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New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Distribution spatiale de l’emploi au Luxembourg
The European objective of decarbonisation by the year 2050 requires a supra-regional coordination of transport services.
Analysing the data of the Luxmobil 2017 survey, this Working Paper presents the main outcomes concerning the spatial distributions of employment and modal choices related to commuting of both resident and cross-border workers within the…
Lecture – Dust and Death: Politics of Nature at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The UniGR-CBS Guest Professor Daniela Johannes will give a lecture on "Dust and Death: Politics of Nature at the U.S.-Mexico Border" as part of her research stay at the UniGR-CBS (Saarland University).
Daniela Johannes is Associate Professor and Director of American and Latinx Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania (USA). The focus of her research…
The UniGR-CBS now on LinkedIn
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies is now on LinkedIn.
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Future events around borders, Current publications in Border Studies, Studying across borders in the Master Border Studies, Digital resources in Border Studies for stakeholders, students, and researchers.The LinkedIn page…
Atelier Bordertextures – Animals and Viruses as Border Subjects
The UniGR-CBS working group "Bordertextures" continues the conference series "Atelier Bordertextures" with the public lecture "More-than-human Bordertextures".
The invited speaker, Dr. Larissa Fleischmann, illustrates how animals and viruses can be studied as border subjects using the example of African swine fever. For this concern, she follows the…
7th UniGR-CBS Seminar – Border Literature
The next UniGR-CBS seminar "Border Studies" entitled "Border Literature" is organized by the Université de Lorraine.
The objective of the seminar is to explore the ways in which the border is written and represented in literature. In what way does literary creation constitute a means of access to the ideality of places, to the imaginary of territory, to the…
Two million euros raised for border research
The border closures and increased controls in the course of the pandemic have made clear, especially in border regions, how closely the European Union is already interconnected at its territorial interfaces. Two of these interconnected areas are in the center of this research project that just got an external funding.
The three-year…
Master in Border Studies: FGU funding for another four years
The Master in Border Studies is a two-year study program, which addresses the complexity of economic, political, social and cultural issues of borders and of border regions in Europe and beyond. The program is taught in three countries at four universities: University of Luxembourg (LUX), Université de Lorraine (FR), Saarland University (DE) and Technische…
UniGR-CBS at the ABS Annual Conference 2021
This year, the UniGR-CBS was once again present at the annual conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS). The world's largest association of border scholars gathers researchers from all continents. In addition to individual lectures by colleagues from the University of Luxembourg, the UniGR-CBS presented the "Bordertextures" approach at the…