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Brownbag Masterclass with Nishani Frazier (University of Kansas) - Digital Humanities in the Modern World: Praxis, Ethics, Aesthetics

The ScienceCampus together with CITAS and REAF is delighted to invite all members of the UR and IOS communities to join a lunchtime masterclass exploring the practices, aesthetics and ethics of digital humanities. Nishani Frazier, Professor of History and American Studies at Kansas and visiting fellow in Regensburg, will draw on her broad experience in this field.

Lecture Series "Frictions and Transformations of Globalization"

CITAS is organizing the lecture series "Frictions and Transformations of Globalization" in cooperation with the ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" in the upcoming summer semester. It takes place on Mondays from 18:15-19:45 in H19 (Sammelgebäude). The winners of the 2021 Regensburg Prize for Outstanding Master's Theses in Area Studies will receive their prizes in the lecture's first session on April 25. More information on the lecture series is available here. The full programm can be downloaded here.

Award of the 2021 Regensburg Prize for Outstanding Master’s Theses in Area Studies

We are pleased to announce the recipients of awards in the 2021 Regensburg Prize for Outstanding Master’s Theses in Area Studies. Find out more about the three winners and their research here. The prizes will be formally awarded at the opening of the next CITAS-ScienceCampus lecture series on 25 April 2022. The call for applications for this year’s edition of the prize will follow in summer.

CITAS and the acting Area Studies Professors are offering numerous area studies courses for UR students in summer semester 2022

ANNE BRÜSKE

• Seminar: Menschenrechte in Lateinamerika aus historischer Perspektive. Von der Brevísima Relación zum zeitgenössischen Testimonio
• Vorlesung: Postkoloniale und dekoloniale Theorie
• Postkoloniale und dekoloniale Theorie - Übung zur Vorlesung
• Seminar: Remembering and Forgetting Colonialism and Slavery in European Public Space
• Doctoral Workshop: Cultures and Politics of Translation in Postcolonial and Postsocialist Contexts

ANDREAS SUDMANN

• Digitale Methoden
• Forschung im Zeitalter der Lernalgorithmen. Perspektiven der Area Studies
• Medien und Räume der Künstlichen Intelligenz
• Serien und Räume

ANNA MAZURKIEWICZ

• Cold War Exiles in the Global Cold War
• “Cold War Instruments”? Exiles from East Central Europe in U.S. political warfare

JEAN-MARC MOURA

• Esthétique des littératures francophones. De l’exotisme au postcolonial dans les littératures de langue française.

CLAUDIA SADOWSKI-SMITH

• Comparative Approaches to US and Western European Migration

LECTURE SERIES

• Frictions and Transformations of Globalization