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The Centre for Oresund Regions Studies conduct research on regional and transnational relations, on border themes and on the relationship between Danish and Swedish society, culture and history.For a list of our research projects, please go to the Swedish version of this page. For the an English overview of the research, please consult our publications, and our activties. If you have suggestions
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/research - 2025-11-15
Markus Idvall is a senior lecturer in ethnology at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religion and Gender Studies, Stockholm University. Markus Idvall was the head of the Centre for Oresund Region Studies 2018-2019. Idvall has edited an anthology in the Centre for Oresund Region Studies' book series, Checkpoint 2020 - människor, gränser och visioner i Öresundsbrons tid (with Anna Palmehag and
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/affiliated-researchers/previously-affiliated-researchers/markus-idvall - 2025-11-15
Øresundsinstituttet (the Oresund Institute) is a Danish and Swedish knowledge centre that, through analysis, fact finding, conferences and the news agency News Øresund, contribute to an increased awareness of progress in the Oresund region. Øresundsinstituttet is a non-profit organisation, with funding from more than 100 members, ranging from the state, regions, and municipalities, to universities
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/oresundsinstituttet - 2025-11-15
The Centre for Oresund Region Studies gives great importance to collaborations with institutions, organisations and companies in and outside of the academy. We are convinced that active collaborations contribute to creativity and quality, which benefits both research and the development and sharing of knowledge. In the navigation bar to the left you find our main collaborations. Are you interested
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration - 2025-11-15
Öresund / Gibraltar A webinar series on borderland formation at Europe’s antipodes 14 September - 7 December 2022 This series was organised by William Kutz in collaboration with Centre for Oresund Region Studies and Think Tanger. It took place from September-December 2022. The seminar series underscored the multiplicity of bordering perspectives and the plasticity of border trajectories as a way t
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/activities/mobile-bodies-travelling-theories - 2025-11-15
Mobile bodies, travelling theories - Öresund / Gibraltar A webinar series on borderland formation at Europe’s antipodes 14 September, at 14.30 to 16.00 Territories beyond compare? An exploratory roundtable on the Öresund and Gibraltar borderlands Geovisualisations of borderland formation are hard to come by in both the Öresund and Gibraltar contexts. In this introductory roundtable, we ask: What e
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/activities/mobile-bodies-travelling-theories/program - 2025-11-15
William Kutz has a PhD in geography and whose work examines the urban dimensions of political and economic integration between the European Union and its wider Neighbourhood, namely through the actions of cities and local authorities involved in cross-border governance, planning, and territorial development. Bringing together debates at the intersection between urban studies, subaltern geopolitics
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/affiliated-researchers/william-kutz - 2025-11-15
These researchers have previously collaborated with The Centre for Oresund Region Studies. In the menu to the left (if you are using a computer) or in the upper right corner (if you are using a mobile phone) you will find presentations of them and their collaborations with CORS. Contact Johanna Rivano EckerdalHead of Centre for Oresund Region Studiesjohanna [dot] rivano_eckerdal [at] kultur [dot]
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/affiliated-researchers/previously-affiliated-researchers - 2025-11-15
Rikke Lie Halberg is a PhD student in history and now works at Arbejdermuseet in Copenhagen. Halberg researches at the intersection between colonial history, gender history, and labor history. The upcoming doctoral thesis is entitled Fireburn: Rebellion, Representation and Remembrance 1878-2018 and centers on the traces and the representation of rebellion in what was then the colony of the Danish
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/affiliated-researchers/rikke-lie-halberg - 2025-11-15
The Centre for Oresund Region Studies (Centrum för Öresundsstudier) is an interdisciplinary network organisation that fosters dynamic exchanges both among researchers and between researchers and actors outside academia. The Centre collaborates with the surrounding community on issues concerning the Oresund region, addressing them from regional, national, and transnational perspectives.CORS focuses
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/about-cors - 2025-11-15
Maria Simonsen is a Research Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg university. Simonsen earned her PhD in Book History at Lund University 2016, with the dissertation Den Skandinaviske Encyklopædi. Udgivelse og udformning af Nordisk familjebok & Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon. The book was published in the Centre for Oresund Region Studies book series. Simonsen’
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/affiliated-researchers/previously-affiliated-researchers/maria-simonsen - 2025-11-15
Comparative-methodological perspectives on borderland inhabitation Dwelling, elsewhere is a seminar series about borders, borderscapes and movements over Öresund and beyond. The webinar series is free of charge, you find the link on the page for each seminar (click on the link under "Program", below), where you can also read more about the presentations. Two of the webinars has been recorded so fa
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/activities/dwelling-elsewhere - 2025-11-15
The case of the Öresund region Tuesday March 28, 2023 14.30-15.30 CEST Christophe Sohn, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) gave a presentation, followed by a discussion with William Kutz and questions from participants. You can watch the recording of the seminar by clicking on the video, above. This presentation investigates the extent to which the reintroduction of temporary
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/form/changing-meanings-borders-times-rebordering - 2025-11-15
Elisabeth Boesen Tuesday June 13, 2023 14.30-15.30 CEST (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Elisabeth Boesen, Université du Luxembourg, gives a presentation, followed by a discussion with Tatiana Fogelman, Roskilde University, and questions from participants. The webinar is free of charge, but you have to register at the bottom of this page to receive the Zoom-link. The Greater Region SaarLorLux is an inter
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/form/narrating-cross-border-residential-movement-greater-region-saarlorlux - 2025-11-15
A critical look on coexistence in a Sicilian borderland Tuesday April 25, 2023 14.30-15.30 CEST (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Ilaria Giglioli, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco, gave a presentation, followed by a discussion with Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, and questions from participants. You can watch the webinar in its entirety in th
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/form/mediterraneanism-form-border-thinking - 2025-11-15
Fencing ‘Risky’ Mobilities in the Eastern German Borderlands with Poland Tuesday May 9, 2023 14.30-15.30 CEST (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Larissa Fleischmann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg gave a presentation, followed by a discussion with Tracie Wilson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, and questions from participants. Larissa Fleischmann is a researcher in human geography, whose work ce
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/form/more-human-borderlands-disease - 2025-11-15
A panel discussion at Green Business Forum 10.15-11.15 Tuesday April 18 at Atrium, CBS Kilen, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Two researchers and teachers at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and two researchers and teachers from Lund University meet in a conversation with four students from the two schools. The participants discuss how we can educate and be educated about the climate cris
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/activities/teaching-sustainability-without-loosing-hope - 2025-11-15
A podcast from the Centre for Oresund Regions Studies HÖRESUND (a play on the word 'hear' and 'Öresund') started during the corona pandemic to investigate its impact on the Öresund region. Now HÖRESUND focuses on borders in general and the Oresund region in particular. Borders can act as both barriers and engines, and are constantly under negotiation. Listen to these negotiations in HÖRESUND! So f
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/publications/horesund - 2025-11-15
Perception and embodiment in border studies Wednesday January 17, 2024 14.00-15.00 CET (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University) gave a presentation, followed by a discussion with Naja Bjørnsson (Lund university) and questions from participants. William Kutz moderated the seminar. PresentationIn this talk, Shahram Khosravi discussed how smuggling has emerged as a significan
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/seeing-smuggler - 2025-11-15
Excursions as field method Tuesday October 17, 2023 14.00-15.00 CEST (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Artists Carl Johan Erikson and Karin Willén give a presentation, followed by a discussion with Lisa Babette Diedrich (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) and Gini Lee (University of Melbourne), and questions from participants. William Kutz will be moderating the seminar. The webinar is free of c
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/borderless-wild-boar - 2025-11-15
