January 21 - July, 2026
Online (5:00 PM, CET)
Through this series of seminars, we explore the concept of borders from multiple perspectives, including communicative, linguistic, geographical, historical, and political borders.
The seminar series is sponsored by the Faculty of Communication and by the Master’s Programme in Media and Cultural Studies at Üsküdar University. The meetings take place online on Zoom every Wednesday at 5:00 pm (CET).
We also have a website where all updates and information about the seminar series can be found: https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/programme
We hope this initiative may be of interest to you and that it could be included in the weekly digest. Below, please find the programme of the seminar series:
January 21, 2026
Sophie Ling-chia Wei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Typology Meets the Yijing: Jesuit Figurists' Intralingual Translation and the Sinification of Jesus
January 28, 2026
Jasmine Bria (University of Bari Aldo Moro)
Borderlands and Cultural Identities in Arthurian Narratives
February 4, 2026
Naoko Kato (Corpus Christi College at the University of British Columbia/Independent Scholar)
Double Abandonment: Transpacific Borders of Erasure and Resistance (1942–1965)
February 11, 2026
Dario Capelli (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Echoes of the Struggles Against the Beguines in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve
February 18, 2026
Peppino Ortoleva (University of Turin)
Surreal Frontiers: Decolonisation, Borders, and Never-Ending Wars
February 25, 2026
Anik Nandi (Woxsen University)
Transnational Migration and Language Policies in Northern Ireland, UK: Family Dynamics towards Heritage Language Maintenance
March 4, 2026
Muhammet Enes Akdağ (Üsküdar University)
Transnational Film Networks and Moviegoing Culture in the Jerusalem Mutasarrifate (1874–1917)
March 11, 2026
Karen Pinto (University of Colorado Boulder)
Through the Eye of the Cartographer: The KMMS Islamicate Vision of the Bilad al-Rum Byzantine Frontier with Syria
March 18, 2026
Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute/Independent Scholar)
Formal and Informal Borders: How Much Did They Matter in the Mathematical Sciences in Premodern Islamicate Societies?
March 25, 2026
Eleonora Matarrese (University of Bari)
Edible Wild Plants: Widespread and Futuristic Knowledge in the Middle Ages (with practical workshop)
April 1, 2026
Pierpaolo De Giosa (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris), Luigi Andriani (University of Hamburg)
More-than-human Encounters under the Same Roof: Household Spirits and Rituals in Bari
April 8, 2026
Marusca Francini (University of Pavia)
Beyond Poetry. The Style of the Norwegian 'Tristrams Saga'
April 15, 2026
Gesufrancesco Petrillo & Cristiano Bedin (Istanbul University)
Queer Encounters Across Borders: Adapting Perfect Strangers (2016) into Stranger in My Pocket (2018)
Academic Leave (20-26 April)
April 29, 2026
Elisa Ramazzina (University of Insubria)
Margins, Maps, and Monsters: Negotiating Borders in the “Wonders of the East”
May 6, 2026
Seda Öz (University of Delaware)
Entangled Germanies: Remaking Cinema at the Borders of Cultural Memory
May 13, 2026
Giorgio Ennas (University of Utrecht/Franklin University Switzerland)
Borders and Epidemics: Sanitary Transformation of State Borders in the Ottoman Empire between the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries
May 20, 2026
Nora Berend (University of Cambridge)
May 27, 2026
Valentina Surace (University of Messina) and Aisling Reid (Queen’s University Belfast)
Divided We Stand: Belfast’s ‘Peace’ Walls and the Logic of Security
June 3, 2026
Elisa Cugliana (Cologne University)
«Altez Gaschraibach» and New Technologies: Documenting Cimbrian Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries
June 10, 2026
Luigi Andriani (University of Hamburg)
One Language Fits All? The Spectacular Case of Multilingual Italy
June 17, 2026
Betsey Price (York University)
The Mansions of the Visigoths: Self-Definition Through Boundaries
June 24, 2026
Nancy Bruseker (University of Toulouse)
Gender Jetset: The Carrousel Cabaret and Transfemininity on Tour, 1950-1969
July 1, 2026
Feride Zeynep Güder (Üsküdar University)
Borders of Memory: Queen Zenobia as a Connective Turn in the Digital Legacy of Antioch
