Our fellow Alexa Stiller on the Deutschlandfunk podcast “Der Rest ist Geschichte” (The Rest is History) about the Nuremberg Trials www.deutschlandfunk.de/voelkerstraf...

Together with Ute Daniel and Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, our directors, @schulzewessel.bsky.social and Andreas Wirsching, will discuss four books at the "Historisches Quartett" on October 13, 2025 at @lithaus.bsky.social www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

Yesterday moderated by our KFG Director Kiran Klaus Patel!

KFG Director and Spokesperson @schulzewessel.bsky.social heute auf dem historikertag.bsky.social im Panel "Macht in der Moderne. Perspektiven der Forschung auf Geschichte und Gegenwart" www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...

Wir bieten im Zeitraum von Januar bis April 2026 ein Praktikum in unser Geschäftsstelle in Berlin. Dich erwarten interessante und vielfältige Aufgaben - also jetzt bewerben! Alle Infos zum Verfahren: https://dgo-online.org/informieren/aktuelles/praktikantin-dgo-geschaeftsstelle-chance-berlin/

Join us for this week’s KFG Colloquium on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 5:15 to 6:45 pm, featuring a lecture by our Senior Fellow, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath www.kfg20.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/events/collo...

Join us for this week’s KFG Colloquium on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 5:15 to 6:45 pm, featuring a lecture by our Junior Fellow Václav Rameš: www.kfg20.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/events/collo...

Heute in der BAdW! #Strafzölle #USA #Trump #EU #Europa #Wirtschaft

Join us for this week’s KFG Interdisciplinary Workshop on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 5:15 to 6:45 pm, featuring the session "Self-Determination" by our Junior Fellow Sevanna Poghosyan (Tartu) and Oliver William Rowe (Tartu) www.kfg20.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/events/inter...

Please register via [email protected]

Join us for thisweek’s KFG Colloquium on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 5:15 to 6:45 pm, featuring a lecture by Gideon Chitanga! 📍 Historicum, Room K302, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Welcome to our workshop on Thursday and Friday!

Lecture Series with Benjamin Ziemann! www.kfg20.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/events/lectu...

Und am 18.06.2025 präsentiert unser Senior Fellow Reinhard Schulze das Thema: ´The Crisis of Religion´ in unserem Kolloquium

Unser Senior Fellow, Reinhard Schulze, am 17.06.25 im Schweizer Fernsehen zum Thema «Wie hoch ist die Gefahr einer atomaren Eskalation?» www.srf.ch/news/srf-new...

June 13: This summer term's KFG conference: An Exploration of Russia’s Anticolonial Stance. The conference will take place at the LMU Historicum. You can also join the conference via zoom. Please register beforehand via e-mail to [email protected]

📘 Just published: The new book by Hans Joas, Senior Fellow at the KFG! Congratulations on the publication — we look forward to engaging with the ideas it offers and the discussions it will inspire. www.suhrkamp.de/buch/hans-jo...

Today, Alexa Stiller will present her latest research – more information can be found below. You can join the lecture in person or via zoom: lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/6851780750... We look forward to your participation!

🎬 Check out the next highlight from our #MeDiMiInsights series! 💡Our spokesperson Jürgen Bast on the discovery of migrants' #HumanRights in the long 1990s. The talk was held in the colloquium of @kfguniversalism.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. 👉 youtu.be/-HTkEnviAFg

Join us for next week’s KFG Colloquium on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 5:15 to 6:45 pm, featuring a lecture by Alexa Stiller (University of Zurich): “The Paradox of Universalism: Historicizing the Practice of International Criminal Law in the 1990s” 📍 Historicum, Room K302, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Tomorrow! You can join in person or via zoom: lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/6863039093...

"Kyjiw im Jahrzehnt der Gewalt. 1935-1945" Vortrag Bert Hoppe Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas (LMU) in Kooperation mit dem Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social 15.05.2025, 17:15 Uhr Anmeldung bis 14.05.: [email protected] www.ifz-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

Heute vor 80 Jahren endete der Zweite Weltkrieg. 🕊️ „Die unmittelbare Nachkriegszeit war ein Ausnahmezustand, der für die weitere deutsche Geschichte elementar sein sollte": Hier gehts zum Interview mit LMU-Historiker Johannes Großmann: www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

#weremember #80Jahre #Kriegsende #WWII Aus diesen Anlass hat das IfZ @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social eine spannende Auswahl von Beiträgen aus den Vierteljahrsheften #VfZ zusammengestellt. 👉 www.ifz-muenchen.de/vierteljahrs...

The KFG colloquium of this summer term 2025 is finally starting! Our first speaker KFG Junior Fellow Sevanna Poghosyan will talk about "Contemporary Russian Approaches to Democracy in International Law". 🗓️ May 14 🕔 5:15–6:45 PM 📍 K302, Historicum, Schellingstr. 12 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

A warm welcome to @reinhardschulze.bsky.social! Reinhard Schulze joins the KFG as Senior Fellow at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social this summer term. During his stay, he will pursue research on "Post-secular redefinitions of the antinomy of universalism and particularism in Europe and the Middle East."

📣New video @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de @for-medimi.bsky.social Jürgen Bast (Giessen): The Discovery of Migrants' Human Rights in the Long 1990s: A Legal History

📢CfA: The KFG is looking for 3 Junior Fellows with a research topic focusing on economy, human rights or religion/secularity in European contemporary history for the Summer Term 2026 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Submission deadline: June 15, 2025 www.kfg20.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/news/cfa-jun...

Welcome to KFG Junior Fellow Alexa Stiller. Her research project "Visions of Accountability. The Emergence of the International Criminal Law Regime, 1989-2002" examines the establishment of the international criminal tribunals in response to the Bosnian War and the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s.

80 Jahre Kriegsende: Gelinada Grinchenko, Katja Makhotina & Andreas Wirsching diskutieren über die Erinnerung an den deutsch-sowjetischen Krieg 1941-45 in Deutschland, der Ukraine & in Russland @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, moderiert von @schulzewessel.bsky.social: www.ifz-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

🚨 New publication! KFG Director Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel: “‘Desafio’ or ‘modelo’? The European Union’s international trade and Brazil, 1980s–90s.” First article from the KFG December 2023 conference "Between Collapse, Integration and Co-Transformation." More to follow!

The summer term 2025 has recently started at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social! Check out the program for this term’s KFG Colloquium below. We’re excited to welcome our new fellows in Munich: Till van Rahden, Reinhard Schulze, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, et alteri. Looking forward to an inspiring semester!

Welcome to KFG-Junior Fellow Václav Rameš, who joins the KFG for the Summer Term 2025! Václav's research focuses on "In Search of a New Balance of Power: Transforming Industrial Relations in Late Socialism and Post-Socialism from the Perspective of International Agents (Late 1980s – Early 2000s)."

We are delighted to welcome Sevanna Poghosyan as a Junior Fellow for the summer term 2025 at the KFG @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. Sevanna will be conducting research on "Russia and Challenges to Liberal Democracy within the European Regional Order", and we look forward to her contributions.

#New video to start the week: KFG Senior Fellow @cvgall.bsky.social discusses "Anti-Western Approaches to Human Rights Discourse in the Soviet Union and Putin’s Russia". Check it out! 👇 @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

#Event Tomorrow at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW) with KFG-Director Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching:

Krise der #Demokratie oder Krise des #Parlamentarismus? Diese Frage diskutiert in historischer & gegenwärtiger Perspektive unser Direktor Andreas Wirsching am 20.3. in einer gemeinsamen Veranstaltung von #IfZ und @kgparl.bsky.social. 📅 Anmeldungen bis zum 18.3. ➡️ www.ifz-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

#New week, new video: 🎥 A new talk from the KFG Lecture Series is now online: Paul Betts discusses "Walls, Doors, and Bridges: A Changing Legacy of 1989 for Our Time." 📍 Watch it at @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

📢 Event at Collegium Carolinum: "Unter deutscher Besatzung. Europa 1939–1945" – Book presentation with @toensmeyer.bsky.social & Discussion with @schulzewessel.bsky.social. 📅 Thursday, March 13, 2025 🕕 6:00 PM 📍 Adalbert-Stifter-Saal, Sudetendeutsches Haus, Hochstraße 8, Munich 📌Event in German

🎥 New video @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de! Alexander Libman (Berlin) presents "Social Sciences in Russia before the War: Integration, Isolation, Political Impact." A keynote from the workshop "Anti-Westernism of Knowledge Production in Russian Social Science during Russia’s War against Ukraine".

📢 The article “Im Krieg gegen die Zivilisation des Westens” by Prof. Martin Schulze Wessel (Director & Speaker of the KFG), published in forschung 4 (2024), the magazine of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), is now available for download on the KFG website. 📄 The article is in German.

#New video @lisaportal.bsky.social: Angelika Nußberger: "Nürnberg 2.0? Die Kriege in Osteuropa vor Gericht". The lecture is in German. The publication marks the start of the series featuring lectures from the KFG in the winter term 2024/25. A new video will be released every Sunday - stay tuned.

#Interview Prof. Dr. Angelika Nußberger, one of the three Distinguished Fellows of the KFG, has been interviewed by @lisaportal.bsky.social on the current research on Universalism and Particularism with a focus on Human Rights: "A universally applicable and obeyed law is a utopia" - in German

Neue Erinnerungstafel zur Weißen Rose in Gedenken an die mutige Flugblattaktion der Widerstandsgruppe. 📜 LMU-Präsident Prof. Bernd Huber enthüllte die Tafel zusammen mit Professor Hans Günter Hockerts & Hildegard Kronawitter, Vorsitzende der #WeißeRose Stiftung, vor dem diesjährigen Gedenkkonzert.

„Wenn pauschal von Fake News gesprochen wird, sind wir an der Klippe, wo keiner Nachricht mehr zu trauen ist.“ – Arndt Brendecke, LMU-Historiker und Sprecher des @sfb1369.bsky.social, im Interview über #FakeNews und den Einfluss auf Vertrauen. 📱🗞️ #Vigilanz #SFB1369 www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Matthias Tschöp. Der derzeitige CEO des Helmholtz Zentrums München wurde heute zum neuen Präsidenten der LMU gewählt. Seine sechsjährige Amtszeit beginnt am 1. Oktober 2025. www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

We are delighted to announce a new publication by KFG Director @schulzewessel.bsky.social: Schulze Wessel, Martin/Volf, Darina (eds.): Changing Times, Persisting Legacies. The Uneven Development of East-Central Europe since 1989, Göttingen 2025. Published by Collegium Carolinum with the KFG

Get to know the KFG: The third director of the KFG is Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching. He is the Director at Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social as well as Professor of Contemporary History. Interview with Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching @lisaportal.bsky.social

Wie viel Recht verträgt die Geschichte, wie viel Geschichte das Recht? Darüber diskutieren in einer neuen Ausgabe von "Zu Gast bei L.I.S.A." Angelika Nußberger, Claus Kreß und Fabian Klose. @chlcologne.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/zu_gast_bei_...

Get to know the KFG: Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel is the second of the three directors of the KFG. He is Professor of Modern History as well as Director at Project House Europe. His focus: "Universalizing European Trade: The EU in the World, 1980s-2000s". Interview with Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel: