International Border Studies Center

International Border Studies Center Globality Forum
Borderlands Storytelling: Narratives and Performances of Epistemic Relatedness

May 22-23, 2024, Faculty of Languages, University of Gdańsk

Participants: David Malcolm (SWPS Warsaw) “Let Them Call It. . . .”: Colonial and Post-Colonial Confusions in Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Seán O’Faoláin, and Jean Rhys; Carlos Morton (Professor Emeritus at Theater and Dance Department, University of California Santa Barbara)– PLAYING CATHOLIC:  How Religion Seeps into My Work; Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez (Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of New Mexico Albuquerque) – Pensamiento Fronterizo: Pedagogical Reflections; Lorena Calvo Mariscal (OMHR and International Relations, University of Cadiz) – on the activities of the OMHR and Jean Monnet Module, coordinating a European grant project; María De Los Ángeles Bellido-Lora (D. student in Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Cadiz) Safeguarding Human Life at Sea: A Comprehensive Study on Maritime Borders and the Imperative of Human Rights-Based Migration Control; Jean-Marc Serme (UBO Brest) Away from the `āina: Borderlands of identity, territory and cultural practices among the Kanaka/Native Hawaiian diaspora; Gordan Mattas (Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split) Borderlands in the Novels of Amy Tan; Jutta Zimmerman (Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel) Multi-Narratives: The Narrative Construction of Globality; Martin Blaszk (IBSC UG) – ongoing performance; Ross Aldridge (IBSC UG) – chair, discussant; Grzegorz Welizarowicz (IBSC UG) – chair, discussant, Mission Critical Studies: Report from the Field; Tomaž Krpič (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana) Breaking and Fixing Cognitive Boundaries: On artistic labour in theatre and performance; Pere Gifra-Adroher (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) The American Frontier in Catalan Literature: The Case of J. M. Folch i Torres; Yulia Kiselyova ( N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) and Viktoriia Ivashchenko (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and Museum of the Eastern Territories of the Old Polish Republic in Lublin), Temporalities of Migrant Narratives: Evidence from the Oral History Project „Moving West: Ukrainian Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration (2014–2024); Alexis Angulo (PhD student in the Doctoral School of the Humanities at University of Warsaw) Towards Epistemological Justice. Enrique Dussel and the Analectic Method; Ewa Antoszek (Center for American Studies, Department of British and American Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) Counternarratives: Border Artivism as a Counternarrative in Border Discourse(s); Ewelina Bańka (Department of American Literature and Culture at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Margo Tamez’s Dissident Stories of Indigenous Rivered Existence at the Texas-Mexico Border; Zofia Kolbuszewska (University of Wroclaw) The (Neo)Baroque Enfolding of a Crime Timescape in the Norwegian TV Series Beforeigner; Dorota Kołodziejczyk (University of Wroclaw) “When a body was more than a body and possible. One of its possibilities was to hold a river within it.” The archive as embodied relatedness of being in Native American poetry; Mirja Lecke (Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Regensburg) Border Thinking in Białowieża: Agnieszka Holland’s “Zielona granica” (2023);;Veronika Mercieca (MA student maritime specialisation Leiden University) Maltese Women’s Transnational Experiences in the 1950s through Maritime Journey; Basia Nikiforova (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius), At the Crossroads of Personal and Global Perception: the Case of Sigita Maslauskaitė-Mažylienė (ONLINE); Aruanã Rosa (PhD student in Public Policies at the University of Aveiro, Portugal) Xenoracism, borders, and the Other in Europe: reflections for decolonization.