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Augsburger Rathaus (Foto: Stefan Schweihofer) CC BY-NC-ND

Korinth Apollontempel © University of Augsburg

Schedelche Weltchronik CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Stadtansicht Augsburg um 1550, Blick auf Perlachturm im Hintergrund, im Vordergrund simultane Darstellung jahreszeitentypischen Markttreibens im Vordergrund

Marktgeschehen auf dem Augsburger Perlachplatz: Jahreszeitenbild Oktober bis Dezember, Heinrich Vogtherr d. J. (?), um 1540; Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, Inv. Nr. 9330

Robert Koehler: "Der Streik" Public Domain

Martin Luther King Jr. © University of Augsburg

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March 25, 2025

The University of Toronto Press publishes 'Culinary Claims'

Dr. L. Sasha Gora, the director of the "Off the Menu" Research Group, has published her first monograph, 'Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada', as part of the Culinaria series at the Toronto University Press. It explores the complex relationships between wild plants and introduced animals, between Indigenous foodways and Canadian regulations.

[Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities]

The book The Toxic Ship wins two research awards

The book "The Toxic Ship – The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" by Simone Müller, University of Augsburg, has been awarded two international academic prizes. These are the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Hagley Prize awarded by the Business History Conference (BHC) and the Hagley Museum and Library.
[University of Augsburg]

“Wetlands in History” receives support from SEED funding from the University of Augsburg

The working group “Wetlands in History: Histories from the quaking zone, 1630-1997” receives support from SEED funding from the University of Augsburg and can thus continue and expand its work. [Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities]