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Border Renaissance: Recent Developments in Territorial, Cultural, and Linguistic Border Studies
Borders are once again facing a new visibility and attention. This development in society and politics was the focus of the international conference "Border Renaissance" on February 4 and 5, 2022. The event of border scholars from the Greater Region, who collaborate in the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, focused on the new importance of borders in European border…
UniGR-CBS Conference 2022: Border Renaissance
Scholars from North America, Europe and the Greater Region will discuss current developments and results in border research on February 4 and 5, 2022. The UniGR-CBS conference deals with the renaissance of borders and brings together territorial and cultural Border Studies. The 22 multilingual panels with nearly 100 speakers are international and represent the…
Lecture – The digitization of border security
The talk explores the digitization of migration and border control based on the example of the post-Brexit EU-UK maritime border.
Damien Simonneau is a lecturer in Political Science at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales where his research focuses on contemporary border security. As a guest researcher he was at the Technische…
New book release: Étrangers familiers. Les travailleurs frontaliers en Suisse
Switzerland is the country with the largest number of cross-border workers in Europe (343,000 in 2020). In some border regions in Europe, the pandemic has particularly highlighted the role of cross-border work and the interdependencies between certain countries.
In the chapters of the new book on cross-border workers, the concept of "familiar strangers" is…
Lecture – Die Grenze im Zentrum. Bedingungen für gelingende grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit im Europa der Grenzregionen in unsicheren Zeiten
The border has been placed at the center of the European integration process in order to promote a "Europe of border regions" with multiple euroregional-institutional cooperations across EU borders.
In the lecture, Peter Ulrich will discuss the connection between border-related factors and cross-border cooperation as well as governance processes.
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UniGR-CBS Workshop: Coworking Spaces: Which perspectives for the Greater Region?
The UniGR-CBS Working Group "Labour and Education" invites you to a digital workshop on "Coworking Spaces: What Perspectives for the Greater Region" on December 6, 2021 from 9:00-12:30.
Experiences as well as challenges and opportunities for coworking spaces in the Greater Region will be exchanged and discussed with experts from Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany…
Lecture – Where Border Studies and More Than Human Worlds Meet
The talk explores the intersections between Border Studies and more than human, post-humanist approaches, and new materialist perspectives.
Tracie Wilson is a Research Associate at the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. She is an invited researcher at Trier…
7th Greater Region Forum – Social and Territorial Cohesion in the Greater Region
The Greater Region is a historically grown area with more than 11 million inhabitants and 250,000 cross-border commuters today. The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on cross-border commuters and other workers could be partially mitigated with short-time work and telework, but they remain a challenge for social cohesion in the Greater Region. From the perspective of…