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Cultures of Violence – Insights from work towards a systematic approach to military violence
Deportation, torture, and killing: How has the use of violence changed or even become radicalized in the armies of the great European powers? What has... more
From Africa to the GDR and back – Marcia Schenck’s research on labor migration brings together individual and world history
Marica C. Schenck is a historian and professor of global history at the University of Potsdam. Her specialty is the big picture, global contexts. It... more
Gift or Bribery? – Corruption In the Ancient World, “Twisted Transfers” and What We Can Learn From Them Today
When former German Federal President Christian Wulff was forced to resign in 2012 following allegations of corruption, the debate, as always in such... more
“Secret Intelligence is Rarely Completely Secret” - Military Historian Sönke Neitzel on the Role of the Intelligence Services in the Ukraine War
The war in Ukraine is not only taking place in the Donbass, the suburbs of Kiev and other major Ukrainian cities; it is also raging in secret. Long... more
Rediscovering Cultural Heritage – Jewish Cemeteries in Brandenburg and Western Poland
Jewish cemeteries are among the oldest places of remembrance in many regions – including in Brandenburg. But after the widespread expulsion and... more
Brandenburg 1717 – Thomas Fischbacher revives a 300-year-old state description
Thomas Fischbacher gets around a lot at the moment. He rides trains and his bicycle across Brandenburg – to the many small towns of the March, from... more
The transformation of the East German universities in the 1980s/90s: Potsdam in a comparative perspective
The Transformation of the East German Humanities: Potsdam in Comparative Perspective Lara Büchel “Transformation”, “renewal”, “colonization”: These... more
“The university can learn a lot about its self-image” – A historical research project examines the transformation of East German universities using the example of the University of Potsdam
In the course of the upheaval of 1989/90, the academic landscape of East Germany also changed comprehensively and fundamentally – and avowedly along... more
Picking up the reins – The aesthetics of horsemanship as an expression of European cultural history
“The style of riding hints at the style of government – by force or by skill,” they said in the early modern period. Only those who could master a... more