Junior Professorship for Historical European Studies
Europe is a difficult subject to define in terms of borders, dividing lines and contours. Depending on the context and question, it can be understood as a geographical designation, as a network of institutions spanning different levels, as a changing identity space and traditional resource, or as a multiply entangled (social) space whose internal and external borders are permanently constituted by temporal and spatial definition and negotiation processes. Europe thus appears as a fluid construct that manifests itself in many ways in ideas and identities, social and economic orders, institutions, borders and concrete practices (which in turn have an impact on our understanding of Europe).
The research and teaching undertaken in the context of the Junior Professorship for Historical European Studies focuses on political-institutional, cultural, economic and social European integration and consolidation processes since the late 19th century. A particular temporal focus is on the second half of the 20th century, as the diverse European integration efforts accelerated in an unprecedented manner after the end of the Second World War. This acceleration produced both intentional and unintentional new points of contact, framework agreements, institutions and shared rules: Not only in the area of labour and educational migration and the exchange of goods and services, but also in the military sector or (to a much lesser extent) in the harmonisation of social benefits, intra-European interdependencies and mutual references at bilateral and multilateral level have increased measurably.
It is particularly these acceleration processes and their effects (which - as Brexit or the increase in social and economic inequality in the EU show - can also have centrifugal effects) that historical European research is dedicated to.
This means that historical research into the European integration process since the early 1950s is one of the central topics of historical European research, as are developments at odds with EU integration in terms of time, space, politics, economics or society - such as (legal) norm-setting processes by international organisations or research into transnationally organised (including Eurosceptic) movements, trade unions, multinational companies and European business associations.
Open office hours
Consultation hours take place regularly on the Wednesday dates below from 09:00-10:00 s.t. and in urgent cases by appointment. The consultation hours can be attended in person at the office or digitally via Zoom. Please register in advance by e-mail.
Meeting-ID: 713 572 8593
Password: 352424
https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/7135728593?pwd=UVRtRGNFQnovbzF0UTZJcCtOdEVCQT09
Consultation hours (09:00-10:00 s.t.):
30.04. | 28.05. | 25.06. | 16.07
Contacts
Officeadress:
Friedrichstraße 191-193,
D-10117 Berlin,
Room 4090
Phone: +49 30 2093 70548
E-Mail: wieterhx(at)hu-berlin.de
Adress for Mail
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
Juniorprofessur für Historische Europaforschung
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
Student assistants:
E-Mail: ifghisef(at)hu-berlin.de
Tel: +49 30 2093 70657