Hum-fak. - ABS 2008 conference

Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders: The 2008 European Conference of the Association of Borderland Studies
University of Tromsø/Barents Institute, Kirkenes 11-13 September 2008

Conference location
Kirkenes, Norway

Conference programme, abstracts, description

Programme (final version)
Abstract Book (final version)
Programme of Transborder Café
For description, see original call for papers.

Plenary speakers

David Newman (Political Geography, University of the Negev)
Mieke Bal (Cultural Theory, University of Amsterdam)
Einar Niemi (History, University of Tromsø)

Arrangors

Border Poetics Project, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsø
Barents Institute, Kirkenes
History Department, University of Tromsø
CEPIN (Citizenship, Encounters and Place Enactment in the North research school), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tromsø
Petrozavodsk State University

Transborder Café (detailed programme)
The Pikene på broen arts production group in Kirkenes arranged a Transborder Café for the conference.

Samovarteatret
The conference also featured a short performance based on the life of Elisif Wessel, by the Kirkenes Samovarteatret.

Association of Borderland Studies
The conference was held in cooperation with the Association for Borderland Studies. Membership was not necessary to participate in the conference, but we recommend joining the association using their membership page.

Financial backing
The conference received additional financial backing from the Norwegian Barents Secretariat, the University of Tromsø, the Humanities Faculty at the University of Tromsø, and the Sparebanken1 Nord-Norge Research Fund.

Programme (detailed version)

Wednesday 10. september: arrival, drop-in social at the Barents Institute
Thursday 11. september: opening, keynotes, papers, reception at Grenselandmuseet (The Borderland Museum)
Friday 12. september: field trip, Transborder Café
Saturday 13. september: keynotes, papers, panel debate
Sunday 14. september: departure

Registration fees

Registration fee 1: The full registration fee of NOK 4640 / EUR 580 includes hotel with full board for the length of the conference, and the field trip.
Registration fee 2: NOK 2000 / EUR 250 includes Conference with the field trip and meals.
Registration fee 3: NOK 500 / EUR 65 includes the Conference.

Payments can be in either Norwegian kroner or in Euros.

Visa costs for field trip
If you applied for your visa for Russia via Pasvikturist, they will have paid your visa fees; if you applied via a local embassy/consulate, you can give the conference the receipt, and it will cover at least 300 NOK of the fee.

Field trip information

Conference accomodation

Rica Arctic Hotel (town centre, +47 78 99 59 00, rica.arctic.hotel@rica.no)
Rica Hotel Kirkenes (outside town centre, +47 78 99 14 91, rica.hotel.kirkenes@rica.no).

Travel
See our travel information page.

Inquiries
Conference organizers Stephen Wolfe (stephen.wolfe@hum.uit.no) or Johan Schimanski (johan.schimanski@hum.uit.no).