Shifting Borders, Fluid Landscapes: Exploring Industrial Regions in Transition

• Tagung
• Workshop

As part of the scholarly project “Poetics of Industrial Landscapes: Donbas and Upper Silesia in Comparative Perspective,” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the conference “Shifting Borders, Fluid Landscapes: Exploring Industrial Regions in Transition” examines the overlapping identities within Europe’s industrial spaces and their shifting allegiances to central governments and nation-states. The conference also seeks to explore the impact of these changes on cognitive, economic, and political transitions that have profoundly influenced collective paradigms in these regions.

While the conference primarily focuses on cultural and literary studies, it also features contributions from researchers in anthropology, history, political science, sociology, economics, and related fields. Our attention centers on the old industrial borderlands of Donbas and Upper Silesia – regions situated along the cultural frontiers of Russia-Ukraine and Germany-Poland, respectively. However, the conference provides space for comparative dialogue with the scholars studying European industrial areas and borderlands more broadly.

Poster (PDF)

Oct 1: 9 am – 5pm, Oct 2: 9 am – 1 pm 

Free admission

Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

Link for further information:

https://www.uni-regensburg.de/forschung/industrieregionen/startseite/index.html