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Establishment of a cross-university "Scientific Coordination Unit for Dealing with the Colonial Heritage in Thuringia".
Project management
Prof. Dr. Christiane Kuller Duration
09/2021 - 08/2024 Funding
Several donors
300 000 €
The coordination unit builds on the existing expertise on the topic of "colonial heritage" at the Universities of Erfurt and Jena and aims to network and strengthen activities in the future with regard to research, teaching and social dialogue.
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Perthes kolonial: Das Geschäft mit der Kartierung Afrikas, Lateinamerikas und Ozeaniens (1871–1945)
Project management
Several Duration
03/2026 - 02/2029 Funding
Thüringer Aufbaubank:
370 000 €
The research project “Perthes kolonial” at the University of Erfurt is investigating how colonial cartography was produced, used and marketed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and what role the Gotha-based publisher Justus Perthes played in this. The project also aims to systematically analyse the interconnection between economic interests, knowledge production and colonial orders using the Perthes collection, thereby providing new impetus for research into colonial knowledge cultures.
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Voluntariness and Decolonization. The Regulation of Labor in (Post-)Colonial Ghana
Project management
Prof. Dr. Iris Schröder Duration
10/2020 - 09/2023
Subproject in the research group "Voluntariness". This subproject focuses on voluntariness during an era of decolonization and thus on a political principle of (post-)colonial governance. Drawing on the case of the British Gold Coast/Ghana, we explore how voluntary action shaped the political and social order during the transition from late colonial “indirect rule” to independence, while examining how voluntariness became a political and social norm and resource. Our key focus is on the…

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