ON AIR – UniGR-Center for Border Studies

In dieser Folge diskutieren Astrid M. Fellner, Tobias Schank (beide Universität des Saarlandes) und Christian Wille (Universität Luxemburg) mit Studierenden des trinationalen Masterprogramms „Border Studies” die Besonderheiten der Cultural Border Studies und den Mehrwert kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektiven in der Grenzforschung.


Im Gespräch werden zentrale Begriffe, Entwicklungslinien und Untersuchungsbereiche dieses interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes beleuchtet, von „Borderlands” und „Bordertextures” bis hin zu Literatur, Kunst, Film und digitalen Grenztechnologien.


Die Folge bietet einen kompakten Einblick in ein Forschungsfeld, das Grenzen nicht nur als starre territoriale Linien, sondern auch als dynamische kulturelle und soziale Ordnungen versteht.


Weiterführende Literatur


Fellner, A. M. (2025): Borders, Space, and Cultures: Cultural Border Studies and the Development of ‘Bordercultures’. In: Suchacka, W. / Wójcik, B. (Hg.): Un/Framing Topographies: Multidisciplinary Surveys. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, 95-111. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737018418.95


Fellner, A. / Wille, C. (2025): Cultural Border Studies. In: Nesselhauf, J. / Weber, F. (Hg.): Handbuch Kulturwissenschaftliche "Studies". Berlin, de Gruyter, 47-67. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712919-004.


Schank, T. / Fellner, A. M. (2024): Vergleichen, Verknüpfen, Verbinden: „Linking“ Borderlands. In: Bonin, S. / Gailing, L. / Mangels, K. / Schank, T. / Zinkhahn Rhobodes, D. (Hg.): Linking Borderlands. Komplexität – Dynamik – Interdisziplinarität. Baden-Baden, Nomos, 21-31. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748919667-21


Wille, C. (2023): Cultural Border Studies – On the institutionalization of a dynamic research field. BorderObs Blog [online], UniGR-Center for Border Studies. https://hdl.handle.net/10993/55516


Mehr Info: ⁠⁠Astrid M. Fellner


Mehr Info: Tobias Schank


Mehr Info: ⁠⁠Christian Wille⁠


Mehr Info: Master in Border Studies

In this episode, Tobias Schank (Saarland University) speaks with Joon-Ho/Ryan Ahn Roden, a PhD candidate at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa and former visiting scholar at Saarland University in January 2026. Joon-Ho specializes in Indigenous politics, alternative futures, Critical Ocean Studies, and Border Studies, and brings all four into a tabletop role-playing game of his own design.


Together, Tobias and Joon-Ho reflect on the immersive game sessions conducted with students at Saarland University, in which participants played a collective entity navigating the collapse of human civilization, a crumbling border wall, and the question of what it means to exist in a world defined by foreignness.


They discuss play as a method of knowing, storytelling as resistance, and the next step: presenting their results at the Annual Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies in the roundtable session “Playing the Frontier: Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Border Studies”.


More info: Joon-Ho/Ryan Ahn Roden


More info: ⁠⁠Tobias Schank


Subscribe to the UniGR-CBS monthly newsletter here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://newsletter.borderstudies.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


Follow the UniGR-CBS


⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠


⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠


⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠


⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠


⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠

Hello, welcome et bienvenue to ON AIR, the podcast series of the University of the Greater Region-Center for Border Studies!


In the episode of the UniGR-CBS working group Border Temporalities the founding members Machteld Venken and Christoph Brüll from the University of Luxembourg discuss together with Johanna Jaschik the interdisciplinary approach adopted by the working group and how they integrate the historical perspectives in contemporary border issues.


Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History and Head of the research unit on Contemporary History of Luxembourg at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).


Christoph Brüll is Assistant Professor and studied History (M.A.) and International Relations (DEA) at the Université de Liège and got his PhD from the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. His research interests lay in the Transnational Political and Social History of Western Europe with a focus on the legacies of World War II.


Johanna Jaschik joined the C²DH in March 2020 as a Doctoral Researcher in the disciplines of historical transformation research, border studies and digital history. At the C²DH, she is currently doing digital and historical transformation research on mental maps from the Western Ukrainian border region.


Get to know more about the latest founded working group and how Machteld Venken and Christoph Brüll got in touch with the UniGR-Center for Border Studies for the first time.


More information about the UniGR-CBS working group Border Temporalities: ⁠http://temporalities.borderstudies.org⁠


Subscribe to the UniGR-CBS monthly newsletter here ⁠⁠http://newsletter.borderstudies.org⁠⁠


Follow the UniGR-CBS:


⁠LinkedIn⁠


⁠Facebook⁠


⁠Instagram⁠


⁠Youtube

Hello, willkommen et bienvenue zu ON AIR, der Podcast-Reihe des UniGR-Center for Border Studies!


In dieser Folge der UniGR-CBS Arbeitsgruppe Grenzüberschreitende Beschäftigung und Bildung sprechen Ines Funk, Claudia Polzin-Haumann und Rachid Belkacem über die verschiedenen Disziplinien innerhalb der Arbeitsgruppe und inwiefern dies Ihre Forschung über grenzüberschreitende Arbeitsmärkte beeinflusst.


Weitere Informationen zur UniGR-CBS Arbeitsgruppe Grenzüberschreitende Beschäftigung und Bildung ⁠http://labour.borderstudies.org⁠


Hier den UniGR-CBS Newsletter abonnieren: ⁠⁠⁠http://newsletter.borderstudies.org⁠⁠⁠


Folgen Sie dem UniGR-CBS:


⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠


⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠


⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠


⁠⁠Youtube⁠