It is with great sadness and sorrow that we learnt of the death of our colleague and friend Kristine. With Prof. Dr. Kristine Kern’s passing, the academic community and the IRS have lost an outstanding and internationally highly respected researcher. more info

Ksenia Litvinenko, an Associate Postdoctoral Researcher at the IRS Erkner, has begun her new position as a Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellow on December 1, 2024. Her project, titled “Accommodating Extractivism: Mobile Architecture and Rotational Urbanism in Western Siberia, 1980–1992,” has been awarded funding by the DFG for a two-year term. more info

The example of construction shows very directly how people interact with their physical environment. However, the social sciences and humanities have difficulties in grasping this interaction conceptually and conceptually. A group of IRS researchers has now presented an approach that places building materials at the centre of research into the history of construction and architecture. more info

The General Assembly, the central decision-making body of the IRS, has a new chair: Dr Nikola Sander from the MWFK Brandenburg is taking over as chair, supported by Anne Keßler from the BMWSB as her deputy. more info