham Trent University
From Imaging, Spectroscopy and Data Science to Art History and Cartography – An Interdisciplinary Study of the Selden Map of China

16:00 (Hamburg) / 10:00 (New York) / 00:00 (Seoul)
Coffee Break
Session 3: Meanings of Colours

16:30 (Hamburg) / 10:30 (New York) / 00:30 (Seoul)
8 Gilles Palsky, Université Paris
The Colours of the Earth. Logic of Colour-coding Systems in 19th Century Geological Maps

17:00 (Hamburg) / 11:00 (New York) / 01:00 (Seoul)
9 Jana Moser / Philipp Meyer, Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography
School-Atlases and the Meaning of Colours in Communicating Spatial Concepts of the World

06.11.2020

Session 4: Reconstructing Colours

09:30 (Hamburg) / 03:30 (New York) / 17:30 (Seoul)
10 Bram Vannieuwenhuyze, University of Amsterdam
Recolouring Old Maps

10:00 (Hamburg) / 04:00 (New York) / 18:00 (Seoul)
11 Tomasz Panecki, Polish Academy of Sciences und University of Warsaw
Reconstructing Colours on Lost Topographic Maps. The Case Study of the “Gaul/Raczyński” Map of Greater Poland (1:125 000, 1807–1812)

10:30 (Hamburg) / 04:30 (New York) / 18:30 (Seoul)
Coffee Break

Session 5: Functions of Colours

11:00 (Hamburg) / 05:00 (New York) / 19:00 (Seoul)
12 Marian Coman, University of Bukarest
Colouring the Turks. An Early Modern Cartographic Debate

11:30 (Hamburg) / 05:30 (New York) / 19:30 (Seoul)
13 Anne Christine Lien, University of Bergen
Colourful Cartography. How Colour Claimed Northern Norway on 17th to 19th Century Maps

12:00 (Hamburg) / 06:00 (New York) / 20:00 (Seoul)
14 Djoeke van Netten, University of Amsterdam
The Order Between Land and Sea and the Use of Colour

12:30 (Hamburg) / 06:30 (New York) / 20:30 (Seoul)
Lunch Break

Session 6: Case Studies East Asia

13:30 (Hamburg) / 07:30 (New York) / 21:30 (Seoul)
15 Sang-hoon Jang, National Museum of Korea
Colours and Readability in Traditional Korean Cartography

14:00 (Hamburg) / 08:00 (New York) / 22:00 (Seoul)
16 Elke Papelitzky, NYU Shanghai / Richard Pegg, MacLean Collection, Chicago
The Blue Maps of China

14:30 (Hamburg) / 08:30 (New York) / 22:30 (Seoul)
Coffee Break
 
Session 7: Case Studies European Middle Ages

15:00 (Hamburg) / 09:00 (New York) / 23:00 (Seoul)
17 Chet van Duzer, Lazarus Project, University of Rochester
Coloured as its Creators Intended: Painted Maps in the 1513 Edition of Ptolemy’s Geography

15:30 (Hamburg) / 09:30 (New York) / 23:30 (Seoul)
18 Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, University of Orléans
Colours on Early French Maps, 14th – 16th century

16:00 (Hamburg) / 10:00 (New York) / 00:00 (Seoul)
19 Final Discussion / Conclusion

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If you have any further questions, please contact Benjamin van der Linde (benjamin.vanderlinde@hk24.de) or Diana Lange (diana.lange@hu-berlin.de)