News from the History Department

11. Apr 2023, 6.00 pm - 11. Jul 2023, 8.00 pm

Colloquium Summer Term 2023

C18 – Teaching building 4 (Campus)

Come join us for exciting lectures in the colloquium of Erfurt's History of Science chair for the summer term 2023!

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Research Centre invites you to two series of events in the summer semester

The Centre for Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection at the University of Erfurt Gotha is once again offering two series of events this semester, to which all interested parties are cordially invited. The audience can look forward to…

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Research Tandems on Global Intellectual History

A focus on Global Intellectual History is to be launched at the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt this summer. The pilot phase, in which so-called research tandems are to be created, is being funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation with…

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Book presentations on contemporary history with Michael Wildt and Andrew Port

The Centre for Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection at the University of Erfurt invites you to two book presentations during the summer semester.

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"My stay in Gotha has permanently changed my understanding of maps"

He has been in Gotha since November 2021, conducting research on the holdings of the Gotha Perthes Collection as a scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection. A great fortune and a…

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New series of events: "Vietnamese Life in Erfurt"

Under the title "Vietnamese Life in Erfurt", the Oral History Research Unit at the University of Erfurt invites you to a series of events that aims to give until now little-known (life-)stories a space in Erfurt's cityscape and to counteract racially…

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New insights into an almost forgotten society in northern Ethiopia

In his homeland - the Tigray region of Ethiopia - civil war is raging. The local university in Mekelle, where he worked as a research employee at the Institute for History and Cultural Heritage, had to be closed. For researchers like Fesseha Berhe…

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Establishment of a sustainable national research data infrastructure – Gotha Research Campus is part of it

The research institutions located on the Gotha Research Campus of the University of Erfurt - Gotha Research Library and Gotha Research Centre as well as the Centre for Transcultural Studies/Perthes Collection - are participating together with other…

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New publication: Antigonos von Karystos – Sammlung sonderbarer Geschichten.

A new book by Kai Brodersen has been published by KD publishing house. It is entitled "Antigonos von Karystos – Sammlung sonderbarer Geschichten".

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"Kingdom of Kafa": How an Ethiopian researcher approaches his homeland in Gotha

In their home country of Ethiopia, war is raging. For the researchers on site, this is an enormous challenge. Thanks to a scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, four of them are currently on a research stay at the Centre for Transcultural…

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