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Interdisciplinary online lecture series: Border Realities

  • Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE)
    26 September 2022

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 progressive proliferation or multiplication of borders.

The online lecture aims to discuss the transformation of the border by means of empirical case studies as well as conceptual issues. International border researchers from the social sciences and cultural studies are invited to relate their own research and reflection results to the recent resurgence of borders and to elaborate on their new forms.

Lectures

13/10/2022 | 4.00pm – Gerhild Perl (University of Trier): Historical legacies and ‘new’ border realities

26/10/2022 | 4.00pm – Jarosław Jańczak (Adam Mickiewicz University/European University Viadrina): Geopolitics of the European Union: Transformation of EU’s External Borders in the Context of Changing Global Order

16/11/2022 | 4.00pm – Łukasz Moll (University of Wrocław): Ukraine at the Borderlands of European Universalism

30/11/2022 | 4.00pm – Anett Schmitz (University of Trier): Soziale Grenz(ziehungs)praktiken und lokale Alltagsperspektiven auf Grenzen: Bordertexturen auf Lesbos

07/12/2022 | 4.00pm – Nina Sahraoui (CRESPPA, Paris, CNRS): Externalized within, bordering processes in Ceuta and Melilla

12/12/2022 | 4.00pm – Dorte Jagetic Andersen (University of Southern Denmark): Transitions and people’s resilience in European borderlands

The online lecture series is open to the public and is aimed at researchers, students, and the interested public.

The public lecture series is organised by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (University of Luxembourg) and the Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies at the Institute of Sociology (University of Wrocław).

Contact and online registration

Denise Rodrigues Marafona (University of Luxembourg)

info@borderrealities.org

Registration here www.borderrealities.org

Academic chairs

Christian Wille (University of Luxembourg) 

UniGR-Center for Border Studies www.borderstudies.org  

Elżbieta Opiłowska (University of Wrocław)

Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies www.obrop.uni.wroc.pl