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Lecture – Geopolitics of the European Union: Transformation of EU’s External Borders in the Context of Changing Global Order
The ongoing changes in the structure of the global order have resulted, especially recently, in border processes in Europe taking place in a new international environment. Surprisingly the war in Ukraine left the borders open for the refugees in the region but the conflict, at the same time, revised dominant approaches to the border dynamics in international…
Lecture – Historical legacies and ‘new’ border realities
For centuries, the Strait of Gibraltar has been a crossroads between Africa and Europe; since the 1980s, however, it has increasingly become a “zone of illegality” (Hannoum 2020). By exploring how colonial legacies and EU policies play out in the border region between Morocco and Spain, Gerhild Perl will show how categories of difference are made and remade across time and space. …
Interdisciplinary online lecture series: Border Realities
Border Realities 2022/2023: Transformation of the border and new conceptual challenges
For the past two decades, a resurgence of borders has been observed. On the one hand, this is shown by the remarkable increase in border controls, border walls and fortified border installations. On the other hand, however, it shows above all the…
Job Offer – Postdoctoral Researcher in Border Studies
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher in Border Studies (full time, 24 months) at the University of Luxembourg.
You are part of the small team of the UniGR-CBS coordination unit and work with border researchers from Luxembourg, Germany, France and Belgium. Your tasks will serve the implementation of the UniGR-CBS…
Call for Papers – Borders in Flux and Border Temporalities in and beyond Europe
The Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) and the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN) organize with the UniGR-CBS an international conference. At its center are border practices, border discourses, border regimes and everyday life experiences at Europe’s borders in a spatial and/or temporal perspective.
The conference aims to connect…
Just released : Les Cahiers de la Grande Région 5
Le développement du télétravail et ses enjeux dans l’espace transfrontalier
Over two years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is now possible to reflect on the economic and societal aspects that have really been marked by significant transformations. The acceleration of the practice of Home Office is part of these major socio-economic changes. This new edition of the Cahiers…
Border Studies in the Greater Region: Review of 4.5 years of Interreg project cooperation
The Interreg VA GR project "European Center for Competence and Knowledge in Border Studies" came to an end on June 30, 2022. With the support of the six partner universities during the four and a half years (2018-2022) of the project, the foundations for successful border studies have been created in the Greater Region, on which researchers will build in the future.
The UniGR-CBS would…
Study Day – Riverine Borders
Waterways are essential components of the living and non-living world. They shape landscapes and serve as demarcation lines – as “natural borders” – between states in many parts of the world. In addition to being lines that separate, rivers and streams are also lines that connect, and borderland territories are often particularly rich places of life, interaction, passage, porosity, cross-…