Organized Workshops and Conferences

Regensburg at the?European Society for Environmental History Conference 2025

The professorship?of Public History was represented at the European Society for Environmental History Conference on Climate Histories (August 18–22, 2025, Uppsala). Juliane Tomann contributed to the panel “Environmental History of Coal in the Face of Climate Change” by adding the perspective of uranium mining in East Germany. In her presentation “Contested Grounds. Re-configurations of a Post-Uranium-Mining Landscape in Ronneburg / Germany,” she highlighted the emergence of nuclear heritage. Her contribution explored how postindustrial landscapes are being reconfigured in the context of climate change and the memory practices that shape these transformations.

??Marta Tomczok

??Marta Tomczok

Juliane Tomann Co-organizer of the MSA Conference in Prague

In July 2025, the ninth and largest MSA conference to date took place. The theme “Beyond Crises. Resilience and (In)stability” brought over 1,200 participants to Prague, who presented new research approaches and current projects in memory studies in over 400 sessions, panels, and cultural events.
Juliane Tomann had been involved in organizing the conference since 2024 as chair of the program committee. She also organized the panel “Making Sense of Toxic Pasts? Actors and Strategies of Nuclear Heritage Making in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond.” Her presentation focused on the topic “Healing the Wounds? Memory Making in an East-German Post-Uranium-Mining Landscape.”

?Filmwerk

?Filmwerk

?Filmwerk

Teacher training course “Remembering History” at secondary school

The second teacher training course organized by the Center for Remembrance Culture in cooperation with the Office of the Ministerial Commissioner for Secondary Schools in the Upper Palatinate was fully booked. The training course, designed and organized by Prof. Dr. Juliane Tomann and Dr. Philipp Bernhard, focused on the new learning area “Remembering History” in the LehrplanPlus history curriculum for 11th grade students at Bavarian high schools. The aim of the two-day training course was to discuss key topics of the curriculum in lectures by experts and then to talk to the speakers about possible teaching implementations in workshops based on selected sources and materials.

? Zentrum Erinnerungskultur/Anna-Elena Schüler

? Zentrum Erinnerungskultur/Anna-Elena Schüler

Playing War: Simulations, Games, Exercises, and the Representations of Military Force and Violence

The conference “Playing War – Simulations, Games, Exercises, and the Representations of Military Force and Violence,” which took place from November 27 to 29, 2024, at the University of Regensburg (UR) and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), dealt with the representation and simulation of military force in various historical contexts. Organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus in cooperation with the Military and Violence Working Group of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Armed Forces (ZMSBw), this conference provided an interdisciplinary platform for examining both historical and contemporary phenomena of wargaming.

?Gresa Morina

?Gresa Morina