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Julia Pfennich

Auszeichnung für Dissertation im Versicherungsrecht

Dr.in Julia Pfennich wurde für ihre Dissertation mit dem Titel „Das Trennungsprinzip in der Haftpflichtversicherung“ gleich zweifach ausgezeichnet. Die Arbeit, die sie im September 2025 an der Universität Salzburg abgeschlossen hat, entstand neben ihrer Tätigkeit als Unternehmensjuristin und wurde von Prof. Gruber betreut.

Veröffentlicht am 11 Mai 2026
A tea planter and his foremen, Jolotigo Tea Plantation, ca. 1930 (Doorman Family Collection)

FOR APAC Guest Lecture: „Foremen, Labor Scout, and Overseas Worker Agent, Java 1870s – 2020s“

16. Juni 2026 | Online: Over the past century and a half, laborers from rural Java, Indonesia, have moved to various regions, near and far. Beginning with local migration in the mid-19th century to expand coffee cultivation, this evolved into overseas migration to all corners of the world. This migration was facilitated by middlemen known as mandor, werek, and migrant worker agents. Without those middlemen, the entire labor recruitment structure in and from Java would be impossible.

Veröffentlicht am 06 Mai 2026
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FOR APAC Ringvorlesung: “Wuju (舞剧): Colossal Spectacle between Cultural Renaissance and Geopolitics”

19. Mai 2026 | Präsenz: The Chinese “dance drama” known as wǔjù (舞剧), is a modern hyper-mediated form of grand spectacle that cannot easily be pigeon-holed. It draws on long traditions of performing arts that include multiple forms of Chinese opera (such as jingju and kunqu) and narrative song (shuochang yishu), but also on more recent developments from ballet, modern dance, experimental and avant-garde theatre, music theatre, even acrobatics, the “model operas” of the Cultural Revolution era, and now digital arts.

Veröffentlicht am 05 Mai 2026