Research Network Opening | Law & Borders

Law & Borders | Opening of the Research Network

Thursday, 11 June from 16:00-20:00 in Room 319 at IOS, Landshuter Str. 4, Regensburg. All are welcome to attend. No registration required.

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The event marks the launch of the second Leibniz ScienceCampus Early Career Research Network - Law & Borders. The Network brings together expertise from multiple disciplines, combining legal studies, ethnographic fieldwork and border studies to explore the multiple constructions and practices of borders and bordering in the world today.

Drawing on the members' backgrounds in law and border studies, our project begins with the observation that law does not only draw borders on paper. It shapes and regulates them, creating thresholds that complicate the lives of those who cross or live alongside them. Borders, in this sense, are not static lines but shifting legal constructs that affect who may move, under what conditions, and with what consequences.

The opening event is co-financed by the UR Law Faculty and the Equal Opportunities Office.

Schedule:

16:15 – 16:30
Introductory Remarks by the Network Speakers: Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï and Dr. Marie Beyrich

16:30 – 17:15
Keynote talk
Between Monad and Nomad: Law, Bordering, and Lines of Flight by Prof. Dr. Henk van Houtum (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

17:30 – 17:45
“Watch the Border”: Visual Quiz and Instinctive Takes on Border Questions from the Audience
Presented by Jorie Horsthuis & Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï

17:45 – 18:45
Expert Panel 
What do Law and Border Studies Have to Say?
Featuring Prof. Dr. Tobias Eule (Bern), Prof. Dr. Henk van Houtum (Nijmegen), Jorie Horsthuis (Amsterdam)
Chaired by Prof. Dr. Alexander Graser (UR)

19:00 – 19:30
Everyday Border Experiences: Students and Audience in Conversation with our Experts
Chaired by Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï

19:30 – 19:45
Closing Input: How do we Report on Borders?
By Jorie Horsthuis

19:45 – 20:00
Final Remarks
Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï and Dr. Marie Beyrich