Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION

Viadrina Center

B/ORDERS IN MOTION

Profiles

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.

European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Postal address: Große Scharrnstraße 59, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Scientific Manager: Dr Andrea Meissner
+49 (0) 335 5534 2880
meissner@europa-uni.de
Viadrina Media Portal

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

Current events

Apr

Thursday 13.00

Conference "Doing Democracy: Connecting Academia and Civil Society Across Borders"

23 April: Logensaal&Co-Working Space of the European University Viadrina,Frankfurt (Oder) 24 April: Collegium Polonicum, Słubice

Apr

Wednesday 16.15

Buchvorstellung: Regionale und kommunale Zusammenarbeit im deutsch-polnischen Grenzraum, hg. v. Peter Ulrich / Martin Reents [DE]

16:15 - 17:45; HG 217 & livestream // Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION

May

Wednesday 16.15

Mobilität in Frankfurt (Oder) und Słubice: Der Viadrina-Mobilitätsbericht und die Citizen-Science-Studie ‚Mobil auf deine Weise‘

16:15 - 17:45; HG 217 & online // Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION

May

Wednesday 18.00

Film Screening: THE GUEST by Mohammad Ravandi

06:00-08:00 p.m., Room: Logensaal (LH) // Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION

Jun

Thursday 18.00

Borders, books & beers – Book release event: „Grenzwissen“ (Dr. Dominik Gerst, Universität Leipzig) und „Grenzen der Teilhabe“, (Dr. des. Maria Klessmann, EUV) [DE]

18:15-20:00, Room: tba // Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION

Jun

Wednesday 16.15

Prof Dr Stef Jansen: "Challenges of Temporal Coordination in the European Semiperiphery" [EN]

16:15-17:45, GD 102 & livestream // Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION

Jul

Wednesday 16.15

Prof. Dr. Deniz Göktürk: "Community beyond Fantasies of Closure" [EN]

16:15-17:45, GD 102 // Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION

News from the Center

Job: PhD candidate in the AntOstMig project. Application deadline May 3,2026

The Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION is currently advertising a position for a PhD candidate with a working time of 30h/week in the project "Antisemitism in the (Post-)Migrant Society. Experiences, Articulations and Formations of Antisemitism in Russian- and Ukrainian-Speaking Migrant Milieus" (AntOstMig), to be filled from May 2026. Application deadline is May 3, 2026.

15. April 2026

Center'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.

17. March 2026

Platforma internetowa niemiecko-polskich punktów informacyjnych dotyczących granicy już dostępna online! www.GIP-GPI.eu

ŻYCIE, NAUKA lub PRACA w niemiecko-polskim regionie przygranicznym

11. March 2026

Prof. Dr. Jens Adam: Erosion and Refiguration: Ethnographic Examinations Along the Democracy-Authoritarianism Matrix

Recording of the livestream is now available in the Viadrina Medienportal.

18. February 2026

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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.

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.

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.