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Job Offer – Postdoctoral Researcher in Border Studies
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher in Border Studies (full time, 24 months) at the University of Luxembourg.
You are part of the small team of the UniGR-CBS coordination unit and work with border researchers from Luxembourg, Germany, France and Belgium. Your tasks will serve the implementation of the UniGR-CBS…
Call for Papers – Borders in Flux and Border Temporalities in and beyond Europe
The Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) and the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN) organize with the UniGR-CBS an international conference. At its center are border practices, border discourses, border regimes and everyday life experiences at Europe’s borders in a spatial and/or temporal perspective.
The conference aims to connect…
Just released : Les Cahiers de la Grande Région 5
Le développement du télétravail et ses enjeux dans l’espace transfrontalier
Over two years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is now possible to reflect on the economic and societal aspects that have really been marked by significant transformations. The acceleration of the practice of Home Office is part of these major socio-economic changes. This new edition of the Cahiers…
Border Studies in the Greater Region: Review of 4.5 years of Interreg project cooperation
The Interreg VA GR project "European Center for Competence and Knowledge in Border Studies" came to an end on June 30, 2022. With the support of the six partner universities during the four and a half years (2018-2022) of the project, the foundations for successful border studies have been created in the Greater Region, on which researchers will build in the future.
The UniGR-CBS would…
Study Day – Riverine Borders
Waterways are essential components of the living and non-living world. They shape landscapes and serve as demarcation lines – as “natural borders” – between states in many parts of the world. In addition to being lines that separate, rivers and streams are also lines that connect, and borderland territories are often particularly rich places of life, interaction, passage, porosity, cross-…
Workshop « Frontières et spatialités entre réalités et imaginaires »
The Université de Lorraine is organising a research workshop on 2 and 3 June 2022 for young and experienced researchers, entitled "Frontières et spatialités entre réalités et imaginaires / Grenzen und Grenzräumlichkeiten zwischen Realität und Imagination".
This workshop focuses on the spatial dimension of boundaries and border experiences. Increased attention is paid to the interplay…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: La segmentation linguistique de l'emploi au Luxembourg
Based on a sample of job advertisements published in the main Luxembourgish daily newspaper (Luxemburger Wort) covering the period 1984-2019, this study describes the development of language skills required on the Luxembourg job market.
The new UniGR-CBS Working Paper shows how the lack of language skills led to a segmentation of the labor market.
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The UniGR-Center for Border Studies welcomes Border Researchers from Ukraine
May 9 is Europe Day, which is even celebrated as a holiday in Luxembourg! On this emblematic date in 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schumann presented his ideas for a new political and economic cooperation to prevent war between the nations of Europe. The speech known as the Schumann Declaration is now – 72 years later – again highly relevant and guiding for a…