CFP: "The Power of Borderland(s): In Media’s Res", Greifswald, 28-30.6.2018

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"The Power of Borderland(s): In Media’s Res", Greifswald, 28-30.6.2018
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The Power of Borderland(s): In Media’s Res

International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Greifswald/ Germany, 28-30 June
2018

The International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Baltic Borderlands: Shifting
Boundaries of Mind and Culture in the Borderlands of the Baltic Sea Region”, a
collaborative programme between the universities of Lund, Tartu, and Greifswald,
invites proposals for conference papers that discuss the context and
medialization of border crossing (or transgression) and the establishment (or
dissolution) of borderlands. We invite papers from the humanities and social
sciences, e. g. history and art history, linguistics and literary studies,
political sciences, gender studies, sociology, and digital humanities that
address maps, literary texts, academic accounts, biographical notes, press
media, film, digital productions and their story as well as the impact on
conceptualizations of borders and borderlands.

Pekka Hämäläinen and Samuel Truett reflect in their 2011 account “On
Borderlands” about the expansion of research approaches and the usefulness of
the fashionable (academic) application of the borderland concept in the
humanities. Although the concept had been applied with varying degrees of
success, the power of borderlands as analytical tool appears already in Gloria
Anzaldúa’s summary of her own stories of living in the borderland, namely
borderlands exist wherever two or more cultures exist. Similarly, the
observation of Etienne Balibar that “borders are everywhere” rely very much
on narrativizations of experiences through different channels. These channels
are particularly interesting in the context of this conference and include
poetry, maps, biographical accounts and, more recently, numerous digital
approaches.

Globalization supported a perspective of borderlessness beyond any containments
like national, imperial or regional spaces and opened up these centrist research
perspectives on spaces and orders. Spatial mobility here implies to cross
borders, but does not mean to cross them out. They continue to be part of our
cognitive and physical world. They remain part of our social, cultural,
political and economic world making processes not only through experiences at
and across the border but particularly through debates, discourses and images
embedded in a multitude of narratives. We therefore ask: What happens with
borders and borderlands in the narratives about times of historical and
contemporary globalization? Do we cross or transgress borders? What does it mean
when we use one or the other concept? Who has particular interest to present
borders and borderlands in a specific way? Which media were used to disseminate
ideas? Which of these choices confirm and which subvert the border? Do media and
communication have an impact on these processes and hereby influence
perceptions, constructions and dissolution of borders and borderlands?

Confirmed Keynote Speaker

Vlad Strukov, Film and Digital Culture, University of Leeds

Kazimierz Musiał, Political Sciences, University of Gdańsk

Submisssion

We invite contributions by both early career and senior scholars from the
humanities and social sciences. The proposed papers should deal with historical
and current perspectives on borderlands and the role of media (in a broader
sense). Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words in English and a short
biographical note by 28 February 2018 to: waterproj12[at]uni-greifswald.de.
Applicants will be notified by 31 March 2018.

Organisation

The conference is organized jointly by researchers from the IRTG Baltic
Borderlands. Further information about the IRTG is available on our website:
https://phil.uni-greifswald.de/institute/einrichtungen/gk-baltic-borderlands/.

Funding

The IRTG Baltic Borderlands will fund travel and accommodation for invited
speakers.

Further Information

Alexander Drost (Greifswald) alexander.drost(at)uni-greifswald.de

Maare Paloheimo (Greifswald) paloheimot(at)uni-greifswald.de

Address:

IRTG Baltic Borderlands
Universities of Lund, Tartu, and Greifswald

Rubenowstraße 2
17489 Greifswald
Germany 

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Maare Paloheimo <paloheimot(at)uni-greifswald.de>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 1.3.2018
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta:
https://phil.uni-greifswald.de/institute/einrichtungen/gk-baltic-borderlands/