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New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Borderland Dynamics Between North Park and Mid-City

The central areas of San Diego are undergoing a gradual redevelopment by the combined efforts of the municipality and the private sector, transforming low-income neighborhoods into areas favored by affluent populations. This is particularly the case in the neighborhood of North Park, which has been redeveloped in the last decades and has recently begun to expand…

Lecture – Silencing Crises/Making Crises speak: Concluding Lecture/Performance

In the culminating session of this lecture series, academic chairs Lola Aubry and Dorte Jagetic Andersen will synthesise key insights from preceding talks while offering a nuanced critique of the notion of 'crisis' in the context of border studies. They will also unveil their forthcoming edited volume, "Silencing Crises/ Making Crises Speak," published by Berghahn…

BorderObs – Complexity-oriented Border Research

In the new BorderObs blog entry "Reflections on Complexity-oriented Border Research", Christian Wille (University of Luxembourg) discusses the relationship between complexity thinking and border research.

The background to the blog entry is the observation that borders are increasingly referred to as complex phenomena in research, but that it is rarely…

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, 20 months) at the Université de Lorraine.

The main tasks are divided into two areas:

Research (80%):

Conducting an interdisciplinary research project in the field of Border Studies.

Administration (20%):

contribute to…

New UniGR-CBS thematic issue release: The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis

This collection of essays pays attention to the biopolitical intricacies surrounding borders, with a particular focus on the Global North, encompassing North America and Europe. It dwells on the growing importance of biopolitical perspectives in Cultural Border Studies and aims at re-thinking Europe and the Americas through the crises and challenges they pose. By scrutinizing biopolitics, the…

Lecture – Re-bordering the crisis

The lecture develops understandings of crisis through examining discourses and practices of everyday (re)bordering at multiple levels and from a range of perspectives across time and space. Through focusing on the bordering experiences of the survivors of a fire in a London apartment together with those of others associated with that event, the lecture reflects on…

Publication – Cross-border Work in Europe

The UniGR-CBS members Rachid Belkacem (University of Lorraine), Isabelle Pigeron-Piroth (University of Luxembourg) and Christian Wille (University of Luxembourg) as well Franz Clément (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research) have just published a new book.

The topic of the book is cross-border work in Europe from a multi-perspective view.…

Lecture – Border Crisis Art: Solidarity, Hope, and Reparative Practices

We live in times of polycrisis and an epoch of borderization, akin to a border renaissance. The ongoing influence of the Corona pandemic has accentuated this trajectory, amplifying the unprecedented proliferation of nascent and revitalized borders to unparalleled proportions. In the face of adversity, people, however, often find strength to adapt, innovate, and unite…