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Review – International Study Day “The return of imperial borders?”
Discussing imperial borders and understanding current developments - that was the ambitious aim of twenty historians, geographers and cultural scientists who met at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main from 4 to 6 November.
Numerous case studies of imperial borderizations were discussed, from the Roman Empire to the most recent expansionist efforts in Eastern Europe. Looking…
12th UniGR-CBS Seminar Border Studies – Emergencies and borders
The current times are shaped by a number of different crises, the succession or convergence of which can give rise to a sense of permanence and sustainability. At the same time, the concept of climate emergency has invaded a large part of the social, media and existential landscape.
How does this range of energy and climate emergencies redefine our relationship to time and space, and…
Lecture – Along the Line: Writing about nature, borders and infrastructure with comics and graphic narratives
This talk presents and discusses my upcoming book and comic Along the Line / Bornées (2024, MétisPresses, Genève) that diversifies approaches to territory, borders and security by infusing these concepts with feminist and critical perspectives to disrupt, unsettle, and re-write practices, discourses, and scholarly contexts.
It focuses on the uses and…
UniGR-CBS Jubilee Conference
On October 17 and 18, 2024, more than 80 researchers celebrated ten years of border studies in the Greater Region. To mark the jubilee, border researchers from the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS) met with international scholars from 30 countries to discuss border struggles and border alliances.
Exchange and International Networking
As a UniGR-…
Call for Papers - Identity Constructions and Meaning-Making in Border Regions
We invite abstract submissions from PhD Candidates and early post-docs focusing on "Identity Constructions and Meaning-Making in Border Regions", in particular on:
Cross-border identity-building Meaning-making of borders Place branding strategies Cross-border communities and narrativesYoung Researchers Conference 18-19 March 2025 University of Lorraine, Metz & Luxembourg…
Border Futures from a Cultural Studies Perspective
The KWG section “Cultural Border Studies”, which includes seven UniGR-CBS members, met from 10 to 12 October 2024 at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. During the 9th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V., which brought together scholars from Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg, the section organized a panel on the future of borders. The…
UniGR-CBS Jubilee conference: 10 years of Border Studies in the Greater Region
The UniGR-CBS Jubilee Conference will focus on the topic of “Border Struggles and (Cross-) Border Alliances”. Not only does this topic embrace the genuinely topical issue of contested borders and the closely related formation of coalitions and alliances across borders; it also stretches to offer a thematic framing under which the multifaceted research interests and activities of the UniGR-…
Lecture – Reading the mediterranean border through racial capitalism
In this talk, Timothy Raeymaekers will present his monograph “The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean” (Cornell 2024). Telling the recent history of Mediterranean agri-food capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers, the book argues that, in the context of global supply chains and repressive border…