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This week in our lecture series "Cities at War": Emotional Landscapes of Ukrainian Cities in Times of War
by Olena Kononenko and Oleksandra Nenko.
📆 26.11.2025

⏰16:00 CET
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War leaves deep and visible scars on the urban landscape, but it also profoundly transforms how residents emotionally perceive their city. In this lecture, we will explore the concept of the emotional landscape and emotional places in wartime cities, and present the types of emotional places identified in contemporary Kyiv and Kharkiv.
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Join us this week for "Justice in Post-War Reconstruction: The Social Sustainability of Neighbourhoods" by Zena Asswad in our Cities at War Lectures Series on 19.11.2025 at 16:00 CET.
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The lecture highlights the social and emportional dimensions of reconstruction, emphasising that buidling must extend beyond physical infrastrcuture to restore community, identity, and justice. It reflects the tension between sustainability discourses and political agendas and advocates for socially rooted approaches that honour local memory and participation. This hightlights how terms like "modernisation" and "sustainability" can be weaponized to justify displacement and homogenisation, particularly in the case of Aleppo.
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Join us this week for "Urban Ruins and Resettlement: Governing Cities in Post-Conflict Ethiopia" by Wudu Muluneh Yimer in our Cities at War Lectures Series on 12.11.2025 at 16:00 CET.
This lecture examines post-conflict urban reconstruction in Ethiopia, focusing on cities in the Amhara region affected by displacement, infrastructural ruination, and contested planning. It explores how residents reclaim space, preserve memory, and secure tenure while local authorities navigate reconstruction under political and economic constraints, highlighting the interplay between everyday life, governance, and urban memory.
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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The @neweuropeu.bsky.social and @offuniversity.bsky.social invite applications from colleagues to form a team delivering a 12-week online course titled “History Textbook Workshop”. Deadline: November 16th
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November 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Join the third session of our Cities at War Lecture Series: "Teaching 300 Metres Beyond the Border" by Luqman Guldivê this Wednesday at 5 pm CET.

You can visit our website offuniversity.org/current-cour... for more information and registration.
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Teaching 300 Metres Beyond the Border by Luqman Guldivê - Cities at War Lectures Series - 3 During the 1990s, paramilitary operations systematically eliminated the artisans and emerging middle class in the town of Nisêbin just a few hundred meters north of Qamislo, across the border. The renewed destruction in late 2015 erased urban space, left inhabitants with deeply fragmented memories and a dislocated sense of place. The subsequent reconstruction further severed these connections, erasing the sites of collective memory once embedded in the urban fabric. As an educator at the University of Rojava, Luqman Guldiv narrates the emotional and intellectual challenges of working within sight of a place so violently transformed.
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Join the third session of our Cities at War Lecture Series: "Kobanê — Between The Ashes of War and The Dawn of Reconstruction" by Aras Hiso this Wednesday at 4pm CET.

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Kobanê — Between The Ashes of War and The Dawn of Reconstruction by Aras Hiso - Cities at War Lectures Series - 3, 05.11.2025, 16:00 CET After the liberation of Kobanê in 2015, the residents of Kobane undertook the task of rebuilding their city despite ongoing warfare and the constraints of a severe embargo. As part of this reconstruction, they made the decision to establish the city’s first university now serving over 1000 students. What motivated the founding of the university? How was the city rebuilt? And how does the ever-present threat of renewed violence continue to shape the reconstruction? Aras Hiso, who experienced this period first as a student and now as a faculty member at the University of Kobanê, offers a first-hand account.
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Join the second session of our lecture series "Cities at War" with Anood Ali who will speak on "Architecture as Resistance: The Reconstruction of Gaza's Urban Fabric After The Ongoing Genocide" this Wednesday, 4 pm CET.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Aksana Ulanovich and Andrii Kostyriev’s course will uncover the techniques, tactics, and means by which media shape – and are shaped by – democratic and authoritarian contexts through discussion, debate, and collaborative research.
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Media Communication in the 21st Century with Aksana Ulanovich and Adrii Kostyriev, Wednesdays 2pm hosted at the Geschister Scholl Institute fot Political Science at LMU, co-sponsored by New University IN Exile Consortium
October 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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We are proud to present three new online courses starting in mid-October. All our courses are free to join, free of charge and free in content! Sign up
today! offuniversity.org/current-cour...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Join babykilla @iambabykilla.bsky.social in their workshop, “Drag As A Liberating Teaching Methodology”, on Sept. 20, 16:30 (CEST) and explore how performance and play can create inclusive, critical, and joyful learning environments.

More info about Off Fest📍https://offuniversity.org/off-fest-2025/
September 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The morning after, on September 21, we will conspire with activist and representatives of organizations to think about how we can build more solidarity among all knowledge workers.
For details: offuniversity.org/panel-discus...
How to build more solidarity among all knowledge workers.
September 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Together with Asli Vatansever, @ygmarshall.bsky.social and Felicia Kompio @gewberlin.bsky.social, we will discuss what MAGA does to academic freedom in the US and what that means for working conditions in Germany for all scholars. Join us on Sept. 20 at 7pm online or @Engelnest in Berlin.
Common Struggles, Unequal terms. Towards Fair working Conditions for all Scholars. Panelists Asli Vatansever, Felicia Kompio, Yannick Giovanni Marshall International at-risk academics working in German academia and organisations campaigning for better working conditions will critically discuss the latest developments for US academia and what they mean for existing challenges such as precariousness, abuse of power and the state of academic freedom.
September 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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On September 20, Off Fest will open with a workshop led by @dr-ferda-fa.bsky.social on the experience of the Critical Peace Network.

For more information, visit our website 📍 offuniversity.org/off-fest-2025/
Don’t forget to register to help us with the planning📝 nc.offuniversity.org/index.php/ap...
September 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Join us on September 20–21, 2025, for our yearly meeting and the 2nd Off Festival.
The festival will include workshops, a panel discussion, art performances, film screening and discussion, music, dancing, and shared meals.
For more information, visit our website 👉 offuniversity.org/off-fest-2025/
July 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Eleştirel Barış Ağı olarak "Sivil Toplum Barışı Konuşuyor" Webinar Serisinin ilk etkinliğinde bütün ilgilileri webinara davet ediyoruz. t1p.de/4jfmx
Eleştirel Barış Ağı'nın Sivil Toplum Barışı konuşuyor başlıklı webinar serisinin posteri. Ferda Fahrioğlu ve Hamit Bozarslan ve Arzu Yılmaz konuşmacılar
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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In "Myanmar in the World" scholars from Myanmar will discuss the impact of geographical aspects on international politics in the context of Myanmar. The course has English presentations with discussion groups in English & Burmese.
 
Don't forget to register 👉 t1p.de/ogtgg
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Myanmar in the World by Tr. Rose and Tr. April, 10.05.-19.07.2025, Saturdays, 9 am CEST, 3 ECTS
April 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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We'll be part of this interesting exchange next Wednesday.

•Conference “Authoritarian Threats and Academic Solidarities in Contemporary Eastern European Exile”• April 9, 2025 •
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April 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Registration is open!

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Othering, Social Taboo, and Ethnicity: Representations of the Margin in Arab Contemporary Fiction by Adel Dashela and Safwan Yahya Al-Showaiter.
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April 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Adel Dashela and Safwan Yahya Al-Showaiter's course focusses on how marginalized communities are represented in novels.
Register now t1p.de/o9kl6
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Othering, Social Taboo, and Ethnicity. Representations of the Margins in Arab Contemporary Fiction by Adel Dashela, Safwan Yahya Al-Showaiter, 09.04.2025 - 09.07.2025, Wednesdays, 14:00 CEST, 3 ECTS
March 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Join Aleksandra Kolesnik and Alexandre Russanov's course "History and Memory in Contemporary Russia" to explore historical culture in contemporary Russia through an examination of both state memory policies and grassroots initiatives.
We start on April 7th, registration is open !!🔔 t1p.de/y4znw
History and Memory in Contemporary Russia by Alexandra Kolesnik and Aleksandr Rusanov, 04.04.2025 - 18.07.2025, Mondays 5 pm CEST
March 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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🌟Off University’s 2025 Summer Semester, a defence against the global attack on science and critical thinking, is starting soon!

Sign-up today for our online courses on our new website at offuniversity.org and check out our e-learning platform, moodle.offuniversity.org

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Caste on Screen: Hindi Cinema and the Making of Contemporary India by Reyazul Haque and Nadja-Christina Schneider, History and Memory in Contemporary Russia by Alexandra Kolesnik and Aleksandr Rusanov, Myanmar in the World by two scholars from Myanmar, and Othering, Social Taboo, and Ethnicity: Representations of the Margin in Arab Contemporary Fiction by Adel Dashela and Safwan Yahya Al-Showaiter.
March 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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This is a summer against the global attack on science and critical thinking! Off University's Summer Semester is starting soon with 4 new courses that help to stay sane. Join us and register here for free:
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March 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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29.01.25: Join the final session of our conversation series, Ways of Remembering!
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In conversation with Meltem Ahıska & aided by two short films produced in Turkey, we will problematize visibility and invisibility with regard to various concepts and issues of memory.
January 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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What is your experience of the freedom to study, learn or train in Berlin?

We documented answers in the radio play "The Situation or the Freedom to be Loud" now available on all streaming platform.

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/2jcAGr...
🎧 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzH...
Cover of the radio play "The Situation or the Freedom to be Loud"
January 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Do you want to teach at Off University? We are calling for proposals for a course on Myanmar to be taught by scholars at risk.
Deadline for Applications: January 5th, 2025.
More Information: offuniversity.org/news/call-fo...
Call for Course Proposals on Myanmar
December 4, 2024 at 12:03 PM