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What's happening? June 2026 at the ScienceCampus

Find out what a busy June has in store at the ScienceCampus - some highlights include our annual conference "In/ter/dependence", the launch of the new Law & Borders network, a record number of visiting scholars, cotinuing our lecture series on Sport and Politics, and much much more!

Download the poster for June here - which includes links to all the events

We are excited about what June 2026 has in store. 

We are excited to welcome several visiting researchers to the ScienceCampus.

  • Marike Janzen as visiting professor from Kansas, who is here based at REAF until the end of July.
  • Also joining from Kansas is Marta Vicente (1-20 June).
  • Robert Austin (1-30 June), Ed Schatz (23-29 June) and Alexandra Rahr (15-30 June) all from Toronto.
  • Karin Roginer Hofmeisterová from Prague throughout June
  • Jeffrey Veidlinger from Ann Arbor (15-30 June)
  • Keith Brown (until 19 June) and Claudia Sadowski-Smith (10 June - 5 August), both from Arizona State U.

18 visiting scholars from across Regensburg Area Studies projects and platforms will be participating in theMeet the Visiting Researchers Session on 10 June (12:15) at IOS. Click here for the current line-up and join us there!

We are excited about our annual conference - In/ter/dependence: Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom - from 17 to 19 June.

The conference takes the 250th anniversary of US independence as a point of departure to explore how independence and interdependence are deeply entangled phenomena. From the American Revolution to the emergence of new states after the fall of empires and the end of communism in Europe, moments of national sovereignty have produced new forms of dependence and exclusion. We will examine these dynamics in Europe, the Americas, and beyond, investigating how struggles for self-determination intersect with other axes of power including gender, race, and class, from the late eighteenth century to the present.

On 17 June, from 16:30 at H24 (UR Vielberth Building) there will be a keynote lecture by Mita Banerjee (Mainz) on: Successful Aging? Looking at America at 250 through the Gated Retirement Community “The Villages,” Florida. This is followed by a Regensburg-Kansas Roundtable Discussion on the (In)Dependence of Knowledge? Academic Freedom Today featuring Marie Beyrich (Regensburg), Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg), Marike Janzen (Kansas), Livia de Souza Lima (Regensburg) and Marta Vicente (Kansas) - Chaired by Ben Chappell (Kansas).

The event moves to IOS for 18-19 June, with panels throughout both days, and a keynote lecture by current REAF visiting scholar Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (Indiana University, Bloomington) on “Dangerous Characters”: Black Women, Constructions of Freedom, and White Violence in the Post-Civil War South at 17:00.

For the full programme, visit the conference page. The conference is supported by the Vielberth Foundation.

The second LSC Research Network Law & Borders launches on 11 June at 16:00 at IOS. There will be a keynote titled Between Monad and Nomad: Law, Bordering, and Lines of Flight by Prof. Dr. Henk van Houtum (Radboud University, Nijmegen), a discussion on What do Law and Border Studies Have to Say?
Featuring Prof. Dr. Tobias Eule (Bern), Prof. Dr. Henk van Houtum (Nijmegen), Jorie Horsthuis (Amsterdam) - Chaired by Prof. Dr. Alexander Graser (UR). And plenty of opportunities to engage in interactive formats, for exchanges with the members and the two speakers, Dr. Marie Beyrich and Dr. Mélanie Sadozai. 

Find out more about the opening event and the ideas guiding the network on its website.

The first LSC Research Network Margins of Memory concludes its activities for this summer semester with two sessions in June

The LSC Lecture Series Sport, Politics, Conflict continues throughout June with four more talks - the first in German, the rest in English

We are delighted to be collaborating with our partners on book presentations, guest lectures and the colloquium series

 

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