Global Borderlands Workshop

June 26, 2023

CASI is holding the first workshop of its Global Borderland Project this week from 23-27 June. Funded by an OSUN grant, the project is meant to coordinate network research and teaching expertise on borderland areas and those indeterminate spaces in which local and more distinctly colonial and/or global traditions have collided. Rooted in the arts and humanities, it is concerned with settings – past and present – in which “the roots of the tradition are cut and retied and collective symbols appropriated from external influences.” Centred around small, intensive workshops, the project will build a network concentration in global borderlands and shape a scholarly inquiry field that will engage the diverse literary, historical, and geographic interests of OSUN’s faculty. CASI is welcoming a distinguished list of participants to this first workshop, including professors and advanced graduate students from CEU, Princeton, and the Sorbonne

Workshop Participants

Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez (University of Texas at Austin)

Christopher Baker (AUCA)

Naomi Caffee (Reed College)

Chris Fort (AUCA)

Svetlana Gorshenina (Sorbonne)

Svetlana Jacquesson (AUCA)

Faruk Kuziev (CEU)

Michael Mandelkorn (Princeton)

Anna Pronina (CEU)

Charles Shaw (CEU)

Vuk Uskokovic (European University Institute)

Jeremy Adelman (Princeton), participating as discussant

Karin Dean (Tallinn University), participating as discussant

The project meets OSUN’s goal of promoting critical thinking and inquiry through the humanities and arts, an ambition particularly imperative at AUCA, a liberal arts university with few programs and concentrations specifically situated in the humanities. Global Borderlands is a deeply humanistic enterprise grounded in the notion that literature and history have something to tell us about being “off-centre among scattered traditions.” The project is concerned with the messiness of being human – with the languages and heritages that are tangled together in human communities and traditions – and with the borders, figurative and literal, that apportion this complexity into more limiting categories

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