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New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Border regions in times of the Covid 19 pandemic
Restrictions of freedom and border controls took center stage two years ago, sharply limiting cross-border everyday life.
Based on a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles of the Saarbrücker Zeitung in spring 2020, the new UniGR-CBS Working Paper traces central discussions with a focus on the cross-border area of the Greater Region. …
Lecture – Bridging Fluid Borders. Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland
Riverine borders are not “natural” borders dividing up space – certainly not for the people who have called these fluid borderlands their home for years, decades, or even centuries. One example is the Oyapock River, the official border between Brazil and France, which is a one-way street.
In the lecture, Fabio Santos goes into ethnographic details of the…
Border Renaissance: Recent Developments in Territorial, Cultural, and Linguistic Border Studies
Borders are once again facing a new visibility and attention. This development in society and politics was the focus of the international conference "Border Renaissance" on February 4 and 5, 2022. The event of border scholars from the Greater Region, who collaborate in the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, focused on the new importance of borders in European border…
UniGR-CBS Conference 2022: Border Renaissance
Scholars from North America, Europe and the Greater Region will discuss current developments and results in border research on February 4 and 5, 2022. The UniGR-CBS conference deals with the renaissance of borders and brings together territorial and cultural Border Studies. The 22 multilingual panels with nearly 100 speakers are international and represent the…
Lecture – The digitization of border security
The talk explores the digitization of migration and border control based on the example of the post-Brexit EU-UK maritime border.
Damien Simonneau is a lecturer in Political Science at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales where his research focuses on contemporary border security. As a guest researcher he was at the Technische…
New book release: Étrangers familiers. Les travailleurs frontaliers en Suisse
Switzerland is the country with the largest number of cross-border workers in Europe (343,000 in 2020). In some border regions in Europe, the pandemic has particularly highlighted the role of cross-border work and the interdependencies between certain countries.
In the chapters of the new book on cross-border workers, the concept of "familiar strangers" is…
Lecture – Die Grenze im Zentrum. Bedingungen für gelingende grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit im Europa der Grenzregionen in unsicheren Zeiten
The border has been placed at the center of the European integration process in order to promote a "Europe of border regions" with multiple euroregional-institutional cooperations across EU borders.
In the lecture, Peter Ulrich will discuss the connection between border-related factors and cross-border cooperation as well as governance processes.
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UniGR-CBS Workshop: Coworking Spaces: Which perspectives for the Greater Region?
The UniGR-CBS Working Group "Labour and Education" invites you to a digital workshop on "Coworking Spaces: What Perspectives for the Greater Region" on December 6, 2021 from 9:00-12:30.
Experiences as well as challenges and opportunities for coworking spaces in the Greater Region will be exchanged and discussed with experts from Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany…