More-than-human borderlands:

Cross-border entanglements of land and sea

How does borderland formation shape, and is shaped by, the encounter between human- and other-than-human beings? What socio-spatial relations do they constitute? Through what cultural artefacts and social practices are they inscribed in the landscape? How do these more- and other-than-human relations help us to reconsider existing depictions of regional identity and boundary-making?

  • Lisa Babette Diedrich, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • Gini Lee, Melbourne University: "Öresund as a water-city landscape"
  • Eugénie Denarnaud, École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles: "Pirate gardens and the rural transformations of the Gibraltar Strait"

Respondents

  • Mathilda Rosengren, Malmö University
  • Sarah Green, University of Helsinki

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

Contact

Johanna Rivano Eckerdal

Head of Centre for Oresund Region Studies

johanna.rivano_eckerdal@kultur.lu.se
+46 46 222 30 35