Map-Making in World History - an Interview with Kären Wigen

In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Volume 39, Issue 2, p. 203-214

Abstract

This interview took place at Harvard University, where Kären Wigen, the Frances and Charles Field Professor in History of Stanford University gave the 2015 Reischauer Lectures. This year's theme was 'Where in the World? Map-Making at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900.' Carolien Stolte and Rachel Koroloff interviewed Professor Wigen to the tunes of Persian music at the Kolbeh of Kabob restaurant on Cambridge Street.