8.45 - 9.15 Welcome and registration
9.15 - 9.30 Welcome: G. Gryseels (Director, RMCA, Tervuren); A. Mélice (BVA /ABA)
9.30 - 10.00 Keynote address: Vigdis Broch-Due (Bergen Univ., Norw)
Exploring boundaries: Chair: Filip De Boeck (Univ. K.U.Leuven - BVA/ABA)
10.15 - 10.30 The frontier as governance: a case study from the Rwenzori: Timothy Raeymaekers (Univ. Ghent, Be)
10.30 - 10.45 Shaping new territories: the discursive construction of multiple boundaries in suburban Dakar: Eline Versluys (Univ. Antwerp, Be)
10.45 - 11.00 The black body in Europe: exploration of borders, margins and centres: Wangui Wa Goro (fellow, Human Rights and Social Justice Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK)
Drawing boundaries: Chair: Michaël Meeuwis (Univ. Ghent - BVA/ABA)
11.15 - 11.30 Tracer des frontières en situation coloniale. Connaissances, enjeux et choix de l’administration coloniale française pour le dessin des frontières du Niger: Camille Lefebvre (CEMAf, Fr)
11.30 - 11.45 Sources for the history of the southern border of Mozambique: the archives of the Portuguese commission of cartography: Ana Cristina Roque (Univ. Lisbon, Port)
11.45 - 12.00 Ethnic boundaries and borderlands in Rwanda during colonialism
Petra Vervust (Univ. Ghent, Be)
12.00 - 12.15 On the borders of race, mission, and state: African Americans and the American Presbyterian Congo Mission Ira Dworkin (Gettysburg Coll, PA, USA)
12.15 - 12.30 Mossi-Fulbe borderlands: towards a history of interconnectedness
Mark Breusers (Univ. K.U.Leuven, Be)
Lunch
Exploiting boundaries: Chair: Geert Castryck (Vlaams Vredesinstituut – BVA/ABA)
14.00 - 14.15 Level crossings: institutional regionalism, borderland micro-regions, and the possibility of their reconciliation Sarah Whiteford (Univ. St.-Andrews, UK)
14.15 - 14.30 Danger and opportunity in Katima Mulilo: reconfiguring sovereignty in a Namibian border boomtown Wolfgang Zeller (Univ. Helsinki, Fin)
14.30 - 14.45 From the road towards war to the path towards riches: living with the border with Angola in North West Zambia Oliver Bakewell (Univ. Oxford, UK)
Discussion & Coffee break
Crossing boundaries: Chair: Danielle de Lame (RMCA, Tervuren – BVA/ABA)
15.30 - 15.45 Negotiating the border: planned migration and border-attitudes at the Kivu-Rwandan frontier during the colonial period Gillian Mathys (Univ. Ghent, Be)
15.45 - 16.00 Armed insurgency in the Ruwenzori Borderland: the cases of NALU and ADF: Kristof Titeca, Koen Vlassenroot (Univ. Ghent, Be)
16.00 - 16.15 The sea as borderland: Véronique Bragard (U.C. Louvain, Be)
16.15 - 16.30 Mémoire de l’or, territorialité et perception de la “périphérie”. La Vallée du Sankarani (Mali, Guinée): Cristiana Panella (RMCA, Tervuren, Be)
16.30 - 16.45 Many boundaries, one border: villagers and states in the Mali-Guinean landscape of the Manding Hills: Clemens Zobel (Univ. Coimbra, Port)
Closing discussion
16.45 - 18.00 Mod.: Danielle de Lame and Filip De Boeck