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On October 3-4 academics from the network participated in the conference ‘Twenty years of EU membership: lessons learned, challenges and opportunities’ organized in Lithuania. The team organized the panel ‘War, refugee movements and their political implications after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine’ moderated by Jarosław Jańczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) and Bartosz Czepil (University of Opole). Aside of the academics from Poznań and Opole, the network was also represented by the Silesian University of Opava, University of Pécs and University of SS. Cyril and Methodicus in Trnava.
On September 4-6 the Luxemburg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) organized important international conference: ‘Disruptive Borderlands. Unpacking the Innovative Potential of Transbordering Practices, Imaginaries and Policies’. The conference hosted more than 100 participants from all over the world and there was a strong team of academics from our network representing universities from Liberec, Wrocław, Opole and Bratislava. During three days of proceedings variety of topics have been covered and discusses at the campus of the University of Luxembourg in the city of Esch-sur-Alzette. One of the associated events was visiting of Schengen – the Luxembourgian border town being a symbol of dismantling European borders on the basis of the agreement signed in the town in 1985. The location of the conference in borderland area facilitated spirit of the whole event providing tangible inspiration for discussions.
The border researchers from Poland and international academia have gathered in Wrocław and Opole to participate in the numerous sessions and panel discussions during the Congress titled ‘(De)Constructing Borders in Borderlands Studies’. The Congress is organized by 5 Polish universities, 3 of them being members of our Border and Regional Studies Network: University of Wrocław, University of Opole and Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity in Poznań. There were also representatives of our network from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).
The Congress gathered 108 participants from 17 countries representing 51 academic institutions, including 24 from Poland (other academics came from Denmark, Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic, Israel, Canada, United Kingdom, Croatia, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ukraine, France, Finland, USA, Slovenia, Italy). The second congress will be organized in 2025 or 2026 in Białystok – the city located in the north-east Poland on the borderland area.
We and our partners on the map:
- Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
- “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of IASI
- “Babes Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca
- Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw
- Comenius University in Bratislava
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Free International University of Moldova
- Silesian University in Opava
- University of Zagreb
- Technical University of Liberec
- University American College Skopje
- University of Ljubljana
- University of Montenegro
- University of Opole
- University of Ostrava
- University of Pécs
- University of SS. Cyril and Methodicus in Trnava
- University of Tirana
- University of Wrocław
