BOMOCULT Seminar on Border Culture

Welcome to the next Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters - BOMOCULT Seminar on

Border Culture. 
Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics. 
by Adjunct Research Professor Victor A. Konrad, Carleton University, Canada.

Chair: Professor Jussi Laine, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland.

Professor Konrad will talk based on the recent book he has written together with Professor Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Grenoble-Alpes University, France). The book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation. 

Recent debates about the "refugee crisis" and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have politicized culture at and of borders like never before. Border culture is no longer culture at the margins but rather culture at the heart of geopolitics, flows, and experience of the transnational world. Increasingly, culture and borders are everywhere yet nowhere. In border spaces, national narratives and counter-narratives are tested and evaluated, coming up against transnational culture.

See more about the book Border Culture - Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics.

For further information, please contact Professor Jussi Laine, email jussi.laine@uef.fi, phone +358 50 433 8252.