How do we deal with the interpretation and adaptation of knowledge, culture and legal concepts across different languages, societies or systems? The international conference "Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces" of the Regensburg Leibniz Science Campus (LWC) "Europe and America in the Modern World", a joint platform of the University of Regensburg (UR) and the Regensburg Leibniz Institute for East and South East European Studies (IOS), dealt with this question from 23 to 25 April 2025.
The report on the Leibniz Science Campus Conference (external link, opens in a new window) is now online!
The conference opened with the keynote lecture "Witnesses in Art: Aesthetics, archives, and (non)institutional practices in transition" by Prof. Dr Liliana Gómez (University of Kassel, Documenta Institute), who illustrated the parallels between Latin American and Southeast European testimonial art.
The conference with high-calibre researchers from all over the world marked the end of the first funding phase (2019-2025) and the beginning of the second phase (2024-2028) of the LWC by the Leibniz Association. With a focus on transregional interdependencies - with contributions on the Americas, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe, including Central Asia - the conference brought together researchers from various disciplines.
