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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/

“Strategic Foresight & Futures Literacy: an introduction” – the online workshop for young researchers

On April 17, 2026 (10.00-13.00 CEST) professor Marina Andeva from the University American College in Skopje will deliver a workshop for the young researchers of the Border and Regional Studies Network. This interactive online workshop introduces MA and PhD students to the foundations of strategic foresight and futures literacy. Participants will have the opportunity to be introduced to the concept of future literacy and explore it in practice with foresight methods and tolls. Through guided horizon scanning and scenario-building exercises, students will develop alternative futures for different topics of their interest and reflect on their implications for governance, research, and policy

Marina Andeva is a Full Professor of Political Science at University American College Skopje (UACS), recognized for her interdisciplinary expertise at the intersection of strategic foresight, European governance, migration policy, and ethics in innovation. With a strong academic and policy-oriented profile, she combines scholarship, institutional leadership, and international project engagement to advance anticipatory governance and responsible public policy in North Macedonia and across Europe.

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