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• 20 déc 2015

  Montreal | Fribourg

  Call for papers - History

  Student mobility in the French-speaking space in the 20th century: institutions, trajectories and sensitivities

  Ce colloque cherche à mieux comprendre les réseaux et sociabilités forgés à travers les échanges étudiants qui se multiplient dans le monde francophone au cours du XX^e siècle, et en particulier après 1945. Plus précisément, ce colloque vise à éclairer les liens entre, d’une part, la mobilité et les séjours d’étudiants francophones (Canada, Suisse, Afrique subsaharienne, Maroc, Indochine, etc.), facteurs de rencontres et d’initiation à l’« international », et, d’autre part, les institutions en charge de la mobilité étudiante dans l’espace francophone.

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• 05 oct 2015

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Borders, walls and violence

  Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

  More border walls and border fences are being built every year all across the world. Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia are among the latest to announce yet another border fence. Twenty-five years ago it was believed that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reconfiguration of international relations would open an age of globalization in which States would become obsolete, ushering in a world without borders. In the wake of 9/11, however, borders came back in light, new borders were created and new border walls erected. In the wake of the Arab Spring, came even more border barriers and walls, symbols that were thought to have disappeared with the collapse of the bipolar international system. Today, they reinforce borderlines the world over, transforming both soft and semi-permeable borders alike into sealed, exclusionary hard borders. Walls are symbols of identity reaffirmation, markers of State sovereignty, instruments of dissociation, locus of a growing violence.

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