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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…
Lecture – Where Border Studies and More Than Human Worlds Meet
The talk explores the intersections between Border Studies and more than human, post-humanist approaches, and new materialist perspectives.
Tracie Wilson is a Research Associate at the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. She is an invited researcher at Trier…
7th Greater Region Forum – Social and Territorial Cohesion in the Greater Region
The Greater Region is a historically grown area with more than 11 million inhabitants and 250,000 cross-border commuters today. The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on cross-border commuters and other workers could be partially mitigated with short-time work and telework, but they remain a challenge for social cohesion in the Greater Region. From the perspective of…
Lecture – Temporalities and migratory border-crossings in literature and other discourse
In the virtual lecture, Johan Schimanski presents the work he has been leading on temporalities and migratory border-crossings in literature and other discourse. He will offer a general reflection on borders and temporalities through the lens of border poetics.
Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. He is at Saarland University in September…
Lecture – Counter-Europeanisation as a Security Challenge: Rebordering borderlessness
The virtual lecture of Jussi Laine focuses on the role of borders in times of counter-Europeanisation tendencies and which challenges Europe is facing.
Jussi Laine is Associate Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies at University of Eastern Finland and President of the Association for Borderlands Studies. He is at University…
Lecture – Determinants of cross-border cooperation in the Polish–German borderland
The virtual lecture of Elżbieta Opiłowska focuses on the bilateral relations of the German-Polish border region and builds on the research project "Poland and Germany in the European Union – new forms and models of bilateral relations in foreign policy and cross-border cooperation".
Elżbieta Opiłowska is Associate Professor…
New project: Borderland Stories
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies is partner of the multimedia project “Borderland Stories”
Borderland Stories is a multilateral, transnational, interdisciplinary module of the Master in Border Studies, which combines ethnographic analysis and creative work in the visual arts to facilitate intercultural communication across two distinct…
New book release: Grenzerfahrungen | Expériences transfrontalières
35 years after the Schengen Agreement, controls and closures of border crossings were suddenly back on the agenda in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic in spring 2020. In which areas did cross-border coordination work and where did it go wrong, at least at the beginning? How were the critical moments of the crisis experienced by the actors? What can we learn from this…