Borders in the European Memories - A typology of remembered borders in today’s Europe | Pol-Int
▻https://www.pol-int.org/en/conference/borders-european-memories-typology-remembered-borders-todays
Un colloque super chouette auquel nos amis de l’atelier Limo à Berlin vont participer. L’Atelier Limo (►http://www.atelier-limo.eu) c’est un lieu merveilleux où Simon Brunel et Nicolas Pannetier ont - entre autre - réalisé deux films magnifiques sur les frontières/lisières orientales de l’Europe :
– « La frontière intérieure » en 2009 ►http://www.atelier-limo.eu/fr/pages/3/films.html
– « Le détour en 2011 » ►http://www.atelier-limo.eu/fr/pages/3/films.html
Sur le thème de ces frontières orientales de l’Europe, en complément, vous pourrez aussi consulter :
►http://visionscarto.net/un-siecle-de-frontieres
Borders in the European Memories - A typology of remembered borders in today’s Europe
« L’histoire de l’Europe est celle de ses frontières »
Krzysztof Pomian, L’Europe et ses nations, Paris 1990
If the history of Europe is in fact the “history of its borders", as stated by Pomian, then the studies of European memories should tackle the topic of spaces and borders more directly than they usually do. Thus, the aim of this international workshop will be to throw light on the different ways borders appear in European memories. How are experiences of and with borders commemorated or remembered in a general way? Can you identify historical and regional trends?
Europe can be indeed described as a continent of “a thousand borders“, a multiplex confinium – freely based on Robert Traba’s essay on East Prussia, Kraina tysiąca granic (The land of the thousand borders), or the long-standing Zagreb based research project Triplex confinium. This is for instance demonstrated by the fascinating map published by the French geographer Michel Foucher in his book Fragments d’Europe: this map lists (nearly) all historical (state) borders from the Middle Ages up to Europe’s present spatial order equally alongside each other. The cumulative effect is impressive; white spots are rare; the predominant impression is that of a closely-meshed, rugged space which has been produced over centuries.