Welcome to our new visiting researchers | Kamil Kowalski, Alexandra Rahr & Jeffrey Veidlinger
We are delighted to welcome a further three visiting scholars to the ScienceCampus for short-term visits in June 2026
The ScienceCampus is deligthed to welcome three further visiting scholars to Regensburg as part of our extensive international exchanges and partnerships.
Kamil Kowalski (Łódź), assistant professor at the Department of the History of Economics, joins on a DAAD Eastern Partnership (Ostpartnership) visit through the University of Regensburg. He will be here from 15-22 June, furthering his research on the history of labour relations in the US. He will be speaking at the LSC annual conference In/ter/dependence with a paper titled "Interdependence Codified: Labour Law and the Institutionalization of Capital-Labour Relations in Industrial America (1865-1948)" - 18 June, 11:00, at IOS.
Alexandra Rahr (Toronto), is associate professor in the teaching stream in American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She will be in Regensburg from 15-30 June on a research and networking visit funded by the BayFOR Internatiionalization programme. She looks forward to connecting with colleagues working across the arts, humanities and social sciences, including Peace, Conflict and Justice studies, as well as with colleagues in American studies.
Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) joins us as an LSC Visiting Fellow from 15-27 June. Jeffrey is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan. He is contributing to our annual conference with a paper on "Autoemancipation and Self-Determination: Jewish Autonomy and National Sovereignty in the Twilight of Empire, 1903-1919" (18 June 15:30-16:30 at IOS). He will also present in the ScienceCampus-Graduate School Research Colloquium on 25 June, 14:15, at IOS with a talk on "American Zion: The Global Plan to Settle Jews in the American West".
Our new visiting researchers Marike Janzen (Kansas - to 31 July), Marta Vicente (Kansas - to 20 June), Keith Brown (Arizona State U - to 19 June), Robert Austin (Toronto - to 30 June) and Karin Roginer Hofmeister (Prague - to 30 June) at the ScienceCampus and our partners.
The planned visit of Ed Schatz from Toronto had to be postponed for family reasons.