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Border Futures from a Cultural Studies Perspective

The KWG section “Cultural Border Studies”, which includes seven UniGR-CBS members, met from 10 to 12 October 2024 at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. During the 9th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V., which brought together scholars from Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg, the section organized a panel on the future of borders. The…

UniGR-CBS Jubilee conference: 10 years of Border Studies in the Greater Region

The UniGR-CBS Jubilee Conference will focus on the topic of “Border Struggles and (Cross-) Border Alliances”. Not only does this topic embrace the genuinely topical issue of contested borders and the closely related formation of coalitions and alliances across borders; it also stretches to offer a thematic framing under which the multifaceted research interests and activities of the UniGR-…

Lecture – Reading the mediterranean border through racial capitalism

In this talk, Timothy Raeymaekers will present his monograph “The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean” (Cornell 2024). Telling the recent history of Mediterranean agri-food capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers, the book argues that, in the context of global supply chains and repressive border…

UniGR-CBS at the first Congress of the Researchers of Borders and Borderlands in Poland

This week, the first Congress of the Polish Border and Borderland Researchers took place at the University of Opole and the University of Wrocław. The three-day conference, entitled "(De)Constructing Borders in Borderlands Studies", provided for the more than 100 attendees an international platform for exchange with the Polish border scholar community.

The…

Online Lecture Series: Border Realities

Border Realities: Beyond Nature and Culture

Anthropogenic climate change and its consequences have eroded the Western paradigm of separating humans from Nature and Nature from Culture. In this context, it becomes imperative to reconsider the interdependencies between humans and the living world.

The lecture series will…

New book – Transformation Processes in Europe and Beyond

The book, which was published in July, provides insights into current transformation processes in Europe via 34 chapters. The authors include ten UniGR-CBS members whose research covers a wide range of topics from a transnational and cross-border perspective: from pandemic experiences and criminal law to energy management or urban borderlands to skills shortages and…

Call for Papers – Border Struggles and (Cross-)Border Alliances

UniGR-CBS Jubilee conference: 10 years of Border Studies in the Greater Region 17-18 October 2024 Saarland University, Innovation Center

We invite panel (up to 3 papers) and paper (20 minutes max.) submissions focusing on “Border Struggles and (Cross-)Border Alliances” in their complexity, zooming in on:

Workshop Review: Cross-border Inequalities

On May 27 and 28, researchers from the member universities of UniGR-CBS met in Saarbrücken for a workshop. Organised by Ulla Connor (Saarland University) and Lola Aubry (University of Luxembourg), this academic event aimed to deepen understanding of cross-border inequalities. Participants explored the definition, multidimensionality and specificities of these…