CfP "Frontiers and Border Regions"
Beja (Tunisia): November 28, 29, 30 / 2018
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
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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)
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The position of the border as one of openness and
dynamism, or as a factor of isolation and stagnation
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Ÿ Important deadlines:
- June 30, 2018: Deadline for submitting proposals
to the following email address:
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Participants will receive before July 10, 2018 responses to their proposals and information about the conference registration fees.
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Deadline for sending
the Final Text: November
15, 2018
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11th International Symposium: November 28, 29, and 30, 2018 in Beja,
TUNISIA
Ÿ Rules
for submitting proposals:
- Individual proposals: must be a new
topic that has not already been published or presented at a scientific symposium.
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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.
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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).
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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.