Migration webinar — March 26, 2026

Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań invites you to this month’s webinar given by Miha Kozorog titled 'Wildlife, borders, and the state: some anthropological reflections on their relations from Slovenia'. 

Date: 26th March 2026, Thursday, from 17.00 to 18.30 (CET), online (zoom).

Everyone is welcome and you can register here: https://forms.gle/ZquaRgmuZigfXzQH6 

Abstract: The presentation will focus on select relations between wild animals, borders, and the state. While certain European states are legally the owner and the guardian of wildlife, wildlife is a free-roaming form of life that does not recognize the attributes of the state, such as state borders. Three examples from Slovenia will illustrate different relations between the state, the border, and wildlife. In the first case, wildlife is a victim of the state’s border control. In the second case, the different legal statuses of wildlife in two bordering countries are reflected in the locals’ perception of wildlife. In the third case, the historical presence of wildlife in people’s everyday lives in a borderland is a factor that perpetuates people’s view of the state as the guardian of wildlife. This presentation will explore some relations that are rarely discussed in the anthropology of borders and the anthropology of the state.

Bio: Miha Kozorog is a senior research associate at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). His recent publications include a co-authored monograph, Borders: Anthropological Insights (2022), an edited volume, Young Entrepreneurs: Ethnographies of a Political, Economic, and Moral Subject (2023), and a chapter in the edited volume Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature (2025). He is currently involved in the CHANSE-HERA project Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis.

Facebook page for the event: https://fb.me/e/5wnupXrtb 

The meeting will be led in English and will be recorded. By participating in this webinar hosted by the Centre for Migration Studies, you automatically agree to authorize recording of audio and visual content presented during the live event and consent to subsequent use of the recording in the public domain. 

This webinar is a part of the CeBaM webinar series, where every month we invite you to a meeting with migration scholars from Poland and abroad.