Masha Cerovic

@mcerovic.bsky.social

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Associate Professor, History, CERCEC - EHESS (Paris) / Russian empire, Soviet Union, war history, borderlands, military occupations, partisan warfare, Soviet-Nazi war

Wars intensify borders in multiple ways: along with administrative hardening, securitization, and militarization, wartime also enhances the importance of migration and refuge, the transfer of supplies and technologies, as well as processes of social re/bordering within societies, including the radical reconfiguration of gender orders. Wars are also about shifting, fading, and disappearing borders. Looking at borders in the context of mass violence, especially wars, benefits from recent interdisciplinary scholarship that treat them not as fixed spatial delimitations of territory, drawn and redrawn throughout history by states and governments, but as an everyday social reality constituted through contingent bordering processes. These processes involve a multitude of social actors, practices, narratives, and materialities. By foregrounding the lived experience of borders, we intend to place at the center the agency of those who engage with them—whether regularly or occasionally—and who, through embodied experience, participate in their everyday (re)creation. In this sense, borders are continuously enacted, appropriated, and contested through mundane encounters that both reproduce and potentially destabilize their meaning and effects. The conference will focus on the multiple borders in Europe that were drawn and redrawn, experienced and installed, moved and secured throughout the long 1940s—a period of violence and upheaval shaped by annexation, war, occupation, and postwar settlements. Thus, the opening moment of this period can be located in the Anschluss of 1938, followed by a cascade of annexations that turned borders into military frontiers after 1939; the establishment of different occupation zones; postwar border settlements formalized through agreements signed, and people moved. The last pieces of this new re/ bordering puzzle were put in place by the mid-1950s.
Annonce du décès d'Ahmed Shamia, architecte palestinien, lauréat du programme PAUSE, des suites de ses blessures subies lors du bombardement israélien du 7 mai à Gaza