“NORFACE – B/ordering Europe: The Frontier ”

Seminar Program

Friday 26th September

10.00h - 10.15h Coffee
10.15h - 10.30h Olivier Thomas Kramsch – Introduction & Overview
10.30h - 12.00h Malcolm Anderson – “Researching European Frontiers” (Discussant: Chris Rumford)
12.00h - 13.30h Lunch
13.30h - 15.00h Divya P. Tolia-Kelly - “Archaeologies of Race and Landscape: Excavating the Material Geographies of Hadrian’s Wall” (Discussant: Tim Richardson) download abstract
15.15h - 17.00h James Sidaway - “Towards Frontier Poetics” (Discussant: Maria Rovisco)
19.30h Dinner: Belvédere Nijmegen

Saturday 27th September

09.15h - 09.45h NORFACE Business Meeting (for NORFACE Business partners only)
09.45h - 10:00h Coffee
10.00h - 11.30h Warwick Armstrong - “Altruism or Self-Interest? False Opposites and the EU External Border Strategy” (Discussant: Henk van Houtum) download abstract
11.30h - 11.45h Coffee
11.45h - 13.00h Manuela Boatca - “The Epistemology of Frontiers and the Frontiers of Epistemology” (Discussant: Chiara Brambilla)
13.00h - 14.00h Lunch
14.00h - 15.30h Eberhard Bort - “External and Internal Boundaries: (B)ordering Europe” (Discussant: Huib Ernste) download abstract
15.45h - 17.00h Roundtable Statements & Discussion: Caterina Kinnvall, Martin van der Velde, Robert Holton, Roos Pijpers (Chair: Olivier Thomas Kramsch). Topic for discussion: What European frontiers merit our greatest attention today? What are the most promising theoretical approaches we should deploy in their study?