DIMAS Area Studies Professorships

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As part of DIMAS, the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies, the University of Regensburg is appointing six professors with a broad range of regional and disciplinary expertise. The professors are based in four faculties of the University of Regensburg.

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

Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin - Professor for Digital Cultures and Communication

Prof. Dr. Rike Krämer-Hoppe - Professor for Transnational Norm Development - Law Faculty

Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan - Professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge - Faculty PKGG

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

Two further professors will be appointed in due course.

Three positions were initially held by acting professors (Vertretungsprofessuren) on from October 2020 to strengthen and expand area studies-related research and teaching.

The DIMAS Area Studies Professors will offer the following courses in Winter Semester 2022/23

ANNE BRÜSKE

• Caribbean Diaspora Spaces in the United States and Canada
• Raumtheorien und Kulturwissenschaften
• Raumtheorien und Kulturwissenschaften (Übung)
• Roman graphique et bandes dessinées francophones. Entwicklung, Themen, Transformationen

ANNA STEIGEMANN

• Diversity, Migration, Gender and the City
• Multiperspectivity and Multi-Scalarity in Writing Your Area Studies Thesis. Spatial and Social Science Theories and Methods
• Spatial Politics and Urban Governance in Europe and Beyond

TIMOTHY NUNAN

• Hauptseminar Neueste Geschichte
• Research colloquium on transregional history
• Transregional Eurasia, 1850s-Present (Lecture)
• Transregional Eurasia, 1850s-Present (Exercise class)

RIKE KRÄMER-HOPPE

• Climate Change Law and Litigation
• Die Geltung von Grundrechten im Ausland
• Grundrechte - mit integrierter Abschlussklausur
• Vergaberecht