Dr. Bernhard Gißibl

Member of the academic staff, Department of History, spokesperson of Research Area 2 "Sacralisation and Desacralisation"
Room: 02 301Phone: +49 6131 39 39361
Fax: +49 6131 39 21050
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Before joining the IEG, Bernhard lectured on Modern and Contemporary History at the universities of Munich (2002/2003) and Mannheim (2006-2012). Between 2003 and 2006, he was a PhD researcher at Jacobs University in Bremen, holding a PhD scholarship from the Cusanuswerk, the scholarship organization of the Catholic church in Germany. In April 2013, he was a 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" started its work on September 1st, 2021. Over a period of four years it will investigate the significance of the past for societies in the past and present.
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.
Zoologische Humandifferenzierung. Verhaltensforschung im Kontext von Dekolonisierung und wissenschaftlicher Disziplinbildung
Das Projekt begreift die vergleichende Verhaltensforschung als zentrale Instanz der Bearbeitung der Leitdifferenz zwischen Mensch und Tier im 20. Jahrhundert. Am Beispiel des 1965 gegründeten Serengeti Research Institute im ostafrikanischen Tansania untersucht es Wissensproduktion, Praxis und Politik verhaltensbiologischer Forschung an freilebenden Großsäugetieren.