News from the Center

Maria Klessmann (Hg.) (2026): Grenzen in Szene setzen: Zur visuellen Repräsentation nationalstaalicher Grenzen - Borders in the Spotlight: On the Visual Representation of National Borders. Working Paper Series B/ORDERS IN MOTION, Nr. 14.

The lecture series is organised by the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on forced migration, borders, asylum and the reception of refugees. It examines how experiences of displacement are shaped by immigration and asylum regimes, legal insecurity, racialisation, gendered and intersectional inequalities, and changing infrastructures of border control and reception.

We are delighted to announce that the DFG network ‘Un/Gewisse Grenzen’ has been successfully approved. From the end of this year, an interdisciplinary working group comprising 15 researchers will spend three years conducting joint research into the relationship between borders and uncertainty.

Spatialities, Temporalities and Materialities of Border Complexities, edited by Falk Bretschneider, Sylvie Grimm-Hamen, Hedwig Wagner, Carolin Leutloff-Grandits and Christian Wille. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1st edition 2026, 292 pages. (Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders, Vol. 13). ISBN 978-3-8487-7827-0. Also available as an e-book.

On May 13, 2025, the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION welcomed a group of 25 diplomats from the Federal Foreign Office’s “16th International Diplomats Programme” (IDP16).

Kira Kosnick: Postmigrant Counterpublics. Racialised Leisure and Sexual Dissidence in Urban Europe. Berlin: Transcript, 2025. open access

The report [available in German] provides a concise overview of research projects, third-party funding, publications, teaching, outstanding events, and other transfer activities, as well as the national and international network of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION.

ŻYCIE, NAUKA lub PRACA w niemiecko-polskim regionie przygranicznym

Regional and municipal cooperation in the German-Polish border region, challenges and dynamics of cross-border cooperation using the example of Brandenburg-Lubuskie, ed. by Peter Ulrich and Martin Reents, Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2025.

Social rights for Ukrainian refugees – the legal framework and practical implications of the activation of the Mass Influx Directive in Poland and Germany. By: Jonathan Härle, Jessica Holka, Natalia Radziwinowska and Ole Weitermann. Working Paper Series B/ORDERS IN MOTION No. 13

Deadline: 15 September 2025

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 was presented to the public on June 25, 2025.

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