Wednesday, 15 November 2017
13:30–13:50
Introduction by Drs. Daniel Menning, Kristin Condotta Lee, and Tobias Graf
13:50–14:00
Welcome from the Graduate Academy
14:00–16:00
Panel 1: Marking the Frontier (Chair: Dr. Graf)
- Caroline Marris (Columbia University), Maritime Borderlands and the Nation-State: Regionalizing the Early Modern English Channel
- Edward Boyle (Kyushu University), Triangulating Frontiers: Northeast Asia as Relational Territory between Russia, China, and Japan
- Uğur Bayraktar (Koç University), Taming the Land: Making of Imperial Peripheries in Ottoman Kurdistan and Albania, 1850–1878
16:30–17:40
Roundtable: Working and Writing as an Early Career Scholar (Chair: Dr. Condotta Lee)
18:00–19:30
Keynote Lecture (Chair: Dr. Menning)
- Dr. Matthew Mosca (University of Washington), Finding Frontiers in the Early Modern Study of the Mongol Empire
Thursday, 16 November 2017
9:30–10:45
Panel 2: Living along the Frontier (Chair: Dr. Menning)
- Thomas Schader (University of Tübingen), Waiting Room Andalusia: A Heterotopia of Crisis?
- Omri Elmaleh (Tel Aviv University), ‘One of the Most Dangerous Places in the World’: False Fantasies of Muslim Extremism vs. the Construction of a Lebanese, Double-Hyphenated Identity on the Argentinian–Brazilian–Paraguayan Frontier
11:15-13:00
Panel 2 (continued)
- David Glovsky (Michigan State University), ‘It’s All the Same Place’: Local Autonomy in a Colonial and Post-Colonial Borderland
- Ewa Motylińska (Sogang University), Birds Do Not Know Borders: A Case Study on Environmental Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula
14:30–15:15
Panel 3: Memorializing the Frontier (Chair: Dr. Condotta Lee)
- Steffen Wöll (University of Leipzig), Globe, Region and Periphery: The Spatialization of the American West in Antebellum U.S. Literature
- Nishant K. Narayanan (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad), The Bare(d) Life: Between Frontiers and Borders
15:45–17:30
Panel 3 (continued)
- Lachlan Fleetwood (University of Cambridge), Instruments and Insecurity: The Imaginative, Scientific and Political Constitution of the Himalaya as a High Mountain Frontier, 1800–1850
- Lawrence Kessler (Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Phildadelphia, PA), The Construction of a Transnational Frontier in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i
Friday, 17 November 2017
9:30–11:30
Poster Session
Iuliia Buyskykh (Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Kyiv, and Forum Transregionale Studien, Center for
Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin) The Polyphony of Coexistence: “Everyday Diplomacy” in Border Communities of Polish Podkarpacie
Jon Chappell (London School of Economics) Remaking Frontiers: Global Influences on China's Borderland Management, 1850–1950
Stuart Cottle (University of Sydney) The Ethnographer's Nostalgia in Hollywood: Toward a Dialectic of the Frontier
John Wyatt Greenlee (Cornell University) Sovereignty at Anchor: Internal Frontiers and the Dutch Eel Ships on the Thames
Magnus Halsnes (University of Bergen) Dividing the Syrian Desert: From Imperial Frontier Zone to National Borderlines
Olatunde Olaseni Taiwo (Olabisi Onabanjo University) Germany in Nigerian Deportations
Saida Popey-ool (Moscow Aviation Institute) The Study of the Civilizational Frontier between Europe and Russia: A View from Historical and Modern Aspects
Sonia Robles (Universidad Panamericana) Cross-Border Dreams: Mexican Radio Entrepreneurs and Their International Audience
Benoit Vaillot (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and European University Institute) Reshaping Borders, Reshaping Nationality: The Alsatians' and Lorrainers' Nationality Option
Daria Voyloshnikova (University of Fribourg) Ecoregion, Transboundary and Eco-Frontier
Dagmar Zadrazilova (University of Cambridge) Berlin Tempelhof—Where Cultural and Political Frontiers Meet
11:30–13:00
Roundtable: The Benefits and Pitfalls of the Frontier Paradigm (Chair: Dr. Graf)