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Lecture – Ukraine at the Borderlands of European Universalism
In the wake of Balkan wars in 1990s the French philosopher of 'borders of Europe', Étienne Balibar, formulated his well-known thesis that these events manifested the limits of European universalism. Varied discursive mechanisms were adopted by of European actors to represent Balkan peoples as undeserving to belong to Europe: violent, barbaric, oriental, premodern,…
Cross-border vocational training & study during the pandemic
Cross-border dual vocational training and university courses are a fact of life in the French-German border regions. During the Covid-19 pandemic, however, apprentices and students on such European courses were faced with huge challenges. With the borders closed, they were cut off from the partner country and as a result cross-border…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: The resilience of cross-border cooperation in the German-Polish borderland within a European perspective
The Covid-19 pandemic and the related border restrictions have had numerous social, economic, and political consequences for border regions. The impact in the German-Polish border region is analysed in this UniGR-CBS Working Paper.
In this paper, Elżbieta Opiłowska shows how the communication about the pandemic as well as the reactions and (new) strategies of…
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…