Culture-Conflict-Security (Focus: Eastern Europe)

Coordinators

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Monika Wingender
Vice Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Horst Carl
                         Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger

Abstract of Area of Potential

Since around 2009, ideas and concepts of security have been researched at JLU in both historical and current political constellations - particularly in Eastern Europe. The cooperation with the Herder Institute and the broad-based third-party funding (SFB/TRR 138-Dynamics of Security) have given the field international visibility. In addition, new forms of East-West scientific communication, for example, are used to continuously transfer findings to society (transfer project "Science in a Common Europe" in the LOEWE focus area "Conflict Regions in Eastern Europe").

Involved Disciplines

History, Eastern European History, Slavic Studies, Turkology, German Studies, English Studies, Law/International Law, Sociology, Political Science, Political Theory

External Cooperation Partners

In Germany:

• Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung—Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Marburg: PD Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher
• Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a.M.: Prof. Dr. Karl Härter
• Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Frankfurt a.M.: Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase

International:

• Universität Łódź, PL: Prof. Dr. Joanna Jabłkowska
• Kasaner Föderale Universität, RUS: Prof. Dr. Iskander Gilyazov
• Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, FRA: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen, Prof. Dr. Rainer Babel

Structures and Programs for Supporting Early Career Researchers

• Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften / International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GGK/GCSC)
• Gießener Graduate School Social, Economic and Legal Sciences(GGS)
• Postdoc Career and Mentoring Office (PCMO)
• Integrated Research Training Group (IGK) within SFB/TRR 138 'Dynamiken der Sicherheit. Formen der Versicherheitlichung in historischer Perspektive'
• Postdoc and doctoral funding including mentoring system in the LOEWE focus area  „Konfliktregionen im östlichen Europa“
• M.A. „Interdisziplinäre Studien zum östlichen Europa“

Most significant scientific achievements since 2018

Structural elements:

• 2022: Establishment of the "Research Centre for the Study of Culture(RCSC)" as an extension of the GCSC to strengthen and support the potential area with regard to collaborative application projects
• 2020: Successful re-evaluations/further funding of the CAPAZ Institute as a center of excellence in research and teaching (DAAD)
• 2019: Continuation of the "International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture"(GCSC) after 14 years of funding as part of the Excellence Initiative

External funds / awards

• 2020: DFG funding of SPP 1981 Transottomanica „Transimperiale armenische Mobilität und der Aufstieg des osmanischen Tokat“
• 2020: VolkswagenStiftung Project „Contested Language Diversity—Dealing with Minority Languages in post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia“
• DFG fundings of „Russländische Wissenschaftler im ‚Nahen Osten‘: Archäologische Expeditionen und imperiale Kulturpolitik, 1856–1914“ (2019) and „Nationale Präferenzbildung und EU-Kooperation. Eine Zwei-Ebenen-Analyse der Außenpolitiken der Ukraine, Georgiens und der Republik Moldau“ (2018)

Publications

• 2019: Carl, H.; Babel, R.; Kampmann, C. (Hrsg.): „Sicherheitsprobleme im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert—Bedrohungen, Konzepte, Ambivalenzen/Problèmes de sécurité au XVIe et XVIIe siècles—menaces, concepts, ambivalences.“ Baden-Baden 2019.