Background Article A Little Mole and So Much More What role did children's media play in Czechoslovakia? To what extent were socialist views of the individual and society, or even political events, reflected in them? A small creature living in the soil can provide information about this.
Research project Architecture of Modernism in Eastern Europe Research into the architectural history of modernism in Eastern Europe is a long-term art historical project of the BKGE, the core of which is the cooperation with the Architekturmuseum in Breslau/Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu (Wroclaw Museum of Architecture). Another focus is on translations of...
Journal BLICKWECHSEL This richly illustrated magazine shows the many facets of German culture and history in Eastern Europe through essayistic and literary texts, photo spreads and popular science essays.
Research project Bucovina – Jewish Perspectives Until the Second World War, the historical Bukovina was known as an extremely multi-ethnic and multi-religious region. Nevertheless, the (German-speaking) public perception is often dominated by accounts published in the context of the "Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutschen" (Landsmannschaft of...
Research project Bukovina Germans: Inventions, Experiences and Narratives of an (imagined) Community The Bukovina Institute at the University of Augsburg has set itself the task of preserving the history of Bukovina and its inhabitants. Inextricably linked to this are narratives of relocation and settlement, of flight and expulsion, and of integration processes in the later Federal Republic, the...
Research institute | Cultural center | Library | Archive Bukovina Institute at the University of Augsburg e.V. The Bukovina Institute at the University of Augsburg is an affiliated institute of the University of Augsburg and is dedicated to researching and communicating knowledge about the culture and history of the historical region of Bukovina as well as about Eastern, East Central and Southeastern Europe.
Call for Contributions: Eastern Europe (post)Colonial Where can Eastern Europe be placed in the current debates about (post)colonial traditions? What colonial attributes and practices of domination 'from outside', and what colonizing conditions within the greater region of 'Eastern Europe', can be identified? Are there interrelations with Ottoman or...
Call for Contributions: “At home in the diaspora” The online portal "Copernico. History and Cultural Heritage in Eastern Europe" is now calling for contributions to our next thematic focus: “At home in the diaspora”. The goal is to capture the diversity of life experiences in the diaspora of refugees from Eastern Europe.
Call for Papers: Eastern Europe: Spaces, Borders, Projections The online portal "Copernico. History and Cultural Heritage in Eastern Europe" is calling for contributions for a new focus on the topic of "Eastern Europe: Spaces, Borders, Projections", which will be published in Spring 2023 in the portal's thematic magazine.
Workshop series Changing Publication Cultures in the Eastern European and Historical Sciences New, digital forms of publication, including the possibility of Open Access publishing, are changing the publication culture of scholarly historiography. The joint event series of the Herder Institute, the Collegium Carolinum and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies traces...
Introduction Colonialism, Racism and Eastern Europe Eastern Europe continues to occupy a marginal position in debates on (post-)colonialism and racism. At the same time, the example of Germany demonstrates how long-standing the tradition of devaluation is, and the influence it continues to have to this day. An extension of our perspective on (post-)colonialism and racism in an Easterly direction is long overdue.
Series Conferences on East Central European Studies Conferences on the history of East Central Europe are documented in this series of publications of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe.
Copernico in the Southeastcast "Donauwellen" (Danube waves) In the new episode of the podcast "Donauwellen" the Copernico portal is presented.
Digital edition Courland Property Records The online edition “Kurländische Güterurkunden” (“Courland Property Records”) provides researchers with access to a central collection of sources relating to the Livonian-Kurlandic history of the late Middle Ages and the Reformation period in registry form and in part with full texts. It...
Workshop series Current research on... The workshop series run by the Herder Institute presents current research trends and topics of historical research on East Central Europe.
Series DISCOVERING East Central Europe DISCOVERING East Central Europe: A series of publications presenting selected materials of the Marburg Herder Institute.
Series DigiOst DigiOst is a digital publication series on the history of Eastern Europe. It offers high-quality and up-to-date anthologies and conference proceedings, source editions, and monographs. On request, copies can be ordered via a print-on-demand process.
