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> BORDER REGIONS IN TRANSITION
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> THE BRIT VII CONFERENCE
>
> CROSSING DISCIPLINES, CROSSING SCALES, CROSSING REGIONS
>
> will take place in Israel between the dates: 9-16th January 2005.
>
> The event will be jointly hosted by the
> Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University
> Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society at Ben Gurion
> University
> and
> The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.
>
> Some sessions will be sponsored by the EUROBORDERS project, an EU funded
> project.
>
> Most of the sessions will be held in Jerusalem, and there will also be two
> planned field trips:
> 1. The West Bank, Jerusalem and the Separation Wall.
> 2. the Trilateral Border region - Elat (Israel), Aqaba (Jordan), Taba
> (Egypt)
>
> Final details concerning cost, accomodation etc; are currently being
> arranged and will be sent out shortly. We will try to arrange a package
> which will include hotel, field trip and conference registration costs.
> Travel will have to be arranged separately although we will do our best to
> assist in travel arangements and, for groups of people arriving at the
same
> time, transfer from the airport to the hotel.
>
> A provisional itinerary is:
> Saturday 8th january: P.M. Opening event.
> Sunday 9th and Monday 10th january: Conference sessions (at Van leer
> Institute, Jerualem)
> Tuesday 11th January: Field Trip - West Bank, Palestinian Authority,
> Separation Wall
> Wednesday 12th January: Conference sessions (at Van Leer Institute).
> Thursday 12th - Friday 13th january: Field trip - tri-lateral border
region
> (stay in either Elat or Aqaba).
> Friday 13th and saturday 14th january: Depart.
>
> Part of the conference will deal with theoretical border issues, while
parts
> will deal with empirical case studies of border and territorial issues
> throughout the world. Two sessions (one of them a plenary session),
> including local scholars and public figures, will be devoted to
territorial
> and border issues in Israel Palestine. These will be organised jointly by
a
> group of Israeli and Palestinian scholars who are currently engaged in
Track
> II discussions relating to these issues.
>
> Interested participants should send their abstracts NO LATER than 20th
July
> 2004 to the following email address:
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> Abstracts should be approximately 250-300 words, in WORD format, 1.5
> spacing, TimesRoman Font 12.
>
> A web site and an alternative email address will be ready for use by the
end
> of June 2004.
>
> Individual enquiries can be made at this stage to Professor David Newman
at
> the above email address.
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