Guest lecture in the Workshop Border Textures

Dr. Hannes Krämer of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) was guest lecturer in the Workshop Border Textures on 22 February 2018. In his lecture entitled “Border infrastructures”, the Divisional Head for Border Research at the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION illuminated innovative approaches to border region issues.

Following on from the recent development in Border Studies of considering borders as processes and treating them as multidimensional objects, the cultural scientist primarily mapped out the notion of infrastructure as an analytical tool. Krämer thus reinforces the material dimension of border demarcation and even goes beyond that. For instance, in the event of infrastructures serving as bridges between practices and thus making complex border demarcation processes possible in the first place.

This analytical perspective coincides with the research interests of the Border Textures WG, which is developing a contemporary border concept and a corresponding methodology. The WG comprises cultural scientists in the network of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, who had initiated the interregional lecture series “Border Textures Workshop” in 2016. Since then, the public lectures take place alternately at Saarland University and the University of Luxembourg and provide a forum for current developments in the cultural science perception of border studies.

In the next Workshop Border Textures on 13 June 2018 at the Saarland University, Ms. Kerstin Schoor (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)) will be guest lecturer. She is Professor of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Exile and Migration.

More information on the Working Group Bordertextures and on the public lecture series Atelier Bordertextures
You can hear Hannes Krämer on Luxembourg’s Radio 100.7 (23.02.2018).