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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

How does borderness emerge? What roles do textu(r)ality, relationality, density & complexity play? These questions guided the internal colloquium of the Bordertextures Working Group at the University of Luxembourg. Great discussions and inspiring ideas for the further development of the approach.

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

At last week's 14th UniGR-CBS Seminar Border Studies, the #Bordertextures Working Group explored relationality as an analytical category in #CulturalBorderStudies. How can dynamic relations be studied empirically, and what does relational thinking mean for border research? #RelationalBorders

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The #Bordertextures Working Group had the pleasure of organizing the panel “Celebrating #CulturalBorderStudies: From Borderlands to Bordertextures” at the Annual Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies in Albuquerque.

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📖 Neue Publikation – Mit dem Ansatz der #Bordertexturen werden nicht nur Grenzerfahrungen beschreibbar, auch ästhetische Formen des Erzählens werden als relationale Grenzprozesse lesbar. Download (Open Access) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

#Bordertexturing the Danube Danica Trifunjagić analyses in a public lecture how contemporary post-Yugoslav literary texts negotiate borders, migration and belonging. 9/12/2025, 6 PM Hybrid: Saarland University & online via Teams More information shorturl.at/MZ9uB

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

08/12/2025 Vortrag im Atelier #Bordertexturen mit Cécile Chamayou-Kuhn (U Lorraine) & Lena Wetenkamp (KU Leuven) Wie Unsicherheit, Relationalität und Affektivität #Grenzen formen und wie Texte als relationale Bordertexturen erschlossen werden. Mehr Info atelier.bordertextures.org

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

But what about #bordertextures? At a networking meeting of @unigr-cbs.bsky.social scholars at Trier University, the cross-border research group presented their analysis, demonstrating how their approach is used in cultural border studies. #UniGR_CBS #CulturalBorderStudies

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

#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!

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UniGR-Center for Border Studies @unigr-cbs.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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 👇👇

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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...

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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.

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

#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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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.

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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...

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“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)

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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)

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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.

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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!

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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.

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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)

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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)

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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)

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Bordertextures @bordertextures.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“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)

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