The Peace and Conflict Cartography ICA Working Group would like to invite you to the next webinar in our Peace and Conflict Cartography series, which will take place on 30 April at 3:00 pm CET. This session will mark the launch of the digital atlas Visualising Conflict/Peace: An Incomplete Atlas of Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe, developed at the KonKoop VisLab under the leadership of Mela Žuljević. The VisLab is part of the KonKoop research initiative at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and focuses on experimental approaches to visualising political and spatial processes (you can learn more about the lab here.
The atlas will be released online shortly before the event, opening the platform to a wider public and marking an important milestone for the project. During the webinar, Mela Žuljević will present the atlas, introducing its conceptual foundations as well as the visual and methodological approaches that shaped its development. Her presentation will highlight how the atlas brings together a range of cartographic experiments to explore the spatial dimensions of conflict and cooperation in Eastern Europe, while also reflecting on the possibilities of atlas-making as a critical visual practice. The presentation will be followed by critical reflections from two invited scholars: Georg Gartner, Professor of Cartography at Vienna University of Technology and head of the ICA, and Eric Losang, head of the ICA Atlas Commission. Their responses will engage both with the atlas itself and with broader questions surrounding the contemporary meaning of the atlas as a form of knowledge production. In particular, the discussion will address how conflicts are represented through maps, what kinds of spatial narratives such representations enable or constrain, and how atlas-making today navigates the tensions between documentation, interpretation, and critical cartographic practice.
Together, the session aims to open a broader conversation about the possibilities and limits of mapping conflict in the present moment.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1XHYOcnkSk-ENJxUIVpUZA
We hope you will join us for this conversation and for the public launch of the atlas!
