Spokesperson of the Graduate School,
Global and European Studies Institute middell(at)uni-leipzig.de Research Interests:
- regimes of territorialization in a historical perspective
- history of cultural encounters and cultural transfers
- history of the humanities and social sciences under the global condition |
Deputy spokesperson of GSGAS
Institute of East Asian Studies ekaske(at)uni-leipzig.de Research Interests:
- History of China and East Asia
- German-Chinese relationship
- Military history
- History of ideas, education, and language
- Fiscal history
- Bureaucratic elites, professional elites |
Representative of the Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies
Institute for African Studies dmitri.van_den_bersselaar(at)uni-leipzig.de Research Interests:
- Economic history
- Coastal West Africa, specifically Ghana and Nigeria during the 19th and 20th centuries
- (Post-)colonialism
- Changing perceptions of status, culture, ethnicity, and identity in West Africa |
Representative of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Institute for the Study of Culture maren.moehring(at)uni-leipzig.de Research Interests:
- Social and cultural history of modern Europe
- Food studies
- Migration
- Postcolonial studies
- Gender and body history
- Film and history |
| Representative of Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe adamantios.skordos(at)leibniz-gwzo.de Research Interest:
- History of Europe in the 19th and 20th century in its global context
- South and Southeast European history
- Culture of memory and politics of history
- History of International Law
- Panslavism and Antislavism |
| Representative of Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography u_wardenga(at)ifl-leipzig.de Research Interests:
- history of spatial practices and knowledge, 19th and 20th century
- history of geography
- history of research and journeys and expeditions
- histoire croisée Europe and other continents (currently: specially Africa) |
| Post-Doc Representative SFB 1199: “Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen” jens.herpolsheimer(at)uni-leipzig.de Research Interests:
- Cooperation dynamics at the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP)
- Intervention practices of African regional organizations and their spatializing effects
- Practices of inter-regionalism between different actors at African regional organizations and the European Union
- Politics and practices of peace and security in Africa, Lusophony, and comparative regionalism
- Interregionalismus und Sicherheit im Sahel-Raum: Die Afrikanische Union, ECO-WAS und die Europäische Union |
| Post-Doc Representative Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe katja.castryck-naumann(at)leibniz-gwzo.de Research Interests:
- History of International Organisations and Global Governance
- Transregional Entanglements of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century
- History of Knowledge
- History of ideas, education, and language
- Development of World and Global History / Historiography in the US and Europe
- Concepts of Entangled History and Transregional Studies |
| Institute for African Studies, Global and European Studies Institute uengel(at)uni-leipzig.de Research Interests:
- Violent processes of de- and reterritorialization in Africa
- Peace and security in Africa
- African Union & RECs
- South African politics |
