Border Realities online lecture series
The Centre for Regional and Border Research at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław, and the University of the Greater Region Center for Border Studies would like to invite you in the winter semester 2022-23 to a series of online lectures “Border Realities. Transformation of the border and new conceptual challenges”.
The first lecture Historical heritage and the ‘new’ border realities will take place on 13 October 2022 at 4 p.m. It will be given by Gerhild Perl, anthropologist from the University of Trier.
Abstract: For centuries, the Strait of Gibraltar has been a crossroads between African and European influences. Since the 1980s, however, it has increasingly become a ‘zone of illegality’ (Hannoum 2020). By analysing the impact of colonial legacies and European Union policies in the border region between Morocco and Spain, I show how categories of differentiation have been (re)constructed and changed over time and space. I call for historical heritage to be taken seriously in analysing processes of border resurgence and the formation of ‘new’ border realities.
More information and registration:
www.borderrealities.org
http://obrop.uni.wroc.pl/Border-Realities
Link to lecture series presentation: https://youtu.be/4g157FeFlS8
