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Association for Borderlands Studies Newsletter A SEMIANNUAL NEWSLETTER VOL. 35 · ISSUE 1 · FALL 2014. La Frontera Association for Borderlands Studies Newsletter Published by the ABS Secretariat. Design and Coding © Copyright 2014 Highlights of This Issue Editor: Jussi Laine 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 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland "1 LA FRONTERA 35(1) 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 "2 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland LA FRONTERA 35(1) 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.
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