DHI Washington
Knowledge about Mountains and Forests: Discourses and Transfer Practices in the Mining and Forestry Sciences – A Comparison of Central Europe and North America (1860-1960)
Utilizing the approaches of the history of knowledge, this project examines the transmission, modification, and translation of knowledge related to forestry and mining – especially on the level of practical and everyday use – as well as occasions when such transmission processes failed to occur.…
DHI Warschau,
DHI Rom
Pius XII and the Catholic Global South. The Case of Argentina
Her work focuses on the Catholic Church's role in Argentina during the papacy of Pius XII. In that period, different and sometimes even contradictory trends coexisted inside the Catholic Church. On the one hand, parts of the clergy were actively involved in giving form and advancing an updated…
DHI Warschau,
DHI Rom
Liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church and Vatican policies towards the Greek-Catholics in the USSR and other Warsaw Pact countries (1944–1953)
This project is aimed to study the policies of the Holy See toward the USSR and the other countries of the Warsaw Pact on the liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church in the late Stalinist period. I would like to suggest a transnational perspective – looking comparatively at several countries, not…
DHI Warschau,
DHI Rom
The Catholic Church and the global Cold War in Latin America
This project examines the evolution of transnational Catholic networks in Latin America from WWII through the Cold War. Specifically, it focuses on networks centered on or inspired by the Dominican friar Louis-Joseph Lebret (1897-1966). As the progenitor of “Economy and Humanism,” Lebret founded…
DHI Washington
In Pursuit of Knowing: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Education and the Transformation of Jewish Knowledge
“In Pursuit of Knowing” illuminates the relationship of Jewish education (Bildung and Erziehung), Jewish knowledge, and Jewish thought in German-speaking Europe during the nineteenth century. A Habilitation project at the Martin Buber Chair in Jewish Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt, this…
DHI Warschau
Sexualpolitik und Besatzeralltag in Polen, 1939 - 1945. Prostitution Intimität, Gewalt
In allen besetzten Ländern Europas kam es im Zweiten Weltkrieg zu sexuellen Kontakten der deutschen Soldaten mit der jeweiligen einheimischen Bevölkerung. Auch an der Ostfront waren Vergewaltigungen, Zwangsprostitution in und jenseits der Lager, sowie „sexuelle Kollaboration“ mit dem Ziel zu…
OI Beirut
Politik und Ästhetik des Rituals. Die Kunst der Überzeugung in Islamischen Predigten
Das Forschungsvorhaben befasst sich mit dem sozialen und literarischen Ort der Predigt in der islamisch-arabischen Welt. Die politische Relevanz der Predigt ist längst anerkannt, nicht jedoch die Bedeutung der ästhetisch-literarischen Dimension. Im 10. Jahrhundert erlebt die literarisch markierte…
DHI Washington
Humanitarian Aid in the Cold War Era: The Tolstoy Foundation's Support of Displaced Persons and Refugees (1949-1989)
The East-West conflict was not least a competition for people's hearts: Western states, above all the United States, invested enormous sums in humanitarian aid, demonstrating that the "free world" had not forgotten the persecuted and oppressed ones. Independent aid organizations played a decisive…
DHI Washington
The Politics of Punishment: Penal Reform in Modern Germany, 1870-1970
This project examines how, beginning in the late nineteenth century, a new generation of penal reformers gradually transformed Germany’s criminal justice system. The reformers argued that the primary purpose of criminal justice was not retributive justice but the protection of society. To protect…
DHI Washington
Competing Modernities. Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present
The German Historical Institute and the Humboldt University Berlin joined forces in a joint project, 'Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present,' which is mostly completed. Made possible by a grant from the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Stuttgart), the project was directed…