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1st meeting of DFG Island Studies Network

On November 11 and 12, 2021, the 1st meeting of the DFG Island Studies Network took place online.

The meeting featured my presentation Goods, people, ideas – island exchanges in early modern Europe:

MONIKA BARGET (Maastricht / Mainz) moved the focus from being on the islands themselves to knowledge about islands in mainland Europe, especially in 18th-century Germany. Whereas only a minority of people visited them, islands featured in different media from maps to entertainment literature and specialist dictionaries. The flourishing print and translation cultures popularised island knowledge across Europe, often reflecting commercial interests and political debates.  One particularly valuable island source are dictionaries published for the use of travelling salespersons as they cover many smaller islands (e.g. where cargo ships could anchor). Different aspects of island knowledge were gathered and evaluated in well-connected expert communities while more general island knowledge began to transcend social boundaries.

Full meeting schedule: DFG 1. Meeting, 05.11.2021_LD

Conference report by Miriam Kroiher, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen: in preparation


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Monika Barget

Monika Barget is an assistant professor in History at Maastricht University and co-coordinator of the DigiKAR geohumanities project at IEG Mainz. Her research interests include spatial history, digital mapping, political history and media.

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