Introduction

Jörn Seemann teaches Cartography and Cultural Geography at Ball State University, United States. He is particularly interested in the relations between maps and society, with an emphasis on cartographic theories, methodologies and histories, creative approaches to mapping, and cultural ways of perceiving and representing space and place.

Zef Segal is a lecturer of history, mathematics, and digital humanities at the Open University of Israel. His research has focused on movement, communication, and cartography in nineteenth-century Europe, as well as the implementation of computational research tools in the study of history. His current research project is the network of Hebrew journals in the second half of the nineteenth century. Segal’s latest book, The Political Fragmentation of Germany (2019), explores the spatial processes that construct national and territorial identities, within the context of nineteenth-century German states.

Bram Vannieuwenhuyze studied history at Ghent University, where he obtained his PhD in 2008. His research focuses on historical cartography, town development, and urban morphology of medieval and early modern towns and landscape history. In 2015, he was named professor by special appointment of Historical Cartography at the University of Amsterdam, a chair established on behalf of the Cartographiae Historicae Cathedra Foundation. He also works as an independent scholar for Caldenberga (www.caldenberga.be).