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13.10.2025 10:00 CET Hybrid: IOS (Room 109) and online Presentations

The Kerala Model of Migration and Aging Surveys, 1998–2025

Talk by S. Irudaya Rajan (International Institute of Migration and Development, Kerala) as part of the project "Transforming Anxieties of Ageing in Southeastern Europe. Political, Social, and Cultural Narratives of Demographic Change", funded by VolkswagenStiftung.

14.10.2025 13:30 CET Hybrid: IOS (Room 109) and online Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

Climate Change and Migration in Central Asia: Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic

Talk by Kamalbek Karymshakov (Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

21.10.2025 19:00 CET Evangelisches Bildungswerk (EBW), Am Ölberg 2, 93047 Regensburg Events, Discussion, Public events

Wer pflegt Regensburg?

Panel discussion with Kathleen Beger (IOS) and Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS) on the experiences of nursing staff from Southeast Europe in Regensburg, and the challenges of care work.

21.10.2025 13:30 CET Hybrid: IOS (Room 109) and online Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

New Methods for Measuring Inequality by Analyzing Assortative Mating

Talk by Anna Naszodi (Central Bank of Hungary and International Demographic Inequality Lab) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

28.10.2025 13:30 CET Online via Zoom Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

Gender Differences in Savings over the Life-Cycle: The Role of Financial Literacy

Talk by Marta Cota (Nova School of Business and Economics) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

11.11.2025 13:30 CET Online via Zoom Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

War, Sanctions, and Business Strategy: European Firms in Russia

Talk by Laura Solanko (The Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT)) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

18.11.2025 13:30 CET Hybrid: IOS (Room 109) and online Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

Immigration, Political Ideologies and the Polarization of American Politics

Talk by Johannes Matzat (University of Lucerne) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

25.11.2025 14:15 CET IOS, Room 017, Landshuter Str. 4, 93047 Regensburg Discussion, Public events, Presentations

Book Presentation: Helden eines Landes, das es nicht mehr gibt

Book presentation and discussion with author Olha Martyniuk (Think Space Ukraine) and Natali Stegmann (University Regensburg).

25.11.2025 13:30 CET Online via Zoom Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

The Geoeconomics of Contract Enforcement: Coercion or Backloading

Talk by Elena Paltseva (Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

02.12.2025 13:30 CET Hybrid: IOS (Room 109) and online Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

3G and Structural Transformation in Vietnam

Talk by Anri Sakakibara (Technical University of Munich) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

09.12.2025 13:30 CET Hybrid: IOS (Room 109) and online Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

Rewriting the Social Contract: Elite Response to Labor Unrest

Talk by Erik Hornung (University of Cologne) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

16.12.2025 13:30 CET Online via Zoom Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.

Combinatorics of Failure: Industrial Giants and Workers' Struggles within Transformation Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1989–2020

Talk by Anđela Pepić (University of Banja Luka) as part of the Research Seminar Series of the IOS Economics Department.

13.01.2026 13:30 CET Hybrid: IOS (Room 109) and online Seminar Series of the Economics Dept.