In recent years, the study of borders and boundaries has attracted the curiosity of scholars from different disciplines and informed a rich and diverse literature. With notable exceptions, most publications on the subject relate however strictly to their sub-field and discipline, paying only fleeting attention to the work produced in neighbouring disciplines. The aim of this workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the European University Institute and other European universities and research institutions who study borders and border-related phenomena from different perspectives.

Argument

In recent years, the study of borders and boundaries has attracted the curiosity of scholars from different disciplines and informed a rich and diverse literature. With notable exceptions, most publications on the subject relate however strictly to their sub-field and discipline, paying only fleeting attention to the work produced in neighbouring disciplines. The aim of this workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the European University Institute and other European universities and research institutions who study borders and border-related phenomena from different perspectives. In four panels, anchored with the problems of unauthorised presences, border practices at sea, the construction of 'otherness’, and border security, the invited speakers will reflect on the materials, practices and concepts that variably made and make the border. In bringing together a range of different approaches to the study of borders from the early modern period to the present day, and exposing practitioners in history, political science and law to recent research of neighbouring disciplines, this workshop hopes to create a dialogue which will raise new questions, stimulate new approaches and enrich a dynamic and important field of scholarship.

Program

Thursday, 6 November 2014

• 09.00 Welcome
• Oliver Buxton-Dunn, Luca Scholz : Opening Keynote
• 09.30 Barricades, Walls or Membranes: Reflections on the Stability and Permeability of Territorial Borders, Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute – Department of Political and Social Sciences)
• 10.00 Discussion
• Coffee Break

1 – Deportation, Banishment, Unauthorized Presences (Chair: Raffaella Del Sarto)

• 10.45 Perception et pratiques de la frontière. L’exemple de la peine du bannissement dans le Saint-Empire moderne, Falk Bretschneider (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris – Centre Georg Simmel)
• 11.15 Deportation, borders and membership in historical perspective, Rutger Birnie (European University Institute – Department of Political and Social Sciences)
• 11.45 Criminalization as a bordering practice, Ana Aliverti (University of Warwick – Warwick Law School)

12.15 Discussion

Lunch

2 – The Sea as a Border: Creation and Negotiation of Maritime Borders (Chair: Jorge Flores)

• 14.00 Pragmatic border negotiation in the eighteenth-century English Channel, Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge – Faculty of History) 
• 14.30 Discovering the Early British Port, and the Question of Authority. c. 1550-1600, Oliver Buxton-Dunn (European University Institute – Department of History and Civilization)

Coffee Break

• 15.15 The Externalization of Borders: The Spanish-Moroccan Case, Jonathan Zaragoza (European University Institute – Department of Political and Social Sciences)
• 15.45 Discussion
• 20.00 Dinner

Friday, 7 November 2014

3 Borders, Identity and the Construction of Otherness (Chair: Stéphane Van Damme)

• 09.00 Frontières et calendriers dans le Saint-Empire au XVII^e siècle, Christophe Duhamelle (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris – Centre de recherches historiques)
• 09.30 Modern Borders of 'Otherness' in Hispano-Moroccan Colonization (1859-1912), Itzea Goicolea-Amiano (European University Institute – Department of History and Civilization)
• 10.00 Exploring the limits of medieval citizenries: Serfs and peasants as citizens in fifteenth century Barcelona, Carolina Obradors (European University Institute – Department of History and Civilization)

Coffee Break

• 10.45 Making Borders Material: Concepts and Practices of the Language Frontier in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880-1918, Pieter Judson (European University Institute – Department of History and Civilization)
• 11.15 Discussion

Lunch

4 Border Security, Trafficking and Perceptions of Border Crossings (Chair: Regina Grafe)

• 13.00 Disputable Borders. Conduct and the Enclosure of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1570-1680, Luca Scholz (European University Institute – Department of History and Civilization)
• 13.30 Gender and Security in Anti-Trafficking Policies: Responding to a Crisis of Boundaries, Lucrecia Rubio Grundell (European University Institute – Department of Political and Social Sciences)
• 14.00 Of Sovereignty and Autonomy, Audrey Macklin (European University Institute – Department of Law & University of Toronto – Faculty of Law)

Coffee Break

• 14.45 Concluding Discussion
• 20.00 Dinner