#Bordertextures
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
November 24, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Le groupe de travail #Bordertextures de l’UniGR-CBS accueille Jean Hérald Legagneur pour une conférence sur la crise en Haïti (2010-2025) à travers le prisme des bordertextures.
📅 09/07/25, 18h, hybride
👉 Plus d’infos shorturl.at/AaAcv
July 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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.
November 24, 2024 at 11:20 PM
#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!
May 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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
June 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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...
November 25, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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.
November 24, 2024 at 11:06 PM
“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)
November 24, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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
June 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#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
November 24, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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...
November 24, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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.
November 24, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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
November 24, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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
November 24, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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)
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 PM
The #UniGR_CBS working group #Bordertextures discussing at Saarland University a future
#CulturalBorderStudies book project (12/11/2018)
November 24, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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
November 24, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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 👇👇
In #BorderStudies, borders are now seen as complex. In order to sharpen the debate, I provide a commentary in a new #UniGR_CBS working paper by discussing how complexity theories can inspire border research.
👉 Open access download hdl.handle.net/10993/63822
February 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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
November 24, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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
March 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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!
November 24, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Gleich beginnt die Konferenz „(De)Constructing Borders in Borderland Studies“ in Breslau. Hoffen wir, dass das Wetter hält!
Ich freue mich auf die Präsentationen unserer Arbeitsgruppe #bordertextures
September 16, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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.
November 24, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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)
November 24, 2024 at 11:08 PM