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Dr. phil. des. Georg Christ, Junior Research Group Leader; associated with MathComp, member of HCE.

Personal Details:

Georg Christ (Dr.phil. des.), Junior Research Group Leader
Heidelberg University
ZUK 49/1
TP 4 Transcultural Studies
Marstallstraße 6
69117 Heidelberg
Telefon: +49(0)6221/54-7852
Telefax:+49(0)6221/54-7862

georg.christ@uni-heidelberg.de

Office hours: Wednesday 11-12 am

Research Interests:

• Control of maritime trade and coping mechanisms in the Middle Ages
• Customs, maritime police, and smuggling in the Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages
• History of news and knowledge management
• Climate change and the crisis of the 14th century
• Scientifc computing in the humanities

CV

Current function

since 2008

• Junior Research Group Leader, University of Heidelberg, research group "Trading Diasporas in the in the Eastern Mediterranean (1250-1450)" (3 PhD students, 3 research assistants, 1 associated research fellow (PostDoc)
• Teaching (especially Historisches Seminar), project management (esp. Scientifc computing; research assistants).
• Associated Junior Research Group Leader at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing (IWR), founding member of the Heidelberg Centre for the Environment (HCE)

Education

2008  Second book project (Habilitation) in Heidelberg

2006  PhD University of Basel (summa cum laude)

2001-2006  Research in Venice, Cairo, Alexandria

2001  Lic. phil. hist. (summa cum laude) in History, Economics and Islam studies.

Non-academic work experience

2006-2008  UN military observer United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO) in the Middle East. Deputy chief Joint Mission Analysis Centre (JMAC) at HQ Jerusalem; project manager Joint Operations, Security and Analysis Database (JOSAD), Map Inventory, Catalogisation, Preservation and Scanning Project. Briefing officer for diplomats and visitors. Awarded with Head of Mission Commendation.

1995-2008  Staff officer of Swiss Army Inf Br 7 (Res), Inf Coy Cdr (till 2008), Recce officer (till 2004).

Publications

Monographies

Trading Conflicts. A Venetian Consul in Mamlûk Alexandria at the Beginning of the 15th Century, Leiden: Brill (The Medieval Mediterranean 93), in print.

Book sections

“Filippo di Malerbi – un spécialiste de transfert clandestin (ca. 1380-1450)”, In Daniel König, Rania Abdelatif et al. (Ed.) Acteurs des transferts culturels en Méditerranée médiévale. Sphères d’activité, contributions, fonctions, Paris: DHI, forthcoming 2011.

„Mapped change: histories of places and places of history: A Collaborative GIS-based Cue Card System for the Humanities“, in: Michael Winkler, Hubert Mara (Ed.) Proceedings of the SCCH09—Scientific Computing & Cultural Heritage November 16th-18th 2009 Heidelberg, Germany, Berlin etc.: Springer, forthcoming 2011.

 „Sliding Legalities: Venetian Slave Trade in Alexandria and the Aegean“, in: Christoph Cluse und Reuven Amitai (Ed.) Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean 11th to 15th Centuries, forthcoming 2011.

„Venise et la Méditerranée orientale: les jeux d'échelle du commerce vénitien à Alexandrie à la fin du Moyen Âge“, in: Sandro G. Franchini, Gennaro Toscano, Geneviève Gallot et al. (Ed.) Venise et la Méditerranée, Paris: INP,   forthcoming 2011.

„Contrebande, vin et révolte : lecture critique d'un conflit inter-culturel à l’ombre des rapports officieux entre Venise et Alexandrie à l’époque médiévale“, in: Christian Décobert (Ed.) Alexandrie et le commerce de la Méditerranée médiévale, Le Caire : Imprimerie de l’IFAO, i. E. 2011.

„Les réseaux vénitiens de navigation à Alexandrie au début du XVe siècle : Rôle promoteur des galères et concurrence des navires rondes“, in: Damien Coulon, Dominique Valérian und Christophe Picard (Ed.) Espace et réseaux en méditerranée médiévale, mise en place des réseaux, les politiques d’Etat dans la formation des réseaux, Paris: Éditions Bouchène, 2010, 275-290.

„Masking Cooperation with the Infidel: The Venetian Commercial Privileges, Political Power and Legal Culture in Mamluk Egypt”, in: Jonathan Osmond und Ausma Cimadina (Ed.) Power and Culture: Hegemony, Interaction and Dissent, Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2006, 33-51.

„Theodor Biblianders Türkenschrift. Ein Reformator und Humanist über Religion, Moral und kriegerischen Erfolg“, in: Leu, Urs B. und Christ-v. Wedel Christine (Ed.) Erasmus in Zürich. Eine verschwiegene Autorität, Zürich: NZZ Verlag, 2006, 309-326.

„Das Fremde verstehen: Biblianders Apologie zur Koranausgabe im Spiegel des Basler Koranstreites von 1542“, in: Christ-v. Wedel, Christine (Ed.) Theodor Bibliander (1505-1564): ein Thurgauer im gelehrten Zürich der Reformationszeit, Zürich: NZZ Verlag, 2005, 107-124.

Journal Articles

 „Eine Stadt wandert aus. Kollaps und Kontinuität im spätmittelalterlichen Alexandria“, Viator 42 Multilingual, in print.

 mit Hubert Mara und Olaf Wagener: „Altes Kapitell - neue Ansichten: Möglichkeiten des 3D-Scannings am Beispiel eines Kapitells der pfälzischen Burg Anebos“, Burgen und Schlösser, 1/2010, 51-52.

„A Newsletter in 1419? Antonio Morosini's Chronicle in the Light of Commercial Corre-spondence between Venice and Alexandria“, Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, June 2005, 35-66

Book review

„Burkhardt, Mike, Der Hansische Bergenhandel im Spätmittelalter. Handel – Kaufleute - Netzwerke (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Hansischen Geschichte, 60), Köln / Weimar / Wien 2009, Böhlau, 433 S. / 1 CD-ROM“,

Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung. Vierteljahresschrift zur Erforschung des Spätmittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit,

in print.

„A. Karsten: Geschichte Venedigs“, H-soz-u-Kult 03.08.2009, HistLit 2009-3-095.

„God’s Rule: Government and Islam. Six Hundred Years of Medieval Islamic Political Thought by Patricia Crone“, al-Masaq, vol. 19, no. 1, März 2007, 77-79.

International collaborations

 Since 2009 e-porte Universität Toronto Scarborough, Natalie Rothman about creating a webbased platform for collaborative Working in  Arbeiten in den Mediterranean studies.

Since 2009 Group FranceMed at DHI Paris, Participation at "Acteurs des trans-ferts culturels en Méditerranée médiévale". Lecture at colloque Sphères d’activité, contributions, fonctions, „Filippo di Malerbi – un spécialiste de transfert clandestin (1380-1450).“

Since 2008 Litlink (Philipp Sarasin Zürich)

Since 2008 Centre d’Études Alexandrines, USR 3134 du CNRS, esp. Geographin Cécile Shaalan und Architektion Catherine Machinek, Conference at Réseau d’Excellence Européen Ramsès 2, organized by Empereur, J.Y. and C. Décobert: Alexandrie et l’économie de la Méditerranée médiévale.

2005-2006 CLIOHRES.NET (“Creating Links and Innovative Overviews for a New History Research Agenda for the Citizens of a Growing Europe”), Network of excellence, group: „Power and Culture“ Conferences in Riga, Pisa and Cardiff, two papers given, one published..

Chairs

9-12 April 2009  2nd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Session II, Athen.
26-28 October 2009  Early Modern State (Building) in Asia and Europe – Comparison, Transfer and En-tanglement, Session V „Court and Diplomacy“, Heidelberg.
8-10 April 2010  The Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Session Spanish Literture and Culture, Venice.

Membership

Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE),
News on the Rialto,
Renaissance Society of America,
Hansischer Geschichtsverein
Historischer Zirkel, Basel.
 

Project management

• Administration of webbased MePorte/MMDD for collaborative work and exchange of material via Internet. So far, it is engineered mainly for the use of the JRG “Trading diasporas”; is currently built up to a platform for a further research community in cooperation with partners from Heidelberg, Canada and Hungary.
• Administration of the Cooperation between Transcultural Studies, " Interdisziplinärem Zentrum für wissenschaftliches Rechnen",  Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA) and the Litlink developers Ph. Sarasin, P. Haber and N. Busch for the development of Litlink (database software with web application for management of literature, different types of sources, objects, images, persons and places with integrated project administration and intelligent management of keywords (2008-2011).
  
• Methods and Applications Collegium (MAK), interdisciplinary platform for Medieval studies, Archaeology, Scientific Computing, Geography
• Archives and Paleography Lab (APL): Task force for teaching Venetian paleaography and efficient processing of archivial resources in cooperation with IWR.

Organised Conferences
17.-19. Februar 2011  Conferences: Union in Separation. Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean (1200-1500), Heidelberg.
25.-26. Februar 2010  Colloquium: Litlink: A Cue Card System in a Research Environment of Collaborative Work, Online Publishing and GIS, Heidelberg.
WS 2009/2010  Lecturecircle: mapping TRANS/culture: critical perspectives on transcultural studies with Claudia Brosseder, Cornelia Logemann and Simon Wendt, Heidelberg.
7.-10. Mai 2009  Workshop: Between Parallel Society and Integration: Diasporas and Transcultural Agency in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era with Stefan Burkhardt, Heidelberg.

Lectures 

Jul 2011 Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage 2011, SCCH, organsiert durch Michael Winckler et al. papers with Andreas Adolphs and Andreas Greiner and with Melanie Strub et al. (see above).

Mai 2011 Workshop „Venice Overseas, 1400-1800, Second International Workshop for Young Scholars. Organisiert von Benjamin Arbel und Oliver J. Schmitt. Vortrag zu „Thalassonomics - How Did Venetian Rule Alter the Economies of the 'Stato da Mar' in the Early 15th Century? The Example of Modon“.

Mai 2011 Internationales Kolloquium an der Universität Heidelberg organisiert von Annette Kehnel und Ludger Lieb „Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources“, Vorstellung der Medieval Mediterranean Diasporas Database (MMDD).

Mai 2011 Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien, Universität Bochum, Konferenz „Gefährdete Konnektivität – Piraterie im Mittelmeerraum“, Artikel in Vorbereitung.

Apr 2011 Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien, Universität Bochum, Kolloquium, Vortrag „Nachzeichnen von transkulturellem Austausch im östlichen Mittelmeerraum (Anfang 15. Jh.) - Der Wert der Karteikarte und digitale Techniken in den Mittelmeerstudien“.

Mär 2011 Central European University, Budapest: Vortrag „Tracking Transcultural Exchange Between Venice and Cairo (1419-1420). Venetian Business Practices at the Fringes of Legality or: Rediscovering the Virtues of Cue Cards for the Humanities“.

Dez 2010 Unversity Sevilla, public lecture „Fronteras y fugas. De cómo el opor-to se hizo portugués; o los avatares del vino entre Creta, Egipto e Inglaterra“ and paper: „Bargaining in the Shadow of the Norm: Venetian Trade between Commercial Privileges and Local Custom (Alexandria, around 1420)“.

Nov 2010 Historical Circle, Basel, Lecture: „Die Missernten von 1310-1320 als lange Wel-len. Ist Klimawandel letztlich die Ursache für die ‘Depression’ des Spätmittelalters?“

Nov 2010 Researcg colloquium Institut für Umweltphysik (IUP), University of Heidelberg, paper „Bad harvests of 1310-1320 and the long waves of Medieval economy: is climate change the ultimate cause of the 'crisis' of the Late Middle Ages?“

Jul 2010 SPP 1173 „Integration und Desintegration der Kulturen im europäischen Mittelalter“ Lecture: „Kreuzritter, Kaufleute, Sufis. Einwanderung und ihre Verarbeitung im losen Knoten des transkulturellen Geflechts (Alexandria im Spätmittelalter)“.

Jan 2010 EHESS, Paris, Passages de rives. Lieux, objets, acteurs, org. by Daniel König and Wolfgang Kaiser: „Vin de Crete passant à Alexandrie et à Venise - analyser une traite trans-culturelle (1350-1510)“.

Jan 2010 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Lecturecircle byzantine archaeology, „Verbotene Interkulturalität: der venezianische Kaufmann Filippo di Malerbi auf Abwegen (Alexandria, Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts)“.

Sep 2009 Arye Maimon-Institut, University of Trier, organized by Christoph Cluse and Reuven Amitai: Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in the Medieval Period (1000-1500). Lecture about venetian Slave trade.

Sep 2009 Brown Bag Lecture, World Trade Institute, Bern „Greek Wine between Cairo, Ven-ice and London in the Early 15th Century: Multilateral Trading Systems Revisited“.

Feb 2009 Stab Inf Br 7, Winterthur, Switzerland, „Experiences as an UN Military Observer and an Outlook on Problems of the Current Middle East“.

Jan 2009 Zofingia Raetia, Chur, Switzerland: „Entwicklungen im Nahen Osten – Spieltheorie und Ökonomie des Konflikts“.

Okt 2008 Colloque, Institut National du Patriomoine (INP), Paris, co-organized with Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; 30-31 october, comité: Sandro G. Franchini, Gene-viève Gallot, Gherardo Ortalli, Jean-Claude Schmitt, Gennaro Toscano: Venise et la Méditer-ranée, paper submitted.

Mai 2008 10th Basler Renaissance Colloquium (BRK), Das Mittelmeer: Kontakt- oder Konfliktraum? „Der Kaufmann in der Tinte: Aspekte einer Ökonomie des Konflikts im östlichen Mittelmeerraum“.

Sep 2007 Hebrew University Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Studies/German-Israeli Minerva School organisiert von Reuven Amitai and Christoph Cluse: Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Mediterranean Region in the Medieval Period (1000-1500): Case Studies in Christian-Muslim-Jewish Interaction.

Mar 2006 Thurgovia Literary Students Society (Frauenfeld, Switzerland) Lecture „Islam in Europa und die Integration der Türkei in die EU”.

Dez 2005 Centre d’Histoire et civilisation byzantines et du Proche-Orient médiéval, Séminaire Espace et réseaux en méditerranée médiévale, mise en place des réseaux, les politiques d’Etat dans la formation des réseaux, Sorbonne, (Paris), Vortrag : „Les relations entre Venise et le Proche-Orient : La ville portière Alexandrie entre politique métropolitaine et les intérêts mar-chands“.

Apr 2005 IFAO (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale) – ARCE (American Research Center in Egypt): Research Program Exercising Power in the Age of the Sultanates: Production, Manifestation, Reception (Cairo: 2003-2007), Lecture „Les Vénitiens en Égypte: un élément clef dans la production du pouvoir économique du sultan“.

Mai 2004 History Workshop, Venice International University, Trade, Colonies and Intercultural Contacts in the Venetian World, 1400-1650, (Venice).

Teaching

MAK excursion IV 16.4.2011

Program | List of seminar papers
 

MAK excursion III 13./16.10.2010

Program | List of seminar papers | Geo hist terrain analysis

MAK excursion I (Palatinate Forest 1./2.10.2009)

Group excursion in the Palatinate Forest,dealing with archaeological data collection and employment of archaeological and architectural historical sources in historical research.

Introduction to palaeography Heidelberg/Venice

The goal is to give the Participants a short outline about venetian and italian palaeography, archival system and organisation in preparation of the forthcoming excursion to Venice. The acquired knowledge will be useful exploring the Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASVe) and historical primary sources therein. On the agenda is also the city Venice itself and its history. [group picture]

Excursion to Paris (8.-12.6.2009)

Further Teaching

Cooperations

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Arne Karsten   Prof. Dr. Lars Börner   Dr. Stefan Burkhardt