Frontiers and mobilities : the Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe.

摘要

This paper addresses the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site’ and seeksudto introduce into this initiative some concepts derived from recent writings onudcontemporary mobilities and bordering, exploring the possibility of creating greaterudengagement between the two academic fields of ’border-studies’ and ‘Roman FrontierudStudies’. Exploring the relationship between the Roman Frontiers initiative and theudEuropean Union’s stated aims of integration and the dissolution of borders, it argues theudvalue of crossing the intellectual borders between the study of present and past in order toudpromote the value of the Roman frontiers as a means of reflecting upon contemporaryudproblems facing Europe. This paper addresses the potential roles of Roman FrontierudStudies in this debate by emphasising frontiers as places of encounter and transformation.