Events - Area Studies under Discussion

A collaborative discussion examining how scholarly concepts function across disciplinary and regional boundaries in area studies. The session explores whether concepts travel smoothly or face restrictions, and whether area studies enables productive translation or reproduces traditional epistemic imbalances in knowledge production.

Speakers: Hana Rydza (GWZO, Leipzig) on Populism; Agustín Cosovschi (IOS Regensburg) on Self-management as concept between Latin America and Yugoslavia; Carmen Dexl (Universität Regensburg) on Infrastructures and Performance; Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder Institute, Marburg) on Samizdat and Dissent

Organizers: Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder Institute, Marburg), Corinne Geering (GWZO, Leipzig), Paul Vickers (Leibniz ScienceCampus, Regensburg)