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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

Organizational meeting regarding the summer school at the University of Pécs

On February 12, 2026, our network coordinators met online to collaborate on the summer school program, „Visible and Invisible Borders along the Borderlands of Contemporary Europe.” The event will take place at the University of Pécs in early June 2026 and will last a week.

Over 30 representatives of the academic community from twelve universities in Central Europe and the Balkans, whose interests focus on borders and borderlands, will gather in Pecs. The school program includes workshops, lectures, a simulation game, and sharing sessions during which students will present their research projects.
A key part of the program will be a study visit to the Hungarian-Croatian border.

See the pictures from the meeting:

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

A book about Ukrainian refugees published thanks to cooperation within the Border and Regional Studies Network

In November 2025 the University of Opole Publishing House published a book entitled “Comparative Analysis of the Situation of Ukrainian Refugees in Central Europe and the Balkans After the Full-Scale Russian Aggression on 24 February 2022”. The book was authored by Bartosz Czepil (University of Opole) and Marina Andeva (University American Colleague Skopje), but its content is based on the research contributions of 12 other academics representing universities of the Border and Regional Studies Network. The book is the result of cooperation between researchers from 10 universities who participated in the Visegrad + Project in 2023/2024:

– Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań

– „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of IASI

– „Babes Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca

– Silesian University in Opava

– University American College Skopje

– University of Montenegro

– University of Opole

– University of Ostrava

– University of Pécs

– University of SS. Cyril and Methodicus in Trnava

It is a comparative analysis of the situation of Ukrainian refugees in seven countries of Central Europe and the Balkans (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, North Macedonia, and Montenegro).

For more details see:
https://sklep.wydawnictwo.uni.opole.pl/comparative-analysis-of-the-situation-of-u-sm-651

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