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Diskussion: Friedensprozess in der Türkei – wie weiter? Kurdische Perspektiven im deutschen Kontext 📆30.10.26🕕18:00 mit Prof. Mithat Sancar, Dr. Rosa Burç @rosaburc.bsky.social, Berîvan Aymaz und Die Linke offuniversity.org/de/friedensf... mit @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social + @boell.de

Invitation to a Film Screening and Discussion 📅 31.10.2026,🕓 20:00 at @boell.de in Berlin Traces: Cinema, Memory and Peace curated by Nilgün Yelpaze and Leyla Toprak -> offuniversity.org/forum-for-pe... Organized by @offuniversity.bsky.social, @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social, @boell.de

We are excited to announce 3 NEW COURSES in our 2026-27 WINTER SEMESTER starting in mid-October. JOIN US in sustaining spaces where learning, solidarity, and critical inquiry can continue despite violence and repression. SIGN UP TODAY! -> offuniversity.org/current-cour...

We are happy to announce that the contributions to the Cities at War Lecture Series are now available as texts online: off.pubpub.org/citiesatwar offuniversity.org/contribution...

"Critical Peace and Civil Society,” led by @dr-ferda-fa.bsky.social is an interactive online lab examining how mid-level actors connect communities and decision-makers in conflict settings. ℹ️ offuniversity.org/current-cour... 🗣️ KURMANCÎ @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Gender-based violence is structural, political, and contested. This course explores its dynamics in West Asia, from domestic abuse to conflict-related violence, while highlighting activism, survival strategies, and spaces of resistance across the region. ➡️ offuniversity.org/current-cour...

In our History Textbook Workshop we will have Elena Monke with us this week. She will explore how textbooks are built, using examples from her work in preschool pedagogy and children’s literature. Feel invited to join us 🕓 April 1st, 16:00 CET by signing-up now offuniversity.org/current-cour...

What does it mean to live through historical rupture? This course explores war, displacement, and crisis through performance ethnography, using Playback and Documentary Theatre to transform lived experience into collaborative, research-based performance. Register: offuniversity.org/current-cour...

Amid rising authoritarianism, can universities offer refuge and continuity for human rights defenders in exile? Join an interdisciplinary, practitioner-led course examining real-world strategies, networks, and challenges across global contexts. Register here: offuniversity.org/current-cour...

Check our our latest newsletter full of courses in this upcoming Spring Semester 2026: mailchi.mp/a5a93ce4d926...

We are happy to have Yadviha Lukashyk in our History Textbook Workshop. Her research explores everyday life on the Eastern Front during the First World War through photographic sources. Sign-up here: offuniversity.org/current-cour... #Universitywithoutborders

At a time of incessant wars, widespread mass displacement and rising authoritarianism, the dissemination of knowledge is under threat. Join us in sustaining spaces where learning, solidarity, and critical inquiry can continue despite violence and repression. offuniversity.org/current-cour...

We are inviting proposals for an online laboratory on the Memory of the Syrian War to be taught by scholars at risk. Check the details of the application requirements, what you should submit to apply and how here on the call page ℹ️ offuniversity.org/call-for-an-... 📆Deadline: April 13th, 2026

We are inviting proposals for an online course on War, Memory, and Gender to be taught by scholars at risk. Check the details of the application requirements, what you should submit to apply and how here on the call page ℹ️ offuniversity.org/call-for-cou... 📅 Deadline: April 13th, 2026

In our History Textbook Workshop we have Daryna Zhyvohliadova with us to explore Ukraine’s history and culture through key artifacts, texts, and artistic works. You are invited to join this Wednesday, March 18th, 4pm CET. Just a quick registration here: offuniversity.org/current-cour...

There are only few places left in our History Textbook Workshop. Please write to (our proton mail account) mail@offuniversity.org until March 2nd, 2026 if you want to join us next Wednesday!

WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM, HOPE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 20 February, 16:00-18:00 Lichthof Ost, Humboldt University, Berlin This talk, moderated by Alice von Bieberstein, will introduce the Academy of Social Science, its research communes, and the Journal Democratic Modernity.

JIN JIYAN AZADÎ HÊVÎ JI BO SEDSALA 21'EMÎN 21.02.2026 16.00-18.00 Komel Berlin (Residenzstraße 53-54, 13409 Berlin)

In the next-to-last session of our lecture series Cities at War, we are welcoming Aimal Formolly speaking on "Spatial Justice and Everyday Resilience: Navigating Post-Conflict Urbanism in Kabul". Join us on January 28th, 4pm CET time: offuniversity.org/current-cour... #universitywithoutborders

We are a partner of the universities in #Rojava. Our thoughts and solidarity are with the students and scholars in the region who are facing escalating violence and deteriorating humanitarian conditions. Please read this statement of solidarity here: drive.google.com/file/d/1aEdK...

Scholars and students at the universities in Rojava are part of our Online Lecture Series Cities at War. Their education is disrupted, they had to flee the approaching violence and now live under deteriorating and dangerous conditions. Stop the War now!

Scholars and students at the universities in Rojava are part of our Online Lecture Series Cities at War. Their education is disrupted, they had to flee the approaching violence and now live under deteriorating and dangerous conditions. Stop the War now!

Join us for Batoul Yassine and Mariam Bazzi's lecture "From Archiving to People-Centred, Heritage-Led Urban Recovery. The Cases of Gaza and Nabatieh" this Wednesday, January 21st at 4pm CET. -> more offuniversity.org/current-cour... #universitywithoutborders Thanks to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

⏰ Reminder: Urban Urgencies funding call now open There’s still time to apply for the Urban Urgencies grant from the Urban Studies Foundation — supporting rapid, collaborative research on pressing urban challenges worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC). 🔗 ow.ly/FUIn50XGtgz

We are happy to welcome Nevin Soyukaya this week in our Lecture Series "Cities at War". She will speak on "Diyarbakır/Suriçi: Conflict and Urbicide as the Erasure of Collective Memory" on January 14th at 4pm CET. register here -> offuniversity.org/current-cour... #universitywithoutborders

Enthusiastic about history and between 14 and 25? Join our History Textbook Workshop to learn how and by whom history is written, engage with history textbooks from different parts of the world and understande the uses of history in political narratives. ℹ️ offuniversity.org/call-for-par...

This week we have Sarah Husein with a talk on "Water Practices in Conflict-Torn Damascus: Distressing Memories to Overlook or Coping Strategies for Climate Resilience" in our Cities at War Lecture Series. Join us December 17th, 4 pm CET. Everyone is welcome: moodle.offuniversity.org/course/view....

We are looking forward to Naman Agrawal's lecture Beyond the Golden Walls: Memory, Survival, and Everyday Life in Jaisalmer’s Borderlands" in our Cities at War Lectures Series on 📅 10.12.2025 🕓 16:00 CET Join us here: offuniversity.org/current-cour... @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

We are looking forward to Shada Bokir's lecture "The Other War: Economic Occupation and Civic Resistance in Hadhramout" in our Cities at War Lectures Series on 📅 03.12.2025 🕓 16:00 CET Join us here: offuniversity.org/current-cour...

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 -> offuniversity.org/current-cour...

In our panel "Common Struggles, Unequal Terms." @ygmarshall.bsky.social, Aslı Vatansever and Felicia Kompio discussed the latest developments in US academia and what they mean for precariousness, abuse of power and academic freedom in Germany. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY00...

Good news: We have extended the deadline for ten days until November 28th, 2025.

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. #universitywithoutborders @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

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.

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 offuniversity.org/call-for-two... offuniversity.org/call-fo-expe... @universitywithoutborders

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. #universitywithoutborders

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. You can visit our website offuniversity.org/current-cour... for more information and registration.

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. offuniversity.org/current-cour...

Unser offener Brief, in dem wir fordern, Privatdozent*innen in Reformen der Personalstruktur an Universitäten einzubinden, kann noch bis Montag unterzeichnet werden. Bitte unterstützt unser Anliegen! #IchBinHanna #PDprekär #StableJobsBetterScience #AcademicPrecarity

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. offuniversity.org/current-cour... #universitywithoutborders

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... #universitywithoutborders @unimarburg.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

🌍 Exciting opportunity! Register for "Cities at War" – Online Lecture Series 🔸 By scholars from war-torn cities 📅 Fully online | Free & open to all 👉 ow.ly/6eiM50X2pZz Organised by #USF, BeirutUrbanLab, DKVD, Rojava Univ, Off Univ, Humboldt Uni Berlin #CitiesAtWar #UrbanStudies #ConflictCities

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/

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...

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/

Our newsletter for the Summer 2025 is out. Enjoy reading! mailchi.mp/5a695c4cd605...