The Eur-Asian Border Lab launches launches a series of events to connect practitioners with scholars.
The Eur Asia Border Lab Forum aims to connect scholars with practitioners and policy makers working on border-related issues through topical events.
The forum offers a platform for dialogue among practitioners, policymakers and border scholars. It opens up opportunities for deeper collaboration involving border practice and policy. Practitioners and policymakers will share their experience, interests and research, whereas scholars will share research and insights on borders and their potential application to practitioners. This approach aims to address the gaps between scholars who focus on theoretical approaches to borders and practitioners whose work involves real-world border issues through an exchange of knowledge and relationship building.
Designed to foster mutual learning, the forum will use multiple formats, such as roundtables, seminars and workshop. Having a flexible format will help ensure that the events are practitioner-oriented to support engagement and collaboration (e.g., such as policy papers).
The kick off event will be a round table on 15 November 2024, at Tallinn University.
Title: What happens to research when borders close, and access is lost?
Since the invasion of Ukraine, traditional avenues for gathering knowledge on Russia have been disrupted, sparking a crisis in Russian studies. Researchers, journalists, and policymakers now face ethical, methodological, security and personal dilemmas in obtaining reliable insights. This roundtable brings together researchers and practitioners with diverse experiences to discuss how to produce knowledge in a world with hardening borders.
The speakers are Yakov Lurie (University of Amsterdam), Aimar Ventsel (University of Tartu), Asya Karaseva (University of Tartu), Anna Zueva (Journalist from Ulan-Ude, Head of Media Department at Free Buryatia Foundation. Mikhail Trunin (Tallinn University) will moderate the discussion.
To find out more about the roundtable, and to stay informed about the upcoming events, make sure to visit the Eur-Asian Border Lab project website regularly.
