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CITAS Lecture Series | Cosmopolitan languages in the Mediterranean: book launch and discussion (Karla Mallette & Daniel König)

Daniel König will be in conversation with Karla Mallette about her new book Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean.... more

Venue

*** online only *** via Zoom - registration: islands@ur.de

Wed., 26 Jan. 2022 - 16:00-17:30 CET

CITAS Lecture Series | The Mediterranean as a transnational space: a sociolinguistic perspective from France and Italy (Robert Blackwood & Stefania Tufi)

Robert Blackwood and Stefania Tufi take a closer look at practices of spatial demarcation in the Mediterranean in their lecture.... more

Venue

*** online only *** via Zoom - registration: islands@ur.de

Wed., 19 Jan. 2022 - 16:00-17:30 CET

CITAS Lecture Series | Kommunikationsraum Adria: Befunde, Interpretationen, Narrative (Sebastian Adlung)

Drawing on the project “Adriatic communication area”, Sebastian Adlung will examine the research conditions that have shaped which narratives influence the visibility of particular areas and objects.... more

Venue

*** online only *** via Zoom - registration: islands@ur.de

Wed., 12 Jan. 2022 - 16:00-17:30 CET

CITAS Brownbag Session | Transnational Imaginaries of Child Refugees (Julia Faisst)

Julia Faisst (American Studies, UR) will present her talk on child migration narratives.... more

Venue

online via Zoom

Meeting ID: 645 8515 9167

CITAS Lecture Series | Ottoman Legacies in Colonial North Africa (1860s-1920s) (M’hamed Oualdi)

M’hamed Oualdi will focus on the Ottoman provincial legacies in colonial North Africa to explore the Mediterranean.... more

Venue

*** online only *** via Zoom - registration: islands@ur.de

Wed., 15 Dec. 2021 - 16:00-17:30 CET

CITAS Lecture Series | How to see it: Tourism and Space-Formation in the Arab Eastern Mediterranean in the Early Twentieth Century (Jasmin Daam)

Jasmin Daam takes a closer look at tourism and its role in the Mediterranean.... more

Venue

*** online only *** via Zoom - registration: islands@ur.de

Wed., 8 Dec. 2021 - 16:00-17:30 CET

CITAS Lecture Series | (Im)Mobilität und mediterrane Migration (Sarah Nimführ)

Sarah Nimführ will examine the Mediterrean from the perspective of migration studies with a special focus on Malta.... more

Venue

***online only*** via Zoom - registration: islands@ur.de

Wed., 1 Dec. 2021 - 16:00-17:30 CET

CITAS Lecture Series | Der staatenlose Graf von Monte Christo: Insel als Handlungsraum und Symbol im Werk von Alexandre Dumas (Ralf Junkerjürgen)

In his lecture Ralf Junkerjürgen will explore the role of islands in the works of Alexandre Dumas.... more

Venue

H4 - UR, or online via Zoom - registration: islands@ur.de

Wed., 24 Nov. 2021 - 16:00-17:30 CET

Online Book Presentation: Heritage under Socialism - 23 Nov, 18:00-19:00

23 November 2021, 18.00–19.00 (CET) - online book presentation - with two of the editors, Peter Haslinger (director of the Herder Institute), and Emanuela Grama (Carnegie Mellon U).... more

Venue

Online via Zoom - register via events-hira@herder-institut.de

Call for Papers: Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic

Submit your proposals for the conference "Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic" by 10 January 2022.... more

Venue

Regensburg, 19 - 21 May 2022