· Business application systems (ERP), in particular
regarding the integration of customers and suppliers
· Electronic markets and digital platforms,
in particular the impact of decentralized (blockchain) technologies
· Methods for management of interorganizational processes,
in particular Service Science and Business Engineering
Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe
· Environmental and climatic history of the high and late Middle Ages
in Europe and in global historical perspective
· Medieval infrastructure history
· History of late medieval Italy
· African languages & literatures
· History & culture in Africa
· Society, politics and economy
· History of international law
· Refugee studies
· Migration studies
· Qualitative and ethnographic methods of social research
· Global comparative sociology of culture and religion
· Space, materiality and urban ethnography
· Modern German literature from the early modern era to the present
in an international context
· German-Jewish literature of the 19th and 20th century
· Theory and history of poetry
Institute for the Study of Religions
· Cultural sociology
· Religion and secularism
. Religion, politics and society of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
International SEPT Competence Center
· International Entrepreneurship
· University Business Linkages
. Innovation Management
· Politics and economy in Africa
· German Africa policy (foreign affairs, development policy,
security policies)
· Political developments in South Africa and Southern Africa
Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe
· Transregional History of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
· Social Inequality and Mobility
· International cooperation during the Cold War
· Human geography
· Social anthropology
· Urban spaces and metropolitan development
Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe
· Cultural history of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
· History of transnationalization and globalization processes
· History of international relations in the interwar period
· History of South-Eastern Europe
· Cultures of remembering in South-Eastern Europe
· History of warfare and violence
Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe
· European history with emphasis on Poland,
Germany and Habsburg Monarchy (18th-21st c.)
· Gender history, history of culture and knowledge
· History of ideas of utopias and on popular and scientific culture in
rural areas after 1945
· Critical urban research
· Migration processes, social exclusion and the role of civil society in the
recent political shift to the right
· Negotiation of new urban governance approaches in the conflict field
between social initiatives and urban policy
· History of African Studies
· African art history
· Editing of European sources on Africa written between 1660 and 1940
Prof. Dr. Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski
Institute for Political Science
· Phenomena of de-democratization
· Identity Politics in Democratic Regimes
· Role of nationalism in democracies and non-democratic regimes
Institute of East Asian Studies
· Modern Chinese society and culture
· History of China and East Asia
· German-Chinese relationship
· Arabic literature in social and political context
· Shiite Islam
· History and literature of the Fatimid period
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
· Urban and regional change
· Return migration and regional development
· Shrinking cities and regeneration
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
· Regional geography, especially of Europe and the
successor states of the Soviet Union
· Cultural Geography
· Transformation Research
Institute for Communication and Media Studies
· History of Publishing
· Censorship in literature
· The Militarized Book Trade in the First World War
Institute for Political Science
· Democracy in Europe
· Constitutional Policy
· Politics in multi-level systems (federalism, European Union)
Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe
· Medieval history of eastern Europe
· History of Germania Slavica
· History of relations Germany - Poland - Russia
Global and European Studies Institute
· Global and transnational history
· History of socialism, cold war and area studies
· European integration history since early 20th century
Global and European Studies Institute
· Historical evolvement of the global condition,
· Comparative and global history of revolutions
· History and methodology of history writing in a global age
· Practices of combating antibiotic resistance.
· Eastern Europe in times of Europeanization and Diffusion
· Spatial research and planning
Institute for the Study of Culture
· Human and political geography
· Geography and social theory
· Mobilities and migration regimes in Eastern Europe
Vertretung von Prof. Stefan Troebst,
Global and European Studies Institute (GESI)
· Nation Building and Minority Issues in Eastern Europe
· Governance and Statehood in East-Central and Southeast Europe
· Remembrance culture and politics of history
Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe
· East Central Europe in the first globalization (1850-1914)
· Sozialistische Entwicklungsmodelle für die „Dritte Welt“
· Transregional trade infrastructures in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries
· Practical Theology
· Sociology of Religion, church sociology, democracy and political
culture research
· Religious and political collective identities
· eGovernance, financialization, biometrics
· India
· Urban studies
Institute for Political Science
· Democratic peace, democratization and external democracy promotion
· Post-conflict peacebuilding and instruments of conflict management
· European security architecture and security regimes
· History of the early modern period
· European contemporary history
· Prehistory
Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe
· History of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries in its global context
· Culture of memory and politics of history
· Panslavism and Antislavism
· Globalization of agriculture and food
· Commodification and financialization of natural resources
· Social construction and theorization of space
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
· Economic Growth
· German re-unification
· Quantitative economics of education
Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe
· Modern history of Europe
· Politics of history
· Cultures of remembrance
· History of Germany, Europe and Globalisation of the
19th to 21st century
· History of colonialism and imperialism
· History of historiography and its boundaries to literature
Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
· Impact of multinational companies on local African labor relations
and work cultures
· Employability in African knowledge-based economies
· History of knowledge production in and about Africa
Leibniz Institut for Regional Geography
· Global history
· Theory and history of geography and cartography
· Spatial semantics
Prof. Dr. Katja Werthmann-Kirscht
· Social and economic processes in rural and urban,
anglophone and francophone West Africa
· Urban socio-spatial navigation
· Vigilante groups in Burkina Faso