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New book release: Territorial borders as practice
Ulla Connor is a sociologist and completed her PhD in 2022 at the University of Luxembourg with a praxeological study of territorial borders in the empirical field of cross-border cartography. She is a member of the UniGR-CBS Working Group Spatial Planning and talked to the UniGR-CBS about her latest publication.
In an interview…
Workshop – Net zero land consumption in the Greater Region
The UniGR-CBS actively shapes the Greater Region and sees itself as a Science Policy-Interface. Together with stakeholders from the Greater Region, the UniGR-CBS invites you to a workshop on the development of spatial development strategies considering resource conservation. At the center is the EU Commission's target of net zero land consumption by 2050 and its…
Study Day – Cross-border labor markets
The labor markets in cross-border regions are under pressure: crises (health, energy, demography or even economy), labor shortages and regional competition are just some of the challenges. What are the prospects for cross-border regions?
This study day address these issues in two panels. The day will close with a round-table discussion with practitioners and…
9th Seminar of the UniGR-CBS: Borders in Crisis
The 9th Seminar of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies organised by Saarland University took place on-site (D4.1) and online on the 11th and 12th May 2023.
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"Borderland Stories" wins Saarland State Award for University Teaching 2022
On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, the project "Borderland Stories," which was launched in 2021, was awarded with the Saarland State Prize for University Teaching 2022. "The goal was to bring students from the Greater Region together with students from Ukraine and have them engage in a dialogue about life in their respective borderlands." said UniGR-CBS member…
New publication: Covid-19 and the European idea
In the edited book "Pandemic Virus – National Action", the border closures in Europe are reflected three years after the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic. The authors show from different disciplinary angles how the border closures were experienced and how they affected the European idea. The book integrates many contributions authored by UniGR-CBS members.
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The UniGR-CBS at the 2023 World Conference on Border Studies
Over 250 border scholars from around the world met in Eilat, Israel, from February 13-18, 2023. There, the third World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) took place on the Eilat Campus of Ben-Gurion University in the tri-border region of Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. The five-day conference, “Borders, Edges, and Interfaces. Pluralities and Scales” included numerous panels…
Lecture – Transitions and people’s resilience in European borderlands
Borderlands are specific environments where people and communities have historically had to find creative ways of coping within state structures and their transitions. Considering recent trends in Europe to move away from open borders scenarios towards border securitization and unsolved political conflicts, questions concerning how borderlands cope with transitions…