What's happening? February and March 2026 at the ScienceCampus Regensburg & Summer Semester sneak preview
Find out what is happening at the ScienceCampus in the final months of Winter Semester 2025/26 and learn more about what to expect in Summer Semester 2026. Upcoming highlights include a concert-lecture with our visiting fellow Olga Zaitseva-Herz, a panel at the Munich Security Conference at Amerikahaus, and the 7th annual graduate workshop on Memory Matters.
The Leibniz Science Campus is pleased to share with you the new programme for February and March 2026, while previewing some activities scheduled for summer semester.
We look forward to welcoming Olga Zaitseva-Herz from the University of Alberta, who will spend February 2026 as a visiting fellow of the ScienceCampus based at Denkraum Ukraine. She will give a concert-leture in German and Ukrainian on 14 February (17:00 at EBW, Am Ölberg 2) on Ukrainian Songs that Tell History. Marek Herz joins on guitar. We are grateful to Evangelisches Bildungswerk Regensburg, Denkraum Ukraine and Hromada e.V. for the support.
The ScienceCampus is heading to the Bavarian capital for the Munich Security Conference at Amerikahaus. Join us on 13 February at 19:30 for a discussion chaired by our Board member Cindy Wittke-Hohlfeld featuring the commandeur of the ZMSBw Frank Hagemann, LSE professor Mary Kaldor, ScienceCampus doctoral researcher Jon-Wyatt Matlack, executive director of the Kyiv-based Snake Island Institute Maryna Hrytsenko, and Senior Vice President of Stark Defence Josef Kranawetvogl. The session is organized by Amerikahaus in cooperation with the ScienceCampus, LSE IDEAS and the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences, one of our German cooperation partners. Registration is required.
We are pleased to be collaborating with the Graduate School on the 7th annual Graduate Workshop - Memory Matters. It takes place at Landhuter Str. 4 on 5-6 February. The keynote talk on 5 Feb, 14:15, by Simon Probst (Vechta) addresses Coral Memories: How Reefs Shape Cultural Imaginaries of Time in North America and Europe. All are welcome to attend. No registration is required for the keynote.
The Margins of Memory Research Network invites colleagues to an open day to learn more about the work of the network and its members. Come to Sedanstr. 1, home of the ScienceCampus, on 12 March from 10:00.
Looking ahead to summer semester 2026, we are excited about the weekly lecture series on Sport, Conflict and Politics - students can sign up already, while the whole series is open to the public and staff. Join us in H5 at the main campus each Wednesday at 14:15. The ScienceCampus annual conference on In/Dependence and Interdependence will take place from 17-19 June, with IOS holding its annual conference from 22-24 April. We also look forward to offering an evening of events at Nacht.Schafft.Wissen at the Altes Finanzamt (Landshuter Str. 4) on 24 April - from interactive presentations and game, a discussion on migration and integration, ending the night with a pub quiz.
