You are warmly invited to attend the Keynote Lecture of the International Conference "Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic" on Thursday 19 May at 16:15 CET. The lecture by Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein (both U Pennsylvania), "Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions", is also part of the CITAS and Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America" lecture series (Ringvorlesung), Frictions and Transformations of Globalization.

You are warmly invited to attend this international conference, taking place in Regensburg and online from 19-21 May 2022. Please register for the panels, whether attending in person or online, at info@europeamerica.de. The keynote is open to all without registration and the Zoom webinar link can be found below.

Visiting Fellow Kate Wroblewski will give a talk on 16 May 2022 as part of the lecture series "Frictions and Transformations of Globalization".

The ScienceCampus together with the Regensburg branch of the Südosteuropa Gesellschaft invites to a lecture by Robert C. Austin, Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.

Monday, May 16, 15:00 in VG 0.14 at UR or via Zoom

Institutional history and historical sociology of the Cold War frequently associate the planned ecoomy with the Soviet political regime. In fact, the core Soviet vocabulary, composed in the early 1920s and rebuilt in the late 1950s, explicitly referred to planning and science. An even more intriguing part of the story consists in the fact that ideas of scientific planning, rational government and creating a new man, were also part of the projects of the new Europe following the end of the World…