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Dr. Joachim Berger

Research Coordinator – on secondment
Room: 03 305
Phone: +49 6131 39 39370

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Personal Details:

Joachim Berger is on secondment to the Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg from January 2025 to December 2027.

Joachim Berger joined the (Leibniz) Institute of European History in 2004; since 2009, he has been research coordinator. 2001–2003 trainee at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in the field of historical exhibitions and cultural events. 1997–2001 junior researcher at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. PhD Jena 2002. M.A. Jena 1997 (History and Art History), 1994/1995 enrolled at the University of Bristol, UK. Fellowships of the Casa di Goethe in Rome and the Max Weber Foundation (at the German Historical Institutes in Paris, London, and Rome).

Tasks at the IEG:

coordination of resesarch activities (Research Board, Research Groups, Colloqium)
research and development planning
programme budgets, evaluations, academic advisory board
third-party funding and project proposals
international and national cooperations incl. the Leibniz Association
research on cross-sectional topics
conducting collaborative research activities and publication projects (e.g. EGO – European History Online and On site, in time. Negotiating differences in Europa)

Research Interests:

History of the historiography of/on »Europe«
Internationalism and Civil Society
Natural disasters and the media in early modern Europe
Digitality in the historical sciences

Selected Publications:

(ed., with Thorsten Wübbena) Wissen ordnen und entgrenzen. Vom analogen zum digitalen Europa?, Göttingen 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666302312.
Mit Gott, für Vaterland und Menschheit? Eine europäische Geschichte des freimaurerischen Internationalismus (1845–1935), Göttingen 2020 (available in print and open access, URL: https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666564857).
Vom Kalten Krieg zum europäischen Umbruch. Das Institut für Europäische Geschichte 1950–1990, Berlin-Mainz 2020-09-12. URL: https://ausstellungen.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/ieg2020.
Places to be. On negotiating differences in Europe, in: On site, in time. Negotiating differences in Europe, Mainz 2016. URL: http://en.ieg-differences.eu/introduction.
Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1739–1807). Denk- und Handlungsräume einer ›aufgeklärten‹ Herzogin, Heidelberg 2003.

Research projects:

A European history of masonic internationalism, 1845–1935

The research project, conducted between 2009 and 2019, explored how Freemasonry responded to the challenge of internationalism as an association that carried over forms and self-interpretations from the early 18th century to the Age of Extremes.

Learning from distant disasters? On the cross-border media coverage of natural hazards in early modern Europe

The research project examines the media coverage of natural disasters as cross-border moments of reflection and mobilisation in (Western) Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. It asks whether societal teleconnections produced by medial communication gave rise to an early modern European media culture of disaster.

Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past"

The Leibniz Research Alliance "The Value of the Past" investigates the significance of the past for societies in the past and present. The first phase runs from 1 September 2021 until 31 August 2025.