News from the History Department

Lecture Series 2026 - The Politics of Voluntariness. Global and Postcolonial Perspectives

In the second week of the upcoming summer term the Department of History starts into its annual thematic lecture series with international guests. Our topic 2026: voluntariness in global and postcolonial perspective!

 

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For more visibility of women in science

Women are still underrepresented in science and research. In its "Zia – Visible Women in Science & Humanities" programme, ZEIT publishing house therefore invites female scientists to a one-year fellowship, which offers them the opportunity to further…

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New research project "Perthes colonial" launched

The three-year project "Perthes kolonial" has been launched at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection, for which the two Erfurt-based historians, Professor Iris Schröder and Professor Christiane Kuller, secured third-party…

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New publication: Collegium Amplonianum Erffordense

Böhlau publishing house has just published a new book on the Collegium Amplonianum Erffordense and the collegiates during its existence from 1434 to 1816.

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Sentiment analysis between gaining knowledge and falsification?

A new research project led by the Institute for the History of German Jews and the inter-university professorship for digital humanities at the University of Erfurt and Erfurt University of Applied Sciences is investigating how artificial…

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Podcast "When the trip becomes an adventure - Travelling in the early modern period"

PD Dr. Astrid Ackermann, Nils Sobecki and Richard Wacker on the University of Erfurt's science podcast

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Welcome, Professor Anja Rathmann-Lutz!

We welcome Anja Rathmann-Lutz to the University of Erfurt. On 1 March, she took over the professorship for the "History of Materialities" at the Faculty of Humanities.

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Colonialism and anti-colonialism? Just ask!

In February 2026, Dr Florian Wagner published an introduction to the history of colonialism, anti-colonialism and post-colonial debates in question-and-answer form in the interdisciplinary UTB series "Frag doch einfach". In this introduction to the…

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Event series on the history of deaf and hard of hearing people in Germany and Austria

The Federal Association for the Culture and History of the Deaf (KUGG), in cooperation with the professorship of Modern and Contemporary History and History Didactics at the University of Erfurt and "Aktion Mensch", invites you to a series of events…

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New publication: Nomad Properties

The anthology "Nomad Properties. Political Anthropologies of Nomadism from the 18th Century until Today", edited by Anna Möllers, Dirk Schuck and Bernhard Kleeberg, was recently published by Campus publishing house in the series "Strukturwandel des…

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