Border Theory, Border Poetics and Border Aesthetics are theoretical formations which inhabit the interstices between Literary, Cultural and Border Studies in the wake of poststructuralism, postcolonialism and Chicana/o studies. In this lecture I will be tracing an archaeology of the theoretical concerns, concepts and interdisciplinary engagements which have developed in these approaches to borders. What may such an archaeology tell us about possible future developments in the study of borders and culture in a world in which borders have become globalized, such as the recent formation of the Border Textures concept?
Johan Schimanski (University of Oslo & University of Eastern Finland)
6 December 2018, 3.30-5.00 p.m.
Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir, salle 4.510
Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, Research Head at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages there. He is also affiliated to the University of Eastern Finland as a Professor of Cultural Encounters. Recent publications include the collaboration Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections (2017). A book of border theory translated into German will be published in 2019.
Atelier Bordertextures
Public lecture series “Atelier Bordertextures” – theories and methods of cultural border studies
Atelier Bordertextures aims to unite theoretical and methodological lectures by researchers undertaking conceptual examinations of borders and border regions and their cultural representations. These lectures offer insights into and disclose bordertexture-related issues and illustrate disciplinary relationships and interdisciplinary connections. Atelier Border Textures provides a space for explorative investigation of potential approaches for cultural border studies with the aim of ensuring a better grasping and understanding of (re)production processes and various ways of (re)presenting borders and border regions.