The Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (“Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien” (ZIRS)) is a research institution of the Martin Luther University for the promotion and networking of regional scientific competences and for the management of interdisciplinary research projects.
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Call for contributions - Summer School "Multi-crisis around the World: Perspectives from the Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and the Humanities”
The 2024 meeting, which is organised in close cooperation with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), addresses questions of multiple crises and the role of social sciences and humanities. Find the full call here.
Call for Papers: Futures Coal at RGS 2024 in London
ZIRS members Amy Walker and Felix Schiedlowski call for abstracts for their panel on ‘Futures of Coal’: Mapping the Geographies, Materialities and Rhythms of Coal at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society. in London, August 2024. The authors welcome geographical, interdisciplinary, artistic, and novel contributions addressing questions and concerns in the fields of geologies of coal, genealogies of coal, temporalities of coal, materials of coal, and folklore of coal. Find the full call here. The deadline for submissions is February 16
PartEEnschaften - Transformative participation in renewable energy landscapes
Introducing new research project. In her current project at ZIRS PartEEnschaften – Transformative participation in landscapes of renewable energy, Kim Dittmann (M.A., researcher) conducts research on the connections between energy acceptance and local narratives. In order to intensify public participation and the formation of local publics, the projects aims to integrate local narratives into the planning culture of the energy transition (“Energiewende”).
New publications
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Christian Strümpell, Michael HoffmannIndustrial Labour in an Unequal World
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Felix SchiedlowskiZwischen Abwicklung und Inwertsetzung
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Amy Walker, Felix SchiedlowskiBraunkohle
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© Elsevier Amy Walker, Kieran O'Mahony, Kate BoyerRecollecting the everyday: Emotion, memory and spaces of mundane practice
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Jonathan Everts, Asta Vonderau, Christian Tietje, Azar Aliyev, Mareike Pampus, Felix Kolb (Hrsg.)Postfossile Zukünfte
