7–9 September 2026
Researchers from various disciplines and research perspectives are invited to participate in the 2nd Congress of the Researchers of Borders and Borderlands. The conference offers researchers an invaluable space for critical dialogue on the ever evolving role of borders and borderlands.
The conference invites proposals for papers or thematic groups (4 papers + moderator + discussant) until 31th of March 2026. The proposed thematic areas include:
• the definitional boundaries of ‘borders’ and ‘borderlands’ (bordering the border studies) as research categories;
• borders in the territorial sense;
• borders as phenomena subject to specific social processes (bordering, debordering, rebordering) and focusing on their consequences;
• borders and borderlands as spaces forming the basis for transnational phenomena;
• socio-cultural borders and borderlands;
• borderlands as areas located ‘in the vicinity’ of a state border;
• borderlands as an imagined space;
• representations of borders and borderlands in the visual arts, literature and pop culture;
• the historical heritage of borders and borderlands;
• linguistic borderlands;
• economic borders;
• environmental and ecological borders;
• pedagogy of border studies
For more information, please visit the conference website: https://tdlab.uwb.edu.pl/pl/