28-29 January 2021. The ScienceCampus Research Module Practices of Belonging (Verheimatlichung) in co-operation with our partner institution, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is organizing a workshop discussing aspects the intersections of media and migration in the European-American context. The event is open to external participants. There will be a concluding keynote lecture on 29 January at 16:30 by Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State…

For the lecture series "Special Relations Revisited" Gerlinde Groitl examines developments and future perspectives in the security partnership between Europe and the US. This lecture will be held in German.

For the lecture series "Special Relations Revisited" Katharina Gerund (FAU Erlangen) takes a closer look at the role of "Military Spouses in the Transatlantic World".

This is the third event in the Area Studies Under Discussion series. In these online events doctoral researchers, postdocs and faculty in Leipzig, Marburg and Regensburg discuss the range and limits of Area Studies today and present their latest research in the field. On 18 January 2021 we will discuss the effects of digitization on area studies and what the field can contribute to the digital turn.

In third session of this semester's Research Colloquium Stefan Link will discuss his book Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order (Princeton UP, 2020), in conversation with Ulf Brunnbauer. This will be accompanied by a lecture on the Great Depression as a moment of global change.