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 |