Transcripts of “On the Road to BRIT XII: The Making of a Worldwide Community of Border Studies” have been uploaded. This was a special session held at this year’s Border Studies Summer School hosted by the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University. During the session, young researcher’s from the host center and the Summer School’s international participants discussed the meaning and methods of border studies, serving to reaffirm the importance of the framework adopted for the forthcoming BRIT XII Conference to open next month.