Project Organization and Network Partners

Organizers
Johan Schimanski and Stephen Wolfe

Research partners
The project has a network of research partners in Kirkenes, Bergen, Joensuu, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Århus, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Zürich, Düsseldorf, London, Glamorgan, Cornell, Sydney and the Negev.

Cooperating institutions and projects
• The Centre for Border Studies, Prifysgol Morgannwg/University of Glamorgan
• Barents Institute (BAI)
• The Eine literarischer Atlas Europa project
• The Ph.D. school Cultures of Differences at the University of Vienna
• The borderology group at the Philosophy Department, University of Tromsø
• The Arctic Discourses project, University of Tromsø

Associated researchers
• A doctoral student, Katrine Nikolaisen, is associated with the project
• For December 2006-January 2007, the project has a part-time research assistant, Heidi Isaksen
• For January-April 2006, project organizer Johan Schimanski was a Visiting Professor of Border Studies at the The Centre for Border Studies, Glamorgan University
• For the month of November 2005, the project hosted a visiting researcher, Carl Klintborg of the University of Växjö. Carl is working on a postgraduate project on historiography and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost.

Support and Funding
• "Texts and Borders" is defined as one of the five main research areas of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Tromsø
• Project events have been funded by the University of Tromsø and the Humanities Faculty, along with the Ordkalotten International Literature Festival and Norwegian Research Training Committee – Humanities (NFU-H)
• Current activities are funded by a small grant from the Norwegian Research Council and the Humanities Faculty
• The project is seeking project funding from the Norwegian Research Council and the EU 7th frame programme (see EU FP7)
• Other funding possibilities include NordForsk, the European Research Council, COST and the European Science Foundation