Border Temporalities
We are an interregional working group within the UniGR-Center for Border Studies. Our main interests lay in the temporal and historical dimension of Border Studies. The members of this working group are researchers from UniGR-CBS-partner universities, among them historians and scholars from literature and culture studies. New members are welcome!
Historical Border Studies
The field of Border Studies has undergone numerous interdisciplinary expansions in recent decades, resulting from the opening up of approaches from the social sciences to cultural studies. What these approaches have in common, however, is that they mainly concentrate on the present. With the Spatial Turn at the latest, historical scholarship has reemphasised the importance of thinking about space and time in tandem. The aim of the working group is to open up Border Studies further to the dimension of temporality and to introduce historical depth of focus into its analyses. This is done through the integration of perspectives of long duration, but also through the analysis of the past as a resource for present speaking about borders and border spaces.
Topics and questions
- Thinking about borders and experiences of time: conceptual considerations
- History of cross-border cooperation in Europe
- What sources are needed in order to write border(land) history?
- How can historical science interpret data collected in the social sciences?