Research

This project systematically investigates the connections between socialist-communist underground work and women's networks under Nazi occupation along the transregional European flight routes (Soviet Union, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, France).

Starting with the first World's Fair in London (1851) and continuing through Paris (1867, 1889, 1900), Vienna (1873), and Chicago (1893) to the World's Fairs of the interwar period in Barcelona (1929) and Paris (1937), this project analyzes how world exhibitions influenced the development and representation of statehood and how political change between imperial and national order affected the forms of representation of statehood.

The galley was the most important boat type in the Mediterranean world since antiquity, both for warfare and the transport of goods. But it was not until the 1500s that governments began to use convicted criminals as oarsmen. Remarkably, this trend also reached countries that had no galley fleets themselves such as the Holy Roman Empire.