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Welcome to DIMAS
DIMAS | Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies
DIMAS was founded in 2022, following on from CITAS. CITAS was founded in 2017 as a platform for coordinating and developing collaborative area studies activities between institutions, projects and colleagues in Regensburg.
DIMAS is continuing this academic tradition with six permanent professorships, postdoctoral and doctoral positions, and an innovative teaching and research programme.?Find out more about the concept and ideas shaping DIMAS here.
Workshop "Ecochronotopes in Transmedial Fictions from the Americas"
Registration until april 4th!
“StoryMachine” a platform for AI-supported folk tales
In an interview with DIMAS Managing Director Laura Niebling, Astrid Ensslin explains how the project came about
UR #talktime Anna Steigemann
Get to know Anna Steigemann, speaker of DIMAS and professor of sociological dimensions of space, in this profile and interview.
Area Studies Prize for Master's Theses awarded
Learn more about the prize winners
From CITAS to DIMAS
Learn more about the transition from CITAS to DIMAS in this text from the UR communication department