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Publications

Publications by the WG Bordertextures

Weier, Sebastian / Fellner, Astrid M. / Frenk, Joachim / Kazmaier, Daniel / Michely, Eva / Vatter, Christoph / Weiershausen, Romana / Wille, Christian (2020): Bordertextures – vers une approche transdisciplinaire des frontières. Un rapport d'atélier. In: Hamez, Grégory und Jean-Marc Defays (eds.) : Réalités, perceptions et représentations des frontières. L'espace transfrontalier de la Grande Région Sarre-Lor-Lux. Éditions Modulaires Européennes, collection "Proximités Sociologie," p. 29-48.

Further information: https://www.editions-academia.be/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=66817.

Weier, Sebastian / Fellner, Astrid M. / Frenk, Joachim / Kazmaier, Daniel / Michely, Eva / Vatter, Christoph / Weiershausen, Romana / Wille, Christian (2018): Bordertexturen als transdisziplinärer Ansatz zur Untersuchung von Grenzen. Ein Werkstattbericht. Berliner Debatte Initial 29 (1), (Special issue "Komplexe Grenzen"), p. 73-83.

Further information: hdl.handle.net/10993/34922 or shop.welttrends.de/e-journals/2018-komplexe-grenzen.

Publications Astrid M. Fellner

Fellner, Astrid M. / Wille, Christian (forthcoming): Cultural Border Studies. In: Nesselhauf, Jonas / Weber, Florian (ed.): Handbuch Kulturwissenschaftliche Studies. Berlin, de Gruyter.

Fellner, Astrid M., Alina Mozolevska and Eva Nossem (eds) (2023) "Understanding Russia’s War in Ukraine. Borders, Identities, and Boundaries: An Interview with Julia Buyskykh, Alina Mozolevska, and Oleksandr Pronkevich." UniGR-CBS Working Paper Vol. 18. (August 7th, 2023) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8179180.

Schank, Tobias, Astrid M. Fellner, Isis Luxenburger, Eva Nossem (2023) "Hybrid Borderlands: On Borders, from Borders – Borderland Experiences in Film." In: UniGR-CBS Borders in Perspective Vo. 17: Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries. Conceptual and empirical insights from an interdisciplinary perspective (June 27th, 2023). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8032941.

Fellner, Astrid M. and Eva Nossem (eds.) (2023): Queer, Migration, and Belonging: Assemblages & Intersections, SOFIE Schriftenreihe zur Geschlechterforschung Vol. 26. published: May 2023. https://www.comebeck.com/category/sofie-schriftenreihe-zur-geschlechterforschung/.

Fellner, Astrid M. / Frenk, Joachim (2020): “Grenzziehungen / Grenzüberwindungen: (Re-) Präsentationen von Grenzen in Nordamerika und im Vereinigten Königreich.” In: Chiusi, Tiziana / Rennig, Anne (ed.): Europaforschung interdisziplinär. Beiträge zur 1. und 2. „Europa-Ringvorlesung“ des Europa-Kollegs CEUS der Universität des Saarlandes (Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Europaforschung 2). Saarbrücken, Alma Mater, p. 27-39.

Fellner, Astrid M. (2020): “Grenze und Ästhetik: Repräsentationen von Grenzen in den kulturwissenschaftlichen Border Studies.” In: Gerst, Dominic / Klessmann, Maria / Krämer, Hannes (ed): Grenzforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Baden-Baden, Nomos, p. 436-456.

Fellner, Astrid M. (2020): “‘What’s Home Gotta Do With It?’ Reflections on Homing, Bordering, and Social Distancing in COVID-19 Times.” In: Wille, Christian / Kanesu, Rebekka (ed.): Bordering in Pandemic Times: Insights into the Covid-19 Lockdown. Borders in Perspective UniGR-CBS Thematic Issue 4, p. 89-94. https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-b825-a20b

Fellner, Astrid M. (2020): “‘What’s Home Gotta Do With It?’ Reflections on Homing, Bordering, and Social Distancing in COVID-19 Times.” In: BorderObs Blog. http://cbs.uni-gr.eu/en/resources/borderobs

Fellner, Astrid M. (2020): “Counter-Mapping Corporeal Borderlands: Border Imaginaries in the Americas.” In: Weber, Florian / Wille, Christian / Caesar, Beate / Hollstegge, Julian (ed.): Geographien der Grenzen. Räume – Ordnungen – Verflechtungen. Wiesbaden, Springer VS, p. 287-300.

Fellner, Astrid M. (2020): “Grenzen/Körper/Flucht: Ästhetische Aushandlungen von Grenzen in Europa und Nordamerika.” In: Oster-Stierle, Patricia / Vatter, Christoph (ed.): Fluchtraum Europa: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Baden-Baden, Nomos, p. 271-289.

Fellner, Astrid M. (2020): “Globale Fluchtgeschichten in transmediterranen und transatlantischen Grenzräumen.” In: Heimböckel, Dieter / Roelens, Natalie / Wille, Christian (ed.): Flucht - Grenze – Integration / Fuga – Confine – Integrazione: Beiträge zum Phänomen der Deplatzierung/Contributi al fenomeno dello spostamento. Bielefeld, transcript, p. 49-66.

Fellner, Astrid M. / Weier, Sebastian / Frenk, Joachim / Kazmaier, Daniel / Michely, Eva / Vatter, Christoph / Weiershausen, Romana / Wille, Christian (2020): “Bordertextures – vers une approche transdisciplinaire des frontières [Bordertexturen als transdisziplinärer Ansatz zur Untersuchung von Grenzen. Ein Werkstattbericht]”. In: Hamez, Grégory et al. (ed.): Réalités, perceptions et représentations de la Grande Région Sarre-Lor-Lux. Paris, Éditions L’Harmattan, p. 29-48.

Fellner, Astrid M. / Venken, Machtheld et.al. (2019): “Border-Making and Its Consequences: A Global Overview.” In: Eurasia Border Review 10.1, p. 59-69. http://srch.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/publictn/eurasia_border_review/Vol101/V10N1_05-Venken.pdf

Fellner, Astrid M. (2019): “‘To Live in the Borderlands Means …’: Border Thinking and the Transcultural Poetics of Lee Maracle.” In: Morris, Paul (ed.): Le Canada: une culture de métissage / Transcultural Canada. Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, p. 109-126.

Fellner, Astrid M. (2018): “Another Map, Another Modernity: Living Borders and Peripheral Modernity in Guillermo Verdecchia’s Fronteras Americanas.” In: Brasch, Ilka / Mayer, Ruth (ed.): Modernities and Modernization in North America. Heidelberg, Winter, p. 207-224.

Fellner, Astrid M. / Nossem, Eva K. (2018): “The Politics of (Dis-)location: Queer Migration, Activism, and Coalitional Possibilities.” In: Breen, Margaret / Kitsi-Mitakou, Katerina (ed.): ‘The Politics of Location’: Feminist and Queer Spaces within Global Contexts. Gramma/Γράμμα: Journal of Theory and Criticism 25, p. 61-77.

Fellner, Astrid M. / Weier, Sebastian / Frenk, Joachim / Kazmaier, Daniel / Michely, Eva / Vatter, Christoph / Weiershausen, Romana / Wille, Christian (2018): “Bordertexturen als transdisziplinärer Ansatz zur Untersuchung von Grenzen. Ein Werkstattbericht.” In: Berliner Debatte Initial 29. Special issue Komplexe Grenzen, p. 73-83.

Fellner, Astrid M. / Hamscha, Susanne (2017): “‘What Goes on in the Coffin’: Border Knowledges in North American Literature.” In: Weier, Sebastian / Woons, Marc (ed.): Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics. Bristol, E-International Relations Publishing, p. 171-181. http://www.e-ir.info/2017/06/01/edited-collection-critical-epistemologies-of-global-politics/

Fellner, Astrid M. (2016): “Subaltern Knowledges in the Borderlands: Drawing the Sexual Boundaries of the Early United States.” In: Heide, Markus / Pisarz-Ramírez, Gabriele (ed.): Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in Transnational Perspective. Berlin/New York, Peter Lang, p. 203-220.

Fellner, Astrid M. (2016): “Recovering Queequeq’s Body: Alterna(rra)tives in the Borderlands.” In: Hofmann, Bettina / Müller, Monika (ed.): Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives. New York, Routledge, p. 53-68.

Fellner, Astrid M. (2010): “Fronteras Americanas: Guillermo Verdecchia’s Canadian Border Texts.” In: Schultermandl, Silvia / Toplu, Sebnem (ed.): A Fluid Sense of Self: The Politics of Transnational Identity. Berlin, LIT Verlag, p. 231-245.

Publications Cécile Chamayou-Kuhn

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile (2024): « Zwischen Aus- und Rückwanderung : Erinnerungsnarrativ und Grenzgängertum in Eleonoras Hummels Die Fische von Berlin », in : Christine Meyer, Anna Gvelesiani (Ed.) : Postmemory und die Transformation der deutschen Erinnerungskultur, Berlin/Boston, De Gryuter, coll. « Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung», p. 201-218.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile (2024): « Border complexities à l’exemple du roman Der falsche Inder de l’auteur Abbas Khider. Loi, frontières et logiques de ‘dés-ordre’», in : Christian Wille, Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Falk Bretschneider, Sylvie Grimm-Hamen, Hedwig Wagner (Ed.) : Border Complexities and Logics of Dis/Order, Baden-Baden, Nomos, coll. « Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders », p. 155-178.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile (2023): "Vor dem Gesetz : Zur Dialektik des Grenzregimes in Ödön von Horváths Hin und Her. Posse in zwei Teile", in : Germanica 73, p. 95-110.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile (2019): "Grenz- und Fremdheitserfahrungen in Die Wand," in: Arlaud Sylvie, Lacheny Marc, Lajarrige Jacques, Leroy du Cardonnoy Éric (ed.) : Dekonstruktion der symbolischen Ordnung bei Marlen Haushofer. Die Wand und Die Mansarde, Berlin, Frank & Timme, p. 17-37.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile (2017): "L’espace dans Der einzige Ort de Thomas Stangl: pour une circulation des modèles culturels et identitaires ?", in: Textes & Contextes 11.3. https://preo.u-bourgogne.fr/textesetcontextes/index.php?id=716.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile (2016): "Les traces de l’Histoire dans les récits autobiographiques de Thomas Bernhard. Une esthétique des limites ?", in: Lartillot Françoise, Teinturier Frédéric (ed.) : Autobiographies et textualités de l’événement au XXe siècle dans les pays de langue allemande, Bern, Peter Lang, p. 227-246.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile (2009): "Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten nicht die Grenzen meines Körpers. Evelyn Schlag – Sprachkritische Lektüre des Werks von Ingeborg Bachmann," in: Brigitte E. Jirku, Marion Schulz (ed.) : Mitten ins Herz. KünstlerInnen lesen Ingeborg Bachmann, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, Inter-Lit Band 9, p. 155-173.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile, Sara Iglesias, Christophe Quéva, Alexandra Richter, Yoan Vilain (2008) (ed.): "Introduction", in: Trajectoires 2 (Titel der Ausgabe: Frontières en question). http://trajectoires.revues.org/index111.html.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile, Chevallier-Govers, Constance, Renard, Florence (2003) (Ed.): Frontières et migrations en Europe. Études juridiques et culturelles dans une perspective franco-allemande, Erfurt, Éditions Juridiques Franco-Allemandes, coll. Revue générale du droit.

Chamayou-Kuhn, Cécile (2003): "Le réfugié, figure du hors-la-loi dans les œuvres d’Abbas Khider", in : Cécile Chamayou-Kuhn, Constance Chevallier-Govers, Florence Renard (Ed.): Frontières et migrations en Europe. Études juridiques et culturelles dans une perspective franco-allemande, Erfurt, Éditions Juridiques Franco-Allemandes, coll. « Revue générale du droit », 2003, p. 207-225.

Publications Christian Wille

Fellner, Astrid M. / Wille, Christian (forthcoming): Cultural Border Studies. In: Nesselhauf, Jonas / Weber, Florian (Eds.): Handbuch Kulturwissenschaftliche Studies. Berlin, de Gruyter.

Wille, Christian (forthcoming): Borderscapes. Online Glossary "Border Studies", UniGR-Center for Border Studies, https://hdl.handle.net/10993/47205

Wille, Christian (2024): European Border Region Studies in Times of Borderization: Overview of the Problem and Perspectives. Borders in Globalization Review 5(1), 92-100, https://doi.org/10.18357/bigr51202421528

Wille, Christian (2024): Border Complexities. Outlines and Perspectives of a Complexity Shift in Border Studies. In: Wille, Christian / Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin / Bretschneider, Falk / Grimm-Hamen, Sylvie / Wagner, Hedwig (Eds.): Border Complexities and Logics of Dis/Order. Baden-Baden, Nomos, 31-56, DOI: 10.5771/9783748922292-31, https://hdl.handle.net/10993/55332

Wille, Christian (2023): Cultural Border Studies – On the institutionalization of a dynamic research field. BorderObs (Blog), UniGR-Center for Border Studies, https://hdl.handle.net/10993/55516

Wille, Christian / Weber, Florian / Fellner, Astrid M. (Eds.) (2023): B/Orders are (not) everywhere (for everyone): On the multivalence of borders in a flee(t)ing Europe (thematic issue). Borders in Perspective 8, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7377468

Wille, Christian (2021): Vom processual shift zum complexity shift: aktuelle analytische Trends der Grenzforschung. In: Gerst, Dominik / Klessmann, Maria / Krämer, Hannes (Eds.): Grenzforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Baden-Baden, Nomos, 106-120. http://hdl.handle.net/10993/39858

Wille, Christian / Gerst, Dominik / Krämer, Hannes (Eds.) (2021): Identities and Methodologies of Border Studies: Recent Empirical and Conceptual Approaches (thematic issue). Borders in Perspective 6. http://hdl.handle.net/10993/42964

Wille, Christian / Weber, Florian (2020): Analysing border geographies in times of COVID-19. In: Mein, Georg / Pause, Johannes (Eds.): Self and Society in the Corona Crisis. Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences (The Ends of Humanities, Vol. 2). Esch-sur-Alzette, Melusina Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10993/43553

Wille, Christian / Nienaber, Birte (2020) (Eds.): Border Experiences in Europe. Everyday Life – Working Life – Communication – Languages. Baden Baden, Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845295671

Wille, Christian / Connor, Ulla (2019): Cross-border cooperation as practice formation. Perspectives for an alternative research approach. In: Beck, Joachim (Ed.): Transdisciplinary discourses on cross-border cooperation in Europe. Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 255-278.

Publications Eva Nossem

Nossem, Eva (2024) "Hybrides Placemaking in filmischen Bordertexturen: Les italorrain.e.s und italienische “Gastarbeiter:innen” in Dokumentarfilmen der Großregion." In: Linking Borderlands: Komplexität - Dynamik - Interdisziplinarität. Eds. Sara Bonin, Ludger Gailing, Kirsten Mangels, Tobias Schank, Dagna Zinkhahn-Rhobodes. Baden Baden: Nomos. https://www.nomos-shop.de/en/nomos/title/linking-borderlands-id-118492/.

Fellner, Astrid M. and Eva Nossem (2024) "Introduction: What is Border Renaissance?." In: Border Renaissance. BiG_Review vol. 5, no. 1 Special Section. Eds. Astrid M. Fellner, Eva Nossem, and Christian Wille. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/bigreview, p. 68-77.

Fellner, Astrid M., Eva Nossem and Christian Wille (eds) (2024) Border Renaissance. BiG_Review vol. 5, no. 1 Special Section. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/bigreview.

Nossem, Eva: "Of Saints, Saviors, and Smugglers: The capitane in the Mediterranean and the Border-Gender-Nexus." In: UniGR-CBS Thematic Issue Borders in Perspective Vol. 9: The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis. Eds. Astrid M. Fellner and Eva Nossem (September 1st, 2023). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10523816.

Fellner, Astrid M. and Eva Nossem: "Borders, Biopolitics, and Crisis in Europe and North America." In: UniGR-CBS Thematic Issue Borders in Perspective Vol. 9: The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis. Eds. Astrid M. Fellner and Eva Nossem (September 1st, 2023). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10523816.

Fellner, Astrid M., Eva Nossem and Tetyana Ostapchuk (eds) (2023) The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis. UniGR-CBS Thematic Issue Borders in Perspective Vol. 9, published: September 2023. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10523816.

Nossem, Eva (2022): "Corona-Diskurse und sprachliche Grenzziehungen in und um Europa." In: Pandemisches Virus – nationales Handeln. Covid-19 und die europäische Idee. Eds. Dominik Brodowski, Jonas Nesselhauf, and Florian Weber. Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2022, 109-122). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37719-9.

Nossem, Eva (2020): "HomoTransNationalismus in den Borderlands Italien: eine exemplarische Analyse ineinandergreifender Diskurse zu Sexual Citizenship in Italien mit Hilfe des Konzepts der Bordertexturen." In: Flucht - Grenze - Integration. Beiträge zum Phänomen der Deplatzierung / Fuga - Confine - Integrazione. Contributi al fenomeno dello spostamento. Ed. Dieter Heimböckel, Nathalie Roelens, and Christian Wille. Bielefeld: Transcript, p. 67-89.

Nossem, Eva (2020): "Linguistic Rebordering: Constructing COVID-19 as an external threat." In: UniGR-CBS Borders in Perspective Vo. 4: Bordering in Pandemic Times: Insights into the COVID-19 Lockdown.

Nossem, Eva (2020): "The Pandemic of Nationalism and the Nationalism of Pandemics." In: UniGR-CBS Working Paper. Vol. 8, doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-1073-4da7/ .

Nossem, Eva (2020): "Linguistic Rebordering: Constructing COVID-19 as an external threat." In: UniGR-CBS BorderObs (9 April 2020).

Fellner, Astrid M. and Eva Nossem (2018) "The Politics of (Dis-)location: Queer Migration, Activism, and Coalitional Possibilities." In: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol. 25.

Publications Lisa Johnson

Johnson, Lisa (2021): Moves - Spaces - Places. The Life Worlds of Jamaican Women in Montreal. An Ethnography. Bielefeld, transcript, 192 pp.

Publikationen Lola Aubry

Aubry, Lola and Joris Schapendonk (2023): "Welcome Cultures and the Chronopolitics of B/Ordering," in: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 2023, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12598.

Aubry, Lola (2022): "What Comes to Matter as Border: On Parisian Borderness Dynamics," in: Journal of Borderlands Studies, 02 October 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2129426.

Jagetic Andersen, Dorte and Lola Aubry (2022): "Sensing, Imagining, Doing Europe: Europeanisation in the Boundary Work of Welcome Cultures," in: Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 08 August 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2110455.

Publications Sylvie Grimm Hamen

Grimm Hamen, Sylvie: "Université de la Grande Région", in: Nicole Colin, Corine Defrance, Ulrich Pfeil, Joachim Umlauf (dir.): Dictionnaire des relations culturelles franco-allemandes depuis 1945. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion 2023, pp. 594-95.

Talks

2023

Christian Wille: "Resiliences From Below at the Example of Covidfencing." 14 November 2023, Castle Talks on Narratives on Borders in Europe: Resilience of Border Regions in Times of Crisis, (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence and Jean Monnet Chair New Law, Science Po Strasbourg, Chateau Pourtalès, Strasbourg)

Eva Nossem, Tobias Schank, and Astrid M. Fellner: „Digital Border Studies." 8 September 2023, Poster session at the opening of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC) (Saarland University)

Eva Nossem and Astrid M. Fellner: „Border Artivism." 20 July 2023, Joint seminar at the Erasmus BIP UNITA Summer School "Borders" (Università degli Studi di Torino)

Eva Nossem: „Borderlanguaging: Multilingual Practices on the Border." 20 July 2023, Lecture at the Erasmus BIP UNITA Summer School "Borders" (Università degli Studi di Torino)

Christian Wille (with Isabelle Pigeron-Piroth): “Crises et défis dans un espace transfrontalier. L'exemple de la Grande Région SaarLorLux”, 29/06/2023, Les territoires périphériques et ultrapériphériques face aux crises majeures. Le retour de la distance (28-30/6/2023), Université de La Réunion

Andrea Wurm: „Multi-Modal and Multi-Level Qualitative Data Analysis for Complex Cross-border Interactions (short paper)," 01 June 2023, Digital Humanities Benelux, Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium

Eva Nossem: „Of Languages and Borders: Staking Out the Field of Border Linguistics." 31 May 2023, Ukrainian Fulbright Circle (Kyiv - online)

Eva Nossem: „Thousands Are Sailing: The Representation of (Liquid) Borders in Pop Songs." 23 May 2023, Border Seminar of the International Border Studies Center (University of Gdansk)

Eva Nossem: „Border Studies Konzepte und Theorien der kulturwissenschaftlichen & sprachwissenschaftlichen Border Studies." 18 April 2023, BiP Summer School Germanistik, Prof. Miedema. (Saarland U)

Christian Wille: “Qu’est-ce qu’une frontière ? L’approche de (de)frontiérisation dans les Border Studies”, 23/03/2023, Frontières et sociétés frontalières au sein de l’espace franco-luxembourgeois du XVe siècle à nos jours” (23-24/3/2023), Université de Franche-Comté and University of Luxembourg

Eva Nossem: „Bordertextures and the Textu(r)al Cohesion of the Border." Konferenzbeitrag zur 3. Weltkonferenz der Association of Borderland Studies (ABS), Thema: „Borders, Edges and Interfaces. Pluralities and Scales“, 13 - 18 February 2023, Eliat (Israel)

Andrea Wurm: „Representations and realities as a guideline in bordertexturing Saarlor industrial cooperation" Konferenzbeitrag zur 3. Weltkonferenz der Association of Borderland Studies (ABS), Thema: „Borders, Edges and Interfaces. Pluralities and Scales“, 13 - 18 February 2023, Eliat (Israel)

Tobias Schank: "Bordertexturing the German-Polish borderlands: GRENZLAND and DER LANDRAT UND DIE LIEBEN NACHBARN." Contribution to the 3. worldwide conference of the Association of Borderland Studies (ABS), topic: "Borders, Edges and Interfaces. Pluralities and Scales", 13 - 18 February 2023, Eliat (Israel).

2022

Eva Nossem: "Borders under Fire: Critically Analyzing Shifting Media Discourses of the Border." Talk at the international conference Memità 2022 Les médias : le quatrième pouvoir ? Identité, mémoire et patrimoine, 9 December 2022, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (hybrid)

Astrid M. Fellner, Eva Nossem et Tobias Schank: "Going Multi-Modal in Border Studies," Guest Lecture within the framework of the lecture series Going Digital! Europas Kulturen und die Herausforderung von KI und Digitalisierung, 28 November 2022, Saarland University (online)

Eva Nossem: "Borders and Diversity." Opening statement as part of the roundtable Post-pandemic Diversity: The Comeback of Borders and the Reframing of Mobility and Migration, 10 Septembre 2022, IRTG Closing Conference: Post | Diversity - Researching Diversity in the Atlantic World, Université de Montréal

Eva Nossem: "Queer Border Languaging," 23 May 2022, Keynote Lecture, Lavender Languages and Linguistics #28, Università di Catania (hybrid)

Astrid Fellner: “Theorizing from the Border: Bordertexturing as an Epistemic Framework”, 4 February 2022, Conference “Border Renaissance”, Saarbrücken (hybrid).

Joachim Frenk: “Text(uris)ing Belfast and the Northern Irish Border”, 4 February 2022, Conference “Border Renaissance”, Saarbrücken (hybrid).

Tobias Schank: “Of Three Colors and Third Spaces: Discussing the Construction of Cultural Identities in Borderlands and Their Representation in Film”, 5 February 2022, Conference “Border Renaissance”, Saarbrücken (hybrid).

Tobias Schank: "Hybrid Borderland: a mosaic", 21 July 2022, Project presentation of the working group Bordertexturen, UniGR Center for Border Studies.

Tobias Schank: "Going Digital! Europas Kulturen und die Herausforderungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Digitalisierung", 28 November 2022, conference "Going Multi-Modal in Border Studies", Saarland University.

Tobias Schank: Introduction to the movie DREI FARBEN SCHWARZ on the occasion of 130 years Rechtsschutzsaal, 8. December 2022, Rechtsschutzsaal Bildstock.

Tobias Schank: Moderation Q&A "Cinédentité: Tony Krier, Esch-sur-Alzette", 14. December 2022, Industriefilme Luxemburg, Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxemburg).

Bärbel Schlimbach: “Interwoven (His-)Stories and Border-Crossings: Bordertextures in Hernan Diaz’ In the Distance”, 4 February 2022, Conference “Border Renaissance”, Saarbrücken (hybrid).

Bärbel Schlimbach: “Re-Negotiating Migration Narratives in the American West: C. Pam Zhang's How Much of these Hills Is Gold”, 5 February 2022, Conference “Border Renaissance”, Saarbrücken (hybrid).

Christian Wille: “Covidfencing as a Contested Borderization: Empirical Insights and Conceptual Considerations”, 16 November 2022, International Workshop “The Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Border Regions – A General Overview of Europe and Latin America“, Arras.

Christian Wille: “Frontières contestées dans l’espace Schengen à l’exemple de la pandémie”, 20 - 21 October 2022, International Conference “Border Walls and Borderlands. Security, Environment and Resistance”, Montreal.

Christian Wille: “Covidfencing : une frontiérisation contestée“, 18 - 22 July 2022, International Conference “Le temps des géographes”, Paris.

Christian Wille: “Approaching border complexities: von der Linie zur Textur”, 5 February 2022, Conference “Border Renaissance”, Saarbrücken (hybrid).

Andrea Wurm: “Overcoming Borders. Cinematic Representations of Border Languaging in Industrial Borderlands”, 5 February 2022, Conference “Border Renaissance”, Saarbrücken (hybrid).

Andrea Wurm: "Europa ohne Grenzen – Europäische Identität als Ziel der großregionalen Wirtschaft?" 31 January 2022, talk in the ring lecture MA EuKult "Europa: Konzepte und Narrative", Saarland University, Saarbrücken.

Andrea Wurm: "Multi-scalar boundary-crossing, language and (un)bound networked identities." 21 October 2022, talk at the workshop "Contemporary and historical approaches to industrial multilingualism", organised by the working group LINGDUSTRY (DE, NL, FI). University of Duisburg-Essen.

2021

Bärbel Schlimbach: “Border-Crossing Narratives in American Cultural Productions”, March 25, 2021, Kick-Off Meeting Eastpartnership Program “Bridging Borders: Shifting Paradigms”.

Bärbel Schlimbach: “Interweaving Discourses and Histories: Bordertextures in the American West”, April 17, 2021, Annual ABS Conference (Association for Borderlands Studies), virtual meeting, 15-17 April 2021.

Bärbel Schlimbach: “Border-crossings in the American West: HBO’s Westworld”, November 12, 2021, Congreso MEMITÁ 2021, online, Palermo, 10-12 November 2021.

Anett Schmitz: “Transcultural and Cross-Border Practices of knowledge circulation in academic mobility context”, APAD conference, November 29 - December 3, 2021, Lomé, Togo.

Anett Schmitz: “Covid 19 and refugee migration: the emergence of threatening camp zones as phenomena of the Anthropocene” , German Anthropological Association (DGSKA), September 27-30, 2021, Bremen (Panel, with Claudia Böhme).

Anett Schmitz: “Un/doing culture, un/doing boundaries: theoretical perspectives”. 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”. Luxembourg, July 7-10, 2021 (Panel, with Schmitt, C. and Krause, U.).

Anett Schmitz: “Lokale Grenzziehungspraktiken und migrantische Agency: Ethnographische Perspektiven aus dem Flüchtlingslager Moria, Lesbos”, 21st International Conference on Migration “Border Thinking”, June 17/18, 2021, Klagenfurt (Austria).

Anett Schmitz: “Grenzüberschreitende Fluchtmigration in Zeiten der Corona-Krise: Ethnografische Perspektiven aus Griechenland (Moria) und Kenia (Kakuma)”, Lecture in the context of the digital conference series “Fluchtmigration und Geflüchtetenunterkünfte. Interdisziplinäre Dialoge”, April 13, 2021, Trier/Klagenfurt (with Claudia Böhme)

Christian Wille: “Thinking borders & border thinking”. 21st International Conference on Migration “Border Thinking” (06/2021), Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt.

Christian Wille: “Zentrale Konzepte und Erkenntnisinteressen der kulturwissenschaftlichen Grenzforschung: Ein Überblick”. Sommerschule „Grenzen und Migration in Europa. Rechts- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven" (06/2021), Saarland University, Saarbrücken.

Christian Wille: “Grenzregionen zwischen Covidfencing und Debordering. Zur zivilgesellschaftlichen Anfechtung von Grenzen in Zeiten der Pandemie”. Workshop „Pandemisches Virus – nationales Handeln: Covid-19 und die europäische Idee” (06/2021), Saarland University, Saarbrücken.

2020

Eva Nossem: "Viral Hate: HomoTransphobic Discourses in the Context of Covid-19." Workshop on Gender and the Covid-19 Pandemic. (20 November 2020), National University of Singapore (online).

Eva Nossem: "Linguistic Othering and Scapegoating in Pandemic Times: Blame Games in the U.S. and Europe." UdS American Studies Graduate Forum 2020 "Distance and Diversity in Times of Crisis: Literary Expressions and Artistic Responses. (15 October 2020), Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany - online).

Christian Wille: "B/Ordering-Prozesse als Bordertexturen." 6th Annual Meeting of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: B/Ordering Cultures: Everyday Life, Politics, Aesthetics (10/2020), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

Astrid M. Fellner: "B/ordering Processes in Whoop-Up Country: Bordertextures on the Canada-U.S. Border." 6th Annual Meeting of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: B/Ordering Cultures: Everyday Life, Politics, Aesthetics (10/2020), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

Bärbel Schlimbach: "Bordertextures in the American West: HBO’s Westworld." 6th Annual Meeting of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: B/Ordering Cultures: Everyday Life, Politics, Aesthetics (10/2020), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

Eva Nossem: "Lexicographic de-b/ordering: Bordertextures and the assemblage of the UniGR-CBS Glossary Border Studies." 6th Annual Meeting of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: B/Ordering Cultures: Everyday Life, Politics, Aesthetics (10/2020), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

Sylvie Grimm-Hamen: "Von der Textur zur Bordertextur: Poetische Konfigurationen von Liminalität und Transgression in einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive." 6th Annual Meeting of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: B/Ordering Cultures: Everyday Life, Politics, Aesthetics (10/2020), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

Joachim Frenk: "Backstopped: (Re-)Negotiations of the British/Irish Border in Recent Irish Literature." 6th Annual Meeting of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: B/Ordering Cultures: Everyday Life, Politics, Aesthetics (10/2020), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

Eva Nossem: "Linguistic Rebordering in Pandemic Times," Closing Conference of the DAAD Eastpartnership project The Bio-Politics of Borders in Times of Crisis (6 July 2020), Saarland University (online).

Astrid M. Fellner: "Transoceanic Entanglements: Texturing the Border-Migration Nexus." Migration and Contemporary Border Regimes: Sovereignty, Surveillance, Survival (23/24 January 2020), Uppsala Universitet (Uppsala, Sweden).

2019

Christian Wille: "Towards a complexity turn in border studies? Rückblicke und Ausblicke." Borders as Border Complexities (12/2019), UniGR-Center for Border Studies & Viadrina Centre B/ORDERS IN MOTION, University of Luxembourg (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

Eva Nossem: "Of Saints, Saviors, and Smugglers: Capitane in the Mediterranean," UdS American Studies Graduate Forum 2019 - Liquid Trajecties: Flight, Mobility, and Migration (29 November 2019), Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany).

Christian Wille: "Frontières et identités spatiales dans la Grande Région SaarLorLux." La Lorraine, un territoire de fronts et de frontières - Association des Professeurs d'Histoire et de Géographie (Nancy/Metz, France).

Eva Nossem: "Spreading activation, fuzzy terms, and floating signifiers: The network visualization of the trilingual, multimodal online glossary Border Studies." Borders – Identiy – Memory in Media Studies (04/05 October 2019), Tavryda National University Named after Volodymyr Vernadskyi (Kiev, Ukraine).

Christian Wille: "Grenzraum versus Raum der Grenze. Eine theoretisch-konzeptionelle Perspektivweitung." Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019 (09/2019), Christian-Albrechts University Kiel (Kiel, Germany).

Eva Nossem: "Linguistic Border Studies," Sektionentagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft KWG 2019, Sektion Kulturwissenschaftliche Border Studies (September 24th, 2019), University of Koblenz-Landau (Koblenz, Germany).

Christian Wille: "Grenze als multiple (Sozio-)Materialität." Qu’est-ce qu’une frontière ? Matérialité et normativité de la limite (06/2019). Centre Georg Simmel – Recherches franco-allemandes en sciences sociales & UniGR-Center for Border Studies, Moulin d’Andé (Andé, France).

Christian Wille: "Beyond the Bordering Perspective: Rezente Entwicklungen in den Border Studies." Research Factory of the Viadrina Center B/ORDER IN MOTION, European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder, Germany).

2018

Astrid M. Fellner: "Border Text(ure)s, Minor Mobilities, and Trans-Americanity." Keynote. UdS American Studies Graduate Forum 2018 (07/08 December 2018), Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany).

Eva Nossem: "Weaving a lexicographic bordertexture: The development and assemblage of a trilingual, interdisciplinary, and multimodal UniGR Glossary Border Studies." UdS American Studies Graduate Forum 2018 (07/08 December 2018), Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany).

Astrid M. Fellner: "Globale Fluchtgeschichten in transmediterranen und transatlantischen Grenzräumen." Europäische Grenzräume: Innovationen und Innovatives (29/30 November 2018), Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies, Europe University Flensburg (Flensburg, Germany).

Christian Wille: "Bordertexturen. Eine multidisziplinäre Annäherung an Border Complexities." Europäische Grenzräume: Innovationen und Innovatives (29/30 November 2018), Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies, Europe University Flensburg (Flensburg, Germany).

Astrid M. Fellner: "Running the Medicine Line: Minor Mobilities on the Canada/US Border." Austrian Association for American Studies AAAS 2018 : American Im/Mobilities (16-18 November 2018), University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria).

Eva Nossem: "Das UniGR-CBS Glossar Border Studies als supradisziplinäre Bordertextur," UniGR-Center for Border Studies Seminar #2 (5 November 2018), University of Trier (Trier, Germany).

Organization of the panel "The Aesthetics of Borders in Transcultural Spaces and Life‐Worlds." in the framework of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (11-13/10/2018), University of Hildesheim (Hildesheim, Germany).

Astrid M. Fellner: "Grenzen der Gastfreundschaft: Kulturelle Praktiken und ästhetische Aushandlungen von Grenzen in Fluchträumen." 2nd Conference on the Phenomenon of Displacement in Europe: Flight – BORDER – Integration (4-7/10/2018), Villa Vigoni – German-Italian Center for European Excellence (Loveno di Menaggio, Italy).

Eva Nossem: "Omo(trans)nazionalismo nei borderlands italiani ed europei." 2nd Conference on the Phenomenon of Displacement in Europe: Flight – BORDER – Integration (4-7/10/2018), Villa Vigoni – German-Italian Center for European Excellence (Loveno di Menaggio, Italy).

Christian Wille: "Für ein ‘anderes’ Verständnis von Grenze: Erfordernisse und Entwicklungen in den Border Studies." 2nd Conference on the Phenomenon of Displacement in Europe: Flight – BORDER – Integration (4-7/10/2018), Villa Vigoni – German-Italian Center for European Excellence (Loveno di Menaggio, Italy).

In collaboration with the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, the working group Bordertextures organizes the two panels “Border Textures: Interwoven Practices and Discursive Fabrics of Borders” as part of the 2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (10-14 July 2018 Vienna/Budapest, www.2018absworld.com) (Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary).

Eva Nossem: "European Homonationalism and Italian Regionalism," Association of Borderlands Studies (10 July 2018), University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria).

Christian Wille: "La coopération comme 'formation transfrontalière de pratiques'. Une perspective d’analyse praxéologique." 55ème colloque de l’Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française (ASRDLF), Ecole de Management de Normandie (Caen, France).

Christian Wille: "Complexity Shift: Der Ansatz der Bordertextur" Le Transfrontalier: pratiques et figurations (28/29 June 2018), Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse, France).

Eva Nossem: "Das Weben einer lexikographischen Bordertextur: Entstehung und Aufbau des dreisprachigen, interdisziplinären und multimodalen UniGR-Borderglossars." Le Transfrontalier: pratiques et figurations (28/29 June 2018), Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse, France).

Astrid M. Fellner: "Bordertexturen: Grenzverflechtungen an der US-kanadischen Grenze." Le Transfrontalier: pratiques et figurations (28/29 June 2018), Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse, France).

Astrid M. Fellner: "Alterna(rra)tives in North American Borderlands." 'Minor' Mobilities in North American Literature and Culture (2-4 May 2018), University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria).

Astrid M. Fellner: "Alterna(rra)tives in North American Borderlands." The 'Other' Border: Canada and the United States, IFUSS Center for the Transnational Study of the U.S., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, USA).

Eva Nossem and Astrid M. Fellner: "Queer Migrants in the Southern Borderlands," QuIR workshop #5:Migrations: Intersectionality, Queerness, and Diaspora (19 January 2018), University of Naples L'Orientale (Naples, Italy).

2017

Eva Nossem: "Omonazionalismo europeo e regionalismo italiano: costruzioni discorsive di 'extracomunitario,' 'clandestino,' e 'terrone.'" Contact Zones: space, interaction and transformation – Graduate Student Conference “Italian Cultural Studies” 2017 (30 November 2017), University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria).

Astrid M. Fellner and Eva Nossem: "What is Border Studies? An Introduction to Border Studies from a Cultural Studies Perspective," (11 October 2017), Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University (Mykolaiv, Ukraine).

Eva Nossem: "Border Studies and Language," (11 October 2017), Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University (Mykolaiv, Ukraine).

Astrid M. Fellner and Eva Nossem: "Are There Boundaries to Solidarity? Queer Migration, Activism, and Coalitional
Possibilities in Germany and Ukraine./Есть ли границы у солидарности? Квир-миграция, активизм и сотруднический потенциал в Германии и Украине," Queering Paradigms 8: Fucking Solidarity (23 September 2017), University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria).

Astrid M. Fellner and Eva Nossem: "'How to Tame a Wild Tongue': Translanguaging the Borderlands. Theorizing the Multilingual Literacies of the New Mestiza." MIS: Multilingualism as Migration (3 July 2017), University of Luxembourg (Esch, Luxembourg).

Eva Nossem: "'For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly.' The Discursive Construction of Non-Western Queerness Through Translanguaging." Intersections 2017: Queer/Migration/Legality (17 June 2017), Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany).

In March 2017, Astrid M. Fellner and Christian Wille present the bordertextures concept at the workshop of the section 'kulturwissenschaftliche Border Studies' of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) (Gent, Belgium).

2016

Christian Wille: "Grenze als soziale Praxis. Überlegungen zum Potential der Praxistheorien für die kulturwissenschaftlichen Border Studies." Komplexe Grenzen: Dimensionen – Dynamiken – Technologien, European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder, Germany).

Christian Wille: "Etudier les identités spatiales pour étudier la frontière. Une analyse pluridimensionnelle." 53ème colloque de l'Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française (7-9 July 16), Université du Québec (Gatineau, Canada).

In November 2016, the working group Bordertextures present the first results of their work at the UniGR/GRETI seminar at Saarland University (Germany).