Borderlands are a useful conceptual tool to capture complex economic and social interactions as well as identity dynamics involving communities that have ties that cross recognized geographic borders. This panel brings together a group of respected scholars to consider borderlands and the impact cross-border politics have on identity and nationalism, a topic made ever more timely within the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Participants:

Kristina Kallas (U of Tartu, EE)

Myra Waterbury (Ohio U, US)

Harris Mylonas (George Washington U, US)

Alina Jašina-Schäfer (Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe, DE)

 

Moderator: Angela Kachuyevski (Arcadia U, US)