Lecture – Historical legacies and ‘new’ border realities

For centuries, the Strait of Gibraltar has been a crossroads between Africa and Europe; since the 1980s, however, it has increasingly become a “zone of illegality” (Hannoum 2020). By exploring how colonial legacies and EU policies play out in the border region between Morocco and Spain, Gerhild Perl will show how categories of difference are made and remade across time and space.
 

13 October 2022, 4.00-5.30pm
Online lecture (Zoom)
Lecture in English

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Gerhild Perl is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Trier. Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern, where she completed her PhD. She held visiting fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge and Aix-Marseille and did her MA studies in Vienna and Lisbon. For her work, she received the IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Award and the Dissertation Prize of the German Anthropological Association.

The lecture is part of the lecture series “Border Realities: Transformation of the border and new conceptual challenges”. The series is organised by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (University of Luxembourg) and the Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies at the Institute of Sociology (University of Wrocław).