UniGR-CBS Border Studies Seminar : Covid-19 - A Pandemic and its Implications for Borders

The new millennium is regularly marked by new crises, whether it be the financial crisis, the so-called "refugee crisis," the energy crisis, the crisis in Ukraine, the re-emergence of conflict in the Middle East, or, with a new virulence, the climate crisis. We are going through a period of polycrisis during which crises not only succeed one another but also intersect and influence each other. In a globalized world, this has significant repercussions on our daily lives.

In the context of this Border Studies Seminar, which will focus on geography and literature, we will concentrate on the upheaval caused by pandemics (Covid-19, as well as historical epidemics) and the urgency inherent to the crises that characterise them. We will be particularly interested in borders and their formations, considering that they are coextensive with crises.

March 14-15, 2024
Saarland University, Saarbrücken

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This Seminar, which will take place over two half-days (in a "lunch-to-lunch" format), is the second event in a broader series entitled "Emergencies and Borders: Literary and Geographical Perspectives in the Franco-German Area." This series is part of a "Program-Training-Research" initiative of CIERA (2023-2025). This interdisciplinary research project has been developed by researchers from the Université de Lorraine (CEGIL and LOTERR) and the Saarland University (Department of European Social Studies and Chair of French Germanistics). It is under the dual patronage of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies and the Franco-Belgian GIS "Institute of Borders and Discontinuities."
 

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