Borders and frontier zones are particularly interesting sites for interdisciplinary study: they can stimulate the potential for new movements, thus making new trade or other exchange opportunities possible. They can also confine mobilities and raise security concerns of an economic, political or social nature. States and populations can create such barriers but they can also work with or against them. In this Borders and Mobilities in Eurasia international seminar series we will look at ongoing bordering practices and cross-border activities with a focus on Eurasia and some consideration of adjacent regions.

The Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham (UK), the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) (Germany) and the VERA Centre for Russian and Border Studies at the University of Eastern Finland (Finland) are holding an international online seminar. The format will be a roundtable. After short presentations by invited speakers, we will open up the discussion for panel and audience engagement. The topics for this Spring are: Imperial and Soviet Borderlands (2 April 2025), Transnational Citizenship (15 May 2025), and Academic Cooperation and Mobility (10 June 2025). The sessions will be for 1.5 hours, starting at 12.00 UK time/13.00 DE time/14.00 Finnish time.

You can join the roundtables in Zoom. (Meeting ID: 853 8840 1075, Access code: 125118)
The event on 10.06.2025 uses a different Zoom link: (Meeting ID: 869 2229 9466, Access code: 779229)

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