Order and Violence – a Comparing History of European Regimes in the 20th Century

The new volume “Order and Violence – Kemalism – Fascism – Socialism” by Stefan Plaggenborg has recently been published by Oldenbourg Munich. Plaggenborg is professor for Eastern European History at the Ruhr University of Bochum and was a Fellow at the FRIAS School of History in 2009/2010. His new volume is dedicated to the “new regimes” of Italian fascism, Soviet socialism and Turkish kemalism which all arose after the collapse of the old orders and empires in the First World War. The main focus lies on Turkish kemalism, whose basic principles sustain up until today. Plaggenborg draws comparative relations with the other “new regimes” and therefore manages to gain a new perspective on the “short 20th century”. This new perspective also considers the historical starting positions and the developments which led to different forms of dictatorships.

Prof. Hans Joas receives Werner Heisenberg Medal

Prof. Hans Joas, Permanent Fellow of the FRIAS School of History and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, was awarded the Werner Heisenberg Medal by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on 26th March 2012. >>more

School of History Fellow Jörg Baberowski receives Leipzig Book Fair Prize

Jörg Baberowski, alumnus of the School of History and Professor of East European History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, received the 2012 Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction category for his monograph “Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt”. The study, which was the focus of Jörg Baberowski’s work during his stay at FRIAS from April to June 2010, offers a new perspective of Stalinist crimes and takes the reader to the depth of the Soviet dictator's paranoid world. >>more

Swiss National Science Foundation awards two professorship grants to School of History Fellows.

Two Fellows of the FRIAS School of History, Dr Stephan Scheuzger and Dr Kim Siebenhüner, have this year been awarded grants under the professorship programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). These grants enable young scientists with a track record of several years’ research experience to take an important career step. >>more

Svenja Goltermann receives Wedekind-Prize

Prof. Dr. Svenja Goltermann, Fellow at the FRIAS School of History, received the Wedekind-Prize (worth 5,000 €) by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen. The Academy awards this prize for an outstanding work in the area of Medieval or Modern German History which was published within the last ten years. This year’s prize was awarded to Svenja Goltermann for her habilitation thesis “Die Gesellschaft der Überlebenden. Deutsche Kriegsheimkehrer und ihre Gewalterfahrungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg“ (published in 2009, DVA München). With her monograph she has already won the Historian's Prize of the Association of German Historians.
Currently Svenja Goltermann is working on a monograph on “Humanitäres Denken und Opferdiskurs im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert“. She has accepted a chair in Modern History at the University of Zürich beginning February 2012.

Prof. Dr. Hans Joas, Permanent Fellow at the FRIAS School of History and Professor for Sociology at the University of Chicago has recently been elected as a new member of the Academia Europaea. The Academia Europaea is an association of more than 2000 European researchers. Its main aim is the internationalization of European research and its standards. An invitation for a membership is only given to those who are highly recommended by other members of the Academia Europaea.

Following the decision of its advisory board the “Oestreich-Foundation” has awarded one of its two annual prizes to PD Dr. Christian Wieland for his habilitation thesis “Nach der Fehde. Studien zur Interaktion von Adel und Rechtssystem am Beginn der Neuzeit. Bayern 1500 – 1600“. The Oestreich-Prize (1.500,- €) is awarded for unpublished monographs which fulfill the foundation’s constitution by being of outstanding quality and by having its focus on Early Modern History. From April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009 Christian Wieland was Junior Fellow at the FRIAS School of History. Since 2009 he works as an assistant professor for Early Modern History at the Department of History at the University of Freiburg.

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman has accepted a chair in Late Modern European History at the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley beginning January 2012. Since 2008 Hoffmann has been head of the department “Change of the Political in the 20th Century” at the Center for Contemporary Research (ZZF) in Potsdam and in 2010/2011 he was a Fellow at the FRIAS School of History for 12 months. During his time at FRIAS he was working on a monograph about the history of human rights which will be published by C.H. Beck, Munich in 2012. For his doctoral thesis “Die Politik der Geselligkeit: Freimaurerlogen in der deutschen Bürgergesellschaft, 1840-1918“ he received the Hedwig-Hintze-Prize from the German Association of Historians in 2002. Recent publications are: Moral Policy. The History of Human Rights in the 20th Century. (Wallstein Publishing House, 2010); Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Wartburg Prize awarded to History Fellow Volkhard Knigge