What's happening? July 2026 and beyond at the ScienceCampus
Find out what July 2026 has in store at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America. Summer semester is drawing to an end, but together with our partners at IOS, UR and in the city we have an exciting programme of talks, meetings with visiting scholars and more to offer.
Download the poster for July here - which includes links to all the events and to posts looking back on recent important events at the LSC
We are excited about what July 2026 has in store.
We are excited to welcome several visiting researchers to the ScienceCampus.
- Marike Janzen as visiting professor from Kansas, who is based at REAF until the end of July.
- Also joining from Kansas is Vitaly Chernetsky (6-31 July)
- We are pleased to welcome Jakub Eberle from Prague (27 Jun - 19 July)
- Welcome back to Claudia Sadowski-Smith from Arizona State U (1 July - 5 August)
Around 20 visiting scholars from across the Regensburg Area Studies institutions and platforms will be part of the next Meet the Visiting Researchers session - click the link for the current line-up! Join us for informal and fruitful exchange on Thursday 9 July, 12:15-13:30 in Room 017 at IOS - Landshuter Str. 4.
We are excited that our visiting scholars will be giving guest lectures throughout July in cooperation with our partners in Regensburg.
Monday 6 July, 16:00-17:30 at IOS (Room 109) - Join Jakub Eberle (Prague) to discuss Digital Sovereignty, or Digital Divide: Central and Eastern Europe in EU Digital Politics. The talk is organized in cooperation with the IOS Politics Department and the Graduate School.
Come to Sedanstr. 1, (Room SE0.48) on Tuesday 7 July, 10:45-11:45, to enjoy a discussion with Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona) on Crisis Response and Policy Precedent: Ukrainian Refugees and the Transformation of U.S. Immigration Since 2022. The event is held in cooperation with Denkraum Ukraine and REAF.
Join us at the Graduate School (IOS Room 017) on Thursday 9 July at 14:15, after the Meet the Visiting Researchers session, for the final session in the joint GS-LSC Colloquium series. Vitaly Chernetsky (Kansas) will present on Traumatic Rhymes: Contemporary Ukrainian Refugee Experience and the Cultural Legacies of the 1940s Displacement. Also in cooperation with Denkraum Ukraine.
The LSC Lecture Series Sport, Politics, Conflict concludes in July with two talks in English - Wednesdays at 14:15 in H5 on the main UR campus. You can read an interview with the co-organizers Ulf Brunnbauer and Paul Vickers, exploring the intersections of sport and power in relation to the FIFA World Cup.
- 1 July | Jiří Zákravský (Pilsen, Political Science) Undemocratic Regimes and Professional Road Cycling Teams’ Sponsorship
- 8 July | Árpád von Klimó (Catholic University of America, Washington, History) Pan-African Perspectives on the History of the Men's FIFA World Cup (1930-2026)
We are thrilled to be collaborating again with the Evangelisches Bildungswerk (EBW) - alongside the VHS and Bücher Pustet - for a book discussion featuring the renowned journalist Arnd Henze. He will present his latest book (in German) Mit Gott gegen die Demokratie: Warum der christliche Nationalismus alle angehtin conversation with Volker Depkat and Anja Stopfer. Join us on Tuesday 21 July, at 18:00 at the EBW - Am Ölberg 2.
Nominations for the joint LSC-DIMAS Area Studies Prize are open. Students who completed an MA, LL.M. or Staatsexamen in 2025 or 2026 at UR can nominate themselves or be nominated by 31 December. Find out more here.
