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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…

Atelier Bordertextures: Thinking Bordertextures From and With Welcome Cultures

Thinking borders as textures invites to be attentive to the existence of a multiplicity of border realities and to the entangled and dynamic web of elements that constitute them. The lecture uses this approach and will look into the situated dynamics of bordertextures from the perspective of welcome cultures, which designate the array of grassroots solidarity…

10th UniGR-CBS Seminar Border Studies – Emergencies and borders

The 10th UniGR-CBS Seminar Border Studies will take place at the University of Lorraine (Metz) on November 9-10, 2023.

Emergencies and borders: different perspectives on the migratory emergency in the Franco-German cultural area. Literature and Geography

November 9-10, 2023 Université de Lorraine, Metz

The plurality of current crises gives the…