Highlights

Research | Summer term 2024

International conference ‘How to dis/agree like friends’

On 13-14 June 2024, Prof. Dr Eva Helene Odzuck; Prof. Dr Daniel Eggers; Prof. Dr Dr Manfred Brocker; Dr Sarah Rebecca Strömel; and Ricarda Wünsch, M.A. are organising the international conference ‘How to dis/agree like friends’. The conference deals with the culture of debate from a historical, philosophical and history of ideas perspective in order to shed light on current debates on the brutalisation of political discourse.
Further information can be found here.

International conference ‘Duties of Civility’

On 11-13 March 2024, Prof. Dr. Eva Helene Odzuck (Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas (Focus on Theories of Democracy)), Prof. Dr. Daniel Eggers (Chair of History of Philosophy) and Dr. Sarah Rebecca Strömel (Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas (Focus on Theories of Democracy)) organised the international conference ‘Duties of Civility’, which dealt with John Rawls' theories of deliberative democracy.
Further information can be found here.

Research | Winter term 2023/24

International Conference on Ancient History: Allies in Crisis. Alliance Resilience in Ancient Greece.

Alleati nella crisi. Coalizioni resilienti in Grecia antica
Regensburg, Haus der Begegnung, 12-13 October 2023
Contact: Prof. Dr Angela Ganter (Chair of Ancient History)

Crises are on everyone's lips. The conference assumes a twofold affinity between contemporary perceptions of crisis and lifeworld conditions in Ancient Greece. Firstly, the self-diagnosis as an epoch of permanent crises defines the crisis as a normal state. Secondly, concepts of crisis in antiquity have nothing to do with a modern understanding of crisis focused on revolutions. Rather, crises in antiquity are to be understood in terms of their system-immanent and thus also system-preserving function. The focus of the conference is on testing a new concept of crisis that makes it possible to view conflicts between allies not primarily as harbingers of alliance collapse, but as a permanent state of bilateral and federal structures that challenges creativity.
Further information can be found here.

Research | International Guests | Winter term 2023/24

Dr Gabriele Taschetti (Padua) as a visiting researcher in musicology

The musicologist Dr Gabriele Taschetti (Università degli Studi di Padova) will be a guest researcher at the Institute of Musicology in 2023/24 with a DAAD scholarship. He will be working on incompletely preserved musical sources in the Bishop's Central Library.

Further information on Dr Taschetti and his research can be found here.

Research

(Editorial) Board Memberships

Colleagues from the faculty are involved in international committees, associations and (editorial) boards. One example: Prof Dr Katelijne Schiltz (Chair of Musicology) is general editor of Adrian Willaerts Opera Omnia for the series Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae (American Institute of Musicology) and, together with Prof Dr Antonio Chemotti (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Nicole Schwindt (Hochschule für Musik Trossingen), is responsible for troja. Colloquium and Yearbook for Renaissance Music. She is also a member of the editorial board of peer-reviewed journals and series such as Analysis in Context. Leuven Studies in Musicology (Leuven: Peeters Publishers), Basler Beiträge zur historischen Musikpraxis (Basel: Schwabe Verlag), Early Music History (Cambridge University Press), Épitome musical (Turnhout: Brepols), Journal of the Alamire Foundation (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers), Polifonie, Storia e teoria della coralità (Arezzo) and Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (Utrecht).

Details can be found here.

Research | 2022-2027

Project seeFField

The project entitled ‘seeFField’ strengthens Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. It runs from 2022-2027 and is funded by the VW-Foundation with almost 1 million euros. Seeffield contributes to overall internationalisation efforts in a variety of ways: by supporting an international partnership network and by offering various funding opportunities for early career researchers, particularly in South East Europe. In addition, novel teaching formats will be put forth to contribute to various study programmes beyond Regensburg and Germany. The project is a cooperation between the University of Regensburg and the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and is hosted by colleagues from the fields of Social Anthropology with a Focus on Southeastern and Eastern Europe (Prof. Dr Ger Duijzings), Southeast and East European History (Prof. Dr Klaus Buchenau, Prof. Dr Ulf Brunnbauer, Dr Heike Karge) and Slavonic Linguistics (Prof. Dr Björn Hansen).
For details on seeFField see: https://seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/

For coverage see here.

Research | Summer term 2023

International conference ‘Hobbes and the Enlightenment’

Organisers: Prof. Dr Daniel Eggers, Prof. Dr Eva Odzuck, and Dr Dietrich Schotte
The fourth biennial conference of the European Hobbes Society (EHS) took place in Regensburg, Germany, in August 2023. The conference focuses on how Hobbes's ideas are discussed and taken up by other thinkers of the 17th and 18th century. Its aim is to provide a better understanding of the manifold - and often indirect - ways in which Hobbes's theory influenced the philosophy of the Enlightenment and to stimulate dialogue between Hobbes scholars and other historians of early modern philosophy.

Conference details can be found here.

Teaching | Summer term 2023

Art history excursions

Prof Dr Christoph Wagner (Chair of Art History) regularly organises international excursions. In June 2023, we went to Art Basel, the most important fair in the international art market. In September/October 2023, a seven-day excursion on English painting, collection history and contemporary art to London is on the programme, which Prof. Wagner is offering together with Dr Gerald Dagit and Christoph Härtl.

Details of the excursions can be found here.

Teaching | Summer term 2023

Washington Summer Symposium 2023

Under the direction of PD Dr Gerlinde Groitl (International Politics), a group of students from Regensburg once again took part in the Summer Symposium on US Foreign Policy in Washington, DC, in August 2023. The international summer school is an integral part of the teaching programme of the Chair of International Politics at the University of Regensburg.

This year's programme highlights included visits to the German Embassy and the Embassy of the Philippines, the International Monetary Fund and think tanks such as the Hudson Institute and the Stimson Center. The interviewees included Richard Haass, former President of the US Council on Foreign Relations, William E. Moeller, Director of the Office of East African Affairs at the US State Department, Charlotte Hulme from the US Military Academy West Point, Robert Daly, Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the US at the Wilson Center research institute, Michael O'Hanlon, defence expert at the Brookings Institution think tank, and Shane Harris, security policy correspondent for the Washington Post.

Details of the programme can be found here.

The press release is available here.

Research | International guests | Summer semester 2023

International Fellowship Programme of the Leibniz ScienceCampus

The Leibniz ScienceCampus ‘Europe and America in the Modern World’ was once again able to bring international guests to the University of Regensburg in the summer semester 2023. These included Jeannette E. Jones (Nebraska-Lincoln, May-July 2023), Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State University, July 2023), César Díaz-Carrera (Madrid, June-July 2023), Edison Neira Palacio (Medellín, June 2023) and Jason Wittenberg (Berkeley, June 2023). Conversely, the LWC facilitated outgoing fellowships for members of the UR.

Link to the Leibniz ScienceCampus: www.europeamerica.de

Teaching | International guests | Summer semester 2023

Samuel Garrett Zeitlin as Visiting Professor of Political Theory

Prof Dr Eva Odzuck (Chair of Political Theory) welcomed Visiting Professor Dr Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (Cambridge) to Regensburg in the summer semester 2023. The stay was made possible by the UR Visiting Professorship Programme. Samuel Garrett Zeitlin previously worked in Berkeley, Chicago and Cambridge and, during his stay in Regensburg, led a seminar on political philosophy in the 20th century together with Eva Odzuck.

More information is available here.

Teaching | International guests | Summer term 2023

Visit of a group of students from the University of Idaho, USA in June 2023

Florian Justwan, a Regensburg alumnus and now Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Idaho, visited the University of Regensburg with a group of American students who were on a study trip to Germany focusing on European and German politics and society. They had an intensive discussion with Regensburg students about the German-American partnership as part of the programme in June 2023.

More information is available here.

Research | Teaching | Summer term 2023

(In)Security: Europe and America in the Modern World. Lecture series on transatlantic security

Associate Professor Dr Gerlinde Groitl (International Politics) organised an international lecture series on transatlantic security in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus ‘Europe and America in the Modern World’. The weekly series was embedded in a graduate seminar for students of the MA Democracy Studies and brought renowned national and international experts - including parliamentarians, diplomats, think tank analysts and academics - to Regensburg in the summer semester 2023. The full programme can be found here.

The event with Jeff Rathke, President of the American-German Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, was reported here.

Research | 2020-2023

Regensburg Corruption Cluster

The Regensburg Corruption Cluster is an interdisciplinary research project on corruption in Southeast Europe, which will host five individual projects in the period 2020-2023. The doctoral and postdoctoral researchers come from Denmark, Switzerland, Serbia and Romania. The Principal Investigators of the Cluster are Prof Dr Klaus Buchenau (History), Prof Dr Thomas Steger (Economics) and Prof Dr Börn Hansen (Linguistics). The cluster is funded by the DFG, Horizon 2020 and Bayhost.

More information on the Regensburg Corruption Cluster can be found at: https://informalityregensburg.com/