10 Jahre AG #Bordertextures: Grenzforschung aus kulturwissenschaftl. Perspektive Zum Jubiläum an der Uni Trier diskutierten die AG-Mitglieder Grenzen als emergente Effekte von Bordertexturen & #Bordertexturing als Methode. 📆 Am 9. Juli geht es weiter im #AtelierBordertextures 👉 shorturl.at/irNsU

Prochain Atelier #Bordertextures – Penser Haïti par le prisme des bordertextures pour sortir de la crise sécuritaire. 📆09 Juillet 2025 ⏰18h00 CEST 🔃Hybride 👉Plus d’infos rb.gy/num472

Die #CulturalBorderStudies stehen im Fokus einer Sitzung der Ringvorlesung „Grenzen – Grenzräume – Grenzbegegnungen“ an der Uniuversität Trier. Die AG #Bordertexturen des #UniGR_CBS stellt dort ihre Arbeit vor.  🗓️ 25. Juni, 12 Uhr📍Uni Trier, Raum N4 (hybrid) Infos & Anmeldung shorturl.at/WjfDv

#Bordertextures goes global! Members of the #UniGR_CBS from Germany, France, and Luxembourg organised a panel at the #BRIT2025 conference in Cyprus. They brought together #CulturalStudies, #ComplexityThinking and #BorderStudies as well as entangled methodologies. Looking forward to #BRIT2027!

Meet #UniGR_CBS at the @absborders.bsky.social Annual Conference 2025 in Seattle (April 2–5)! The #Bordertextures panel shares new insights in #CulturalBorderStudies. More information absborderlands.org/meetings/abs... #ABS2025 #BorderStudies

In a new paper, Christian Wille argues that the #bordertextures approach is part of the impetus in border studies to think in terms of complexity. Read more 👇👇

Grenzziehungen als komplexe Prozesse im populär- & alltagskulturellen Feld erschließen und entschlüsseln: Im gerade erschienenen Handbuchartikel werden die #Bordertexturen als Ansatz und Methode der Cultural Border Studies vorgestellt. 👉Handbuchartikel anfragen und lesen hdl.handle.net/10993/54705

Outlook 2025 – During the #UniGR_CBS seminar “Emergencies and Borders” in Metz 🇫🇷 last week, the working group #Bordertextures met and discussed the next year's work program. There will be more information soon about the next planned lectures, workshops, publications, and much more...

Happy Birthday! – Two panels organized by the WG #Bordertextures at the 10-year jubilee conference of the @UniGR_CBS: 🚩Approaching Borders as (contested) Alliances through the #Bordertextures Lens 🚩Methodological Alliances: Literary Studies and Bordertextures

The working group #bordertextures in September 2024 at the first Congress of the Polish Border and Borderland Researchers discussing in seven presentations the role of literature, music, film, and photography in contemporary bordering processes.

#Bordertextures zum Nachhören – in der neuen Episode von #UniGR_CBS ON AIR kommt die AG Bordertextures zu Wort und erklärt, wie das Konzept entstanden ist, wie man damit arbeiten kann und wo noch Entwicklungsbedarf besteht. 🎧Jetzt reinhören podcast.borderstudies.org

Some results from the Workshop “Mapping the #Bordertextures Approach” (16/04/2024): 👉 It opens up new analytical pathways to borders. 👉 It promises a greater knowledge gain than traditional approaches. 👉 It is a suitable tool for interdisciplinarity and current global challenges.

Les #bordertextures dépassent des frontières linguistiques ! Deux nouveaux textes en français : ➡️ Astrid M. Fellner sur la frontière canado-américaine doi.org/10.5771/9783... ➡️ Cécile Chamayou-Kuhn sur les Border Complexities dans la littérature doi.org/10.5771/9783...

“From an ethnographic point of view, thinking borders as textures brings strong attentiveness to relations, multilayeredness & difference” – Lola Aubry in the #AtelierBordertextures where she presented an ethnographic study of the Parisian welcome culture. #CulturalBorderStudies (01/12/2023)

During a side meeting of a #UniGR_CBS seminar, the bordertextures working group stated an increasing use of the #bordertextures approach in #CulturalBorderStudies and will in 2024 capture & systematize the various (inter)disciplinary appropriations of the approach. (13/11/2023)

During the @UniGR_CBS seminar “Borders In Crisis”, the scholars of the WG #Bordertextures welcomed new group members from the #GreaterRegion and discussed the 2023 working program.

One of the first panels of the #ABSworld2023 was the #UniGR_CBS panel on the textured character of #borders – the speakers discussed the role of cultural representations in bordering and border research processes | #bordertextures

The #Bordertextures working group met last on 25 July 2022 to coordinate new panel submissions and to discuss with the #UniGR_CBS member Tobias Schank his paper draft #HybridBorderlands – Thanks to Tobias for the stimulating discussion!

Am 1. Dezember 2021 war Rhea Maria Dehn Tutosaus von der TU Darmstadt zu Gast im #AtelierBordertextures – Vielen Dank für den spannenden Vortrag und die neuen Einsichten zum Bordertextures-Nexus Grenze-Körper-Textilien | #CulturalBorderStudies #UniGR_CBS

Thanks to Jens Temmen for his interesting talk in the #AtelierBordertextures on 16 November 2021 about jurisdictional incongruences & flexible imperial #borders from an #AmercianStudies perspective | #CulturalBorderStudies #UniGR_CBS

The concept of #bordertextures is inspired by the Iroquois wampum belt, a band made of rows of beads woven together, which serves as a contractual document of the Iroquois living between the fronts of the colonial powers. #CulturalBorderStudies

There was a very fruitful discussion on 18/05/2021 about the empirical role and conceptual place of nonhuman actors in #bordertextures with Larissa Fleischmann, who spoke in the #AtelierBordertextures about the interrelationship of humans, animals, #viruses, objects, technologies, and #borders.

Bordertextures understand borders as complex fabrics in which social & cultural as well as material & imaginary references become interwoven – learn more about #bordertextures in the working group’s panel at the #ABS2021 (14/04/2021)

The #UniGR_CBS working group #bordertextures with border scholars from Germany, France, and Luxembourg met on 24 March 2021 to discuss dynamics of #bordertexturing and a joint book publication. #CulturalBorderStudies

The #UniGR_CBS working group #Bordertextures discussing at Saarland University a future #CulturalBorderStudies book project (12/11/2018)

Johan Schimanski from the University of Oslo in the #AtelierBordertextures presenting at the University of Luxembourg an Archaeology of Border Theory, Border Poetics and Border Aesthetics #CulturalBorderStudies (06/12/2018)

Markus Heide von der Universität Uppsala zu Gast im #AtelierBordertextures an der Universität des Saarlandes. Der Amerikanist forscht über #BorderArts und stellt in seinem Vortrag politisch- ästhetische Texturen an der US-mexikanischen Grenze vor. #CulturalBorderStudies (26/06/2019)

“I understand borders as composite objects and I think about them as assemblages” – Luca Greco from the University of Lorraine in the #UniGR_CBS Atelier #Bordertextures in his guest lecture “Borders as Assemblages: Some Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives” (07/02/2020)