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"Historians and Historical Research at Iraqi Universities. A Survey".
The German Federal Ministry of Education (Bmbf) funds a project by Bashar Ibrahim and Jenny Oesterle (both members of the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
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Dr. Carsten Wergin contributed a session on 'Listening Carefully' to the Radical Hope Syllabus. The group-sourced syllabus is intended as a resource for anyone interested in environmental issues - and how we, collectively and/or individually, might respond to them [more info]

 

Dr. Corinna Erckenbrecht (assoziiertes Mitglied der Nachwuchsforschergruppe Das transkulturelle Erbe Nordwest-Australiens) ist seit Mai 2018 neue Leiterin der Abteilung Weltkulturen und ihre Umwelt an den rem | Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim.

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Jenny Oesterle organizes together with Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht a section on the 52. deutschen Historikertag in Münster on the subject of  "Flight and Asylum from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period - transcultural perspectives" [more]

 

 

Dr. Jenny Rahel Oesterle and Dr. Carsten Wergin talk about their research in Open Access Video Journal Latest Thinking:

 

How Can Australian Indigenous Experience Change Western Perspectives of the World?

 

How Does Tourism Change People and Places?

 
 
Announcements

Books:

Der Ruf des Schneckenhorns
Hermann Klaatsch (1863 – 1916). Ein Heidelberger Wissenschaftler in Nordwestaustralien

 

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Russischsprachige Bevölkerung in Osteuropa – von der Titularnation zur Minderheit
Demokratische Transformation und gesellschaftliche Integration im Baltikum und in der Ukraine

 

 Diss_AnneJuergens

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Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia
Epistemologies, Practices and Locales
 

Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia

Edited by Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan, Joseph K.W. Hill

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Lustre: Pearling and Australia
 

Book_Lustre_PearlingandAustralia

Edited by Tanya Edwards, Sarah Yu

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Lectures:

Anthropology in/of Australia Past and Present

as part of the Lecture Series
Introduction to Australian Studies:
(Trans-)Disciplinary Perspectives

Dr. Carsten Wergin

20 June 2017, University of Cologne


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The Trouble with Representation: Australian Indigenous World(view)s and the "White Magic" of Modernity
 

Dr. Carsten Wergin
 

06 April 2017, University of Western Australia

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Curtin Indigenous Research Network Lecture Series:

Heritage, Transculturality and Collections: New Research from Germany and the Kimberley,
WA

30 March 2017, Curtin University, Perth

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International Workshop:

"Refugee transfers in the Euro- Arab Mediterranean zone:
Tying the past with the present
Towards a transregional and transhistorical understanding in times of crises"

(10-12 April 2017 Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon)

organized by

Dr. Jenny Oesterle (Research Group "Protection in Periods of Political and Religious Expansion) in cooperation with Dr. Tamirace Fakhoury (Lebanese American
University, Byblos) and the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities

 

Collaborations of Biocultural Hope: Community Science Against Industrialisation in Northwest Australia

Ethnos


Dr. Carsten Wergin


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Expansion und Aktivitäten des Mercedarier-Ordens im Andenraum des 16. Jahrhunderts

Dr. Maret Keller

Anden Diss - Keller

​(Dissertationsschrift Universität Heidelberg 2013), URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-187295

 

Dancehall und Homophobie
Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf die Geschichte und Kultur Jamaikas
Patrick HelberDancehall

​05/2015, 304 Seiten, kart.
ISBN 978-3-8376-3109-8

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Materialities of Tourism
Special Issue of Tourist Studies (2014, 14/3)Guest-editors Stephen Muecke and Carsten Wergin

Tourist


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Caribbean Food Cultures
Culinary Practices and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
Food Cultures Transcript

05/2014, 306 pages,
kart.
ISBN 978-3-8376-2692-6
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Allegorical embodiments of political order in Great Britain and the Holy Roman Empire

Since ancient times, personifications, images of animals, and other allegories had symbolized entities of ‚state’. In Early Modern times there was a growing number of attempts to describe and depict the state in the form of a body. A comparison of Great Britain and the Holy Roman(-German) Empire in the Early Modern period shows interesting similarities in the respective realization of such allegories as well as very distinctive and specific features. By means of a comparative, ‘transcultural’ perspective on these ‘national’ symbols the respective artistic, political and theoretical principles of and conditions for the emergence and spreading of these embodiments can be determined more precisely. Only in comparison can the full message of these complex allegories be grasped. Within a context of ‘contrary’ political developments (centralisation vs. differentiation), a comparing view on constitutional history and symbolic imagery in Great Britain and in the Holy Roman Empire poses questions on possible discourses on interrelations between configurations of political order, ‘national’ identities, and an expanding language of imagery.

 

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Personal details

Michael Mohr


 

 


 

 

CV

2001-2008
Studies in History and English Language and Literature at the Universities of Heidelberg and Southampton (2003/04)
Graduation with degree Erstes Staatsexamen (graduation thesis: “Coronations in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on the staging of political-confessional configurations of order”)

 

December 2008 - October 2011
Research Assistant within the Transcultural Studies project “Prinzip ‚Personifikation’: Visuelle Intelligenz und epistemische Tradition, 1300-1800 (“'The Principle of Personification': Visual intelligence and epistemic tradition, 1300-1800”) at the University of Heidelberg.
 

1 July - 30 September 2010
Fellow of the German Historical Institute London.

 

Research interests

European history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (esp. Holy Roman Empire, England/Great Britain), Symbolic Communication (Representation of rulership, coronations, allegoric embodiments of the state, personifications).

 

Publication

 

Talks/Presentations

  • „Staatsrepräsentation(en)“ („Representation(s) of the state“); seminar „Der frühneuzeitliche Staat“ (“The early modern state“), headed by Prof Dr Thomas Maissen, Department of History, Heidelberg University, 21/10/2010
  • „Allegorische Verkörperungen politischer Ordnung in Großbritannien und im Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation“ (“Allegorical embodiments of political order in Great Britain and the Holy Roman Empire“); colloquium of the German Historical Institute London, 14/9/2010
  • „Allegorische Verkörperungen politischer Ordnung in Großbritannien und im Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation“ (“Allegorical embodiments of political order in Great Britain and the Holy Roman Empire”); colloquium of the Chair for Early Modern History, headed by Prof Dr. Sven Externbrink, Department of History, Heidelberg University, 25/6/2010
  • „Transnationale und transstaatliche Verfassungsentwicklungen und ihre transkulturellen Repräsentationen“ (“Transnational and transimperial constitutional developments and their transcultural representations“) ; conference “Transkulturalität – Transnationalität – Transstaatlichkeit – Translokalität. Theoretische und empirische Begriffsbestimmungen“, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), 1-3/10/2009
  • „Allegorische Verkörperungen politischer Ordnung – Das Beispiel der weiblichen Staatspersonifikation“ (“Allegorical embodiments of political order – the example of the female personfication of the state“); seminar “Der weibliche Körper in allegorischen Projektionen: Vom Rosenroman zur Lady Liberty“ (“The female body in allegorical projections: from Roman de la Rose to Lady Liberty“), headed by Dr Cornelia Logemann, Institute of European Art History, Heidelberg University, 10/6/2009

 

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