ABS - Association For Borderland Studies

Coordinator: Anna Casaglia
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Affiliation: University of Trento

Chairperson: Xavier Oliveras-Gonzales, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Construcción de gobernanza para las movilidades humanas desde los actores locales: una aproximación desde la sociología
   - Maria Guadalupe Ortiz Gomez, Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Humanidades y Tecnologías - El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad San Cristobal

Cooperación transfronteriza en las fronteras norte y sur de Estados Unidos : un modelo comparativo de gestión multinivel
   - Enrique Varela, Universidad de Vigo
   - Francisco Lara, Arizona State University

Asymmetry, Institutional Distance, and Wickedness in Crossborder Planning: Cascadia and Cali-Baja Regions
   - SERGIO PEÑA, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Cooperación transfronteriza en salud: el caso de los programas binacionales de vacunación
   - Hilda Garcia, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

El proceso de fronterización y refronterización y su impacto en las dinámicas de movilidad transnacional y transfronteriza  
   - Pablo Wong-González, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD)
   - Francisco Lara-Valencia, Arizona State University

Coordinator: Anna Casaglia
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Affiliation: University of Trento, Autonomous Province of Trento

Coordinator: Anna Casaglia
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Affiliation: University of Trento, Autonomous Province of Trento

Coordinator: Anna Casaglia
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Affiliation: University of Trento, Autonomous Province of Trento

Coordinator: Anna Casaglia
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Affiliation: University of Trento, Autonomous Province of Trento

Dr. James K. Galbraith, Ph.D.

Inflation, Sanctions, Demography: Some practical applications of evolutionary and institutional economics.

Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

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Coordinator: Lisa Ossian
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Affiliation: Indian Hills Community College

The Kinkaider's Song:  A Homesteader Ballad from the Nebraska Sandhills

   - Tom Isern, North Dakota State University

The family of prairie folksong tracing lineage to the gospel hymn, “Beulah Land,” is prolific. “Beulah Land” is about a place, the blissful afterlife. Prairie singers borrowed its melody and motifs to localize them to their own places on the plains, sometimes as joyful paeans to a bountiful country, other times as sardonic commentaries on a hard land. “The Kinkaider’s Song” is exceptional in that it is traceable to a particular time and place: the Kinkaider picnic of 16 August 1911, a gathering of homesteaders at the Will Davis grove, a seven-year-old tree claim near Anselmo, in northern Custer County, Nebraska. Fourteen-year-old Matilda Matthews was there and wrote for a regional newspaper, the Atkinson Graphic, “We composed a song, ‘The Kinkaider’s Song,’ and sang it.” The song resounding through the Davis grove in 1911 arose from the historical circumstances of the Kinkaid Act of 1904, which allowed homesteads of a full section, 640 acres, rather than a quarter-section, 160 acres. Its sponsor and heroic proponent, Congressman Moses P. Kinkaid, was present when the Kinkaiders sang their anthem in his honor. From there the song passed into oral tradition and the mysterious canon of Great Plains balladry. Recently discovered, the original text and circumstances of “The Kinkaider’s Song” illustrate the capacity of digitized source materials to move ballads previously anonymous into the realm of known authorship and context--an important development in the interpretation of Great Plains folksong.

Coordinator: Anna Casaglia
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Affiliation: University of Trento

Chairperson: Daniel Covarrubias, Texas A&M International University

Cross-border spatial imaginaries and the paradox of the border. The case of Cali-Baja binational mega-region
   - Christophe Sohn, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Emerging Trends in Canada-US Cross-Border Governance at the Subnational Scale: Opportunities and Challenges
   - Jennifer Bettis, Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University

Cross Border Cooperations in Latin America
   - Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria