PD Dr. Thomas Weller
Member of the academic staff, Member of the Works Council
Room: 01 216Phone: +49 6131 39 30310
Fax: +49 6131 39 21050
Personal Details:
From 2000 to 2008, he was a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 496 (SFB 496) "Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems" at the University of Münster. Since June 2008, he has been a permanent research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), 2022 Habilitation in early modern history at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, between 2021 and 2023 Thomas Weller held the Chair of Early Modern History at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg as a substitute professor.
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Research projects:
After the Conquest: The Ottoman and Spanish Empires in History and Memory
This project compares the Ottoman and Spanish histories of expansion during the early modern period as well as their enduring memories to the present. It brings together scholars of the Eastern Mediterranean, Latin America, and Western Europe to explore the similarities, differences, and connections between these two expanding empires in three workshops focusing on narratives of conquest and loss, post-conquest materiality, and contemporary memory cultures. This project forms part of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past", Lab 2.1. "Dynamic Spaces" (2021–2025).
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.
Lives on the move. Mobile identities and belonging in the Iberian Atlantic, 1492-1700
The project explores the connection between mobility and differentiation from an actor-centred perspective. The focus is on mobile actors of different origins who crossed the spatial and political-legal borders drawn by the Spanish authorities. How did these practices of crossing borders affect the construction of identities and affiliations?