Stephan Scheel, Juniorprofessor for Transnational Cooperation and Migration Research (Universität Duisburg-Essen) will organize the Panel "Doing Reflexive Migration Studies in Digital Times" for the ESA Midterm Conference in Berlin, Sept.10-11, 2020. Interested researchers are kindly asked to send in an abstract by February 24, 2020.

Together with Jana Fingarova and Nora Regös, Anna Amelina talks about the research results of the collaborative research project Mobile Welfare in a Transnational Europe: An Analysis of Portability Regimes of Social Security Rights (TRANSWEL). The radio interview took place on Januaray 16, 2020.

The educational science and social-pedagogy scholar was awarded by ASH Berlin for her involvement against right-wing extremism, antisemitism and antifeminism on January 11, 2020.

Heike Radvan is awarded for her work against right-wing extremism, antisemitism and antifeminism.

The regional newspaper "Lausitzer Rundschau" interviewed Heike Radvan about the threat of right-wing extremism at BTU, her research on civil dialogues in Cottbus, and this year's lecture series about the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, titled "30 Jahre friedliche Revolution- ein kritischer Rückblick".

This year's "Body of Knowledge" class, taught by Miriam friz Trzeciak and Manuel Peters for first semesters of M.A. World Heritage Studies, visited the castle Sanssouci in Potsdam on Saturday, 16 November. Sanssouci is one of 43 World Heritage sites in Germany.