Sunday, December 7th 11:00 – 18:00 FP7 Workshops

11:00 – 14:00: General Session

14:00 – 15:00: Lunch Break

15:00 – 16:00: Work Packages 3 , 6 , & 7

16:00-17:00: Work Packages 4 , 5 , & 8

17:00 – 18:00: Work Packages 9 & 10

Monday, December 8th Senate Hall9:00 – 9:30: Conference Registration

9:30 – 10:00: GreetingsZvi HaCohen – Rector, Ben-Gurion UniversityDavid Newman – Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, BGUJames Scott – Academic Director, FP7 EUborderscapes

10:00 – 11:30 Opening Plenary SessionThemes in Contemporary GeopoliticsChair: James Scott, University of Eastern Finland

Vladimir Kolosov, Moscow Academy of Science Can cross-border movements contribute to conflict resolution? The case of “frontal” borders.

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria (Canada)Border Conflicts around the World: Comparative Analysis.

Stan D Brunn, University of Kentucky (US)The Lyrics of New State National Anthems: Glories, Memories and Dreams.

11:30 – 12:00: Break

12:00 – 14:00 Parallel Panel Sessions ASession 1 – Borders and Identities

Chair: Paul Nugent, University of Edinburgh (Scotland) Williams Miles, Northeastern University (USA)

Re-Africanization of Judaism and Zionism. Leanne Johansson, Oxford University (UK)

Who Do We Want to Be? Imagining Israel in the Cameroon-Nigerian Borderland.

Hani Zubida, Max Stern Yezreel Valley College (Israel) We Are One! Or Are We? Football Fandom and Ethno-National Identity in Israel.

Itamar Dubinsky, Ben-Gurion University (Israel) Mandela Football Academy: Integrating Ghana, Lebanon and Europe.

Session 2 – Middle East BordersChair: Richard Schofield, King's College (UK) Gideon Biger, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Re-Bordering the Middle East and Israel. Zerrin Ozlem Biner, University of Cambridge (UK)

Re-making Life at the Border Village of South-Eastern Turkey Simona Epasto, University of Macerata (Italy)

Israel, “Land of Borders” Without Borders. Efrat Ben-Zvi and NirGazit, Eva Bahl and Arne Worm, Ruppin

Academic Center (Israel) Shuffling Identities: Israeli Soldiers on the Egyptian-Israeli Border.

14:00 – 15:00: Lunch Break

15:00 – 17:00 Parallel Panel Sessions B

Session 3 – Euro-Asian Borders IChair: Vladimir Kolosov, President of IGU (Russia) Sagan Iwona, Nowicka Klaudia and Studzińska Dominika University

of Gdansk (Poland)

Patterns of cross-border activities in the Polish – Russian borderland. Miika Raudaskoski, University of Eastern Finland

Changing Concepts of Border on the Finnish-Russian –border Alex Bukh, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)

Sub-state Actors and the Territorial Dispute between Japan and Korea. Jussi Lane and Illka Liikane, University of Eastern Finland

Europeanising Civic Cross-border Cooperation: Historical Layers and Present-day Practices of Finnish-Russian Civic Cross-border Relations.

Session 4 – Cultural Productions of Borders Chair: Stanley Brunn, University of Kentucky (US)

Ivana Trkulja, Center for Advance Study Sofia (Bulgaria) \ University of Eastern Finland Altering of Regional Rhetoric in the Croatia Cultural discourse: Enquiry into the Image of Europe in the post-1989 Balkans.

Shay Rabineau, Brandeis University (US) Making and Breaking Boundaries: Israel’s Marked and Mapped Hiking Trail Network.

Katharina Tyran, Independent Research (Germany) Scripted Borders – National and Cultural Implications of Writing Systems Beyond Linguistic Functionality.

Zeev Zivan, Ben-Gurion University (Israel) Representations of Israel's boundaries found in Israeli films.

17:00 – 17:30: Break

17:30 – 19:30 Parallel Panel Sessions C

Session 5 – Internal Borders in EuropeChair: Sharon Pardo, Dept of Politics & Government, BGU, and Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies

Bernhard Koeppen, CEPS Public Research Center (Luxemburg) The paradigm marks the outer-border: Thoughts on the EU’s Internal Market as Major Bordering and de-Bordering Feature.

Noga Zivan, Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development (Israel)

Borders of the Mind – Community Interaction with New international Boundaries – Ireland in the 20th Century.

Zoltan Hajdu, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary: New Neighborhood and Changing of Functions of Borders, 1989-2014.

Jonathan Murphy, University College Cork (Ireland) Border-Making Dynamics: Possible lessons from Belfast’s Peace-Line interfaces?

Tamas Hardi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Fault lines, mental spaces, spatial preferences in Central Europe.

Session 6 – Migration and BordersChair: Olivier Walther, University of Southern Denmark

Noa Levi, Ben-Gurion University (Israel) Zimbabwe on the Move.

Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London (UK) Everyday Postcolonial Bordering: Partnerships, Relationships and Engagement.

Hani Zubida, Max Stern Yezreel Valley College (Israel) Living on Borrowed Time: Borders, Ticking Clocks and Timelessness among Temporary Labor Migrants and their Children in Israel

Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe, Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo (Israel) Pilgrims, Workers and Refugees –Africans Challenge to Israeli borders.

Renen Yeziersky, Ben-Gurion University (Israel) The Jewish Latin-American Immigration to Israel: Racial Borders and Population Dispersal.

19:30: Conference Dinner(For registered participants only)

Tuesday, December 9th Field Trip to Israel – Jordan Border (For registered participants only)

19:30 – 20:30: Border Film Screening – “The Syrian Bride”

Wednesday, December 10th 9:00 – 11:00 Parallel Panel Sessions D

Session 7 – SecuritizationChair: Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University

Alex Chung, University of New South Wales (Australia) Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear (non)Proliferation.

Tamar Arieli, Tel-Hai College (Israel) On Securitization and Borders.

Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)Humanitarian Consequences of Border Control Policies towards Unaccompanied Minor Refugees in the EU Borderscapes.

Victor Konrad, Carleton University (Canada) Borders Crossing Cultures and Cultures Crossing Borders in an Era of Security Primacy.

Session 8 – The State of the Debate in Border StudiesChair: Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria (Canada) Christophe Sohn, CEPS Public Research Center (Luxembourg)

On Border’s Multiplicity: A Perspective from Assemblage Theory. Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)

The Nature of Borders Revisited: from Geographic and Territorial to Normative and Personal.

Krishnendra Meena, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) Diffused Borders: Bordering Practices Within and Outside State Territories.

Frederic Durand, CEPS Public Research Center (Luxembourg) Rethinking the Cross-Border Integration Approach.

Amos Israel, Hebrew University (Israel) The digital tempo-geo-positioning of Borders, Events and Research.

11:00 – 11:30: Break

11:30 – 13:00 Roundtable:ISRAEL \ PALESTINE BORDERS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Chair: Oren Yiftachel, Department of Geography, Ben-Gurion University David Newman, Deptm of Politics & Government, BGU (Israel)

States without Borders – shared or separate spaces? Asad Ghanem, University of Haifa (Israel)

The advantage of eliminating borders. Gideon Biger, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Deep borders for necessary ethnic separation. Oren Yiftachel, Dept of Geography, Ben-Gurion University (Israel)

Open borders as scuffholdings for reconciliation.

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Panel Sessions E

Session 9 – African Border TownsChair: Lynn Schler, Dept of Politics and Government, and Tamar Golan Africa Center, Ben-Gurion University

Paul Nugent, University of Edinburgh (UK) African Border Towns.

Isabella Soi, University of Edinburgh (UK)The Ghana-Togo Borderlands in Transition: Border Towns in Historical Perspective.

Olivier Walther, University of Southern Denmark West African Border Towns: Demography and Economic Centrality.

Session 10 – Israel-Palestine Territorial ConfigurationsChair: Gideon Biger, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Michael Neckerman, University of Bayreuth (Germany) Geopolitics on the Ground: Resistance in Hebron \ Al-Khalil.

Sharon Pardo and Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University (Israel) Bordering Disputed Territories: The European Union’s Technical Custom Rules and Israel’s Occupation.

Oren Shlomo, Ben-Gurion University (Israel) In through the "Divided City" Borders: Governmentalizing East Jerusalem's Urban Systems in post-Oslo Era.

Zoltan Grunhut and Ákos Bodor, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Symbolic Borders between Jews and Arabs in Israel.

15:30 – 16:00: Break

16:00 – 18:00 Parallel Panel Sessions F

Session 11 – The Euro-Asia Border 2Chair: Victor Konrad, Carleton University (Canada)

Vladimir Kolosov, Moscow Academy of Science Eastern borderland of EU: Historical, cultural and economic challenges in Transcarpathia and Kaliningrad region.

Paul Benjamin Richardson, The University of Manchester (UK) The Eurasian Union: Reconceptualising Borders in post-Soviet Space.

Endre Sik TÁRKI (Hungary) Quasi-Diasporas along the Eastern borders of the EU.

Yana Petrova, V.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) Reinterpretation of the Language of Political Conceptualization of Ukraine-EU and Ukraine-Russia Borders: Expert Discourses.

Session 12 – Urbanism Territories and BordersChair: Haim Yacobi, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University

Antoine Decoville, CEPS Public Research Center (Luxemburg) The Need for More Resilient Cross-Border Urban Forms and Governance to Face Uncertainty: The Case of Luxembourg and its Neighboring Regions.

Ekaterina Mikhailova, National Research Institute of Russia Adjacent settlements along Russian border: “twin-cities” rhetoric in Euroasian context.

Olivier Lengrand, Ben-Gurion University (Israel) Inheritance, Ownership and Legitimacy: Interrogating the (re)Construction of Urban Iconography in Frontier Cities.

Yelda Karadag and Zelal Ozdemir, Middle East Technical University (Turkey) Street Politics in a Border City: Hatay and Gezi Resistance.

18:00 – 18:30: Break

18:30 – 20:00Plenary Session to Mark the Establishment of the Professorial Chair in Geopolitics at BGUA Hundred Years Since the First World War :Reshaping the Geopolitical Map of the Middle East

Chair: Yoram Meital, Dept of Middle Eastern Studies and Head of the Chaim Herzog Center in Middle Eastern History and Diplomacy

Shlomo Avineri, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Steven Spiegel, Burkles center for International Studies, UCLA.Richard Schofield, King's College, University of London.

20:00 – Reception

Greetings:Rivka Carmi – President, Ben-Gurion UniversityVladimir Kolossov – President, International Geographical Union (IGU)

Thursday, December 11th Field Trip:The West Bank and the Geopolitics of Jerusalem(For registered participants only)