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Border Struggles:Epistemologies, Politics, and Practices Workshop Sponsored by the RELATE Center of Excellence, University of Oulu, FinlandSeptember 11-12, 2014 Hotel LasarettiKasarmintie 13, Oulu, Finland Speakers Mat Coleman    Nicholas De Genova    Juanita Sundberg    William WaltersOliver Belcher    Lauren Martin    Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola    Elisa Pascucci    Martina Tazzioli The RELATE Center of Excellence from the Universities of Oulu and Tampere, Finland will be hosting a workshop on “Border Struggles: Epistemologies, Politics, and Practices.” One of the primary objectives of the RELATE Center of Excellence is to investigate and conceptualize the tensions between “territorial” and “relational” processes that shape pivotal issues in our contemporary world; e.g., globalization, global governance and security, and the transformation of borders and state spaces. The primary motivation of this workshop is to rethink the concept of “borders” and “bordering” from an empirical and theoretical-epistemological point of view. Borders have been a contested object of research in the past two decades, approached from a variety of perspectives and case-studies. We draw inspiration from Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson’s (2013) recent reformulation of borders as “battlefields,” crossed by conflicts and mobile power relations that work through heterogeneous processes of differential inclusion. This workshop aims to investigate “border struggles” and bordering mechanisms that are productive of contemporary border formations, particularly processes of differential exclusion and subject formation.&#160;The workshop is free to attend. If interested in attending or for more information, please contact Oliver Belcher (oliver.belcher@oulu.fi) or Martina Tazzioli (martinatazz@gmail.com) to reserve a place.Schedule:Thursday, September 11:9:00 Anssi Paasi (University of Oulu), Opening Remarks on RELATE9:15 Oliver Belcher and Martina Tazzioli , Introduction to workshopMorning Session9:30 -- 10:30, Lauren Martin (University of Oulu), "Migration, Law, and Territory: A Topological Approach to Bordering"10:45 -- 11:45, Mat Coleman (The Ohio State University), "The Quasi-event of Immigration Control"11:45 -- 1:00, LunchAfternoon Session1:00 -- 2:00, Juanita Sundberg (University of British Columbia), "Life on the Borderline or the Limits of Methodological Humanism in Border Studies"2:00 -- 2:15, Coffee2:15 -- 3:15, Oliver Belcher (University of Oulu), "Computational Counterinsurgency, or Data-borders in Late Modern War"3:30 -- 4:30, General discussion on (re)theorizing bordersFriday, September 12:Morning Session9:30 -- 10:30, Martina Tazzioli (University of Oulu), "Border Interruptions: Migration Maps and Spaces of Migration in Between Italy and Tunisia"10:45 -- 11:45, Nicolas De Genova (King’s College London), "Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis"11:45 -- 1:00, LunchAfternoon Session1:00 -- 2:00, Elisa Pascucci (University of Sussex, University of Tampere), "A politics of the present? Immobility, Precarity, and Agency in Neoliberal Egypt"2: 15 -- 3:15, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola (University of Oulu), "Struggling with the Schengen Border: International Student's Narratives of Border Crossing"3:15 -- 3:30, Coffee3:30 -- 4:30, William Walters (Carleton University), "On the Road with Michel Foucault: Migration, Deportation, and Viapolitics"&#160;&#160;