Research Profile:
The IEG investigates the history of modern Europe in its religious, cultural, political and social dimensions. Its interdisciplinary research program is jointly developed by the two departments, the Department of Western Religious History and the Department of Universal History. The projects at the Institute range from the period of religious and confessional pluralization in early modern times to the socio-political transformations caused by processes of internationalization and globalization in contemporary history. The central theme of the present research agenda at the IEG is “Negotiating Difference in Modern Europe”. In three research groups scholars analyze the various forms of establishing, overcoming and enabling differences, i.e. the regulation and limitation – but also the production and maintenance – of otherness and inequality within Europe and in its relations with the wider world. The cross-sectional project EGO European History Online (www.ieg-ego.eu) covers five hundred years of European history across national, disciplinary and methodological boundaries. In cooperation with the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the IEG runs a Research and Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) funded by the German Research Foundation.
Organized by:
Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz
UNESCO World Heritage Research Group (SAW)
Knowledge of the World – Heritage of Mankind: The History of UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage
Contact:
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG)
Andrea Rehling & Benedetta Serapioni
Alte Universitätsstraße 19, 55116 Mainz
Phone: +49 (0) 6131 – 3939464
unesco@ieg-mainz.de
