Welcome aboard!

next and final event - 25 July 2025 - 14:00 - S.214

MS ISLA was a CITAS-funded research network for Mediterranean Studies on Island Areas, running from 2020 until 2023. The results of the project are continuing to appear. There will be a wrap up event featuring the two Network Speakers, Jonas Hock and Laura Linzmeier, also featuring the launch of a new publication co-edited by Laura Linzmeier and Thorsten Kruse, on Friday 25 July at 14:00 in S.214.

The volume Mediterranean Islands and Coastal Areas: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity through the Ages appeared with Waxmann in 2025.

Owing to the reconstruction of the UR websites and transition of CITAS into DIMAS, the original MS ISLA website - archived here - has a temporary home with the ScienceCampus. The two CITAS networks, MS ISLA and KNOW IN (archived here), inspired the format for early career research networks at the ScienceCampus.

Our network consists of UR- and external members specialized in different disciplines and equipped with different regional competences. Our research questions are to be approached in a comparative and multidirectional manner and will be addressed with transregional approaches of Area Studies, given the complexity of regional, cultural and political interdependence of the Mediterranean area(s) through the centuries. The Mediterranean Studies on Island Areas (MS ISLA) network wants to bundle and further develop already existing regional competences of the University of Regensburg with those of (non-)university cooperation partners.