Forum Internationale Politik

„Passagenwerk“ of our Dutch/ German Borderland

Extern

Volkshochschule der Stadt Kleve

Zum neuen Forum Internationale Politik laden Hochschule Rhein-Waal/Fakultät Gesellschaft und Ökonomie, Haus der Begegnung - Beth HaMifgash e.V. und VHS Kleve gemeinsam ein. WissenschaftlerInnen geben eine pointierte Einführung in ein aktuelles (Streit-)Thema. Studierende, Flüchtlinge und alle Klever BürgerInnen sind zu einer moderierten Diskussion (auf Deutsch oder Englisch) eingeladen.

The decaying remains of a border customs building stand by the roadside in the nearby German village of Wyler. This ruin, 25 years after the removal of the ‚official‘ border between Germany and The Netherlands and the institutionalization of Schengen, still speaks to us. In the words of German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, it has ‚afterlives‘. To reveal the stories the building tells us, and drawing on the figure of the 20th century flaneur, I walk around the ruin of the Wyler truck-stop and evoke the meaning it has for a range of ‚users‘, including myself, local business owners, passersby, nearby residents and recently arrived refugees from all over the world. From the ruins of this piece of Wyler border space-time, I argue, there lie hints of a cross-border Europe yet-to-come that can be captured neither by‚borderless world‘ narratives nor by nationally-defined relations of ‚Us/Them‘.

Dr. Olivier Thomas Kramsch is Head External Relations and Coordinator: MA Variant ‚Europe: Borders, Identities, Governance‘ at the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR), Department of Human Geography, Radboud Universiteit.

Vortrag K111053

Leitung: Dr. Olivier Kramsch

VHS-Haus, Hagsche Poort 22

Mittwoch, 23.11.2016

18.00 - 19.45 Uhr

1 Termin, 2 UStd.

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