Filipe dos Reis - global dis:connect

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Filipe dos Reis

Filipe is an assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and International Organization (IRIO) at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. Before joining IRIO, he worked at the University of Erfurt, where he also earned his PhD. His current research focuses on the history, theory and politics of international law, imperial Germany and maps. He has published widely on these topics and has co-edited two volumes: The Politics of Translation in International Relations (2021) and Mapping, Connectivity and the Making of European Empires (2021).

Of Phantom Oceans and Mountain Ranges: Epistemic Authority, Cartographic Imaginaries and their Dis:connectivity Effects

At global dis:connect, Filipe is developing a project on phantom geographical features on 19th-century maps — a period when people considered themselves accurate and scientific. How was it possible that fictive mountain ranges and oceans appear on maps of that time? What kind of politics of knowledge was involved? What were the connective and disconnective effects of these phantom phenomena and how were they embedded in broader imaginaries about nature and society of the time? The project brings together discussions on global history and dis:connectivity, mapping and the sociology of knowledge.

Have a look at Filipe’s research poster about his project.

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Click HERE to mail Filipe and HERE for a list of his publications.