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 borders can be defined less and less by clear separating forces created by only a few actors or on the territorial periphery of national societies. In advanced border research, they are rather understood as results and crystallization points of multi-layered formations that result from the interaction of various actors, activities, bodies, objects, and knowledge. Such relational constellations, from which effects of border stabilization or destabilization arise, were discussed by the participants as “border complexities.” The goal was to develop a shared understanding of the more complex perspective on and analysis of borders.

The participants in the workshops came from Italy, Germany, France and Luxembourg. Among them border scholars from the border regions Germany/Denmark, Germany/Poland and Germany/Luxembourg/France who are already cooperating.

Speakers

Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Grenoble)
Chiara Brambilla (Bergamo)
Cécile Chamayou-Kuhn (Metz/Nancy)
Norbert Cyrus (Frankfurt (Oder))
Astrid Fellner (Saarbrücken)
Dominik Gerst (Duisburg-Essen)
Christian Wille (Luxembourg)

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