Thursday, November 16, 2023

13:00–13:30
Welcome Addresses
Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (President of the University of Regensburg)
Dr. Doris Löhr (Chairperson of CrossArea)
Prof. Dr. Anna Steigemann (Chairperson of DIMAS)
Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer (Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)

13:30–16:00
Presentation of the Department of Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS) and associated projects

Anne Brüske (Professor of Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes)
Klaus Buchenau (Professor of Southeast and East European History)
Ger Duijzings (Professor of Social Anthropology – with focus on Southeastern and Eastern Europe)
Astrid Ensslin (Professor of Digital Cultures and Communication)
Rike Krämer-Hoppe (Professor of Transnational Norm Development)
Laura Lieber (Professor of Transregional History of Religions)
Timothy Nunan (Professor of Transregional Cultures of Knowledge)
Anna Steigemann (Professor for Sociological Dimensions of Space)

16:30–17:30
CrossArea Members’ internal Meeting (Mitgliederversammlung) – Room 017 (Ground floor)

16:30–17:15
DIMAS Meet & Greet – Room 319

17:15–18:15
Reception

18:15–19:45
Keynote Talk
Vincent Bevins: The Unfinished Decade: Protest Tactics, Revolutionary Situations
Chaired by Timothy Nunan

Friday, November 17, 2023

09:00–10:40
Early Career Researcher Panel
Chaired by: Susan Hodgett (University of East Anglia, Norwich)

Yusra Abdullahi (Leiden): Ghanaian, Ugandan, and Zimbabwean Agency at the United Nations' High Table: A Comparative Study of African Activism at the UN

Miriam Kreuzer (Vienna): Caring Infrastructures: Urbane Infrastrukturen transformativ gestalten

Yuxin Li (Essen-Duisburg): “Social Health Insurance Diffusion in the People’s Republic of China from 1979 to 2012 – Policy Learning and Global Connectivity

Anastasiia Marsheva (JLU Gießen): Cross-regional Approach to Migration Studies: Researching Panethnicity among “Eastern European” (Post)Migrants in Germany and the Czech Republic

Natali Rauscher (Heidelberg): Natural Disasters in the United States: What role do media discourses and disaster narratives play in the USA’s vulnerability crisis?

Clare Richardson (FU Berlin): Stokely Carmichael and Amílcar Cabral: Black Power and the limits of U.S. solidarity with Portuguese Africa

11:00–11:30
Project Presentation
Kathleen Schlütter / Carolina Rozo Higuera (Leipzig): The Production of World Knowledge Transformed

11:30–13:00
Discussion
“The Future of the Archive(s): Digital Infrastructures Across Regions”

With:
- Peter Altekrüger (Ibero-American Institute, Berlin)
- Cassandra Mark-Thiesen (University of Bayreuth)
- Arnost Stanzel (Bavaria State Library – BSB, Munich)
- Cosima Wagner (FU Berlin)
Chaired by: TBA