Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION

Profiles

Logo Border in Motion

The Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION is a Central Scientific Institution of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

Borders aim to establish or maintain orders, be they specified in law, handed down through history, or expressed through symbols. Orders, in turn, cannot exist in the absence of border demarcations, whether in the form of lines on a map or as patterns for differentiation in people’s minds. The understanding that borders and orders must always be conceived of in dynamic interrelationships guides the work of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION. It initiates and bundles analyses concerning these interrelationships in the social, cultural, economic, and legal sciences.

Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION

European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Visitor address: Große Scharrnstraße 23a, D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder), Floor 4

Current events

03
Jun
Tuesday 16.15

Buchpräsentation: Stephan Rindlisbacher: Borders in Red. Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union [DE]

16:00-17:00 s.t., HG 109 (Senat Hall) // Research Factory

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11
Jun
Wednesday 16.15

Book Launch: Marija Grujic: Belonging in Unhomely Homelands [EN]

16:15-17:45 Uhr, HYBRID: on-site in room HG 109 & online // Research Factory

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18
Jun
Wednesday 16.15

K. Terry: Coercion Capital - Migrant Recruitment for Strategic Ends [EN]

16:15-17:45, Room: tbc // Research Factory

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25
Jun
Wednesday 16.15

Buchvorstellung: Grenzüberschreitende Daseinsvorsorge [DE]

16:15-17:45 Uhr, HYBRID: HG 109 (Senat Hall) & online // Research Factory

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02
Jul
Wednesday 16.00

Workshop: „Was uns bewegt – Ost, West und Wir in Frankfurt (Oder)“ [DE]

16.00-19.00 Uhr, Friedenskirche

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09
Jul
Wednesday 16.15

Panel Discussion: Affordances of Digital Tools in Shaping Migration Governance [EN]

16:15 - 17:45, HYBRID: in room GD 102 and online // Research Factory

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News from the Center

Anthology on cross-border public services published

The volume, edited by Centre members Peter Ulrich, Norbert Cyrus and Jarosław Jańczak, comprises 18 contributions and is aimed at both practitioners and researchers. The volume will be presented to the public on 25 June, 4-6 pm (in the Senate Hall & online).

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CfA: ERUA Online Biennale "Arts & Edges" Nov 28-29, 2025

We invite you to take part in ERUA's Online Biennale "Arts & Edges", which will be hosted by the University of the Aegean on November 28-29, 2025.

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Conference "Entrepreneurs, Remittances, Social Change", Prishtina, 15-16 May 2025

At the end of the research project "Transnational Families, Farms and Firms", the conference "Entrepreneurs, Remittances, Social Change. Migration and Development in Southeastern Europe and beyond" will take place on May 15th and 16th 2025 in Prishtina.

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Center annual report 2024

The annual report of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION for 2024 is now available online (in German).

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Research | Teaching | Transfer

Research

The insight that borders and orders are inextricably linked guides the work of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION and is encapsulated in the term “B/ORDERS”. We do not regard borders and orders as being natural and given, but as the result of social practice and the creation of meaning, which is in constant change, “in the making”, “IN MOTION”. Our multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach is designed to capture border and order configurations in their dynamics. In doing so, we focus on the subject areas “borders & boundaries” (understood not only in a territorial, but also in a social and temporal sense) and “migration” as an area defined by multiple border settings and border crossings.

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Teaching

The Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION attaches great importance to research-based teaching and innovative formats. We view borders as laboratories in which social developments condense and which shape migration. This enables new perspectives on the transformation of cultural, social, economic, legal and state orders. Our courses are designed for BA and MA students as well as doctoral candidates and are offered in German and English.

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Transfer

Borders and migration are topics of particular social relevance. As a research institution situated in close proximity to the German-Polish border, we see ourselves as bearing a special responsibility to provide science-based findings for addressing the challenges we face today. We present our research approaches and results in the “Research Factory” series of events and in various publication formats and we seek to engage with the interested public. We collaborate with civil society and public organizations to make our expertise relevant in practice.

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