Die Weltkarte als Zeitungscollage

Department

Entanglements and Globalisation

This department's research aims to explain historical processes of entanglement — some reverberating into the present — in economics, politics, culture, academia and the law. On the one hand, its focus lies on social change in Eastern Europe tied to trans-local, transnational and transregional transfers of peoples, ideas and goods; on the other, it studies Eastern Europe as a world region positioned along global West-East and North-South lines.

Its economic, political, cultural, academic and legal historical studies relate closely to the GWZO’s overarching themes and are situated at the intersection of regional history, modern global history, comparative area studies and historical cultural studies. They share a focus on Eastern Europe’s contribution to supra-regional interconnections since the Early Modern Period as well as the region’s role and position in processes of globalisation.

The department critically interrogates interpretations that characterise Eastern Europe as diverging from the »normal path« of global development, as being regressive, peripheral or imitative of overwhelmingly Western models. With its interdisciplinary approaches, its international team actively contributes to the development of new categories, methods and theories in the rapidly expanding field of transregional research.

The department is headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Hadler.

Research

Subject areas and research projects

Interculturalism

Research into the field of international cultural transfer has revealed the reciprocal impact of intercultural encounters and the degree to which these contribute to the transformation of individual nations and societies. Examining interculturality in Eastern Europe means expanding one’s focus to processes of transnational entanglement.

Constructive Relativities

Edited by: Lilit Mnatsakanyan

Far-right Digital Activism

Edited by: Katarina Ristić

Preparing fish on Kamchatka

Food in the history of Siberia

Ceremonial opening of the shop of the rural district co-operative Pomoc (help) in Góra Puławska (1930s) © Cooperative Museum Warsaw

Institutions and Cultures of Economic Activity

Edited by: Uwe Müller

Volksfeste im Warschauer Alexanderpark 1899. In: Adres”-Kalendar’ gor. Varshavy na 1900 god”.

Popular Entertainment in Multiethnic Cities

Edited by: Vincent Hoyer

Karte von Stadt und Burg Kamieniec Podolski von 1691

Premodern Migratory Society

Edited by: Jürgen Heyde

Hortensia Mi Kafchin: Clay Water Soros

Sponsoring the Arts in Post-Socialism

Edited by: Beáta Hock

Traveling Seminars, Linking Art Worlds

Traveling Seminars »Linking (Art) Worlds«

Edited by: Beáta Hock

Global Economy

This subject area examines East European strategies of positioning within the global economy since the global condition of the middle of the 19th century to the present. It focuses on transnational and transregional trade relationships, capital flows and networks of economic actors as well as the transfer of technologies and concepts of development.

sowjetische Postkarte mit Baumwolle

Cotton Empire in the East

Edited by: Jan Zofka

Development of the shares of individual wheat-exporting world regions in global trade 1850-1940 © IfL 2020: cartography K. Bolanz

Global Trade

Edited by: Uwe Müller

Circulation of Knowledge

This subject area centres around actors and institutions of the history of different disciplines of East European knowledge and science and their networks. It examines this region's production of knowledge about the world and about Eastern Europe in other parts of the world in the humanities, economics and the natural sciences and its circulation.

Einzug der Spanischen Grippe in Brüssel 1914-18, Karkatur

Epidemic in a war and post-war context: The »Spanish Flu«

Edited by: Ilona Dauw

With a Zest in a refined Form: The 7th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Warsaw, 1933. Makowski, Krzysztof A; Michalski, Maciej; Schramm, Tomasz; Filipowska, Karolina (Hrsgb.) Poznań: Wydawnictwo Wydziału Historii UAM, Wydawnictwo Miejskie Posnania, Fundacja TRES. 2021, S. 94f

Histories of Historiography

Edited by: Frank Hadler, Katja Castryck-Naumann

Member organisations of the European Union for Bird Ringing © EURING

Ice Age Research and Ornithology

Edited by: Frank Hadler

Turkestan. Markt. Autor D.Velezhev. Veröffentlicht in Pashino, Petr. Turkestan Provinz im Jahr 1866: Travel Notes. St.Pb.: Tiblen & Nekliudov, 1866.

Imperial Meaning-Making of Central Asian Social Spaces

Edited by: Sofia Lopatina

Social Sciences and Socialism in the World

Edited by: Katja Castryck-Naumann

International Positionings

This subject area focuses on positioning strategies and the influence of East European actors in international organisations as well as in the negotiation of international conflict solutions. It examines how they operate against the backdrop of diverse interplays between supra-regional problem fields and political orders in the region.

Affinities to Putin's Russia in East-Central Europe

Edited by: Paolo Zucconi

USSR stamp of the 12th standard edition, picture of the Comecon building. © Wikimedia Commons

Comecon and the Global Economic Order

Edited by: Uwe Müller

On Moscow’s Skobelevskaya Square during the February Revolution, 1917. From: Der Große Krieg in Bildern und Bildern, edition XIV, 1917. © Wikimedia Commons

Eastern Europe’s Turns and Shifts in Attempts at New Global Alignments

Edited by: Frank Hadler

Secrétariat de la SDN: Section d'Hygiène, United Nations Archives at Geneva. Photo S18.

Expertise in the International Sphere

Edited by: Katja Castryck-Naumann

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Facing Catastrophe

Edited by: Gaëlle Fisher

History of Violence against Women in Europe

Edited by: Maren Röger