Research Foci
- Europe and the Mediterranean (18-21 centuries)
- Historical comparison and history of entanglement
- Empires, colonialism and decolonisation Imperien
- Port cities and seas, islands and hinterlands
- Secularization und cultural struggle
- Theory and history of time
Research projects
Collaborative research
- DFG Network Modern Mediterranean
- Mediterranean Platform
- Transforming Infrastructure - Cultural Perspectives
Individual research
- Manuel Borutta:
Mediterranean entanglements: Algeria and France between colonization and decolonization - Fernando Esposito:
Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Theorie historischer Zeiten zwischen
Spätaufklärung und Posthistoire - Jovo Miladinović:
Mediterranean Disentanglement: The Southern Adriatic in the Age of European Territorialization, 1718-1856 - Daniel Tödt:
African Seafarers and Dockworkers in the French and Belgium Empires