Border Allies, Boundary Alliances

Program

• 18 September, 13.00-14.00 CEST 
  Mattering presence - Thinking about the other things that happen when we are present with unknown others
  Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University)
• 23 October, 13.00-14.00 CEST  
  Caroline Dahl (SLU)
• 20 November, 13.00-14.00 CET  
  Human-Nature Encounters in Urban Space
  Megan Lynn Maurer (IT-University of Copenhagen)
• 11 December, 13.00-14.00 CET  
  Working with local communities – challenges and opportunities
  Lise Byskov Herslund (Copenhagen University) 

About the series

Border allies, boundary alliances delves deeper into questions of boundary-spanning and intermediation that structure and sustain links between local and global spaces of circulation (Shaffer, et al., 2009; Raj 2010) and what this might mean for the pragmatics of responding to the polycrisis in/of the border as we know it. As Clifford (1992) suggests, intermediaries do not just travel; they are also guides and translators, carriers and custodians, of other worlds, temporalities, languages, and cultures. Nevertheless, a crucial aspect of intermediation requires that such actors are comparatively stationary in order to perform their role as mediators (Raj, 2016) – or what Renato Rosaldo (1996) characterises as “culturally rooted mobility.” With this in mind, we are going to consider "border allies and boundary alliances" through an assertively post-disciplinary lens of collaboration and practice in addressing key challenges confronting border studies today: climate induced landscape change, human and other-than-human relations, as well as changing life forms and modes of social organisation in and beyond the Öresund region.

The series is arranged by the Öresund Comparative Borderlands Research Group and financed by Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES).