The Making of Borders: Cartography and Early Modern Europe from Ukraine to the Atlantic
Thu, Mar 19
|Museum of Vancouver
An in-person talk by Dr. Katharina N. Piechocki | Associate Professor Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2026, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PDT
Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada
About the Event
The Dante Alighieri Society of BC in Vancouver, in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver and the Consulate General Italy in Vancouver, invites you to an in-person talk by Dr. Katharina Piechocki
The Making of Borders: Cartography and Early Modern Europe from Ukraine to the Atlantic
How did mapmakers, historians and poets imagine Europe’s ever-changing borders and contact zones on the brink of modernity? Drawing from a multilingual archive of maps and texts from Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Poland, Piechocki asks about the arbitrary nature of the rise and understanding of Europe’s eastern and western borders—from Ukraine to the Iberian Peninsula. This talk traces the history of arbitrary linear boundaries—which have profoundly impacted our understanding of national borders until today—back to the fifteenth century and the Transatlantic expansion of Europe
Thursday, 19 March 2026,
7.00 pm-8.30 pm (Pacific Standard Time)
Joyce Walley Room, Museum of Vancouver