{"id":271,"date":"2021-06-16T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T12:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:37:34","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstracts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The abstracts of the conference presentations will appear here in September after the program is launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t<div id=\"accordion-block_08b336e57a7d27cd0b4e4731dd82ac1c\" class=\"accordions\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-526\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-526\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKeynote 1\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-526\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-526\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW90804620 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-CA\" xml:lang=\"EN-CA\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW90804620 BCX0\">Border Heritage:<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW90804620 BCX0\"> Ideological Legacies of Division Encounter an Emerging World of Mobility and Diversity<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Victor Konrad, Carleton University, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-CA\" xml:lang=\"EN-CA\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">Ideologies of nationalism and<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\"> fundamentalism<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">accrue<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">in part <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">as<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">border heritage <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">from territorial inheritance, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">national identity, hardened gender roles, naturalized hierarchies, and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">belief in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">racial superiority, among other forces that form tradition and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">sustain power structures. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">Throughout human history, people have created and shaped borders, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW7848068 BCX0\">and,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\"> fashioned approaches and strategies to cross the boundaries <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">established<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">. Human imperatives to first draw lines and limits for territory, and then to move across and beyond the limits imposed, characterize human social, political, and cultural life. The process of delimiting space and then shifting it is not ephemeral; it leaves a legacy, a heritage of borders. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">This heritage of borders is not necessarily permanent or durable because border heritage is reinterpreted, revised, and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">re-<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">established as regimes that border heritage. On the one hand, people create border heritage, that is, a heritage of borders, and on the other hand, humans contribute to the bordering and selectivity of heritage. Border heri<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">tage is shared and divided past that is<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\"> acutely created, contested, and experienced<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">This presentation unfolds the geopolitics of the dilemma of exclusion and inclusion as border heritage encounters globalization and manifests in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">border walls. It traces how border memory in time changes into border memorialization as place, how border heritage tourism ideologizes colonial pasts, and how border heritage cultures perpetuate a continuing politics of legacy. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW7848068 BCX0\">Over all<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7848068 BCX0\">, the presentation highlights the centrality of understanding border heritage to mediate polarized ideologies.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW7848068 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-6177\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-6177\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 1a: Digital and Technological Borders\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-6177\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-6177\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW170175230 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170175230 BCX0\">Synthetic Communication and Populism: Use of Deepfakes in the Trump Administration<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Outi Hakola, UEF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper explores how the Trump administration employs deepfake videos and AI-generated images as part of its public relations strategy. From Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign onward, Trump and his team have actively shared synthetic audio-visual content online. During his presidential term, such content has become part of the White House\u2019s official communication.<\/p>\n<p>Examples like mischievously self-promoting Trump as a Pope, or the satirical portrayal of budget officials as the Grim Reaper, illustrate how deepfakes are used to create humorous, meme-like media with a popular culture aesthetic. This communication style reflects Trump\u2019s preference for direct engagement with supporters \u201cin their own language,\u201d rejecting traditional presidential decorum.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the combination of mockery and self-praise reinforces bipartisan division and political polarization. These deepfakes are not merely playful or provocative\u2014they are calculated instruments of populist political messaging. They continue the post-truth tactics of earlier Trump-era politics, where emotional impact and visual spectacle override factual accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>By analyzing deepfakes, this paper places synthetic media within the broader framework of political communication. It examines how deepfakes contribute to affective polarization and asks what happens to public trust in the presidential institution when a political polarization is synthetically manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100283308 BCX0\">The Digital Gaze of Integration: Un<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100283308 BCX0\">pa<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100283308 BCX0\">cking the Ideology of Neutral Bordering in Finland and the EU<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ville-Samuli Haverinen, UEF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary European mobility governance increasingly depends on digital systems, including biometric<br \/>\ndatabases, interoperable information systems, and risk-assessment technologies. These systems are<br \/>\ncommonly justified through the language of security, efficiency, and neutrality. This paper argues that such<br \/>\nneutrality is ideological: claims to objective risk calculation can mask political distinctions between desirable<br \/>\nand undesirable forms of mobility. Finland brings these questions into sharp relief, combining extensive<br \/>\npublic-sector digitalisation with an eastern EU border whose securitisation has intensified since 2022.<br \/>\nThe paper develops the concept of the digital gaze of integration to examine how anticipatory data practices<br \/>\ncarry classificatory logics from integration governance into pre-border settings. It approaches digital<br \/>\nbordering as an assemblage of data infrastructures, legal norms, institutional practices, and social relations,<br \/>\nwithin which political judgments about mobility and membership can appear as technical outputs.<br \/>\nDrawing on EU and Finnish legal, policy, and governance documents, the paper shows how risk-based<br \/>\nborder practices may extend and reorganise established forms of inclusion and exclusion. It connects border<br \/>\ntechnologies and datafied governance to wider questions of societal membership, contributing to dialogue<br \/>\nbetween critical border studies, digital migration studies, and critical algorithmic studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW222869336 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222869336 BCX0\">Discourses of Finnishness and Finland in Popular Russian YouTube Travel Vlogs (2015\u20132022, prior to 24 February 2022)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Maija H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen-Abdessamad, UEF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before the outbreak of COVID-19 and the beginning of Russia\u2019s full-scale war of<br \/>\naggression in Ukraine in February 2022, Russian tourists constituted the largest group<br \/>\nof foreign visitors to Finland. During this period, many highly popular Russian youtubers<br \/>\nvisited the country and published travel vlogs documenting their experiences. Using a<br \/>\ndataset of 36 travel vlogs published between 2015 and 2022 from 12 popular Russian<br \/>\ntravel-oriented YouTube channels, this study examines the discourses through which<br \/>\nthe vloggers construct images of Finland and Finnishness in their speech.<br \/>\nDrawing on historical context and theories of cultural encounters, travel, and social<br \/>\nmedia\u2014particularly vlogging\u2014I demonstrate, how vloggers construct their<br \/>\nrepresentations of Finland and Finnishness through different intersecting discourses of<br \/>\nproximity and otherness, that compete, overlap, and intertwine in different ways. Based<br \/>\non rarely studied material from a recent historical period, this master\u2019s thesis in<br \/>\nsociology highlights competing Russian narratives about Finland in contrast to the<br \/>\nhostile state-driven narratives prevalent today. At the same time, the discourses largely<br \/>\nreflect earlier mainstream perspectives in Russian travel representations of Finland<br \/>\nonly a few years ago.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n\t<div id=\"accordion-block_45cf43a31942785d34b761701a05624c\" class=\"accordions\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-9260\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-9260\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 1b: Mobilities\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-9260\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-9260\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW247514203 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW247514203 BCX0\">Rethinking Postcolonial Mobilities through Literature<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Anna-Leena Toivanen, UEF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by research that positions literary texts as capable of contributing to theoretical discussions on mobility (Merriman &amp; Pearce 2017; Frenay et al. 2025), this paper argues that literature can enable a deeper understanding of \u2018postcolonial mobilities\u2019 than mainstream postcolonial literary scholarship. Although there are signs of increasing dialogue between postcolonial studies and mobilities theory, many analyses of \u2018mobility\u2019 within the field are not about mobility as such. Rather, there remains a tendency to approach mobilities metaphorically or through their outcomes, as well as to equate mobility with migration in ways that disconnect it from other categories of mobility. In this paper, I address these tendencies and simultaneously map out recent developments in the study of postcolonial literary mobilities. Drawing on contemporary postcolonial literature \u2013 a travelogue by Emmanuel Iduma, a road novel by Max Lobe, and narrative non-fiction by Khalid Lyamlahy \u2013 the paper demonstrates how literary texts diversify discussions about postcolonial mobilities, both thematically and through their form. I approach the texts less as objects of detailed close reading than as catalysts for theoretical thinking and argue that, unlike much postcolonial literary scholarship, they engage with the material, multiple, and relational dimensions of mobility in the global aftermath of colonialism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW59473762 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59473762 BCX0\">Sound as Borderwork: Infrastructural Sound and Listening Politics on Taiwan\u2019s Archipelagic Borderland Kinmen<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<span class=\"TextRun SCXW59473762 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59473762 BCX0\">Chengyu Yang, University of Bristol<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article examines how borders come about as the outcome of acoustic effort by residents and institutions, at moments when infrastructural change loses its material visibility through decay, conversion, or unfinished construction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted since 2025, I trace the changing infrastructural politics of Kinmen, a Taiwanese archipelago lying a short distance off the southeastern coast of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC). Over the past two decades, infrastructural conditions on the islands have gone through large-scale suspension and renewal, following both the demilitarisation that came with the lifting of War Zone Administration and the rapid urbanisation of Xiamen, a similarly sized PRC island just a few miles away.<\/p>\n<p>I therefore ask how these shifting infrastructures continue to act on the border once their material forms have decayed, been converted, or been left unfinished, and thus fell out of the sight. Moving beyond the discussion of visual absence, I show that the sound of these infrastructures becomes central to borderwork, and I do so through three cases: a local collective effort to protect ageing casuarina windbreaks, the debate over the demolition of retired military installations, and the PRC\u2019s ongoing airport construction on reclaimed land a few miles from Kinmen. Bordering activities here take place precisely through the work of keeping, (re)simulating, and repeatedly listening to infrastructural sound, work carried out by institutional and non-state actors alike. Such work also opens room for anticipation and speculation about futures of border lives. Residents select and debate about which sounds to hold on to and which to treat as intrusion, and in doing so they make one version of local livelihood audible while leaving others aside, so that borders are kept porous and open to negotiation. The article challenges and extends work at the intersection of sound, infrastructure, and border studies, which has so far concentrated on noise governance and on the shared memory and\/or ideologies that infrastructural noise calls up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW107132636 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107132636 BCX0\">Gender and Mobilities in Chinelo <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW107132636 BCX0\">Ok<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW107132636 BCX0\">pa<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW107132636 BCX0\">ranta\u2019s<\/span> <\/span><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW107132636 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107132636 BCX0\">Under the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW107132636 BCX0\">Udala<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107132636 BCX0\"> Trees<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107132636 BCX0\">Justyna Kie<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107132636 BCX0\">\u0142<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107132636 BCX0\">kowicz<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Chinelo <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Okparanta\u2019s<\/span> <\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">oeuvre<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> abounds in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">narratives<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> of mobilities and cultural encounters. H<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">er short story collection <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Happiness, Like Water<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> (2013) <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">addresses a wide range of societal <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">issues, including homophobia<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> and<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> sexism<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> while <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">the<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> novel <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Harry Sylvester Bird<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> (2022) <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">explores<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> racism, migration, and nation, deconstructing traditional <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">notions of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">identity<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">through satire<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Okparanta\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> characters traverse physical and metaphorical <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">borders both within and outside <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Nigeria.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> Employing an intersectional approach to literary mobilities<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">, t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">his paper demonstrates how <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Okparanta\u2019s<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">novel<\/span> <\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Under the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Udala<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> Trees<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">(2015) assists in unpacking conservative ideologie<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">s and challenging prevalent ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">. Set against the background of the Nigeria\u2013Biafra War (1967\u20131970), <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">the narrative <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">focuses on<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">trauma and personal loss<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">, a difficult <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">mother\u2013daughter relationship<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">, and the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">conflict<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> between the protagonist\u2019s Christian upbringing and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">her <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">lesbian identity<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">The paper<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> utilises the notion of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">transnation<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">(<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">Ashcroft<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> 2025)<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">and transnational <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">literature <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">to <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">analyse<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> the novel\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">complex entanglement with mobilities and cultural <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">identities<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">I<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">n doing so, i<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">t explores the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">connection between <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">representational <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">and actual <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">mobilities<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">(Cresswell 2006; Aguiar et al. 2019; Toivanen and Garc\u00eda 2024<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">)<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">, indicating <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">how <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">literary research <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">may contribute to the understanding of<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> diverse contexts and practices of mobility. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">The paper also argues that, by foregrounding <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">the history of<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> queer women\u2019s<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">subversions of gendered ideas<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">, the novel encourages affective readings beyond the bo<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\">undaries<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186235091 BCX0\"> of race, ethnicity, and nation.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW186235091 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n\t<div id=\"accordion-block_953fbfb4f91a31fce7f4a3a51d7c7f7b\" class=\"accordions\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-3978\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-3978\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 2a: Affect, Encounter, Experience\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-3978\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-3978\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW187796708 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW187796708 BCX0\">Border Crossing with Christian Dance in Finland<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Tuomas J\u00e4rvenp\u00e4\u00e4, UEF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, I examine the embodied experiences of dancing women in the context of contemporary Finnish Christianity, where dancing has become increasingly normalized in recent years. My data consist of written responses collected in spring 2026 from 41 women who practice various forms of dance in Christian contexts. The material is analyzed using qualitative content analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The material highlights a broader transformation in Finnish Christian culture compared to earlier decades, when church authorities strongly defined themselves in opposition to dance. On the one hand, Finnish churches rejected dance as part of a wider struggle against modernization, in which dance was perceived as a threat, particularly to the morality of women&#8217;s bodies. Furthermore, for centuries Finnish church institutions sought to suppress spiritual practices considered ecstatic or otherwise excessive, and these practices were likewise often associated with women&#8217;s religiosity.<\/p>\n<p>This historical continuum of opposition to and prohibition of dance provides the central context for the narratives of the Christian women who responded to the writing call. Their accounts are written against this history of prohibition, marginalization, and dismissal. They describe both profound spiritual experiences facilitated by dance and the grief and shame associated with their marginalized position within Finnish Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW181439445 BCX0\">Straightened Imaginations, Affective Encounters: Terraqueous Borders Across Antep and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW181439445 BCX0\">Izmi<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW181439445 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW181439445 BCX0\">Dirim<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"TextRun SCXW181439445 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW181439445 BCX0\">Din\u00e7er, Delft University of Technology\/Independent Research Collective <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW181439445 BCX0\">Lokaal<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW181439445 BCX0\">, Netherlands<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Populist and nationalist ideologies rely on spatial fixes and exceptional scenarios attributing meaning to them, effectively straightening ideals and imaginations by keeping them in places. Borders, in this sense, can be considered as aligning objects, materials of desire within the namesake regime, exercising agency over bodies, (re)emerging as spatial and ecological entities, ordering relations across overlapping worlds. On a scorching summer day -July 22, 2022-, what composes a border site between Turkish and Syrian nation-state authorities offered me entry to this<br \/>\nworld of many worlds, dissolving the spectacular image of the wall: an ancient city half<br \/>\nunearthed, a minefield half de-mined, a Mesopotamian river running low through riparian and stateless nations, a barbed-wire border wall with advanced technologies, and a military station overlooking the whole, us, and beyond.<br \/>\nThis contribution accounts for what falls beyond cartographically constructed recognition of belonging and bordering through an architectural investigation of multi-sited fieldwork around what I call terraqueous borders, from the ancient town near the Euphrates to a dispossessed mansion or a migrant neighborhood on the Aegean coast. I will share two compositional, fragmented and situated, registers from my approach, \u201canecdoted cartographies,\u201d both of which attune to dissonance<br \/>\nfrom an outsider-within position through affective encounters, unfolding spatial-material dimensions of terraqueous bordering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW119948657 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW119948657 BCX0\">Concepts and Practices of Religious Encounters in Culturally Diverse Madagascar<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Jenni M\u00f6lk\u00e4nen, UEF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Madagascar is a place where diverse cultural encounters define the everyday life. Located in the western Indian Ocean, the island has been a place where different people, ideas and practices have moved, mobilized and blended. Scholarly debates have shown that the tropes of syncretism, creolization, and hybridity have framed discussions of interreligious contact. However, these concepts have come under scrutiny, and scholars have begun to explore what new conceptual and theoretical possibilities may emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Madagascar\u2019s religious landscape is highly diverse, encompassing numerous Christian denominations as well as Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and folk religions. Drawing on debates about East African and Indian Ocean perspectives concerning religion and religious practice, I examine the concepts and practices developed by different religious groups, state representatives and local people within this context of multiplicity and, more recently, amid a growing emphasis on Christian nationalism.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-2963\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-2963\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 2b: Memory\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-2963\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-2963\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW154014218 BCX0\">From Silence to Suffering: Remembering the Finnish Occu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW154014218 BCX0\">pa<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW154014218 BCX0\">tion in Russian Karelia<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Alexander Osipov, UEF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the film Vesuri was released in Russia. It tells the story of children held in a Finnish concentration camp during the Finnish occupation of Soviet Karelia from 1941 to 1944. The film itself attracted little attention, but the film set \u2013 including barbed wire, barracks, and watchtowers \u2013 caught the attention of local authorities and entrepreneurs, who planned to turn the site of a former concentration camp near Petrozavodsk into a tourist attraction. It soon became clear, however, that local residents were opposed to such a project and to the memories of the war that it evoked, and the plan was eventually abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>This study examines the changing memory of the Finnish occupation in Russian Karelia, focusing on former concentration camp prisoners and sites of public memory. It explores how memories of the occupation have changed over time, how the relationship between former prisoners and Soviet and later Russian authorities has evolved, and why their suffering has once again acquired political and public significance. More broadly, the study examines<br \/>\ntransformations in Russia\u2019s dominant historical narrative, with particular attention to the shift from heroic representations of the Great Patriotic War toward narratives centered on suffering and sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW221142609 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW221142609 BCX0\">Multidirectional Memory and Asymmetrical Memorialization: An Analysis of the Memorial Landscape of Berlin<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Anitta Anna Moncy, University of Bonn, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walter Benjamin calls Berlin \u2018the mnemonic city\u2019 in his posthumously published work, A Berlin Chronicle (1970). This is particularly due to its extensive state-sponsored memorialization of the Holocaust. At the same time, the city has become a site of contested political memory, especially<br \/>\nregarding public expressions of solidarity with Palestinians. This paper examines Berlin\u2019s memorial landscape and probes into how the state-sanctioned Holocaust memorials, especially the \u2018Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe\u2019 and the \u2018Stolpersteine\u2019, and grassroots Palestinian memorial expressions in Berlin reveal and produce hierarchies of memory within urban public space.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rothberg challenges the notion that collective memories compete in a zero-sum framework. In Multidirectional Memory, he argues that memories interact productively across histories of violence, colonialism, and genocide. Rather than displacing one another, different memories can coexist dialogically. However, the institutional and spatial organization of memorial culture may nevertheless produce hierarchies that privilege certain histories while marginalizing others. This tension between multidirectionality in theory and hierarchy in practice forms the conceptual core of this paper. This analysis uses the framework of \u2018Abnormal Justice\u2019 by Nancy Fraser and the conception of the \u2018contemporary\u2019 by Giorgio Agamben to probe into the multilayered temporal and spatial asymmetry of the sets of memories in question and their historical location.<\/p>\n<p>The paper juxtaposes two sets of memory sites. First, it examines state-sanctioned Holocaust memorials in Berlin, particularly the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Denkmal f\u00fcr die ermordeten Juden Europas) and the \u2018Stolpersteine\u2019, as emblematic of institutionalized remembrance embedded in national identity and public space. Second, it analyzes grassroots Palestinian memorial expressions like different forms of political graffiti calling for Palestinian liberation. Unlike official Holocaust memorials, these expressions often lack institutional recognition and are subject to removal, policing, or political controversy. The discrepancy between the environment in which these two sets of memories are set and received cannot be<br \/>\nexplained by the semantics of contemporaneity or temporality and therefore the affect that their coexistence produce needs to be analysed<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Methodologically, the project combines spatial and visual analysis of memorial sites with discourse analysis of public debates surrounding them. By examining their location, scale, materiality, and degree of institutional protection, the paper explores how authority and legitimacy are inscribed into the urban landscape. Secondary literature on memory studies, memorial culture in Germany, and political contestations of public space will provide contextual grounding.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The paper advances the preliminary argument that Berlin\u2019s memorial landscape reflects a structured hierarchy of remembrance shaped by state power, geopolitical positioning, and the discourse on Germany\u2019s historical responsibility. While Rothberg\u2019s framework suggests the possibility of solidarity, the empirical case of Berlin demonstrates how political institutions regulate which memories achieve permanence and legitimacy and which needs to be regulated and mutilated. The analysis contributes to broader debates on memory culture by interrogating how global histories of violence are differentially recognized, connected, or silenced within European memory regimes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW162128288 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW162128288 BCX0\">Borderland Narratives. Negotiating Memory and Political Identity in the Vilnius Region Museums<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW162128288 BCX0\">R\u016bta<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW162128288 BCX0\">Vy\u0161niauskait\u0117, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW162128288 BCX0\">Vilnius University, Lithuania<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\">I<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\">n the historically contested borderlands of the Vilnius region, local museums act as mediators of historical knowledge for the public, playing a signific<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\"> role in shaping the social cohesion and sense of belonging that underpin regional stability. Drawing on this case, this paper examines how memory institutions in borderland regions today navigate complex heritage shaped by interwar nationalizing projects, the Holocaust, and Soviet era forced modernization. These ruptures created a &#8220;fractured public memory&#8221; where multi-ethnic histories were long relegated to private remembrance or suppressed by state-supervised Soviet and post-Soviet narratives. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\">Arguably, this<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\"> fractured public memory can be seen not only as a sign, but <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\">as a result of<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133186362 BCX0\"> the borderland region\u2019s contested or even ambiguous political identity. By marginalizing the region&#8217;s Polish, Jewish, and Belarusian histories and avoiding politically charged topics like local collaboration or forced modernization, these museums risk leaving &#8220;memory voids&#8221; that can be exploited by contemporary disinformation or polarize local communities. The paper argues that moving toward more transparent, inclusive versions of history is a prerequisite for resilient social integration. By transforming museums into &#8220;contact zones&#8221;\u2014using tools like the digital repatriation of diasporic archives \u2014these institutions can help &#8220;un-silence&#8221; marginalized perspectives. The goal is to integrate these disparate memories into a cohesive regional identity that reduces social fragmentation and mitigates the risk of heritage being weaponized in regional conflicts.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW133186362 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colonialism, Memory, and Territorial Disputes: The News Discourse of the Territorial Conflict over Essequibo between Guyana and Venezuela\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188363813 BCX0\">Virpi <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW188363813 BCX0\">Saloj\u00e4rvi, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188363813 BCX0\">UEF, and Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\">The territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo region, an area rich in oil and other natural resources, has gained renewed political attention since 2023. This dispute is tied to a long-standing historical, economic, and political conflict between Venezuela and British Guiana, which was resolved in 1899 in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW196574501 BCX0\">favor<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\"> of Britain, with Venezuela not present. Venezuela\u2019s referendum in December 2023 intensified the conflict, with reports <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\">indicating<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\"> that voters <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW196574501 BCX0\">favored<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\"> annexing Essequibo. Following this, a law was enacted in March 2024 <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\">establishing<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\"> Essequibo as a new Venezuelan state, to be administered from <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW196574501 BCX0\">Tumeremo<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\">. Through a rhetoric-performative discourse analysis () of 673 news articles from Al Jazeera, BBC, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW196574501 BCX0\">Efecto<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW196574501 BCX0\">Cocuyo<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\">, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW196574501 BCX0\">\u00d9ltimas<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW196574501 BCX0\"> Noticias, Stabroek News, and Kaieteur News, published between 2023 and 2025, this paper explores the ways in which historical and political assertions are utilized to heighten polarization and construct narratives grounded in binary relationships (i.e., us versus them). It highlights the colonial origins of divisive matters and memory politics surrounding a continuing and unresolved territorial conflict.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW196574501 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-1024\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-1024\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 3a: Environment and the Posthuman\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-1024\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-1024\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92364176 BCX0\">Beavers<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92364176 BCX0\"> and Bears at the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW92364176 BCX0\">Latvian\u2013Belarusian<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92364176 BCX0\"> Border: Nature, Mobility, and Placemaking<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW92364176 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92364176 BCX0\">Aija Lulle, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This paper examines the Latvian Belarusian border as a more-than-human borderland, arguing that animals, water, forests, and wetlands are not auxiliary features of border politics but foundational to how borders are made, experienced, and contested. The paper explores how nonhuman actors participate in the production of \u201cgreen\u201d and \u201cblue\u201d borders: landscapes where forests, rivers, marshes, and animal movements shape the practical and symbolic life of territorial division.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">I position ecological life as central to the study of mobility and immobility. Beavers alter waterways, flood paths, and reshape infrastructures; bears cross, inhabit, and disrupt territorial boundaries in ways that exceed state control. Their movements and habitats reveal how borders are porous and obstructive, mobile, naturalized and engineered. In this sense, nature is an active force in their formation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">I contribute to border studies by insisting that animals and environments must be fully integrated into analyses of bordering, placemaking, and spatial governance. The Latvian\u2013Belarusian border emerges not only as a geopolitical line but as an ecological assemblage where human and nonhuman mobilities intersect. Any account of mobility\u2019s immobilities remains incomplete without nature as a foundational analytic category.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133440064 BCX0\">Northern Tropicality \u2013 Encounters in Materiality, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133440064 BCX0\">Knowledge<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133440064 BCX0\"> and Imaginaries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW106259364 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW106259364 BCX0\">Anna-Sofia Sysser, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">My doctoral research (UEF, Cultural Studies) explores constructions of tropicality in Finland; how <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">tropical nature <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">is presented<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\"> in northern <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW41641340 BCX0\">everyday<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">, leisure, and consumer en<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">vir<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">onments<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">. The empirical material consists of hybrid ethnography in 20 sites (<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">e.g.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\"> bot<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">cal gardens, zoos, spas) and &#8216;tropical&#8217; grocery product offerings by Finnish comp<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">es. Of the wider phenomenon I use the term <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">artificial tropical<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\"> (<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW41641340 BCX0\">keinotrooppisuus<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">) in which tropicality is created and represented outside the borders of geographical tropics. To my observations I apply <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">critical theories of <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">tropicality<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">(<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">e.g.<\/span> <\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">Arnold 1996; Bowd &amp; Clayton 2019; Driver &amp; Martins 2005) and discussions of cultural studies, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">visual culture,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\"> everyday aesthetics, and postcolonialism.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\"> As the tropics have been typically constructed as en<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">vir<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">onmentally \u201cother\u201d to the temperate, my research contributes to understanding how me<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">ngs and imaginaries of the tropics are currently constructed and negotiated here in the warming north. Through this we can address <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">the tensions of planetary interdependence and overconsumption, where critically considering prevailing values, imagination, and aesthetic preferences <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\">is<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW41641340 BCX0\"> essential. In BOMOCULT Conference I would like to present my summary section\u2019s themes and disposition in process.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW41641340 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260891065 BCX0\">Blue Tears as Affective <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW260891065 BCX0\">Geonarratives<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260891065 BCX0\">: Reconfiguring Matsu and Beyond<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260891065 BCX0\">Kai-Y<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260891065 BCX0\">an<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260891065 BCX0\">g Huang, National Taiwan University<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">Each spring, bioluminescent plankton bloom off the coast of China and are carried ashore by the waves, casting a faint <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">blu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">glow, known as <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">Blu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">T<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">r<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">s, along the shores of Taiwan\u2019s Matsu Islands. Now a f<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">asy destination, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">Blu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">T<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">r<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">s tourism marks Matsu\u2019s transformation from a former battlefield into a spectacle of peace. Yet these luminous waters also carry the islanders\u2019 memories of war, aspirations for development, and a therapeutic presence that flickers gently at night. Drawing on the analytical framework of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW150511154 BCX0\">geonarratives<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\"> which understands story and history as inherently both ideational and material that shapes life and space, this study further examines their affective forms \u2014 namely the sensory and affect \u2014 which emerge through encounters among diverse elements such as plankton, seawater, islands, infrastructures, regulations, and Cold War legacies. We suggest that while <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">Blu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">T<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">r<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">s generate ahistorical forms of memory that reconfigure the me<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">ng of darkness and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW150511154 BCX0\">light, and<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\"> reorient developmental desires toward mindful ways of living with the potential to heal the wounds of war, they also give rise to new forms of competition to capitalize on the branding appeal of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">Blu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">T<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">r<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">s. This growing competition, in turn, places increasingly mounting pressure on both the ocean and the islands. In an era of escalating regional tension and the dynamics of a \u201cNew Cold War,\u201d <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">Blu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">T<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">e<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">r<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW150511154 BCX0\">s offer a way to perceive geopolitics through illuminated waves and a haunting sense of peace \u2014 though one that lingers just beyond our human selves.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW150511154 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Posthuman Contact Zones in Jesmyn Ward\u2019s <i>Sing, Unburied, Sing<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<span class=\"TextRun SCXW148699976 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW148699976 BCX0\">Pekka Kilpel\u00e4inen, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">Jesmyn Ward\u2019s novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) narrates the struggles of an African American family in the Southern United States in an undefined present. It tackles the issues of Southern racism, interracial relationships, and drug abuse through multiple narrators. Remarkably, ghosts appear in the narrative as narrators and as bearers of me<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">ng, as symbolic figures, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">in accordance with<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\"> Avery Gordon\u2019s conception of ghosts as an ideologically invested <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">phenomenon in their own right<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">. The boundary-crossing communication between ghosts and humans entails the re-<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW232895114 BCX0\">membering<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">, in Toni Morrison\u2019s sense, of the cultural trauma in the allegorical contact zones where the ghostly and the mundane, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">past<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\"> and present, meet and intertwine. In this paper, I will discuss the ways in which the supernatural, ghostly aspects of the novel construct a counternarrative to the demystifying, rationalizing narrative of Western modernity. The political significance of supernatural phenomena in the novel finds its most intriguing expression in the tree of ghosts that may be grasped as a <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW232895114 BCX0\">chronotope<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\">, a spatiotemporal metaphor, which embodies the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW232895114 BCX0\">borderscape<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\"> between the supernatural and mundane. This may be understood through Donna Haraway\u2019s concept of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW232895114 BCX0\">natureculture<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232895114 BCX0\"> where conventional categorizations are questioned.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW232895114 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-7424\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-7424\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 3b: Spaces of Encounters and Migration\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-7424\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-7424\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW89063377 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW89063377 BCX0\">South Asian Interfaith Marriage as a Transgressive Space: Everyday Negotiations of Difference<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW89063377 BCX0\">Falguny<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW89063377 BCX0\"> Islam, UEF<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\">South Asian interfaith marriage is a nonconformist socio-cultural space where religious, familial, and community boundaries are continually negotiated. I argue that the everyday encounter between interfaith married couples provides insight into the social processes of migr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\"> integration and becomes an interesting site for understanding the context of immigr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\">s\u2019 anxiety and fear. By studying interfaith marriage and the family practices of interfaith couples, it becomes possible to <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\">probe<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\"> religious and other forms of transgression. The premise of my paper is that South Asian couples who belong to interfaith marriages are less studied in Finland. If this group is not known properly, we will not be able to know how family, marriage, and interfaith association are also related to the broader context of border, nationality, identity, integration, and many other socio-cultural factors. On that account, my paper focuses on South Asian interfaith marriage and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\">attempts<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW240271674 BCX0\"> to show that knowing this group will tell us more about how negotiation with differences takes place in the most private space in the context of Finland.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW240271674 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW175462426 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW175462426 BCX0\">From Protection to Precarity? Employment Trajectories of Ukrainians under Temporary Protection in Finland<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW175462426 BCX0\">Saara <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW175462426 BCX0\">Koikkalainen, UEF<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\">Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has resulted in the largest displacement in recent European history. In response, the European Union activated the Temporary Protection Directive (Directive 2001\/55\/EC), marking the first time the principle of collective protection was applied. For those fleeing the war, the years under temporary protection have signified a prolonged state of temporality, as it is still not clear if they are welcome to stay in their current host countries when the war ends, should they wish to do so. This presentation is based on linked register data obtained from the Finnish Immigration Service and Statistics Finland, which includes information on all Ukrainians who were gr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\">ed temporary protection in Finland between 2022 and 2024 (N = 70 462). It examines the kinds of labour market paths the Ukrainians have had so far in Finland. Of those aged 18 or above (N= 53 401), 65% were women and 35% men. Among the Ukrainians of working age (18-65 years), the share of those in employment has varied between 5 and 38 per cent in the monthly data, with most employed individuals holding <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW8613158 BCX0\">fixed-term<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\"> rather than permanent contracts. Employment has been concentrated in manual and elementary occupations, such as cle<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\">ng, horticulture, food processing, and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\">assisting<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW8613158 BCX0\"> agricultural labour. The presentation highlights the precarity of the situation of the Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection, whose transition to the Finnish labour markets has been difficult.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW8613158 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215718547 BCX0\">Who Makes Post-<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW215718547 BCX0\">colonial<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215718547 BCX0\"> East Asian Maritime Borders?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW215718547 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215718547 BCX0\">Yu-Hsiu Lien, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\">Scholars have long argued that external powers are the main architects of East Asian maritime borders and disputes. This paper draws on critical border studies to further examine how domestic actors and their practices <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\">constitute<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\"> bordering processes. It examines Taiwan and the East Asian seas where postcolonial and Cold War legacies continue to shape claims to marine space and resources. In 1982, Japan <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\">designated<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\"> its 200-mile exclusive economic zone and prohibited Taiwanese fleet from its newly established national waters. Drawing on fisheries and diplomatic archives, the paper traces how Taiwanese authorities navigated fishery regulation and diplomatic disputes while managing Taiwan\u2019s renowned coral fishery following this jurisdictional shift. Taiwanese officials alternated between regulating and strategically overlooking this fishery, balancing geopolitical tensions with support for the domestic fleet. Japan\u2019s maritime regime simultaneously reordered postcolonial economic connections and revealed how Taiwanese officials\u2019 diverse positions contributed to constructing maritime borders. Findings enhance understanding of the role of maritime borders in Taiwan\u2019s political status by <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\">demonstrating<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\"> that bordering can <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\">emerge<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\"> through contingent policy and actions. Rather than viewing East Asian maritime borders solely as products of geopolitical and ideological conflict, this paper highlights the endogenous calculations of bureaucrats and social groups as they do the work of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW268160336 BCX0\">statemaking<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW268160336 BCX0\"> through bordering.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW268160336 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW37979071 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW37979071 BCX0\">International Migration and Policy Responses of Kazakhstan in Central Asia: Expectations of Efficiency through Digitalization<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW37979071 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW37979071 BCX0\">Minna Piipponen, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\">The paper examines recent international migration processes in Kazakhstan and the ways its migration regime within Central Asia is shaped and shaping in the context of dynamic socio-economic development and increasingly complex geopolitical and security en<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\">vir<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\">onment. Attention is paid to the ways in which state has recently formulated the goals of the regulatory framework for migration and to how these formulations correspond to the contemporary migration processes. As discussed in migration studies, migration regimes and politics encompass multiple political levels, historical <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW130709519 BCX0\">trajectories<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\"> and geographical scales. They are constituted through and (re)combine heterogeneous policies, governance practices, societal discourses, actors, infrastructures, and mobilities that regulate and influence cross-border movements and migr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\">s&#8217; lives. The recently renewed migration policy framework of Kazakhstan places strong emphasis on the promises of efficiency through digitalization when managing mobilities in support of socio-economic development and, simultaneously, in addressing security concerns. The paper critically analyses and evaluates state <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\">perceptions<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\"> and formulations that <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\">establish<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW130709519 BCX0\"> linear connections from migration processes to socio-economic development and security in contemporary Kazakhstan and Central Asia. It considers how these assumptions correspond to, simplify, or overlook the complexities of migration processes. The analysis draws on policy documents, including Kazakhstan&#8217;s migration policy concepts adopted in 2022 and 2025. It also incorporates expert interviews conducted in Kazakhstan in spring 2026, alongside migration and statistical reports, and scholarly literature on migration in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW130709519 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-4371\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-4371\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 4 Migration, Discourse, Politics\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-4371\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-4371\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW143116180 BCX0\">\u201dThey<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW143116180 BCX0\"> Don\u2019t Seem That Interested in Us\u201d: Young Immigrants\u2019 Construction of Discursive Barriers to Intergroup Contact with the Majority Population<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Helena Rovamo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">In the presentation, I present findings from a qualitative study conducted in Kuopio, Finland. The study is based on three focus group discussions conducted with young immigr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">s originating from the Middle East currently living in Kuopio. In the focus group discussion, particip<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">s were asked to reflect on their <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">experiences in<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\"> living in Kuopio. In these discussions, particip<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">s negotiated their experiences of encounters with, or lack thereof, the Finnish majority, which we examined in more detail. Using critical discursive psychology, we analyzed how particip<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">s constructed and used subject positions and meta-perceptions in talk to rationalize existing barriers to intergroup contact; to hold other social actors accountable for the existence of barriers; and, for their own part, to justify behavior that maintains perceived barriers. The study\u2019s findings show how meta-<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">perceptions<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\"> and subject positions are used to rationalize limited intergroup contact, attribute responsibility for barriers, and justify behaviors that may <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">maintain<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\"> separation. Furthermore, it <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">demonstrates<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\"> that barriers to contact are not only practical or spatial but also involve <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">perceptions<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\"> of being misunderstood, memories of displacement, and unequal expectations about who should <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\">initiate<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184254246 BCX0\"> contact.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW184254246 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW256956096 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW256956096 BCX0\">Russian Prepositions in Competition and Political Sovereignty of Ukraine<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW16396463 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW16396463 BCX0\">Larisa Leisi\u00f6, UEF, and Elena Bratishenko, University of Calgary, Canada<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Our talk examines two competing options of the locative expressions, both meaning \u2018in\/<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Ukraine\u2019 in Russian: one with the preposition\u202f<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">v\u202f<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">and the other with\u202f<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">na<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Historically, the distribution of these prepositions in Slavic had to do with the semantic difference between Container (<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">v<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">) and Surface (<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">na<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">). Due to the etymology of <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ukraina<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> \u2018Ukraine\u2019 as a designation of varying border regions on the territory of the modern Ukraine, rather than a name <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">of <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">a single territory, it was used as a semantically transparent descriptive term, not a proper noun <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">per se<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. The usage of <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">na<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> with <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ukraina<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> as a name of the entire country is thus etymologically correct and is a continuation of the established convention.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Since the time of Ukraine\u2019s independence (1991), the usage with the preposition <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">v<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> instead of <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">na<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> \u2018in Ukraine\/to Ukraine\u2019 has been increasingly common, chosen by the speakers to emphasize the political status of Ukraine as a sovereign state. The two prepositions have thus become a manifestation of two contesting ideologies.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Why do these two options coexist in the cognition of native speakers? For explanation, we examine two seemingly opposite models of language change\u2014the tree model\u202fand the\u202fwave theory which are in reality complementary, and have been accepted by the vast majority of linguists.\u202fOur talk will thus encompass both the political and the theoretical dimensions of language development and language use.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW113744834 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW113744834 BCX0\">Citizenship in Democratic Societies: Trust, Inclusion, Belonging<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW113744834 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW113744834 BCX0\">Zahra Hosseini, University of Helsinki<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">While citizenship is often conceptualized as a legal or political status, this paper argues for a broader understanding grounded in the lived experiences of trust, inclusion, and belonging that underpin social cohesion. Citizenship, it contends, is fundamentally enacted through individuals&#8217; everyday encounters with public institutions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Drawing on empirical research on migrants&#8217; experiences in Finland, including findings from the Trust-M project, the paper integrates insights from diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging (DIEB) frameworks to develop a processual understanding of citizenship.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The analysis shows that experiences of inclusion, recognition, and equitable access to public services are central to the formation of institutional trust, which in turn shapes individuals&#8217; sense of belonging to society. Conversely, exclusion, opacity, or unequal treatment undermines trust and produces fragmented or weakened forms of citizenship. Democratic citizenship, in this sense, is not uniformly experienced but differentiated through everyday institutional interactions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">By connecting inclusion with the formation of trust, this paper contributes a conceptual framework that positions citizenship as relational, processual, and unevenly realized, with implications for how democratic societies understand inclusion, governance, and the conditions for democratic participation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW189610125 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW189610125 BCX0\">English Hegemony as a Monitor of Meaning Construction in Academic Discourse<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW189610125 BCX0\">Esa Penttil\u00e4, Elina Kainulainen, Helka Riionheimo, Juho Suokas and Erja <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW189610125 BCX0\">Vottonen, UEF<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\">The domin<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\"> role of English in Western academic discourse has been viewed as rational and natural (Gramsci 1971). In research publications, in particular, English is the lingua franca that everyone is supposed to know. The hegemony of English suits the neoliberalist ideologies of efficiency and economic success that function as guiding principles in modern university policies (Mart\u00edn Rojo &amp; Del <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW100053946 BCX0\">Percio<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\"> 2019). At the same time, the dominance of English limits the ways in which me<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\">ng is constructed and communicated. It even affects the topics selected for analysis. In general, the phenomenon sets discourse norms that expect uniform ideologies and behavior and neglect alternative ways of me<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\">ng making. This has consequences for individual researchers who start to self-monitor their communication practices, especially if they feel their language skills are insufficient to meet the requirements of the norms shared in their community (see <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\">e.g.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW100053946 BCX0\">Kuteeva<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\"> et al 2020). In this presentation, we discuss how language and translation policies and ideologies guide and limit our <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW100053946 BCX0\">me<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW100053946 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW100053946 BCX0\">ng<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100053946 BCX0\"> construction in academic discourse and how to deal with this.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW100053946 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-1132\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-1132\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRoundtable 1: Disinformation Frontlines: Foreign Manipulation, Domestic Amplification, and the Politics of Resilience\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-1132\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-1132\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Organizers Po-Yi Hung, National Taiwan University, and Jussi P. Laine, UEF\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Foreign information manipulation is often described as an external threat pressing against the borders of democratic states. Yet research across several settings increasingly suggests that the real battleground lies elsewhere. Manipulation rarely succeeds by inserting wholly new narratives. Instead, it works by picking up existing domestic grievances, sharpening them, and feeding them back into the political bloodstream. The frontline, that is, runs through the ideological divisions of democratic societies themselves.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Finland and Taiwan form the roundtable\u2019s core comparison. Both are small, high<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">trust democracies with highly educated populations and a powerful neighbour willing and able to interfere in their information environments. Both have rejected censorship as a primary defence. But their institutional trajectories diverge. Finland operates within the EU\u2019s expanding regulatory architecture \u2013 the Digital Services Act and, more recently, the European Democracy Shield \u2013 which places platform governance within a collective, rule<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">bound framework. Taiwan, after shelving its draft Digital Intermediary Services Act in 2022, has relied instead on civil<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">society fact<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">checking, rapid grassroots mobilisation, and a long tradition of bottom<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">up media literacy. In Finland, domestic amplification of Russian narratives tends to remain on the margins, while in Taiwan it\u00a0 is woven directly into mainstream political competition, because the country\u2019s central political cleavage is itself geopolitical.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">When manipulation travels through lawful domestic political speech, any regulatory instrument strong enough to reach it risks requiring the state to adjudicate mainstream political expression \u2013 a constitutionally fraught and politically explosive prospect in any democracy. The burden therefore shifts toward education, civic culture, and the slow work of building interpretive resilience. The roundtable asks what, in these long<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">term trajectories, is genuinely transferable across contexts; what is structurally embedded; and whether media<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">literacy initiatives risk reframing a geopolitical security challenge as an individual competence deficit. In highly polarised environments, literacy may simply help citizens defend their prior commitments more effectively.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">To broaden the comparative lens, the roundtable also includes scholars familiar with the situation in North America and Australia, where domestic amplification has become deeply entangled with populist mobilisation, identity politics, and platform<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">driven fragmentation. Their participation will help test whether the Finland\u2013Taiwan contrast scales to larger, more polarised systems, and whether democratic resilience depends more on institutional design, political culture, or long<\/span>\u2011<span data-contrast=\"none\">term educational investment. Understanding how these different institutional and cultural configurations produce similar outcomes, and what this reveals about democratic resilience under ideological pressure, is the comparative task this roundtable proposes.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Chair: Po-Yi Hung (National Taiwan University)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:1305,&quot;335559991&quot;:1305,&quot;469777462&quot;:[1985],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Discussant: Jussi P. Laine (UEF)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:1305,&quot;335559991&quot;:1305,&quot;469777462&quot;:[1985],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Panellists: Hsiu-Hua Shen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Shu-Mei Huang (National Taiwan University), Ming-Feng Liu (National Quemoy University, Taiwan), Jamie Ferrill (Charles Sturt University, Australia), Alexander Diener (UEF)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:1871,&quot;335559991&quot;:567,&quot;469777462&quot;:[1985],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-8177\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-8177\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 5: International Securitization\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-8177\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-8177\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW140064499 BCX0\">Securitizing the Stateless: The Impact of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW140064499 BCX0\">Neighbouring<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW140064499 BCX0\"> Countries on Bangladesh\u2019s Rohingya Response<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW140064499 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW140064499 BCX0\">BMK Haider, UEF, and Jussi P. Laine, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW126028053 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126028053 BCX0\">Bangladesh\u2019s hum<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126028053 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126028053 BCX0\">tarian approach towards the Rohingyas during the 2017 influx, quickly turned into a national security concern. Existing literature focuses on socio-economic strains on host communities, overlooking the role of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW126028053 BCX0\">neighboring<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126028053 BCX0\"> countries. This study investigates how geopolitical strains from China, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126028053 BCX0\">India<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126028053 BCX0\"> and Myanmar impact Bangladesh\u2019s Rohingya securitizations. This paper evaluates securitization through Thierry Balzacq\u2019s \u201cPragmatic Act Theory\u201d by looking beyond \u201cSpeech Act\u201d and incorporating geopolitical context. In addition to considering Bangladesh\u2019s restrictive moves as response to social economic pressure, this study argues they are a strategic reaction to regional dynamics on the Rohingya issue. The data is primarily collected through semi structured, one-on-one in-depth interviews with purposefully selected academics and researchers from Bangladesh and around the world. These interviews were designed to capture <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW126028053 BCX0\">neighboring<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126028053 BCX0\"> countries actions and inactions that played a role on Bangladesh\u2019s securitization. The findings suggest that Myanmar\u2019s denial of Rohingya citizenship coupled with ongoing armed conflict create an existential threat for Bangladesh. Moreover, India&#8217;s strategic and economic interest in Myanmar and internal communal politics, alongside China\u2019s geostrategic interest in Myanmar and diplomatic support triggered and intensified securitization of the Rohingyas by the Government of Bangladesh.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW126028053 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW67459390 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW67459390 BCX0\">Governing the Fluid Land-sea Border: Smooth Cordgrass and Ecological Containment on the Kinmen Islands<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW67459390 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW67459390 BCX0\">Mei-Huan Chen, National Taiwan University<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Located only a few kilometers off the coast of southeastern China, Taiwan\u2019s Kinmen Islands have historically served as a militarized border zone. In recent years, however, Kinmen\u2019s intertidal coastlines have faced a different form of \u201cinvasion\u201d \u2013 the spread of smooth cordgrass (<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Spartina alterniflora<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">). Originally introduced to China\u2019s coastal regions in the late 1970s for shoreline protection and sediment stabilization, smooth cordgrass has expanded rapidly along theChinese coast, transforming intertidal habitats and outcompeting native species (Meng et al., 2020). Its seeds can be transported through tidal currents, while its tolerance of salinity and inundation and its capacity to reproduce through rhizomes have facilitated its expansion in intertidal environments.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Drawing on field observations, interviews, and documentary research in Kinmen, this article examines attempts to contain smooth cordgrass as a form of border governance. It highlights two sets of challenges that constrain governing efforts. First, the plant\u2019s mobility and reproductive capacities that exceed territorially based forms of control. Second, the fluid material environment of the intertidal zones, where tides, saltwater, and mud constrain operating capacity. Engaging with more-than-human and volumetric approaches to bordering, the article argues that cordgrass containment in intertidal zones reveals the material and territorial limits of border governance. Rather than preventing movement at a fixed territorial boundary, governing cordgrass requires recurrent intervention in a fluid and volumetric environment shaped by multiple materialities. The case of Kinmen thus shows how such processes complicate line-based understandings of borders and shift border governance from defense against entry toward the continuing management of movements and effects that may not be fully contained.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-4117\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-4117\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSpecial Session: Linguistic Diversity or a Zero-Sum Game?\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-4117\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-4117\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW38982807 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW38982807 BCX0\">organizer Alicja Fajfer, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This special session is organized by the PLURI project. The session will combine a roundtable discussion with an interactive workshop for the audience.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">PLURI promotes the achievements of the European language policy. The EU has consistently invested in research that changed how languages are taught. The CEFR tool has become a benchmark for proficiency in all member states and beyond.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Despite notable achievements, a culture of learning that respects linguistic diversity is yet to be accomplished. Monolingual mindset is deeply rooted in institutional language policies where diversifying linguistic landscape is often framed as a zero-sum game of replacing one language with another. Debates about language policy are siloed. This roundtable aims at a solution-oriented comprehensive approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Participants:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"-\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:12,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:1665,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"12\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alicja Fajfer (facilitator)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"-\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:12,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:1665,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"13\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anna Bj\u00f6rno (Laurea University of Applied Sciences)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:1665,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"-\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:12,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:1665,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"14\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ilja Moshnikov (UEF)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"-\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:12,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:1665,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"15\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Johanna Ennser-Kananen (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:1665,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"-\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:12,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:1665,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"16\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Juho Suokas (UEF)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-6110\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-6110\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKeynote 2\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-6110\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-6110\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW119564183 BCX0\">Alter-Geopolitical Encounters: Creative Practice, Everyday Abolition, and the Possibilities of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW119564183 BCX0\">Unbordering<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW119564183 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW119564183 BCX0\">Kathryn Cassidy, Northumbria University<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\">Since February 2022, communities across Europe have built spaces where displaced people from Ukraine and their host communities encounter one another across difference. Drawing on my forthcoming book\u202f<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\">Alter-geopolitical Lives<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\">\u202f(Manchester University Press, with Maria Dubrova), which arises from a 36-month, ESRC-funded project (2022\u20132025) based on interviews, policy and media analysis in the UK, Poland and Romania, I analyse the role of creative practices in these spaces. Through Sara Koopman\u2019s concept of alter-geopolitics, I frame connection across difference as a path to secure lives with dignity and justice, positioning these practices as incipient acts of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\">unbordering<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\"> where new imaginaries of security and belonging counter divisive ideologies. However, critiques of the hierarchies of deservingness, which treat responses to Ukraine as exceptional rather than instructive, risk foreclosing these possibilities. Following Lamble\u2019s work on everyday abolition, this keynote asks what becomes possible if we hold structural critique and creative practice together, refusing to let unevenness foreclose the potential for <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\">unbordering<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93284197 BCX0\"> to extend to all displaced people.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW93284197 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-2618\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-2618\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 6: Conflict and Trauma\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-2618\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-2618\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\">Remembering the Cambodian Genocide through Mobilities in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\">Vaddey<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\"> Ratner\u2019s <\/span><\/span><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW50847251 BCX0\">In<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\"> the Shadow of the Banyan<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\"> and <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\">Music of the Ghosts<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50847251 BCX0\">Ari R\u00e4is\u00e4nen, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\">This paper examines the ideological implications of mobility in two novels by the Cambodian American author Vaddey Ratner: In the Shadow of the Banyan (2012) and Music of the Ghosts (2017). The novels are <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\">read through<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\"> the lens of mnemonic mobility: a concept which suggests that literary representations of me<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\">ngful movement also often articulate cultural and individual memories. Ratner\u2019s novels examine individual and cultural memories of the autogenocide resulting from Khmer Rouge policies aimed at resetting Cambodian society, such as the forced transfer of populations from urban areas to rural areas to serve as agricultural workers. These policies were rooted in an ideology that imagined a rural and agricultural future for the Cambodian people. The regulation of forms and infrastructures of individual and collective mobility played <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\">a central role<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\"> in enforcing this vision. This paper looks at how representations of these mobilities in Ratner&#8217;s novels trace memories of the disintegration and eventual reformation of Cambodian society during and after the Khmer Rouge. In so doing, the paper argues that literary representations of movement also act as archives of mnemonic mobility that <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW222171306 BCX0\">repoliticize<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\"> traumatic memories by contextu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222171306 BCX0\">zing them with the collective structures of transcultural memory.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW222171306 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW225483861 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225483861 BCX0\">Trauma, Identity, Belonging, and Displacement in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW225483861 BCX0\">Zoulfa<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW225483861 BCX0\">Katoush\u2019s<\/span> <\/span><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW225483861 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW225483861 BCX0\">As<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225483861 BCX0\"> Long as the Lemon Trees Grow<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW225483861 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225483861 BCX0\">Hanaa Hamdan, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW25043752 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW25043752 BCX0\">This paper examines the representation of trauma, identity, belonging, and displacement in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW25043752 BCX0\">Zoulfa<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW25043752 BCX0\">Katouh&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW25043752 BCX0\">As<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW25043752 BCX0\"> Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (2022). Drawing on trauma theory, war trauma studies, and identity studies, it explores how experiences of war, violence, loss, displacement, psychological suffering, and survivor guilt affect the protagonist&#8217;s sense of self and belonging during the Syrian civil war. Through Salama&#8217;s experiences of war atrocities, the novel illustrates how trauma reshapes identity and influences <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW25043752 BCX0\">perceptions<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW25043752 BCX0\"> of home, community, and belonging. Haunted by the loss of loved ones and burdened by survivor guilt, Salama experiences symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which contribute to the formation of trauma-shaped identities. The paper also considers how displacement and the possibility of crossing national borders influence her understanding of identity and belonging. Torn between the desire to seek safety and a sense of responsibility towards her homeland and community, Salama negotiates competing forms of attachment, belonging, and selfhood. The paper argues that war trauma, displacement, and survivor guilt play a signific<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW25043752 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW25043752 BCX0\"> role in reshaping identity and belonging in contexts of conflict and migration.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW25043752 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW18605896 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18605896 BCX0\">Preparing the Frontline: Uneven Bordering along the First Island Chain<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW18605896 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-NZ\" xml:lang=\"EN-NZ\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18605896 BCX0\">Lin Liang Yin, National Taiwan University<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">What does it mean to live in a place repeatedly imagined as a future battlefield? This paper treats the First Island Chain not as a fixed strategic <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">lin<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">e, but as a geopolitical abstraction continually enacted through bordering practices: military basing, civil-<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW82524147 BCX0\">defence<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\"> planning, evacuation, and everyday preparedness. Drawing on longitudinal public-opinion surveys in Taiwan, Japan\u2019s Defense White Papers, and preliminary fieldwork, I trace how the same <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">icipated<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\"> conflict is made present differently across these borderlands. In Taiwan, high recognition of China\u2019s military threat coexists with more moderate stress and limited material preparedness, showing that recognition, emotion, and readiness do not necessarily move together. In Okinawa and the Sakishima Islands, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">icipation is territori<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">zed differently: territory is hardened through new military bases, missile deployments, and surveillance infrastructure, while civilian populations are <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">rendered<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\"> movable through evacuation planning. I conceptu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">ze this as uneven preparedness, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">operating<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\"> both within populations and between places. In dialogue with Nordic scholarship on strategic non-peace (Ljungkvist, 2024), this paper argues that preparedness is itself a practice of bordering and territori<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">zation: the First Island Chain is not simply a border awaiting war, but one being remade through the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82524147 BCX0\">icipation of war.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW82524147 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW97751424 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW97751424 BCX0\">Imperial Legacies and Narrative Markets: Comparing Russo-Ukrainian War Narratives in Taiwan and Finland<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW97751424 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW97751424 BCX0\">Ming-Feng Liu, National Quem University, Taiwan<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">Existing research on wartime disinformation focuses heavily on the supply side\u2014how states <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">disse<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">min<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ate<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\"> m<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">pulative narratives. Drawing on comparative historical sociology, this study shifts focus to the demand side, asking why narratives resonate differently across societies. Comparing Taiwan and Finland, it conceptu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">zes their historical relationships with China and Russia as imperial legacies. Though transformed, these power asymmetries persist through collective memory, security imaginaries, and affective dispositions, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">e.g.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\"> fear, affinity, and distrust. Integrating Bourdieu\u2019s symbolic market theory with the affective turn, the study proposes the concept of an imperial narrative market to exa<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">min<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">e how Russo-Ukrainian War narratives <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">gn with historically shaped societal demand. It <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">identifies<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\"> four ideal-typical narratives: Imperial deterrence, Imperial proximity, Imperial glory and dividends, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">Ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">i-Western imperi<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">sm. Comparing their s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ence reveals how discourses framed around peace, security, re<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">sm, or <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">i-imperi<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">sm can reproduce imperial hierarchies and ideologies. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">Ultimately, the<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\"> study <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\">demonstrates<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW124862997 BCX0\"> how distinct imperial legacies shape democratic societies&#8217; understanding of war, security, and global order.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW124862997 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-8213\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-8213\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRoundtable 2: What Can Minoritized Communities\u2019 Strategies Tell Us about Civil Society in Contemporary Russia?\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-8213\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-8213\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW52119170 BCX0\">Organizers<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW52119170 BCX0\">Pauliina<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW52119170 BCX0\">LUkinmaa, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW52119170 BCX0\">UEF, Daria <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW52119170 BCX0\">Kuznetsova, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW52119170 BCX0\">UEF, and Kaarina A<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW52119170 BCX0\">itamurto, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW52119170 BCX0\">University<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW52119170 BCX0\"> of Helsinki<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Russia&#8217;s increasingly restrictive political climate, both LGBTIQ+ people, feminists and members of religious communities deemed marginal by the state have been accused and convicted as, among other things, foreign agents, representatives of undesirable organizations, and members of extremist groups. However, these groups face different opportunities and constraints for action, reflected, for example, in varying forms of criminalization as well as in the scale and trajectories of exile and emigration. Differences and tensions also exist within these communities themselves. The divergent experiences of these groups provide an important lens through which to examine broader changes in the conditions under which civil society operates in contemporary Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In this roundtable discussion, we examine the practices, networks, and strategies of LGBTIQ+ and feminist networks, and marginalized religious communities, both separately and in relation to one another. We approach minority status not only as a form of collective identity but also as a political position shaped by the state&#8217;s definitions of legitimate and acceptable action. From these perspectives, we explore how relations between the state and minority communities reflect broader transformations in the position and character of civil society in contemporary Russia.<\/p>\n<p>We ask how and why some actors become marginalized, criminalized, or forced into exile, while others retain room for action or are even able to strengthen their position. We also consider why opportunities for action have evolved differently across minority groups and what these differences reveal about the state&#8217;s relationship with minorities and the conditions under which civil society operates. In addition, we highlight connections and tensions between these groups and critically reflect on the extent to which they can be meaningfully compared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kaarina Aitamurto (University of Helsinki)<\/p>\n<p>Governing Islam After February 2022: Tightening Control and Deepening Divisions<\/p>\n<p>Bio: Kaarina Aitamurto is Adjunct Professor (Docent) of the Study of Religions and a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. Her research interests include the governance of minorities and the intersections of religion and nationalism in Russia. Aitamurto&#8217;s publications have addressed topics such as religion and violence, Russia&#8217;s Muslim minorities, Central Asian migrants, and contemporary Slavic paganism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and by major scholarly publishers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daria Kuznetsova (University of Eastern Finland)<\/p>\n<p>Selective Visibility: Shamanism, Political Loyalty and Indigenous Authority in Wartime Russia<\/p>\n<p>Bio: Daria Kuznetsova is a Doctoral Researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on contemporary Indigenous shamanism in Southern Siberia and its intersections with state politics, Indigenous belonging, gender, and the changing political environment in Russia. Her doctoral research examines transformations in shamanic authority and public visibility, particularly in the context of Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and media materials from Buryatia, Tuva, and Khakassia.<\/p>\n<p>Pauliina Lukinmaa (University of Eastern Finland)<\/p>\n<p>Activist Approaches to Preserving LGBTIQ+ Activism in Contemporary Russia<\/p>\n<p>Bio: Pauliina Lukinmaa is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on LGBTIQ+ activism, queer mobilization, and transnational solidarity in contemporary Russia and among Russian-speaking exile communities. Her recent peer-reviewed articles include The Politics of Transnational Solidarity Among Exiled Russian-Speaking LGBTIQ+ NGOs (forthcoming), and &#8220;It is a representation of what we all need as a queer community&#8221;: Transformative Power of Communal Queer Quilting at the Behemoth&#8217;s Centre, Estonia (with Alexandra Milyakina, 2025). She has also co-edited special issues in scholarly journals.<\/p>\n<p>Daniil Zhaivoronok (University of Tampere)<\/p>\n<p>Resistance and cooptation: feminism in Russia after 2022<\/p>\n<p>Bio: Daniil Zhaivoronok is finishing his doctoral studies at Tampere University. His interdisciplinary dissertation is titled Digitalisation and Feminist Media Practices in Contemporary Russia. His research interests include gender studies, social movements, Russian politics and media, science and technology studies, and feminist and queer theory.<\/p>\n<p>The roundtable will also reserve ample time for discussion with the audience and encourage participants to contribute their own perspectives and questions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-3413\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-3413\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPanel 7: Urban and Rural Spaces\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-3413\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-3413\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200791150 BCX0\">\u00a0Migration, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200791150 BCX0\">Gender<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200791150 BCX0\"> and the Uneven Geography of Agrarian Service Access in Northern Ghana<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200791150 BCX0\">Ebenezer <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW200791150 BCX0\">Nikoi, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200791150 BCX0\">University of Ghana<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Migration has long shaped agrarian livelihoods in Northern Ghana, and remittances are known to ease farmers\u2019 access to inputs. This paper asks a different question: not whether migrant households do better, but how migration reorganises who gains access to agricultural services, where, and on what terms.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Drawing on a survey of 2,107 agrarian households, 56 interviews, and focus group discussions in the Upper West and Savannah regions, and framed through feminist political ecology, the study finds three things. Migrant households are more likely to report improved seed availability and market access, the latter through urban networks supplying price information and buyer contacts; but migration predicts nothing about weather information, the service the state is meant to provide. Gender is associated with access to every service in bivariate tests, yet loses significance once wealth, education and household characteristics are controlled &#8211; disadvantage operating through structure rather than through any rule. And place dominates: households in the Savannah region are roughly nine times less likely than those in Upper West to report improved seed availability.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Migration reorganises agrarian inequality rather than resolving it. Male outmigration expands women\u2019s agricultural responsibilities without extending their control over the services those responsibilities require.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW126887673 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126887673 BCX0\">Social Infrastructures, Place Identity and Community: De-coding Urban-Rural Divides<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW126887673 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126887673 BCX0\">James W. Scott, UEF<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">The urban-rural divide is narrated as a major source of political <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">po<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">lari<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">sa<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">tion<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> in Europe. However, several scholars argue that geographically based resentment is spatially diverse and not limited to peripheries in dec<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">lin<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">e or structurally <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">lin<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">ked to unequal income levels between regions (McKay, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">Jennings<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">Stoker<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> 2024, Vigna 2024). This suggests that the question of urban-rural divides needs a more nuanced <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">perspective<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> and I argue that debate <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">regarding<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> cohesion within the EU needs to more directly address the significance of place and place identities as central <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">org<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">sing<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> elements of everyday life. Recent <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">scholarship has<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> documented the significance of locally available social infrastructures (understood as services, meeting places, shared amenities) as benchmarks of community cohesion and identity (Tomaney et al. 2024). As the case of East German regions <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">indicates<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">, the erosion of social infrastructures and community services has <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">impacted<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> on the ontological security that place affords. Evidence of the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW44908297 BCX0\">politicisation<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> of unequal access to social infrastructures lends credence to the assumption that urban-rural divides <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">remain<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> highly signific<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44908297 BCX0\"> as challenges to European cohesion.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW44908297 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When Mobility Meets Territory: Legal Pluralism, Cultural Boundaries and Community-Led Peace in Nigeria\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW260661912 BCX0\">Omotomilola<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260661912 BCX0\"> Ikotun, UEF<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">Farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria is often described as competition over land and water. This paper exa<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">min<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">es a different dimension: the encounter between mobility-based and territorially anchored <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">sys<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">tems of access, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW101394745 BCX0\">authority<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\"> and belonging. It asks how pastoral mobility interacts with customary tenure, ad<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">min<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">istrative <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">boundaries<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\"> and community c<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">lai<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">ms, and how community-led conflict resolution mec<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">h<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">an<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">i<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">sms respond when these orders overlap. The paper draws on a qu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">tative synthesis of secondary sources on farmer-herder conflict and local dispute resolution in Nigeria, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW101394745 BCX0\">analysed<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\"> through legal plur<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">ali<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">sm and conflict transformation. It treats mobility not simply as movement but as a social and institutional practice shaped by rules, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW101394745 BCX0\">relationships<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\"> and negotiated access. The analysis shows how disputes may intensify when state law, customary <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW101394745 BCX0\">authority<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\"> and locally <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW101394745 BCX0\">recognised<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\"> norms assign different me<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">ani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">ngs to land use, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW101394745 BCX0\">passage<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\"> and legitimate decision-making. It then exa<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">min<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">es community-led mec<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">h<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">an<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">i<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">sms as sites where these differences can be negotiated rather t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\">han<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW101394745 BCX0\"> reduced to fixed ethnic or occupational divisions. The paper contributes to debates on borders and cultural encounters by showing how everyday boundary-making and plural authority shape both conflict and possibilities for peace.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW101394745 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-9709\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-9709\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRoundtable 3: How to Immigrate into History? Migration, War Memory and Belonging in Times of Geopolitical Polarization\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-9709\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-9709\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW50824999 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50824999 BCX0\">Moderator: Olga Davydova-<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW50824999 BCX0\">Minguet, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW50824999 BCX0\">UEF<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW50824999 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:1304}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">This roundtable explores how migr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">s encounter, interpret, and position themselves in relation to the historical narratives of the societies in which they live. These questions become particularly acute in wartime. Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has intensified debates about history, security, national belonging, and political loyalty across Europe. In this context, war museums, memorials, commemorative practices, and other sites of memory become import<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\"> spaces where migr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">s <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">encounter<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\"> national narratives and where different historical experiences meet. The roundtable draws on the research projects <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">Towards Relational, Multidirectional Dialogues on Memory Politics in Diverse Finnish Society<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\"> (2024\u20132027<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW194294704 BCX0\">),\u00a0 supported<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\"> by the Kone Foundation and <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">Migration, Affective <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW194294704 BCX0\">Geopolitcs<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\"> and European Democracy in Times of Military Conflicts<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\"> (2024\u20132028)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">supported by <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">the Horizon Europe program<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">In particular, it<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\"> draws on group visits by Ukrainian and Russian-speaking residents of Finland and Germany to several war memory sites. The roundtable brings together theoretical, empirical, and comparative perspectives on the nexus between migration, integration, and memory politics in times of geopolitical po<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">lari<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">zation<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW194294704 BCX0\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Anssi Neuvonen<\/span><\/b> <span data-contrast=\"none\">(Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Immigration into History? Rethinking the Migration\u2013Integration\u2013Memory Politics Nexus in a Changing Geopolitical Context<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:-270,&quot;335559737&quot;:-270,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Tetiana Nahirniak<\/span><\/b> <span data-contrast=\"none\">(Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Encountering Finnish War Memory: Ukrainian and Russian Visitors at Muisti and Suomussalmi Memory Sites\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:-270,&quot;335559737&quot;:-270,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Olga Filippova <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">(Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Ukrainian and Russian-Speaking Migrants as Publics of War Memory Sites in Finland and Germany: Negotiating Interaction, Researcher Positionalities, and Reflexivity in Times of War<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:-270,&quot;335559737&quot;:-270,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Olga Davydova-Minguet and Daria Agapova <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">(Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> War Memory in Migration Contexts: Fieldwork Reflections from Finland and Germany<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:-270,&quot;335559737&quot;:-270,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW194294704 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:-270,&quot;335559737&quot;:-270,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/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:340px;height:102px\" 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abstracts of the conference presentations will appear here in September after the program is launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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