At the 29th conference of Europeanists at the University of Iceland, held in June 2023, B-SHAPES’ PI Johanna Mitterhofer and Alice Engl from EURAC organized a B-Shapes-related panel. The panel focused on the content of B-Shapes WP4: Minorities and borders - narratives, practices, policies. It explored the complex meanings borders have for minority communities by studying border narratives and daily life on the Czech-Polish border (Ursula Obrusnik). It also investigated how minorities and their kin states strategically use re/de/bordering tactics to achieve political and economic aims through the case of Sweden-Finnish minority activists in the 1980s (Nina Carlsson and Tuire Liimatainen) and the use of transnational economic networks by kin-state policymakers in Hungary (Myra Waterbury). Finally, the panel critically explored the uneasy relationship between peripheral regions and the nation state by reflecting on the relationship between minority language politics and invasive species control in the Western Isles of Scotland (Cormac Cleary).