Dr. Bernhard Gißibl
Research associate, CRC subproject Zoological Human Differentiation
Room: 02 301Phone: +49 6131 39 39361
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2002/2003 Research assistant at the Historical Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 2006-2010 Research assistant, 2010-2012 Akademischer Rat a.Z. at the Historical Institute of the University of Mannheim. Since May 2012 Research Associate at the IEG, since July 2021 in the DFG-funded SFB 1482 "Human Differentiation". From April to May 2015 Bernhard Gißibl was Visiting Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.
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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.
Man and Animal at the Serengeti Research Institute: Management and Sciences of Sacralized Nature in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Funded by the SFB 1482 - Human Categorisation. The project understands comparative behavioural research as a central instance of dealing with the guiding difference between humans and animals in the 20th century. Using the example of the Serengeti Research Institute in Tanzania, East Africa, founded in 1965, it examines knowledge production, practice and politics of behavioural research on free-living large mammals.
World squared: Mannheim and German colonialism
As the largest inland port in southern Germany and the industrial heart of Baden, the city of Mannheim became a hub of transcontinental connections with the colonial world of the southern hemisphere in the 19th century. Mannheim's economy processed colonial raw materials, and in the stacks of the Reiß-Engelhorn Museums thousands of objects of colonial provenance bear witness to the long-cherished dream of establishing the Colonial Museum of the German Southwest here.
Zoological Human Categorisation: Behavioural research in the context of decolonisation and scientific discipline formation
The project focuses on one of the most productive field sites of wildlife research during the 1960s and 1970s, the Serengeti Research Institute in post-colonial Tanzania. It analyses how the scientific study of the national park’s animal species through ethologists and ecologists was interrelated with the postcolonial renegotiation of social relationships within the Institute as well as around the Serengeti National Park and in Tanzania.