Area Studies under Discussion is a regular series of debates on current themes in area studies organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in Regensburg, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig.

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

In this session of the research colloquium Ulrike Freitag (Berlin) will explore what it means to "write the translocal history of an Arab city".

Olena Nikolayenko, Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and a Simone Veil Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, will discuss the prominent role of women in the 2020-post-election protests in Belarus with Fabian Burkhardt (IOS).