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Napoleon op een troon van mensenschedels, 1813 - 1813 - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain.

 

Project description

The international research project "The Aggressor: Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations" examines images of the aggressor in European historical narratives and memory cultures. Representations of individual historical figures will be analysed in bi-national and multinational comparative studies including both victim and perpetrator perspectives. Multidisciplinary research on forms of collective identification with or against the aggressor and instrumentalizations of memory will cover three areas: academic historiography, popular media, and current political discourses. Sub-projects aim to stimulate reflection on the conflict potential of one's own national historical narrative and to promote agonistic forms of memory culture. Special attention is paid to social and digital media tools, such as computer games providing new ways of engagement with the past.

• Full project description (Unchecked DeepL translation into English)

• Press release of the Heidelberg University

• Information about the project on the Daimler and Benz Foundation website

 

People

 

Participants of the conference "The Aggressor", Ladenburg, 27 February 2024     

© Daimler und Benz Stiftung_Oestergaard

 

Speaker

Prof Dr Thomas Maissen (Heidelberg University)

thomas.maissen@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de

 

Research project management and coordination 

PD Dr Ivan Sablin (Heidelberg University)

ivan.sablin@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de

 

Members of the scientific consortium

• Prof Dr Stefan Berger (Director, Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum) 

• Prof Dr Diana Mishkova (Director, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) 

• Professor Emerita Ilaria Porciani (University of Bologna) 

• Prof Dr Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University Democracy Institute, Budapest) 

 

Senior scholars

• Prof Dr Cord Arendes (Heidelberg University)

• Prof Dr Florian Bieber (University of Graz)

• Prof Dr Frank Bösch (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)

• Professor Emerita Nada Boškovska (University of Zurich)

• Prof Dr Alexandra Bounia (University of the Aegean)

• Professor Emeritus Luigi Cajani (Sapienza University of Rome)

• Assoc Prof Dr Thomas Cauvin (University of Luxembourg)

• Prof Dr Corine Defrance (Panthéon-Sorbonne University)

• Prof Dr Effi Gazi (University of the Peloponnese)

• Dr Adéla Gjuričová (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

• Prof Dr Marja Jalava (Tampere University)

• Prof Dr Chris Lorenz (Ruhr University Bochum)

• Prof Dr Katja Makhotina (University of Bonn)

• Assoc Prof Dr Alina Mozolevska (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)

• Dr Andy Mycock (University of Leeds)

• Dr Florian Nieser (Heidelberg University)

• Prof Dr Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (University of Santiago de Compostela)

• Prof Dr Tanja Penter (Heidelberg University)

• Prof Dr Marek Tamm (Tallinn University)

 

Junior scholars

Postdoctoral researchers

• Dr Sven Milekić (CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest)

• Dr Martin Valkov (Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS)

PhD students

• Lisa Fahrni, M.A. (Heidelberg University)

• Elisabeth Charlotte Caroline Osing, M.A. (Heidelberg University)

• Justus Raimann, M.A. (Ruhr University Bochum)

• Kai Steinhage, M.Ed. (Ruhr University Bochum)

• Daniel Weinmann, M.Ed. (Heidelberg University)

 

Members of the Cooperation Network

• Prof Dr Martin Conway (University of Oxford)

• Sebastian Dörr (Heidelberg University)

• Dr Fatih Durgun (Istanbul Medeniyet University)

• Amr Elashmawy, B.A. (Heidelberg University)

• Dr Stamatia Fotiadou (Institute of Balkan Studies and Center of Thracology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

• Dr Katharina Friege (University of Oxford)

• Dr Piotr Kuligowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

• Dominik Szczęsny-Kostanecki, M.A. (University of Warsaw)

• Benedek Marton Vasy, M.A. (Complutense University of Madrid)

• Philipp-Thomas Wehage, M.A. (Heidelberg University)

 

Partner institutions

• Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest (Prof Renata Uitz) 

• House of European History, Brussels (Dr Constanze Itzel) 

• International Council of Museums (ICOM) (Prof Dr Emma Nardi)

• Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (Prof Dr Frank Bösch), in cooperation with Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past“ 

• Max Weber Foundation, Bonn (Dr Harald Rosenbach)

• Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Heidelberg University (Prof Dr Tanja Penter)