Welcome to our new visiting researchers | Vitaly Chernetsky, Jakub Eberle and Claudia Sadowski-Smith

The ScienceCampus is pleased to welcome three new visiting researchers to Regensburg, where they will be collaborating with us and our partners. Marike Janzen (Kansas) is here  to 31 July as LSC visiting professor based at REAF. All the current visiting scholars will join colleagues from across Regensburg area studies on 9 July, 12:15, in Room 017 at IOS as part of the Meet the Visiting Researchers event, offering all staff and students an opportunity for informal exchanges and networking with our international colleagues.

Vitaly Chernetsky (Kansas) is visiting from 6-31 July 2026. is Professor at the Department of Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching focuses on Ukrainian literature and film, Russian literature and film, cultural aspects of globalization; identity and community; diasporic cultures. postmodernism and postcolonialism. gender and sexuality in Slavic and East European cultures. He will give a talk in the joint LSC-GS colloquium series on 9 July, 14:15 in Room 017 at IOS Traumatic Rhymes: Contemporary Ukrainian Refugee Experience and the Cultural Legacies of the 1940s Displacement.

Jakub Eberle (Prague) is here from 27 June - 19 July. Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies & Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Centre Prague. Jakub's research is situated at the intersection of international relations theory, social theory and politics of Central Europe. Jakub will give a talk in cooperation with the Politics Department of IOS on 6 July, 16:00 Room 109: Digital Sovereignty, or Digital Divide: Central and Eastern Europe in EU Digital Politics. Find out more about his talk and plans for his time in Regensburg in this YouTube Short

Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State U) returns to Regensburg until 6 August 2026. Claudia Sadowski-Smith is Professor of English and American Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of The New Immigrant Whiteness: Neoliberalism, Race, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States (New York University Press, 2018) and Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States (University of Virginia Press, 2008). She is the editor of Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders (Palgrave, 2002) and of three special journal issues--on the cultures of global postsocialisms, comparative border studies, and postsocialist literatures in the United States. She will give a talk on 7 July at 10:15  at Sedanstr. 1 in cooperation with REAF and Denkraum Ukraine on Crisis Response and Policy Precedent: Ukrainian Refugees and the Transformation of U.S. Immigration Since 2022.