Join us at our 2026 Annual Conference on 17-19 June.

The first keynote lecture will take place on 17 June at 17:00 in H24 in the UR Vielberth Building. It will be given by Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee, Chair of American Studies at the University of Mainz, Member of the Obama Institute Executive Board and Speaker of the LSC Scientific Advisory Board.

Join us in H24 at the Vielberth Building on 17 June, and then at IOS on 18-19 June for our annual conference organized in cooperation with REAF, supported by IOS and the Vielberth Foundation.

There will be keynote talks by Mita Banerjee (Mainz) and Amrita Chakrabarty Myers (Indiana), as well as a Regensburg-Kansas discussion on academic freedoms. There are also numerous panels addressing the intersection of independence, dependence, sovereignty and un/freedom across the modern world in past…

When? Wednesday, 17 June, 14:15-15:45

Where? H5, UR Campus

LSC and DIMAS visiting scholar Marta Vicente will give a guest talk at the Digital Area Studies Lab DAS|LAB run by Astrid Ensslin and her team at DIMAS.

16 June 2026 | 10:30 | Room BA.822, Bajuwarenstr. 4

16 June | 08:15 | Room R009 (Rechtswiss.) UR

Organisiert von Dagmar Schmelzer