Our team is pleased to invite you to the two-days joint seminars "Resilience and Dynamics at Italian Borderscapes" in Trentino and Bozen-Bolzano.

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Building on shared research on Italian borderscapes, joint seminars will involve students and faculty in discussions on Italy’s border regions. Starting with theoretical input on borderscapes, practical examples will be examined interdisciplinarily. Seminars will be held on 15-16 May 2025 over two consecutive days in Trentino and Bozen/Bolzano including an excursion.
 
This seminar examines the complex nature of Italian borderscapes amid contemporary global challenges, combining two complementary research thematics focusing on territorial impacts of crises and the de-materialization and re-materialization of borders in the EU:
 
1) Resilience in the Face of Polycrisis
This thematic bloc explores how these regions respond to crises, leveraging their unique characteristics to develop resilient responses
 
2) De-Materialization and Re-Materialization of Borders
This thematic bloc focuses on the processes affecting land borders in northern Italy. These processes involve digital and physical infrastructures that facilitate ‘legitimate’ mobilities and transnational cooperation while controlling ‘unauthorized’ mobilities
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PROGRAMME

 

DAY 1 15.05.2025 Trento

 

UniTrento 10:00-13:00

Aula 112, Palazzo Prodi – via T. Gar 14

 

10:00

Anna Casaglia (University of Trento) & Ingrid Kofler (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano): Welcome

 

10:15

Anna Casaglia (University of Trento): The Borders is no more, long live the border

 

10:30 Keynote

Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary (Università di Grenoble Alpes): Dominant and counter border imaginaries, what sets them apart?

 

11:30-13:00

Raffaella Coletti (CNR Rome): (Evolving) multi-level governance in EU cross-border regions

Alice Buoli (Politecnico di Milano): Visual and Design-Based Storytelling of (European) Borderlands

Tobias Boos (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano): Of borderscapes and hidden frontiers

 

 

DAY 2 16.05.2025 Bozen-Bolzano

 

Unibz, 10:00-13.30

room C4.01

 

9:30

Ingrid Kofler (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Alice Buoli (Politecnico di Milano) & Raffaella Coletti (CNR Rome): Italian Borderscapes after 2020: Mapping, Unfolding, and Re-Framing Border Territories in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

 

10:00 Keynote

Jussi P. Laine (University of Eastern Finland): De/Fencing Europe: EU Border Politics in Uncertain Times

 

11:00-13:00

Silvia Aru (Politecnico di Torino): Twenty ‘counter’ maps for border crossing: tracing solidarity and underground knowledge along the Italy-to-France route

Ilaria Riccioni (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano): Per una sociologia del confine

Marcus Nicolson (Eurac Research): Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies (B-SHAPES)

Andreas Metzner-Szigeth (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano): Borders between imagination and reality

 

13:00

Discussion and conclusion by Ingrid Kofler (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) & Anna Casaglia (University of Trento)

 

Savoury coffee break in the Unibz Garden

 

The seminars are organised by Ingrid Kofler (unibz), Anna Casaglia (Unitn), Alessandra Volgger (unibz).

 

 

The Seminar is funded by the Euregio Mobility Fund IV and by the EU – Next Generation EU – PRIN 2022 Call for proposals – D.D. ​ No. 104, February 2, 2022 – M4 C2 Inv.1.1 Prot. ​ No. 20225TN2R9 – Project title: “Italian Borderscapes after 2020. ​ Mapping, unfolding, and re-framing border territories in response to the Covid-19 pandemic” – CUP: D53D23010950006 and “The border is no more, long live the border. ​ De-materialization and re-materialization of internal borders in the European Union” (2022JPFYE8) – CUP E53D23010250006

Funded by the European Union NextGenerationEU, Mission 4, Component 1 CUP D53D23010950006

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