Programa 2018
Walking Through Walls, Transgressing Frontiers
Border Regimes and Phantom Borders in North America and Central Europe since 1848
University of Vienna
October 18-19, 2018
This conference, a joint venture by the University of Chicago and the University of Vienna, takes place in Vienna in October 2018. As the fourth Cátedra Katz it will focus on one of the core research interests of late Mexicanist Friedrich Katz. Extending Katz’s original focus on Mexico’s northern frontier as a transnational space, we will discuss issues of labor migration, economy, and border regimes. Our debates will tackle topics stretching from current controversies about bordering empires in the northern hemisphere (EU, USA) back to changes to the political maps of North America and Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century. Eventually, border regimes related to global migration flows will offer theoretical and juridical glimpses of the Twentieth and the Twenty-first Centuries.
October 18, 2018, 18:30 | HS 1, main building, staircase 1, court 1
Martina Kaller, University of Vienna
Welcome address
Berthold Molden, University of Vienna
Border Boy. The Frontiers of Friedrich Katz
Kateřina Březinová, Metropolitan University of Praha
Keynote: The Mexican-American Border Wall and its Impact on North American Integration
October 19, 2018, 09:45 to 18:30 | HS 2, main building, staircase 5, court 3
Laurin Blecha, University of Vienna
Along the post-1822 Mexican-Central American Border
Markus Müller, Free University Berlin
“A System of Vigorous Reprisal:” The US Borderland Indian Campaigns as Crucible of Imperial Violence
Andrea Komlosy, University of Vienna
The shifting empire: Austria-Hungary’s Reorganization in the Face of Nationalism: 1848 → 1867 →1918
Alberto Barrera Enderle, CIESAS Unidad Noreste, Mexico
Smuggling at the American Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Martina Kaller
Break 13:00 to 14:30
Claudia Kraft, University of Vienna
Along the former Iron Curtain in Central Europe
Daniela Ingruber, Donau University Krems
Challenges of Undocumented Immigration and Radical Responses: Walls, Fences, Military Enforcement
Jonathan Ordóñez Gaitán, University of Milan
Borders in Central America: Origins, Functions and Future
Chair: Berthold Molden
More information: martina.kaller@univie.ac.at