Exzellenzlabor Europa 2025

European inequalities across borders: dividing and integrating processes

Access

By invitation

When

08/10/2025 - 11/10/2025

All Day

Where

Villa Vigoni | Via Giulio Vigoni, 1, Loveno di Menaggio, CO, 22017

Contacts

Office of the Secretary General

T: +39 0344 361 111
E: segreteria@villavigoni.eu

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The workshop focuses on persistent inequalities in inner-European border regions, to understand the complex independences and entanglements between coexisting forms of inequalities as both conditions and outcomes of integration processes across borders. Contributions address the paradox of integrating and dividing processes, exploring the socio-economic, spatial, and political dynamics that shape these processes. The workshop underlines the multifaceted forms of cross-border inequalities, drawing on perspectives from various disciplines such as sociology, geography, political and social science, law, planning, history, and regional studies. Key questions include: How have dimensions of inequalities evolved across borders? What social, spatial, economic, political, and historical processes contribute to division or integration in cross-border contexts? How can situated and comparative approaches enhance our understanding of inequalities across borders from a European perspective?

Within the framework of the “Exzellenzlabor Europa” project

Coordination

Dr. Ulla Connor e Prof. Dr. Carola Fricke, Universität des Saarlandes, CEUS (Cluster per gli Studi Europei), Saarbrücken, in collaboration with Villa Vigoni