Guest Lecture | Multipolar Myths: Imperialism and the Gulf Arab Monarchies at a time of Climate Collapse
Adam Hanieh situates the Gulf monarchies’ oil-fuelled rise within shifting oil-cantered global capitalism and US–China rivalries, showing how great-power competition reshapes but fails to transform enduring regional domination.
Guest lecture: Liberal Arts and Illiberalism in Times of Crisis
1 December 2025 | Presence: What is the relationship between unsettling, threatening, or even horrific realities and the activity of artists and intellectuals who pursue “purely” aesthetic or academic endeavors? Can art or scholarship have a direct effect on socio-political reality, and should it aspire to do so? Conversely, when does aesthetic, artistic, or historical contemplation become a kind of escapism, a healthy or unhealthy coping mechanism with unbearable realities?
Workshop “Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Salzburg 2025”
From November 5 to 7, 2025, the workshop Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Salzburg 2025 took place at the Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg. The workshop was organized by Simon Blatt, Verena Bögelein, Frank Duzaar, and Naian Liao, bringing together internationally renowned experts as well as early-career researchers to discuss recent developments in nonlinear partial differential equations.
