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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!

⚽This Wednesday, Ben Chappel is discussing commerce and culture in American Sports while answering the question if the US could win the 2026 world cup. He will also be moderating our conference's roundtable “ The (In)Dependence of Knowledge? Academic Freedom Today” that same day at 18:30! Join in!

Newly arrived, Jeff Veidlinger will be speaking on American Zion: The Global Plan to Settle Jews in the American West on June 25, as well as give a talk on June 18 June at the LSC annual conference on Jewish Autonomy and National Sovereignty in the Twilight of Empire, 1903-1919. Open to all!

📯Join us! The roundtable brings together Marie Beyrich (Regensburg), Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg), Marike Janzen (Kansas), Livia de Souza Lima (Regensburg), and Marta Vicente (Kansas). Chaired by Ben Chappell (Kansas).We are delighted that UR's strategic partner, KU, is represented so well!

💢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.

🎯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.

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!

👏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!

📢 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

👋The ScienceCampus is deligthed to welcome three further visiting researchers this june! Kamil Kowalski (Łódź), Alexandra Rahr (Toronto) and Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Find out more about them: www.europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...

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