European NetIAS Lecture Series on the theme of Borders.

In order to respond proactively to the current situation and to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic and in order to showcase the quality and diversity of the research conducted in its member institutes, ​the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study opens its doors to all interested in the research conducted at its Institutes and interested in timely discussions. The 25 Institutes from 17 European countries participating in the Network operate on the basis of a Europe-wide geographical distribution on common principles of freedom of research and knowledge sharing.

The series of joint weekly lectures --The European NetIAS Lectures--started in June 2020 (season I), and restarts from October 8 to December 3, 2020 from 5 to 6 p.m. (season II), featuring renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines, approaches, and thematic interests. Delivered online, participation is open to students, researchers, and anyone interested in the latest international research and new thinking on Borders.

Zoom links will be available soon.

Detailed program

Thursday, October 8th
Borders, Youth, Neoliberalism: How Global Sport Undermines and Strengthens National Borders
Niko Besnier, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam Former Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Thursday, October 22th
Spatial Perception and Genre Borders
Merja Polvinen, Senior Lecturer in English Philology, University of Helsinki Former Erik Allardt Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

Thursday, November 05th
Beyond the Borders of the Lab. Charmed Particles: a Novel about the Search for a Site for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC)
Chrissy Kolaya, Assistant Professor of English, University of Central Florida Former Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst

Thursday, November 19th
Learning a Different Language: Reading Shubhangi Swarup’s ‘The Latitudes of Longing’ and Aimee Liu’s ‘Glorious Boy’ in the Context of Anthropological Documentation and the Consolidation of the Indian Nation State
Arunima Bhattacharya, Post-doctoral Research Assistant, School of History, University of Leeds, Visiting Research Fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Edinburgh

Thursday, December 10th
Hearing for All: Overcoming Borders in Acoustic Communication
Birger Kollmeier, Professor and Chairperson, Medical Physics and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Universität Oldenburg
Speaker, Focus Group „The Future of Hearing”, Hanse- Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst