Frictions is a blogjournal – a hybrid format of blog and e-journal – discussing Europe and the Americas in the context of global transformations. The project is run by the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World, which is based at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and the University of Regensburg.

We welcome contributions from scholars based in Regensburg and around the world addressing the blog’s core themes of social, cultural and economic relations within and between Europe and the America. Historical and present-focused discussions are equally welcomed.

The Essays section publishes fully-referenced, peer-reviewed articles of around 3000–4000 words.

The Research Notes section features contributions outlining ongoing and developing research projects, including methodological, conceptual and theoretical explorations as well as findings from empirical and field research. These are generally shorter pieces of around 1000 words.

The Current Debates section offers a platform for comment pieces on salient current events, as well as for interviews, conference reports, reviews of exhibitions, films and other cultural works, and discussions of upcoming and recent publications. This pieces can be up to 2000 words.

For Research Notes and Current Debates we are happy to work with more experimental formats including photo-reportages or video-reportages

We welcome contributions in English or German.

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