Symposium | Riverine Borders: River as a Metaphor
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2022
- Fri 20.05.2022
@mudamlux
- Elisabeth Lebovici & Catherine Facerias, Dr. Daniela Johannes, Prof. Dr. Astrid Fellner
- Closing and final discussion
Waterways are essential components of the living and non-living world. They shape landscapes and serve as demarcation lines - as ‘natural borders’ - between states in many parts of the world. In addition to being lines that separate, rivers and streams are also lines that connect, and borderland territories are often particularly rich places of life, interaction, passage, porosity, cross-pollination and exchange.
Organised in the context of Zoe Leonard’s exhibition "Al río / To the River", the study day "Riverine Borders: On rivers and other border materialities" focused on the materiality of these river borders from a territorial, geographical, and political point of view, and also from a metaphorical perspective, as arbitrary places where interests and ideologies overlap and clash.
A number of scholars and researchers in the fields of visual arts, cultural studies, history and geography considered the riverine border in the North American and European contexts. Their interventions were both part and a continuation of contemporary debates on the status and the (symbolic) meanings of borders. These questions of borders have gained particular momentum in recent decades. The significance of borders as a response to the rise of burgeoning nationalisms or the ongoing migration management crisis in particular, has led to a forced digitalisation of border regimes, an increase in physical and digital surveillance and the multiplication of border installations worldwide.
This programme has been developed in conjunction with Zoe Leonard’s exhibition "Al río / To the River" (26.02-06.06.2022, Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean) in collaboration with partners of the @unigr-cbs: @uni_lu (Geography and Spatial Planning), @SaarlandUni (North American Literary and Cultural Studies) and @UniTrier (Trier Center for American Studies).
