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Subject: CONFERENCE: Borderlands & Peripheries, Finland
Submitted by: Maunu Hayrynen <hayrynen@csc.fi>
Date: 13.5 1996
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THE DIVIDING LINE. SEMINAR ON BORDERS AND NATIONAL PERIPHERIES AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, 22 - 23 NOVEMBER 1996
Organizers: Renvall Institute of Area and Cultural Studies &
Finnish Landscape Network
The two-day seminar will take place at the Renvall Institute,
University of Helsinki. The seminar is arranged together by the
Renvall institute and the Landscape Network in cooperation with
the Finnish Network on Cultural Studies and the Institute of
Geography at the University of Oulu. The seminar continues the
series of international seminars started at the Institute in 1994
under the topic "Landscape and Northern National Identity". The
programme will consist of a keynote lecture together with a
plenary session. Further on the seminar will divide into
workshops on specified topics. Contributions are invited from
Nordic countries, Russia and Britain as well as from USA and
Canada. The proceedings will be published in the publication
series of the Renvall Institute.
The seminar seeks to look at borders, frontiers and boundaries as
historical phenomena, social institutions and spatial practices.
The main objective is to find out how the national identity has
been defined by the establishing of borders and peripheries.
Different cases of borders and borderlands are discussed, with an
emphasis on the Finnish-Russian border and the adjoining areas.
The scope is not necessarily limited to national borders, but may
also cover ethnic and regional borders, etc. The seminar is
interdisciplinary and open for contributions from different
fields of study, historic as well as geographic or social
scientific.
Working groups:
I The Institutionalization of Border
- What constitutes a border?
- Historical practices of borders
- Border in the physical landscape
II The Formation of Borders
- The establishment of national borders
- Defining national identity through borders
- The emergence of borders and boundaries as a spatial system
III The Images of Border
- Cartographical representations of borders
- Borders in national imagery
IV Borderlands and Frontiers
- Disputed lands
- Ethnic minorities
- Manifest Destinies
Those interested in contributing to the seminar with a paper are
requested
to send to the organizers until 15 August 1996 the following
information:
personal data, academic status and affiliation, the preferred
working group
as well as a description of the intended topic (in one or two
sentences).
Contact information:
Dr Lars-Folke Landgren
Renvall Institute
University of Helsinki
P.O.B. 4
FIN-00014 U. of Helsinki
Tel. +358-0-191 22985
Fax: +358-0-191 23107
E-mail:
Dr Maunu Ha"yrynen
Finnish Landscape Network
Unioninkatu 45 E 51
FIN-00170 HELSINKI
Tel/fax +358-0-135 9213
E-mail: hayrynen@csc.fi
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