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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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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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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
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September 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Adel Dashela and Safwan Yahya Al-Showaiter's course focusses on how marginalized communities are represented in novels.
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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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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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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.

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March 23, 2026 at 10:45 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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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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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...
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This lecture examines the lived experiences of Kabul’s residents amid the enduring legacies of conflict, emphasizing the intersections of spatial justice, social cohesion, and participatory urban planning. By integrating gamified urban design models with ethnographic insights and geospatial analysis, it outlines pathways for strengthening resilience, equity, and collective memory in fragile urban environments.
January 27, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Take a look at this publication by Off University on "Urgently Wanted: Freedom of Academic Learning and Research. An argument for further research into the educational aspirations of New Berliners". replito.pubpub.org/pub/igm8kv22
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Urgently Wanted: Freedom of Academic Learning and Research
An argument for further research into the educational aspirations of New Berliners
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May 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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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.
 
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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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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.

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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 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.
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This lecture advances the argument that urban recovery can start during war in many forms and practices, one of which is the act of archiving. Archiving the city does not only preserve but also enable the emergence of multiple narratives through unarchiving, a process that disrupts and re-organizes the archival collection, leading to the formation of future imaginaries tied to the recovery of sites of urbicide. This proposition is explored through two cases: Gaza, Palestine, and Nabatieh, Southern Lebanon, where a team of the Beirut Urban Lab has engaged in planning amid complex conditions of war.
January 20, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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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.

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Dating back to the 5th millennium B.C., Diyarbakır is one of the rare urban centers where the evolution of urban history and the cumulative layers of the past can be observed in all phases up to the twenty-first century. Between October 2015 and March 2016, however, this deeply layered urban fabric was violently disrupted. Following declarations of self-governance in twenty Kurdish cities, intense armed clashes broke out between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and Turkish state security forces, involving heavy weaponry leading to widespread urban destruction. This paper examines the dynamics of armed urban conflict and the subsequent practices of urbicide through the case of Diyarbakır’s historic core, Suriçi. It analyzes the socio-spatial consequences of this violence, with particular attention to its erasure of historical layers, transformation of the urban fabric, and displacement of local communities.
January 13, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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The first session in the Cities at War Lecture Series in 2026 will be given by Viktoriia Grivina on #Kharkiv is a Dream. Planning a Future During War". Join her timely talk on Wednesday, 07.01.2026 at 4 pm CET.
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In 2022, Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine withstood months of relentless Russian artillery strikes that razed entire residential districts of the city, with its population dropping from 1.6 million to 800 000. A short Ukrainian counteroffensive in summer 2022 eliminated the fears of occupation. People started to return, and grand plans involving foreign architectural bureaus for rebuilding have appeared. But are we allowed to think of the future when Kharkiv continues to be attacked by drones, guided bombs, and missiles every day? During this lecture, I invite you to dream and think of the future of a war city with me.
January 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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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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Greetings back to Tirana 🥰 @petoandrea.bsky.social @opencostaction.eu #universitywithoutborders
June 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM