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A SEMIANNUAL NEWSLETTER VOL. 35 · ISSUE 1 · FALL 2014. La Frontera Association for Borderlands Studies Newsletter

Message from the New Officer New Board Members CfP: II World OP-ED ABS Visioning President ABS members voted ABS warmly welcomes Conference 2018 Prof. Miles discusses the Committee Interim President van der Velde for their 2nd Vice three new board The Executive Officers nullification by ISIS of Report recaps the challenging President who will take members!! and the Board of the the border between the We are delighted to year and communicates over the position of Page 8 ABS invite interested former French colony of inform you that the several important future Vice President next institutions to submit Syria and the former JBS is ready to begin initiatives. ! April 2015 at the ABS proposals to organize British colony of Iraq. ! operating ! Page 1 Annual Meeting in the next ABS World Page 9 Page 11 Portland! Conference. Page 7 Pages 17-19

for the next ABS-World meeting to be held in endeavour an ABS-meeting will be organised in MESSAGE FROM THE 2018 in this La Frontera.! Guwahati (India) in March of next year. Concrete plans are also developed to have an ABS-meeting PRESIDENT! The traditional North-American meeting in at the Mexico-Guatemala border. ! Dear ABS-members, Albuquerque has also been a success. 160 papers were presented in about 50 sessions. Especially Furthermore I would like to encourage you to 2014 has been another the Mexican delegation of about 70 participants think about organising specialty groups. As we interesting and greatly contributed to this success. As usual the are growing, this might be an excellent challenging year for the papers covered a whole gamut of themes, ranging opportunity to deepen as well broaden our ABS. The main event, from urban and regional planning in border already very rich discussion on borders. The next next to our legacy regions, geopolitics, migration, violence, daily life ABS-meeting might be an appropriate occasion to meeting in Albuquerque, at the border. A special focus has been on the start with this. And of course we are always open of course has been the ontology and epistemology of borders and borders to any other suggestions.! first ABS-World meeting and education. I would also like to mention The ABS is depending on the participation of in Joensuu and explicitly the brown bag meeting that was board members and the ABS membership at large St. Petersburg. As has organised by the award-winning filmmaker and in the many committees to select award been mentioned at several occasions, we producer Paul Espinosa who took us through the recipients, board members and officers. Thank expected this meeting to be memorable. And history of the US-Mexico border with fragments you for all the work that has been done. A special these expectations have been more than met. from his many documentaries. As an expression thank goes to Martha Patricia Barraza de Anda of topicality of our discipline Christine Brenner Offering to organize a first-ever event, as the and her committee members Joan Anderson and organised a impromptu session on the events in University of Eastern Finland did, is always a Naomi Chi for selecting the candidates to run for Ukraine. Finally, and this is becoming another risky endeavour; certainly if such an event is the second vice president position. The final tradition, there was a very well attended plenary coming with the goal from the ABS to become one results are published in this La Frontera ! of the traditions of the organisation. There was no round table discussion on the future of the ABS. ! Finally I would like to invite you all to submit room for error. And of course the organisers put a The further development of the ABS of course is your paper proposal for the ABS-meeting in lot of pressure on themselves by attaching great something we have to consider carefully April next year in Portland. I am sure Akihiro importance to being successful as well. And what constantly. For this reason the mandate of the Iwashita will be able to put together an a success it has been. Personally I am still hugely ABS Visioning Committee, headed by Victor interesting program. I hope to see you all in impressed by the fact that more than 500 scholars Konrad, has been extended for at least another Portland.! submitted proposals and especially that they were year. This is all the more important to carefully coming from 63 countries. Unfortunately in the adapt our organisation to the increasingly global ! end not everybody was able to join us, for several orientation of the membership. For this reason reasons, but it proves that the idea is right that also a committee (chaired by Christopher Brown) ! there is a need for these kinds of a global was initiated to revise the bylaws. ! ! meetings. Of course we will have to carry on the success of this meeting and are issuing the call One of the spearheads this year is to increase the Martin van der Velde, President global visibility and outreach. As part of this

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57th ABS/WSSA Annual Conference!

April 8-11, 2015 - Portland, Oregon

MESSAGE FROM THE everyone from ABS for the first understanding why the border opportunities. I would like to time in Denver, but it felt like I studies community started from extend my invitation to all PRESIDENT ELECT was reacquainting myself with this border region. I will not go border studies scholars and old “friends.” into much detail here, but simply researchers around the world, I often ask put it is because all of the border both old friends and to new myself why I It has only been 6 years since my related problems and issues friends who are struggling with got chosen as first ABS conference, but here I around the world exists at this border related issues around the the ABS am as the ABS President. It had very border. Therefore, I firmly world, to gather at the ABS President. My never occurred to me in my believe that we can obtain hints conference in Portland in April to first ABS wildest imagination that I would and knowledge to the resolution pursue new horizons of border conference was be running for Vice President let of problems and issues around studies research. in the spring of alone be elected. It got me the world by learning from the 2008 which wondering about what is realities of this border region. I Please join us at the ABS was held in Denver. Couple of happening in ABS. am fully aware that we bear the conference in Portland and let us reasons why I attended the responsibility to proliferate the make a toast to the future of My conclusion is that the ABS is conference was that I was living achievements of the border ABS! in the midst of a transition. The in the Washington DC at the studies research from the wealth ABS started as a community of time, but more importantly, it of information that lies in the ! scholars conducting research on was through meeting Emmanuel borders in North America and the U.S. and Mexico border, Akihiro Iwashita! Brunet-Jailly and Don Alper at Central America. which has expanded to include the 9th Border Regions in President Elect and 2015 ABS not only all of North America but Transition (BRIT) Conference On the other hand, because of Program Chair which was held at the U.S. and also the community in Europe the depth of the community of Canada border. I have been and in Asia. The fact that I got this region, it may seem for those Hokkaido University, Japan conducting research on border chosen as the President is proof scholars and researchers that do regions in China, Russia and that the ABS is becoming a global not belong in this region as Central Asia for some time now, community of border studies though there is a “border” that but I was a lone wolf in Asia and scholars and researchers, and as does not allow “strangers,” Eurasia. I did not have any the ABS community grows we however, this is indeed border studies friends at the have to realize that we will face unfortunate for both sides. As time. That is why I was happy to new challenges. one of the pioneers of border studies in Asia and Eurasia, that have met friends in the border Since last year, I have had the is not belonging to either the studies community in North opportunity to visit the U.S.- North American nor European America, because I did not have Mexico border and I plan to visit community, I am ready to face to explain “the importance and again next year. From these the challenges of ABS at hand. the significance” of conducting visits, I have come to a clear research on borders. I met Challenges can become

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C o n v o c a t o r i a! a la Conferencia Anual 2015! Albuquerque, Nuevo México, 2 al 5 de Abril del 2014! Hyatt Regency Downtown en la Calle Tijeras #330 NW

La Asociación de Estudios Fronterizos (ABS) convoca a participar al Congreso Anual 2015 a través de ponencias individuales y mesas completas sobre el tema de fronteras. Todos los ensayos sobre temas y áreas relacionadas con el estudio de las fronteras son bienvenidos, particularmente aquellos que se circunscriban al tema central del Congreso Anual 2015: "Estudios Fronterizos y el Nuevo (Des)Orden Mundial: Integrando Teoría y Práctica." Esta temática pretende fomentar un debate sobre cómo los estudios fronterizos articulan y relacionan la vida cotidiana de las fronteras en todo el mundo. Se busca detonar una extensa discusión sobre cómo los diferentes enfoques de los estudios fronterizos— empíricos o teóricos; históricos o post-modernos; realistas o post-coloniales—pueden contribuir a resolver las crisis del mundo contemporáneo.

Con este propósito, se solicitan artículos que hacen preguntas provocativas sobre la universalidad de la teoría en los estudios fronterizos, la interrelación de los estudios de caso, y cómo los estudios fronterizos deben dirigirse a un renacimiento de los encuadres geopolíticos "clásicos" de la política mundial—visto hoy desde la frontera Ucrania / Rusia, las disputas marítimas en el Mar del Sur / Este de China, e incluso desde el reclamo de las regiones polares. Conforme los estudios fronterizos continúan desarrollándose como una área de investigación multidisciplinaria, el tema del congreso convoca también a los investigadores a reﬂexionar sobre la contribución que ofrecen a resolver problemas más controvertidos de la sociedad actual, incluyendo la reconstrucción de fronteras en el Medio Oriente, así como enfoques que aborden los peligros de las pandemias como la gripe aviar o el virus del ébola.

Esta convocatoria exhorta también a los/as expertos/as en estudios fronterizos y profesionales de todos los continentes a abordar y desarrollar estudios sobre el extenso mosaico global en que se ha convertido este campo. Al mismo tiempo, se sugiere a los/las estudiosos/as que reﬂexionen sobre los valores universales de la dignidad humana y la compasión, la necesidad de dar voz a los marginados, y el imperativo de garantizar la seguridad humana para todos, propósitos que han orientado y deﬁnido a esta comunidad de investigación desde sus inicios en la frontera México-Estados Unidos.

Favor de enviar la propuesta con la siguiente información: • Título de la presentación • Nombre, Aﬁliación Institucional, Dirección postal, Número de teléfono y Dirección de correo electrónico • Co-Autores • Resumen no mayor de 200 palabras, incluyendo palabras clave Se convoca también los/las panelistas interesados/as en participar como moderadores/as o comentaristas que indiquen su interés en la propuesta

Las propuestas deberán ser enviadas antes del 1º de diciembre de 2014 al Coordinador del Programa: Akihiro Iwashita al correo-e [email protected].

Comité Consultivo del Programa ABS 2015: Akihiro Iwashita (Universidad de Hokkaido, Japan), Kimberly Collins (CSUSB, USA), Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Universidad de Joseph Fourier, France), Martin van der Velde (Universidad de Radboud, Netherland), Tony Payan (UACJ/Rice, USA), Martha Patricia Barraza De Anda (Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México) y Paul Richardson (Universidad de Manchester, UK).

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C a l l f o r P a p e r s! 2014 Annual Conference! April 8-11, 2015, Portland, OR, USA! Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, 1401 SW!

The Association for Borderlands Studies invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels related to the study of borders. Papers on all topics and areas concerned with border studies are invited but we particularly welcome papers related to the theme for the 2015 annual conference: “Border Studies and the New World (Dis)order: Relating Theories and Practice.” This theme seeks to encourage a debate on how border studies - as a subject of academic scholarship - engages and relates to the everyday lives of people all over the world. It hopes to stimulate a broad discussion on how various approaches to border studies – be it empirical or theoretical; historical or post-modern; realist or post-colonial – can contribute to solving and ameliorating contemporary world crises.

We warmly invite papers that ask provocative questions about the universality of theory in border studies; the interrelatedness of case studies; and how border studies should go about addressing a renaissance in “classical” geopolitical framings of world politics - seen today from the Ukraine/Russia borderlands, to the rise of maritime disputes in the South/ East China Sea, and even over claims to ice in the polar regions. As border studies continues to reﬁne and develop as a multi-disciplinary research area, this theme also asks researchers on borders to reﬂect on the contribution we can make to the most pressing issues for society today, including the remaking of state and non-state borders in the Middle East; and approaches to dealing with the dangers of borderless pandemics such as Bird Flu or the Ebola virus.

This call invites border studies scholars and practitioners from all continents to develop the rich, global mosaic that the field of border studies has become. At the same time, it asks scholars to draw on the universal values of human dignity and compassion; the necessity of giving voices to the marginalized; and the imperative of guaranteeing human security to all, !which has defined this research community from its beginnings in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Please include the following information in your proposal: • Title of presentation ! • Name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number and email address! • Other authors! • Abstract not to exceed 200 words! !Scholars willing to serve as moderators or discussants should also please indicate their interest in the proposal.! !The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2014. !Please submit proposals to the program chair and coordinator: Akihiro Iwashita ([email protected]) 2015 ABS Program Advisory Committee: Akihiro Iwashita (Hokkaido University, Japan), Kimberly Collins (CSUSB, USA), Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Joseph Fourier University, France), Martin van der Velde (Radboud University, Netherland), Tony Payan (UTEP, USA), Martha Patricia Barraza de Anda (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico), Paul Richardson (University of Manchester, UK)!

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Call for Student Participation! Convocatoria para Estudiantes!

2015 Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, USA! Conferencia Anual 2015 en Portland, Oregon, USA!

The Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) extends a special La Asociación de Estudios Fronterizos (ABS) invita a las y los invitation to graduate and undergraduate students who are estudiantes de licenciatura y posgrado que estén interesados (as) interested in borderland issues to take part in our upcoming en temas de frontera a participar en la próxima Conferencia que meeting in Portland, Oregon, USA, April 8-11, 2015. Towards se realizará en Portland, Oregon, EE.UU., del 8 al 11 de abril de this goal, we are happy to announce the continuation of our 2015. Interesa estimular la participación estudiantil y por ello se Student Paper Competition in which four cash awards will be hace una invitación para presentar ensayos relacionados con el offered to the best student papers presented at the conference. tema central de la Conferencia. Los mejores ensayos se premiaran ! de la siguiente manera: •$250 U.S. for best graduate student paper •$ 250 dólares para el mejor trabajo escrito de un •$125 U.S. for second place graduate paper estudiante de posgrado •$150 U.S. for the best undergraduate student paper, and •$ 125 dólares para el segundo mejor trabajo escrito de un •$75 U.S. for the second place undergraduate paper. estudiante postgrado ! •$ 150 dólares para el mejor trabajo escrito de los In addition to these cash awards, the first place graduate paper estudiantes de pregrado will be automatically considered for publication in the Journal of Borderlands Studies. •$ 75 dólares para el segundo mejor trabajo escrito de un estudiante de pregrado. The specific guidelines of this paper competition are as follows: Los premios se otorgan en efectivo en dólares americanos. 1)Papers must be sole-authored by the student submitting Además de los premios en efectivo, el ensayo que reciba el primer the paper, not co-authored with a faculty advisor or lugar de los estudiantes de posgrado será automáticamente other student(s). publicado en la Revista Borderlands Studies. Criterios de participación: 2)Papers must be original work developed as a conference research paper, not a project report for funded work. 1)Los trabajos deberán ser escritos solamente por el estudiante que presenta el documento, no puede tener 3)Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages, double- co-autores de algún tutor (a) de su Institución o de otro spaced with 12 point text and 1 inch margins, or (a) estudiante (s). approximately 6000 words in length. Manuscripts 2)Los ensayos deberán ser inéditos desarrollados como un should also comply with the guidelines for articles to be trabajo de investigación de la conferencia. No se submitted to the Journal of Borderlands Studies; consult consideraran informes de proyectos financiados. http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ rjbs20#.UjdNR2QY140 for these formal guidelines. 3)Los trabajos deben ser de no más de 25 páginas, a doble espacio con un texto de 12 puntos y márgenes de 1 4)Students must present the paper at the conference to pulgada, o aproximadamente 6.000 palabras de qualify for the prizes. extensión. Los manuscritos también deberán cumplir 5)Students must also be full time students and current con las especificaciones de los artículos que se presentan members of the ABS at the time of the conference, en la Revista Borderlands Studies (Consultar http:// although students can certainly join as part of the www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjbs20#.UjdNR2QY140) . registration process. We ask that students have their 4)Los estudiantes deberán presentar su ensayo en la faculty advisor confirm their student status and level conferencia para poder concursar. of study at the time the paper is submitted via EMAIL 7)Los estudiantes deben ser de tiempo completo y estar communication to Dr. Patricia Barraza, at registrados (as) como miembros de la ABS al momento [email protected] and Dr. Bruno Dupeyron, at de la conferencia, y también si lo desean pueden apoyar [email protected]. en el proceso de registro. Para comprobar que son 6)Students must submit a typed, professional quality estudiantes de tiempo completo se les solicitará que su manuscript to Dr. Barraza and Dr. Dupeyron by March asesor envíe una carta especificando su estatus y nivel 3, 2015. Members of the Committee on Student de estudios a través de correo electrónico dirigido a la Participation will evaluate the written document Dra. Patricia Barraza, Correo electrónico: towards the award of the cash prize, yet the ABS [email protected] y al Dr. Bruno Dupeyron, Correo reserves the right not to grant prizes if papers are not of electrónico: [email protected]. adequate professional quality. For further information, 5)Los estudiantes deben presentar un manuscrito de feel free to contact Dr. Barraza and/or Dr. Dupeyron. calidad profesional y enviarlo por correo electrónico a la ! Dra. Barraza y al Dr. Dupeyron antes del 3 de marzo ! de 2015. ! 6)Los miembros del Comité de Participación de los ! estudiantes evaluarán el documento escrito para la ! concesión del premio en efectivo, sin embargo, el ABS se ! reserva el derecho de no otorgar los premios si los ! documentos no son de calidad profesional adecuada. ! Para mayor información, favor de contactar por correo ! electrónico a los doctores Barraza y Dupeyron. !

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BEST PAPER AWARD! PREMIO AL MEJOR ENSAYO!

2015 Annual Conference ! Congreso Anual 2015 ! !April 8-11, 2015, Portland, Oregon, USA ! Abril 8-11,! 2015, Portland, Oregon, USA ! ! This year, again, the ABS is delighted to offer a best paper La ABS se complace en ofrecer un premio al mejor ensayo. award. Este premio fue instituido por el Profesor Harlan Koff, This award is the creation of Professor Harlan Koff, President Presidente del Consorcio de Investigacion Comparativa en of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integración Regional y Cohesión Social (RISC, Universidad Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC, University of de Luxemburgo, www.risc.lu). Luxembourg, www.risc.lu). RISC is proud to sponsor a yearly best paper award to be presented at the annual RISC se enorgullece de patrocinar un premio anual al mejor meeting of the Association of Borderlands Studies (ABS). ensayo presentado en el Congreso Anual de la Asociación de Estudios Fronterizos (ABS). The award, selected by a committee of scholars from the ABS and the RISC Consortium, will recognize the best paper El premio, seleccionado por un Comité de Expertos de la ABS submitted by the deadline, and presented in person by at y del Consorcio RISC, se otorgará al mejor trabajo escrito least one author and conference participant duly registered at enviado dentro en el plazo establecido, y presentado en the WSSA and ABS annual conference. persona por al menos uno de los autores, debidamente registrado en la Conferencia Anual de la WSSA y de la ABS. The award committee will only consider ABS original papers on “Border Studies and the New World (Dis) order: Sólo se considerarán los trabajos originales escritos Relating Theories and Practice”.! presentados en la Conferencia Anual de la ABS circunscritos en la temática central: “Estudios Fronterizos y el Nuevo The paper selected for this award will be submitted for (Des) orden Mundial: Integrando Teoría y Práctica”. publication in the journal Regions & Cohesion. The author(s) will also receive a certificate and 250 Euros. El trabajo seleccionado para el premio será publicado en la Revista Regions & Cohesion. Submissions are to be sent by March 3, 2015 to Dr. Patricia Barraza, at [email protected] and Dr. Kathleen Staudt, at El (los) autor(es) también recibirá(n) un diploma y €250. [email protected] Los trabajos deberán ser enviados antes del 3 de marzo de Members of the RISC Award Committee will evaluate the 2015 a la Dra. Patricia Barraza al correo-e [email protected] paper towards the award and cash prize, yet the ABS y a la Dra. Kathleen Staudt al correo-e [email protected]. reserves the right not to grant prizes if papers are not of Los miembros del Comité de Premiación del RISC evaluarán adequate professional quality. el ensayo para la entrega del reconocimiento y el premio ! monetario. Sin embargo, la ABS se reserva el derecho de no ! asignar los premios si los trabajos no se consideran de ! suﬁciente calidad profesional.

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Publisher: Berghahn Journals 3 issues pa. (spring, summer, winter) Editors: Harlan Koﬀ and Carmen Maganda, RISC!

The journal of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional RECO, Regiones y Cohesiónes la revista cientíﬁca del Consorcio de Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC), a cross-regional, interdisciplinary, investigación comparativa en integración regional y cohesión social (RISC), and multi-lingual network of socially conscious and prestigious research una red transcontinental, interdisciplinaria, y multilingüe de prestigiosos institutes in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. institutos de investigación con conciencia social, ubicados en Europa, Norteamérica, Sudamérica y África. Interdisciplinary in nature and multi-lingual in character (English, French, Spanish), the journal promotes the comparative examination of the human Interdisciplinaria y multilingüe (inglés, francés, español), esta revista busca and environmental impacts of various aspects of regional integration promover el análisis comparativo sobre el impacto humano y across geographic areas, time periods, and policy arenas. medioambiental de los proyectos de integración regional en diferentes áreas geográﬁcas, periodos históricos y políticas públicas.

6 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland LA FRONTERA 35(1) New ABS Ofﬁcer Recently, ABS members voted for their Second Vice President who will take over the position of Vice President next April 2015 at the ABS Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon.

The nomination committee, chaired by Prof. Martha Patricia Barraza de Anda, nominated two candidates for the election of the ABS Second Vice President. The nominations were approved by the President of the ABS, Dr. Martin van der Velde. The candidates were: • Dr. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, University of Texas Brownsville, USA • Dr. Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Grenoble-Alpes University, France Dr. Correa-Cabrera was declared the winner after having received 52.2% of the eligible votes. Congratulations! Dr. Amilhat Szary received 47.0% (63) of the eligible votes, 0.8% (1) abstained. 134 votes were received from 363 eligible members. This indicates a 37% response rate.

Guadalupe C o r r e a Guadalupe is quoted and cited frequently in national therefore know its main problems; economic, political, -C a b r e r a (Ph.D. in and international news media on the topics of and social dynamics; its culture, and its people. I Political Science, The Mexican politics, U.S-Mexico relations, U.S.-Mexico understand that the relationship between the United New School for Social border relations, and particularly on drug trafficking States and Mexico should not be treated as Research) is Associate issues, border security, and drug violence in Mexico. monolithic throughout the borderlands. A multiple- Professor and Chair of Among these media sources are: The New York borders perspective is crucial to understanding the the Government Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, U.S.-Mexico border and border relations with all of Department of the The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, its related economic, social and political dynamics. University of Texas at Al Jazeera, San Antonio Express News, Houston The ABS started as an organization focusing on the Brownsville. Her areas Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, Texas U.S.-Mexico border, but fortunately, in the most of expertise are Mexico- Tribune, Texas Observer, The Nation, among others. recent times it has become a more global organization U.S. border relations, MISSION STATEMENT that involves border projects and people from all over border security, the world. I see this as a great advancement; the immigration, organized crime and energy. Her I am Associate Professor of Political Science and currently serve as Chair of the Department of organization of the ABS First Word Conference in teaching fields include comparative politics, Latin Joensuu, Finland and St. Petersburg, Russia was a American politics, U.S.-Mexico border relations, and Government at the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB), located right across from the clear example of this universal effort. I am wholly U.S.-Mexico border policy. Guadalupe’s most recent committed to this effort, and with that in mind, my book is entitled Democracy in “Two Mexicos”: Mexican border. My main areas of expertise are U.S.- Mexico border relations, U.S.-Mexico border policy, main immediate goals, if selected as Second Vice- Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León President, are the following: (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She has published border security, and immigration. I am very • To promote inclusiveness and representation of works in journals such as Latin American Politics committed to border studies and I am currently every region in the world within the and Society, Journal of Politics in Latin America, participating in the design and creation of a Organization. Journal of Borderlands Studies, Politics & Policy, Transborder Studies Institute and Program in South Policy Studies, Journal of South Texas, European Texas. This project will promote and coordinate • To encourage the formation of collaborative Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, binational and international border research projects teams of more international nature that advance State Crime Journal, and Norteamérica (CISAN- in the region. It will also lead academic debate and border studies in different areas of the world. UNAM). Dr. Correa-Cabrera is now working on a public discourse on border issues in Texas. • To allocate money for travel grants that assures new book entitled “Los Zetas Inc.”: A Criminal I am a very active member of the Association for the participation in ABS conferences of people Transnational Corporation, Mexico’s Energy Sector, Borderlands Studies (ABS) since 2011 and was part from every part of the world. and a Modern Civil War. She is also working on a of its board of directors during the period 2011-2014. • To promote further relations of the ABS with a second book (coauthored with Dr. Tony Payan) I have published in the Journal of Borderlands number of organizations that focus on border entitled The Bird’s Eye View: An Elitist Analysis of Studies, and very recently co-edited a special issue for studies internationally. Mexico’s 2006-2012 Security Strategy. the Journal with Professor Kathleen Staudt on “The • To continue with the current efforts to change Dr. Correa-Cabrera is currently developing a project Multiple U.S.-Mexico Borders” that has already been the by-laws with the aim of improving on the sources of violence and organized crime in the reviewed and will be published in the coming months. transparency and promoting participation and Texas-Mexico border region. The project has been One of my main goals within the Organization is to more democratic practices within the supported by the Open Society Institute and the promote the understanding, dialogue, and Organization. cooperation between border people around the world. Social Science Research Council through the Drugs, • To encourage and search for mechanisms that My research focus is on the U.S.-Mexico border, but I Security and Democracy (DSD) Fellowship. In the support the participation of students in the understand the importance of expanding my research summer of 2012 she was visiting researcher at the activities of the Organization. National Autonomous University of Mexico interests and the scope of my own work to understand other borders of the world." I know the • To support the continuous growth of the (UNAM) and in the summer of 2013 she was invited Organization, the works of the Secretariat, and as research fellow at the Free University of Berlin. U.S.-Mexico border quite well, and have traveled through all of it. I live and work on the border and the Journal of Borderlands Studies

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ABS Welcomes! New Board Members

Dr. Christophe Sohn Dr. Adriana Dorfman Dr. Joan B. Anderson CEPS, Luxembourg Universidade Federal do Rio University of San Diego ! Grande do Sul, Brazil Christophe Sohn (Ph.D. in urban geography, Dra. Adriana Dorfman teaches Political Joan Anderson received a Ph.D. in economics from University of Strasbourg) is Senior Researcher and Geography; Geography and Representation of the University of California, San Diego. Her Head of the Department of Urban Development Africa and Asia; and Border Studies at the research areas of specialization are economic and Mobility at the Public Research Centre CEPS Geography Department and Post-Grade Program development of Latin America, with special in Luxembourg. He is also Assistant Professor in Geography of the Federal University of Rio emphasis on the U.S.-Mexico Border region and associated with the University of Luxembourg. Grande do Sul, Brazil. Visiting Professor at applied econometrics. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and His areas of expertize are European cross-border Her publications include a large number of journal Universidade Federal de Grande Dourados, Brazil. metropolitan regions, border cities, cross-border articles and two books, Economic Policy Speaks, writes and reads Portuguese, Spanish and integration, policy networks, urban governance, Alternatives for the Latin American Crisis (1990) English. Speaks and reads Hebrew and French. and the notion of borders as resource. Sohn’s most and Schooling for Success (1999), co-edited with Laura Randall. She has a third book co-authored recent edited book is entitled “Luxembourg, an Dra. Dorfman research interests are border studies; with James Gerber, “Fifty Years of Change on the emerging cross-border metropolitan region” (P.I.E. smuggling; scientometry; violence, security and U.S.-Mexico Border: Growth, Development, and Peter Lang, 2012). He has published works in surveillance; geographic imagination; translation Quality of Life”. journals such as Environment and Planning C, and literature; and geography. European Urban and Regional Studies, She was the co-editor of the Journal of Borderlands Geopolitics, Global Society, International Journal Dra. Dorfman is the editor of the Boletim Gaúcho Studies from 1995-2000. She has been awarded two of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of de Geografia and an invited editor of Border Fulbrights to Latin America and received grants Borderlands Studies. Studies dossiers at Revista Transporte y Territorio from the Ford and Tinker foundations as co- (Argentina) and Revista Colombiana de Geografia director on a research project for improving Dr Sohn has been the principal investigator of (Colombia). She is also a member of several educational quality in Latin America. She has various research projects focusing on European journal scientific committees. served as the president of both the Business cross-border metropolitan regions (e.g. Basel, Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS) Copenhagen-Malmo, Geneva, Luxembourg, She coordinates Unbral Fronteiras – Open Access and the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS). Vienna-Bratislava) and he is currently working Portal of the Brazilian Universities on Borders and She served as co-chair, with Denise Dimon of the within the framework of the EUBORDERSCAPES Limits, as well as the research project “Smuggling BALAS 1987 and 2001 conferences in San Diego. project (FP7) on borders’ multiplicity mobilizing at Southern South American Borders: agents, Dr. Anderson was awarded the Steber assemblage theory. norms, networks. Professorship at the University of San Diego for ! 1995-1996 in recognition of career ! accomplishments. ! ! ! ! !

The nomination of the three new Board Members was headed by Prof. Francisco Lara-Valencia, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University, USA

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Announcement!

On September 8, 2014, James W. Scott and Jussi P. Laine requested a permission from the ABS Officers and the Board of Directors to make a modification to the internal division of labor within the ABS Executive Secretariat. The Karelian Institute of the UEF was selected as the host for the ABS Secretariat for the term 2013 to 2017. While the original contract did not specify the actual roles of persons working for the Secretariat, Prof. James W. Scott first assumed the position of the Executive Secretary of the ABS whereas Dr. Jussi P. Laine has acted as the Treasurer and Vice Executive Secretary. In order to serve the ABS membership more efficiently, to conduct other ABS affairs more straight forward manner, and to allow Prof. Scott enough time for his multiple other commitments, Scott and Laine jointly proposed a new internal division of labor, whereby Jussi P. Laine would become the Executive Secretary and James W. Scott would act as the Vice Executive Secretary. As before, Jussi Laine would continue as the ABS treasurer. In practice, Scott and Laine would continue to work together exactly the same manner as they had been since the Secretariat was trader to UEF. The change would however clarify to the situation and allow the titles possessed better match with the responsibilities and functions acquired by the personnel of the Secretariat. After having consulted the ABS Officers and the Board of Directors, the request was accepted by the President’s decision. As the request did not seek to amend any formal agreements and the new composition guaranteed the Executive Secretariat to function as was agreed upon in the contract, the request has been accepted and the new titles of Prof. Scott and Dr. Laine made effective as of Oct 1, 2014.

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The Center for Interamerican and Borders, as we know well, are unusual Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Border Studies (CIBS) at the and important places. And, of course, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) borders vary greatly themselves. Juárez, El Colegio de Chihuahua, New has a long and distinguished history, Borders are notable for their density of Mexico State University, and more interaction, trade, growth, mobility, distantly, the University of New Mexico. starting in 1968. This year, it is politicization and securitization, conflict, Indeed, CIBS is currently part of a beginning a new era. The guiding inequality, growth, environmental consortium on human security with the theme of CIBS will be “place-based stresses, cultural interchange and latter three institutions, involving research and education.” This creativity, linguistic complexity, and so regular meetings and scholarly focuses CIBS on its border location forth. A place-based approach, at CIBS exchange. and the intellectual strengths of and elsewhere, aspires to understand A noteworthy feature of CIBS is that it UTEP. The new Director is Josiah how these factors come together in a provides to visiting scholars an Heyman, who can be contacted at distinctive place, nested in wider units institutional affiliation, an office, etc. It [email protected]; the overall and flows. An example is the active, is a particularly good base for a stay at vibrant seminar on human security and CIBS email is [email protected].! the U.S.-Mexico border. Likewise, CIBS the humanities funded by the National hosts a MA degree program in Latin Endowment for the Humanities, Place-based research comes from the American and Border Studies, notably organized by Sandra Garabano, literature on sustainability (Robert W. adding the border element to a classic Meredith Abarca, and Zulma Mendez. Kates, et al., “Sustainability Science,” area studies program. It is a good Science 27 April 2001: Vol. 292 no. 5517 CIBS is able to take advantage of the program for an advanced student who pp. 641-642). Place-based research large number and interdisciplinary wants to learn in the distinctive border makes connections between a specific diversity of border and Latin American setting, for example, by collaborating local or regional setting (society, culture, and environment) and the classic scholars at UTEP. Though a small center, with community groups. We are open to science, social science, and humanities it brings together a remarkable range of inquiries from students. Contacts for questions about general issues or large- scholars through seminars, informal visiting scholars and potential students scale processes. The place-based meetings, faculty affiliation, and so are listed above. perspective may come recently out of forth. For some time, documentation of As border scholars understand, borders sustainability science, but it should feel this was neglected, but now this is being are central places, not margins. CIBS, familiar and constructive to social updated. In addition, CIBS forms part of with its distinguished history and its scientists, historians, language and many educational institutions in the culture scholars, and so forth. new rubric “place-based research and Paso del Norte U.S.-Mexico region with education,” embraces this exciting strength in border studies, including the concept of borders.

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Past Presidents’ Book Award

GOLD AWARD: Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson fortification, and militarization. They challenge the SILVER AWARD: Sverrir Jakobsson (ed.) and Andrew Burridge (eds) idea that prisons and borders create safety, Images of the North, Histories - Identities - Ideas ! security, and order, showing that they can be Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and forms of coercive mobility that separates loved Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009 Global Crisis ! ones, disempower communities, and increase Georgia University Press, 2013 shared harms of poverty. Walls and cages can also fortify wealth and power inequalities, racism, and gender and sexual oppressions. "As governments increasingly rely on criminalization and violent measures of exclusion and containment, strategies for achieving change are essential. Beyond Walls and Cages develops abolitionist, no borders, and decolonize analyzes and methods for social change, showing how seemingly disconnected forms of stat violence are interconnected. Creating a more just and free world- whether in the Mexico-US borderlands, the BRONZE AWARD: Theodora Dragostinova Morocco-Spain region, South Africa, Montana, or Philadelphia - requires that people who are most Between Two Motherlands Nationality and affected become central to building alternatives to Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, global cross currents of criminalization and 1900-1949! militarization.” Cornell University Press, 2011 The selection committee for this year's book award found the authors' attention to these critical border issues impressive and believe that as an organization selecting Beyond Walls and Cages as our 2014 book award will bring additional needed attention to the issues the authors' explore in this Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and fine edited volume. activist perspectives on issues of detention and deportation in a time of increasingly militarized The ABS Past Presidents’ Book Award is presented to international borders and explores how the any published monographic (single or multiple international community can move toward a authored, including edited) book in the social and more humane future that permits movement of natural sciences, and humanities involving original peoples around the globe while respecting basic research on borders, borderlands and border regions, 2014 Award Committee Members human rights. and reviewed in the Journal of Borderlands Studies. Chair: Dr. Gabriel Popescu Nevins, Indiana University South The Gold Award consists of a plaque, a certificate and a The University of Georgia Press finds that " Bend, Gold Award 2012 year’s free membership in ABS. Also, the winner of the Working at a range of geographic scales and 2014 Gold Award will chair the ABS book award Professor and ABS Past President Heather Nicol, Trent locations, contributors examine concrete and committee for 2015 and be the ABS guest and keynote University, Canada ideological connections among prisons, speaker at the annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. Professor and ABS Past President Christine Thurlow migration policing and detention, border Brenner, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

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World Conference Student Paper Awards!

The Association for Borderlands Studies extended a special invitation to students interested in borderland issues to take part in the ﬁrst ABS World Conference in Joensuu, Finland and St. Petersburg, Russia. The organising committee received 13 submissions for the student paper competition. Three awards worth 500 EUR each were granted to the best student papers presented at the conference.

‘Borderization in Georgia: Sovereignty materialized’ of borders as obstacles to the passage of goods and people that serves to - Edward Boyle, Hokkaido University, Japan isolate the disputed territories, insulating each community’s narratives This paper shall examine the process of borderization that has been of the conflict and restricting information flow, exacerbating threat proclaimed as occurring along the Georgian-South Ossetian boundary. perception. Drawing on recent scholarship into the role of boundaries This boundary is one that remains largely unrecognized, as the claims in influencing identity narratives, perceptions of the erection of border of the Georgian state to sovereignty over South Ossetia are accepted by posts around disputed territories will be evaluated using anecdotal the majority of the international community. The crucial exception to evidence of threat perception gained through interviews with this is of course Russia, under whose aegis this process of borderization representatives from government, civil society and international is occurring. The result is the creation of a physical barrier around the organisations. By soliciting input from local stakeholders from all sides territory of South Ossetia, one that seeks to materialize what was of the boundary lines, this paper highlights the wide variety of previously an administrative fiction on the ground, halting the competing interpretations of the borderisation process, stemming in movement of people and goods across this border and dividing people part from the divergence in opinion over the perpetrators and victims of from their livelihoods. It shall consider what meaning this fencing has the 2008 conflict. within the context of Georgia’s borders, and reflect upon the larger ! lessons that can be drawn for the concept of sovereignty and the status Vietnam’s Response to China on the East Sea Islands of borders in the contemporary world. Sovereignty Dispute: Incompetence or Compromise? ! - Truong Khac Nguyen Minh, Kyungpook National University, ‘Fence post diplomacy: the role of ‘borderisation’ in perpetuating South Korea the perceived threat of territorial conflict in Georgia’ Territorial dispute has always been a top issue of Sino-Vietnamese - Emily Knowles, University of Edinburgh, UK relations. Even though Vietnam has always affirmed his sovereignty State borders have long been accepted as a functional requirement of over the Paracel and Spratly archipelagoes with justifiable historical sovereignty. But what happens when these borders are disputed, hostile, and legal evidence in accordance with international law; China, in or fluid? The process of erecting boundary fences around the disputed practice, has been the one occupying the whole of the Paracel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia has resumed with archipelago since 1974, and 7 islands of the Spratly archipelago. The gusto after a brief pause during the Sochi Winter Olympics. This paper complexity of the Sino-Vietnamese relation and its unexplainable proposes three main functions for this process of borderisation, each of events in period 1945 – 1992 question the response of Vietnam’s which has the potential to perpetuate a sense of insecurity and threat of government on the sovereignty of these two archipelagoes. To answer an impending resumption of hostilities among Georgian stakeholders. this question, this paper looks back on Sino-Vietnamese relations from The first of these is the discursive construction of disputed borders that the end of the Second World War until now, and more specifically the transforms them into perceived barriers to the sovereignty and future events and documents related to their conflict over the Paracel and viability of the Georgian state. The second is the securitisation of these Spratly’s sovereignty. The paper presents and proves the hypothesis borders following the trauma of the 2008 war that fixed these territories that the Vietnamese government did not respond necessarily to protect into their current state of legal limbo. The third is the practical function the sovereignty of these islands unless it was a political recognition of China’s sovereignty over these islands.

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After reviewing the eight submissions for the 2014 Estefania Castañeda Pérez, San Diego State University Association for Borderlands Studies graduate student “Post-9/11 Border Militarization and its Effect on Daily paper awards, the ABS Student Awards Committee Cross-Border Commuters” recommends that Estefania Castañeda Perez’s paper The post-9/11 period greatly expanded enforcement measures against “Post-9/11 Trans-Border Dynamics: Challenges and unauthorized flows at the San Diego-Tijuana border since such borders Opportunities for Cross-Border Commuters” be awarded came to be considered potential gateways for threats to U.S. national ABS’s 2014 Best Graduate Student Paper. Castañeda security. While there is plenty of research on border enforcement and its examines the “perceived mistreatment and power abuse effects on migrants who attempt to cross without authorization, many which is brought by inspections and profiling measures analysts fail to address the significance of post-9/11 border that occur at the San Ysidro pedestrian Port of Entry.” She militarization and how ‘smart borders’ policies affect the experience of daily commuters and border communities. What are the experiences of contends that while “the term ‘border’ has become those who cross daily in terms of stress, health impacts, inhumane synonymous with ‘homeland security,’ people seem to treatment from border agents, and rights violations? I am answering have forgotten that not too long ago, we thought of the these questions by conducting short surveys with cross-border U.S.-Mexico border as a fenceless ‘boundary’ rather than a commuters and also through qualitative interviews in hopes of gaining fenced and highly enforced ‘border.’” a more personal view on how their lives have been affected by the enforcement measures at the border. Bringing in the perspective of ! cross-border commuters will offer a new, local lens through which to Maria Alessandra Woolson’s paper “Transforming the examine the politics of border control. Border, Transforming the Migrant: Biometrics and the ! Ubiquitous Borderization of a Public’s Imagination,” is Maria Alessandra Woolson, University of Arizona recommended for the 2014 Runner-up Award. Woolson “Transforming the Border, Transforming the Migrant. The argues that the U.S.-Mexico border “has been Impacts of Biometrics and the Ubiquitous Borderization reconceptualized from a porous boundary meant to enable of a Nation’s Imagination” free trade to an abstract invulnerable confine, secure at all times, that is produced through advanced technologies The US-Mexican Border exists in time and space, but has been continually negotiated and recreated through the imagery of cultural, under the post 9-11 risk management strategies.” political and rhetorical constructions. The spatial dimension of this ! border has materially expanded through the implementation of While the focus of both papers is contemporary, the issues checkpoints and other surveillance strategies. At a more subjective are timeless; and while the geographical locations are level, its post September 11 re-creation extends as an abstraction into similar, the narratives reflect myriad concerns within and the virtual dimension, where the border is perceived to be more among so many other borderlands. Given the complexities immediate to the entire nation and secure at all times. US frontiers are transforming from geopolitical boundaries to virtual proliferating of borderlands studies, the papers vividly illustrate the biometric borders of promised invulnerability under zero-risk need for continued support of graduate research, which management approach. ABS hopes to continue. Finally, we highly encourage all of I explore the impact of this reconceptualization on citizenship and the graduate student participants to consider their work diversity, which combined with a centralized State power obfuscate the for future publication in the Journal of Borderlands border region as ‘place’ that is home to millions of people. I argue that Studies. increased securitization continues to support market led interests, while ! failing to address the border problems it promises to resolve. In Congratulations to ABS student members, and a special examining the theorizing of bodies as a political materialization of security under narratives of ubiquity of risk I see how the potential congratulations to Estefania Castañeda Perez and Maria violence of these practices, including the embodiment of invasive Alessandra Woolson. practices supported by language of undisputed power, reinforce ! preexisting symbolic asymmetries rather than opportunities for !- Dr. T. Mark Montoya, ABS Board Member ! strengthening trans-boundary cooperation

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1st World Conference Post-Cold War Borders Global Trends and Regional Responses

Joensuu, Finland – St. Petersburg, Russia June 9–13, 2014

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Thank you all for making the ﬁrst ABS World Conference a great success!!! Not only did the ABS World Conference convene the largest and most representative gathering of borderJoensuu, specialists Finland from – around St. Petersburg, the globe, Russia but it also established a benchmark for the development andJune integration 9–13, 2014 of border studies. With the World conference, border studies have achieved a new level of expression and interaction. The challenge now is to take border studies to greater heights of understanding, knowledge and policy impact. Thank you, to all of you, for making it happen!

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Association of Borderland Studies 1st World Conference ! Joensuu, Finland – St. Petersburg, Russia ! Report by Jussi Laine

The ABS’ first ever World Conference was held on June 9-13 in ! Joensuu, Finland and changing the nature St. Petersburg, Russia. The event was hosted by the VERA of borders while, at the same time, there Centre for Russian and Border Studies at the University obviously are different regional responses and of Eastern Finland in co-operation with the Centre for counter tendencies to these trends that we need to Independent Social Research and the European University acknowledge in our work. While the Association was initially formed in 1976 by The ABS World Conference offered a weeklong programme scholars focussed on the United States-Mexico bringing together an interdisciplinary cohort of not just borderlands, in 2012 it was decided that it had become academics, but also representatives of government necessary to renew some of the traditional logistical and agencies, other public bodies and NGOs from the organisational practices in order to better accommodate the Americas, Asia, Africa, Australasia and Europe. While the ever more international and diverse membership base. official conference programme did not commence until the Rather than merely initiating yet another competing border Monday morning, a number of pre-conference events took conference series among dozens of established and high place during the preceding weekend. In the afternoon of 7 profile events, the goal was to provide a gathering not tied June, after the closure of the Association of European to one specific location, which would bring together Border Regions (AEBR) Executive Committee meeting, a various scholarly networks and the wider border studies video-conference took place with CBC promoters in other community. continents to commemorate an “African Borders Day” and in order to support a proposal to declare that very day as The basic premise of the first ABS World Conference was the International Day of Integration across National that, while all borders throughout the world are prone to Boundaries. Participants from South and Central America, the same global phenomena, there are various context- Africa, the EU and the Russian-Ukrainian border regions specific responses to these trends. All borders are unique. connected with Joensuu via video-conferencing, where a Talking about borders in a general fashion thus obscures number of AEBR and ABS representatives also had the more than it illuminates. As attested, for example, by chance to participate. The video-conference was monitored recent developments in Ukraine, the issue of borders, their by the AEBR Secretary General, Martin Guillermo- functions and changing significance and symbolism Ramirez, and streamed from the premises of the Regional presently loom larger than at any time since the end of the Council of North Karelia. Dr. Jussi Laine delivered a Cold War. The commonplace discussions of global de- statement and greetings on behalf of the ABS and the bordering, supported by optimistic notions of globalisation upcoming World Conference organisers during the video- and a new post-Cold War world order, have succumbed to conference. The participants of the video-conference the reality of an increasing complexity and instability in the decided to send a letter to heads of states requesting world system. We can recognise global megatrends that are

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support for the initiative to propose the establishment of 7 Another highlight of the first day was the concluding June as the International Day of Integration across National special plenary, in which Prof. Anssi Paasi (University of Boundaries to the General Assembly of the United Nations. Oulu) and Prof. David Newman (Ben-Gurion University of The participants considered the relevance of this initiative the Negev) revisited their frequently-cited 1998 paper as not only symbolic, but also as highlighting two “Boundaries and Fences in a Postmodern World” significant factors. On the one hand, it is about the published in Progress in Human Geography. Since then, the promotion of peace and understanding between paper has become a seminal article in the emergence and neighbouring communities on both sides of national renaissance of border studies, perhaps largely because its boundaries, but also it is about an African initiative to then-revolutionary focus on the need to infuse the study of become global. borders with new meanings in light of the globalisation debate, drawing on social and political theory well beyond The co-operation between ABS and AEBR continued the the traditional geographical and political science focus on following day, when a joint pre-conference Roundtable the topic. After the plenary session, Prof. Newman was Meeting “Co-operation between research community and presented with an award, marking his retirement from regional actors in CBC” was organised. A number of editing the journal Geopolitics after fifteen years, by his representatives from the Canadian-led “Borders in successor Dr. Virginie Mamadouh (University of Globalisation” (BIG) project also took part in the event. The Amsterdam). Along with keynote presentations from the roundtable, moderated by the ABS past-president Prof. distinguished border scholars Prof. Alexander Filippov Victor Konrad of Carleton University in Ottawa, collected (Higher School of Economics/Russian Academy of 40-plus participants from the AEBR Executive Committee, Sciences) and Prof. Anssi Paasi, the organisers invited representatives from the BIG project, local stakeholders, as presentations from acknowledged leaders in their fields, well as other participants of the ABS conference. It aimed including Prof. Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Université to bring together stakeholders from different sectors of Joseph Fourier) and Prof. Paul Nugent (University of society to ponder, among other things, how high-level Edinburgh). All the featured presentations pointed towards academic research on borders and cross-border co- a bright future for border studies in different and exciting operation can be translated into practice for the benefit of new ways. the broader community, and which kinds of methods and networks can be used to support common interests. The The main substance of the conference was, of course, its event concluded with a lively discussion and joint lunch parallel sessions – 111 in total. They were filled with and offered networking opportunities. presentations ranging from fascinating case studies to those more theoretically and methodological inclined. The The official kick-off of the World Conference took place on same globalisation that has driven the expansion of the Monday, 9 June 2014. A conscious effort was made both to association’s geographical membership and concerns was appeal to the Association’s past, while looking towards a also visible in the decision to cross the border during the more expansive future in its plenary sessions. Speakers conference. Given the ABS’s devotion to a greater represented a marvellous cross-section of the potential of understanding of borders through multidisciplinary this gathering for the future. The opening ceremony approaches and perspectives from all border contexts consisted of the inaugural address, as well as welcoming worldwide, the themes of the sessions provided a far- words, by the organisers, the Rector of the University of reaching cross-section of today’s border studies. The still Eastern Finland, member of the European Parliament Dr. ongoing tug-of-war between Russia and Ukraine only Tarja Cronberg, and, last but certainly not least, the underlined the importance and significance of what the President of the Association for Borderlands Studies, Dr. conference sought to achieve, by bringing the reality home Martin van der to everyone of the importance of further work on the Velde (Radboud borders that exist between us and how they are functioning University today, in a world criss-crossed by markers and means of Nijmegen). It was inclusion and exclusion. However, the conflict caused a followed by the number of practical, last minute, complications. As a first of the keynote number of participants could not – or chose not to – get a presentations Russian visa, several panels originally scheduled to be held delivered by Prof. in Russia had to be rescheduled to the first two days of the Oscar J. Martinez conference organised in Finland. This naturally meant that (University of the number of simultaneous parallel sessions was higher A r i z o n a ) , than planned, but fortunately the unexpectedly high p r o d u c e r o f attendance guaranteed sufficient listeners in all of the ground-breaking work on the US-Mexico borderlands as rooms. On the Russian side of the border, the sessions had well as a founding member and a former president of ABS, to compete in popularity with the World Cup in Brazil, who embodied the Association’s connections with its own which happened to kick-off on the very same day that the past. ABS conference arrived in St. Petersburg.

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Despite the large screens conveniently placed in every ever more international membership, is becoming truly a corner of the bar at conference hotel, there was no doubt global association. I take this also as a testament to the that the sessions came out on top. success of our original vision to provide a broader forum for border dialogue, expanding the traditional The excitement and enthusiasm provided by the sessions geographical and disciplinary borders of the association on offer during the four days of the conference were itself, fostering a global reach by encouraging participation matched by the accompanying social events. These from all corners of the world, and strengthening the overall included a delightful reception generously hosted by profile of border studies internationally by pushing Mayor of Joensuu in the city’s Art Museum. During the forward 21st century scholarship on borders and reception, the three winners of the Student Paper Award borderlands. were also announced. Another experience to remember was certainly the bus ride between the two venues taking In addition to individual participants, our aim was to bring six busloads of excited participants on a mind-opening – together other relevant border studies networks to discuss though long – journey through the divided region of issues of common concern. On behalf of the organisers, I Karelia from Joensuu, through Eastern Finland, to the wish to thank one more time in particular ABORNE – the Russian metropolis of St. Petersburg. Stops were made first African Borderlands Research Network, the Association of on the Finnish side in the city of Imatra and then in the European Border Regions, the Finnish Association for historic city Vyborg, which Finland ceded to the Soviet Russian and East European Studies, and the Federation of Union in 1944 as a result of World War II. Getting a sizeable Finnish Learned Societies for their financial and scientific and highly international group of scholars across the contributions to the conference. I am especially thankful to strictly-controlled border in an organised and timely our colleagues from ABORNE, the co-operation with fashion was, of course, the pinnacle of the event and whom resulted in allowing African border experiences to caused a lot of stress and apprehension during the months be better represented than is frequently the case at these events. In addition to the ABORNE chairman Prof. Nugent’s keynote address, ABORNE and the African Union Border Programme (AUBP) held a joint book launch of several recent publications during the conference, and organised seven Africa-themed panels and roundtables as part of the overall conference programme. While the ABS World Conference can be understood as a practical manifestation of the association’s recent vision that seeks expansion and internationalisation, it was clear from the very outset that both the ABS and this very conference needs to continue to retain simultaneously its original emphasis on the study of the United States-Mexico borderlands region as one of its key focal areas. We were honoured to have three of the original-founding members of ABS (Martinez, Ganster and Kruszewski), as well as a very representative line-up of its other former presidents. It must be acknowledged that without their hard efforts, leading up to the conference, especially given the extensive knowledge and passion, we would not be as an contemporary geopolitical climate. The vigorous association where we are now. preparatory work paid off and the six buses crossed the Overall, the first ABS World Conference did not only border with relative ease, but not completely without convene the largest and most representative gathering of problems. Regrettably, the impact of contemporary border specialists from around the globe, but also this first political tensions was felt most tangibly by a Ukrainian international conference of its kind established a participant, who ultimately was refused entry into Russia. benchmark for the development and integration of border I take great pride in saying that the first World Conference studies. We believe that with the World Conference, border received 537 proposals from 64 different countries. Due to studies have achieved a new level of expression and logistical, financial, as well as geopolitical, reasons, the interaction. The challenge now is to take border studies to actual numbers certainly came down from these heights a greater heights of understanding, knowledge and policy bit, but none-the-less 423 participants from 53 countries impact. I hope to see you in four years’ time at the next attended the conference – far more than the 250 ABS World Conference! participants that organisers had anticipated. To me these numbers indicate that there is a strong demand for this kind of global gathering and that the ABS, supported by its

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The Executive Ofﬁcers and the Board of the Association for Borderlands Studies invite interested institutions to submit proposals to organize the next ABS World Conference scheduled for 2018 ! The deadline for submiing a statement of interest: April 4, 2015 The deadline for submiing a full proposal: September 30, 2015

The ABS membership has grown year after year and, association as a whole, is open to policymakers, above all, it has become increasingly more international. diplomats, law enforcement agencies, non-state actors, Today, more than half of the ABS membership lives artists, and many others interested in the study of outside of the United States, the birthplace of the borders. association. As the ABS grows to meet the challenge of Within the ABS, the debate has focused on ways to accommodating its ever more international and diverse identify and tap into growth opportunities for the ABS to membership, it has become necessary to renew some of take the lead and to maintain its position as the premier the traditional logistical and organizational practices in global organization in the field of border studies. It has order to match the new circumstances. been concluded that what we needed was cooperation, The Association for Borderlands Studies aims to provide not competition, with other relevant border studies important linkages among scholars around the globe. networks. We wish to foster greater linkages and more The ABS World Conference is a practical example of intensive dialogue between various networks and working towards this goal. Having a broader conference organizations focusing on border issues, and would like not tied to any specific country or continent is expected to see the ABS play a key role in facilitating this to bring new possibilities to those living outside the dialogue. United States, where the ABS Annual Meetings are held. As a practical manifestation of this pursuit, the initiative While these meetings, held in conjunction with the to launch ABS world conferences every fourth year was Western Social Science Association’s annual conference, accepted at the 2012 ABS annual meeting in Houston. It will remain as the main gathering of the association, a was here, where the University of Eastern Finland broader forum for global border dialogue circulating in offered to take charge of organizing the first ever ABS various locations all around the world is very much World Conference in Joensuu, Finland, and St. needed. Petersburg, Russia, in the summer of 2014. This forum will broaden both the traditional The ABS World Conference does not aim to initiate geographical and disciplinary borders of the association another competing border conference series among itself, and the forum will foster the ABS global reach by dozens of established and high profile events. On the encouraging participation from all corners of the world. contrary, the idea is that by offering a forum for a regular The forum will advance twenty-first century scholarship global gathering of border scholars, ABS World helps on borders and borderlands. The ABS World Conference structure the field and facilitate the development of more aims to bring together various border studies networks thematically and/or geographically specific meetings and to discuss issues of common concern. The ABS World conferences and, in this way, strengthen the overall Conference also welcomes colleagues outside the profile of border studies internationally. academic world: the world conference, as well as the Turn page

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THE FULL PROPOSAL DOCUMENT MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS: MOTIVATION o Prospective organizer may describe freely the motivation to organize the next ABS World Conference. o Organizers should commit to the ABS vision outlined above. LOCATION o All geographical locations will be considered. Locations, where any type of a border crossing experience can be included in the program, are favored. o Ideally, the location of the ABS World Conference should alternate between different continents, but the Board sees this as one of many desirable aspects of a bid rather than a strict rule. The location needs to be sufficiently well accessible as to allow broad participation and relative inexpensive travel. Should the proposed location not be in the vicinity of an airport, the organizers are expected to organize transportation to the actual venue. DATES, FACILITIES AND LOCAL CONTEXT o Dates for the conference are not pre-set. The date should not conflict with other important meetings, major holidays, etc. Organizers must agree to reserve/organize an adequate number of meeting rooms for conference activities that can accommodate a large enough number of people (430 in 2014), that include rooms for diverse activities (panels, plenaries, roundtables, posters, etc.), and that have good transportation links to the housing solutions proposed. Proposals should include a description of the local context (town specificities, typical climate in target dates, closest international airport, typical international travel costs, local transportation, etc.). ORGANIZING INSTITUTION(S) AND PROPOSAL COMMITTEE o The organizing commiee should propose at least: • one general conference chair • one general scientific (program) chair • an indicative list of members for the program commiee • at least four members of the previous ABS World organizing and scientific commiees to provide advice and continuity o To facilitate communication with the ABS, also at least some of the ABS Officers and/or the Board members must be included in the organizing and scientific commiees. The proposal does not have to nominate the ABS members in question; these may be appointed as appropriate in consultation with the organizers. HOUSING ASPECTS o In their proposal to host the next ABS World Conference, interested institutions must agree to either reserve a large number of rooms, or provide evidence that a large number of rooms will be available to participants in a suitable venue (hotel or other) and at a reasonable rate. A TIMELINE OF THE ORGANIZATION o An indicative timeline should be provided, covering the whole period between the date of proposal to target dates of the conference, and including milestones such as dates for: • Communication schedule with ABS Officers and the Board • Establishment of conference web site • Schedule of calls for papers, sessions, etc. • Submission deadlines • All important steps of the reviewing workflow • Registrations (early, late), etc. BUDGET o The organizers bear the main financial responsibility of the ABS World Conference and manage its budget. o ABS will allocate a modest amount in support of the event. o The conference is intended to be accessible and affordable both to organizers (in terms of organization complexity and financial burden) and to participants. ABS membership must be made available during the registration process, the gains from which must be transferred to the ABS after the conference. o Proposals should also include estimates of registration fees (early, late, student) and a sponsorship plan.

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o Although the objective is for the organizers to reach financial break-even, post-conference financial balance may show a small loss or profit. In the case of a profit, the organizers will transfer at least 20% of it to the ABS, in addition to the amount corresponding to the membership fees (see above). o Proposals should describe how student participation will be encouraged (e.g. by means of travel grants, affordable housing, low registration fees). WEBSITE AND PROMOTIONAL ASPECTS o The Conference website may be build under the organizing institutions already existing website or a completely new URL can be created for this purpose. In either case, the site must be linked to the ABS website (hp:// absborderlands.org/). Website hosting, content edition and management is the responsibility of the organizers. o A detailed, informative conference booklet must be prepared and made available to the participants in good time before the conference. o The ABS logo should be displayed prominently on the conference web site, proceedings, program booklets, and any other ABS World Conference-related document. o The ABS secretariat will assist in promotional aspects of the Conference. ACTIVITIES AND TOPICS o Proposals should include an indicative list of scheduled activities (subject to change) and an indicative theme. Theme should be broad enough as to allow maximum participation and not limited to any certain discipline, narrow topic, or a geographical seing. o The conference program should include between 3 to 5 keynote or invited speakers. Finding an appropriate and relevant keynote speaker often takes a long time, so it should be started early. Conference organizers must cover the travel and housing expenses of the keynote and invited speakers, and provide complimentary conference registrations. If an honorarium is paid (which has not been the norm at ABS), it should be symbolic, to avoid increasing the registration fees. PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS-RELATED ASPECTS o As one of the main goals of the ABS World Conference is to bring maximum number of interested scholars, students, practitioners and other stakeholder together, submiing full-length papers should not be made compulsory, thought it may certainly be highly encouraged. o Submied abstracts and papers must be made accessible and linked on the conference website, on the latest 10 days before the conference. o Printed copies may be provided as an option to participants, but are no longer compulsory as electronic proceedings are supplied. o Organizers must agree that for each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference, and that papers with no registered author on the author registration deadline will be removed from the conference program and will not appear in the proceedings nor on the conference website. o Organizers must agree to provide, at the latest 2 months after the end of the conference, a free form final conference report to the ABS Executive Secretary. Proposals should also include a leer of support signed by the President of the hosting institution(s), expressing the appropriate commitments and a plan of action to fulfill these duties. Both the statement of interests (deadline April 4, 2015) and the full proposals (deadline September 15, 2015) should be submied in a single PDF file with all supporting documents via email to Dr. Jussi Laine, Executive Secretary of the Association for Borderlands Studies at absexec@uef.fi All the statements of interest received by the deadline will be assessed during the ABS Board Meeting on April 9, 2015. Questions? Contact the Executive Secretariat | e-mail: absexec@uef.fi

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ABS Annual Meetings are held in conjunction with the

Western Social Science Association’s

Annual Conference. Paper or Panel Proposals Due to Section Coordinators by December 1, 2014. For more information, see the WSSA Website (www.wssaweb.com). For the ABS Call for Papers, see pages 3-4 in this newsletter! Please remember to pay your annual ABS membership fee and your WSSA conference registration in order to attend the ABS session at the conference.

WSSA warmly welcomes particularly Travel Grants will be recognized in the Conference Program and at an appropriate WSSA function. students from ABS to participate in the For students who are traveling more than 250 miles to following competitions and to apply for the Annual Conference site. WSSA will make grant of the available grants & awards! $500 each toward defraying the awardees' travel Click here for the Paper Submission Form expenses. Grantees must participate (by way of either Poster Competition Student Paper Competition presenting a paper or a poster, or by serving as a The winners of the best graduate and undergraduate member of a panel) in the Conference program. The The poster competition occurs on Fiday Morning of the paper awards each receive a certificate and a cash prize student will complete an application letter to the Vice Conference at the buffet breakfast. The competition is of $500 and free registration at the conference. President, that confirms his or her participation in the open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The Registration confers WSSA membership for one year, upcoming Conference and the need for the amount of students are expected to attend the conference and be including a subscription to the Social Science Journal. the grant to defray travel expenses. Recipients for available at the breakfast to answer questions about Congratulatory letters from the WSSA President-Elect grants will be selected by a Grants & Awards their poster. WSSA will provide the means by which will be sent to the students' department chairs, deans, Committee that will be constituted and chaired by the the posters can be displayed, including the boards and provosts and other administrators at the students' Vice-President of WSSA. Up to ten (10) awards may be means of display. The posters must be displayed on no home institutions. Those who come to the WSSA made by this Committee. The list of grantees will be more than two standard size poster boards (22 X 28). conference to present their work will receive up to two forwarded to the WSSA Communications Director by The posters should depict recent student research and/ nights' hotel accommodation. Authors of excellent March 1st of the Conference year. Grantees will be or student class projects. Poster proposals must be papers that are not chosen for the award are eligible to recognized at an appropriate WSSA function during submitted to Theodore Ransaw at [email protected] receive a certificate of honorable mention and a the Conference. Checks for the grant amount will be no later than December 1, 2014. The winner will congratulatory letter. Winners' papers will be issued by the WSSA Communications Director receive a $250.00 cash award and free registration at considered for publication in the Journal and may be following participation by grantees in the Conference. the 2016 conference. presented on an appropriate panel at the conference. Click here to email The Vice President For further information, see the Call for Student Click here for the Poster Submission Form Papers. To register online, click here Click here to to download the Call for Student John Wicks Dissertation Paper Award Papers application Looking forward to seeing you in Portland, For the author of a selected paper to be presented at the Annual Conference, which is based on a dissertation Local Participation Grants either in progress or completed before January 15 of the Larry A. Gould, Ph.D. For local area students who are traveling less than 250 Conference year. WSSA will provide a stipend of Executive Director $1,000. The awardee must participate by way of miles to the Annual Conference site. WSSA will Western Social Science Association. provide free Conference registration (which includes a presenting the dissertation-based paper in the non-subscription WSSA membership and a ticket to the Conference program. To be considered for this award a, President's Luncheon). Grantees must participate (by a candidate must complete an application letter that way of either presenting a paper or a poster, or by confirms his or her participation in the upcoming serving as a member of a panel) in the Conference Conference and provide an endorsement from this or program Any authorized Dean of a higher education her dissertation advisor or chair which verifies that the institution within the designated local area may certify paper is based on a dissertation. The application letter up to five students from his or her institution to receive and endorsement can be attached to the form Local Links these awards. The list of certified students must be submission below. The winner will be selected by a forwarded to the WSSA Communications Director, Grants & Awards Committee that will be constituted • Travel Portland Kate Herke, by March 1st of the Conference year. and chaired by the Vice-President of WSSA. The winner's name will be forwarded to the WSSA • City of Portland Click here to email Kate Herke Communications Director by March 1st of the • Things To Do in Portland Conference year. If selected as a Wicks Award winner, • Portland Weather the awardee agrees to forego any other WSSA award that Conference year. The winner of the Wicks Award

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— William F.S. Miles

OP-ED Originally published in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage

Does the triumph of the For while many trees have been majority of post-colonies have the Islamic State Islamic State in Syria and felled to decry in print the perpetuated in some form the notwithstanding. When it comes Iraq herald the undoing of continuing injustice of the institutions, languages, and to territorial sovereignty and colonial-era boundaries colonial split up of ethnic even mentalities of their national identity, radical, elsewhere in the Middle East groups, on the ground, in erstwhile colonizers. Neither extremist Islamism is no match and Third World? Are other borderlands throughout the elites nor borderlanders pine to for the legacies of colonialism. graves turning than those developing world, the inheritors return to the early 19th century marked “Here Lies Sir Mark of today’s borders have adapted map. Even in the name of ethnic So how to interpret the Sykes andCi-gît François quite nicely to the opportunities or religious irredentism, as a purported re-caliphization of Georges Picot” – those of afforded by border economies. rule border dissolution is Iraq and Syria? The Sykes-Picot their partners in partition? It More importantly, so have their inherently disruptive. agreement stipulated the should not be overlooked: rulers, who have vested interests respective spheres of interest that Nearly 40 percent of the in preserving the legitimacy and Even one of the most failed states Britain and France would entire length of today’s sovereignty of their post-colonial on earth – the so-called exercise in this portion of the international boundaries borders and domains. For all the “Democratic” Republic of the colonial world. But unlike in were traced by France and Islamic State’s declarations of a Congo, or DRC – has survived Sub-Saharan Africa, Indochina Britain. The division of this new caliphate, even Islamist despite itself. Many Africa- (Burma-Laos) and their part of “the Levant” into a radical groups generally eschew watchers attribute the continuity respective islands in the West French-dominated Syria and colonial boundary nullification. of this gargantuan hodge-podge Indies and South Pacific, the a British-controlled Iraq – of a post-colonial state to the French and British did not set Take the case of Boko Haram, the strong-armed tactics (greased by out to remake the Arab societies and, for that matter, between le Liban and (British) murderous terrorist group state-sanctioned kleptocracy) of of the Middle East in their own Palestine – was but a small operating in the predominantly Mobutu Sese Seko, when the images – certainly not to the part of the larger parceling of northern region of Nigeria. Not country was known as Zaire. same extent. Temporary or long the colonial world into even Boko Haram, for all its But even after Mobutu’s forced lasting, the recent disintegration Anglophone and Francophone bombings, murders, and abdication and the assassination of the Sykes-Picot line (which imperial spheres. Were the schoolgirl kidnappings, aims to of his successor Laurent Kabila – has been debated previously on logic of pre-colonial fuse Anglophone Nigeria with and despite continuing bloody the Monkey Cage by Ariel reunification to spread, for its Francophone neighbor Niger reverberations from the 1994 Ahram and Gregory Gause) that reasons fundamentalist and (which has an even higher genocide in nearby Rwanda – initially differentiated Iraq from not, cartographers and atlas percentage of Muslims). Al- the DRC manages to hang Syria is an aberration. Indeed, designers would be looking Shabab (of formerly British together. With or without the Islamic State’s “competitors” ahead to a busy time of map Somaliland) leaves Djibouti strongman Bashar al-Assad, in the jihadist and Salafist redrawing, indeed. (formerly French Somaliland) Syria, too (like the former leagues generally exploit alone. A century since the Belgian Congo, with or without existing state boundaries rather But I wouldn’t buy stock in original ethnic sin of British- a Mobutu), will emerge than subvert them. Such was the world map publishing just yet. French empire carving, the vast sovereign from its current crisis, case with al-Qaeda in the Islamic

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Maghreb (AQIM), which started borders in place. For one, collectivities and as individuals, While some jihadists and diehard out (as the Armed Islamic politicians, both national and we all yearn to be secure within anti-colonialists would (albeit Group) in the early 1990s local, have a vested interest in the boundaries that define our for different reasons) celebrate strictly in opposition to the maintaining the territorial sense of nationhood. Shake up the Islamic State’s purported regime in Algiers, until the status quo. Attributions of office, those demarcators of identity liquidation of this particular Algerian military pushed it out and their related resource- and you disturb the sense of who Anglo-French demarcation, of its sovereign territory into the extracting powers, which adhere we are, where we belong. It is partitioned borderlanders Sahara of neighboring Mali. to century-old spatial and precisely those people who are elsewhere will neither jubilate Additionally, the Muslim administrative delimitations, are deprived of a nation-state who nor emulate. For all of the Brotherhood, despite similarly predictable and lucrative. have a legitimate stake in the injustice it represents, the world named organizations in various Second, the inhabitants of the redrawing of state boundaries; in map drawn by the colonial countries, has really confined its borderland themselves, even if of the case of Iraq and Syria, it is superpowers of yesteryear is activities and objectives to the same ethnicity and split into the Kurds – not the Islamic State basically still the one we inhabit Egypt. Even the terminological separate national states, have militants – who have the today. Even as we are bound to equivalent to the Islamic State in contrived cross-border trade strongest claim to undo colonial- understand why it looks the Iraq and Syria – al-Qaeda in activities that exploit the imposed borders. And the Kurds strange way it does, we’ve still Afghanistan and Pakistan – boundaries more than the certainly don’t wish got to make the best of it. strives to achieve tactical gains boundaries disturb them. Call it to merge (formerly-British) Iraq and political leverage in each of informal economy or smuggling, and (formerly-French) Syria **** those countries, rather than borderlanders know how to through a disintegration of their William F.S. Miles is a actually trying to merge them subvert borders. respective frontiers. If borders professor of political science at into one. Even in the world of are to be tinkered with, the But the most powerful Northeastern University in Islamist extremism, in terms of Kurds will demand more borders Boston and the author of “Scars boundary nullification the mechanism for boundary to define a new Kurdistan, not continuity is the post- of Partition: Postcolonial Islamic State is an outlier. fewer ones to combine Iraq and Legacies in French and British Enlightenment (including post- Syria, as per the Islamic State. There are multiple mechanisms colonial), universal appeal of Borderlands” (University of holding inherited colonial national identity. As Nebraska Press, 2014).

Call for Papers : First Annual Symposium and Art Exhibition - The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow January 29-31, 2015 hp://www.tamusa.tamus.edu/borderlandsconference/

Texas A&M University-San Antonio and Texas A&M University-Kingsville will co-sponsor the ﬁrst annual symposium on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in San Antonio, Texas on January 29-31, 2015. This international region has long historical, sociocultural, economic and political roots that continue to shape not only the current and the future relations between the two countries but also the global economy of the Americas. The theme of this ﬁrst annual symposium incorporates all academic and professional research areas including history, literature, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, geography, criminology, education, business administration, agricultural arid-lands and engineering.

The symposium will include four plenary sessions on U.S.-Mexico immigration, water-air-land environmental issues, borderlands economic development and the press on the border. Invited symposium speakers and panel moderators include: U.S. HUD Secretary, Mr. Julian Castro, former HUD Secretary and Mayor of San Antonio, Mr. Henry Cisneros, Chairman of the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality, Dr. Bryan W. Shaw, and Vice-President and General Manager of UNIVISION in San Antonio, Mr. Jeﬀ Zimmerman. The symposium is in support of a Borderlands Art Exhibition featuring the work of two iconic artists from the Texas-Mexico borderlands: Santa Barraza of Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Carmen Lomas Garza from San Francisco, California. An opening reception for the symposium and art exhibition will be held at the Texas A&M-San Antonio's Educational and Cultural Arts Center located at Market Square, 101 S. Santa Rosa. Transportation to the opening reception is included in the cost of registration. If you wish to organize a special workshop, other presentation or have any questions regarding the program, please contact Dr. Rosario Torres Raines, Program Organizer at [email protected], (210) 784-2204. She is located at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, Main Campus, Central Academic Building Suite 351I, One University Way, San Antonio, TX 78224. Please view the Borderlands Symposium Artists’ Websites at: latinopia.com/latino-art/santa-barraza and at www.carmenlomasgarza.com. The deadline for submission of papers, abstracts, or other program materials is January 12, 2015.

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Of Interest...

New Arizona research program including COLSON, UNISON, CIAD, and The articles will also contain bibliographical focuses on transborder UAS, to facilitate binational studies, academic elements, which will allow for the curious exchanges, and transborder dialogues on reader to acquire more knowledge on the communities critical regional topics that include economic subject. The critical dictionary will have a Innovative. Global. Socially embedded. These development, quality of life, environmental volume of approximately 500 pages and will be are the keywords that describe a new research issues, and cross-border cooperation. organized by means of key words classified in program at Arizona State University’s School PTC is a long term ASU initiative to expand alphabetical order. The two parts (theoretical of Transborder Studies. The Program for the contribution of the university to the and geographical) will not be separated, but for Transborder Communities (PTC) was launched production of theoretical and practical each of them, a specific approach has been put in fall 2014 with the aim of advancing knowledge about borders and transborder into place: For the conceptual (theoretical) innovative, integrative, and socially embedded communities. part, a list of words has been drawn and the authors are supposed to explain them research and education on borders, borderlands To learn more contact the Program Manager, according to a prior fixed scheme (explication and their communities. PTC is Elizabeth Cantú at [email protected] or visit of the term, connected terms, bibliographical interdisciplinary across all social sciences and https://sts.asu.edu/ptc humanities designed to challenge conventional references, etc.). The geographical part will views of the relations between nation states and consist of an article (2-3 pages) on each expand people’s understandings of borders. Member State of the European Union, (assorted with a map), which should present As part of the research core, PTC supports an analysis of the borders as a whole by collaborative research involving Arizona State distinguishing between the construction of the University (ASU) faculty through its national territory, the representations of the competitive research cluster and seed grant Project call: Critical dictionary on border and the general history of cross-border programs. During its first year, PTC is cross-border cooperation in Europe cooperation, including also a description of the supporting faculty who work on topics such as cross-border territories, with a link to each of The Transborder Euroinstitute Network cultural and linguistic adaptation of the sub-regions. The dictionary will be (TEIN) is launching a new ambitious project immigrant families, the presence and published in the Collection Euroclio of Peter on European border studies. The idea is to edit contributions of Latina/os in Hawai‘i, and Lang, in Brussels. digital mapping of the borderlands through an analytical dictionary on cross-border imagery and narratives of transborder cooperation in Europe similar to the Authors might submit proposals in English or communities. National and international dictionaries which have recently been in French for articles on theoretical terms or scholars collaborate with the research clusters published on the European Union. on cross-border territories in Europe. A list of the full call description with the list of words by participating in the PTC Fellows program. The dictionary will be composed of scientific and regions can be found at: PTC Fellows work closely with ASU faculty in articles written by specialists of cross-border www.transfrontier.eu under “News” the co-production of sustainable research cooperation and will consist of two distinctive opportunities involving agencies, foundations, parts : a first (theoretical) part dealing with the For further information please contact: and educators, both nationally and terminology and the tools of cross-border Birte Wassenberg, Professor of contemporary internationally. cooperation, which will answer some key history at the Institut d’Etudes politiques A community engagement core allows PTC questions such as : what is a region, a border, (IEP) at the Univesrity of Strasbourg : scholars to engage in community driven a European territorial cooperation grouping [email protected] projects that fill information needs and analysis etc.?; and a second (geographical) part, which gaps in areas relevant for the advancement of will represent a repertory of all European transborder communities in the US –Mexico border regions (of the EU and the Council of borderlands. In the fall 2014, PTC launched the Europe). Each region will be presented via its Arizona-Sonora-Sinaloa initiative (ASSI) with historical development, its governance partner universities and research centers in the structures and its geographical territory. Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa,

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Ed Williams Recognized with ABS “The Association for Borderlands Studies at the outcomes of research activities within the Lifetime Achievement Award Mid-point: Progress and Problems.” The EUBORDERSCAPES project with different presentation keyed the major shift occurring in local actors who are thinking, acting or In a Plenary Session at the 2014 ABS annual the ABS as it grows into a truly international inhabiting Zingonia and to gain significant meeting in Albuquerque, the Association scholarly organization, and it placed this shift insights through discussion. recognized Professor Edward J. Williams with into perspective by recollecting what the ABS The seminar is planned as a half-day event the Lifetime Achievement Award. Ed Williams was in its formative years. including two parts: in the first part, the is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics programme includes brief talks by ‘key actors’ and Latin American Studies, University of EU-Border Visiting Research who are thinking, acting or inhabiting Arizona. Zingonia; in the second part focus-group Fellowships activities are planned with actors invited to the The Borders in Globalization Project (BIG) and Seminar as privileged and experienced European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE), witnesses. in partnership with the University of Victoria's Centre for Global Studies, invite border experts North American In/Securities: A in Canada and abroad to apply for Visiting Fellowship appointments at the University of Local-Global Nexus Victoria for the Summer of 2015 (May - 1st CFP, Abstract Deadline April 30, 2015 August). The deadline for applying is Oct 1-2, 2015, University of Turku, Finland November 17, 2014. More information and the Call for Applications are available on our The John Morton Center for North American website. Studies invites proposals for previously BIG website: http://biglobalization.org unpublished papers for a two-day symposium, “North American In/Securities: A Local-Global Nexus,” to be held at the University of Turku Euborderscapes Dissemination on October 1-2, 2015. The symposium seeks to Seminar bring together scholars, activists, and artists to discuss 21st century security concerns in the November 28, 2014 | h 9:00-13:30 United States, Canada, and Mexico, and their University of Bergamo – Italy Professor Williams taught, researched, lectured global implications. We are particularly and wrote prodigiously on Mexican and Ce.R.Co. – Centro di Ricerca sulla Complessità interested in three tensions that characterize borderlands public policy and politics. He at the University of Bergamo organizes a contemporary security concerns: 1) national received his PhD from The Johns Hopkins Seminar on THINKING Ι ACTING Ι security vs. human security, 2) policy measures University. Williams served as a Rockefeller INHABITING ZINGONIA. Policies, vs. grassroots activism, and 3) scholarly Research Fellow, Fulbright-Hays Senior Practices, Experiences and Representations of a discourses vs. artistic interventions. lecturer at El Colegio de Mexico, German Borderscape between the Local and the Global Underscoring the multiple scales at which Marshall Fund Visiting Scholar in Berlin, within the EUBORDERSCAPES project.! security issues are explicated, experienced, and represented, the symposium points to their far- Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Viadrina The suburban area of Zingonia (Province of reaching geographic, political, socioeconomic, European University on the Polish-German Bergamo) is a case study for Bergamo research border, Visiting Research Scholar at the U.S. military, and cultural ramifications. activities in EUBORDERSCAPES Work Army War College, Program Scholar with the Package 5 “Post-colonial Bordering and Euro- Topics for presentations may include, among Smithsonian Institution, Visiting Scholar at African Borderscapes” the University of Tampere, Finland, and the others The aim of the seminar is to propose a American Graduate School and Study Abroad · border in/security Foucauldian “problematization” of Zingonia, Programs in Italy and Mexico. · contemporary urban uprisings by gathering together actors who are thinking, · criminal/terrorist insurgencies Ed Williams served as President and Executive acting or inhabiting Zingonia, depending on · drug wars in public space Director of the Association for Borderlands the case. Adopting the borderscape notion as a · trans/national drone wars Studies, with the national Advisory Board of key conceptual and methodological angle of · para/military strategies the NAFTA Labor Agreement, and as a board inquiry, the seminar is intended to explore the · grassroots activism member of the Arizona-Mexico Commission. area of Zingonia as a translocality between the · visual interventions He has also held many other positions in his local and the global, inhabiting by a community, and at state, national and multiplicity of cultures as well as a site where Please email abstracts of 250 words for 20- international levels. In all of these areas he has complex visible and hidden interactions minute presentations, together with a max. gained many distinctions. At the University of between external political-territorial borders 150-word bio, including name, institutional Arizona, Ed Williams has been honored as (that are related to the exercise of modern state affiliation and position, phone number, and “Outstanding Teacher” and “Outstanding sovereignty) and the production of boundaries email address to jmc@utu.fi. The deadline for Honors Faculty”, recognized for his as internal social categorizations (that are abstracts is April 30, 2015. Participants will “Distinguished Service to Minority Graduate related to politics of identity) can be critically receive notifications of acceptance by May 15, Students” and cited for “Distinguished investigated. 2015. For further information, please see http:// Academic Accomplishments”. The seminar is held in Italian in order to allow www.utu.fi/en/units/jmc/conferences/. Ed Williams shared his recollections and the team of the University of Bergamo to share appraisal of the ABS in a presentation titled

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1-6 March 2015! The mighty Brahmaputra river basin O r g a n i z e r s : connecting China, India, Bangladesh Association for Borderlands Studies ‘Living between the Rolling Hills and and Bhutan has nurtured civilizations & the High Himalayas: Understanding and communities have lived and Borders and Spaces in Northeast India’! moved along its flow for centuries. Border Studies Programme, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi Organized by: Institute of Chinese Aspects of riparian borders, spaces Studies (ICS) & Association for and connectivity need to be The Institute of Chinese Studies will Borderlands Studies (ABS) understood for understanding rivers issue invitation letters for obtaining and its mutual benefit sharing. This visa to all the participants coming The eight states of Northeast India, meeting aims to understand borders from abroad, and we request the ABS Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and spaces in Northeast India in a to coordinate all the requests, and the Meghalaya Mizoram, Nagaland, larger theoretical framework, visa letters can be issued together. We Sikkim and Tripura share its borders spanning national and regional are in the process of negotiating a with Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, politics, development policies, social workshop rate at the hotels given, and Myanmar and Nepal. Northeast India anthropology, migration, rivers and it will be helpful for the organizers if is described variously as a environment. It attempts to foster a the hotel bookings are made through ‘springboard’, ‘bridgehead’, and a cross-cultural understanding of one dedicated channel. We have ‘natural’ land connection for India borders and spaces within Northeast identified Gypsyfeet Travels as our with Southeast Asia and beyond to India and the sub-region, and to bring designated channel for the operations China. Yet, it also remains a site of experience, theory and knowledge in Northeast India, including the hotel longstanding and much contestation from other borders and spaces of the bookings and the field trip. We ask in the social, political and world. you to apply for a simple tourist visa development realms aspects in the A workshop registration fee of USD first, which is easier and faster to South Asia-Southeast Asian regional obtain. We can sent an invitation from context. 300 per person is applicable, which will cover all tea and coffee sessions, the tourist company for this purpose, Borders and spaces in Northeast India lunch and banquet dinner on the event if it is needed. has to be studied in context of the day (2 March 2015), and all interconnectedness and development transportation costs and meals on the Organizing Committee (ABS): priorities, in the midst of a truly trans- two-day field trip to Dawki and regional context, spanning South and Shillong (3-4 March 2015). Field trip Martin van der Velde, President Southeast Asia, not limited to India will end at Guwahati airport (4 Akihiro Iwashita, Vice Presiden, alone. Northeast India was part of March). important trading routes such as the Jussi Laine, Executive Secretary and southern Silk Route and the Tea Horse The workshop registration fee can be Treasurer Route and was one of the last theatres paid on arrival at the workshop in Organizing Committee (ICS): Guwahati, Assam, and can be paid in of the World War II in Asia, with the Jabin T. Jacob, Institute of Chinese cash in United States Dollars or the Stilwell Road being built by the Allied Studies Forces as a critical supply route to the equivalent of Indian currency. Please Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman, IIT Chinese government in Chongqing note that there will not be any facility Guwahati, on behalf of the Institute of against the invading Japanese. An for accepting credit/debit card Chinese Studies understanding of the history of payments for the registration fees at borders and spaces in Northeast India the conference venue in Guwahati, Assam, India. is critical to any worthwhile analysis Any questions regarding the event of sub-regional connectivity and We are asking the participants to offer logistics can be addressed to Mirza development in the larger ecological a paper/thematic brief to the Zulfiqur Rahman, who can be and regional context, and to address workshop, and these can be sent to the contacted at [email protected] challenges of border security, border organizers by the 20 February 2015. A and +91-9954218653. trade and flows, access for note of acceptance and participation in communities, management of trans- the workshop should be sent as early boundary resources such as rivers and as possible to the organizers. This will forests. help us schedule the speakers in each session and to organize the logistics.

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ABS Visioning Committee Interim Report, November, 2014 — Victor Konrad

At the 2014 ABS Annual • Establish a process to readership base Conference in Albuquerque, the ensure diversity and provide a Visioning Commiee was (disciplinary, forum for enlarged to welcome members geographical, gender, border issues who volunteered to serve on the ethnicity) in border and concerns suggestions for change commiee, and expanded to studies scholarship and development are being • The ABS should consider include a wider representation of offered. How do we • Enhance incentives to declarations to counter the ABS membership. Late in the prioritize these engage, support and retain state rhetorics summer the commiee members suggestions? young scholars in border were requested to share their • Should the ABS consider studies • ABS sections could be suggestions for the future of the advocacy set in core values organized by theme to ABS. These suggestions have • Develop an ABS role in of human rights and social formalize groupings that been grouped and compiled by international cooperation justice? are emerging as interest Past President Victor Konrad, in graduate student clusters in the who chairs the commiee. training Association. Members of the ABS Visioning Representation • Consider a forum for Commiee suggested a variety of • The ABS needs to discussing standards for • The ABS needs a travel possible directions, establish a core set of border studies scholarship grant process to encourage improvements and adjustments values as other academic and training internationalization for the organization in its period organizations have done. particularly if the of rapid growth. These • Initiate a publication membership extends to • The ABS could establish a suggestions range from series in either the JBS, or Africa, Asia and South cycle of annual meetings comments on opportunity, ideas in some other venue to America with four consecutive for advancement, and plans for discuss and recognize the meetings in North integration, to imperatives for “Foundations of Border • We need to consider ABS America and the fifth maintaining traditions and Studies” chapters or ‘franchises’ meeting abroad. established procedures. The outside of North America Visioning Commiee did not and Europe address ABS Bylaw changes Communications • Representation on the Please consider these suggestions because these are being • The ABS language policy ABS Board and Executive and then please share your ideas and considered by Past President needs to be reviewed and needs to be balanced with opinions about these or other Chris Brown and his commiee. aligned with changing the internationalization of suggestions with the Chair or any The suggestions received from membership the organization: should member of the ABS Visioning the commiee members are communication needs: we regional seats be allocated Commiee. The Commiee organized below under four need to communicate on the ABS Board? welcomes your participation in headings: 1) scholars and Spanish language ‘parcels’ charting the future of our • Young scholars should be scholarship, 2) organization, 3) to broader audiences; we organization. We will assemble all of allocated a voice and representation, and 4) need to find a way of the responses for our discussion at position on the ABS Board communications. accommodating yet the 2015 ABS Annual Meeting in ‘mainstreaming’ our Portland. Thanks! Spanish language Organization Scholars and Scholarship membership; we need abstracts in Spanish as • Should the ABS separate Victor Konrad (Chair). • Develop a plan for well as perhaps a few other from the WSSA? aracting scholars to Commiee members: Heather Nicol, languages in our journal Commiee members had border studies Jussi Laine, Mirza Libra, Manuel and other publications opinions in support of this Chavez, Ilkka Liikanen, Bruno • Recruit established border suggestion and also in • We need to encourage our Dupeyron, Christine Brenner, scholars who are not yet opposition to the members to write Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, ABS members to join the suggestion. editorials, op ed pieces and Kimberly Collins, Belinda Roman, Association other communications in • The ABS is now growing Guadalupe Correa Cabrera, order to broaden our rapidly and many Francisco Lara Valencia

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CONFERENCE REPORT — Victor Konrad

ISPRS/IGU/ICA Joint Workshop on Borderlands Modelling and Understanding for Global Sustainability, 5-6 December, 2013, Beijing and GSC/AAG/IGU/GSYP Joint Workshop on Changing Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Boundaries and Borderlands, 18-25 July, 2014, Kunming and Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China

Two recent conferences held in Beijing reaching out to the border studies emerge from the conference in Yunnan. The and in Yunnan Province reflect the community worldwide in order to enhance following, brief synopsis is an introduction vitality and growth of border studies in their understanding of borders. Indeed, we to the content of the two meetings. For more China. Both of these conferences were have much to learn from colleagues in details of the presentations, participants and conceived by organizers as China. In addition to funding extensive activities please consult the proceedings international events featuring Chinese border research through universities in (Jun Chen, Yuejing Ge, Yang Cheng, eds., and foreign scholars in various roles every part of the country, the Chinese 2013. ISPRS/IGU/ICA Joint Workshop on ranging from keynote speakers to Academy of Social Sciences has established a Borderlands Modelling and Understanding discussants. Research Center for Chinese Borderland for Global Sustainability, Beijing China, 5-6 History and Geography in Beijing. An December, 2013. ISPRS International equivalent center in Europe and/or North Archives, XL, 4/W3. And Stanley Brunn, America might help to elevate border issues Zhiding Hu, Cansong Li, Liran Xiong, Lede in national and international thinking and Niu, Honglian Hua, Xxianchun Pan, policy formation in the western world. Manping Xie (organizing commiee), 2014. The International Conference on Geopolitics Although both conferences were focused on in Changing Southeast Asia: Boundaries different themes, there was some continuity and Borderlands. Kunming: Yunnan in participation and organization due to the Normal University). linkages between the host institutions Beijing Normal University and Yunnan The ISPRS/IGU/ICA Joint Workshop on Normal University. Pre-conference Borderlands Modelling and Understanding The emphasis in each conference was on proceedings were published for both for Global Sustainability was a ground- scholarly interaction of participants from conferences, and special issues of breaking conference in its effort to engage China with those from overseas. Also Sustainability and ISPRS International borderlands scholars with specialists in significant, graduate students were active Journal of Geo-Information are forthcoming geomatics interested in applying their participants in each conference. In both with papers from the Beijing conference, concepts and technology to border issues. instances, Chinese scholars of borders and whereas a book edited by prominent Keynote presentations were offered by borderlands were actively engaged in geographer Stanley Brunn is planned to Giuliano Bellezza (IGU Vice President)

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“On Borders from Ancient to Postmodern Conference organizers Zhiding Hu and Stan excellent papers by Chinese and foreign Time”, Stanley Brunn (AAG ambassador to Brunn did a superb job in leading the scholars including a good representation of China) “The Intersecting Worlds of conference organization and operations research by graduate students. Another Sustainability and Cyberspace: Old and/or team. The conference began in Kunming highlight of the conference was the ﬁeld trip New Boundaries”, Jun Chen, Yuejing Ge, with a day of keynote presentations preceded to the Mohan border crossing to Laos (see Yang Cheng, Yibing Cao (Beijing Normal by opening formalities and the group photograph). University) “Borderlands Modelling and photograph. The conference was chaired by Understanding with GISS: Challenges and the venerable Lu Dadao of the Chinese All foreign participants in both conferences Research Agenda”, Ayako Kagawa (United Academy of Science. The keynotes were returned from China with an appreciation of Nations Cartographic Section) presented by Victor Konrad (Carleton the fascinating complexity of China’s border “International Boundary Experiences by the University) “Boundaries, Borderlands and relationships with 14 other countries, and United Nations” Victor Konrad (ABS Past culture in a World of Flows”, Virginie the sense that these relationships are President/Carleton University) and Rana Mamadouh (University of Amsterdam) evolving rapidly. All foreign participants P.B. Singh (VP, Asian Cultural Landscape “Borderlands at the Eurasian Margins: also were impressed by the eagerness of Association/Banaras University) “Cross- political geographies of the geopolitics of Chinese scholars to enlarge their Cultural Understanding for Global cross-border cooperation in Europe and understanding of how borders work, and to Sustainability: Messages from Asian Southeast Asia”, James Sidaway (National engage in debate about border issues. Cultural Landscapes”. The conference was University of Singapore) “Borders as Finally, the legendary Chinese hospitality held on the campus of Beijing Normal method and sovereign territorial tricks”, and prevailed, and all participants returned from University and foreign participants were David Newman (Ben Gurion University of these conferences impressed at how well they provided with opportunities to visit major the Negev) “Seing and agenda for border were treated as guests and visitors. aractions in Beijing and the Great Wall of studies: where do we go from here?”. After a China. full day of papers, participants spent the following day crossing Yunnan (8 hours by The Conference on Changing Geopolitics in bus) to Xishuangbanna on the headwaters of Southeast Asia: Boundaries and the Mekong River near the boundary with Borderlands was convened in Kunming, the Laos and Myanmar. The rest of the capital of Yunnan province. The host conference took place here hosted by the Victor Konrad, Carleton University institution Yunnan Normal University Xishuangbanna Vocational and Technical provided a grand venue at its new campus Institute. The program featured numerous on the outskirts of the rapidly growing city.

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U p c o m i n g C o n f e r e n s e s

2 0 1 5 2 0 1 4 November 6-7 The State in/of Borderlands History/ El December 11-12 Borderlands Conference “Borders in Estado en/de la Historia de la Región Fronteriza Transition: Rethinking Sovereignty, Domestic Politics and University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX International Relations in the MENA Region”. European University Institute, Florence, Italy Contact: Okyay, Asli October 14-17 New Horizons in Canadian Studies” Selin Association of Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) 23rd Biennial Conference. The Tuscany Suites December 7-11 International Workshop in Cooperation and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada with the FP7 EUROBORDERSCAPES Consortium “Borders at the Interface: Bordering Europe, Africa and September 23-25 Transnational and Transborder Familial the Middle East”, Beer Sheva and Jerusalem, Israel and Gender Relations: Comparing the Influence of Blurred And Brittle Borders. University of Oxford, U.K. November 27-28, EUBORDERREGIONS conference “BORDERS, REGIONS, NEIGHBORHOODS: Interactions August 30 – 2 September The fifth EUGEO Congress and experiences at EU external frontiers” Tartu, Estonia “Convergences and Divergences of Geography in Europe” Budapest, Hungary. November 22-23 International Conference The Sealed Gate: Prospects of the Sealed Turkey-Armenia Border. May 20-22 V Seminário de Estudos Fronteiriços Corumbá, Ankara, Turkey. MS, Brazil, by Bolivia and Paraguay borders. Contact: Profa. Dra. Adriana Dorfman, [email protected] November 20-22 International workshop ”Living in European Borderlands”, University of Luxembourg, April 21-25 Paper session: “Cross-Border Conflicts in West Luxembourg. Africa” Sponsored by the Political Geography Specialty Group Association of American Geographers (AAG) November 17-21 Cross-Border Research Conference on Annual Meeting 2015. Chicago, USA. Contact: Olivier J. the theme of “Border Security: Globalization and the Walther Challenges of Migration” OSCE BMSC Tajikistan.

April 20 The 28th Annual PGSG Pre-conference for the AAG Chicago meeting. Contact: Reece Jones and Natalie Upcoming Workshop: Scars of Partition will be the focus of a Koch at [email protected] December 3 Colloquium on Postcolonialism at Northeastern University featuring Brown University Professor Omer Bartov of Brown April 8-11 57th ABS/WSSA Annual Conference Portland, University (author of Shatterzone of Empires. Coexistence and Violence in Oregon, Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront. the German, Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Borderlands) and Professors Julian Go and Liah Greenfeld of Boston University. March 12-15 7th Festival of Geopolitics “What purpose do borders serve?”, Grenoble, France

March 5-7 EUSA BIENNIAL CONFERENCE The EU After the Crisis: Phoenix or Albatross? Boston, MA, USA. Contact: Prof. Dr. Christof Roos.

February 18-19 8th Annual Border Security Conference Rome, Italy

January 29-31 First Annual Symposium and Art Exhibition – The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow. Texas A&M-San Antonio and Texas A&M-Kingsville

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CONVOCATORIA PARA PONENCIAS: CALL FOR PAPERS El Estado en/de la Historia de la Región Fronteriza The State in/of Borderlands History La Universidad de Texas en El Paso, El Paso, TX University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 6 y 7 de noviembre del 2015 November 6-7, 2015 Orador principal: Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA) autora de Keynote Speaker: Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA), Migra!: A History of the Border Patrol in the U.S. author of Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (Migra!: Una historia de la Patrulla Fronteriza de los E.E.U.U.) El Departamento de Historia de La Universidad de Texas en El The Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso Paso se complace en anunciar la conferencia: “El Estado en/de la announces the conference, “The State in/of Borderlands Historia de la Región Fronteriza”, a celebrarse los días 6 y 7 de History,” to be held November 6-7, 2015. Although the state has noviembre del 2015. Aunque el estado ha sido una presencia been a defining and an often ominous presence in the history of determinante y con frecuencia ominosa en la historia de la zona the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands, the systematic and explicit study of fronteriza México-Estados Unidos, el estudio sistemático y the state has been rare in Borderlands historiography. While explícito del estado ha sido poco común en la historiografía de la historians of the U.S. have recently devoted increased attention frontera. Mientras que los historiadores de los Estados Unidos to the state, already a well-established focus of Mexicanists, han dedicado últimamente una atención cada vez mayor al social and cultural history has largely shaped the field of estado, el cual ya un enfoque bien establecido de los Borderlands history. Current scholarship on transnationalism Mexicanistas, la historia social y cultural ha moldeado en gran and the history of empire has also challenged the “natural” medida el campo de la historia de la frontera. El conocimiento character of the nation-state. actual en el transnacionalismo y en la historia del imperio Yet, beginning in the colonial period, and in fact before, a variety también ha desafiado el carácter “natural” del estado-nación. of state structures have shaped human existence in the region. No obstante, al inicio de la época colonial y de hecho antes, una Those living in and traveling through the borderlands have serie de estructuras del estado habían forjado la existencia encountered and engaged with the state through forced labor in humana en la región. Aquellos que han vivido en y que han armies, mines and missions, the collection of taxes, and military viajado a través de la frontera, se han topado y tratado con el action as well as immigration control, border policing, education estado a través de la mano de obra obligatoria en el ejército, las and public health regimes. In these and other arenas, state minas y las misiones, la recaudación fiscal y la acción militar así structures--national, local, indigenous, and/or transnational-- como en el control de la inmigración, la vigilancia fronteriza, la have made themselves present in borderlanders’ lives and, in educación y los sistemas de salud pública. En estos y en otros turn, been challenged and shaped by them. Borderlands, campos, las estructuras del estado –nacionales, locales, indígenas geographical and conceptual, can serve as a critical location for a y/o transnacionales- se han hecho presentes en la vida de los new approach to understanding state formation and state power. fronterizos, y en su momento, han sido desafiadas y moldeadas We seek to bring together scholars from the U.S., Mexico, and por ellos. La región fronteriza, geográfica y conceptual, puede beyond to engage the notion of the state, broadly conceived, and servir como una ubicación crucial de un nuevo enfoque para its many dimensions and scales in Borderlands history from the entender la formación y el poder del estado. sixteenth century to the present. In the context of a conversation Buscamos atraer estudiosos de los Estados Unidos, México y más among specialists in the colonial, national and modern eras as allá para que se involucren en la noción del estado, en su well as among Mexicanists, Americanists, and others, papers concepción más amplia y en sus muchas dimensiones y would address understandings of the state, or its absence, magnitudes en la historia de la zona fronteriza desde el Siglo through such topics as citizenship, public health, militarization, XVI hasta nuestros días. En el contexto de una conversación policing/ incarceration, immigration, mobility, education, land entre especialistas en las épocas de la colonia, nacional y policy, environmental issues, border construction, sexuality, the contemporánea así como entre los mexicanistas, americanistas y family and the church. It is our hope that this conversation will, otros, las ponencias tratarán las interpretaciones del estado o su in turn, provide a means to gauge the state of the field. ausencia a través de temas tales como ciudadanía, salud pública, We invite proposals for individual papers from scholars, militarización, vigilancia/encarcelamiento, inmigración, including advanced graduate students, which should include a movilidad, educación, política territorial, temas ambientales, 250-word abstract and one-page CV. Papers may be submitted in construcción de la frontera, sexualidad, la familia y la iglesia. Es Spanish or English. English-Spanish translation will be nuestro deseo que esta conversación proporcione en su provided. momento, los medios para evaluar el estado en que este campo se encuentra. Submissions should be emailed to [email protected]. The deadline is February 2, 2015. Invitamos a presentar propuestas de ponencias individuales, incluyendo a los estudiantes de posgrado de nivel avanzado, las The conference is organized by the University of Texas at El Paso’s cuales deben incluir un resumen de 250 palabras y un CV de una Department of History and the UTEP Borderlands History Ph.D. página. Las ponencias podrán presentarse en inglés o en Program. español. Se ofrecerá interpretación inglés-español. Las propuestas deben enviarse por correo electrónico al sitio [email protected]. La fecha límite de recepción de propuestas es el 2 de febrero del 2015. La conferencia está organizada por el Departamento de Historia de La Universidad de Texas en El Paso.

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