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Conference Program "Contesting 21st Century B/Orders"

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Wednesday, September 06, 2023
 

Arrival
12:00 - Registration
Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building (GD), Atrium

13:15 - Welcome
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 1 (GD HS 01)

 
Stream: Social, Symbolic and Discursive B/Orders
Stream: Territorial, Geopolitical and Material B/Orders
14:00-15:30
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 7 (GD HS 07)

Panel
Peripherialization and Peripheral Selves in Liminal Zones of the 21st Century
  • Gautam Chakrabarti (EUV)
  • Amelie Kutter (EUV)

    Speakers
  • Amelie Kutter (EUV), Gautam Chakrabarti (EUV): Introductory Statement: Peripheralization and Liminality
  • Yulia Egorova (Durham Univ.): Defining Difference: Peripherialization and the Liminal Self in Jewish-Muslim Solidarity Networks in the UK
  • Christian Langer (Beijing Univ.): From Periphery to Centre? Chinese Obelisks as Embodiment of Fuzzy Boundaries
  • Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta (Charles University Prague): More-Than-Peripheral. Fractal Colonialities in Regimes of Visibility in Southern Italy

    Discussant
  • Carolin Leutloff-Grandits (EUV)
14:00-15:30
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 8 (GD HS 08)

Panel
Transformation Processes in Borderlands in Times of Crises
  • Florian Weber (Saarland Univ.)

    Speakers
  • Stefanie Thurm (Saarland University): Fostering Cross-Border Cooperation through Policy Learning in and between Border Regions: The Case of the France Strategy
  • Julia Dittel (Saarland Univ.), Sylwia Zawadzka (Univ. Wrocław): The Resilience of Cross-Border Cooperation: The Covid-19 Pandemic as an Impulse for Transformation Processes in Border Regions?
  • Florian Weber (Saarland Univ.): Energy Borderlands in Times of Crises – Multidimensional Energy Discourses in Europe’s Border Regions
15:30-15:45 - Coffee Break
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Canteen
 
15:45-17:15
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 7 (GD HS 07)
Panel
Multilingualism in Vocational Training: Co-constructing Communicative Borderlands

  • Konstanze Jungbluth (EUV)
  • Nicole Richter (EUV)
  • Claudia Polzin-Haumann (Saarland Univ.)

    Speakers
  • Leonie Micka-Monz (Saarland Univ.), Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes, Sara Bonin (EUV): Co-Constructing in the Border Regions Saarland-Lorraine and Brandenburg-Lubuskie: Insights into Language Policy, Metalinguistics and Interaction
  • Sabine Ehrhart (Luxemburg Univ.): Translanguaging as a Vehicle for Transbordering in Vocational and Professional Contexts - CANCELLED!
  • Alexander Cobbinah (Univ. São Paolo): Social and Linguistic Borderlands in Postcolonial Classrooms of the Global South (Brazil and Africa)

    Discussant
  • Andrzej Zaporowski (Adam Mickiewicz Univ. Poznań)
15:45-17:15
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 8 (GD HS 08)
Panel
Border Conflicts and Their Management in a New European Reality: 3 Perspectives on Negotiating Territory, Identitites and Power
  • Lars Kirchhoff (EUV)
  • Anne Holper (EUV)

    Speakers
  • Christina Horvath-Stenner (OSCE Vienna): THE BASIS: The OSCE’s Approach to Border Conflicts in a New Europe
  • Tetiana Kyselova (Kyiv Mohyla Acаdemy): A HARD REALITY TEST: Conflict Resolution Lessons from the War in Ukraine
  • Marc Weller (Univ. Cambridge): RADICAL RETHINKING: New Times – New Toolbox? (Finally…) Integrating the Russian Federation Dimension into Conflict Management
17:30 - Keynote Lecture
(Livestream - Link: https://vimeo.com/event/3628050)
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 1 (GD HS 01)
Élisabeth Vallet (BIG, Univ. Québec à Montreal): Who Needs a Border Wall? B/Ordering Through Othering in a Post-Pandemic World
 
19:30 - Welcome Reception
VIP room of the canteen, Gräfin Dönhoff Building (GD)
 
Thursday, September 07, 2023
 
Stream: Social, Symbolic and Discursive B/Orders
Stream: Territorial, Geopolitical and Material B/Orders
09:30-11:30
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 7 (GD HS 07)

Panel (Open Call)
Imagining and Contesting Future Borders
  • Hannes Krämer (Univ. Duisburg-Essen)
  • Dominik Gerst (Univ. Duisburg-Essen)

    Speakers
  • Hannes Krämer (Univ. Duisburg-Essen), Dominik Gerst (Univ. Duisburg-Essen): Imagining Borders
  • Stefan Janković (Univ. Belgrade): More Planet, Less Borders? On Post-Politics, Climate Articulation and Unorthodox Jurisprudence in the Anthropocene Times
  • Lena Merkle (Univ. Magdeburg): Ideals and Humanity at the Border – Activist Utopias and Cosmopolitan Practice in Dialogue
  • Paul Trauttmansdorff (Univ. of Bologna): Contesting Future Borders, Imagining Alternative Futures - CANCELLED -
09:30-11:30
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Room 102 (GD 102)

Panel 1 (TEIN Annual Conference)
21st Century B/Orders & Civil Society (Part 1): Translocal Cooperation & Public Welfare
  • Peter Ulrich (Potsdam Univ.)

    Speakers
    • Thorsten Ingo Schmidt (Potsdam Univ.): Municipal Cooperation and Services of General Interest
    • Michael Frey, Rahel Alia Müller (Univ. of Applied Sciences Kehl): Cross-border Public Services from a Legal Perspective
    • Karina Pallagst (TU Kaiserslautern): Provision of Services of General Interest in Border Regions – A Challenge for Planning Cultures
    • Martin Unfried (Maastricht Univ.): Cross-border Governance and Democratic Challenges
11:30-13:00 - Lunch
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Canteen
 
13:00-14:30
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 7 (GD HS 07) Lecture Room 203 (GD 203)

Panel (Open Call)
Border (Inter)Action
  • Concha Maria Höfler (Nottingham Trent Univ.)
  • Sabine Lehner (St. Pölten Univ. of Applied Sciences)
  • Maria Klessmann (EUV)

    Speakers
  • Concha Maria Höfler (Nottingham Trent Univ.): Interaction, (moving) Borders, Space – the Interactional Construction of Borders and Border Spaces
  • Andrea Cortés Saavedra (Univ. College London): The Symbolic and Relational Production of Borders in a Culturally Diverse School in Iquique, Chile: Transformations, Interactions and Classifications
  • Christopher Lawless (Durham Univ.): Constructing Airspace Borders Through Interactions Within Sociotechnical Imaginaries: A Case Study of the Single European Sky
  • Corinna Angela Di Stefano (Univ. Konstanz): The Effect of a Cruise Ship’s Presence. Having a closer Look at the Interactions Making up a Disembarked Border in the Lesser Antilles
13:00-14:30
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Room 102 (GD 102)

Panel 2 (TEIN Annual Conference)
21st Century B/Orders & Civil Society (Part 2): Translocal Cooperation & Civil Society
  • Peter Ulrich (Potsdam Univ.)

Speakers
  • Birte Wassenberg (Univ. Strasbourg): Mental Maps and Representations of Borders in Five EU Border Regions: A Comparative Approach
  • Anne Thevenet (Euro-Institut, TEIN): Engaging Civil Society in Cross-Border Regions in Europe
  • Margot Bonnafous (Euro-Institut): Digitalisation in Municipalities in Germany and in France
14:30-15:00 - Coffee Break
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Canteen
 
15:00-16:30
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Room 102 (GD 102)

Panel
Drowned, Watered Down and Resurfaced. Forensics, Politics of Memory and Conviviality along Liquid Borders
  • Estela Schindel (EUV)
  • Darja Klingenberg (EUV)

    Speakers
  • Zuzanna Dziuban (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna): Liquid Borders as a Forensic Landscape
  • Carolina Kobelinsky (LESC-CNRS, Paris): Honouring Drowned Border-Crossers: On Forensic Imagination and Affective Engagements in Catania (Sicily)
  • Estela Schindel (EUV): Rivers, Violence and Borders in the Anthropocene: A Report from the Oder
15:00-16:30
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 8 (GD HS 08)

Panel
Polish Racial Frontier – Refugees on the Eastern Border of Poland
  • Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Czech Academy of Sciences)

    Speakers
  • Marta Kindler (Centre of Migration Research, Univ. Warsaw), Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Czech Academy of Sciences): Grand Opening and Grand Closure - Conflicting Border Regimes on Poland’s Eastern Border with Ukraine and Belarus
  • Jens Adam (Univ. Bremen), Sabine Hess (Univ. Göttingen): Europe’s New Colour Line? Racialisation and Solidarity Along Poland’s Eastern Borders
  • Kamila Fiałkowska (Univ. Warsaw): “Are You White Enough?” and “We Shouldn’t Have to Be Doing This” - Activists Facing Racialising Practices at the Polish-Belarusian Border
  • Natalia Judzińska (Institute of Slavic Studies Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences): Traces of Presence. Visual Aspects of Humanitarian Crisis on the Polish-Belarus Border and Holocaust Scripts

    Discussant
  • Elżbieta Opiłowska (Univ. Wrocław): Narratives and Practices of (In)hospitality on the Polish Eastern Border
17:00-18:00 - Keynote Lecture
- CANCELLED -

Marie Sandberg (Univ. Copenhagen):
From ’Borderless World’ to ’Borders are Everywhere’. Revisiting the Notion of B/Order after the Practice Turn in Critical Border Studies.
 
18:15 - 19:30 Cross-Border City Tour
Meeting Point in front of the Gräfin Dönhoff Building
 
Friday, September 08, 2023
 
Stream: Social, Symbolic and Discursive B/Orders
Stream: Migration in a B/Orders Perspective

10:00-12:00
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Room 102 (GD 102)

Panel (Open Call)
Researching Digital Borders – Taking Stock, Challenges and New Directions of Research
  • Nina Amelung (Lisbon Univ.)
  • Silvan Pollozek (EUV)

    Speakers
  • Fredy Mora Gámez (Univ. Vienna): Tracing the Invisible? Experiments on Digital Mapping Within and Beyond (Digital) Borders
  • Arely Cruz-Santiago (Univ. Exeter): One Software to Rule Them All, one ‘Ecosystem of Trust’ to Bind Them. Palantir’s Far-Reaching Vision: From the US-Mexico Border to the UK’s Border Flow Tool
  • Claudia Aradau, Lucrezia Canzutti, Sarah Perret (King’s College London): (Un)Making Mess: Borders, Datafication, Critique
  • Ekaterina Mikhailova (IOS Regensburg): Information Blockade at Borderlands: Comparative Case Studies from Eastern Ukraine and Central Asia
10:00-12:00
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 8 (GD HS 08)

Panel (Open Call)
Forced Migrants From Ukraine: Negotiations of “Here and There”
  • Zeynep Yanaşmayan-Wegele (DeZIM)

    Speakers
  • Elżbieta Goździak, Anzhela Popyk (Adam Mickiewicz Univ. Poznań): Navigating and Negotiating Borders in Primary Education. Ukrainian Children in Polish Schools
  • Jonna Rock (DeZIM), Zeynep Yanaşmayan-Wegele (DeZIM): (Im)Mobility Decisions of Ukrainian Mothers: A Comparative Study of Berlin and Frankfurt/Oder
  • Viktoriya Sereda (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic Univ.): ‘Identities-Borders-Orders’: Lived Experiences of Displaced From Ukraine’s War-Torn Territories
12:00-13:30 - Lunch
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Canteen
 
13:30-15:00
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 7 (GD HS 07)

Panel
Race and Religion as Epistemic and Symbolic Borders 
  • Luis M. Hernandez Aguilar (EUV)
  • Kira Kosnick (EUV)
  • Darja Klingenberg (EUV)

    Speakers
  • Darja Klingenberg (EUV): Placing Eastern European Experience and Histories within the Debate about Racism and Antisemitism in Germany
  • Aleksandra Lewicki (Univ. Sussex): Coloniality, Race and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit
  • Sarah Bracke (Univ. Amsterdam): Unsettling the Question, on the ‘Jewish’ and ‘Muslim Question’

 

Co-sponsored by the Dutch Research Council /
EnGendering Europe’s “Muslim Question”

13:30-15:00
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Room 102 (GD 102) - ATTENTION, PLEASE NOTE CHANGE

Panel (Open Call)
Migrant Entrepreneurs and B/Order Asymmetries as a Resource
  • Carolin Leutloff-Grandits (EUV)
  • Judith Möllers (IAMO Halle/S.)
  • Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS Regensburg)

    Speakers
  • Robert Rydzewski (Adam Mickiewicz Univ. Poznań): Understanding the Albanians’ Return to North Macedonia: Movement, National Borders, Economic Possibilities
  • Lumnije Kadriu (Inst. Albanology Prishtina): If I Am Doing This Here Why Can’t I Do It There? – Migrant Skills and Knowledge in Crossing Borders and Challenging Boundaries
  • Shahanaz Parven (Univ. Palermo): The Transborder Flow of Remittances and Investments from Italy to Bangladesh
  • Carolin Leutloff-Grandits (EUV): Trust Across Borders: Understanding a Key Selling Point of Migrant Entrepreneurs
15:00-15:30 - Coffee Break
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Canteen
 
15:30-17:00
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 7 (GD HS 07) Lecture Room 203 (GD 203)

Panel
Transnational Gender Activism
  • Latife Akyüz (EUV)

    Speakers
  • Roberto Kulpa (Edinburgh Napier Univ.): RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems
  • Gavan Titley, Sheryl Lynch (Maynooth Univ.): Mapping Anti-Gender, Anti-Feminist, Anti-Intersectional Rhetorics: Insights from the Horizon Europe RESIST Project
  • Delal Aydin (Univ. Duisburg-Essen): Empowerment of the Women in the Kurdish Resistance
15:30-17:00
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Room 102 (GD 102)

Panel
Language and Border Studies – Intricate Yet Underexplored Relationships
  • Britta Schneider (EUV)
  • Rita Vallentin (EUV)

    Speakers
  • Bettina Migge (Univ. College Dublin): The Dynamics of Identity Negotiation in a Borderland
  • Carsten Levisen (Roskilde University): Wolves Across Borders: An Ecolinguistic Study of Animal Migration
  • Leonie Schulte (University College London): Linguistic (In)Security: How Germany’s Integration Policies Delay Newcomers’ Socioeconomic Mobility

    Discussant
  • Sabine Lehner (St. Pölten Univ. of Applied Sciences)
17:30-18:30 - Round Table
Gräfin Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 1 (GD HS 01)
Contested 21st Century B/Orders: Challenges for Transnational Research
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (Univ. Victoria), Astrid Fellner (Univ. Saarland), Sabine Hess (Univ. Göttingen), Elzbieta Opilowska (Univ. Wroclaw),
Facilitator: Kira Kosnick (EUV)
 
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