Andreas Sudmann (Regensburg) explores how a fruitful exchange between area studies and artificial intelligence (AI) could emerge, in particular in the context of the Global South.... more
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Ana Nenadović (Berlin) explores how women's blogging in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa can for a Femisphere that enables transnational connections that contribute to critiques of patriarchy, Eurocentrism and coloniality.... more
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The KNOW-IN Network is pleased to be collaborating with the Research Colloquium of the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" and the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies. We invite all workshop participants to join the lecture by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni on "The Cognitive Empire and Coloniality of Knowledge in Africa" at 16:15 on 1 July. Prof. Ndlovu-Gatsheni holds the Chair for Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth.... more
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Online via Zoom: Meeting-ID: 685 7276 9188, Code: 347481
Dr. Christiane Reves, Lecturer at Arizona State´s School of International Letters and Cultures will present examples from research and teaching: from "ecologizing" the curriculum, virtual internships, community partnerships to interdisciplinary and transnational research. She will talk about ideas on local and regional history (Landes/Regionalgeschichte) in the transnational context and introduce the interdisciplinary research project on faith-based responses to migrants and refugees in comparative urban spaces, a comparison between Phoenix, AZ and Berlin, Germany. After a short presentation, there will be time for questions, discussions, and vision casting.... more
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Online via Zoom: 659 8056 3912
CITAS presents an online guest lecture by PhD Aleksandra Wiktorowska (Warschau / Nacy). In her talk, Wiktorowska will speak about the processing of Ryszard Kapuściński´s Latin American experience in his literary work.... more
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Online via Zoom: 683 9500 8062
Sérgio Costa (Berlin) traces the historical, transregional, multidimensional and intersectional factors that contribute to inequality, with the African diaspora in Latin America providing a case study showing the relevance of an entangled approach to inequalities.... more
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As part of the program for international guest speakers by the Leibniz WissenschaftsCampus Europe and America in the Modern World, we proudly present Chloé Chaudet from the Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique (CELIS) of the University Clermont Auvergne. On June 21st at 12 pm Chloé Chaudet and Sebastian Herrmann (visiting professor at the chair of American Studies of the University Regensburg) will speak about conspiratorial fictions in Europe and America. Jonas Hock und Carmen Dexl will moderate the Session.... more
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Online via Zoom: 690 6245 2074
Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg) examines the intersecting insider and outsider perspectives on Southeastern Europe and the Balkans, including area studies, that produced different spatializations of a seemingly peripheral region.... more
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Johannes Bohle (Flensburg) looks at ways of bringing area studies and geography into fruitful dialogue when it comes to tracing the emergence of Modernity, global-local entanglements and asymmetries in knowledge production. Hurricanes offer a productive case study for this.... more
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Mirja Lecke & Oleksandr Zabirko (Regensburg) examine how Russia's imperial expansion created diverse North-South relations regarding Ukraine and the Caucasus, while Russia itself was framed in shifting East-West constellations.... more
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