CFP: Border Heritage Sessions
Japan's Borders in Globalization, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), and Kyoto University are seeking applications for research sessions on Japan's border heritage. Travel grants available for graduate students, early career researchers, and policy professionals to present groundbreaking work on borders and mobility in Japan at this November 2026 conference in Kyoto. Application deadline: June 5, 2026.
BIG_Talk- Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs, and Refugees with Reece Jones and Greg Boos
Join us on November 3rd from 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. in SED C168 or via Zoom for a conversation with co-authors Reece Jones and Greg Boos about their highly-anticipated new book, Smuggler. Smuggler is the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of how a quaint bed and breakfast on the Canadian border became the epicenter of debates about refugee protections and violent immigration policing inside the United States
X AEBR Cross-Border School
The Association of European Border Regions presents its X Annual Cross-Border School in association with the Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, & the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The AEBR Cross-Border School takes place during the AEBR Annual Events 2026. The 2026 AEBR Annual Events, jointly hosted by AEBR and East Border Region Committee, will take place in the East Border Region of Ireland/Northern Ireland across various locations in Counties Monaghan, Armagh and Louth.
BIG_Talk: Border Enclaves: An Ethnography of a Contested Territory in Europe’s Southern Periphery. A Conversation with Dr. Laia Soto-Bermant
DETAILS: Join us for a special BIG_Talk featuring author, Laia Soto-Bermant (University of Helsinki) in conversation with Franck Billé (UC Berkeley) about her recent book, Border Enclaves: An Ethnography of a Contested Territory in Europe’s Southern Periphery (Soto-Bermant, 2026).
October 20th from 10:30 am-12:00pm SED C168 or on Zoom REGISTER HERE
GOVERNING AT THE BORDER: NORMS, RULES, CROSS-BORDER AND TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES; FROM THE CITIZEN TO THE INSTITUTION
BIG Lab and the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN) will convene researchers and practitioners in Mons, Belgium on 6–7 October 2026 for a two-day international conference on border governance and cross-border management.
The conference, "Governing at the Border: Norms, Rules, Cross-Border and Transnational Practices; From the Citizen to the Institution," brings together scholars from across Europe and beyond to examine how borders are governed, contested, and experienced at multiple scales — from everyday crossings to institutional frameworks.
