Panel project ABS 2018 – Border-Making and its Consequences
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies was the partner of the second Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) World Conference. The 5-day event on the theme "Border-Making and its Consequences" was held from 10-14 July 2018 at the University of Vienna (AT) and the Central European University in Budapest (H) and was attended by 450 border researchers from over 50 countries.
For the event the UniGR-Center for Border Studies organised the following seven panel sessions on issues concerning cultural and social scientific research relating to borders:
- Border Textures: Interwoven Practices and Discursive Fabrics of Borders
- Cross-border Workers and cross-border Labour Markets
- Citizenship, statelessness and minorities
- "Learning Border Regions" – Border Regions as Regional Learning Processes
- Migration and Flight in Western and Southern Europe
- The transformation/development of businesses in towns in border areas
- What is Border Studies?
The panels dealt with the topics of migration, cross-border worker mobility, the labour market and regional development in border areas as well as examining several case studies concerning South-Western Europe. With the "What is Border Studies?" session, the UniGR-Center for Border Studies launched a debate on the multidisciplinary research field itself. In addition, the Border Textures approach developed by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies was discussed with the international academic community.
The panel project (2017-2018) was conducted with funding from the Interreg V-A Greater Region programme (ERDF).
