Drawing the Line: How We Visualise Research with Maps and Infographics

5:30 - 6 pm | With Iaroslav Boretskii | Room 3059

In conflict studies, maps and infographics can be a useful tool for visualising research insights. Visualisation is integral to KonKoop, a BMBF funded network that studies conflict and cooperation in Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. The network’s two multidisciplinary laboratories – a DataLab (ZOiS, Berlin)and a VisLab (IfL Leipzig) – develop conceptual and practical approaches to visualising their research. Their maps and graphics will form part of the planned Atlas of Peace and Conflict Visualisations. In this presentation, we present examples and explain which principles guide the process.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

6:30 - 7:15 pm | With Valentin Krüsmann | Room 3059

On the basis of pictures taken during his fieldwork in Serbia, Georgia and Kazakhstan, Valentin Krüsmann will present key insights into the work of Chinese and Multinational actors in the development of infrastructure – highways, metro systems and wind power plants – in the region. His presentation will explore the impacts of such projects on local populations, what they tell us about China’s presence on the global stage, and the role that Western actors have in the materialisation of these projects.

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