Grupa Badawcza Studia Graniczne i Regionalne (SGiR)

Realizowane projekty:

• CEEPUS “Border and Regional Studies Network”
• Ukrainian refugees in Central Europe and the Balkans – lessons learned and policy recommendations
• ValEUs Jean Monnet Policy Network “Research & Education Network on Contestations to EU Foreign Policy”
• n-SECBO “The neo-securization of borders: implications for European values”

W ramach Open Lecture Series wykłady przeprowadzili:

2026

• Dr. Adam Kočí (University of Ostrava) — Greenland Between Denmark, the United States, and Independence
• Dr. Andrea Peinhopf (University of Ostrava) — Whose security? The fight against russian foreign interference and it’s impact on russian-speaking communities in the baltic borderlands
• Prof. Jaume Castan Pinos (University of Southern Denmark) — Rebel groups and the state: an intimate relationship
• Prof. Yuriy Matsiyevsky (Ostroh Academy National University) — WAR AS A CRITICAL JUNCTURE: THREE SCENARIOS OF REGIME EVOLUTION IN UKRAINE
• Prof. Georgios Malandrakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) — Climate Justice Education

2025

• Prof. César García Andrés (University of Valladolid, Spain) — The First Contacts of the Former Soviets with the European Economic Community (the Case of Ukraine)
• Prof. Drago Župarić-Iljić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) — Complexities of migration in the West Balkans
• Prof. Robert Shandley (Texas A&M University, USA) — The dynamics in the transatlantic relations: stress factors, challenges and opportunities
• Prof. Maria Escobar-Lemmon (Texas A&M University, USA) — Does the diffusion of norms of equality increase women's representation on high courts?
• MA Tigran Ghlejyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia) — Armenia – History, Present and Future?
• Prof. Fujio Ohnishi (Hokkaido University, Japan) — Arctic geopolitics: strategic competition and the impact of the War in Ukraine
• Prof. Volodymyr Dubovyk (Center for European Policy Analysis, USA & Odesa Mechnikov University, Ukraine) — The Dynamics in the Transatlantic Relations: Stress Factors, Challenges and Opportunities
• Prof. Ivan Dodovski (University American College Skopje, North Macedonia) — Europe’s Borderland or the First Europe? Reconsidering Some Notions of the Balkans
• Prof. Andrea Schmidt (University of Pécs, Hungary) — Hungary – History, Present and Future?
• Prof. Sergii Pakhomenko (Mariupol State University, Ukraine & University of Latvia, Latvia) — “From ‘Donbass Patriotism’ to ‘Novorossiya’ and ‘Russkiy Mir’: Ideological Narratives of the Local Identity of the East Ukrainian Borderland”
• Dr. Bartosz Czepil (University of Opole, Poland) — Between Protecting State Borders and Corruption of the Border Management: Case of the 2023 “Cash-for-Visa Scandal” in Poland
• Dr. Vitaliy Zavadśkyi (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine) — Concepts of Global Transformations of the World – Confrontation in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian War
• Dr. Vladimir Ivanović (University of Zagreb, Croatia) — Walking Borders, Risk and Belonging: advances in ethno-mimetic research in the making and re-making of three European borders
• Dr. Courtney Blackington (University of Pittsburgh, USA) — Conspiracy Theory Communications Framing and Support for Populists’ Anti-Democratic Behaviour
• Dr. Lukáš Vomlela (Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic) — Czech Foreign Policy and Its Relationship to the Visegrad Group Countries

2024:

• Dr. Yakipbek Genjemuratov (Karakalpak State University, Uzbekistan) — Karakalpakstan and Its Role in Central Asia
• Prof. Laurent Goetschel (University of Basel, Switzerland) — Swiss Reactions to the War in Ukraine
• Prof. Akihiro Iwashita (Hokkaido University, Japan) — Northeast Asian Geo-politics under Russia’s War in Ukraine
• Prof. Hynek Böhm (Technical University of Liberec, Czechia) — Impact of the Czech–Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?
• Dr. Sonja Priebus (European University Viadrina, Germany) — The European Union’s “transformative power” revisited: How successful is the EU in promoting and securing democratic change in member and candidate states?
• Prof. Heino Nyyssonen (University of Turku, Finland) — The Kafka’s Castle? Finland, Sweden and the Ratification of NATO Enlargement in Hungary