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FRIAS Project Group: Post-war Times: Plurality – Temporality – Re/Constructions

The FRIAS project group “Post-war Times: Plurality – Temporality – Re/Constructions” is exploring ways of conducting interdisciplinary research into post-war periods from a cross-epochal and transcultural perspective.

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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) against the backdrop of the ruins of Warsaw. Source: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

 

The project group explores ways of conducting interdisciplinary research into post-war times from a trans-epochal and trans-cultural perspective. A historically reflective examination of post-war periods appears to be highly relevant in view of current debates, particularly on the Ukraine war and the armed conflicts in the Middle East. The focus will extend beyond the European-Western experiences of the 20th and 21st centuries and hopes to open up new vistas on post-war times as a subject of historical, cultural, social and legal research.

We address post-war periods as an ambivalent and heterogenous phenomenon. In doing so, we want to address the different ways of experiencing, seeing and interpreting post-war times depending on social status, ethnicity, gender, age and so on. We are interested in the conditions under which it is possible to identify post-war periods as such and in which narratives, semantics, practices, legal concepts, images and artifacts play a role in the cultural constructions of post-war times.

We focus in particular on the respective temporal shape of post-war conditions. To what extent are they seen as a purely transitory phenomenon between war and peace and when might they be perceived as a (historical) “period” sui generis? The different conceptions of future post-war periods and the significance they have for agency in times of war will also be addressed.

Finally, we will look at practices of reconstruction in physical as well as emotional, artistic-literary, legal, economic and natural terms. The project group aims to establish post-war times as an object and field of collaborative and interdisciplinary research at the University of Freiburg in the long term and to develop and apply for suitable funding formats for this purpose. 


Events

Jörn Leonhard - Nachkrieg: Ein transitorischer Zustand aus historischer Perspektive [in German]

07.11.2024 from 18:15h to 19:45h

Hörsaal Physiologie, Hermann-Herder-Straße 7, 79104 Freiburg

You can find further information here.


Members of the Project Group

Prof. Dr. André Krischer 

University of Freiburg

Department of History

Chair of the Early Modern Period

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Jun.-Prof. Elisabeth Piller 

University of Freiburg

Department of History

Junior Professorship for Transatlantic and North American History

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Prof. Dr. Claudius Sittig 

University of Freiburg

Department of German Literary Studies

Contemporary German Literature

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Prof. Dr. Paulina Starski 

University of Freiburg

Institute for Public Law

European and International Law

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Dr. Joana van de Löcht 

University of Münster

Germanistisches Institut

Abteilung Neuere deutsche Literatur

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Email: van.de.loecht@uni-muenster.de

Dr. Sarah Katharina Stein, LL.M.

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

Public Law

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Dr. Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz 

University of Freiburg

Department of History

Chair of the Early Modern Period

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