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International Workshop “Borders as Border Complexities”
Over 40 border researchers accepted the UniGR Center for Border Studies' invitation to come to the University of Luxembourg for an international workshop. The event held on December 5th and 6th, 2019 was dedicated to an emerging development in border research and was a prelude to the two-year workshop series entitled “Border Complexities.”
The basis for the research is the finding that…
Call for Papers: UniGR-CBS thematic issue Borders in Perspective
The next issue of Borders in Perspective will be entitled “The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis” and is the outcome of the research collaboration established between Saarland University, Germany (Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner) and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine (Dr. Tetyana Ostapchuk) within the framework of the DAAD…
New book release: Border Experiences in Europe
For the last decade, borders in Europe have been back on the political agenda. Border research has reacted to that and is forging new ways of thinking and analysing borders. The new book release is following up this development and promotes a perspective that focuses on day-to-day reality and highlights the everyday experience of borders. Six authors from the UniGR-Center for Border Studies…
Kick-off Conference – Border Studies – Towards a research network of excellence
“Border Studies – Towards a research network of excellence” - under this heading, the University of the Greater Region and its member universities presented the project “UniGR-Center for Border Studies” for the first time to the public at the University of Luxembourg on 24 October 2018. The project is funded by the INTERREG VA Greater Region program with €2M ERDF until 2020. “I am very…
2nd Greater Region Forum: Cross-border mobility in the educational sector
The second “Greater Region Forum”, under the heading “Realities and Visions of Cross-Border Mobility in the Educational Sector”, took place on 7 November 2018 in the House of the Greater Region (Esch-sur-Alzette) under the high patronage of Ms Corinne Cahen, President of the Summit of the Greater Region during the Luxembourg Presidency (2017-2018). The podium participants themselves were…
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…
The first UniGR-CBS Border Studies Seminar
The first Border Studies Seminar on the topic of “Spatial, Social and Linguistic Borders” directed by Grégory Hamez was organized by the Université de Lorraine. It took place on 11-12 June 2018 in the Premonstratensian Abbey in Pont-à-Mousson and united around 40 border scholars from the Greater Region and beyond. On the first day, Border Studies as a joint field of work was of paramount…
"Borders and Planning Cultures" Workshop 2017
Every geographical unit in the Greater Region has its own spatial planning models, traditions and provisions, i.e. various planning “cultures”. Work, study and participation in cultural events are a few such cross-border activities, which attest to the vibrancy of the Greater Region while also posing challenges to the planners.
How can cross-border spatial development be efficiently…