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DIMAS | Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies

DIMAS was founded in 2022, following on from CITAS. CITAS was founded in 2017 as a platform for coordinating and developing collaborative area studies activities between institutions, projects and colleagues in Regensburg.

DIMAS is continuing this academic tradition with six permanent professorships, postdoctoral and doctoral positions, and an innovative teaching and research programme.?Find out more about the concept and ideas shaping DIMAS here.

Guest lectures in the block seminar "Borders in Political Discourses" by Mélanie Sadoza?

Guest lectures in the block seminar "Borders in Political Discourses"

Organized by Dr. Mélanie Sadoza?

Friday, October 25

09:00-10:00 s.t.: Pr. Dr. Etienne Boisserie, a historian of Central Europe with a focus on Czechoslovakia at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO), Paris.?His talk for the block seminar is entitled?"Drawing Borders in Post-War Context: the Reshaping of Central Europe after WWI".
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14:00-15:00 s.t.: Dr. Jules Sergei Fediunin, a political scientist at the University of Oslo,?whose research deals with the different trends of Russian nationalisms. His talk is entitled?"Russia’s ‘Bleeding Stump’ and ‘Vladimir Lenin’s’ Ukraine: Instumentalizing Borders in Russian Nationalist Discourse".

There is limited space in the room, so registration is preferable by sending an email to Dr. Mélanie Sadoza?:?melanie.sadozai@ur.de

Venue?Bajuwarenstra?e 4, BA 825

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Calls for Papers

11-13 October in Istanbul |?Workshop: Unorthodox Approaches to Eurasian Studies | Deadline: 31.07.2024

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DIMAS Courses in Winter Semester 2024/25

As the summer semester comes to an end, we look forward to the winter semester!

Our colleagues at DIMAS are offering a range of courses for students as well as workshops for doctoral researchers.

Check out the courses here - and follow the links to sign up as students.

Fairville - für faire St?dte:?DIMAS-Project under supervision of UR-Professor Dr. Anna Steigemann received funding by Horizon Europe

Anna Steigemann, Professor of Sociological Dimensions of Space, at DIMAS is part of a consortium that has secured EU-Horizon funding for Fairville - Facing inequalities and democratic challenges through co-production in cities. The project intends to address embedded urban inequalities and the challenge this poses to democracy in large cities and urban regions. It will do so by intervening in low-income neighbourhoods that face a growing distance to the institutions and processes of representative democracy. Find out more about the project in the UR press release (in German) and on the Fairville website.

From CITAS to DIMAS - on the transition from a Center into a Department

In November, the newly elected board of DIMAS, Prof. Dr. Anna Steigemann and Prof. Dr. Rike Kr?mer-Hoppe, met with the President of the University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel, together with members of the CITAS Board and the manager of CITAS, and now DIMAS, to outline the transition from an area studies Center (CITAS) into a new Department (DIMAS) structure.

Find out more about this meeting and the work in area studies at UR in this report from the UR communication department (in German).

• Image caption: Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel, President of the UR (R) with members of the DIMAS?and CITAS Boards and Manager: (L to R) Prof. Dr. Jochen Mecke, Prof. Dr. Anna Steigemann, Prof. Dr. Rike Kr?mer-Hoppe, Dr. Birgit Hebel-Bauridl und Dr. Paul Vickers. Photo: Margit Scheid/UR