Dr. Joachim Berger

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).

• 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)

• 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

• 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.