DHI Rom,
DHI Warschau
From colonial to global? Catholic internationalism and worldviews 1945–1958
Traditionally, the period from 1945–1960 has been seen as one of stability within Roman Catholicism. Recently, however, some have argued that instead of the long prelude to the vibrant sixties and Vatican II, this period was in fact one of deep transformations. Building on this recent…
DHI Washington
A History of Decline? The Steel Industries in West Germany and the United States since the 1970s
The steel industry was among the most important branches of the economies of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and the United States into the 1970s. The reconstruction of the steel industry in the two German states after 1949 was both a practical and an ideological…
DHI Washington
Racial Science and Nazi Biopolitics
Research since the 1980s has documented the overwhelming complicity of the German medical profession and German racial scientists in Nazi biopolitics. The key role of the human sciences in Nazi biopolitics led the historian Detlev Peukert to formulate the thesis that the “genesis of the ‘final…
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…