Cooperation Partners
The Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon_" acts jointly with its partners on several levels. Cooperations within the university as well as with other international research associations and institutions enable us and the participating researchers to
- exchange knowledge beyond disciplinary boarders,
- increase visibility and impact,
- organise conferences and workshops together,
- enhance the respective projects on a structural level.
Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS)
What is CITAS?
The Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS) at Regensburg University was founded in 2017 as an interfaculty research centre involving the Faculty of Philosophy, Art History, History and Humanities, and the Faculty of Languages, Literature and Culture.
The aim of CITAS is to develop synergies between the existing expertise in the field of Area Studies in Regensburg provided by institutions within the University and by non-university research centres. The key partner in this respect is IOS - the Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. CITAS?contributed to the successful application for a Leibniz ScienceCampus - Europe and America in the Modern World: Transformations and Frictions of Globalisation. The Campus will launch later in 2019.
CITAS promotes the specialist research being conducted across the disciplines in Regensburg on the regions of East and South-Eastern Europe, Western and Southern?Europe, and North America and Latin America. The Center works towards developing comparative, transregional and global approaches to Area Studies with a focus on these regions and relations between them.
The transnational perspective stresses entanglements and connections between actors, structures, objects and organizations operating across borders in relation to cultures and societies, whereas the international <