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Ground broken for new IfL building in the city center of Leipzig

Construction of the new Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) on Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz in Leipzig began today (27 October) with a ground-breaking ceremony.

"Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning" accepted to Scopus database

Since June 2023, the Open-Access-journal “Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning” is part of the database Scopus. The journal, which is published by ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the…

"Critical Approaches to Militarisation and Space“

Interdisciplinary workshop on the (new) relations between military, state, society and space

IfL research workshop #9

Exploring affects and emotions in current spatially related research: established methods and new…

News in brief

New blog post: Power, silences, and production of space. New map of Russian State, 2023

In January 2023 the discussion on the new law, which would classify any maps that “question the territorial integrity” of the Russian State as "extremist materials", has started in Russian Federation.

. . . shows the places in Germany whose names end with -itz or -ow.

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Maps and atlases as mediators and producers of space (knowledge) under the global condition

Cooperation and conflict in Eastern Europe (KonKoop)