Invisible borderscapes:

Tracing the overlooked, forgotten and taken-for-granted

What are some of the unintended or unexpected consequences of borderland formation otherwise overshadowed by more established representations of each region? What impacts might these overlooked, forgotten or taken-for-granted phenomena have on residents’ mental maps of the border zone, their sense of socio-territorial cohesion and place-making? What realities do these invisible borderlands this produce as a result?

• Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, University of Copenhagen
• Hicham Gardaf, visual artist: "Interrogating the cultural landscape of Georges Perec’s ‘species spaces’ in Greater Tangier"

Respondents

• Maria Hellström Reimer, Malmö University
• Christophe Sohn, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

About the webinar series

Centre for Oresund Region Studies, Lund University, holds a series of 90-minute webinars on borders and borderland formation from 14 September-7 December 2022.

The seminar series will underscore the multiplicity of bordering perspectives and the plasticity of border trajectories as a way to construct alternative imaginaries of borderland formation as they pertain to Scandinavian and Mediterranean contexts. Focusing on cross-border regions in Scandinavia (Öresund) and the Mediterranean (Gibraltar), the meetings will bring together researchers, artists, and regional practitioners to debate, characterise and visualise these spaces from a decidedly comparative perspective – across cultural contexts, geographical scales, and cartographic perspectives.

The seminars will take place over six sessions, every other Wednesday from 14:30 to 16:00. During each meeting, two contributors will present their work, with one local and one international guest respondent to comment on the respective issues raised during the talks. This will be followed by a moderated discussion among wider audience members and speakers.

Registration

If you would like to attend some or all of the seminars, please register here.

The webinar series is free of charge, but you have to register to receive the Zoom link.

Read more on the Centre for Oresund Region Studies website

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