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New Master Program: Master in Border Studies
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The Master in Border Studies is a two-year joint international study program, which addresses the complex economic, political, social and cultural issues of borders and...
Tagung: Adel im Grenzraum. Transkulturelle Verflechtungen im Preußenland vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, 22.-24.06.2017, Danzig
Im Blickfeld der geplanten Tagung liegen die transkulturellen Verflechtungen innerhalb des Adels im Preußenland im Zeitraum vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Das Preußenland...
CfP: Interdisciplinary Winter School: "Global Frontiers" (16th to 21st century) - Tuebingen, November 15-17, 2017
Deadline: 30.06.2017 ++
- an interdisciplinary Winter School for doctoral students and early-career postdoctorates, hosted by the Institute for Modern History, University of...
CfP: Border Studies - Crossings, Corporealities und Grenzkörper, 3. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG), 16.-18.11.2017, Gent
Deadline: 1.9.2017 ++
Call for Papers der Sektion „Kulturwissenschaftliche Border Studies“
„Crossings, Corporealities und Grenzkörper“
3. Jahrestagung der...
Conference: The 8th Tensions of Europe Conference: “Borders and Technology”, September 7-10, 2017, Athens
The 8th Tensions of Europe Conference will have as its main theme the history of borders and technology. We invite papers studying the history of the relationship between national...
3rd International Conference ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 8th International Conference MedWorlds "Cultures, Hopes and Conflicts. The Mediterranean between Land and Sea", 26-28 September 2017 University of Salerno, Italy
The Conference Cultures, Hopes and Conflicts. The Mediterranean between Land and Sea , jointly organized by the ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge and the Consortium Mediterranean Worlds,...
PhD/RMa Winter School: „Cities, Borders and Identities: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach“, November 18-26, 2017, Rome
Between 18 and 26 November 2017 a winter school is organized on identity formation in European border cities and urban borderlands at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR)....
Konferenz: „Kontaktzonen“ und Grenzregionen. Aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, 23.-24.11.2017, Dresden
Die Konferenz bildet die Abschlussveranstaltung des Forschungsprojektes „Kontaktzonen. Kulturelle Praktiken im deutsch-tschechisch-polnischen Grenzraum“ am Institut für Sächsische...
Konferenz: Grenzüberschreitungen: Migrantinnen und Migranten als Akteure im 20. Jahrhundert, 01. - 02.02.2018, Bern
Veranstaltungsort
Universität Bern
Veranstalter
Dozentur für Migrationsgeschichte / Forschungsplattform „Migration: Kompetenzen bündeln – Impulse setzen – Grundlagen...
Call for Papers: 2nd World Conference, July 10th -14th, 2018, Vienna & Budapest
Deadline: 15.08.2017 ++
Association for Borderlands Studies World Conference 2018 – Call for Papers After the success of the ABS 1st World Conference in 2014, The Association...
Vergangene Meldungen
The London International Boundary Conference 2017: "Practical Aspects of International Boundaries and Sovereignty Disputes", 5-6 June 2017
The London International Boundary Conference 2017 will take place on 5-6 June 2017 at King's College London's Strand campus, with Technical workshops being held on the mornings of...
RSA Annual Conference 2017: „The Great Regional Awakening: New Directions Trinity College“, June 4-7, 2017, Dublin, Ireland
A ‘Great Regional Awakening’ is underway. There is a growing realisation that regional inequalities have both contributed to, and amplified, the ‘Great Recession’ that shook...
Conference: ABS 59th / WSSA Annual Conference, April 12-15, 2017, San Francisco (CA), USA
ABS Annual Meetings are held in conjunction with the Western Social Science Association‘s annual conference.
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Since September 11, 2001 there has been a notable...
Conference: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2017, April 5-9, Boston, USA
Sponsors: Political Geography Specialty Group; European Geography Specialty Group
Organizers: Gabriel Popescu (gpopescu@iusb.edu) & Kara Dempsey (dempseyke@appstate.edu) ...
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V., 24.-26. März 2017, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken-Dudweiler
In Kooperation mit dem Literaturarchiv Saar-Lor-Lux-Elsass der Universität des Saarlandes.
Grenze als Erfahrung und Diskurs
Die Frage nach der Dynamik von...
Conference: Midwest Modern Language Association Conference “Border States”, November 10-13, 2016, St. Louis (MO), USA
The Midwest Modern Language association invites proposals for the 2016 conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Papers are accepted on any topic, yet participants are welcome to consider...
ABS Europe Conference 2016: “Differences and discontinuities in a Europe without borders”, October 4-7, 2016, University of Luxembourg, in cooperation with the UniGR-Center for Border Studies
The conference is thematically connected to the 30-year anniversary of the Schengen Agreement , which was signed in the Luxembourg village of Schengen. The conference wants to test...
First International Conference on “Europe in Discourse: Identity Diversity Borders”, September 23-25, 2016, Athens, Greece
First International Conference on “Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders” in Athens 23-25 September 2016.
The Conference seeks to examine issues in the ongoing...
Summer School: "Governance at the ‚Edge' of the State? The spaces of violent rule", September 12-14, 2016, University of Zürich
The Department of Geography at the University of Zürich, Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, and the Conflict Research Group at Ghent...
Conference: “Borderless worlds - for whom? Ethics, moralities and (in)justice in migration and tourism”, September 7-8, 2016, Oulu, Finland
Conference organised by RELATE, the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence, University of Oulu
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The notion of a borderless world came to prominence...
Conference: “Border Regimes: Confrontations, Configurations, Transpositions”, September 4-9, 2016, Kandersteg, Switzerland
The notion of the border as a clear cut geopolitical division of national territories has been challenged for quite some time in multiple disciplines, including history, art...
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, "Theorizing the Migration Industries", 30 August - 2 September 2016, London
Despite the recent increase in studying the migration industries, there remain a number of problems in conceptualizing the concept and drawing boundaries around what is or is not a...
Conference: Borderland Linguistics Conference, June 27-28, 2016, Bristol, UK
The notion of border is highly complex and problematic, whether it be an officially demarcated border between two states, or a less rigorously defined meeting space of somehow...
International Conference: Borders, Walls and Violence: Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing, June 1-3, 2016, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
More border walls and border fences are being built every year all across the world. Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia are among the latest to announce yet another...
15th Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) Conference: “Cities, States and Borders: From the Local to the Global”, 17th-20th May 2016, Hamburg, Germany and Sönderborg, Denmark
The objective of the 15 th Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) Conference organized by the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Hamburg and the HafenCity University...
ABS 2016 Annual World Conference / the WSSA 58th Annual Conference, April 13-16, 2016, Reno, Nevada, USA
You can download the conference program and abstracts here: http://www.wssaweb.com/archive-search.html .
Symposium: Borderscape as an Interdisciplinary Concept, 8.-9. April 2016, Luxemburg
Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des fakultären Schwerpunktbereichs "MIS – Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturelle Studien" (www.mis.lu) der Universität Luxemburg...
Colloquium: 14. Blankensee-Colloquium: From Phantom Maps to Real Boundaries. Comparison of the Post-Soviet and the Post-Yugoslav Context, March 10-11, 2016, Berlin, Germany
Reg. deadline: March 7, 2016. ++
The 14th Blankensee Colloquium addresses the role of maps in the aforementioned conflicts comparatively, examining how maps are designed, used,...
Conference: EUBORDERSCAPES Conference III, "Borderscapes and Beyond: Change and Continuities in Thinking, Writing, Making Borders", January 28-30, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
Completing almost four years of sustained effort in tracing conceptual change in understandings of borders, the EUBORDERSCAPES project (www.euborderscapes.eu) , funded by the...
New publication: Ukrainian Migration and the European Union. Dynamics, Subjectivity, and Politics, by Bastian A. Vollmer, 2016
To migrate or not to migrate: that is the question. This book discusses migration in the highly topical context of Ukraine, and explores the imaginations, life-stories, aspirations...