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Past Courses

Winter 2024/2025

research semester

  • Serfdom and the emergence of modern nations in East Central Europe (ÜF)
  • Culture of Remembrance Gr. 1-3 (IPS)
  • Political and social orders (IPS)
  • Groups and Individuals (IPS)
  • Gender and Society Gr. 1-2 (IPS)
  • Reforms Gr. 2 (IPS)
  • Friends or Enemies: Sino-Russian Relations in the 20th Century (ÜMT)
  • Nikita Khrushchev and the de-Stalinization 1953- 1964 (S)

Summer 2024
  • History of the Soviet Union (VL)
  • The Soviet Century: A History through Memoirs, Diaries, and Letters (HS)
  • Manchuria in the Imperial Era (OS)
  • Borders as a Category in Eastern European History (ÜF)
  • Colloquium on Eastern European History (KOL)

  • Historical Research on Nationalism (ÜMT)
  • Resettlers from Poland in NRW. Oral History of a Migration Story (PÜ)
  • Microhistory of Global Migration using the Example of East Central Europe (ÜfF)
  • Mobility and Acculturation (IPS - ongoing)

Winter 2023/2024
  • Russia and China: A History (HS)
  • The Soviet Union as a Multi-Ethnic State (OS)
  • Ukraine: History of a European Nation (ÜF)
  • Colloquium on Eastern European History (KOL)
  • Power and Rule (IPS: Gr. 3)
  • Mobility and Acculturation (IPS: Gr. 1)
  • Sources on the History of Germans in East Central Europe in the Archive of the Haus Oberschlesien Foundation (PÜ)
  • German-Polish Migration History since 1800 (S)
  • Slavery, Serfdom and Bondage (IPS: Gr. 1)
  • Celebrations and Festivals (IPS: Gr. 2)

Summer 2023
  • The Kiev Cave Monastery as a place of remembrance and historical symbol. A German-Ukrainian exhibition project (PÜ)
  • Historiography in and about Belarus in the 20th century (ÜMT)
  • The war in Ukraine as a challenge for NGOs and the media (summer school/PÜ)
  • Resettlers from Poland in NRW. Oral history of a migration story (PÜ)
  • Democratization processes in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus from 1750 to the present (ÜF)
  • Researching the history of the social underclasses (ÜMT)
  • Celebrations and festivities (IPS)


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