Border lines and Border lands
June, 26 and 27, 2003
International Conference hosted by the Centre de Recherches
Espaces/Ecritures
Université Paris-10-Nanterre
France
The two notions of border lines and border lands may be associated with the
question of a 'no man's land', this fluctuating space between two
ill-defined scenes whose frontiers/boundaries are often undecipherable.
Crossing a border line often implies impending danger involving life and
death (physical or psychological). Yet border lines and border lands also
call forth encounters and exchanges (personal, cultural.) and not only
anguish.
The go-between (be he a dogman or a smuggler) is the emblematic figure of
this elusive geographic, cultural or symbolic space ; he opens the way and
traces the pathway (poetic or political).
The marches of past empires, the far-away shores of the Syrtes, the
imaginary forts of 'Ill Deserto dei Tartari' or of 'Waiting for the
Barbarians' are zones (internal or external) where waiting becomes a way of
life. They are the paradigms of displacement, passage and time.
Send 200-300-word abstracts before January 31, 2003
to Thierry Salomon
E-mail: Thierry.Salomon@u-paris10.fr
Snail mail: Thierry Salomon
Bibliothèque Lawrence Durrell, E 101
UFR d'études anglo-américaines - Université Paris X
200 avenue de la République
F-92001 Nanterre cedex 01
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