What's happening? April and May 2026 at the Leibniz ScienceCampus
Find out what is happening at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America at the start of the new summer semester
Download the poster for April and May here - includes links to all events and visiting scholars
The Leibniz ScienceCampus is excited about the summer semester. We warmly invite you to join our events and collaborate with our visiting researchers. Please find attached a poster with our programme for April and May 2026, which includes links to more details. Some highlights are also outlined in this email.
Lecture Series / Ringvorlesung “Sport. Politics. Conflict” – this interdisciplinary series takes place each Wednesday at 14:15 in H5 at UR. Featuring contributions from renowned guest speakers and Regensburg scholars, it addresses the interconnections of sport, hard power and soft power. The lectures are open to all students, staff and the public. Jörg Skriebeleit (UR & Flossenbürg) will open the series on 15 April, addressing the 1972 terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics and the memorialization of this tragedy. Find the full programme here.
Nacht.Schafft.Wissen – there will be a full programme of events at the Altes Finanzamt (Landshuter Str. 4) on 24 April. Come along from 18:00 to see videos and posters presenting ongoing research in area studies in Regensburg, participate in an interactive discussion on integration, migration and transformation featuring contributions from politics, civil society and activists, and finish the evening with the pub quiz on Eastern Europe and the world. No registration is required.
The LSC-supported Margins of Memory Research Network has a full programme of events this summer semester. We start on 16 April, with a lecture by Kateřina Čapková (Prague) on “From National History to Inclusive History” as part of the Research Colloquium. There will also be discussions on careers in memory studies (28 April), the way the field can contribute to policy discussions (4 May), and a theories and methods workshop (7-8 May).
As part of the developing collaboration with Hokkaido University in Sapporo, there will be an online session presenting current research in area studies in Regensburg and Sapporo. Join on 27 April from 09:00 to hear talks by Norihiro Naganawa, Motoki Nomachi, Timothy Nunan and Sabine Rutar.
The ScienceCampus is pleased to be collaborating with Zentrum Erinnerungskultur and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial on a student workshop. The Generational Talk with Youp Zwolschen (NL) and Phil Glauben (USA), descendants of Flossenbürg concentration camp survivors, takes place on 27 April at 14:15. All the details are available here.
We are pleased to be welcoming more visiting scholars to Regensburg throughout the summer semester. Jan Daniluk, assistant professor in history at Gdansk University and an active public historian, is here throughout April. He will be speaking in the European history colloquium on 14 April (16:00) on gambling in the Third Reich (in German). We are also pleased to welcome Jacquelyn Eidson from the University of Kansas, a strategic partner of UR. She is here from 8-28 April as a Fulbright Specialist, supported by the UR Internationalization Office and the Chair in Business Administration (Prof. Steger). Marike Janzen will join from Kansas for the second part of her visiting professorship. Based at REAF, she will be teaching a seminar on Citizens, Refugees, Humans from mid-May.
Finally, please save the date for the Leibniz ScienceCampus annual conference, In/dependence? Interdependence? Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom, which will be held from 17-19 June. Mita Banerjee and Amrita Myers will be the keynote speakers.
