CeCoP is delighted to welcome three guest lecturers to Osnabrück in the summer semester of 2026: Prof. Ruslana Havrylyuk (Chernivsti/Ukraine), Prof. Kristian Steiner (Malmö/Sweden), and Prof. Kristin J. Anderson (Houston/USA) will explore joint research projects between May and October and bring new impulses to teaching at the institute.
Ruslana Havrylyuk is a professor of law at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University and a trained mediator. As part of a collaborative event with the Osnabrück law department, she will give students from the law faculty and our social science master's programs insights into current mediation practice. The course Mediation and Advanced Conflict Resolution: Legal Framework, Cooperation Practices and Values will examine and practically locate the legal and political framework conditions of territorial conflicts, among other topics.
Kristian Steiner is an associate professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of Malmö. His research focuses on religious and ideological radicalization, religion and war, and the construction of enemy images. As part of the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility program, he will offer a seminar on war rhetoric and enemy images for the elective section of the master's program.
Kristin J. Anderson will come to Osnabrück University as a Hannah Arendt Fellow from May to October 2026. The scholarship, which is funded in part by the state, supports international scholars in the humanities and social sciences in conducting research on the central theme of “Defining Democracy – Describing Democracies – Comparing Democracies.” Kristin J. Anderson is a professor of social psychology at the University of Houston-Downtown/Texas. She is an expert on the psychology of prejudice and power and the author of influential books such as Benign Bigotry and Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged: Entitlement's Response to Social Progress. In Osnabrück, Anderson will work with Prof. Alexander De Juan to investigate how collective memory and historical revisionism shape contemporary anti-democratic attitudes. The project deals with the concept of “psychological entitlement”, i.e. the political perception that dominant social groups deserve certain privileges over outside group - a phenomenon that Anderson deems to be crucial for our understanding of the environment in which Trump and other right-wing actors can thrive. Her stay will also be accompanied by an elective seminar in the master's program, in which students will explore the psychological correlates between prejudice, discrimination, and violence.
