Digital Humanities

• OstData – Forschungsdatendienst für die Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropaforschung
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• Digital research infrastructure
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• Masaryk in the German context: Correspondence and digital networks
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Cultural memory

• CC Oral History
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• The transformation of the memory of forced migration during World War II in local contexts. Places, themes and agents in socialist industrial cities after 1989
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• Musealization of Memory. The Second World War and Nazi-occupation in Museums, Memorial Sites, and Monuments in Eastern Europe (Project period: October 2008–September 2012)
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• Discourses of Victim Associations: Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in Comparative Perspective (Project period:October 2007–September 2011)
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Migration history

• The evacuation of Germans from Slovakia, 1944/45. A population caught between Slovak National Uprising and the final agonies of National Socialist ethnic and resettlement policies
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• Contact linguistic investigation of the linguistic acculturation of expellees in Mecklenburg
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• The Outlook and Political Participation of Expelled Women in the Early Bundesrepublik (Project period: April 2011–December 2013)
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• Transnational Mediators of Knowledge (Project Period: September 2009–January 2013)
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Concepts of social order and their practical implementation

• The Emperor’s Desk. A location for political decision-making within the Habsburg Monarchy?” Franz Joseph I and his Imperial Cabinet
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• The making of a mother tongue: Occitan, Yiddish and Belarusian in the context of regionalist enthusiasm, philological discourse and national agitation
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• The criminality of Others. Ethnically based attribution of criminality in the Eastern provinces of Prussia and the Bohemian Lands (1871 to 1914)
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• Ordering Diversity. Concepts of Federalism in the Habsburg Monarchy and its Successor States
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• Edvard Beneš and the National Minorities in Czechoslovakia between the Paris Peace Conference and the Munich Agreement (Project period: January 2010–December 2012)
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• State, Companies, and Workers in State-Controlled Economies. Industry in Bohemia-Moravia under National Socialism and in a People’s Democracy (1938–1950) (completed)
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• Political and Cultural Loyalties in Modern East Central Europe (completed)
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History of religion

• Zwischen Prag und Nikolsburg. Jüdisches Leben in den böhmischen Ländern
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• Handbook of the religious and church history of Slovakia during the 20th century
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• International Research Group: Religious Cultures in Europe in the 19th and 20th Century
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• Religions- und Kirchengeschichte der böhmischen Länder und Tschechiens im 20. Jahrhundert (gemeinsam mit der Ackermann-Gemeinde München; gefördert vom Versöhnungsfonds bei Renovabis; Juli 2004–März 2009)
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Environmental and infrastructure history

• Developing the Carpathians. State Structural Policies, Usage Conflicts, and Environmental Change in a Mountainous Region under State Socialism 1945–1989
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Cooperative projects

• Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
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• International Research Group: Religious Cultures in Europe in the 19th and 20th Century
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Further projects

• Completed Projects of the Institute
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