Home website for COST Action IS0803
Remaking eastern borders in Europe: A network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe's eastern peripheries.
Past COST Action IS0803 Events 2010
WG1: Borders
Borders, Materiality, Signification
Second Work Group 1 meeting
Berlin (Germany)
8-9 April 2010
February 2010; Former Berlin Wall, near Bornholmer Strasse, Berlin, where people first crossed the border in 1989.
Photo:Michaela Schaüble.
WG2: Travel, Exchanges, Translations
Roots and Webs
Second Work Group 2 meeting
Sofia (Bulgaria)
14-15 May 2010
2006; Armenian Turkish Border Mountain sign: "Happy to be a Turk". Photo: Nese Ozgen.
WG3: Differences and Inequalities
The Welfare Gap
Second Work Group 3 meeting
Oslo (Norway)
7-8 May 2010
Dec 2009; Abandoned House, Green Line, Cyprus. Photo: Lena Malm.
WG4:Documents, Techniques and Technologies
Morality and Legality
Second Work Group 4 meeting
Thessaloniki (Greece)
22-23 May 2010
August 2007; Greek/Turkish border control.
Photo: Lena Malm.
Past COST Action IS0803 Events 2009
WG1: Borders
Productive Borders
First Work Group 1 meeting
Nicosia (Cyprus)
14-15 April 2009
May 2009; Latvian Russian Border.
Photo: Lena Malm.
WG2: Travel, Exchanges, Translations
Liquid Lands, Solid Seas
First Work Group 2 meeting
Rome (Italy)
27-28 April 2009
August 2007; Ayvalik Green Market.
Photo: Lena Malm.
WG3: Differences and Inequalities
Borders as Histories Condensed
First Work Group 3 meeting
Ljubljana (Slovenia) 8-9 May 2009
May 2009; Petrol buyers, Latvian Russian border.
Photo: Lena Malm.
WG4: Documents, Techniques & Technologies
Passports and Passing
First Work Group 4 meeting
Manchester (UK) 15-16 May 2009
August 2007; Greek Turkish border.
Photo: Lena Malm.
WS1: Eastern Peripheries
Multiple Easts: Peripheries as Practice
First Workshop 1 meeting
Brno (Czech Republic)
12-13 November 2009
February 2010; Former Bulgarian- Yugoslavian border zone. Photo: Margarita Karamihova
WS2: MoneyMoney and the Shifting Locations of Eastern Peripheries
First Workshop 2 meeting
Zagreb (Croatia)
16-17 October 2009
April 2007; Western Union advertising, Mytilene.
Photo: Sarah Green.
WS3: Gender and SexualityGender and Sexuality: Border Issues
First Workshop 3 meeting
Helsinki (Finland)
4-5 December 2009
2007; Winter is coming, Armenian Turkey border.
Photo: Nese Ozgen.
WS4: Time: Pasts and Futures
Hidden Histories and Promised Lands
First Workshop 4 meeting
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
19-20 November 2009
August 2007; Old Hamman, Mytilene.
Photo: Lena Malm.