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Lecture – Along the Line: Writing about nature, borders and infrastructure with comics and graphic narratives
This talk presents and discusses my upcoming book and comic Along the Line / Bornées (2024, MétisPresses, Genève) that diversifies approaches to territory, borders and security by infusing these concepts with feminist and critical perspectives to disrupt, unsettle, and re-write practices, discourses, and scholarly contexts.
It focuses on the uses and…
UniGR-CBS Jubilee Conference
On October 17 and 18, 2024, more than 80 researchers celebrated ten years of border studies in the Greater Region. To mark the jubilee, border researchers from the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS) met with international scholars from 30 countries to discuss border struggles and border alliances.
Exchange and International Networking
As a UniGR-…
Call for Papers - Identity Constructions and Meaning-Making in Border Regions
We invite abstract submissions from PhD Candidates and early post-docs focusing on "Identity Constructions and Meaning-Making in Border Regions", in particular on:
Cross-border identity-building Meaning-making of borders Place branding strategies Cross-border communities and narrativesYoung Researchers Conference 18-19 March 2025 University of Lorraine, Metz & Luxembourg…
Border Futures from a Cultural Studies Perspective
The KWG section “Cultural Border Studies”, which includes seven UniGR-CBS members, met from 10 to 12 October 2024 at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. During the 9th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V., which brought together scholars from Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg, the section organized a panel on the future of borders. The…
UniGR-CBS Jubilee conference: 10 years of Border Studies in the Greater Region
The UniGR-CBS Jubilee Conference will focus on the topic of “Border Struggles and (Cross-) Border Alliances”. Not only does this topic embrace the genuinely topical issue of contested borders and the closely related formation of coalitions and alliances across borders; it also stretches to offer a thematic framing under which the multifaceted research interests and activities of the UniGR-…
Lecture – Reading the mediterranean border through racial capitalism
In this talk, Timothy Raeymaekers will present his monograph “The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean” (Cornell 2024). Telling the recent history of Mediterranean agri-food capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers, the book argues that, in the context of global supply chains and repressive border…
UniGR-CBS at the first Congress of the Researchers of Borders and Borderlands in Poland
This week, the first Congress of the Polish Border and Borderland Researchers took place at the University of Opole and the University of Wrocław. The three-day conference, entitled "(De)Constructing Borders in Borderlands Studies", provided for the more than 100 attendees an international platform for exchange with the Polish border scholar community.
The…
Online Lecture Series: Border Realities
Border Realities: Beyond Nature and Culture
Anthropogenic climate change and its consequences have eroded the Western paradigm of separating humans from Nature and Nature from Culture. In this context, it becomes imperative to reconsider the interdependencies between humans and the living world.
The lecture series will…