News from the Center
New publication: 2nd anthology on ‘Border Complexities’
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.
View detailsThe Center at the ‘Cultural Studies Border Studies’ section meeting, 17–18 July, Saarbrücken
In July, the KWG section ‘Cultural Studies Border Studies’ will meet at Saarland University under the theme ‘Flowing Borders’. Several researchers from the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION will once again be actively involved in the section’s work at this meeting.
View detailsVisit by a group of diplomats from IPD 16 to the Center
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).
View detailsNew book: K. Kosnick: Postmigrant Counterpublics
Kira Kosnick: Postmigrant Counterpublics. Racialised Leisure and Sexual Dissidence in Urban Europe. Berlin: Transcript, 2025. open access
View detailsCenter's 2025 Annual Report Published
The report 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.
View detailsPlatforma internetowa niemiecko-polskich punktów informacyjnych dotyczących granicy już dostępna online! www.GIP-GPI.eu
ŻYCIE, NAUKA lub PRACA w niemiecko-polskim regionie przygranicznym
View detailsProf. Dr. Jens Adam: Erosion and Refiguration: Ethnographic Examinations Along the Democracy-Authoritarianism Matrix
Recording of the livestream is now available in the Viadrina Medienportal.
View detailsNachbarschaft als Wirtschaftsmotor. Verflechtungen, Infrastruktur und Lösungsansätze im deutsch-polnischen Grenzraum
Am 27. November fand die Konferenz zum deutsch-polnischen Wirtschaftsraum statt. Der Newsportal-Beitrag dazu sowie die Aufzeichnung der Veranstaltung sind nun verfügbar.
View detailsNew publication: Cooperation in the German-Polish border region
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.
View detailsLunch lecture by Stefan Janković: On Political Liminality. Serbia's Student Protests and the Remapping of Political Space
Link to the recording of the event now available.
View detailsCfP: Grenzbilder - Border Images. On the visual representation of national borders.
Deadline: 15 September 2025
View detailsOpening of the first border information point in Guben
On Wednesday, 18 June 2025, the first border information point in the German-Polish border region will be opened at the Spree-Neisse-Bober Euroregion office in Guben.
View detailsAnthology 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 was presented to the public on June 25, 2025.
View detailsCenter 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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