BorderStudiesTalk: Border geography

BorderStudiesTalk is an event organised as part of Geo Week 2021 for scientists and interested members of the public consisting of keynote statements und debate.

BorderStudiesTalk will focus with invited debaters on the interdependencies between Border Studies and Geography and seek to work out to what extent the two fields are thematically linked and relevant to each other. Central to this is the relationship between borders and space, an issue which has raised its head again with the Covid 19 pandemic, especially in border regions.  35 years after the signing of the Schengen Agreement it has become clear, in unprecedented ways, how closely border spaces are intertwined with each other and how living spaces stretch over borders. Such observations, however, were already engaging border researchers before the border closures of 2020 and guiding their research avenues. Geography therefore, in a dialogue with border studies, can develop valuable expertise on border(area)-related problems and put it to productive use in various segments of the discipline.

The reciprocal relationship that has been outlined will be discussed by representatives of geography and/or border studies, who have at the same time published a collection of writings entitled "Geographien der Grenze. Räume – Ordnungen – Verflechtungen“ (DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-30950-3) - Border geography. Spaces – Organisation – Interdependencies. In it geographers and border researchers set out their viewpoints, and measures taken in the border regions and their impact on the interrelationships between those border regions are also examined.
 

Speakers
Tobias Chilla (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Nora Crossey (Saarland University)
Peter Dörrenbächer (Saarland University)
Albert Roßmeier (University of Tübingen)
Florian Weber (Saarland University)
Christian Wille (University of Luxembourg)
 

The event take place online as part of the Geo Week 2021 on 9 October 2021 from 10.00 to 11.30. The working language will be German.
 

Registration
German Society for Geography Geo Week 2021 (GeoWoche2021 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie): https://geographie.de/dkg
 

A cooperation between Saarland University and the University of Luxemburg within the framework of UniGR-Center for Border Studies.

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