讲座题目：Cartography and Imaginative Communities 主讲人：瑞典皇家理工学院计算机科学与传播系副教授Leif Dahlberg 时间：2010年10月22日（周五）下午2：00-4：30 地点：学院106 Leif Dahlberg CSC/KTH Abstract In the second edition of Benedict Anderson’s influential study Imaginative Communities (1983/1991), the author added two chapters, one extending the argument that nationalism is an imaginative product of ”print capitalism” to three additional media (census, map, museum) and the other problematizing certain notions. My paper develops the connexion between cartography and imaginative communities (1) historically to the beginnings of modern European map-making (chorography and geography) in the late fifteenth century and (2) thematically in direction of law and legal jurisdictions. In this way is constructed a cartographic genealogy of the connexion between political geography and nationalism, which emerges in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, empowered by new map designs and new printing technologies (lithography), developments that turned maps both into a mass medium and a product for general (and popular) consumtion. The paper intends to show that the transformation of social space taking place in the Early Modern and Modern period is both more radical and more complex than is suggested by Anderson and other scholars who have studied the relation between cartography and socio-political imagination.