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Baltic Borderlands Interdisciplinary Research Training Group
"Baltic Borderlands"
Interdisciplinary Research Training Group 1540
"Baltic Borderlands: Shifting Boundaries of Mind and Culture in the Borderlands of the Baltic Sea Region"
http://www.phil.uni-greifswald.de/bereich2/histin/ls/fnz/borderlands.html
funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
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Baltic Borderlands Interdisciplinary Research Training Group by 
Johan Schimanski, 11 Oct 2009 08:24
http://www.locallit.net/borders/
The research project Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borders studies writing activities, texts and amateur and professional writers at the national Finland–Russia and Estonia–Russia borderlands. It seeks to give voice to the people whose perceptions of the borders and borderlands have often been neglected by the institutionalized and dominating scholarly and artistic discourses. The study focuses on the late the 20th century and 21st century and examines writing activities on the borderlands in its societal and historical contexts. Further, the research seeks to recognize the national borderlands as areas of unique forms of writing cultures.
The study focuses on the forms on amateur writing that do not follow forms of ethnographic writing or institutionalized literature. It reflects critically to the institutionalized forms of ethnographic writing and literature, as well as, to ideological discourses that have constructed institutional and dominating meanings to the borders and national margins in Finland, Estonia and north-western Russia. The study applies perspectives of cultural, folklore and literary studies. The project is implemented by researchers from University of Joensuu and University of Tartu.
The project is located in the Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu.
http://www.myspace.com/noborderorchestra
touring Northern Norway in Jan 2010 and central Europe in Feb 2010
http://www.berlintwitterwall.com/
The peaceful revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall were also a result as well as catalysts for the profound changes that gripped Germany and Europe at the end of the 1980s. On berlintwitterwall.com you can now share your thoughts on the historic Fall of the Wall and post a wish for the future. Just use the hashtag #fotw on twitter and after a while your message will appear on the twitterwall.
By clicking "stop" and "play", older messages (tweets) will be shown. A click on the cameras up on the wall will show a selection of the domino-artwork that will fall in a symbolic act on November 9th 2009 at the "Fest der Freiheit" (festival of freedom) at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
www.berlintwitterwall.com is an initiative of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH within the festivities of Berlin’s 20-year anniversary of the Fall of the Wall.
Contact
Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH
Klosterstraße 68
10179 Berlin
berlintwitterwall (at) kulturprojekte-berlin.de
http://www.multietn.uu.se/research/DINO/DINO_network.html
Welcome to join the Nordic DINO network – Diversity in Nordic Literature!
During the last decades, the Nordic countries as well as Nordic literature, have gone through essential changes. Due to the increasing globalization and side by side with the changing developments in the politics of language and minorities, what were once relatively fixed and definable concepts – such as ‘Finnish’ and ‘Nordic’ literature – have expanded and acquired new meanings. The multicultural and multilingual society, with its changed attitudes (that often transcend former boundaries) towards such categories as sexuality and sexual identities, brings with it new problems and challenges for authors as well as scholars.
These new challenges have led to a need to form new networks and the Nordic DINO network – Diversity in Nordic Literature – was created to satisfy that need. DINO is an informal forum discussion and the aim is primarily to give scholars possibilities to discuss and develop scholarly studies about Nordic literature and diversity. The initiators of DINO are Satu Gröndahl (Uppsala University), Rita Paqvalén (Helsinki Universtity), Anne Heith (Tromsø University ) and Heidi Grönstrand (University of Turku).
During the autumn of 2009, about 60 scholars have joined the network.
Network meeting
The first network meeting was held 2-3 October, 2009, at Tvärminne Zoological Station, Finland, on the theme Aesthetic Expressions of Diversity. The thematic sections dealt with Postcolonial Perspectives on Nordic literature, Whiteness and Heteronormativity in Nordic literature, Ethnicity and Intercultural Encounters in Literature, and Multilingual Literature & Multilingual Authors. The meeting gathered 25 scholars.
Borders divide and connect people, places, issues. They can be personal or cultural, political or social. We invite you to use your visual talent to explore your vision of “border” through the lens of digital photography. Borderzine editors will select first, second and third place winners; winning photos will be published on borderzine.com and receive prizes. The contest opens November 2 and concludes December 2, 2009. Pick up your camera and show us “What’s Your Border?” For contest rules and submit photos online click here.
http://www.borderzine.com/2009/11/whats-your-border-first-borderzine-photo-contest/
Center for Mobilities Research and Policy (mCenter) at Drexel University
http://mcenterdrexel.wordpress.com/
The new Center for Mobilities Research and Policy (mCenter) at Drexel University combines interdisciplinary approaches to the study of travel, transport, migration, borders, and mobile communication into one over-arching framework. The term “mobilities” applies to both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and mobile communications.
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Center for Mobilities Research and Policy (mCenter) at Drexel University by Johan Schimanski, 17 Nov 2009 14:28
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