christian.wille@uni.lu
http://staff.uni.lu/christian.wille

Christian Wille is a Senior Researcher at the University of Luxembourg, head of the interdisciplinary center of expertise “UniGR-Center for Border Studies” and deputy director of the trinational Master in Border Studies. He teaches cultural border studies, works on border complexities, is a founding member of the working groups “Cultural Border Studies”, “Bordertextures”, “LABOR SwissLux - Labour across Borders” and co-editor of the series “Border Studies: Cultures, Spaces, Orders” (Nomos). He was a visiting scholar at Saarland University (2019), European University Flensburg (2021) and European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (2022). After studying intercultural communication and French cultural studies at Saarland University, completing a double doctorate in Saarland and Luxembourg with a doctoral thesis in cultural geography, he worked for the Université de Lorraine, the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern and the Interregional Labour Market Observatory of the Greater Region. www.wille.lu

Forschungsinteressen
• Spaces, Cultures, Identities • Border Theories, Border Complexities, Praxeology • Migrations, Bordered Everyday Life

Ausgewählte Publikationen
Wille, Christian: Europäische Grenzraumforschung in Zeiten der Vergrenzung: Problemaufriss und Perspektiven. In: Brodowski, Dominik / Nesselhauf, Jonas / Weber, Florian (Hg.): Pandemisches Virus – nationales Handeln: Covid-19 und die europäische Idee. Wiesbaden, Springer VS (im Erscheinen), Wille, Christian: Vom processual shift zum complexity shift: aktuelle analytische Trends der Grenzforschung. In: Gerst, Dominik / Klessmann, Maria / Krämer, Hannes (Hg.): Grenzforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders, Bd. 3). Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2021, S. 106-120, DOI 10.5771/9783845295305-106 Wille, Christian / Gerst, Dominik / Krämer, Hannes (Hg.): Identities and Methodologies of Border Studies: Recent Empirical and Conceptual Approaches (thematic issue). Borders in Perspective 6, 2021, DOI 10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-e930-87fc Heimböckel, Dieter / Roelens, Nathalie / Wille, Christian (Hg.): Flucht – Grenze – Integration / Fuga – Confine – Integrazione. Beiträge zum Phänomen der Deplatzierung / Contributi al fenomeno dello spostamento (Reihe: Interkulturalität. Studien zu Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft, Bd. 19). Bielefeld, transcript, 2020. Weber, Florian / Wille, Christian / Caesar, Beate / Hollstegge, Julian (Hg.): Geographien der Grenzen. Räume – Ordnungen – Verflechtungen (Reihe: Räume – Grenzen – Hybriditäten). Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2020, DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-30950-3. Wille, Christian / Kanesu, Rebekka (Hg.): Bordering in Pandemic Times. Insights into the COVID-19 Lockdown (thematic issue). Borders in Perspective 4, 2020, DOI: 10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-b825-a20b. Wille, Christian / Nienaber, Birte (Hg.): Border Experiences in Europe. Everyday Life – Working Life – Communication – Languages (Reihe: Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders, Vol. 1). Baden Baden, Nomos, 2020.

Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte
2022-2023 – International lecture series “Border Realities. Transformation of the border and new conceptual challenges”, UniGR-Center for Border Studies (University of Luxembourg) and Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies (University of Wrocław) 2022 – Riverine Borders: On Rivers and other Border Materialities (Accompanying program to the exhibition „Zoe Leonard. Al río / To the River” (02/02-06/06/2022)), The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg and UniGR-Center for Border Studies 2021-2022 – Border Studies II: European Center for Competence and Resources in Border Studies (Interreg VA Greater Region Project), University of Lorraine, University of Luxembourg, University of Liège, Saarland University, University of Kaiserslautern, University of Trier and University of the Greater Region 2019-2022 – Border Complexities. A German-French-Luxembourgish Workshop Series (University of Luxembourg, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), European University of Flensburg, University of Lorraine, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) 2018-2020 – Border Studies I. European Center for Competence and Resources in Border Studies (Interreg VA Greater Region Project), University of Lorraine, University of Luxembourg, University of Liège, Saarland University, University of Kaiserslautern, University of Trier and University of the Greater Region 2017-2019 – Flight – Border – Integration. A conference series on displacement phenomena in Europe, University of Luxembourg, Villa Vigoni – German-Italian Centre for European Excellence 2016-2017 – The situation of cross-border workers in Switzerland and in Luxembourg. Characteristics – Types – Discourses, University of Basel, School of Social Work of Geneva, University of Luxembourg

Mitgliedschaften, Forschungsgruppen
Cross-border working group Bordertextures (founding member) Trinational research group LABOR SwissLux – Labour Across Borders (founding member) Society for Cultural Studies (KWG) Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) Research Network for International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE) UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS) (founding member) Regional Integration and Social Cohesion-Social Elevation (RISC-RISE) Key Research Area Migration and Inclusive Societies (MIS) (founding member) Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN)