The Cultural Studies Society of Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder is cooperating with the Faculty of English to fund student places to take part in the conference "B/Ordering Cultures: Everyday, Politics, Aesthetics" (8-10.Oct.2020). All fees, travel and accommodation would be financed by the Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung (DPWS) / Polsko-Niemiecka Fundacja na rzecz Nauki (PNFN). If you think you would like to take part as audience member, or produce a poster for the event on a relevant topic, or be involved in other ways with the conference (such as helping with administration), please e-mail Prof. Michael Hornsby as soon as possible, and by no later than Thursday 19th December.
You can write to get more details as well. Though not mandatory, a basic knowledge of German would also be useful, though the conference itself will be multilingual (German/Polish/English).
B / ORDERING CULTURES: EVERYDAY, POLITICS, AESTHETICS (https://www.borders-in-motion.de/kwg-jahrestagung-2020) is the 6th Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Society (KWG) which focuses on the interplay of boundaries and orders from the perspective of cultural studies.
The Viadrina Center B / ORDERS IN MOTION in cooperation with the KWG section "Cultural Studies Border Studies" invites you to the border town on the Oder. From 8th to 10th October 2020, a range of border and order terms will be put up for discussion: socio-symbolic, aesthetic-material and political-territorial concepts of borders and order will be linked together, as well as micro and macro perspectives on these phenomena.
Take this unique opportunity !