Area Studies Professorships

On 1 October 2020, three acting professors (Vertretungsprofessuren) joined the University of Regensburg to strengthen and expand area studies-related research and teaching.

Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske - Acting Professor for Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes

Prof. Dr. Anna Steigemann - Acting Professor for Sociological Dimensions of Space

Prof. Dr. Andreas Sudmann - Acting Professor for Spaces of Virtual Communication

The acting Area Studies Professors will offer the following courses in summer semester 2021

• Ringvorlesung: Rethinking Area Studies and Space from the Global South | Area Studies und Raum vom Globalen Süden her neu denken
• Übung: Area Studies und Raum vom Globalen Süden her neu denken
• Hauptseminar: Borderlands y enclaves. Apropiaciones y demarcaciones culturales en los espacios fronterizos caribeños.
• Digitale Räume und imaginierte Gemeinschaften aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht (Blockkurs)
• Hauptseminar: Producing Europe. Multidirectional Memory and Transatlantic Entanglements

• Masterseminar: Introduction to Urban and Spatial Sociology
• Masterseminar: Migration, Diversity and the City
• Doctoral Workshop: Research Methods for Interdisciplinary Area Studies - Doctoral Workshop

• Area Studies. Geschichte, Theorien, Methoden
• Raumtheorien
• Wie KI die Wissenschaften verändert
• Digitale Ethnographie