Lecture – Bridging Fluid Borders. Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland

Riverine borders are not “natural” borders dividing up space – certainly not for the people who have called these fluid borderlands their home for years, decades, or even centuries. One example is the Oyapock River, the official border between Brazil and France, which is a one-way street.

In the lecture, Fabio Santos goes into ethnographic details of the river border and contributes to conversations across national borders.
 

Fabio Santos currently substitutes a Global Studies professorship at the Aarhus University. His research focuses on contested memories, spaces, borders and belongings from postcolonial and intersectional perspectives. After earning his doctorate in Sociology on the topic of this talk from Freie Universität Berlin in 2019, he worked as guest professor in International Development at the University of Vienna and as postdoc at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

22 March 2022, 4.30-6.00 PM
Online (Zoom)
Registration: https://bit.ly/3szNrjB
 

Guest lecture within “Riverine Borders – On rivers and other border materialities”: The accompanying program to Zoe Leonard’s exhibition “Al río / To the River” organized by The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg and the UniGR-Center for Border Studies.
 

The lecture is open to the public and aimed at citizens, students and researchers.

Free admission, lecture in English

More information about the lecture and the accompanying program "Riverine Borders – On rivers and other border materialities" here
 

Contact

Christian Wille
Department of Geography and Spatial Planning
University of Luxembourg