The new blog-journal frictions launches with essays on EU migration policy and Brexit literature, notes from Berkeley on protest movements and Bucharest on post-socialist housing estates, plus critical reflections on doing a master’s degree and life after it. You can also learn more about a recent workshop on migration, media and liminality held at the Campus.

In the first lecture of the "Rethinking Area Studies and Space from the 'Global South'" series, Sinah Kloß (Bonn) offers a critical overview of the concept of the 'Global South', exploring the problems and controversies that are associated it with, as well as its potentially empowering function.

On 15 April 2021, at 16:15, we welcome Kathryn Ciancia to the research colloquium, which the ScienceCampus organizes in cooperation with the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies. Her Zoom lecture explores the idea of non-territorial citizenship, looking at the Polish consulate in Hardin, China, during WWII.

In der Abschlussdiskussion der Ringvorlesung "Special Relations Revisited" diskutieren Prof. Dr. Lora Anne Viola (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut) und Dr. Jana Puglierin (European Council on Foreign Relations) mit Dr. Gerlinde Groitl (UR) über die Zukunft der europäisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen.

In the final session of this semester's Research Colloquium, Catherine Davies (University of Zurich) explores the transatlantic history of financial crises in the 19th century.