EastBordNet : An international research network supported by CRESC and COST
News and Forthcoming Events
See this list for descriptions of all the events for 2009. Full lists of participants and abstracts for each event can be found at http://www.eastbordnet.org/events/. That website is still under construction and will soon be replacing this space as the main space for the project. In the meantime, we ask for your understanding while the construction is going on.
May 2009
- Work Group 3 (Differences and Inequalities) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Title: "Borders as Histories Condensed: The Central European Rim". 8-9 May.
- Work Group 4 (Documents, Techniques and Technologies), held in Manchester, UK. Title: " Passports and passing: everyday encounters with borders" 15-16 May.
April 2009
- Work Group 1 (Borders) in Nicosia, Cyprus. Title: "Productive Borders: Perspectives on the Critique of Duality" 14-15 April.
- Work Group 2 (Travel, Translations, Exchanges) in Rome, Italy. Title: " Liquid Lands, Solid Seas. Dislocations, Exchanges and Relocations across the Borders of Europe's Eastern Peripheries" 27-28 April.
- Estonia joins the network.
March 2009
- France, Israel and Luxembourg join the network.
February 2009
- The first set of meetings within the COST research network are organized, and calls for participation amongst the members of the network are sent out. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Lithuania join the network.
January 2009
- COST IS0803 , the research network that grew out of the EastBordNet project, was officially launched with a management committee meeting in Brussels. Researchers from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Repiblic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom signed up to the project.
EastBordNet began as a loose network of researchers, scholars and activists across Europe and beyond, who have an interest in borders, gender, sexuality and/or money, particularly as these relate to concepts of “East” and “Eastern” in Europe, whether in a post-socialist or orientalist sense.
The EastBordNet project grew into the research network COST IS0803, and was officially launched with a management committee meeting in Brussels in January 2009. Researchers from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom are now participating in the project, and more countries are expected to join in the next six months. COST Action IS0803 will be hosting a series of Work Groups and Workshops throughout 2009.
A dedicated website for the EastBordNet project (www.eastbornet.org) is now under construction, and should be fully operational by June 2009.
The COST Project:
COST Action IS0803: "Remaking Eastern Borders in Europe: A Network Exploring Social, Moral and Material Relocations of Europe's Eastern Peripheries"
The main objective of this project is to develop a new multi-disciplinary approach to study the process of remaking borders in the eastern periphery of Europe, combining research on everyday social, moral and material aspects of this, and bringing together expertise in both empirical and conceptual research from across the whole region.
Brief description of the COST project:
The significance of the eastern borders of Europe is currently changing. Through a focus on the informal, everyday aspects of this, the Action draws together existing knowledge and develops new understandings of the combined social, moral and material elements of how these borders are experienced and thought about. Its aim is to develop a new approach for studying changes in the Eastern periphery of Europe, through: (a) exploring the process through which borders themselves become visible and meaningful (or disappear), rather than take borders for granted and then study their effects; (b) a simultaneous focus on what borders separate and what they bring together; (c) a focus on 'remaking borders,' which means studying understandings of possible futures as well as the past; (d) a focus on money, gender and sexuality, which in both empirical and conceptual terms brings together material, political, social and moral aspects of border-making and allows the study of 'border transgressions.' Unusually, this Action draws together researchers focusing on the north-east (Baltics and environs) to the south-east (Balkans and environs); and it also combines empirical with conceptual specialists to tackle the complexities of what happens in everyday, informal terms around border regions during periods of transformation.
Keywords: Remaking Borders, North-Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Gender and Sexuality, Money, Time
Previous events:
June 2008
- COST approves Action to set up a four-year project to develop the network, entitled " Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe’s eastern peripheries." Project scheduled to begin in late 2008.
January 2008
- EastBordNet Wiki set up (link to EastBordNet Wiki)
May 2007
- Second EastBordNet workshop, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, May 20-21, 2007
March 2007
- EastBordNet Extranet set up
- EastBordNet Workshop "Money, Location and Visibility", March 23rd 2007
