Narrativising Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters

Welcome to the 2025 BOMOCULT Conference on borders, mobilities and cultural encounters!

2-3 October, 2025, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus, Agora Building, Yliopistokatu 3, 80100 Joensuu.

Much of the information we receive about borders, borderlands, border-crossing and migration reaches us through different media sources and political messages that are often tendentious in nature. We are frequently presented with highly simplified narratives about national security, sovereignty and identity that warn of the catastrophic consequences of a loss of control over borders. Following the established BoMoCult conference format, this year’s program includes contributions that relate to Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters in the broadest sense, and especially interventions that engage with the increasing narrativisation of people, places and situation related to the multiplicity of borders and border-crossing, national, linguistic, legal, bodily and so on, as well as the consequences of such narratives. Two-day program offers two keynote speakers and seven thematic sessions with 38 paper presentations.

Keynote speakers will be Professor Sanjay Chaturvedi (Institute of South Asian Studies, South Asian University, India) and Professor Elisabeth Bekers (Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

The conference programme will be an on-site event at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus. The full programme is available here.

There is no participation fee, but we ask the participants to register no later than 25 September 2025 here.

See you in Joensuu!