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

DEADLINES

July 10: personal details for field trip permissions must have reached Svein Helge Orheim at the Barents Institute
August 11: payment of conference fees (using posted invoices)
August 15: if you wish to revise your abstract, please do so by this date and send to organizers
August 20: for those using Pasvikturist for Russian visas, applications must have reached Pasvikturist

Conference location
Kirkenes, Norway

Conference description
See 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
We hope to arrange a transborder café in collaboration with the Pikene på broen arts group in Kirkenes.

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

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

Provisional Programme

Wednesday 10. september: arrival
Thursday 11. september: keynotes, papers
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.

Conference accomodation
The conference arrangors will be reserving rooms for participants paying Registration fee 1, but please contact the hotel yourself if you want to stay for more that the 4 conference nights.

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.

Registration
Has now ended. Please contact the project secretary if you have any queries.

To check if you are registered see: http://uit.no/humfak/9382/

Inquiries
Project secretary Gry Gaard (gry.gaard@hum.uit.no).