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Dr. Joachim Berger

Research Coordinator - on secondment

Office: 03 305
+49 6131 39 39370
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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

DigitalitätGesellschaft

Wissen ordnen und entgrenzen – vom analogen zum digitalen Europa?

Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz: Beihefte, 141
Joachim Berger (ed.)Thorsten Wübbena (ed.)
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,2023
ISBN: 978-3-525-30231-6
DOI: 10.13109/9783666302312
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Mit Gott, für Vaterland und Menschheit?

Eine europäische Geschichte des freimaurerischen Internationalismus (1845-1935)
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, 259
Joachim Berger
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,2020
ISBN: 978-3-525-56485-1
DOI: 10.13109/9783666564857
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Ongoing
Jan. 2024
DigitalitätGesellschaftReligion

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. Instead of focussing on single extreme events (with the climax of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755), as is common in historical disaster research, the project aims to show the longer-term formation and transformation of disaster discourses across territorial and linguistic borders. Printed works in German, English, French, Italian and Latin will be analysed that deal in textual and visual form with extreme natural events (earthquakes and floods) in the respective other countries or language areas. The hypothesis is that an early modern European media culture of disaster emerged through societal teleconnections produced by the media.
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Ongoing
Sep. 2021 - Aug. 2029
GesellschaftReligion

Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past” / Leibniz-Forschungsverbund “Wert der Vergangenheit”

The research consortium founded in 2021 investigates the question of what value the past holds for earlier and contemporary societies. A focal point in the second funding phase concerns current debates on climate change, on the postcolonial responsibility of the Western world, on the use of the past in the growing right-wing populism, and on the historical legitimization of war.
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Ongoing
2011
Digitalität

DARIAH-DE at the IEG

The IEG has been involved in the national collaborative project DARIAH-DE with various areas of work since 2011. DARIAH-DE supports research in the humanities and cultural studies that works with digital methods and procedures. As a partner in DARIAH-EU, DARIAH-DE contributes to bundling and networking state-of-the-art activities in the digital humanities across Europe.
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Completed
2009 - 2019

Eine europäische Geschichte des freimaurerischen Internationalismus (1845-1935)

Das zwischen 2009 und 2019 durchgeführte Forschungsvorhaben untersuchte, wie die Freimaurerei als eine Assoziation, die Formen und Selbstdeutungen aus dem frühen 18. Jahrhundert bis ins Zeitalter der Extreme überführte, mit der Herausforderung des Internationalismus umging.
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Completed
2019 - 2020

Ausstellung zur Entwicklung des IEG von 1950 bis 1989/1990

Vom Kalten Krieg zum europäischen Umbruch. Das Institut für Europäische Geschichte 1950–1990. Anlässlich seines 70. Jubiläums präsentiert das Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) seit dem 12.09.2020 die Ausstellung "Vom Kalten Krieg zum europäischen Umbruch. Das Institut für Europäische Geschichte 1950–1990". Die Ausstellung ist gleichzeitig als virtuelle Ausstellung zu sehen.
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