The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference:
Walls, Borders, and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and the Contemporary World
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For extended abstracts:Please click on the names of the presenters below
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Sunday, December 18 The Citadel – Tower of David - A Public Opening Event 12:30-13:00 – Greeting and Gathering 13:00 – 14:30 –Walls, Borders and Migration in Medieval China and Mongolia. The Wall (ERC funded project) Ying Tung Fung and Dan Golan, "Mapping and Analyzing the Southern Line of the Medieval Wall System" Johannes Lotze and Zhidong Zhang, "The Önggüd and the Wall: Frontier Tribes in Comparative Perspective" 14:30-15:15 - Opening reception 15:15-16:30 An opening event: Borders from Historical and Current Perspectives. A round table event with Gili Drori (Sociology), Alexander Yakobson (Roman History), Dror Wahrman (Early modern History)
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Monday, December 19, Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus (open to the public) Academic Panels- Walls and Border Demarcations Between Past and Present 9:00 -10:30 – Wall and Borders in Deserts Environments, Chair: Michael Shanker Sören Stark, "Kurgans and Long Walls: The Border Zone of the Bukhara Oasis During Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" Uri Davidovich, "Dividing Between the Desert and the Sown: Tangible Borders and Imagined Frontiers in the Judean Desert, Israel" 11:00-12:30 – Borders, Border Crossing and Borderless Spaces Chair: Reuven Amiti Michal Biran, "Borders in a Borderless Empire: The Mongol Case" Uriel Abulof "Drawing Lines in Shifting Sands? Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers, and Horizons" Lunch Break 13:30-14:15. Special lecture – Shaul Arieli, "The Development of the Position of Israel and Palestine in the Negotiations on the Permanent Border" 14:30-16:30- Frontiers, Identity and The Construction of Real and Imagined Borders Chair: Guy Stiebel Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, "A Frontier, a Borderline, a Membrane: Paradoxes on the Egypt-Israel Borderland" Raz Saker-Barzilay, "Constitutions Making and External Borders" 17:00-18:30- Border Crossing and Border Blocking - Between the Regional and the Global Chair: Eran Feitelson Noam Leshem " Edge of Care: Living and Dying in No-Man’s Land"` 19:30 – 21:00 - A 'Hanukkah' night trip in Western Jerusalem and a Dinner (for the conference participants only)
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Tuesday, December 20, Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus (open to the public) Academic panels- The Concept of Borders Throughout Time 9:00 -11:00 – Borders and Trade, Past and Present Chair: Gideon Avni Massimiliano Demata: "(Re)contextualizing discourses: borders, walls and security in the USA". Gil Gambash and Guy Bar-Oz, "Broadband Trade-Routes and Protective Firewalls - The Incense Road as a Wall-Breaching Economic System" Yitzchak Jaffe, "Foodscapes of Early China: Overlapping Taste and Place" 11:30-13:30 – Borders or Zones of Interactions Chair: Itzik Chen Erez Ben-Yosef, "Avoiding the Snare of Positive Evidence: the Negev Highlands Sites as a Border Phenomenon of an Early Iron Age Nomadic Polity" Walter Pohl, "Notions and Practices of the Frontier in Early Medieval Europe" Gideon Avni: "At the Edge of the Desert: Borders and Buffer Zones in the Near East in Late Antiquity: Some New Interpretations" Lunch Break 14:30-16:30- Did Walls, Ditches and Fortification Served as Border Markers? Chair: Gideon Shelach-Lavi Yuri Pines, "China's Earliest "Great Wall"? Long Wall of Qi Revisited" Howard Williams, "Dykes as Deeds? Revaluating Linear Earthworks from Early Medieval Britain" 16:45-17:45- Concluding discussion and thought about publication Wednesday and Thursday, 21-22 December A two-days study tour: Borders in South Israel, Past and Present. |