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• 18 avr 2016

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Modern

  Theories of the imagination and contemporary political economics

  Cet atelier international est organisé par le Collectif de recherche sur l’imaginaire (CRI). Il a pour objectif des présentations courtes laissant la place à des discussions longues, chaque participant retenu devant soumettre un texte à l’étude avant la rencontre. Les discussions approfondies permettront d’étoffer la prochaine programmation de recherche du Collectif. La problématique qui nous intéresse se situe à la croisée des chemins entre une actualisation des théories de l’imaginaire et une interrogation quant au rôle joué par le concept d’imaginaire dans l’économie politique contemporaine.

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• 17 oct 2013

  18 oct 2013

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  Borders, Walls and Security

  Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question still remains “Do good fences still make good neighbours”? Since the Great Wall of China, construction of which began under the Qin dynasty, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman “Limes” or the Danevirk fence, the “wall” has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years the wall has been given renewed vigour all around the world, whether in North America, in Europe (with the Greek border fence), in Asia (for instance in India) or in Middle East. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those ‘behind the line’? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls?

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