Program
BOMOCULT CONFERENCE 2024
Resilience in Times of Uncertainty
10-11 October 2024
University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus
Thursday 10 October 2024
Room F210, Futura Building, Yliopistokatu 7
10.00-11.00 BOMOCULT Members’ Annual Meeting
Room F100, Futura Building, Yliopistokatu 7
12.15-12.20 Conference Opening
12.20-13.15 Keynote
Karin Dean (Tallinn University): “Borderlands as laboratories: testing our understanding of resistance and resilience”
Chair: James W. Scott, UEF
Room F100, Futura Building, Yliopistokatu 7
13.15-15.15 Panel 1: Resilient Border Ecologies
Chair: tbc
Lukas Novotny (Jan Evangelista Purkyne University): ”Cross-border Resilience and Wildfire Risk Management: The case of Czech-Saxony Swizerland”
Dominique van de Klundert (University of Rijeka and UEF): “Dark Sky Islands as a Planetary Network Resilience”
Alicja Fajfer (UEF): “Narrating Disaster: Searching for Closure across the Iron Curtain”
Teemu Oivo (UEF), Olga Dovbysh (University of Helsinki): “Russian Grassroots Environmental Communication on Contested Territories”
15.15-15.45 Coffee
Room F100, Futura Building, Yliopistokatu 7
15.45-17.15 Panel 2: Resilient Lives
Chair: tbc
Lena Englund (UEF): “Writing Resilience and Redemption in Contemporary Autobiography”
Anu Pauliina Morikawa (UEF): “Existential Support in the University Community”
Nader Abazari (UEF), Jonna Ojalammi (UEF), Jessie Dezutter (KU Leuven), and Suvi-Maria Saarelainen (UEF): ”The Silent Struggle: Crisi of Meaning among Older Adults”
17.30-19.00 BOMOCULT Networking Event
In Agora Café, Agora Building, Yliopistokatu 4 (pre-registration necessary)
Friday 11 October 2023
Room F101, Futura Building, Yliopistokatu 7
10.00-12.00 Panel 3: Migration and Resilience
Chair: tbc
Tania Bazzani and Claudia Maria Hoffmann (European University Viadrina): “Resilience as Panacea? A Critical Assessment of EU Policies”
Teele Jänes (UEF): ”Resilience within the System – Perspectives of Migration Officials and Stakeholders in the Baltic Asylum Landscape”
Mert Cangönül (Koç University and University of Amsterdam): “Navigating Border Confrontations through Schengen Visa Application Companies: Processes and Consequences”
Alexandra Simon-López (UEF): “Poetic Resilience in Dorothea Grünzweig’s Poetry Collection Plötzlich alles da (2020)”
12.00-13.00 Lunch Break
Room F100, Futura Building, Yliopistokatu 7
13.00-14.30 Panel 4: Contested Territories
Chair: tbc
James W. Scott (UEF): “Transcarpathia – Borderland Resilience in Times of Conflict
Larisa Leisiö (UEF): ”A Linguistic Anthropological Approach to ‘Border’”
Dirk van Rens (UEF): ”’When He Comes, He Will Be Like an Englishman’: Space, Spy Fiction, and Englishness in Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight”
14.30-15.00 Coffee
15.00-15.15 Closing words: tbc
