Thursday, 11 June, 9.00–19.30
9.00 Martin Baumeister / DHI Rome
Welcome
9.15 Laura Di Fiore / Naples
Introduction
I - Methods at the Border. A Dialogue between History, Geography and Anthropology
9.30 Anssi Paasi / Oulu
The Shifting Landscape of Border Studies
10.00 Bjørn Thomassen / Roskilde
European Borders in Perspective: Liminality Versus Marginality
10.30 Marco Meriggi / Naples
From Below, From Above. Perception of Borders and Construction of Boundaries in Ancien Régime Italian States
11.00 Discussion
11.30 Break
II - Border-creation Processes between State Institutions and Social Actors
12.00 Jacobo GarcÍa Álvarez / Madrid
Representing the Line. Maps, Geometric Descriptions and Nation-state Building in the Spanish-Portuguese Boundary Demarcation (1855–1906)
12.30 Joan Capdevila Subirana / Barcelona
The Delimitation of the Spanish-French Border (1853–1868)
13.00 Break
14.30 Donatella Balani / Turin
The Border between Savoy States and France: Central Government, Local Institutions and Border Populations
15.00 Antonio Chiavistelli / Turin
The Demarcation of Boundaries in Pre-unification Italy: the Granduchy of Tuscany
15.30 Discussion
III - Social Practices of Space and Trans-state Regions: a "Europe of Borderlands"
16.00 Pier Paolo Viazzo / Turin
A "Migratory Macro-region": Labour Mobility Across Political and Linguistic Boundaries in the West-Central Alps
16.30 Alessandro Pastore / Verona
Perception and Material Reality of Borders in the Experience of XIX Century Mountaineers and Soldiers
18.00 Keynote Lecture
Kapil Raj / Paris
Beyond Europe: Frontiers in Postcolonial Histories
Friday, 12 June, 9.30–12.30
III - Social Practices of Space and Trans-state Regions: a "Europe of Borderlands"
9.30 Sébastien Dubois / Bruxelles, Saint Louis
Geographic Revolution and Practices of Border between France and Belgium
10.00 James Bjork / London
"Borderland Piety". "Heartlands" of Catholic Devotional Practice in Western and Central Europe
10.30 Break
11.00 Peter Thaler / Odense
The Heartstrings of Europe: Regions of Passage in Prussia and the Habsburg Monarchy
11.30 Discussion
12.00 Laura Di Fiore, Martin Baumeister / Naples, DHI Rome
Final Comment