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Lecture Series | Rethinking Area Studies and Space from the Global South
Summer semester 2021 - Thursdays, 18:15-19:45
Lecture Series | Rethinking Area Studies and Space from the Global South
15.04.2021 | 18:15 | Sinah Kloß (Bonn) - Un-Mapping the 'Global South'
Research Colloquium of the ScienceCampus and Graduate School
15.04.2021, 16:15 | Kathryn Ciancia (U Wisconsin, Madison) - Negotiating Non-Territorial Citizenship: The Polish Consulate in Harbin during the Second World War
International Workshop | 22-23 April 2021 | Research on Research
Methodological Approaches and Empirical Challenges in the Digital Age. Ethnography Meets Artificial Intelligence
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Lecture Series will return in Summer Semester 2021
CITAS will be co-organizing a lecture series in summer semester 2021. Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske and Joanna Moszczyńska have developed a programme on Rethinking Area Studies and Space from the Global South | Area Studies und Raum vom Globalen Süden her neu denken. There will be contributions from Regensburg and from prominent guest lecturers. Students can sign up using the link above. Find out more about the event here. The programme is now available.
The next lecture takes place on 15 April 2021, 18:15.
DIMAS - Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies
DIMAS - the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies - is currently being developed. Here you can find an outline (in German) of the questions that will be explored at DIMAS and which professorships will be involved.
CITAS and the acting Area Studies Professors are offering numerous area studies courses for UR students in summer semester 2021
Anne Brüske
- Lecture Series: Rethinking Area Studies and Space from the Global South | Area Studies und Raum vom Globalen Süden her neu denken
- Practical course: 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
Joanna Moszczyńska
Anna Steigemann
- Masterseminar: Introduction to Urban and Spatial Sociology
- Masterseminar: Migration, Diversity and the City
- Research Methods for Interdisciplinary Area Studies - Doctoral Workshop
Andreas Sudmann
- Area Studies. Geschichte, Theorien, Methoden
- Raumtheorien
- Wie KI die Wissenschaften verändert
- Digitale Ethnographie
(all seminars)
Andreas Sudmann is co-organizer of the international workshop Research on Research: Methodological Approaches and Empirical Challenges in the Digital Age. Ethnography Meets Artificial Intelligence. It will take place online on 22-23 April 2021. Find out more here:
The winners of the first Regensburg Prize for Excellent Master's Theses
were announced on 9 November, during the CITAS Lecture Series.
The first prize went to Jan Stöxen for her anthropological case study of a housing estate in the Bereceni district of Bucharest. Her research involved living in a flat there and collaborating closely with the inhabitants.Two second prizes were awarded to Daniela Weinbach, now a doctoral student at the ScienceCampus, for her study of film remakes, and to Melanie Hussinger, who explored memory cultures in Russia as part of her degree in East European Studies. Congratulations to all three prize winners!
The three winners received a cash prize in recognition of their outstanding research in fields related to area studies.
A call will be launched again in summer 2021 for the second edition of the prize. Find out more about the winners here
The Leibniz ScienceCampus has launched a new Blog-Journal, "Frictions"
It explores Europe, America and Global Transformations through an area studies lens. It welcomes contributions from all levels of academia, as well as pieces from outside academia.
The initiative is open to a variety of formats, from peer-reviewed essays to shorter notes and opinion pieces, as well as photography and videos. Find out more here or contact frictions@europeamerica.de to discuss contributing.
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