{"id":10,"date":"2021-06-03T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:28:07","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"BOMOCULT Conference 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><strong>Narrativising Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to <strong>the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uef.fi\/en\/research-community\/borders-mobilities-and-cultural-encounters-bomocult\">BOMOCULT<\/a> Conference<\/strong> on borders, mobilities and cultural encounters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2-3 October, 2025<\/strong>, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus, Agora Building, Yliopistokatu 4, 80100 Joensuu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;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 7 thematic sessions with closer to forty paper presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keynote speakers<\/strong> will be <strong>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/sau.int\/faculty\/sanjay-chaturvedi\/\">Sanjay Chaturvedi<\/a><\/strong> (Institute of South Asian Studies, South Asian University, India) and <strong>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/rhea.research.vub.be\/prof-dr-elisabeth-bekers\">Elisabeth Bekers<\/a> <\/strong>(Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference programme will be an on-site event at the University of Eastern Finland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uef.fi\/en\/joensuu-campus\">Joensuu campus<\/a>. The full programme is available <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/programme\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no participation fee, but we ask the participants <strong>to register no later than 25 September 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/registration\/\">here<\/a>. <\/strong>Registration is closed. Please contact the organizers at \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:uef-bomocult@uef.fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uef-bomocult@uef.fi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See you in Joensuu!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/307\/2023\/06\/UEF_Bomocult_Logo-003.png\" alt=\"Logo depicts globe inside a placemark\" class=\"wp-image-683\" style=\"width:317px;height:95px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/307\/2023\/06\/UEF_Bomocult_Logo-003.png 1000w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/307\/2023\/06\/UEF_Bomocult_Logo-003-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/307\/2023\/06\/UEF_Bomocult_Logo-003-768x230.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 4, 80100 Joensuu. 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