Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION

Viadrina Center

B/ORDERS IN MOTION

Profiles

The Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION is a Central Scientific Institution of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

Borders aim to establish or maintain orders, be they specified in law, handed down through history, or expressed through symbols. Orders, in turn, cannot exist in the absence of border demarcations, whether in the form of lines on a map or as patterns for differentiation in people’s minds. The understanding that borders and orders must always be conceived of in dynamic interrelationships guides the work of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION. It initiates and bundles analyses concerning these interrelationships in the social, cultural, economic, and legal sciences.

European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Postal address: Große Scharrnstraße 59, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Scientific Manager: Dr Andrea Meissner
+49 (0) 335 5534 2880
meissner@europa-uni.de
Viadrina Media Portal

Visitor address: Große Scharrnstraße 23a, D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder), Floor 4

Current events

Jan

Wednesday 11.00

Reading the Mediterranean Border through Racial Capitalism with: Prof. Dr Timothy Raeymaekers [EN]

Research Factory/ AM 02 & online

Jan

Wednesday 16.15

"Documenting the Undocumented: Experimenting Europe at the Biometric Migrant Archive" with Dr Romm Lewkowicz [EN]

Research Factory/ HG 109

News from the Center

Special Issue "Border Temporalities" with three contributions from the Center

The latest special issue of the journal Borders in Globalisation Review on "Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe" contains three articles by Center members

10. January 2025

Book Release: M. Grujić: Belonging in Unhomely Homelands

Marija Grujić: Belonging in Unhomely Homelands. Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs (Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings, Vol 5). New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2025

06. January 2025

Book Release: Latife Akyüz et al: Exiled Intellectuals (2 Vols.)

Exiled Intellectuals: Encounters, Conflicts, and Experiences in Transnational Context ed. by Latife Akyüz, Hakan Altun, Eylem Çamuroğlu Çığ, Melehat Kutun

20. December 2024

Exhibition "Border violence and the Viadrina in the 1990s" moves to Potsdam

In cooperation with the Institute for Communal Studies (KWI) at the University of Potsdam, the exhibition "GrenzGewalt" will be on display in Potsdam from 9 December 2024 to 7 February 2025.

26. November 2024

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Research | Teaching | Transfer

Research

The insight that borders and orders are inextricably linked guides the work of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION and is encapsulated in the term “B/ORDERS”. We do not regard borders and orders as being natural and given, but as the result of social practice and the creation of meaning, which is in constant change, “in the making”, “IN MOTION”. Our multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach is designed to capture border and order configurations in their dynamics. In doing so, we focus on the subject areas “border” (understood not only in a territorial, but also in a social and temporal sense) and “migration” as an area defined by multiple border settings and border crossings.

Teaching

The Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION attaches great importance to research-based teaching and innovative formats. We view borders as laboratories in which social developments condense and which shape migration. This enables new perspectives on the transformation of cultural, social, economic, legal and state orders. Our courses are designed for BA and MA students as well as doctoral candidates and are offered in German and English.

Transfer

Borders and migration are topics of particular social relevance. As a research institution situated in close proximity to the German-Polish border, we see ourselves as bearing a special responsibility to provide science-based findings for addressing the challenges we face today. We present our research approaches and results in the “Research Factory” series of events and in various publication formats and we seek to engage with the interested public. We collaborate with civil society and public organizations to make our expertise relevant in practice.