Borders and Borderlands in 19th Century Europe

Borders and Borderlands in 19th Century Europe

Organizer
Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom
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Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom; Via Aurelia Antica, 391; I-00165 Roma
Location
Rom
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Italy
From - Until
11.06.2015 - 12.06.2015
By
Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom

The turn of the century between the 1700s and the 1800s saw a more marked territorialisation of sovereignty within Europe and a contemporary hardening of the state boundaries. However, was the modern state the only protagonist of this process? And is it really possible to read the 19th century European spatiality simply along the coordinates of the new boundary lines? The conference aims to answer these questions by analyzing on the one hand the real border-creation processes of that time, on the other hand, the borderlands, as cross-border regions, that interacted in different ways with the new borders. Through an international discussion between historians, anthropologists and geographers, the conference aims to promote a dialogue between historiography and border studies on the basis of a rethinking of the spatial category.

Programm

Thursday, 11 June, 9.00–19.30

9.00 Martin Baumeister / DHI Rome
Welcome
9.15 Laura Di Fiore / Naples
Introduction

I - Methods at the Border. A Dialogue between History, Geography and Anthropology

9.30 Anssi Paasi / Oulu
The Shifting Landscape of Border Studies

10.00 Bjørn Thomassen / Roskilde
European Borders in Perspective: Liminality Versus Marginality

10.30 Marco Meriggi / Naples
From Below, From Above. Perception of Borders and Construction of Boundaries in Ancien Régime Italian States

11.00 Discussion

11.30 Break

II - Border-creation Processes between State Institutions and Social Actors

12.00 Jacobo GarcÍa Álvarez / Madrid
Representing the Line. Maps, Geometric Descriptions and Nation-state Building in the Spanish-Portuguese Boundary Demarcation (1855–1906)

12.30 Joan Capdevila Subirana / Barcelona
The Delimitation of the Spanish-French Border (1853–1868)

13.00 Break

14.30 Donatella Balani / Turin
The Border between Savoy States and France: Central Government, Local Institutions and Border Populations

15.00 Antonio Chiavistelli / Turin
The Demarcation of Boundaries in Pre-unification Italy: the Granduchy of Tuscany

15.30 Discussion

III - Social Practices of Space and Trans-state Regions: a "Europe of Borderlands"

16.00 Pier Paolo Viazzo / Turin
A "Migratory Macro-region": Labour Mobility Across Political and Linguistic Boundaries in the West-Central Alps

16.30 Alessandro Pastore / Verona
Perception and Material Reality of Borders in the Experience of XIX Century Mountaineers and Soldiers

18.00 Keynote Lecture
Kapil Raj / Paris
Beyond Europe: Frontiers in Postcolonial Histories

Friday, 12 June, 9.30–12.30

III - Social Practices of Space and Trans-state Regions: a "Europe of Borderlands"

9.30 Sébastien Dubois / Bruxelles, Saint Louis
Geographic Revolution and Practices of Border between France and Belgium

10.00 James Bjork / London
"Borderland Piety". "Heartlands" of Catholic Devotional Practice in Western and Central Europe

10.30 Break

11.00 Peter Thaler / Odense
The Heartstrings of Europe: Regions of Passage in Prussia and the Habsburg Monarchy

11.30 Discussion

12.00 Laura Di Fiore, Martin Baumeister / Naples, DHI Rome
Final Comment

Contact (announcement)

Laura Di Fiore

DHI Rom

laura.difiore@gmail.com

http://dhi-roma.it/tagungen.html
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27.05.2015
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