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Keynote Lecture 2 - Annual Conference | Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (Indiana University, Bloomington) “Dangerous Characters”: Black Women, Constructions of Freedom, and White Violence in the Post-Civil War South
Join us at our 2026 Annual Conference on 17-19 June.
The second keynote lecture will take place on 18 June at 17:00 in Room 319 at IOS (Landshuter Str. 4). It will be given by Prof. Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Ruth N. Halls Professor at the Departments of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and current visiting professor at the Regensburg European-American Forum (REAF).
Read moreRoundtable Discussion | The (In)Dependence of Knowledge? Academic Freedom Today
Join colleagues from Regensburg and Kansas to discuss the state of academic freedom today across Europe and the Americas. This event takes places as part of our 2026 Annual Conference In/ter/dependence.
17 June | conference begins 16:30 - roundtable starts at 18:30 | H24, Vielberth Building, UR
Read moreKeynote Lecture 1 - Annual Conference | Mita Banerjee (Mainz) Successful Aging? Looking at America at 250 through the Gated Retirement Community “The Villages,” Florida
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.
Read moreLSC Annual Conference 2026 | In/ter/dependence: Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom
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…
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