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New Book Release – Linking Borderlands
The new edited book with contributions from more than ten UniGR-CBS members analyses the Greater Region and the German-Polish border region and links the results using its own linking method.
This open access book shows the complexity and dynamics of European border regions as zones of contact and transition. It is the result of the joint interdisciplinary…
Call for Papers – Emergencies and borders
The 12th UniGR-CBS Seminar Border Studies will take place at the University of Lorraine (Metz) on November 21-22, 2024.
Emergencies and borders: different perspectives on the “energy-climate” emergency in the Franco-German cultural area
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…
New UniGR-CBS Policy Paper – Resilience in European Cross-Border Relations
The Covid pandemic has shown after spring 2020 how fragile cross-border relations and cooperation can be. Poor cross-border communications and inadequate foresight as to their effects exacerbated the problems – old and new – caused by re-erecting long disused checkpoints and closing borders. In the present time of polycrisis it is more than ever important…
Workshop – Cross-border Inequalities. An Exploration in the Greater Region
When inequalities continue to be studied and debated primarily at the national level, it is crucial to further consider their cross-border implications and dimensions. Inequalities in terms of income, access to public infrastructure and services, education, and employment opportunities within the Greater Region illustrate this reality. Participants in the workshop…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Komplexitätsdenken und Grenzforschung
Despite the increased discourse on the complexity of borders, there are hardly any references in the academic debate as to what exactly complex borders mean or complexity-oriented border research.
This paper starts here and discusses the promising relationship between complexity thinking and border research. To this end, it explains what is currently…
New publication – Border Renaissance
The UniGR-CBS members Astrid M. Fellner, Eva Nossem and Christian Wille have published an interdisciplinary "special section" in the latest issue of Borders in Globalization Review. The Canadian peer review journal sees itself as a forum for academic and artistic explorations of borders in the arts, cultural studies and social sciences.
This "special section…
Call for Papers – The Return of Imperial Borders? Practices, Representations, Contestations
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS) and the Institut franco-allemand de sciences historiques et sociales (IFRA-SHS) are organizing a multilingual study day at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (4-6/11/2024). The focus will be on the current question of the return of imperial borders, for which historical and geographical perspectives will be discussed and intersected across…
New Book – Border Complexities and Logics of Dis/Order
The interdisciplinary open access anthology, to which five UniGR-CBS members contributed, deals with the still recent trend of considering and investigating borders as complex phenomena. Although this trend began in the 2010s, the relationship between complexity and borders has not yet been explicitly discussed. Instead, the current debate is dominated by a diffuse…