Insights from a Recent Workshop on Walls, Borders, and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and the Contemporary World

Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Tal Ulus, Gideon Avni

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This article reports on the ‘Walls, Borders, and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and Contemporary World’ workshop and its implications of transdisciplinary research for building comparative insights into the uses, meanings and experiences of border and wall constructions in the past and present.

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borders; dykes; frontier zones; migration; walls; historical analogies

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23914/odj.v5i0.7727

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