ON AIR – UniGR-Center for Border Studies
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<p>Hello, welcome et bienvenue to ON AIR, the podcast series of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies! The UniGR-CBS is an Interdisciplinary Center of Expertise of the University of the Greater Region (UniGR) and combines the expertise of the border researchers of its partner universities. It has been shaping the Greater Region since 2014 and works across borders and border spaces in Europe and beyond. The involved border researchers investigate socioeconomic and sociocultural issues and provide practice-oriented solutions for challenges in border regions.</p>
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April 17, 2026
ON AIR – Kulturwissenschaftliche Border Studies
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><strong>Weiterführende Literatur</strong></p><p>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. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737018418.95">https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737018418.95</a></p><p>Fellner, A. / Wille, C. (2025): Cultural Border Studies. In: Nesselhauf, J. / Weber, F. (Hg.): Handbuch Kulturwissenschaftliche "Studies". Berlin, de Gruyter, 47-67. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712919-004">https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712919-004</a>.</p><p>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. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748919667-21">https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748919667-21</a></p><p>Wille, C. (2023): Cultural Border Studies – On the institutionalization of a dynamic research field. BorderObs Blog [online], UniGR-Center for Border Studies. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10993/55516">https://hdl.handle.net/10993/55516</a></p><p> </p><p>Mehr Info: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.amerikanistik.uni-saarland.de/faculty-staff/prof-dr-fellner">Astrid M. Fellner</a></p><p>Mehr Info: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.amerikanistik.uni-saarland.de/faculty-staff/tobias-schank">Tobias Schank</a></p><p>Mehr Info: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.wille.lu/%20">Christian Wille</a></p><p>Mehr Info: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.uni-gr.eu/de/Master_Border_Studies">Master in Border Studies</a></p>
March 20, 2026
ON AIR – Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Border Studies
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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”.</p><p>More info: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/graduate-students/">Joon-Ho/Ryan Ahn Roden</a></p><p>More info: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.amerikanistik.uni-saarland.de/faculty-staff/tobias-schank">Tobias Schank</a></p><p>Subscribe to the UniGR-CBS monthly newsletter here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://borderstudies.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5dca94497320dd6920e0c6e73&id=acd700d953"></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://newsletter.borderstudies.org">http://newsletter.borderstudies.org</a></p><p><strong>Follow the UniGR-CBS</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/unigr-center-for-border-studies/%20%20">LinkedIn</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/UniGR.CBS">Facebook</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://bsky.app/profile/unigr-cbs.bsky.social">Bluesky</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/onairborderstudies/">Instagram</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@unigr-cbs">Youtube</a></p>
February 5, 2026
ON AIR - Border Temporalities
<p>Hello, welcome et bienvenue to ON AIR, the podcast series of the University of the Greater Region-Center for Border Studies!</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Machteld Venken</strong> 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). </p><p><strong>Christoph Brüll</strong> 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. </p><p><strong>Johanna Jaschik</strong> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>More information about the UniGR-CBS working group Border Temporalities: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="e-91090-text-link e-91090-baseline e-91090-overflow-wrap-anywhere encore-internal-color-text-announcement e-91090-text-link--use-focus sc-DdLBx EFsKe" href="http://temporalities.borderstudies.org"></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://temporalities.borderstudies.org">http://temporalities.borderstudies.org</a></p><p>Subscribe to the UniGR-CBS monthly newsletter here <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="e-91090-text-link e-91090-baseline e-91090-overflow-wrap-anywhere encore-internal-color-text-announcement e-91090-text-link--use-focus sc-DdLBx EFsKe" href="http://infoletter.borderstudies.org"></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://newsletter.borderstudies.org">http://newsletter.borderstudies.org</a></p><p><strong>Follow the UniGR-CBS:</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="e-91090-text-link e-91090-baseline e-91090-overflow-wrap-anywhere encore-internal-color-text-announcement e-91090-text-link--use-focus sc-DdLBx EFsKe" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/unigr-center-for-border-studies/ ">LinkedIn</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="e-91090-text-link e-91090-baseline e-91090-overflow-wrap-anywhere encore-internal-color-text-announcement e-91090-text-link--use-focus sc-DdLBx EFsKe" href="https://www.facebook.com/UniGR.CBS">Facebook</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="e-91090-text-link e-91090-baseline e-91090-overflow-wrap-anywhere encore-internal-color-text-announcement e-91090-text-link--use-focus sc-DdLBx EFsKe" href="https://www.instagram.com/onairborderstudies/">Instagram</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="e-91090-text-link e-91090-baseline e-91090-overflow-wrap-anywhere encore-internal-color-text-announcement e-91090-text-link--use-focus sc-DdLBx EFsKe" href="https://www.youtube.com/@unigr-cbs">Youtube</a></p>
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