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EUGEO 2013 Congress, Rome, 5-7 September 2013The fourth EUGEO Congress will take place in Rome, Italy, 5-7 September 2013, at the University of Rome La Sapienza and at the Società Geografica Italiana (Villa Celimontana).The programme will include key-note speeches, paper sessions, poster sessions, thematic panels, scientific and social events.Researchers and experts from all over the world are invited to submit proposals to: info@eugeo2013.com           ...read more...*[new!] Call for papersThe calls for papers are now open: click here to see the sessions list.Deadline is March 31st 2013.Session S02 : Beyond “Fortress Europe”?   Bordering and crossbordering processes along the European Union external  frontiersOrganizersFilippo   Celata, University of Rome La    Sapienza (Italy)Raffaella Coletti, University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy)James W. Scott, University of Eastern Finland (Finland)Call for papersThe   geometries of European integration are becoming increasingly complex. The   rescaling and riterritorialization of States, selective enlargement and the   transformation of border management has induced scholars to propose new   spatial imaginaries in which European frontiers are reconceptualised as   mobile, networked, selective, fuzzy, etc. The European Union, in this frame,   is often equated to a “Fortress EUrope” where the softening of internal   borders is paralleled by the strengthening and militarization of its external   frontiers. Bordering and crossbordering processes goes indeed hand in hand   both inside the EU - where new divisions emerge within and between members  states – and across the EU external frontiers. European policies toward   non-EU neighbouring countries are particularly controversial in this regard,   as they are based upon a mixed strategy of openness/closure,   inclusion/exclusion, cooperation/control.The   session wish to engage participants into a wide reaching discussion about the   contribution that critical border studies can offer to understand the   spatialities of European integration, the construction of the EU external   frontiers, the transformation of borderscapes and border regions, bordering   and crossbordering processes between EU members and non-EU countries.We   invite proposals which deal with (but are not limited to) the following   themes:Spatial imaginaries of European integration:  “fortress Europe” vs. “wider Europe”, “concentric circles” of   integration, neo-medieval and post-Westphalian Europe,  etc.Critical analysis of narratives focusing on    Europeaness, cultural bordering or crossbordering, “othering” and  “ordering” processes across the EU/non-EU divide.Rebordering processes within the EU:  distinctions between centre and periphery, the “old” and the “new” Europe, the East and the West, etc., and how those        distinctions impact upon the variable geometries of European integration        and enlargement.EU external policies and their differentiated   impact in non-EU countries, with a focus on Europeanization, policy  transfers, mobile policies and transnational governance.Cross-border cooperation along the EU external frontiers: territorial cooperation initiatives with pre-accession and  neighbouring countries, Euroregions, European Groupings of Territorial  Cooperation, etc.Regionalization processes across the EU  external borders: macro-regional and meso-regional strategies, bordering and crossbordering processes in the Euro-Mediterranean, the Baltic, the  Danubian basin, the Black Sea, etc.Invited speakers:Luiza Bialasiewicz, University of AmsterdamElena dell’Agnese, University of Milano BicoccaVladimir Kolossov, Russian Academy of ScienceThe session is linked to the VII Framework Programme projects Euborderregions and Euborderscapes, and sponsored by the IGUCommission    MediterraneanBasin.Session code: S02If you are interested in   participating please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by filling   in THIS FORM and send it to the organizers before   march 31st 2013 using this email: s02@eugeo2013.com No one may submit or take part in more than two presentations.EUGEOStay tuned! register here to      get information via email about the Rome EUGEO2013 Congress