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Migration and Borders: The report of the 3rd Forum Greater Region is online
The theme of the "Greater Region Forum" held on 14 March 2019 was "Migration and borders: between regulation and integration". At the third edition of the Forum organised this time under the scientific direction of Birte Nienaber (University of Luxembourg) and Piero Galloro (University of Lorraine), historic and contemporary migratory movements in the Greater Region were presented and…
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…
Call for Papers: UniGR-CBS thematic issue Borders in Perspective
The next issue of Borders in Perspective will be entitled “The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis” and is the outcome of the research collaboration established between Saarland University, Germany (Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner) and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine (Dr. Tetyana Ostapchuk) within the framework of the DAAD…
New book release: Border Experiences in Europe
For the last decade, borders in Europe have been back on the political agenda. Border research has reacted to that and is forging new ways of thinking and analysing borders. The new book release is following up this development and promotes a perspective that focuses on day-to-day reality and highlights the everyday experience of borders. Six authors from the UniGR-Center for Border Studies…
UniGR-CBS at the World Conference Border Studies
For the second time, the Association for Borderland Studies, the world’s largest network of researchers in border studies, organised the World Conference Border Studies from 10–14 July 2018. The 5-day-conference with the main focus on “Border Making and its Consequences” took place in two countries and was co-organised by the University of Vienna (AT) and the Central European University in…
Second UniGR-CBS Border Seminar
The second UniGR-CBS Border Seminar on the topic of “Inter- and Transdisciplinarity: A B/ordering Process?” and directed by Prof. Dr. Antje Bruns was organized by Trier University. It took place from 5-6 November 2018 at Trier University and in the Hotel Deutscher Hof in Trier and gathered 28 CBS border scholars as well as another 21 interested researchers of Trier University as well as…
UniGR-Chair in Border Studies
In 2019, six researchers will have the opportunity to spend a two-month research stay at another university from the UniGR network in order to develop a specific research project in close collaboration with the partners of their respective host universities and to strengthen research on border studies. Accommodation and travel expenses (max. 4000 EUR) are covered by the EU program Interreg V A…
Successful kick-off: The first forum Greater Region of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies
On 7 June 2018, the first “Greater Region” forum on the subject of “Cross-border employee mobility as a resource for the Greater Region” took place at the House of the Greater Region (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) as part of the Interreg VA Greater Region project “UniGR-Center for Border Studies” with the participation of the Minister of Labor and Employment of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,…