BRIT 2012 Conference Programme (Nov.28 Update)
(Japan Standard Time GMT + 9:00)

• Hiroshi Saeki (President of Hokkaido University, Japan)
• Takatoshi Matsubara (Director of the Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu University), Introduction to the Fukuoka-Busan Supra-Regional Economic Zone
• Akihiro Iwashita (BRIT XII coordinator), BRIT XII: Challenges and Perspectives

• Tony Payan (University of Texas at El Paso, US) :Moderator
  Panelists:
• Liam O'Dowd (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)
• Michel Foucher (Institute for Higher National Defense Studies, France)
• James W. Scott (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
• Vladimir Kolosov (Institute of Geography RAS, Russia)
• Kathleen Staudt (University of Texas at El Paso, US)
• Yuzo Yabuno (Kyushu University, Japan)
  
  This moderated round table, with some of the most prominent border scholars from around the world, will evaluate 100 years of
  border studies, with particular emphasis on developments over the last three decades; the current state of border studies; and the
  steps necessary to take this multidisciplinary field to the next stage. The purpose of the panel is to draw out some of the most
  important empirical and theoretical lessons from our past and evaluate the relevancy of the border studies community for
  understanding a world where borders are being constructed even as globalization proceeds apace. This roundtable explores
  some of the difficulties that border scholars confront in carrying out empirical research, building theory, and developing relevance
  in public policy, as well as strategies to move the field forward in relation to the complicated reality of both material and immaterial
  borders.

• Assel Bitabarova (Hokkaido University, Japan), A Comparative Study on the Central Asian-Chinese Border Settlement
• Hari Bansh Jha  (Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India), Nepal's Border Relations with India and China
• Alexander Bukh (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Territorial Disputes and Civil Society in Japan and South Korea
• Nivedita Das Kundu (Indian Council for Social Science Research, India), Japan-Russia Territorial Dispute over the Kuril Islands
• Anton Gosar (University of Primorska, Slovenia) :Moderator & Commentator

• Yuka Mizutani (Toyo University, Japan), Exhibiting Visible and Invisible Aspects of Cultures and Histories on the Borderland: Representation of the Yaqui Culture and History in Museums
• Ivan Peshkov (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), People in the Shadow of Empire Bordering. New Evenki Transborder Nationalism in North-Eastern Asia
• Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), Territory, Tribes, Turbines: Local Community Perceptions and Responses to Indian Infrastructure Building along the Sino-Indian Border in Arunachal Pradesh
• Ladislav Lesnikovski (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan), Borderland Identities: The Slavic Muslim Minorities in Kosovo and Macedonia
• Katheleen Staudt (University of Texas at El Paso, US) :Moderator & Commentator

• Svetlana Paichadze (Hokkaido University, Japan), Voices of the Borderland Community: The Identities and Educational Issues of "Repatriates" from Sakhalin
• Hyun Mooam (Hokkaido University, Japan), North Korean―South Korean Disputes over the "Home" of Sakhalin Koreans
• Philip Seaton (Hokkaido University, Japan), Memories Beyond Borders: Karafuto Sites of Memory in Hokkaido
• Masatoshi Miyashita (Hokkaido University, Japan), "Homecoming" Visits to Karafuto
• David Wolff (Hokkaido University, Japan) :Moderator & Commentator

• Shuqin Gao (University College London, UK), The Resolution of Boundary Debate as the Beginning for Strategic Cooperation Between China and SOC Countries
• Christopher Len (Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden), China's Evolving Self-Identity and Maritime Strategy: Implications for the East and South China Seas Disputes
• Mason Richey (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea), The EU's Possible Mediator Role in Asia-Pacific Maritime Border Disputes
• Vladimir Kolossov (Institute of Geography RAS, Russia)  :Moderator & Commentator
• Paul Richardson  (Far Eastern Federal University, Russia) :Commentator

• Anna Katharina Grichting Solder (Qatar University, Qatar), Landscapes of Energy in the Arabian Gulf: Qatar's Borderscapes: Designing Ecological Peace
• Fuminori Kawakubo (Chuo Gakuin University, Japan) & Junji Shiraishi, The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: Perspectives from The Border Areas
• Usmonov Furugzod (Tajik National University, Tajikistan), Transboundary Rivers in Central Asia: Conflicts, Prevent, Resolution and Management
• Decha Tangseefa (Thammasat University, Thailand)  :Moderator & Commentator
• Aysun Uyar (Reserch Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan)  :Commentator

• Gordon C. Mwangi (Shikoku Gakuin University, Japan), The Historical Origins of Border Problems Between Somali and Her Neighbours
• Shinichi Takeuchi (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization, Japan), Dominance Beyond the Border (1): Rwanda―DR Congo Relations and Their Impacts on Rwanda's Political Economy after the 1990s
• Masato Sawada (Kyoto Seika University, Japan), Dominance Beyond the Border (2): Uganda―DR Congo Relations since 1990's with Special Reference to Oil Discovered in the Lake Albert Area
• Jean-Claude Maswana (JICA-Research Institute, Japan), Africa's Economic Landscape and Rising China: Trends and Issues
• Takako Ankei & Yuji Ankei (Yamaguchi Prefectural University, Japan) :Moderator & Commentator

• Akihiro Sado (Chukyo University, Japan), Effectiveness of Japan’s Defense Policy in its Borderlands
• Keiyu Kohama (Taketomi Town Office, Japan) , Local Government's Ocean Policy I: A Case of Taketomi Town, Okinawa
• Minoru Kubo (Goto City Government, Japan), Local Government's Ocean Policy II: A Case of Goto City, Nagasaki
• Ryoichi Honda (Mainichi Shinbun), Japan's Northern Territory Issues
• Koji Furukawa (Chukyo University, Japan)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Paul Fryer (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Central Asian Labour Migrants to Russia: Employment Agencies vs. Informal Job Search Networks
• Andrew Wolman (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea), North Korean Asylum Seekers and Dual Nationality
• Haruka Miyazaki (Hokkaido University, Japan), The Concepts of Land in the Polish Zionism in the Partition Period

• Machiko Hachiya(Kyushu University, Japan)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Pertti Joenniemi (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Alike But Not Fully Alike: On The Liminality of Twin Cities
• Takashi Yamazaki (Osaka City University, Japan), Koza as a Borderland: The Reconstruction of Militarized Places, Memories, and Identities
• Christophe Sohn (CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg), European Functional Border Regions: An Urban Potential Typology
• Albert Wong (Macao Ricci Institute, China), Borderlands in Macao in the Postcolonial Era (revised abstract)
• Liam O'Dowd (Queen’s University, UK)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Yuji Suzuki (Nagasaki Wesleyan University, Japan), Transnational Island’s Exchange: Cases of Tsushima and Goto Islands
• Naoki Arai (Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Center, Japan), Transnational Regional Exchange between Fukuoka, Tsushima and Busan
• Miran Lee (Tsushima High School, Japan), The History of Korean Language Education in Tsushima
• Hideshi Sato(Wakkanai City Government, Japan), Transnational Regional Exchange between Wakkanai City and Sakhalin
• Koji Furukawa (Chukyo University, japan)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Monika Chansoria (Centre for Land Warfare Studies, India), Defying Borders: Cyberspace and East Asian Security
• Zeev Zivan (Ben Gurion University, Israel), Between Sederot and the "Green Line"
• Hidefumi Nishiyama (University of Warwick, UK), Biometrics as Borderland: A Methodological Approach to Materiality
• Tomohiro Yara (Freelance Writer), The US Military Presence in Japan's Outlying Territories: Okinawa
  
• Christopher Len (Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Jonathan Burrow (University of  Oulu, Finland), A Night in Shenzhen; Freedom and Status is Just Over the Fence
• Sergey Tkachev (Far Eastern Federal University, Russia), The Origin of Vladivostok in Context of Geopolitical History
• Frédéric Durand (CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg) &Jen Nelles, Functioning of Cross-border Governance within the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis through the Lens of the Cross-border Public Transportation Issue
• Adam Ploszaj (University of Warsaw, Poland), City Twinning in European Cross-Border Regions
• Michel Foucher (Institute for Higher National Defense Studies, France) :Moderator & Commentator

• Jianying Xu(Research Center for the History and Geography of China’s Borderlands, China), The Uygur Diaspora in Central Asia: A Historical and Present Review
• Taisho Nakayama (Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan), Exile to Motherland and Exile to Hometown : Repatriate from Karafuto and Remaining in Sakhalin
• Keiji Sato (Hokkaido University, Japan), "Romanians" Beyond EU Border: Is Romania Heartland or Economic Asylum for Moldovans and Romanian Diaspora in Ukraine?
• Joni Virkkunen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) :Moderator & Commentator

• Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Université Joseph Fourier, France) & Cédric Parizot (CNRS, IREMAM, Aix en Provence, France), Introduction : 21st century borders through the lens of transdisciplinarity
• James W. Scott (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), (EU)-European Border Research and the Re-Framing of European Borders
• Olivier Clochard (CNRS, France), Mapping Control without Borderlines
• Amaël Cattaruza (Saint Cyr Coëtquidan Military School, France), On-board Borders?
• Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Université Joseph Fourier, France) :Moderator
• Giraut Frédéric(Université de Genève, Switzerland)  :Commentator

• Bas Spierings (Utrecht University) / Martin van der Velde (Radboud University Nijmegen), Living with (Un)familiarity: Shopping in the Dutch-German Borderland
• Henrik Dorf Nielsen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Friend or Foe? ―Russia from a Finnish Perspective
• Alexander Izotov (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Constructing (Un)familiarity: Role of Tourism in Identity and Region Building at the Finnish-Russian Border
• Bas Spierings (Utrecht University) / Martin van der Velde (Radboud University Nijmegen), :Moderator & Commentator

• Marek Wieckowski ( Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Poland), Tourism Development in the Borderlands in Central Europe
• Werner  Breitung (Sun Yat-sen University, China), Post-colonial (Un)familiarity as a Factor in the Integration Process of Macau and Hong Kong
• Indrė Balčaitė (University of London, UK), Absent but real? Perceptions of the Thai-Burmese border by the inhabitants of Mae Sot, Thailand
• Stanislaw K. Domaniewski (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Development Potential of Building Closer Cultural ties in the Kaliningrad Oblast / Warmia Mazury Region
• Bas Spierings (Utrecht University) / Martin van der Velde (Radboud University Nijmegen), :Moderator & Commentator

• Müge Kınacıoğlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey) / Aysun Uyar (Reserch Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan), Changing Concepts of Human Security from Traditional to Environmental Direction along Borderlands
• Makoto Taniguchi (Reserch Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan)  :Moderator, Changing Concept of Water Boundaries and Security in East Asia
• Seiya Nagao (Kanazawa University, Japan), Changing Concept of Material Cycle and its Boundaries
• Udibowo Ciptomulyono (PT PLN Geothermal, Indonesia), Changing Concept of Energy Production and Use with Human Boundaries
• Yasunori Hanamatsu (Hokkaido University, Japan), National and Regime Borders in Ecosystem Management: The Case of the Amur-Okhotsk Ecosystem

• Shaun Lin (Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong, Australia)  :Moderator, Shaping New Spaces at the Coasts: The Impacts and Implications of Maritime Joint Development in the Gulf of Thailand
• Ming Li Yong (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Eco-scapes and Borderscapes: Transforming and Re-thinking the Commons of the Mekong Region
• Carl Grundy-Warr & Wei Jun Chin (National University of Singapore, Singapore) :Moderator, Geopolitical History and Contemporary Contested Geo-body Frontiers at Mae Hong Son Province: A Tale of Two Foreign Ethnic Groups
• Shaun Lin, The 4th Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge: “Pattanaa” GMS or “Pattanaa” Chiang Khong?

• Gabriel Popescu (Indiana University, South Bend, US), Producing Precarious Borders
• Cedric Parizot (CNRS, IREMAM, Aix en Provence, France):Moderator, From work permits trafficking to graphic design : Remapping informal network between the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel (2005-2012)
• Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Université Joseph Fourier, France), Watching borders to see the world: from non-representational theories to art-science interactions
• Jean Cristofol (School of Art Aix en Provence France), Representation of borders, art and technologies ?
• Tony Payan (University of Texas at El Paso, US)  :Commentator

• Decha Tangseefa (Thammasat University, Thailand)  :Moderator, Light in the Dark: "The Political" of the Exception along the Spaces of Exception
• Kwanchewan Buadaeng (Chiang Mai University, Thailand), Buddhist Movements along the Thai-Myanmar Frontier
• Narumon Arunotai (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Nourishing Multicalturalism?
• Shirley Worland (Thammasat University, Thailand), Global Influence of Karen Identity on the Thai-Burma Border
• Akihiro Hirayama (Hokkaido University, Japan)  :Commentator

• Jamhari Maruf, Islam in post 9.11 Indonesia
• Ismail Lutfi Chapakeya (Yala Islamic University, Thailand), Islam in Southern Thailand
• Soliman Santos (Peace Advocate, lawyer), Impact of the"Global War on Terror" on the Peace Process with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
• Maho Sato (Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan) :Commentator
• Ken Miichi (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan) :Moderator

• Corey Johnson (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US), Re-making "Inside-Outside" at the Margins of the New Europe: the Case of Bulgaria-Turkey
• Andrew Burridge (Durham University, UK), Frontex in Greece: Immigration Control at the External Boundaries of the EU
• Jayita Ray, Borderland Voices: Reframing the Border Discourse between India and Bangladesh
• Sylwia Maria Olejarz (Hokkaido University, Japan), Bodies Beyond the Borders: The Study on Organ Trafficking in CIS Countries
• Henk van Houtum (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) :Moderator & Commentator

• Joni Virkkunen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Controlled, Managed, and Crossed: Ambivalent Everyday Borders of the Securitized Ferghana Valley
• Maciej Smetkowski & Tymoteusz Wronka (Centre for European Regional and Local Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland), Carpathian Euroregion from the Perspective of Economic Cooperation in Peripheral Regions
• Gulmira Sultangalieva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University), Novoileksk Line as the Boundary of Asia and Europe in the Context of Historical Time
• Anani Lazare Sossou-Agbo (Université de Grenoble, France), Weight of Borders in West-African Economic Space
• So Yamane (Osaka University, Japamn)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Sheila Delhumeau Rivera (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico), Transboundary Intergovernmental Relations. Proposal of an Analytical Tool to Understand the Interactions in the Mexico-US Border
• Yasuhiro Doi (Nagoya University, Japan), Regional Cooperation for Cross-Border Commuting -Challenge of Tri-national Region: Oberrhein-
• Jarmo Kortelainen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Resource Communities in Mobile, Fluid and Semi-permeable Borderlands
• AKM Ahsan Ullah (The American University in Cairo, Egypt), Porous Borders and Trafficking in Southeast Asia Revisited
• Keiko Tamura (University of Kitakyushu)  :Moderator
• Alexander Bukh (University of Tsukuba, Japan) & Commentator

• Jussi Laine (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Paradiplomacy and Borderwork: Scope, Opportunities and Challenges of Non-state Dialogue across the Finnish-Russian Border
• Alina Novopasina (Amur State University, Russia), The effect of the Border on the Flows of Foreign Direct Investments: Evidence from Russian and Chinese Border Regions
• Joe Thomas Karackattu (Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India), A Case for Pursuing Spatial Agglomeration Economies at the India-China Border
• Frédéric Durand & Christophe Sohn (CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg), Cooperation vs. Competition: The Logics Underlying the Construction of Cross-border Metropolitan Regions in Europe
• Shinkichi Fujimori (Hokkaido University, Japan)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Jonathan Gómora Alarcón (National Autonomous University of Mexico), The Suchiate River as a Mobile Boundary. Mexico Facing the Loss of National Territory
• Buddhi Shrestha (Government Survey Department of Nepal), Natural Environment and Shifting Borders of Nepal
• Paul Richardson  (Far Eastern Federal University, Russia), Borderlands and Shifting Sovereignty Regimes in the South and East China Sea
• Reece Jones (University of Hawaii, US), Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the US, India, and Israel
• Tetsuro Chida (Hokkaido University, Japan)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Eiki Berg (University of Tartu, Estonia), Will the Improved Cross-Strait Relations Lead to the Legitimation of 'One China Policy'?
• Heikki Eskelinen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Cross-border Interaction as a Place-based Development Strategy: The Case of the EU-Russia Borderland
• Mushtaq Kaw (University of Kashmir, India), Border Communities of Kargil & Iskardu in India & Pakistan: Issues &  Alternatives
• Natalia Ryzhova & Olga Vasilieva (Economic Research Institute FEB RAS, Russia), Does National Border Matter For Russian-Chinese Trade?
• Mikhail Alexseev (San Diego State University, US)  :Moderator & Commentator

• David Newman (Ben Gurion University, Israel)  :Moderator & Commentator, Creating New Borders in Israel/Palestine
• Magdalena Belof (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland), Baltic – Adriatic Corridor – from Spatial Vision to Political Competition
• Dhananjay Tripathi (South Asian University, India), Wagah Border Region: Bridging Indo-Pak Partition
• Akihiko Takagi (Kyushu University, Japan), Recent Changes in the Border Areas in the Western Part of Japan: Comparing Tsushima Island and Ishigaki Island

• Alfred Colpaert, Eco-borders visible from space, the effects of national borders on the landscape 
• Maria Lähteenmäki, Political Tourism in the Borderland between Finland and The Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s
• Chung-Tong Wu, Sino-Russian border regions—missing the growth train?
• Jongseok Park, North Korea's Border and Its Special Economic Zones: Focusing on Its SEZ
  Strategy and Location Relevance
• Adam Eberhard :Moderator & Commentator

• Natalia Ryzhova (Economic Research Institute, FEB RAS, Russia), Using and Leasing Farm Land in the Russian Border Regions: Policies, Discourses and Practices
• Shunsuke Nagashima (Kagoshima University, Japan), Shifts of Multiple Roles of Border Islands in the Kyusyu Chain Islands
• Aileen A. Espíritu (University of Tromsø, Norway), Identity Politics and the Politics of Identity: The Norwegian-Russian Border
• Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly & Helga Kristin Hallgrimsdottir (University of Victoria, Canada), Post 9/11 Local and Regional Group Dialogues and Initiatives across the 42d Parallel - Is the Canada/US Border Hardening and Limiting Interdependent Regional Initiatives?
• Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Université Joseph Fourier, France)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Jonathan Bull (Hokkaido University, Japan), The Collapse of the Japanese Empire and Post-war Reintegration: Three Case Studies from Northern Hokkaido (revised abstract)
• Mirzokhid Rakhimov (Department of the Institute of History AS Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan), Boundary Issues in Central Asia: Challenges and Perspectives
• Hiroshi Itani (Hokkaido University, Japan), Happy Days after the 'Happy End'?: The Modern History of the Kuril Islands (1875-1945)
• Sergey Vradiy ( Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnology of the Far-Eastern People, FEB RAS, Russia), Russia-Korea-China Borderland and Korean Migrations: A Case Study of the XIX Century "Map of Russia" 俄國輿地圖
• Paul Richardson  (Far Eastern Federal University, Russia)  :Moderator & Commentator
  

• Edward Boyle (Hokkaido University, Japan), Bordering Sovereignty and Territory: Tracing the State Effect in Northern Japan
• Yuko Ishino (Tsuda College, Japan), Between an Imagined Border and a Reality: Ideas of the Finnish Eastern Border in the Context of Finnish-Russian Relations
• Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University, Japan), Imagined Community Revisited: Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion and the Case Study Migrant Workers, Marriage Migrants, and ethnic Korean Gyopos in South Korea
• Uderbaeva Saule Karibaevna (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan), The Discourse of the Border in the "Proceedings" of the Orenburg Scientific Archival Commission
• Andrew Burridge (Durham University, UK)  :Moderator
• Heikki Eskelinen & Commentator

• Kimberly Collins (California State University San Bernardino, US), A Study of Public Institutions, Goods, and Space at the U.S.-Mexican Border
• Sergei Sevastianov (Far Eastern Federal University, Russia), Vladivostok and engaging with the Asia-Pacific
• Margit Säre (Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia), Non-state Actors and Local Interest Groups in the Estonian-Russian Border Region, Transboundary Lake Peipsi Area
• Florine Meunier & Fabienne Leloup (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), The Cultural Policy at the Franco-Belgian Border. How Local Initiatives and Europe are Mutually Inter-connected?
• Martin van der Velde (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Sergey Lomov (Independent Researcher), Desirable' Globalization: Overcoming the 'Curse' of Borders
• Frédéric Giraut, Erik Gloersen & Jacques Michelet: How to Measure the Borderland Thickness in Europe?
• Moriel Ram (Ben-Gurion University, Israel), Creating a Peaceful Place of War: Revisiting the Border of the Golan Heights
• Takashi Yamazaki(Osaka City University, Japan) :Moderator
• Mushtaq Kaw (University of Kashmir, India)  :Commentator

• Mikhail Alexseev (San Diego State University, US), First Image Inversed: WTO and the Politics of Russia-Georgia Border Crossings
• Minori Takahashi (Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan),  Denmark and the Dispute over Exploitation Rights in the Arctic
• Ilkka Liikanen (University of eastern Finland, Finland),  CBC in a Wider Europe and the Shaping of EU Common Policies of Foreign Affairs
• Adam Eberhardt (Centre for Eastern Studies, Polan), The Eastern Frontier of the European Union - challenges and opportunities
  
• Serghei Golunov (University of Tartu, Estonia)  :Moderator & Commentator

• Kyung-won Yun (East Asian Society and Culture Forum, Korea),  Post-Colonialism and Borders
• Yulia Din (Sakhalin State University, Russia), Ethnic Identity of Sakhalin Korean Diaspora
• Hye-In Han (Konkuk University, Korea), Nullified Borderline, Movable Hometown: Permission to Have the Restrictive Dual Nationality for Koreans Returning from Sakhalin and Their Changeable Identity
• JeongEun Lee (Sung Kong Hoe University, Korea), Changing Mobility, Unchanging Border: Differentiation of Social Status and Perception of the Korean-Chinese Society in South Korea
• Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University, Japan) :Moderator & Commentator

• Daniel Meier (Oxford University, UK), Identity Mobilizations in Middle Eastern Borderlands. A Comparison between South Lebanon, South Sudan and North of Iraq
• Julien Thorez (National Center for Scientific Research, France), Borders and Networks: The Making of National Space in Post-soviet Central Asia
• Sergei Sevastianov (Far Eastern Federal University, Russia) :Moderator
• Jussi Laine (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) :Commentator

• Serghei Golunov (University of Tartu, Estonia), Conceptualizing Border Crossing Issues: Pragmatic-Dialogical Approach
• Laetitia Rouvière (Political Science Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, France), From Transborder Governmentality to Local Uses of Marginality: The Construction of an "Aymara Territory" (Chile, Bolivia, Peru)
• Tony Payan (University of Texas at El Paso, US), Two-Level Theories, Fuzzy Sets and Border Construction
• Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (University of Victoria, Canada)  :Moderator & Commentator
• David Newman (Ben Gurion University, Israel)  :Commentator

• Hiroshi Fukuda (Kyoyo University, Japan), Central Europe for Small Nations: Milan Hodža and his Strategy between Germany and Russia
• Anton A. Kireev (Far Eastern Federal University, Russia), Asian and European Borders of Russia: Typological Features
• Vladimir Petrovskiy (Russian National Peace Council, Russia), Helsinki Process' for Northeast Asia and Asia Pacific?
• Kimie Hara (University of Waterloo, Canada), Arctic 'Thaw' and the Cold War Frontiers in East Asia in the 21st Century
• Ilkka Liikanen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) :Moderator & Commentator

• Kyung Hee Cho (Sungkonghoe University, Korea), Imagined Mobility and the Reconstruction of the Borders: Experience of South Korea by Chongryon Zainichi Koreans
• Stephen A. Royle (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Contested maritime boundaries in the 1880s: the case of Port Hamilton (Komun-do)
• Eric K. Hong (Hong Myeonki)  (Northeast Asian History Foundation, Korea), Three Border Regions that Surround the Korean Peninsula and Its Implications for Peace in Northeast Asia : Emphasis on the Border Region between North Korea and China
• Bernhard Köppen (Institut für Naturwissenschaften und Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung, Germany), Cross-Border-Cooperation at the Korean Demilitarized Zone? An Experimental Assessment of the North Korean Special Economic Zones Geumgagsan and Gaeseong
• James W. Scott (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) :Moderator & Commentator

• Keun-Gwan Lee (Professor, College of Law, Seoul National University)

• Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (University of Victoria, Canada)
• Ilkka Liikanen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
• David Newman (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
• Henk van Houtum (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)