This doctoral workshop also includes two public lectures

In Kooperation mit dem WissenschaftsCampus wird am 27. Januar 2022 die CITAS-Dialog-Reihe fortgesetzt.

The first prize was awarded to Thomas Meyer for his research on Romanian migrant workers.

This event is a cooperation between the seminar series at the IOS Economics Department and the ScienceCampus.

Area Studies under Discussion is a regular series of debates on current themes in area studies organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in Regensburg, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg,…

In the first Research Colloquium session of this year Zsuzsa Gille will explore state socialism and the environment from a transnational perspective.

The virtual workshop "State Descriptions Revisited" takes place on 20-21 January 2022.

Submit your proposals for the conference "Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic" by 10 January 2022.

In this session of the research colloquium Ulrike Freitag (Berlin) will explore what it means to "write the translocal history of an Arab city".

Olena Nikolayenko, Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and a Simone Veil Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, will discuss the prominent role of women in the 2020-post-election protests in Belarus with Fabian Burkhardt…

This 2nd Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World takes place on 2-4 December 2021 online…

The ScienceCampus is pleased to be a partner of the international academic and policy symposium: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers. For more information and registration, visit…

This series of events takes place online via Zoom from 3-10 November. The first session on 3 November begins at 18:00, with the subsequent two events starting at 17:00. You can find the access details below. The sessions on 3-4 November are in…

Register by September 26 at graduiertenschule@ur.de.

This event is hosted by Arizona State University (ASU) with the Regensburg Leibniz ScienceCampus „Europe and America in the Modern World“ and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. It takes place via Zoom.

Den Auftakt des Forschungskolloquium macht im Wintersemester 2021/22 Joachim von Puttkamer mit einem Vortrag zum Thema "Stabilisierung und Selbstzerstörung einer Diktatur. Polizeibrutalität, Staat und Gesellschaft in der Volksrepublik Polen". Das…

The deadline for proposals for the workshop "Competing Sovereignties", which is aimed at graduate students and early career researchers, is September 19th, 2021. The event is organized by the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at…

This event is obligatory for all ScienceCampus doctoral researchers. You should submit a chapter of around 20 pages and an outline of your thesis by 28 June 2021. More details below.

Jochen Mecke (Regensburg) explores how the reappropriation of once derogatory concepts can lead to a reconfiguration not only of relations between black and white populations, but also of the relations of Global North and Global South.

The Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America and CITAS have launched the second edition of the Prize for Outstanding Master's Theses in Area Studies at UR. The prize promotes the development of research and teaching with relevance to area studies in…

Andreas Sudmann (Regensburg) explores how a fruitful exchange between area studies and artificial intelligence (AI) could emerge, in particular in the context of the Global South.

Register by 6 April at graduiertenschule@ur.de.

Ana Nenadović (Berlin) explores how women's blogging in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa can form a Femisphere that enables transnational connections that contribute to critiques of patriarchy, Eurocentrism and coloniality.

In this semester's final Research Colloquium session Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni will speak about the connection between knowledge and coloniality. This event is organized in cooperation with the CITAS KNOW-IN network.

Sérgio Costa (Berlin) traces the historical, transregional, multidimensional and intersectional factors that contribute to inequality, with the African diaspora in Latin America providing a case study showing the relevance of an entangled approach to…

In this online series, doctoral researchers, postdocs and faculty in Leipzig, Marburg and Regensburg discuss the range and limits of Area Studies today, present their latest research in the field and debate pressing issues in scholarship and beyond.…

ScienceCampus Visiting Fellow Chloé Chaudet is joined by Sebastian Herrmann (UR) for a CITAS Brownbag Session on conspiracy fictions on June 21.

Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg) examines the intersecting insider and outsider perspectives on Southeastern Europe and the Balkans, including area studies, that produced different spatializations of a seemingly peripheral region.

Florian Töpfl (Universität Passau) spricht im Forschungskolloquium über die Rolle von kritischen Medien in autoritären Staaten.

Johannes Bohle (Flensburg) looks at ways of bringing area studies and geography into fruitful dialogue when it comes to tracing the emergence of Modernity, global-local entanglements and asymmetries in knowledge production. Hurricanes offer a…