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CFP Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie: Topographical Borders - Borders in literature
"Topographical Borders - Borders in literature" Special issue of Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. CFP deadline: 30 September 2009
The concept of borders has become virtually ubiquitous in current literary criticism and cultural studies. Drawing borders, crossing borders, limiting and delimiting has become a preferred research subject: Philology investigates the borders between different genres, epochs and styles;
Cultural Studies examine the borders between man and animal, the sacred and the profane, or life and death, to name but a few examples. In the course of these developments, the border has become something like a universal metaphor for almost anything which can be split and subsequently be recombined. It is hard to ignore that this academic interest in borders
comes at a time when territorial borders rapidly loose significance, especially in middle Europe.
Yet it is surprising that all this topographical research has rarely considered the concept of border itself, at least not with regard to its most concrete meaning of a localizable borderline separating two distinct spaces — be they those of states, naturally occurring, or constituted in another fashion. There is certainly no lack of texts concerned with this phenomenon: it manifests itself in Goethe's hesitation to cross into Italy, Michael Koohlhaas at the barrier, Eichendorff's Taugenichts as border patrol, Heines harf-girl in "Wintermärchen," the stone wall in Keller's "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe," the levy in Storm's "Schimmelreiter," Kafka's Chinese wall, Kästner's "kleinem Grenzverkehr," Johnson's "Zwei Ansichten" or Thomas Brussig's phantasies of open borders in Berlin — many others could be added.
Our special issue of the ZfdPh is dedicated to addressing this issue: What happens when the multifarious metaphor of borders is in turn limited and returned to its original or, at least, most common, meaning? How do literary texts thematize the borders of states and other localizable borders ? How are they experienced, what semantics are involved, and what could this contribute to understanding the current fascination with borders in a more general sense? We invite you to submit completed manuscripts (max. 20 pages) or detailed abstracts (min. 4 pages). On the basis of readings of specific texts, we ask you to assess their possible contributions to the current
re-actualization of the concept of borders and, more generally, the prevailing interest in topography today.
Deadline for proposals September 30, 2009.
Please send the proposals to:
Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen
Dr. Stephan Kraft
Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie
Universität Bonn
Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
Am Hof 1d
53113 Bonn
Germany
For further questions please contact:
Stephan Kraft: ed.nnob-inu|tfark.ts#ed.nnob-inu|tfark.ts or Eva Geulen: ed.nnob-inu|neluege#ed.nnob-inu|neluege
ESF Humanities Unit
For wide dissemination:
Call for papers for the
Closing ESF EUROCORES Inventing Europe Conference
&
4th Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference
June 17-20, 2010
at Sofia University (Bulgaria)
Technology & East-West relations: Transfers, parallel histories, and the European laboratory
Deadline paper abstracts: December 18, 2009
The European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Foundation for the History of Technology in the Netherlands are jointly organizing the final and closing conference of the ESF EUROCORES program Inventing Europe and the bi-annual conference of the Tensions of Europe network (ToE). Inventing Europe and ToE strive, through collaborative research and coordinating efforts, to promote studies of the interplay between technical change and European history. Instead of focusing on national histories, the emphasis of both initiatives is on transnational technological developments that have shaped and are shaping Europe.
We encourage scholars from all disciplines who study subjects related to the overall conference theme or the Inventing Europe/Tensions of Europe intellectual agenda to submit abstracts for the research sessions, roundtables and research collaboration sessions.
Overall Theme of the Conference
The main theme of the conference applies to papers, which treat processes of circulation and appropriation of technologies between Eastern and Western Europe as an entry point into the contested practice of Europeanization. During the Cold War, for instance, Europe has been one of the central laboratories for the experimentation with ideological and political regimes, which deeply infected traditional paths of knowledge and technology transfer in Europe. While the history of the Cold War has mainly been told as a history of discontinuity and fragmentation, we would especially welcome papers and sections dealing with examples of successful co-operation or “hidden continuities” in inter-European technology transfer during the 20th century..
Despite the fact that the focus of the conference will be on the post-World War II period, we will welcome session proposals and individual papers referring to the practices of appropriation and circulation of ideas, skills and people in Europe from the mid-19th century onwards – thus from the period before the notions of Eastern and
Western Europe were coined. This results from our conviction that one should look for the roots of the European integration and fragmentation in a “longue durée” perspective.
General areas to be explored are:
Changing times: Continuities and discontinuities in the transfers of knowledge and technology between Eastern and Western Europe from the mid-19th century to the present.
Negotiating identities: spaces and places of co-operation or confrontation before, during, and after the Cold War.
Parallel histories: alternative processes of European integration and fragmentation in Eastern and Western Europe.
Blurred boundaries: spill-over effects and holes in the Iron Curtain
Europe as a trading zone, a symbolic battle field, and the diplomatic playground for world hegemony.
Chilling effects: Technologies at war & wartime technology
Contested approaches: the merits and pitfalls of concepts like Americanization, Sovietisation, Westernization for European historiography.
In addition, the program committee welcomes papers that want to contribute to the general Inventing Europe/Tensions of Europe intellectual agenda. This agenda treats technological change as an entry point into the contested practice of Europeanization.
Five general areas to be explored are:
Building Europe through Infrastructures, or, how Europe has been shaped by the material links of transnational infrastructure.
Constructing European Ways of Knowing, or, how Europe became articulated through efforts to unite knowledge and practices on a European scale.
Consuming Europe, or, how actors reworked consumer goods and artefacts for local, regional, national, European, and global use.
Europe in the Global World, or, how Europe has been created through colonial, ex-colonial, trans-Atlantic, and other global exchanges.
Synthetic methodological or historiographical explorations of the role of technology in transnational European history.
Sessions formats
The Program Committee welcomes proposals that address the overall conference themes in the following four formats:
Individual paper proposals
Research sessions with three papers based on original research, and an invited commentator. Because the conference encourages debate, appropriate time for discussion should be allocated to the commentators as well as the members of the audience. The papers will be pre-circulated to all conference participants. Conference participants are expected to have read the papers thus presentations should be brief.
Roundtable sessions with an open agenda or one paper to start-off the discussion. The sessions will host no more than six discussants including the organizer and the chair. The organizer is responsible for preparing a dialogue paper to stimulate debate, and if relevant, supplementary material. Ideally, the dialogue paper will be a brief piece that poses a number of historical problems and/or questions related to the conference theme that will be addressed in the debate. While the organizer should propose discussants, the Program Committee may make additional suggestions. The chair may decide either to limit the conversation to invited roundtable discussants or to allow the audience to ask questions and enter the debate.
Research collaboration sessions which are meant to present results of a specific project to the conference. The session could be paper based, but could also focus on a discussion of the framing and wider implications of the specific project. The Program Committee may make additional suggestions for commentators.
Research sessions and research collaboration session will be allotted a minimum time slot of one and a half hours, and roundtable discussions one hour.
Deadlines and Time-line
The deadline for proposals is DECEMBER 18, 2009. The research session abstracts (maximum 600 words) should be submitted by the organizers together with the abstracts for the individual presentations (maximum 500 words each). To propose a roundtable, please submit a list of invited participants and an abstract (maximum 600 words).
Note: When giving the proposal a digital file name, please include the organizer’s last name, and either RS for research session, RT for round table or RCS for Research Collaboration Session. So Fickers_RS for example.
The abstracts should be sent to the Program Committee by email to ln.eut|EOT#ln.eut|EOT ..
Please direct queries to the Program Committee Chair, Andreas Fickers (ln.ytisrevinuthcirtsaam|srekciF.A#ln.ytisrevinuthcirtsaam|srekciF.A ).
The Program Committee will inform the session organizers about its decisions no later than February 15, 2010. Inventing Europe & Tensions of Europe programs are seeking to provide a contribution towards travel and/or accommodation costs for those who have no opportunity to participate otherwise.
Papers and roundtable discussion texts must be submitted to the Program Committee by May 1, 2010 because they will be distributed to all conference participants before the conference on a CD and made available on the website.
For the Program Committee for the Fourth Plenary Conference of Tensions of Europe,
Andreas Fickers, Chair, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Helena Durnova, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Valentina Fava, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ivan Tchalakov, Plovdiv University & Institute of Sociology, BAS, Bulgaria
Sponsors
This conference is made possible by:
European Science Foundation
Foundation for the History of Technology
Technical University Eindhoven
University of Sofia
Bulgarian Academy of Science
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Inventing Europe Conference w. panel on Blurred boundaries by 
Johan Schimanski, 16 Aug 2009 20:41
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez is organizing a conference on border cities
The Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez is organizing a conference on border cities. Panels include:
1. Border Political and Social Actors
2. Migraton and Movility in Border Zones
3. Border Regional History
4. Border Environmental Issues
5. Border Cities and their Social Issues
6. Gender Studies in Border Cities
7. Border Art, Culture and Discourse
8. Economic Development and Markets
9. Border Violence and Justice Issues
10. Education Issues in Border Cities
11. Economic History and Entrepreneurship
12. Visual Perceptions of Border Cities
The deadline to turn in your abstracts is September 15th, 2009. The abstract review period concludes on 10 October 2009. The conference will take place on the ICSA Campus of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México, on Wednesday 4th November, Thursday 5th November, and Friday 6th November, 2009. More details and information on the page of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, by visiting the following website: http://www.uacj.mx/informacion/ciudadesfronterizas/Paginas/default.aspx or by visiting the University’s page www.uacj.mx and clicking on the link “1er Congreso Internacional de Ciudades Fronterizas.” You may also see the call for papers included as an attachment in this email.
The agenda for the September 11, 2009 Conference “A Vision for U.S.-Mexico Border Security” with Mr. Alan Bersin, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, being held at the University of San Diego.
Contact Zones of Empires in Asia and Europe: Complexity, Causality and Contingency
"Contact Zones of Empires in Asia and Europe: Complexity, Causality and Contingency", ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 27 February - 4 March 2010. CFP deadline: 5 November 2009. Website: http://www.esf.org/conferences/10327.
call for posters: Fences and Walls in International Relations
"Fences and Walls in International Relations" Conference, Montreal 29 October 2009. CFP deadline: 19 June 2009. Call for Posters deadline: 15 September 2009. Website: http://www.dandurand.uqam.ca/evenements/evenements-a-venir/440-fences-and-walls-in-international-relations.html.
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call for posters: Fences and Walls in International Relations by Johan Schimanski, 29 Aug 2009 07:17
4th Symposium on European Issues
WHAT WILL BE? Analysis and Visions for Europe
(Klagenfurt/Austria, 25 - 26 September 2009)
PROGRAMME (as at September 1st)
Friday, 25 September
09:15 – 09:30 Welcome
Hans-Joachim BODENHÖFER (Dean, AAU School of
Management & Economics)
Božena KRCE MIOČIĆ (University of Zadar, Faculty of
Economics & Business)
Josef LANGER (AAU, Head of Department of Sociology)
09:30 – 10:15 Opening session of the Symposium
Convener: Josef LANGER (AAU)
Józef NIśNIK (Warschau)
Theories of Integration and the Future of the European
Union
10:15 – 10:30 Discussion
10:30 – 11:00 János Zsigmond KENDERNAY (Budapest)
European Union: Inner Dynamics Under the Surface
11:00 – 11:15 Discussion
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Thomas DÖRING – Birgit AIGNER (Villach)
Is the European Union Doing the Right Things?
12:00 – 12:15 Discussion
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Convener: Barbara HÖNIG
14:00 – 14:30 Vittorio OLGIATI (Macerata)
The Law ‘Revealed’: Socio-legal Pluralism and the
Unsustainable Sociability of Civil Constitutions – Lessons
for Europe
14:30 – 14:45 Discussion
14:45 – 15:15 Lojze SOČAN (Ljubljana)
The Role of Institutional Infrastructure in the Future of
Europe
15:15 – 15:30 Discussion
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:00 – 16:15 Reis MULITA (Trieste)
Europe: Between Diminishing Political Borders and New
Social Borders
16:15 – 16:30 Discussion
16:45 – 17:15 Milan JAZBEC (Ljubljana)
The EU: An Empire in Search for a Joke
17:15 – 17:30 Discussion
19:00 Informal dinner
Saturday, 26 September
Morning Session
Convener: Josef LANGER (AAU)
09:15 – 9:45 Franck BIANCHERI (Paris)
Laboratoire Europeen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP) –
The Future Today
9:45 – 10:00 Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Gertrúd KENDERNAY-NAGYIDAI (Budapest)
Challenges Facing the EU – Enlargement: Déjà vu or
Something Else?
10:30 – 10:45 Discussion
10:45 – 11:15 Laura DIB (Helsinki)
The EU and the Eastern Neighbourhood – Perspectives for
Future Relations
11:15 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30 – 12:00 Nuri Ali TAHIR (Trieste)
After Turkey’s Full Membership – The Role of the EU as an
Actor to Democratize its New Neighbourhood
12:00 – 12:15 Discussion
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Convener: Józef NIśNIK
14:00 – 14:30 Hans-Peter MEIER-DALLACH (Zürich)
Climate Hitting Europe’s Birds: What Will Be?
14:30 – 14:45 Discussion
14:45 – 15:15 Barbara HÖNIG (Feldkirchen)
In Which Way Can we Speak of a Europeanization of
Sociology
15:15 – 15:30 Discussion
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:15 Manfred RUPRECHTER (Oberpiesting)
European Union Impact on Day to Day Business
16:15 – 16:30 Discussion
16:30 – 17:00 Zlatko TIŠLJAR (Maribor)
Europe 2050 – What Language? (Video)
17:00 – 17:15 Discussion
17:15 – 17:45 Summary/Conclusion/Closing of the Symposium
20:00 Joint Dinner
4th Annual Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium: European Border Dialogues
The Barents Institute, along with the Norwegian Barents Secretariat, is hosting the 4th Annual Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium in Kirkenes on 1-2 October 2009. It will be about "European Border Dialogues: Good Governance and Best Practices in the European Borderlands."
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4th Annual Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium: European Border Dialogues by Johan Schimanski, 10 Sep 2009 10:08
AAG Annual Meeting 2010 Special Session on Borders and Cities
AAG Annual Meeting 2010 – Borders and cities: perspectives from North America and Europe
Dear colleagues,
In the perspective of the next AAG Annual Meeting 2010 that will be held in Washington D.C., the 14-18 April 2010, we are looking forward to set up a special session focussing on borders and cities. The idea is to bring together scholars working on international boundaries and border regions from North America and Europe in order to analyse the transformations that affect (trans)border cities in a comparative perspective. Such a session could also be an opportunity to address conceptual issues such as the specificity of binational cities or the ambivalent role of borders (barriers or bridges) in the construction of cross-border city regions.
In order to collect papers from both regions, we believe that the session should be co-organized between North-American and European academics. In doing so, we would optimize the diffusion of the call for papers into different networks. Organizing a session for the AAG Annual Meeting is by no way an exhausting task. So if you are interested, do not hesitate to contact us (christophe.sohn@ceps.lu).
We look forward to hearing from you,
Best regards,
Christophe Sohn, Antoine Decoville & Olivier Walther, Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies (CEPS/INSTEAD), Luxembourg
Dr Christophe Sohn
Chargé de recherches
Département Géographie et Développement
Centre de recherche public CEPS/INSTEAD
B.P. 48, L-4501 DIFFERDANGE
Tél : (352) 58 58 55 613
Fax : (352) 58 55 60
http://metrolux.ceps.lu/
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AAG Annual Meeting 2010 Special Session on Borders and Cities by Johan Schimanski, 22 Sep 2009 14:44
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