Events
Colonialsm: Different Approaches and Different Areas
DIMAS Lecture Series Summer Semester 2024 | Wednesdays, 14:00 in H22
Full programme and more details here | Talks are in English and German
Rike Krämer-Hoppe, Professor of Public Law and Transregional Norm Development at DIMAS and the Faculty of Law at UR, is organizing a lecture series (Ringvorlesung) this summer semester. Colonialism: Different Approaches and Different Areas will take place on Wednesdays at 14:00 in Lecture Theatre H22.
The event is open to the public and all interested colleagues and students. Students wishing to receive credits sign up for the course via SPUR.
25-27 April | The Politics and History of Islam in East Asia with Kelly Hammond (Arkansas)
Professor Timothy Nunan (Transregional Cultures of Knowledge) will be hosting Professor Kelly Hammond from the University of Arkansas for a series of events on “The Politics and History of Islam in East Asia.” Professor Hammond will deliver a lecture on her current work from 10:00-12:00 c.t. on April 25, 2024, in Lecture Hall H23 followed by a brown bag lunch discussion in Raum SG214 at from 12:00-14:00 c.t.. NACHT.SCHAFFT.WISSEN.
NACHT.SCHAFFT.WISSEN is the title of the Regensburg Science Night, organized in partnership with the city of Regensburg.
Under the motto “Regensburg Global – interesting and exciting things from Eastern Europe and the rest of the world”, several UR institutions, together with the IOS Regensburg, have put together an evening full of exciting insights, interactions and fun. Join us to go behind-the-scenes of our research and get a taste of our work in promoting knowledge about Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe and the global world.
On Friday, 19 April 2024, from 17:00 to 22:00, a varied program with family activities, mini-lectures, interactive elements and a pub quiz awaits you in the Altes Finanzamt (ALFI) at Landshuter Straße 4. Are you a quiz enthusiast and already have ideas for questions? Then feel free to share them with us!
Several DIMAS professors and colleagues will be involved in the event, giving short talks based on their research or demonstrating the educational and entertainment value of computer games. Back in 2019, DIMAS (then CITAS) was involved. This photo gallery offers a reminder of a great night: Galerie - Universität Regensburg (uni-regensburg.de)
The programme will be in German, with sessions also in Ukrainian. Participation is free of charge and does not require prior registration. You can find the full program at this link: LSC – Nacht.Schafft.Wissen (europeamerica.de)
Bring family and friends and enjoy an inspiring evening with us, your colleagues, friends and the other visitors to Nacht.Schafft.Wissen.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Past Events
“Videogames as Folk Worlds: Nationalism – Democracy – Sustainability”
An international symposium “Videogames as Folk Worlds: Nationalism – Democracy – Sustainability” will be held on April 11th-12th in room 319 of Altes Finanzamt.
Videogames are a mass medium whose global sales and user numbers have exceeded those of the film and music industries for over a decade. However, they serve much more than just entertainment purposes. As interactive, educational experience worlds, they are used by governments and paramilitary groups as propaganda tools and military training simulators, e.g. in the Ukrainian War.
Simultaneously, videogames can serve to convey and critically engage with culturally specific and folkloric content and thus pursue pacifist, democratic and sustainability-promoting goals. Although this dual role forms the basis of much public controversy, there is no comprehensive scientific/scholarly understanding of how videogames as folk worlds can impact intercultural understanding in anti- and prosocial ways. Nor do we have the methodological tools to perform such research in qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches.
To address this lacuna, this international symposium serves to develop a systematic transdisciplinary research program in videogames as folk worlds and as tools for transcultural understanding. The contributions range from media, literary and cultural studies to computer science, anthropology, educational psychology and political science.
The two-day symposium will analyze the dual role of computer games as transregional, nationalistic propaganda machines on the one hand and as democracy and diversity-fostering, critical and prosocial media experiences on the other. It will explore how the social and political actions of players are shaped by nationalist or fascist content, how such content appears in games, and how, conversely, pro-democracy, sustainability-promoting elements can be incorporated, experienced and learned in and through the design of alternative “indie” games.
You can find the complete program here.
LATinBAY network meeting on April 11
The meeting of the Forschungs- und Kooperationsnetzwerk Lateinamerika in Bayern (LATinBAY, Research and Cooperation Network Latin America in Bavaria) will take place at the University of Regensburg on April 11th 2024 from 10:30-5:30 p.m.!
After a ceremonial opening by the President of the University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel, Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske, professor at DIMAS at the University of Regensburg, and Prof. Dr. Silke Jansen (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander (KU Eichstätt) will guide you through the program of the network meeting.
The team from the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (Bayerisches Hochschulzentrum für Lateinamerika, BayLat) led by Dr. Irma de Melo-Reiners will come to Regensburg to provide information about the work of BayLat, the LATinBAY network and funding opportunities for scientific cooperation between Bavaria and Latin America.
In addition, representatives of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) will report on funding instruments for research with or on Latin America. Therefore Dr. Dietrich Halm, program director for Latin America and the Caribbean in the German Research Foundation cooperation with Latin America, will take part with a lecture.
In the second part of the program, the meeting offers the opportunity to exchange ideas in thematic working groups and to network with one another regarding current areas of interest.
Researchers from all disciplines with a connection to Latin America are invited to the network meeting.
Interested researchers and advanced students can register here.
You can find the complete program here.
Performance by Joujou Turenne - Carte Blanche | 29.01.2024, 18:30, Haus der Begegnung, Regenbsurg
This event is organised by Anne Brüske (DIMAS) in cooperation with the Institute of Romance Studies. This is a replacement date for the event that was cancelled in November.
CrossArea Conference 2023 | Doing Area Studies in the Polycentric Condition
16-17 November 2023 | in person and online
The Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS) at the University of Regensburg (UR) together with the Leibniz-ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World, a joint project of the UR and Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) were delighted to have organised the 2023 CrossArea conference in Regensburg.
Titled Doing Area Studies in the Polycentric Condition, the conference took place on 16-17 November at the Altes Finanzamt, Landshuter Str. 4, 93047 Regensburg.
A report on the event (in German) can be found here.
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