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Relations between Europe and both North and South America are currently undergoing dramatic transformations. It is thus all the more important to explore the complex entanglements of multiple regions on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the main objective of the interdisciplinary Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World - a joint platform of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and the University of Regensburg (UR).
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© Martyna Miernecka
At the Heart of It: Archives, Museums and Queer Ecologies
From Toronto’s ArQuives to a Montréal ecomuseum: how a research fellowship in Canada enabled Martyna Miernecka to reflect on Polish queer exile, archives, solidarity, and finding breathing space in precarious academia.
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The Archive of the East: Displacements in the Imaginaries of Contemporary Cuban literature
Irina Garbatzky explores Cuba's literary East: an archive of reimagined worlds where writing about elsewhere becomes a way of rethinking home.
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© Marina Schepetow
Maximilianstrasse Revisited: The relevance of “M26” for the sense of belonging of refugees
Marina Schepetow explores how refugees and migrant newcomers to the city use Maximilianstr. and the M26 centre, countering prevalent negative perceptions
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Stolen Future: How war and xenophobia are accelerating Russia’s demographic decline
Has Russia's demographic history gone into a doom cycle? Salavat Abylkalikov explores the significance of war, falling fertility rates and declining inward migration could bring Russia to a "point of no return"
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Futures Thinking in Times of Crisis (Part II): Playing the Future
How can play contribute to semiotic agility and an active role in shaping the future? Katarina Damčević explores ways of building imaginative capacities in times of uncertainty.
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The European Union’s Strategic Autonomy, Transatlantic Shifts and Ukraine
Trump’s return to power means Europe faces a choice between strategic dependency and autonomous leadership, with Ukraine’s fate serving as the ultimate test of the EU’s geopolitical maturity, argues Oleksiy Kandyuk