Conference on the dynamics of physical and mental borders in the New Europe, Brussels, Belgium
29 January 2010 - 29 January 2010
Belgium
A one-day conference exploring the dynamics of multicultural and crossborder neighbourhood building in an enlarging and globalising Europe will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 29 January 2010.
The teams of the SEFONE ('Searching for neighbours') project, funded by the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), will present and discuss key findings of an innovative research project they conducted in different European locations.
SEFONE's main focus is on community relations that are negotiated across the often divisive dynamic of geopolitically or ethnically defined borders. It brings into comparative perspective the negotiations of national identities that are often framed by border studies and concerns with multicultural identities, which tend to be the domain of migration studies.
SEFONE's innovative research design put three different 'border' realities into comparative perspective: territorial borderlands of the new EU (in Hungary and Cyprus); mental border experiences in multicultural EU regions (in Germany and Italy) and mental and physical border experiences of African-descended subjects across the European space.For further information, please visit:
http://www.sefone.soton.ac.uk/(opens in new window)
The teams of the SEFONE ('Searching for neighbours') project, funded by the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), will present and discuss key findings of an innovative research project they conducted in different European locations.
SEFONE's main focus is on community relations that are negotiated across the often divisive dynamic of geopolitically or ethnically defined borders. It brings into comparative perspective the negotiations of national identities that are often framed by border studies and concerns with multicultural identities, which tend to be the domain of migration studies.
SEFONE's innovative research design put three different 'border' realities into comparative perspective: territorial borderlands of the new EU (in Hungary and Cyprus); mental border experiences in multicultural EU regions (in Germany and Italy) and mental and physical border experiences of African-descended subjects across the European space.For further information, please visit:
http://www.sefone.soton.ac.uk/(opens in new window)