DIMAS - Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies

24/07/2024

Join the DIMAS Team as a Student Assistant (SHK)! We have a position available supporting the office team. We are offering 20 hours per month and welcome applications until 12 August 2024.

24/07/2024

The joint DIMAS and Leibniz ScienceCampus Regensburg - Europe and America in the Modern World prize for outstanding area studies master theses was awarded for the fourth time on 4 July 2024. Three Regensburg master's students received prizes for the work that spanned the fields of public history and memory studies, economics, and history. Find out more about this year's prize winners here https://www.uni-regensburg.de/dimas/english/early-career-researchers/area-studies-prize/index.html

23/07/2024

DIMAS Postdoc Mélanie Sadozaï is co-organizing this conference on Unorthodox Approaches to Eurasian Studies, taking place in Istanbul on 11-13 October 2024. Apply by 31 July 2024.

This small workshop, and possibly book project that will result, is intended as a platform for reflection about how far research on Central Asia and its neighbourhood has gone so far. We welcome papers with virtually any focus and spacing from societal, political to economic dynamics of contemporary Central Asia as long as they propose a novel focus (be this an underexplored topic, an innovative methodology or novel theorization of existing phenomena). We are particularly interested in topics and approaches that sound unorthodox or unusual. On the other hand, we are not obsessed with having to discuss only extremely unorthodox or unusual topics. We rather seek to stimulate a conversation to look at mainstream and alternative topics through some different lenses or frameworks for interpretation.

The European Society for Central Asian Studies http://www.escas.org/about-escas/ in collaboration with the project CARSI (Central Asian Research on Social Innovation) https://www.carsi-se.eu/ is planning to hold a workshop at Marmara University in October

10/07/2024

Join us on 17 July at 12:15 in S.214 for the next session in the Dimas Early Career Research Seminar.

Barbara Wimmer-Bulin, will speak on “Doing landscape, while exploring resources: a transcalarity and multiscalar fieldwork in the natural park „Parque natural da costa alentejano e da costa vicentina“, Portugal.“ You can find some of Barbara’s material around this work attached.

There will also be an exploration of the German and European grant landscape for Early Career Researchers. Angela Weil-Jung, the director of WIN, will provide an introduction. Should you have any specific questions about grants, please email us so Angela can properly prepare.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

https://www.uni-regensburg.de/dimas/english/early-career-researchers/index.html

10/07/2024

Learn more about Anna Steigemann, Professor of Sociological Dimensions of Space at Universität Regensburg and the speaker of DIMAS in this profile on the UR Research pages. You can find out more not just about her research on cities, social transformation, migrant and q***r communities, but how she combines academic work with active social engagement and everyday life in the city.

https://www.uni-regensburg.de/research/dynamics-in-the-global-world/anna-steigemann-1/index.html

20/06/2024

Join us on Wednesday 26 June at 14:00 for the next session in the DIMAS lecture series. Sabrina Moura (Munich) will explore the history of a nineteenth-century expedition from Munich to Brazil. The lecture series is free and open to all.

13/06/2024

Join DIMAS for the next session in the lecture series on Colonialism. On Wednesday, 19 June at 14:00, David Schneidermann of the University of Toronto will discuss Investment Law's Alibis – Colonialism, Imperialism, Debt and Development. All are welcome. Join us in H22 at Universität Regensburg

07/06/2024

The new DIMAS Early Career Research Seminar series continues on 12 June and 17 July (12:15 in S.214). The events are open to all colleagues in Regensburg, regardless of status or affiliation with DIMAS. https://www.uni-regensburg.de/dimas/english/early-career-researchers/index.html

The programme for this summer semesters features on 12 June Sebastian Richter discussing “Another approach to area studies: introduction to phenomenology of cultural (digital) space“ and Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï addressing “The dialogue between Area Studies and International Relations Theory (state of the art)”.

On 17 July, Barbara Wimmer-Bulin, will speak on “Doing landscape, while exploring resources: a transcalarity and multiscalar fieldwork in the natural park „Parque natural da costa alentejano e da costa vicentina“, Portugal.“ There will also be an exploration of the German and European grant landscape for Early Career Researchers.

04/06/2024

We are delighted to welcome the next speaker in the DIMAS Lecture Series on Colonialism, Kwamou Eva Feukeu of the The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. She co-runs the Decolonial Comparative Law project initiated by Professor Dr Ralf Michaels and Professor Dr Lena Salaymeh at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg). She previously worked for four years as the Africa coordinator for Futures Literacy at UNESCO. She has also organized her own practice as a head futurist for UN Global Pulse Finland, the OECD, the International Development Research Centre, and the French Development Agency. In her talk on 5 June, she will discuss The Future as a Public Good in the context of action research. Join us at UR in lecture theatre H22 at 14:00.