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Area Studies research cluster on European-American connections & entanglements, historically & today. A joint platform of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) & the University of Regensburg. Funded by the Leibniz Association.

Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America - Regensburg

We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, who will be giving the 2nd keynote: “Dangerous Characters”: Black Women, Constructions of Freedom, and White Violence in the Post-Civil War South. ⏰18 June, 17:00 📍R319, IOS (Landshuter Str. 4) Find the full abstract on our website!

We’re excited to announce the first Keynote for our annual conference! ⏰17 June, 17:00 📍H24, Vielberth Gebäude Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee will talk about “Successful Aging? Looking at America at 250 through the Gated Retirement Community “The Villages,” Florida”. Find the full abstract on Linktree!

💢Come and join us for an informal chat and exchange with the current visiting researchers across the Regensburg area studies institutions and platforms. Current visiting researchers based at the ScienceCampus, seeFField, Denkraum Ukraine, the Graduate School, REAF, DIMAS and IOS will be joining us.

👏Next week the speaker series is continuing in English with a lecture by Győző Molnár (University of Worcester). He will examine the intersection of sport and radical right populist politics in contemporary Hungary through three interconnected case studies. Find the full abstract on our website!

🎯Save the Date! Join us for this semesters' last Margins of Memory lecture on June 15th. Jeremy F. Walton (Rijeka) will introduce the broad notion of “postempire” in order to explore the textures and contradictions of three Habsburg-era monuments. Find the whole abstract via Linktree! Open to all.

📢 Join us in Regensburg for the LSC Annual Conference 2026 In/ter/dependence: Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom 📅 17–19 June 2026 📍 University of Regensburg & Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) 🔗 Programme: lnkd.in/dJVJjcZa 🎟 No registration required

Join us on Monday, 15 June, for a guest lecture with Norihiro Naganawa (University of Hokkaido), who in 2027/28 will be a visiting professor at the ScienceCampus.📌 www.europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...

🎯This june: the Margins of Memories speaker series and the LSC speaker series continue, our 2nd Research Network Legal Borders is going to be launched, we are coming together for our annual conference and we are excited to host 8 visiting researchers this month! Find the full program on our website!

🏆03.06.2026, 14:15, H5 Sportgroßereignisse wie die Olympischen Spiele und die Fußball-WM sind längst mehr als sportliche Wettbewerbe. Anhand historischer und aktueller Beispiele klärt Katrin Mayerhofer (Universität Passau), wie Staaten Sportgroßereignisse und weiche Macht gezielt nutzen.

Dr. Marie Beyrich & Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï are launching our new LSC research network: Law & Borders! ⏰Thursday, 11 June from 16:00-20:00 📍Room 319 at IOS, Landshuter Str. 4, RGB. 👋All are welcome to attend. No registration required. Find out more about the network and the opening event via Linktree!

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