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International Colloquium on the theme Frontiers and Border Regions
28.11.2018-30.11.2018, Beja
Deadline: 30.06.2018

Rules for submitting proposals:

• Individual proposals: must be a new topic that has not already been published or presented at a scientific symposium.
• Proposal: Give a detailed summary: at least one page (font: Times New Roman 12; page margins 2.5 cm, single-spaced), with a detailed and up-to-date C.V.
• The proposals can be in Arabic, English, French, or Spanish.
• For abstracts in French or Spanish, a detailed English translation is mandatory (one page at a minimum; font: Times New Roman 12, page margins 2.5 cm, single-spaced).
• For summaries in Arabic, a detailed translation into English or French is mandatory (one page at a minimum: font: Times New Roman 12, page margins 2.5 cm, single-spaced).
• The conference proceedings will be published after evaluation by the Scientific Committee. Note: The full text of the conference’s argument exists on the internet

Deadline for submitting proposals to the following email address:
tunisian.mediterranean.associ@gmail.com

• Participants will receive before July 10, 2018 responses to their proposals and information about the conference registration fees.
• Deadline for sending the Final Text: November 15, 2018

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The theme of “Frontiers and Border Regions” could be dealt with
respecting the following axes:

1. History of the border and border regions
– Antiquity
– Middle Ages
– Modern Era
– Contemporary Period
2. Definition and types of boundaries
– Territorial boundaries
– Maritime borders
– Heavenly borders
– Natural borders
– Artificial borders
– Invisible borders
– “Material” (e.g. South Africa under apartheid) or “immaterial” internal border (e.g. China)
– Materialized borders: police stations, customs line, fortifications, walls)
3. Fixing the border
– Conquest
– Colonization
– Treaties
– Self-determination
– Plebiscite …
4. Border control
– Formalities of passage
– Police, gendarmes and other military, customs
– Outsourcing border control
– Expulsion
– Extradition
5. Disputes and border disputes
– Land claims
– Borders and identity incompatibilities
– Espionage and sabotage
– Water management
– Military incursions
– War and violence
– Questions of refugees and the right of asylum
– Negotiations
6. Economics of the border
– Landlocked properties in neighboring countries
– Legal exchanges and smuggling
– Free trade zones
– Frontiers and taxation
– Borders and frontier pioneers
– Border regions and pastoral activities (e.g. Africa)
7. Moving beyond the border
– Modern means of communication, satellites, internet, telecommunications, social networks, virtual museums
– Borders and public health
– International institutions and cooperation
– Territorial groupings
– Linguistic borders, isoglosses, transitional and cross-border languages …
– Artistic borders, plastic arts, music
– Border regions and heritage (tangible and intangible)
– Border identities
– Theories of the global state and universal citizenship
– Frontiers and theology
– Borders and globalization
– Frontiers and migratory movements
-Front-line and free movement within sub-regional groups (e.g. ECOWAS) or supra-national “communities” (e.g. the European Union)
– The position of the border as one of openness and dynamism, or as a factor of isolation and stagnation

Martin Abou Malhab
unisian.mediterranean.associ@gmail.com

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=36992