The first prize was awarded to Thomas Meyer for his research on Romanian migrant workers.

This event is a cooperation between the seminar series at the IOS Economics Department and the ScienceCampus.

Area Studies under Discussion is a regular series of debates on current themes in area studies organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in Regensburg, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig.

In the first Research Colloquium session of this year Zsuzsa Gille will explore state socialism and the environment from a transnational perspective.

The virtual workshop "State Descriptions Revisited" takes place on 20-21 January 2022.