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
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You can find the teaching for the summer semester 2024 here.
You can find the plan for the research colloquium here.
Here you can find the plan for the compact research colloqium from the 13-15th of June.
For any questions regarding term papers, exams or similar topics, please consult our newly created page.
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.
Lecture: "Between Craft and Commodity: Porcelain and the Prehistory of Industrialization in the German States, 1780-1840"
Suzanne Marchand (Lousiane State University)
"Between Craft and Commodity: Porcelain and the Prehistory of Industrialization in the German States, 1780-1840"
As part of the History of Knowledge colloquium, this event will take place online and on site on June 13 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm.
Registration/Zoom-Link: Hiwis Kwaschik
Chair of History Research Colloqium
The 19th century as a „Age of Questions“
The Research Colloqium from the Chair of History will take place from the 13th until the 15th of June 2024 at Bischofsvilla at Herosè-Park.
You can find more information about the programm and different lectures here.
Regestration is until the 7th of June 2024: claudia.roesch@uni-konstanz.de
Lecture: NS-‚Menschenführung‘ und Management: Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Moderne
Johann Chapoutot (Paris)
"NS-‚Menschenführung‘ und Management: Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Moderne"
As part of the Colloquium History of Knowledge, this event will take place in cooperation with the Colloquium Modern History on 18.06 from 17:00 to 18:30 at the University of Konstanz in room G 308.
Veranstaltung: Historischer Salon: Geschichte im Gespräch
The session is part of the series of events organized by the Fernuni Hagen/ Department of History of European Modernity. The aim of the event series is to draw the attention of students and an interested public to books that are at the center of current historical debates. At irregular intervals, staff from the department will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of new publications, translations and rediscovered classics with guests from other universities. This event will take place on July 4 via Zoom and is a discussion by Alexandra Przyrembel and Anne Kwaschik on Kwaschik's book: Der Griff nach dem Weltwissen. Zur Genealogie von Area Studies im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Kritische Studien für Geschichtswissenschaft, 229), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018.
You can find the Zoom link 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.