African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE)

1 Event in 2014:

1. [Conference] ABORNE annual SC meeting 2014 and participation in Association of Borderland Studies 1st World Conference on “Post-Cold War Borders: Global Trends and Regional Responses”
   Dates and location : 09 - 13 June 2014, Joensuu, Finland and St. Petersburg, Russia
   Convened by : Jussi Laine (FI)
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2 Events in 2013:

1. [Workshop] ABORNE Workshop: "Bewildering Borders" - Transnational Conservation and Resource Governance in Africa
   Dates and location : 27 - 28 September 2013, University of Vienna, Austria
   Convened by : Werner Zips (AT)
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2. [Other Meetings] Linked ABORNE Winter School and Policy Workshop
   Dates and location : 09 - 15 January 2013, Saint-Louis, Senegal
   Convened by : Moussa Diaw (SN)
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3 Events in 2012:

1. [Conference] Annual conference and SC Meeting
   Dates and location : 05 - 08 June 2012, Edinburgh
   Convened by : Paul Christopher Nugent (UK)
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2. [Exchange Grant] Nimule – the Gateway to the Southern Sudan A Man and a Border in South Sudanese City
   Dates : 28 May 2012 for 6 weeks
   Grantee : Maciej Kurcz (PL)
   Host(s) : Paul Nugent (UK)
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3. [Exchange Grant] Mozambique and the construction of “Mozambicanity” in border areas – case study of Manica province
   Dates : 22 April 2012 for 8 weeks
   Grantee : Marta Patricio (PT)
   Host(s) : Wolfgang Zeller (UK)
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5 Events in 2011:

1. [Workshop] Fences, people, networks. Exploring the EU/AFRICA borderland
   Dates and location : 15 - 17 December 2011, University of Pavia
   Convened by : Pierluigi Valsecchi (IT)
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2. [Conference] 5th Annual ABORNE Conference - Crossing African Borders: Migration and Mobility
   Dates and location : 21 - 24 September 2011, Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL)
   Convened by : Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues (PT)
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3. [Exchange Grant] Working Title: "Growing Apart Together: Inter-Urban Migration and the Security Development Nexus in Goma and Gisenyi
   Dates : 06 September 2011 for 6 weeks
   Grantee : Hugh Lamarque (UK)
   Host(s) : Joao Dias (PT)
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4. [Exchange Grant] Travelling Borders: Migrant Experiences, Transnationality and Borderliness in the Upper Gambia River Valley
   Dates : 01 August 2011 for 9 weeks
   Grantee : Paolo Gaibazzi (LV)
   Host(s) : CRISTINA UDELSMANN RODRIGUES (PT)
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5. [Workshop] State construction, identity and territorial dispute in Sudan’s borderlands
   Dates and location : 18 - 20 April 2011, Durham University
   Convened by : Cherry Leonardi (UK)
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5 Events in 2010:

1. [Workshop] Nordic Africa Days 2010 panel L: Secessionism in Africa
   Dates and location : 30 September - 01 October 2010, Abo, Finland
   Convened by : Holger Weiss (FI)
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2. [Exchange Grant] Cross-border trade and regional integration in Africa
   Dates : 17 September 2010 for 8 weeks
   Grantee : Olivier Walther (LU)
   Host(s) : Gregor Dobler (CH)
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3. [Conference] Cross-Border Trade in Africa
   Dates and location : 08 - 11 September 2010, Basel, Switzerland
   Convened by : Gregor Dobler (CH)
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4. [School] ABORNE Summer School
   Dates and location : 26 - 30 July 2010, Thurnau, Germany
   Convened by : Thomas Hüsken (DE)
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5. [Workshop] Bringing the Margins Back In. War Making and State Making in the Borderlands
   Dates and location : 12 - 13 February 2010, Ghent
   Convened by : Timothy Raeymaekers (BE)
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1 Event in 2009:

1. [Conference] ABORNE Conference on ‘How is Africa Transforming Border Studies?’
   Dates and location : 10 - 13 September 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa
   Convened by : Tara Polzer (ZA)
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