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Join us for the 2nd Congress of Researchers of Borders and Borderlands!

We shall be writing and talking about this much more in the upcoming months, but already now, on behalf of the Organisers, we would like to invite everyone to the 2nd Congress of Researchers of Borders and Borderlands, which will take place in Białystok on 7-9 September 2026.

It will be a great opportunity for researchers representing various disciplines and research perspectives to meet, reflect and exchange views on the contemporary, dynamically changing role of borders and borderlands. Among the proposed thematic areas are:

the defining 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 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;

We are waiting for proposals for papers or thematic groups (4 papers + moderator + discussant) until 31 March 2026. The conference participation fee is PLN 600 (doctoral students – PLN 350).

Registration form:

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/pg00LmAiEV

For more information, please visit the conference website:

https://tdlab.uwb.edu.pl/pl/granice-pogranicza-2026

or send an email to: kongres@uwb.edu.pl

Visiting Trnava by the academics from Opole and Poznań

In March 2026, the University of SS. Cyril and Methodicus in Trnava hosts partners from the University of Opole and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

The Slovakian-Polish partnership is embedded in the Border and Regional Studies Network (CEEPUS). On the way to Slovakia the team from Opole stopped by at the border triangle between Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland to explore the borderland.

See the pictures:

https://inopia.uni.opole.pl/events/

Members of our network in Warsaw to speak about borders and borderlands

On 5–6 March (2026), members of our network participated in the international conference “Narratives of Europe in Uncertain Times”, held in Warsaw and organized by the B-Shapes and NARDIV projects.

During the conference, representatives of the Border and Regional Studies Institute, who are part of our network, presented the results of their research. Prof. Hynek Bohm delivered a paper entitled “Cross-border Cooperation and Euroscepticism in Peripheral Regions: Paradox of Integration at the Czech-Polish-German Border.” The event was also attended by doctoral researchers who actively participated in discussions and presented their own research projects.

Weronika Koston presented a paper on minority cooperation in paradiplomacy in border regions. Khrystyna Shelvak discussed the issue of local identity in times of crisis, focusing on the example of the Polish minority in Ukraine. Jakub Grochowski addressed the concept of phantom borders and their impact on minority studies, referring to the case of the Silesian minority.

The conference also provided an opportunity for members of our network to establish new academic contacts and exchange ideas with researchers from Poland and abroad.

See the pictures: Gallery

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