Workshop: "Postcolonial Border Spaces in South America"

Date: November 20-22, 2024
Location:  Sollnau 30A 85072 Eichstätt , Raum S30a-109 

Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt  

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Organizers:

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Fischer
• Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kürschner
• Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander

This workshop aims to provide a space for interdisciplinary exchange on practices, memory constructions, and affiliations in selected border regions of South America since independence. The focus will be on contact zones that have been and continue to be reconstituted as a result of colonization, settlement, economic exploitation, progressive missionary activity, state-controlled expansion processes, as well as resulting local resistance.

The concept of "doing frontiers" through action, speech, memory, thought, and feeling is central to this workshop. It is based on an open concept of the frontier that seeks to capture the emergence, transformation, and disappearance of social formations, their order forms, customs, representations, attributions of meaning, and memories under conditions of cultural contact.

The workshop will bring together selected researchers from the fields of history, literature, art and media studies, linguistics, communication studies, geography, and anthropology from Europe and Latin America. Through concrete case studies, we will explore the practices of (self-)affirmation and negotiation that different actors use to locate themselves or are located in certain border spaces. The goal is to integrate Latin America more strongly into the current research discourses of Border and Frontier Studies and, at the same time, contribute to a deeper understanding of the dynamics of South American border regions.

You are invited to join the important discussions at this interdisciplinary dialogue.

Workshop program