[CfP] Contesting 21st Century B/Orders
(Press release of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)
The Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION invites you to Frankfurt (Oder) on the German-Polish border to engage in vivid discussions on this highly relevant and debated subject. From September 06-08, 2023, a range of border and order concepts will be put up for discussion: What processes of inclusion and exclusion do they condition? What grey zones and liminal spaces are created by them to what effects? Building on the aspects of marking (durability), permeability, and the formation of border zones (liminality) highlighted by the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION in its founding phase, we focus on the interplay of multidimensional – social, symbolic, and material – border demarcations and their significance for societal orders. Thus, we contribute to scholarly debates in which borders are described in their complexity and multiformity and conceptualized as assemblages, borderscapes, interfaces, or border textures.
We invite contributors to pursue these issues raised above with reference to current socio-political crises – such as the crisis of European migration management, the COVID-pandemic, the consequences of the war in Ukraine, new challenges to states –, and various (inter-)disciplinary, theoretically located fields of research.
There are 16 panels planned, and 5 of them are open. We invite you to send abstracts (300-400 words excluding references) to one of the listed panels until October 31, 2022, to the respective panel hosts. Conference languages is English.