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REAF Program and Partner Events Summer 2025

Date Event
23 - 25 April
Leibniz ScienceCampus Annual Conference 2025

Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces?

organized?by the Leibniz ScienceCampus

Venues: UR (H24), IOS AlFi (Landshuter Str. 4, room 319)?

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29 April
International Politics Lecture?

Der gro?e Disruptor: 100 Tage Pr?sident Trump

Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Gerlinde Groitl (International Politics, UR) and Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat (American History, UR)

organized by Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling and the Department of International and Transatlantic Relations?

Venue: 4 - 6 p.m. (c.t.) in H24

29 April
Online Discussion

Democratic Knowledge under Attack: Trump vs. Academic Freedom

organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus, IOS, and REAF

online via Zoom, 5 p.m. CEST

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15 + 16 May
dimas annual conference 2025

Sorting and Ordering: Area Studies in the Contemporary World

organized by DIMAS

Venues: Bajuwarenstr. 4, H401, BA.806, BA.825

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24 June
recent research Roundtable

Mocktails with Marike

with Prof. Dr. Marike Janzen (Max Kade Center, University of Kansas, LSC Visiting Professor)

organized by REAF and the Leibniz ScienceCampus

Venue: 4:30 p.m. in SG 2.14

24 June
guest lecture

Through the Roof: Housing, Capitalism, and the State in America and Germany

by Prof. Dr. Alexander Reisenbichler (University of Toronto, LSC Visiting Professor)

organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus

Venue: 6 p.m. in SG 2.14

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2 July
Meet & Greet

Meet the Visiting Researchers

Marike Janzen, Benjamin Chappell, Alexander Reisenbichler, Tetyana Panchenko, Iryna Matsyshyna, Sergiy Stelmakh, Laura A. Dean, Artan Hoxha, Kristóf Nagy, and Danijela Majstorovic give insights into their research

organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus, REAF, IOS, SeeFField, and Denkraum Ukraine

Venue: 2:30 p.m. at AlFi (Landshuter Str. 4, room 017)

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3 July
Guest lecture

Liberalism Abroad Returns Home: The "Goethe-Institut im Exil"

by Prof. Dr. Marike Janzen (Max Kade Center, University of Kansas, LSC Visiting Professor)

organized by the LeibnizScience Campus and REAF

Venue: 2 p.m. in PT 1.0.2

8 July
film screening and discussion

"The Illegals" (Meyer Levin, 1947)

with Alexander Carstiuc (Historian) and Prof. Dr. J?rg Skriebeleit (Concentration Camp Memorial Site Flossenbürg), moderated by Dennis Forster (Concentration Camp Memorial Site Flossenbürg)?and Tamara Heger?(UR)

organized by REAF in cooperation with the?Center for Commemorative Culture (Zentrum Erinnerungskultur)

Venue: 6 p.m. at Regina Filmtheater

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9 July
panel discussion

Academic Freedom in 2025

with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Chappell (Max Kade Center, University of Kansas, REAF Visiting Fellow), Dr. Carmen Dexl (UR), Dr. Diana Georgescu (University College London), Prof. Dr. Ursula Regener (UR)

organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus and REAF

Venue: 6?p.m. (c.t.) at SG 2.14


REAF Program and Partner Events Winter 2024/2025

Date Event
Wednesdays
Leibniz ScienceCampus Lecture Series

War.Peace.Security.

Venue: 2 - 4 pm?(c.t.) in H26

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16.10.2024?| Eiki Berg (University of Tartu)
Digging in the Dirt: ‘No War, No Peace and Not Too Much Killing’

23.10.2024?| Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack?(Universit?t Regensburg)
Krieg. Frieden. Sicherheit als Auftrag des V?lkerrechts

30.10.2024 | Harriet Rudolph (Universit?t Regensburg)
Der Westf?lische Frieden (1648) – eine Blaupause für aktuelle Friedens- und Sicherheitskonzepte

06.11.2024?|Generalleutnant a. D. Erhard Bühler (Berlin)
Die Sicherheitsordnung Deutschlands, Europas und der Welt

13.11.2024 | Ruth Ferrero-Turrión (UCM & ICEI Madrid)
The EU as a Peacemaker and Military Power

20.11.2024??| Cindy Wittke?(IOS Regensburg)
Buchvorstellung: Frieden verhandeln im Krieg. Russlands Krieg, Chancen auf Frieden und die Kunst des Verhandelns

27.11.2024 ?| 2024 LSC Annual Conference |?13:00–21:00, S. 214 (!)
Playing War: Simulations, games, exercises, and the representations of military force and violence

04.12.2024 | Guido Hausmann (IOS Regensburg)
Deutschland und die Frage der Staatlichkeit der Ukraine von Brest-Litowsk (1918) bis heute

11.12.2024 | Thomas Steger (Universit?t Regensburg) & Taras Danko (National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute")
The Impact of War on Management and Organizational Practices: A Critical Inquiry

18.12.2024 | Siarhei Bohdan?(Universit?t Regensburg)
Continuation of Foreign Policy with Other Means: Syria's support for armed opposition movements abroad during the Cold War

08.01.2025 | Ralf Junkerjürgen (Universit?t Regensburg)
Die Legion Condor im Kino. Der Film Solange du lebst (Harald Reinl, 1955) im Kontext von Remilitarisierung und Aufarbeitung in der Nachkriegszeit

15.01.2025| Jana H?nke?(Universit?t Bayreuth, Bayerische Wissenschaftsallianz für Friedens-, Konflikt- und Sicherheitsforschung) |?in cooperation with Bayreuth Peace Talks
South-South Security Arrangements and Postcolonial Hierarchies

22.01.2025 | Nikola Gaji? (IOS Regensburg)
(Un)Conditional Europeanisation: Memory politics in Serbia surrounding the Yugoslav wars and EU integration

29.01.2025 | Christian von Soest (G?ttingen / German Institute for Global and Area Studies?–?GIGA Berlin)
Aufstieg eines au?enpolitischen Instruments: Wie Sanktionen wirken

05.02.2025 | Heiner Bielefeldt?(Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen,?Bayerische Wissenschaftsallianz für Friedens-, Konflikt- und Sicherheitsforschung)
TBA

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Tuesdays
International Politics Lecture Series

organized by Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling and the Department of International Politics

Venue: 4 - 6 pm in H2

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29.10. Die USA vor den Wahlen: Podiumsdiskussion mit Prof. Dr. Gerlinde?Groitl?(Universit?t Freiburg), Dr. Christoph?Haas?(Universit?t Freiburg), Prof. Dr. Volker?Depkat?(UR), Prof. Dr. Stephan?Bierling?(Moderation) (Zoom)?

05.11. 20 - 3 Uhr, Akademische Wahlparty?mit Analysen, Podiumsdiskussion, Musik, Diskussionen im Foyer und Live-Schalte ab 23 Uhr ins CNN-Wahlstudio, 20-3 Uhr,?Audimax,: Uni-Jazz-Orchester, Bewirtung: NMUN Group 2025 Regensburg (alle Gewinne gehen in die Exkursionsfinanzierung)?

26.11. Nato after the US elections: Gastvortrag Prof. Dr. John?Olsen?(Colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force and professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies):??Audimax?

03.12. Der Terrorangriff der Hamas, der Gazakrieg und die US-Wahlen?:Gastvortrag Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn (Universit?t der Bundeswehr/München):??Audimax?

17.12. Nach den US-Wahlen: Europa allein zuhaus??: Gastvortrag Helga?Schmid?(Generalsekret?rin des Europ?ischen Ausw?rtigen Dienstes, 2021-24 Generalsekret?rin der OSZE, Pr?sidentin des European Institute for Peace): Audimax?

Montag 20.01. 17-19.30 Uhr, Inauguration des neuen Pr?sidenten:?Podiumsdiskussion und Live-?bertragung von 17.00-19.30 Uhr?H24 ?

21.01. Der Iran nach den US-Wahlen: Gastvortrag Natalie?Amiri?(langj?hrige Teheran-Korrespondentin der ARD und Moderatorin des Weltspiegel) , Audimax?

28.01. Die westliche Chinapolitik nach den US-Wahlen: Gastvortrag Kai?Strittmatter?(langj?hriger China-Korrespondent der SZ)?

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Die Veranstaltungen werden gro?zügig unterstützt von der Friedrich-Naumann/Thomas-Dehler-Stiftung, der Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen sowie der Phoenix academiae e.V..

17 October
Leibniz ScienceCampus, DIMAS, and IOS Workshop

(Un)frozen?Conflicts: Polymorph Aspects of Contested Sovereignty and Multi-Dimensional Borders in Europe and Beyond

Venue: 9 am - 6 pm in BA.806, Bajuwarenstra?e 4, Regensburg

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26 November
Leibniz ScienceCampus speaker?Series - Intersectionality and Area Studies

Jennifer Ramme (University of Graz)

"Intersectional Critique: Power Dynamics and Cultural Expressions in (Post-)State Socialist Poland"

Venue: 4 pm (c.t.) in Room 017, Altes Finanzamt, Landshuter Stra?e 4

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This talk is part of the Series "Intersectionality and Area Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," which took place during the Summer Semester 2024 and is caught up on this semester due to cancelation. The Series was organized by?Dr. Birgit Hebel-Bauridl, managing director of REAF at UR,?and?Prof. Dr. Natali Stegmann, Professor of East and Central European History at UR. Both coordinators of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Research Module towards multi-polar and multi-scalar Area Studies.

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30 January
REAF, DIMAS, Leibniz ScienceCampus, and KNOW-IN Partner Event

Prof. Dr. Jeroen Dewulf (UC Berkeley)

"Flying Back to Africa or Flying to Heaven? Competing Visions of Afterlife in the South Carolina Lowcountry and Caribbean Slave Societies"

Venue: noon (c.t.) in ZH4

Supported by the Regensburger Universit?tsstiftung Hans Vielberth

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REAF Program and Partner Events Summer 2024

Date Event
6 + 7 May?
Leibniz ScienceCampus Workshop and artist talk

Breaking Silos, Building Bridges: Interdisciplinary Collaboration among Scholars, Artists, Curators, and Cultural Agencies for Amplifying Scholarship in the Public Sphere?

led by The Neighbours Collective from the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale: Dr. Lilia Topouzova, Dr. Krasimira Butseva, Vasil Vladimirov, and Dr. Valentin Kalinov?

6 May: 12 - 4 pm (c.t.) Workshop in Room BA 806?(Bajuwarenstra?e 4)

7 May: 6 - 8 pm (c.t.) Artist Talk "The Making of the Neighbours: The Artist Studio as a Transitory Archive or How to Visualize Silenced Histories?" in H26

organized and offered by the Leibniz ScienceCampus in cooperation with The Center for Commemorative Culture (Zentrum Erinnerungskultur), Leibniz Institute for East?and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg), and Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (GS OSES UR)

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Tuesdays
International Politics Lecture Series

organized by Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling and the Department of International and Transatlantic Relations

7 May 2024: Dr. Margarete Klein (Forschungsgruppenleiterin Osteuropa und Eurasien, SWP) - "Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und