Webpages tagged with «borders»
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A discussion of representations of flight, homelessness, border crossing, belonging and identity formation in recent as well as older literature, with an emphasis on literature's connections to the world of politics and ethics.
![Drawing by Kari Korolainen of man leaning on an invisible fence, with border-crosser with backpack in the background.](https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/groups/border-readings/korolainen-cover-image-2019.jpg?alt=listing)
How can we use drawings and graphic narratives to develop and communicate our research? The Border Readings group at ILOS has invited researchers and artists, guest researcher Kari Korolainen and ILOS researcher Fabian Heffermehl, to share with us their thoughts and experiences of using drawing and graphic storytelling to think about their research problems – and thinking with their research materials – in visual and bodily ways. Welcome to this open discussion, if you are interested in exploring these possibilities or already have experiences which you might share.
Melania Terrazas, senior lecturer at the University of La Rioja, will be giving a lecture on contested boundaries and uncharted entanglements in Evelyn Conlon’s short story collection Moving About the Place (2023)”. In her stories, Conlon creates characters living and setting up relationships in countries in which she has had a longstanding interest: Australia, Japan, Italy, Indonesia, Monaco and South Africa. Terrazas will suggest that Conlon’s stories use transculturality as a method that addresses culture as a dynamic category and debunks ideological dichotomies.
![Public Lecture – Vera Dubina (Bremen / Berlin): The Weapons of the Weak. Silent Protest in Russia](https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/news-and-events/events/guest-lectures-seminars/2023/dubina-foto2.jpg?alt=listing)
Contemporary Russian society does not visibly oppose the invasion of Ukraine. There are no barricades or protesters in the streets, and even the military mobilisation has not triggered an open clash between the public and the authorities. But does this silence mean consent and support for the war?
![Trauma, Memory, and Counter-Culture](https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/soviet-ellipses/ellipse-conference-kopie.jpg?alt=listing)
The Conference Trauma, Memory, and Counter-Culture. Borders and Border Transgressions in (Post-)Communist Europe explores borders and border transgressions in the context of trauma, memory, and counter-culture and aims to highlight the specific relevance of Border Studies for better understanding literature, arts, and everyday culture in repressive, transformative and post-war societies.
![Trauma, Memory, and Counter-Culture](https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/soviet-ellipses/ellipse-conference-kopie.jpg?alt=listing)
The conference explores borders and border transgressions in the context of trauma, memory, and counter-culture and aims to highlight the specific relevance of Border Studies for better understanding literature, arts, and everyday culture in repressive, transformative and (post-)war societies.
Lecturer Dr. Barbara Siller, University College Cork, will give a talk on “Kafka Tales of the Twenty-First Century – Doors, Walls, and Fences in The Gurugu Pledge (2017) by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel and Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) by Daniel Trilling”.
![Peace of textile weave pattern with many colours. Photo.](https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/temporalities-and-subjectivities-of-crossing/vevmonster.jpeg?alt=listing)
Recent research on migration and migration literature suggests that we can understand narratives of migration better by focusing on the temporal perspectives connected to integration, detention, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures.