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Lecture – Crisis Apartheid: Or how geography is distorted to justify the selective dehumanisation of refugees in EUrope and conceal the global segregation created by its border regime

We analyse the inconsistent EUropean stance on refugee protection epitomised by the strident contrast between the unprecedented welcome dispensed to Ukrainian refugees and the chamber of horrors that the EU border regime has reserved for unfavourably racialised asylum seekers. The lecture aims at discussing the complexities of Europe's refugee policies.  

2 November 2023, 4:00-6:…

Lecture – Geopolitics and biopolitics of governing cross-border mobilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: rationalities, technologies and subjectivities

Border surveillance and mobility control measures as normalized geopolitical and biopolitical governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic effectively altered and disrupted the everyday routines of people, resulting in a ‘crisis in crisis’ situation for many living in cross-border regions. Our presentation discusses the intertwinement of geopolitics and…

Online Lecture Series: Border Realities

Border Realities 2023/2024: Crises, Resistances, Silences – Perspectives from the Border and Borderlanders

Considering the prevailing inflation and commonplace usage of the term "crisis," the lecture series discusses in 2023-2024 situated and critical explorations of crisis from the perspectives of border scholars in geography, political sciences, cultural studies and anthropology…

New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Understanding Russia’s War in Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led not only to the shift of territorial and mental borders in Europe but has also driven profound changes of geopolitical visions of the contemporary world and its economic, political, and social future.

The new UniGR-CBS Working Paper shares the views from three Ukrainian researchers on the entanglements of borders,…

New UniGR-CBS Working Paper – Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries

In the 21st century, cross-border cooperation in the EU's national peripheries has become very important. However, this should by no means be taken for granted, as the Covid 19 pandemic has shown, for example.

The project "Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Border Regional Peripheries", which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (…

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.  

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…