Outreach

ON AIR is the podcast series of the University of the Greater Region-Center for Border Studies. In this episode, I interview the founding members, Machteld Venken and Christoph Brüll, of the working group Border Temporalities from the University of Luxembourg. We discuss the interdisciplinary approach adopted by the working group and how the historical perspectives is intergrated in contemporary border issues.

As the main organiser of the conference “Borders in Flux and Border Temporalities in and beyond Europe” held in December 2022, I wrote a conference report to summarise the main findings. The conference invited international scholars from various disciplines and shed light on the temporal dimension in researching borders and borderlands.

“In Europa ist ein Angriffskrieg ausgebrochen. Der Angriff auf einen souveränen und demokratischen Staat stellt einen Verstoß gegen das Völkerrecht dar. In einer Rede vom 24. Februar 2022 nimmt Wladimir Putin, Präsident der Russischen Föderation, die Vergangenheit zum Anlass, den souveränen Staat Ukraine anzugreifen. Neben machtpolitischen Argumenten wie der Bedrohung durch die NATO wird die historische Vergangenheit der Ukraine und Russlands instrumentalisiert, um …”

LUX:PLORATION is a science comic series produced by the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with international comic book artists. The comic stories are created within an interdisciplinary seminar involving Doctoral Researchers and comic artists. Our comic strip, ‘Becoming an Agent of Change,’ touches on the topics of women in STEM, feminism, and climate change.