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Global South Lecture Series | Isabella von Treskow (Regensburg) - Oran, Alger, Sétif: Raumsemiotik bei Hélène Cixous, Kateb Yacine und Mohammed Dib

Isabella von Treskow (Regensburg) explores the spatial semiotics, spatial-temporal tensions and significance of affect in decolonization discourse relating to France and Algeria.... more

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Lecture Series - Sprachliche Dynamiken im Raum: Sprachinseln zwischen Begegnung und Abschottung

This lecture series, organized by the Institute of Romance Studies, is supported by CITAS and FoMuR... more

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Zoom

Global South Lecture Series | Silke Jansen & Lucía Romero Gibu (Erlangen) - "Wir" und "Ihr": Sprachwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf den sozialen Raum im Migrationskontext

Silke Jansen & Lucía Romero Gibu (Erlangen) explore how approaches in linguistics can be used to trace how migrants from Hispanic America have experienced acts perceived as verbal violence in encounters with German institutions.... more

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Global South Lecture Series | Anna Steigemann (Regensburg) - The City of the 21st Century, Mobile Spatial Practices, and Glocal Spatial Knowledge: A Spatial Sociology for Multi-Scalar Area Studies

Anna Steigemann (Regensburg) explores how the twenty-first-century city, a symbol of globality, mobility and inequalities, can be more effectively conceptualized and theorized when viewed through the lens of "the South". ... more

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Global South Lecture Series | Ciraj Rassool (Cape Town) - Public history as counter-museology: Journeys through Museum Transformation in Africa and Europe

Ciraj Rassool (Cape Town) explores how efforts to rethink citizenship and personhood in late-apartheid and early democratic South Africa were linked to the work of museums and public history.... more

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP | APRIL 22-23, 2021 | RESEARCH ON RESEARCH: Methodological Approaches and Empirical Challenges in the Digital Age. Ethnography Meets Artificial Intelligence

Join leading experts of Artificial intelligence to discuss its impact on research practices at the intersection of the digital world and ethnography. This event is co-organized by Andreas Sudmann (UR/CITAS/Media Studies).... more

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Online - register via howisaichangingscience@gmail.com

Global South Lecture Series | Sinah Kloß (Bonn) - Unmapping the "Global South": Reflections on a Heuristic Concept

Sinah Kloß (Bonn) offers a critical overview of the concept of the "Global South", exploring the problems and controversies that are associated it with, as well as its potentially empowering function.... more

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Lecture Series - Concluding Discussion - Europa und Amerika 2021 - wohin?

The conclusion to the lecture series "Special Relations Revisited" will see Prof. Dr. Lora Anne Viola (John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin) und Dr. Jana Puglierin (European Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin) discuss with Dr. Gerlinde Groitl (UR) what the future of European-American relations might hold.... more

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Zoom, https://uni-regensburg.zoom.us/j/85892790976

8. Feb 2021, 18:15-19:45

Lecture Series: Marlene Laruelle - Looking at post-Soviet Eurasia from Europe and the US: Divergences of perspectives and shared visions

Leading expert on Russian, Eurasian and transatlantic relations Marlene Laruelle will explore the consequences of policies towards Eurasia for broader transatlantic relations and the international order.... more

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CITAS Brownbag Session - Joanna Moszczyńska: Denkbilder und transatlantische Konvivialität: Ryszard Kapuscinski und Gabriel García Márquez

Joanna Moszczyńska, Postdoc at CITAS, will present part of her ongoing project on Transcultural chronicles and travel writing in the 20th century. She looks forward to receiving feedback from colleagues, professors and any other interested audience members. In this presentation she will focus on the transatlantic conviviality evident in the works of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Gabriel García Márquez.... more

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