In January 2016 a new collaborative research center “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” (SFB 1199) has started. In this project researchers from diverse disciplines work together: geographers, historians and cultural scientists, africanists and americanists, orientalists and sinologists, as well as anthropologists and political scientists. IfL and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) are partners of the Leipzig University in this SFB. IfL participates with several research projects:

2^nd funding period: 2020–2023

• Innovative technology enterprises at unusual locations in Central Asia and Africa

• Spatial semantics of geography in the 19th and 20th centuries

• Maps and atlases as mediators and producers of space (knowledge) under the global condition

1^st funding period: 2016–2019

• Peripheral but global: World market leaders outside of agglomerations

• Border Transcending Assemblages of Medical Practices

• “Our Field is the World”: Geographical Societies 1821–1914 in international comparison

• Maps of Globalization: The Production and the Visualization of Spatial Knowledge