Save the date: Symposium on border crisis ecologies, 27-28 September 2023

I warmly invite you to the interdisciplinary symposium “Bordering nature: Reimagining borders against the climate of crisis”, that I am organising on September 27-28, 2023 at the University of Eastern Finland and online. "Bordering nature" will foster discussions on how environmental problems, migration, and bordering practices are mutually implicated in various senses, contexts, and locations.

Join us online: https://uef.zoom.us/j/61693025651?pwd=VEpob2s1aHBHUUUya0kwQ3JDNStHZz09

Programme  27 September 9.30-10.00* Coffee, Metria Building, lobby   10.00- 10.30. Welcome words from Jopi Nyman (Bomocult) and Olga Cielemecka.   Metria building, M102  10.30-12.00 Michał Pospiszyl, Polish Academy of Sciences.    Natural Ally: Eastern Europe and Escape Ecologies    Metria building, M102   12.00-13.00 Lunch break (own cost) 13.00-14.30 May-Britt Öhman, Uppsala University. Dálkke means weather. Indigenous perspectives on climate change and (un)green and (un)sustainable energy transitions.    Metria building, M110 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-17.00 Kasia Hertz, artist.   Sealing the wound: lessons from trees on collective responses to trauma.    Metria building, M102   28 September 9.30-10.00 Coffee, Metria Building, lobby    10.00-12.00 Jussi P. Laine, University of Eastern Finland.   Fencing the ontological (in)securities: An end to the Finnish-Russian pragmatic frame.  Metria building, M110   12.00-13.00 Lunch break (own cost) 13.00-14.30 Roundtable discussion: Borders and fences.    Metria building, M110   14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-17.00 Collaborations and idea-sharing space    Metria building, M102   *Please notice that all times are in Helsinki time zone *EET/UTC+02:00

We will continue our discussions with an online lecture Concrete walls, porous boundaries. Migrants in environmental history by Professor Marco Armiero, Autonomous University of Barcelona on October 24, 2023 at 14–15 (EET).

Contact the organiser at olga.cielemecka[@]uef.fi

The event is funded by Bomocult Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters Research Community at the University of Eastern Finland and the Joensuu University Foundation.