ASSOCIATION FOR BORDERLANDS STUDIES

Akihiro Iwashita

Hokkaido University
Panel 1

Moderator
Discussant

Post-colonial and Indigenous Perspectives

Jamie A Wilson-Sierra, Pacific University

Maria Luisa Picard-Ami, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico
Convergence of State and Non-state Borders: The
Indigenous Factor of East Asian Engagement with the
THURSDAY
Arctic
Scott Harrison, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
8:00 9:30 am
The Boundaries of EU Norms: Examining EUs
External and Internal Power Using the Case-study of
Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling
Minori Takahashi, Hokkaido University
Migrants Discovering Canada: Colonial Disavowal in
Citizenship Education
Leslie Muoz, Carleton University
Local Social and Economic Cross-border Activities at
the Botswana-Zimbabwe Frontier: Perspectives on
Regional Integration
Inocent Moyo, University of South Africa

Panel 2

Moderator
Discussant

Migration and Memory

Paul Fryer, University of Eastern Finland

Kimberly Collins, California State University, San Bernardino

THURSDAY
8:00 9:30 am

Mapping the Border: Journey of Migrants at the

Border
Ugur Yildiz, Carleton University
Connecting Fragmented Border Apertures through
Touring Images
Aparna Kolar, Radboud University and Mikhailova
Ekaterina, National Research University
Borders in the European Memories
Thomas Serrier, Universit Paris VIII
Border Crossers Memories
Mike Plitt, Europa Universitt Viadrina

Panel 3
Moderator
Discussant

Social Perspectives, Stakeholders, and Institutions in

North American Border Resources Management

Donna Lybecker, Idaho State University

Jenny Kehl, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Water Resource Issues and Potential for an Emerging
Management Framework in the Tijuana River
THURSDAY
Watershed
Christopher Brown, New Mexico State University
8:00 9:30 am
Sustainable Development in the Bering Strait:
Indigenous Values, Natural Resources, and the
Challenge of Collaborative Governance
George Stetson and Steve Mumme, Colorado State
University
Enhancing the Treaty Regime on Transboundary
Rivers: Minutes 317-319 and the Elusive
Environmental Minute
Steve Mumme, Colorado State University
The Social Construction of the US - Canada Border:
Narrative Characters as Presented on YouTube
Carine De Sy and Adam Brewer, Idaho State University

Panel 4

Photo Stories of Life at the Border: An Interactive Photo

Exhibition Based on Participatory Photography with
Hispanic Migrants at the U.S.Mexico Border to Stimulate
Participation and Reflection on Immigration and
Information (Opening Session)

THURSDAY
8:00 9:30 am

Presenters:
Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington iSchool
Katya Yefimova, University of Washington iSchool
Bryce Newell, University of Washington iSchool
Veronica Guajardo, University of Washington iSchool

Panel 5

Moderator
Discussant

Border Theory in the New World (Dis)Order

Bernard Reitel, Universit dArtois

Jussi Lane, University of Eastern Finland
The Spatial Grammar of Borderlands
Randy Widdis, University of Regina

THURSDAY
9:45 11:15 am

Migration: A Threshold Approach

Martin van der Velde, Radboud University
Theorizing Borders
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria
Culture Theory and Border Culture
Victor Konrad, Carleton University

Panel 6
Moderator
Discussant

Beyond National Borders: Migration, Cooperation, and

Engagement

James Scott, University of Eastern Finland

Machiko Hachiya, Kyusyu University
Beyond Nation-states Borderline: Life and Narratives
of CLMV Transnational Labours and Human
THURSDAY
Trafficking in Thailand
Morragotwong Phumplab, Thammasat University
9:45 11:15 am
Borderlands Gender and Occupation: Palestinian
Contextual Complexity
Erika Derkas, New Mexico Highlands University
Diffused Borders: Bordering Practices Within and
Outside State Territories
Krishnendra Meena, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Cross-border Revel Flows and Foreign Policy Crises
Lacin Idil Oztig, Yildiz Technical University

Panel 7

Moderator
Discussant

Political Ecology of International Borders

Micha Rahder, Louisiana State University

Jessica Piekielek, Southern Oregon University
A Political Ecology of International Borders: The
Edge Spaces of Green Violence
THURSDAY
Libby Lunstrum, York University

9:45 11:15 am

A Disciplined Space on the U.S. Mexico Border:

Humanitarian Consequences
Lisa Meierotto, Boise State University
Where is the Border? Villagers, Environmental
Consultants and the Work of the Thai-Burma
Border
Vanessa Lamb, Ryerson University
Blind Passes: Green Territorial Logics and the
Production of Conservation through Security
Megan Ybarra, University of Washington

Panel 8

Moderator
Discussant

Economic Development and Trade: Impact on the Border

Don Alper, Western Washington University

James Gerber, San Diego State University
Estimating the Economic Impacts of Borders: The
Case of Chinese Provinces
THURSDAY
Rongxing Guo, Peking University

9:45 - 11:15 am

The Trap on Adaptive Behavior: From a Border

Island
Yoshihiro Masuda, Nippon Bunri University
New-arrival Rohingya: Integrating into ArakaniPakistani Cross-border Trade Network in Thai-Burma
Borderland
Kunnawut Boonreak, Chiang Mai University
Austin-San Antonio Economic Corridor
Steve Nivin, Belinda Roman, St. Marys University

Panel 9
Moderator

Brownbag Special Session: How Do We Present Border

Studies?

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria

THURSDAY
11:30 12:45 pm

Borders: A Very Short Introduction

Alexander Diener, University of Kansas
Critical Development of Border Studies: A Key to
Understanding of Borders
Fuminori Kawakubo, Chuogakuin University

Panel 10

Moderator
Discussant

Mobile Borders and Transnationality

William B. Kory, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

Paolo Novak, University of London

THURSDAY
1:00 2:30 pm

The Role of Cross-border Cooperation for the

Stabilization of the European Continent in the Post1989 World Order
Birte Wassenberg, Universite de Stasbourg
Maria Novaros Decolonial Cinema: Centering and
Privileging Decolonial within and Beyond the
U.S./Mexican Borderlands
C.T. Mexica, University of Washington
Overcoming El Narco: Empowering Progress and
Change through Film
Olivia Vance, Pacific University
Ilya Levitovs conception of Yellow Russia
Jeongsook Hahn, Seoul National University

Panel 11
Moderator
Discussant

Asian Borders in the Current Era

(CROSSLISTED WITH ASIAN STUDIES)

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, University of Texas at Brownsville

Naomi Chi, Hokkaido University
Towards a Multicultural Society or Ghettoization?
Migration in East Asia
THURSDAY
Naomi Chi, Hokkaido University

1:00 2:30 pm

Reflection on the Two North Korean Borders

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, University of Texas at
Brownsville
Trafficking on the Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bangladesh
Borders
Jennifer Bryson Clark, South Texas Colleague
Reflections on the India-Bangladesh Border
Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso

Panel 12
Moderator
Discussant

Towards Resolving Territorial Disputes: Theory and

Practice

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria

Akihiro Iwashita, Hokkaido University
The Construction of the Borders at the Guiana
Shield: From Territorial Disputes to the Recent
THURSDAY
Mechanisms of Cross-border Cooperation
Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva, Federal University of Amap
1:00 2:30 pm
Brazil
The Territorial Dispute over Dokdo/Takeshima and
Non-state Actors in Japan and Korea
Alexander Bukh, Victoria University of Wellington
European Intentions and Local Reactions concerning
Cyprus Annexation: How Can Border
Studies Add Conceptual Tools to Better Intervene in
Contested Territories
Anna Casaglia, University of Milano Bicocca
Olivenza: A Border Dispute in 21st Century
European Union A Review of the Problematic and its
Interconnection with International Relations and
National Identity Theory
Alexandre Monteiro, University of Minho, Portugal

Panel 13
Moderator
Discussant

Cross-border Development and Challenges: Impacts on the

U.S.Mexico Border

Andrea Garfinkel-Castro, University of Utah

Manuel Chavez, Michigan State University
An Assessment of Immigration Trends after Twenty
Years of NAFTA: 1994 2014
THURSDAY
Mnica Verea, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico

1:00 2:30 pm

Navigating Transcultural Economic Development:

Cross-border Collaboration in the US-Mexico Border
Region
Andrea Garfinkel-Castro, University of Utah
A General Framework to Analyze the Influence of
Economic and Institutional Variables Affecting the
Demand of Productive Factors in the Mexican
Maquiladora Industry
Jorge Ibarra Salazar and Francisco Garca Prez
Environmental Justice in the Borderlands:
Movement Networks and Bi-national Environmental
Governance on the U.S.Mexico Border
Carolina Prado, University of California, Berkeley

Panel 14

Moderator
Discussant

Cross-border Governance and Theory of Fields

Bruno Dupeyron, University of Regina Campus
Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso

THURSDAY
2:45 4:15 pm

A Meso-level Examination of Cross-border

Governance in the Paso del Norte Region: Political
and Economic Perspectives
Pamela Lizette Cruz, University of Texas at El Paso
An Emerging Field after Mexicos Drug War:
Energy, Security and Business-led Cross-border
Governance
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, University of Texas at
Brownsville
The Theory of Fields in Border Governance Studies:
Perspectives and Debates
Bruno Dupeyron, University of Regina Campus
The San Diego-Tijuana Border: A Clash of Federal
Incumbents and Local Challengers
Eduardo Mendoza Cota, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Panel 15

Moderator
Discussant

Border Theory: Grand Theories or Epistemic Pluralism

Kimberly Collins, California State University, San Bernardino

Randy William Widdis, University of Regina
Border Theory: Grand Theories or Epistemic
Pluralism
THURSDAY
Kimberly Collins, California State University, San
Bernardino
2:45 4:15 pm

Borderlands Theory and Political Pragmatics: The

Need for a Faceted Approach to Border Politics
Stephen Mumme, Colorado State University
Spatial Theory Provides Insight into Urban Border
Areas
Sergio Pena, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Small Business Cooperative Networks and Crossborder Social and Economic Development Models a
Relational Approach
Maria Luisa Picard-Ami, Cynthia Klingler Universidad
Nacional Autnoma de Mxico

Panel 16
Moderator
Discussant

Bordered People: Asian Borderlands and the EU experience

(CROSSLISTED WITH ASIAN STUDIES)

Machiko Hachiya, Kyusyu University

Bradley Camp Davis, Eastern Connecticut State University
A Short Introduction of Asian Borderlands:
Perspectives from the EU
THURSDAY
Machiko Hachiya, Kyushu University

2:45-4:15 pm

EU Neighbourhood Policies: Setting an Agenda for

New Post-cold War International Order?
Ilkka Liikanen, University of Eastern Finland
People Dominated by Borders: Enclave Challenges in
Bangladesh
Rakib md Kahn, Police Force, Bangladesh
Fencing People In: Bangladesh in Comparative
Studies
Md NazrulIslam, Educator, Bangladesh
Silk Road Economic Belt: Opportunities for
Economic Integration, Chinas Xinjiang and Central
Asia
Jianying Xu, Research Center for Chinese Borderland
History and Geography, CASS

Panel 17
Moderators

B/orders in Motion: Reordering East Central Europe at the

End of the Two World Wars

Thomas Serrier, Universit Paris VIII

THURSDAY
2:45 4:15 pm

Fighting the Bolsheviks and Versailles

Tim Buchen, European University Viadrina
Pioneer Peasants, Professors and the Party: Popular
Memory of Settling the Oder-Neisse Territories in
Postwar Polish Autobiographical Sociology
Paul Andrew Vickers, University of Giessen
Polish Wild West. Forced Migration and Cultural
Appropriation of the Oder Region after 1945
Beata Halicka, Adam Mickiewicz University
Remembering WWII in the Finnish-Russian
Borderlands: Is Transnational Politics of Memory
Possible?
Olga Davydova-Mingue, University of Eastern Finland

Panel 18
Moderator

Plenary Session: Association of Borderland Studies

Lifetime Achievement Award
Martin van der Velde, Radboud University

THURSDAY
4:30 6:00 pm

TBA

Panel 19

Moderator
Discussant

Older New World (Dis)orders

Lisa Philips, University of Alberta

Paul Richardson, University of Manchester
Borderlands and Hegemonic Transformation: Two
Roads to the Same End
FRIDAY
Allan K. McDougall, Western Washington University

8:00 9:30 am

Call and Response: Hegemonic Transformations from

Legislation to the Individual
Lisa Philips, University of Alberta
Entangled Hegemonies in the Borderlands of
Oregons Indian Country
Nora Pederson, University of Alberta
Neither White nor Indian: Hegemonic
Transformations in the Construction of Identity and
Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century Pacific
Northwest
Daniel L. Boxberger, Western Washington University

Panel 20

Moderator
Discussant

Labour, Tourists, and Emotions: Reshaping Borderland

Economies Interaction

Joni Virkkunen, University of Eastern Finland

Sergio Pena, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
An Ideal Labor Force: How Guest Worker Policies
are Reshaping Rural Resort Economies of the U.S.
FRIDAY
Canadian West
Laurie Trautman, Western Washington University
8:00 9:30 am
Economic Reform in North Koreas and its External
Economic Cooperation: An Impact on Peoples Life
Mitsuhiro Mimura, Economic Research Institute for
Northeast Asia
Familiars, Neighbours, Friends and Twins: Exploring
the Impact of Emotive Closeness
Pertti Joenniemi, University of Eastern Finland
Developing Border Tourism in Japan: The Case of
Tsushima-Busan Cross-border Tour
Yasunori Hanamatsu, Kyushu University

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Panel 21

Moderator
Discussant

Media, Reporting, and Representation

Ilkka Liikanen, University of Eastern Finland

Machiko Hachiya, Kyushu University

FRIDAY
8:00 9:30 am

A Border Clarified: Making Sense of Conflicting

Reports of the U.S. Mexico Border
Cari Lee Skogberg Eastman, Independent Researcher
Virtual Extremism: Anti-immigrant Networks in the
New Media and Beyond
Willie Costley, Centre College
Documenting Migrant Deaths: Who is Dayani
Cristal? And Torn Apart
Jamie A Wilson-Sierra, Pacific University

Panel 22

Moderator
Discussant

Governance, Migration, and Borders

Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University

Tetsuro Chida, Hokkaido University
Creeping Migration in the Kyrgyz-Tajik Borderlands:
A Real or Imagined Threat
FRIDAY
Paul Fryer, University of Eastern Finland

8:00 9:30 am

Understanding the Linkages between Undocumented

Migration, Organized Crime and Trafficking in
Persons along the Eastern U.S.Mexico Border
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Jennifer Bryson Clark,
University of Texas at Brownsville
Dilemmas and Challenges of Cross-border
Governance in Nigeria
Willie Aziegbe Eselebor, University of Ibadan
The Guatemalan Refugee Experience in the United
States 18 Years after the Guatemalan Peace Accord: A
Case Study How the Aftermath of Political Violence is
Negotiated across Transnational Borders
Gabriele Kohpahl, University of California, Los Angeles

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Panel 23

Moderator
Discussant

Borders and the Migration-development Nexus

Paolo Novak, University of London

Joni Virkkunen, University of Eastern Finland

FRIDAY
9:45 11:15 am

Remittances, Development, and the Contradictions

of Transnationalism across the U.S.Mexico Divide:
Exploring Policymakers Gaze and the Right to Stay
Home
Matt Bakker, Marymount University
Disorder, Reborder: The Meanings and Consequences
of Cambodian Mass Returns
Maryann Bylander, Lewis and Clark
Cross-border Metropolitan Development through the
Prism of Paradoxical Bordering Strategies: The Case
of Greater Geneva
Christophe Sohn, CEPS
Performing the Migration-development Nexus
Paolo Novak, University of London

Panel 24
Moderator
Discussant

Imagined Nations: The Development of Frontiers and

Borders in the Past and the Present

Belinda Romn, St. Marys University

Adriana Dorfman, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Imaging the Frontier: Migration and Empowerment
in Early 20th Century Senegambia
FRIDAY
David Glovsky, Michigan State University

9:45 11:15 am

In Whose Interest? Postwar Handling of Wartime

Postal Savings in Japan
Hironobu Yamagami, Japan Center for Borderlands
Studies
Las Colonias: Life Along the Texas-Mexico Border
Jordan Barton, Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Emily Ryder
Perimeter, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Raquel
Marquez, University of Texas at San Antonio
Characteristics and Challenges to the Japanese
Nationality and Immigration Administration
Hiroyuki Ohnishi, Ministry of Justice, Japan

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Panel 25

Moderator
Discussant

Minorities and Borders

Dhananjay Tripathi, South Asian University

Jennifer Bryson Clark, University of Texas at Brownsville
Militarization and Violence: Undocumented Migrants
and the Arizona-Sonora Border
FRIDAY
Bill De La Rosa, Bowdoin College

9:45 11:15 am

Surviving on the Margin: The Predicaments of

Nyangatom along the Borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya,
and South Sudan
Elias Alemu Bedasso, University of Bergen
Teaching Minority Awareness and Integration: The
Case of the Danish Minority in Germany
Jrgen Khl, A.P. Mller Skolen
Intersectionality of Ethnic and Nation-state
Boundaries in Thai-Burma Border Town Markets
Samak Kosem, Chiang Mai University

Panel 26
Moderator
Discussant

Making Sense of Border Spaces: Communicating Difference

and Identity in Border Cities

Francisco Lara, Arizona State University

Estelle Evrard, University of Luxembourg
Linguistic Landscapes in Transborder Contexts: A
Conceptual Approximation
FRIDAY
Brendan OConnor and Francisco Lara, Arizona State
University
9:45 11:15 am
Border-city Pairs in Europe and North America:
Spatial Dimensions of Integration and Separation
Francisco Lara, Arizona State University and Sylwia
Dolzblasz, University of Wroclaw

Cross-border Festivals and spatial Representations:

Comparing North-American and European Cases
Xavier Oliveras Gonzlez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Violence as an Unintended Consequence of Crossborder Trade: The Geo-politics of Supply and
Demand
Laurence Armand French, University of New Hampshire
and Magdaleno Manzanzrez, Western New Mexico
University

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Panel 27
Moderator

Borders and the Environment

Christopher Brown, New Mexico State University

The Aral Sea Disaster and (Re-)bordering Process
Tetsuro Chida, Hokkaido University

FRIDAY
1:00 2:30 pm

The Effect of Water Security and Water Quality on

Border Relations in the United States, Mexico and
Canada
Jenny Kehl, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Developing Cross-border Environmental Cooperation
in Northeast Asia and the Russian Far East: The Case
of the Amur-Okhotsk Ecosystem
Yasunori Hanamatsu, Kyushu University
State Environmental Conservation and Security on
the U.S.Mexico Border
Jessica Piekielek, Southern Oregon University

Panel 28
Moderator

Education and Perception in Border Contexts

Oscar J. Martinez, University of Arizona

FRIDAY
1:00 2:30 pm

Navigating the Interaction of Place-based Pedagogy

and Border Pedagogy
Timothy G. Cashman, the University of Texas at El Paso
Creating Borders in Young Minds; the Pedagogical
Projection of Enemy: A Case Study of Indian and
Pakistani School Textbooks
Dhananjay Tripathi, South Asian University
Interactional Brokering and Linguistic Minorities:
Crossing Cultural and Linguistic Borders
Seth Cervantes, Alliant International University
Taking a Step Forward in Understanding
Territoriality: Comparing the EU and Cross-border
Contexts
Estelle Evrard, University of Luxembourg

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Panel 29

Moderator
Discussant

Borders and Human Security

Koji Furukawa, Chukyo University

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, University of Texas Brownsville
Flexible Borders in Times of Enhanced Border
Security: The Changing Meanings of the MexicoFRIDAY
United States Border
Scott Whiteford, University of Arizona
1:00 2:30 pm
Managing Cross-border Epidemics: The Dynamics
and Lessons from the Successful Ebola Fever Control
along Uganda-DRC Border
David Baganda, University of Eastern Finland
Ebola: Disease Without Borders
William B. Kory, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
India-Nepal Borders: Issues of Human Security
Rajesh S Kharat, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Panel 30

Innovation and Development on the Borderlands

Rongxing Guo, Peking University

Fuminori Kawakubo, Chuogakuin University and Jianying Xu, Research
Center for Chinese Borderland History and Geography, CASS
Public Indicators of Family and Community
Religiosity en El Norte: Chihuahua y El Paso
FRIDAY
Fernando Parra, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona Frank Malgesini, Emma Escobedo and Anna
1:00 2:30 pm
Cecilia Villarreal Ballesteros, Universidad Autonomna de
Chihuahua

Moderator
Discussant

Is There a Convergence of Innovation of the Mexico

U.S. Border?
Belinda Roman, St. Marys University
Blood-Stained Hills: Borderlands after the Borderline
between China and Southeast Asia: 1860s 1920s
Bradley Camp Davis, Eastern Connecticut State
University
Harbin: Paris of East as a Border City without
Borders
David Wolff, Hokkaido University

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Panel 31
Moderator

Special Session I: A Walled World? Borders, Walls, and

Resistance
Paul Richardson, University of Manchester

FRIDAY
2:45 4:15 pm

Panel 32
Moderator

Presenters:
Michael Dear, University of California, Berkeley
Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University
James Scott, University of Eastern Finland
Polly Pallister-Wilkins, University of Amsterdam

Special Session II: Featuring UACJ

Martha Patricia Barraza De Anda, Universidad Autnoma de Ciudad Jurez

Los Desafos Dominantes en la Frontera MxicoEstados Unidos: Democracia, Cooperacin,
FRIDAY
Intercambio y Sustentabilidad

2:45-4:15 pm

Ciudad Jurez: Los Nuevos Retos de la Vida

Fronteriza
Hctor Antonio Padilla Delgado, Universidad Autnoma
de Ciudad Jurez
La Necesidad de una Cooperacin Obligada en el
Contexto de una Agenda Desdibujada en la Frontera
Ciudad Jurez-El Paso
Consuelo Pequeo Rodrguez, Universidad Autnoma de
Ciudad Jurez
Evolucin de los Patrones de Interaccin Econmica
a Travs de los Cruces Transfronterizos (Autos,
Peatones y Camiones) en la Frontera Ciudad Jurez-El
Paso: 1984 2013
Martha Patricia Barraza De Anda, Universidad Autnoma
de Ciudad Jurez
Clusters de Biotecnologa y Fronteras: Algunas
Lecciones
Julieta Flores Amador, Universidad Autnoma de Ciudad
Jurez
La Implementacin de la Poltica Cientfica,
Tecnolgica y de Innovacin en el mbito de la
Frontera Norte de Mxico
Javier Martnez Romero, Universidad Autnoma de
Ciudad Jurez
Elementos de la Gobernanza Transfronteriza
Tony Payan, Universidad Autnoma de Ciudad Jurez

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Panel 33

Moderator
Discussant

Bringing Together Border Networks

Jussi Lane, University of Eastern Finland

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria
The BRIT XIV: Innovation of Borders from FrenchBelgian Experiences
FRIDAY
Bernard Reitel, Universit dArtois

4:30 6:00 pm

Activate Japans Borderlands: Three years of

Activities of the Japan International Border Studies
Network
Koji Furukawa, Chukyo University
Toward the Latino-American Border Studies
Network
Martha Patricia Barraza de Anda, Universidad Autnoma
de Ciudad Jurez

Panel 34

Moderator
Discussant

The Long Shadow of History

John E. Dean, Texas A&M International University

Birte Wassenberg, Universite de Stasbourg
Contraband in Everyday Consumer Goods on the
U.S.-Mexico Border and Its Impact on Mexico: A
FRIDAY
Historical Overview
Oscar J. Martinez, University of Arizona
4:30 6:00 pm
The F-word in Ukraine: The Frontier as Ukraine
History
Anthony J. Amato, Southwest Minnesota State University
Border Disputes in North East Asia: 70th Years after
the War against Japan
Kimie Hara, University of Waterloo
The Ant Army: A Significant Mechanism of ThailandMyanmar Illegal Trade (1988 2012)
Akkanut Wantanasombut, Chulalongkorn University

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Panel 35

Moderator
Discussant

Governance and Representation on Borders

Jrgen Khl, A. P. Moller Skolen

Carolina Prado, University of California, Berkeley
Greek-Turkish Cross-border Cooperation: An Issue of
Social, Political and Economic Engagement
FRIDAY
Nuri Ali Tahir, University of Texas at Austin

4:30-6:00 pm

Studies of Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan in

the Qing Dynasty
Minhua Huang, National Taiwan University
Representations of International Boundary Conflict
Areas on Stamps: What Color Is My Enemy?
Stanley D. Brunn, University of Kentucky

Panel 36
Moderator

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Latin American

Borderlands

Adriana Dorfman, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Geografias Morales del Contrabando
Adriana Dorfman, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
FRIDAY
Sul

4:30 6:00 pm

Distribucin Territorial de Equipamientos Para la

Atencin Primaria de la Salud: Un Comparativo Entre
las Ciudades de El Paso, Texas y Jurez, Chihuahua
Rafael Mauricio Marrufo, Universidad Autnoma de
Ciudad Jurez
Imaginario Moral Sexual en el Alumnado de una
Escuela Pblica Primaria en Ciudad Jurez
Emilio Nana Muoz
Compras Transfronterizas Determinadas por
Diferencias de Precios Mxico-Estados Unidos
Eliseo Daz Gonzlez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
La Ciencia Ficcin y la Representacin de las
Fronteras Norteamericanas en el Siglo XXI
Graciela Martnez-Zalce, Universidad Nacional Autnoma
de Mxico

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FRIDAY
6:00 7:00 pm

FRIDAY
7:00 9:00 pm

Panel 37
Moderators

Association for Borderland Studies

Business Meeting

Association for Borderland Studies

Reception By Invitation Only

Everyday Life in Borderlands and Encounters with

(Un)familiarity Part 1: Policies and Politics

Bas Spierings, Utrecht University

Martin van der Velde, Radboud University Nijmegen
Discussant
Gregor Schnuer, University of Luxembourg
Cross-border (Un)familiarity and Development
Policies
SATURDAY
Bas Spierings, Utrecht University and Martin van der
Velde, Radboud University Nijmegen
8:00 9:30 am
Negotiating Contested Identities in Cross-border
Governance in Nigeria
Willie Aziegbe Eselebor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Geopolitical (Un)familiarity and the Russia-Ukraine
Conflict
James W. Scott and Jussi Laine, University of Eastern
Finland
An Exploration Using Data and Technology to
Measure the Quality and Quantity of Educational
Resources on the U.S.Mexico Border
Rosario Torress-Raines, Texas A&M University and
Belinda Roman, St. Marys University

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Panel 38
Moderator
Discussant

For Whom the Bell Tolls? Migration, Diaspora and Border

Crossing Phenomena in East Asia
(CROSSLISTED WITH ASIAN STUDIES)

Naomi Chi, Hokkaido University

Alexander Bukh, Victoria University of Wellington
The Fine Line between a National and a Nonnational: Case Study of the Sakhalin Koreans
SATURDAY
Hyein Han, Sunkyunkwan University

8:00 9:30 am

Politeness Strategy of Japanese, Koreans and

Zainichi Chosenjin
Bong Lee, Hokkaido University
Intersecting Borders: Stowaway, Detention Center
and Zainichi Chosenjin (Koreans)
Kyunghee Cho, Songkonghoe University
Japanese Colonialism and Repatriation of Japanese
people in North Korea
Sincheol Lee, Sunkyunkwan University
Land or People? The Organization of Japanese
Repatriates from Sakhalin (Karafuto) and the
Remaining Japanese of Sakhalin
Taisho Nakayama, Hokkaido University

Panel 39
Moderator
Discussant

Representing the Border: Writing New Borders for a New

World Order
Stephen F. Wolfe (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Lisa Philips, University of Alberta
The Written Borders of New Russia
Mari Ristolainen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

SATURDAY
8:00 9:30 am

Border Utopias: The Case of Parikkala Border

Region
Saija Kaskinen, University of Eastern Finland
Russias Last Barren Islands: Beyond State-space
and the New Realities of the Hyper-border
Paul Richardson, University of Manchester

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Moderator

Roundtable: On the Emerging IBWC Minute on Watershed

Management in the Tijuana River Watershed
Christopher Brown, New Mexico State University

SATURDAY
8:00 9:30 am

Panel 41
Moderator
Discussant

Presenters:
Christopher Brown, New Mexico State University
Steve Mumme, Colorado State University
Paul Ganster, San Diego State University
Carlos de la Parra, el Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Border Crossing to a New World Order: Working with

Border Aesthetics Theory

Saija Kaskinen, University of Eastern Finland

Willie Costley, Centre College
Disrupting Nordic Borders: Postcolonial Border
Concepts in Contemporary Swedish Migrant Fiction
SATURDAY
Johan Schimanski, University of Oslo

9:45 11:15 am

A Border Poetics of Passages: Transnational

Communities of Writers in London in the 1980s
Stephen F. Wolfe, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
On the borderland: Sea, Land and Liminality in
Virginia Woolfs The Voyage Out
Alina Oboza, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Panel 42
Moderators

Everyday Life in Borderlands and Encounters with

(Un)familiarity Part 2: Identities and Belonging

Bas Spierings, Utrecht University, and Martin van der Velde, Radboud
University Nijmegen
Discussant
Mike Plitt, Europa-Universitat Viadrina
Unfamiliarity, Border Regions and the Constitution
of National Identities
SATURDAY
Carsten Yndigegn, University of Southern Denmark

9:45 11:15 am

Familiars, Neighbours, Friends and Twins: Exploring

the Impact of Emotive Closeness
Pertti Joenniemi, University of Eastern Finland
Practicing the Familiar in the (Un)familiar
Dorte Jagetic Andersen and Ren Ejbye Pedersen,
University of Southern Denmark
Negotiating Unfamiliarity at Mussina: Perspectives
on Everyday Encounters at the South AfricaZimbabwe Border
Inocent Moyo, University of South Africa

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Moderator
Discussant

Transborder Challenges: Realities and Construction

Krishnendra Meena, Jawaharlal Nehru University

T. Mark Montoya, Northern Arizona University
National Identities on the Texas-Mexico Frontier
John E. Dean, Texas A&M International University

SATURDAY
9:45 11:15 am

When Borders Go Up in Smoke: Contraband

Tobaccos Illicit Transborder Networks
Christian Leuprecht, Royal Military College of Canada
U.S.Mexico Border Indicator Dashboard
Kimberly Collins, California State University, San
Bernardino
The Observatories OBFRON (Brazil) and OHMOyapock (France) as Centers of Studies on Borders
and International Limits in the North of South
America
Yurgel Caldas and Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva, Federal
University of Amap Brazil and Damien Davy, Herve
Thery, and Franoise Grenand, antenna Oyapock

Panel 44
Moderator

Territory, Violence, Culture, and Institution

(CROSSLISTED WITH LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES)

Arturo Bentez-Zavala, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mxico

Territory and Territoriality in Colombian Politics
Marcela Velasco, Colorado State University

SATURDAY
9:45 11:15 am

Violencia y Territorio: Elementos para la

Conformacin de Territorios Seguros
Rosala Lpez Paniagua, Universidad Nacional Autnoma
de Mxico and Dante Ariel Ayala-Ortz, Universidad
Michoacana de San Nicols de Hidalgo, Mxico
Two Peoples, Two Paths: Culture and Diaspora on
Hispanola
Marlon Roundtree, University of Southern Mississippi
Historical Aspects of the Occupation of Mato
Grosso
Bastiaan Philip Reydon, Roberto Resende Simiqueli, Vitor
Bukvar Fernandes, Ana Paula Da Silva, and Francisco
Orlandini, Universidade Estadual De Campinas

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Moderator

Brownbag Meeting
(CROSSLISTED WITH ASIAN STUDIES)
Akihiro Iwashita, Hokkaido University

SATURDAY
11:30 12:45 pm

Panel 46
Moderator
Discussant

Documentary on Visualizing Borders:

Unknown Tales from Border Islands,
Ogasawara, in Pacific Ocean

South China Borders and Borderlands

(CROSSLISTED WITH ASIAN STUDIES)

Victor Konrad, Carleton University

Minhua Huang, National Taiwan University
The Dowry Land System of Decentralized Shan-Dai
Chieftaincy Policy between Chinese Empires and
SATURDAY
Burmese Kingdoms after the 13th Century
Jianxiong Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and
1:00 2:30 pm
Technology
Cross-border Trade and the Transformation of Border
Cities between Yunnan and Myanmar
Xiaobo Su, University of Oregon
Dams and Development: Understanding Small
Hydropower in Chinas Border Region of Yunnan
Province
Tom Ptak, University of Oregon
Experiencing Mekong Border: Chinas Silent Army
and Economic Culture in Northern Thai Borderland
Aranya Siriphon, Chiang Mai University

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Moderator
Discussant

An Innovative Borderland: Lessons from U.S.Mexico

Relations

Willie Costley, Centre College

Scott Whiteford, University of Arizona
Working Conditions of Commuter Migrant Women in
the Imperial Valley, California (2014)
SATURDAY
Agustn Sndez Prez, Lya Margarita Nio Contreras and
1:00 2:30 pm
Gerardo Montoya Lpez, Universidad Autnoma de Baja
California
Social Media Intercandidate Agenda-building Effect
of Texas Border County Judge Electoral Campaigns: A
Facebook Case Study
Maria de los ngeles Flores, Texas A&M International
University and Manuel Chavez, Michigan State University
Convergence or Divergence of Income on the U.S.
Mexico border? Trade Theory and the Role of the
Border as a Binational Institution
James Gerber, San Diego State University
El Paso del Norte Region: Prospects for Further
Cross-border Integration
Ana Rodriguez Camargo, University of Texas at El Paso

Panel 48

Moderator
Discussant

Crossing Borders

Naomi Chi, Hokkaido University

Christoff Sohn, Public Research Centre CEPS
Illegal -and Other- Americans: Negotiating the
Hyphen in Arizona
SATURDAY
T. Mark Montoya, Northern Arizona University

1:00 2:30 pm

Living on Borrowed Time: Borders, Ticking Clocks

and Timelessness among Temporary Labor Migrants
and their Children in Israel
Robin A. Harper, York College and Hani Zubida, The Max
Stern Yezreel Valley College
Poverty and Migration in the (Geo)politics of Russian
Neighbourhood
Joni Virkkunen, University of Eastern Finland
Female Transnational Migrants in Singapore: Their
Struggle and Negotiations for Survival
Keiko Tsuji-Tamura, University of Kitakyushu

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Panel 49
Moderators

Everyday Life in Borderlands and Encounters with

(Un)familiarity Part 3: Mobilities and Perception

Bas Spierings, Utrecht University

Martin van der Velde, Radboud University
Discussant
Estelle Evrard, University of Luxembourg
Dwelling in (Un)familiarity: Examples from the
Luxemburgish-German Borderland
SATURDAY
Elisabeth Boesen and Gregor Schnuer, University of
Luxembourg
1:00 2:30 pm
The Concept of (Un)familiarity and Cross-border
Migration by Danish Itinerant Journeymen 1890
1914
Ren Ejbye Pedersen, University of Southern Denmark
Encountering Unfamiliar Russia
Henrik Dorf Nielsen, University of Eastern Finland

Panel 50
Moderator

Roundtable: Plenary Session: Association of Borderland

Studies Vision
Martin van der Velde, Radboud University

SATURDAY
4:30 6:00 pm

This session continues the dialogue of the Association of

Borderland Studies visioning committee and the
Association of Borderland Studies planning initiative.
Speakers: TBA

Panel 51

Roundtable: Photo Stories of Life at the Border: An

Interactive Photo Exhibition Based on Participatory
Photography with Hispanic Migrants at the U.S.Mexico
Border to Stimulate Participation and Reflection on
Immigration and Information

SATURDAY
4:30 6:00 pm

Presenters:
Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington iSchool
Katya Yefimova, University of Washington iSchool
Bryce Newell, University of Washington iSchool
Veronica Guajardo, University of Washington iSchool

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Panel 52
Moderator

Mesa: Ciudades, vida cotidiana y bienestar en la frontera

Flor Urbina Barrera, UACJ

SATURDAY
4:30 6:00 pm

Imaginarios de Bienestar a Partir del Entorno

Natural en Ciudad Jurez
Flor Urbina Barrera, UACJ
Percepciones de la Poblacin Fronteriza: Ciudad
Jurez como Ciudad Imaginada
Martha Estela Prez Garca, UACJ
Regin Fronteriza y Colonias. Polticas Pblicas para
el Bienestar en la Frontera Tamaulipas-Texas
Artemisa Lpez Len, El Colegio de la Frontera
Matamoros
Racismo Entre Mexicanos. Un Efecto del Mercado
Oligopsnico de Mano de Obra en las Maquilas de
Mxico
Mnica Lorena Snchez Limn y Mtro. Pedro Herrera
Ledesma, Universidad Autnoma de Tamaulipas

Panel 53
Moderator

Roundtable: Border Policy Trends in North America

Laurie Trautman, Western Washington University

SATURDAY
4:30 6:00 pm

Panelists:
Don Alper, Western Washington University
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, University of Texas
Brownsville
James Loucky, Western Washington University
David Davidson, Western Washington University
Chris Sands, Western Washington University
Tony Payan, Rice University

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