Ségolène Débarre – Hybridations and circulations: the case of Ottoman cartography in the 19th century – 29/04/2013
Ségolène Débarre (CNRS UMR 8504)Hybridations and circulations: the case of Ottoman cartography in the 19th centuryLundi 29 avril 2013 à 18h00 à l’IFEA Intervention en anglais Amidst growing economic and political rivalry between European powers, the work of German cartographers was crucial to developing German influence in the Orient. Using published and manuscript travel books and private and official correspondence, I analyse how the maps were made and what political, economic and cultural objectives of the Prussian government lay behind them. I point out that the interest and the imagination associated with the Anatolian territory evolved jointly on the German and on the Ottoman side, which invites to consider the history of the cartography of this region in a connected