Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century

Conference Invitation: Borders In Flux and Border Temporalities In and Beyond Europe

The interdisciplinary conference centralises the temporal dimension of borders, borderlands, and border regions in and beyond 19th and 20th century Europe. It is organised in a hybrid format by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN) in collaboration with the Borders in Globalization (BiG), the UniGr Center for Border Studies and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

As part of the conference, the Principal Investigator of Unlikely Refuge? ERC project Michal Frankl will give a paper “The Making of the No Man’s Land. Forced migration, border violence and spatial statelessness in East-Central Europe at the end of the 1930s” at a panel on Approaches to Border Temporalities chaired by Christian Wille.

The hydrid conference will be hold on 15-16 December 2022 in person
Black Box, Maison des Sciences humaines
11, Porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette

and online; for registration please visit the website.

Borders In Flux and Border Temporalities In and Beyond Europe