TALKS
2027
Reitinger, Patrick: The Local in the Light of World Politics: Historical-Geographical Research on the Lower Bavarian Border with Czechoslovakia during the National Socialist Period. Invited lecture, Historischer Verein von Niederbayern, Staatsarchiv Landshut, 23 February 2027. (German)
2026
Reitinger, Patrick: Two Cultures in One Discipline? Physical Geography and Human Geography and Their Respective Approaches to Their Own National Socialist Past after 1945. Paper presented at the workshop "Zwei Kulturen? – Der Umgang mit der NS-Vergangenheit in den Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften", Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Historische Kommission, Munich, 21 October 2026. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Managed Water as a Theme in Historical-Geographical Landeskunde: A Look at the History of Geography in the Twentieth Century. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Arbeitskreis für historische Kulturlandschaftsforschung in Mitteleuropa (ARKUM), Langenthal, Switzerland, 16–19 September 2026. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: The Bohemian Forest as a Site of Geographical Knowledge Production in the Short Twentieth Century. Invited paper at the conference "Im Grenzland. Der Böhmerwald als Grenzregion – systematische Lektüren", University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 10–12 September 2026. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: The Conceptualisation of the Regional in Historical-Geographical Landeskunde (1922–1970). Invited lecture, Arbeitskreis Landeskunde und Kulturlandschaft im Bayerischen Landesverein für Heimatpflege, Munich, 17 April 2026. (German)
2025
Reitinger, Patrick: Research on the "Slavic Threat in Eastern Bavaria": Munich Geography in the Service of Anti-Czechoslovak Policy in the 1930s. Invited lecture, Institut für tschechisch-deutsche Arealstudien und Germanistik, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 25 November 2025. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Spatialization of Memory in Traumatized Regions: The Role of State Structures and Political Institutions in Making Spatial Remembrance Permanent. Keynote lecture at the workshop "Memory and Space in Traumatized Regions", Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 16 May 2025. (English)
Reitinger, Patrick: Leopoldsreut in Focus: Insights into the Relationship between Research and Transfer on the Historical Geography of a Disappeared Settlement. Internal colloquium, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig, 5 May 2025. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Geographical and Historical Landeskunde of East-Central Europe in the Twentieth Century: Perspectives for a Scientific Network. Colloquium of the Herder Institute Research Academy, Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Marburg, 25 April 2025. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: History of Geography as a Methodology for Theory Development: New Perspectives on Historically Sensitive Geographies of the Regional. Paper presented at the conference "Geographien des Regionalen: Theorien, Konzepte und Empirien", Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig, 10 April 2025. (German)
2024
Reitinger, Patrick: Reflections on the Theory, Methodology and History of Geographies of Rural Spaces. Keynote lecture, Rural Studies Colloquium #5, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 25 September 2024. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick and Andreas Dix: 50 Years of the Working Group: Reflections from the Perspective of Historical Geography. 50th International Conference of the Arbeitskreis für historische Kulturlandschaftsforschung in Mitteleuropa (ARKUM), University of Innsbruck, 20 September 2024. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: The Working Group on the History of Geography and the German Geographical Society: Reflections on the Future of Disciplinary History. Annual conference of the Arbeitskreis Geschichte der Geographie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie, University of Bonn, 29 June 2024. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Concepts and Methods of Geographical Landeskunde in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Internal colloquium, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig, 6 May 2024. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Conceptualisations in Central European Landscape Geography since the End of the First World War. Invited lecture, Kommission für Landeskunde, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 26 February 2024. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: A Shared Border Region at the Heart of Europe: Historical-Geographical Perspectives on Bavarian-Czech Relations in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Invited lecture, Junge Europäische Föderalisten (JEF) Bamberg, 26 January 2024. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Cities as Objects of State Spatial Policy: Perspectives from Historical Geography. Lecture in the series "Konzepte und Strukturen städtischer Räume", University of Leipzig, 17 January 2024. (German)
2023
Reitinger, Patrick: Regional Geography between ChatGPT, Apple Vision Pro and the Metaverse: Reflections on the Potential and Limits of Regional-Geographical Presentation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Deutsche Akademie für Landeskunde, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 5 November 2023. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: A Plea for Multi-Paradigmatic Perspectives: Historical-Geographical and Regional-Geographical Research Practice in the Anthropocene. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 22 September 2023. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: (Almost) 50 Years of Historical Cultural Landscape Research in Central Europe: Transdisciplinary Collaboration at the Interface of Archaeology, History and Geography. ARKUM Workshop, Universität Tübingen, 23 June 2023. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Cooperation Instead of Confrontation? Local Entanglements in the Bavarian-Bohemian Border Region (1918–1933). Centrum HINDLE, Domažlice, Czech Republic, 24 February 2023. (German)
2022
Reitinger, Patrick and Haik Thomas Porada: From the "Values of the German Homeland" in 1957 to "Landscapes in Germany" in 2022: On the Development of the Concept of Heimat in Geographical Landeskunde. AG Landesgeschichte, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, Halle an der Saale, 22 September 2022. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Farmsteads as Symbols of Law in the Landscape? The Function of Justice in Spatial Development Processes in Totalitarian States: The Example of the Model Communities of the NS-Gau Sudetenland (1939–1945). 48. Jahrestagung ARKUM "Recht macht Landschaft", Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 15 September 2022. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Spatialisations of Relevance: Spatial Policy at the Eastern Border of Bavaria in the Weimar Republic. Historisch-Geographisches Kolloquium, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 21 June 2022. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Continuity or Caesura? The Region at the Eastern Border of Bavaria and the Epochal Year 1918. Invited paper at the conference "Die bayerisch-tschechische Grenze als Innovationsraum im ‚langen' 19. Jahrhundert", Repräsentantz des Freistaats Bayern, Prague, 27 May 2022. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Czech-German Relations: Significant Historical Milestones. Keynote lecture, closing workshop of the Czech-German research project CouReg, Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem, 13 May 2022. (Czech/German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Challenges of Source Interpretation in the History of Geography at the Transition from the Weimar Republic to the National Socialist Period: The Example of the Bavarian Eastern March. Oberseminar der Historischen Geographie, Universität Bamberg, 6 May 2022. (German)
2021
Reitinger, Patrick: The Re-Nationalisation of European Regionalisation Processes: A Historical-Political Geography of Closed Borders. #GeoWoche2021, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie, 6 October 2021. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Where Does "the Most German of All Landscapes" End and Where Does the "Bulwark against the Slavic Threat" Begin? Regional Identity Conflicts in the Bavarian Eastern March before and after 1933. 47. Jahrestagung ARKUM "Landschaft – Region – Identität", Leinefelde, 17 September 2021. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: The Bavarian Eastern March in the Weimar Republic: A Historical-Geographical Perspective. Oberseminar der Historischen Geographie, Universität Bamberg, 29 April 2021. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Who Decides in a Crisis? The German Political System and the Corona Pandemic. Invited guest lecture, Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem, 15 March 2021. (English)
2020
Reitinger, Patrick: Rural Spatial Policy in the Weimar Republic: Czechoslovakia and the Periphery Discourse in the Bavarian Eastern March. Digital lecture, Colloquium of the Junge DGO, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, 28 October 2020. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Sustainable Tourism before and after Covid-19: Perspectives from (Historical) Tourism Geography. Digital short lecture, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Regionalgruppe Erlangen-Nürnberg-Bamberg, 6 July 2020. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: More than Just Nationalism? (Border) Space Constructions of German-Speaking Social Democracy in the First Czechoslovak Republic. Invited guest lecture, Institut für tschechisch-deutsche Arealstudien und Germanistik, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice. Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 11 March 2020. (German)
2019
Reitinger, Patrick: Historical Geography of Cross-Border Spatial Practices of Remembrance after 1945: Deserted Settlements in the Bavarian-Bohemian Border Region. Short paper at the 4. Bayerisch-Tschechische Hochschultage, Universität Passau, 28 November 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Difficult Interdisciplinarity: Non-Knowledge and the Contingency of Past Futures. Soziologisches Forschungskolloquium, Universität Passau, 5 November 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: "If We Stand Firm and Do Not Retreat, We Will Overcome This Crisis Too": The Paris Peace Conference and the Spatial-Political Agenda of the Bavarian People's Party in the Kahr II Government (1920/1921). Oberseminar der Historischen Geographie, Universität Bamberg, 31 October 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: A Praxeological View of Cultural Landscape Policy in Past Lifeworlds: Theoretical Approaches to Historical Landscapes. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 26 September 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Historical Geographies of Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 26 September 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Spatial-Political Actors and the Bohemian Border Region with Bavaria in the Czechoslovak Interwar Period 1918–1938. 27. Tagung Junge Osteuropa Experten, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 12 July 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Spatial Policy in Eastern Bavaria and Western Bohemia 1919–1929. Collegium Carolinum, Munich, 10 July 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Historical-Geographical Habitus Research Using the Example of Czechoslovak Spatial Policy: Methodological Reflections Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu. 8. Internationale Doktorandentagung, Andrássy Universität Budapest, 22 May 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Spatial Policy at the Intersection of Self-Determination and Nation-Building: The Province of German Bohemia as a Czechoslovak Intervention Landscape? Conference "Zeitgeschichte als Interventionsgeschichte", Universität Wien, 10 May 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Spatial Policy in the Interwar Period: A Comparative View of the Bavarian-Czechoslovak Border Region. Colloquium of the Herder Institute Research Academy, Marburg, 7 February 2019. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Spatial-Political Visions and Power-Political Realities in the Interwar Period: The German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic. Neue Kulturgeographie 16, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 2 February 2019. (German)
2018
Reitinger, Patrick: Pierre Bourdieu, Historical Praxeologies and the Study of Cultural Landscapes. Oberseminar der Historischen Geographie, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 6 December 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Historicity of Spatial Practice: Potentials and Limits of an Integration of Praxeology and Historical Geography. DFG-Netzwerk "Humangeographische Forschungsperspektiven nach dem Practice Turn", Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 22 November 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Transcultural Translocality in Bavaria and the Czech Republic: On the Cross-Border Relationship between Cultural Landscape and the History of Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century. 45. Jahrestagung ARKUM "Exklusion | Inklusion – Transkulturalität im Raum", Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 21 September 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Space, Identity and Memory in Post-Socialist Transformation Societies. Oberseminar Neuere Forschungen aus der Sozial- und Kulturtheorie, Institut für Soziologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 18 June 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Bavarian and Czech Spatial Policy since 1918: A Comparative View. Oberseminar der Historischen Geographie, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 6 June 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Spatialisation of Corporeality: On the Territorialisation of Life and Death. Conference "Die Pluralisierung des Sepulkralen", Universität Passau, 26 May 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Identity and Memory in the Context of Border Demarcations in the Rhön. Closing presentation of the project "Die Rhön – Identitätskonstruktionen und -prozesse ab 1800", Biosphärenreservat Rhön, Wildflecken-Oberbach, 22 March 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Space-Related Identity and Musical Remembrance: Shared Commemoration of the Imagination of a United Tyrol. Joint conference of the Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (ZPKM), Universität Freiburg, and the Arbeitskreis Gedächtnis-Erinnern-Vergessen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 9 March 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Historical-Geographical Transformation of Societal Spatial Relations: A View of the Rural Border Regions of South-Western Bohemia between 1910 and 1960. 22. Münchener Bohemisten-Treffen, Collegium Carolinum, Munich, 2 March 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Post-Socialism and Rurality: East German Border Conditions. 7. Nachwuchsworkshop des Arbeitskreises Ländliche Räume, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 22 February 2018. (German)
Reitinger, Patrick: Historical Geography, the Kantian Thing-in-Itself and the Materiality of the Social. Neue Kulturgeographie 15, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 27 January 2018. (German)