Worldwide border events

CONFERENCE: THE LINE CROSSED US 2023: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL BORDER STUDIES

8-9 June

Building on the success of our previous conference in June 2021, the Lethbridge Border Studies Group – Paul McKenzie-Jones (Indigenous Studies), Sheila McManus (History), and Julie Young (Geography & Environment) – is hosting our virtual conference, The Line Crossed Us 2023: New Directions in Critical Border Studies, from June 8-9, 2023.

For more information:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-line-crossed-us-2023-new-directions-in-critical-border-studies-tickets-630198078417

WEBINAR SERIES: DWELLING ELSEWHERE

13.06

Dwelling, elsewhere is a seminar series about borders, borderscapes and movements over Öresund and beyond. The webinar series is free of charge, but you have to register to receive the Zoom-link. You register on the page for each seminar (see link below), where you can read more about the presentations. 

For more information:

https://www.cors.lu.se/en/activities/dwelling-elsewhere

LECTURE SERIES: Bordering Europe through VIOLENCE, RISK ANALYSIS, INFORMATION CONTROL, BIOSECURITY, GEOPOLITICS

Wednesdays (26.04., 10.05.,24.05., 7.06., 21.06.)  18:00–19:30

This transdisciplinary lecture series features a distinguished group of scholars, journalists, and activists who work on critical aspects of contemporary dimensions of the European border regime. They will present their insights based on the fields of architecture, anthropology, geography, gender studies, political science, and journalism to shed light on the complex and intertwined processes of bordering in and of Europe. The lecture series is organized by the Cluster “Migration, Borders, and Mobilities in, around, and across Europe” of teh Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europeanization”.

For more information:

https://suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at/en/news/detail/article/bordering-europe-a-transdisciplinary-lecture-series-1/

RESEARCH AND MENTORING FELLOWSHIP: Myanmar’s Borderlands: Past, Present, and Future 

 21-July 28 June 2023

The Fellow may be based in Thailand, India, or Bangladesh and will lead a series of online workshops sponsored by the institute with a group of 6-8 Myanmar researchers.  Deadline for application submission : 17 March 2023

For more information:

https://www.inyainstitute.org/2023-summer-research-mentoring-fellowship/

SUMMER SCHOOL: DISENTANGLING EURASIA: Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and their Successors.

28 July–4 August 2023

Tallinn University invites graduate students and scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet history for a week-long summer school, offering a unique opportunity to reassess and critically examine the field at a time of great upheaval in the region. Through keynotes, workshops, and a stimulating cultural program, participants will gather to question the conventional approach to Soviet multinationality and disentangle the various trajectories of the nations and groups belonging to the erstwhile Soviet realm.

For more information:

https://sites.google.com/view/disentangling2023/home

SUMMER SCHOOL: BORDERLAND SECURITY IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

7-18th August 2023

The University of Eastern Finland’s Joensuu campus offers a summer school opportunity from 7-18 August 2023 looking at European borderland security in light of the War in Ukraine. A multi-disciplinary programme that addresses the new global geopolitical reality through the lenses of, e.g. history, cross-border personal, political and economic relations, media and public policy, this course for senior undergraduates/post-graduates (5 ECTS) is uniquely located in Finland’s borderlands (about 70km to the nearest border crossing with Russia) and includes an excursion to the border town of Imatra, the site of Finland’s forthcoming border fence. Jussi Laine, one of our core members, will also be teaching the program. Deadline for application: 15th June.

For more information:

https://opas.peppi.uef.fi/en/course/YH00DH04/120744?period=2023-2024 (longer course description)

https://apply.summerschool.uef.fi/courses/course/130-borderland-security-uncertain-times-postrussias-invasion-ukraine (information about applying)

WORKSHOP: MIGRATION AND BORDERLAND: Ethnographic Explorations

17-18th August

The Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad is inviting applications for a workshop on ‘Migration and Borderlands: Ethnographic Explorations’. Interested young researchers should send a write-up with a detailed proposal not exceeding 2000 words, indicating their theme of research, research questions, sources and methodology, stage of research and why this workshop would benefit them, with proof. For details or queries, write to: migrationproject22@gmail.com.

For more information:

https://twitter.com/RitapriyaNandy/status/1652737281541947392?s=20

CONFERENCE: ESCAS 2023 Regional Conference: “Power, people and cultural change in an ever evolving Central Asia”

22-24th September 2023

The ESCAS 2023 Regional Conference: “Power, people and cultural change in an ever evolving Central Asia” will take place on 22-24th September 2023 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Submissions for proposals for individual papers, panels and round-table discussions are open until 28th February 2023. Deadline for abstract submission : 15 March 2023

For more information:

http://www.escas.org/next-conference/