Welcome to the Chair of the History of Knowledge
How did knowledge of Africa or that originated in Africa come to Europe? How were notions of scarcity and crisis informed not only by material conditions, but also by scientific and intellectual currents? How did knowledge about social cohesion and humans living together come to be? In other words, how and in which forms did knowledge become the decisive basis for modern societies and their thinking about the future? The branch of history of knowledge of the University of Konstanz explores the historical development of knowledge, its changing forms and conditions for production as well as the evolution of the social functions of knowledge. ...more
Welcome
We are very pleased to welcome Ms. Katie Jonner as the new secretary of the AG Wissensgeschichte from July 15, 2024.
Further information about Katie Jonner can be found here.
ESEH-Gale Non-Residential Fellowships in Digital Environmental History
Dr. Gilberto Mazzoli, research associate in the ERC-funded project "Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility" and an associate researcher in the History of Knowledge working group, is a member of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH).
The society is currently working on a fellowship for digital environmental history, aimed at supporting early-career researchers working at the intersection of environmental history and digital humanities. The program supports research and teaching projects that rely on Gale Primary Sources and apply digital humanities methodologies in the context of environmental history.
For more information about the fellowship, please click here.
call for projects
The Dr. August and Annelies Karst Stiftung is offering funding for projects in humanities, for more informatione, follow the link.
The Deadline is the 27 September 2024.
In particular, we would like to point out the list of projects that have been funded so far - for inspiration and orientation. In order to receive a high number of applications, professors and departmental coordinators are also asked to contact promising project proposals and their project leaders directly.
Please send the application via e-mail to the Foundation's office: stiftungen@uni-konstanz.de.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Birgit Serrano Gómez at the office of the Dr. August and Annelies Karst Foundation by telephone on 07531 88-4910 or via email at stiftungen@uni-konstanz.de.
Postdoctoral Position in History of Knowledge / History of Science
The Chair of the History of Knowledge is offering a Postdoctoral Position.
The position is available for 24 months starting in late 2024 or early 2025 (flexible start date). In principle, this position can be divided into two part-time positions.
If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Timo Müller via email
We look forward to receiving your application with your academic curriculum vitae, copies of academic certificates, copy of doctoral thesis and lists of courses taught and publications (if applicable) by October 25, 2024 via our Online Application Portal.
Note: Recent publications for the “rentrée”
We would like to draw your attention to our new page, where you will find the recent publications for the “rentrée”, which will be published in the fall.
Among other things it contains:
Emmanuel Droit / Anne Kwaschik und Silke Mende (Hg.)
France, Allemagne, Afrique: Représentations, transferts, relations
in: Schriften des Deutsch-Französischen Historikerkomitees 20 (2024).
The link can be found here.
ERUA Summit
Social Innovations Transformative Society
The yearly ERUA-Summit, will be from the 25th-27th of June at the Mykolas Romeris Univeristy in Vilnius. This years topic is: Social Innovations Transformative Society.
This Summit will be the final event of the Re:ERUA Project, which will end in September.
Find out more here.
Conference Report:
Women´s bodies, Women´s Rights Health
The conference report from last Oktobers` 2023 conference for "Women´s bodies, Women´s Rights Health: Health Feminism, Reproductive Knowledge and Women´s Activism Across Europe
in the Long 20th Century" is now available.
The report can also be found in this blog.
Reading Recommendation:
Student Representatives’ Perceived Effectiveness
In her Master's thesis "Student Representatives’ Perceived Effectiveness of their Engagement in European University Alliances’ Governance Structures" (2022, University of Konstanz/Utrecht University), Kathrin Ebel explored student representatives’ perceptions of their engagement’s effectiveness in transnational higher education alliance governance such as ERUA. Find out more about the results of her survey conducted with 67 students from 24 university alliances here.