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"An Interesting Geographical Change" : Hedin, Stein and Huntington's surveys of climate change

Forêt, Philippe (2012-11-09)

Studying the contribution of the lakes of Central Asia to the discovery of global warming must touch on science policy in the early 20th century, the uneasy relationship that learned Europe used to have with the environmental ...
Au delà de la frontière scientifique, la frontière du réel en Asie centrale chinoise

Forêt, Philippe (2010-02-04)

To comprehend the role of frontier and frontier-making in the scientific controversy on the "geographical pivot history," I will propose a short account of the remarkable topographical expeditions that explored the Gobi, ...
De la vertu au vice: l'espace des loisirs à Macao (1910-1930)

Forêt, Philippe (2003-05-16)

Le nom Macao (Aomen en chinois, Ou-mun en cantonais) proviendrait d’une corruption du nom du temple A-ma (Make miao en chinois, Ma-kok miu en cantonais) qui se situe à l’entrée (men, mun) du Port Intérieur. Le temple est ...
Is China ––––––––––––––– flat? A minor contribution to counterfactual geography

Forêt, Philippe (2008-12-11)

The French philosophers Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Félix Guattari (1930-92) gathered two seminal texts in On The Line. In "Rhizome," Deleuze and Guattari introduced a new kind of thinking, which is both nondialectical ...
Staking a Claim in Paradise : The Appropriation of Central Asia by the Capitals of China (1625-1945)

Forêt, Philippe (2010-11-01)

Lecture given at the China in Asia colloquia series, 2010-2011 OBJECTIVE Understand the non-Chinese notions at work in landscape-making and in thegarden architecture of the imperial capitals of China. METHODOLOGY Examine ...
The Disentangled Pictorial History of Mémoire sur la Chine (1776)

Forêt, Philippe (2013-05-11)

This paper would add a contribution to the "entangled histories" of the circulation of Sino-European representations of landscape during the long 18th century. I will discuss a prime example of interaction, interpretation ...
The role of Central Asia in the discovery of global warming

Forêt, Philippe (2009-11-11)

The review of precise field maps and photographs should help me reconstruct not only the environmental and cultural history of Central Asia, but also the scholarly debate on climate that occurred during the first three ...
The Swiss contributions to the international development of cartography: The Eduard Imhof Era

Forêt, Philippe (2009-07-12)

My paper is about a project that will examine Switzerland's participation, during five decades, in the institutional and intellectual emancipation of the map-based sciences. I intend to provide a thematic and dispassionate ...