Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) zur Koordination der Graduiertenausbildung zum 1. Oktober 2024.
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ZZF-Stellenausschreibung Kennziffer WM 08-2024 (pdf)
Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF) sucht zum 1.10.2024 eine*n
Project leader: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Kerstin Brückweh
Postdoc: Anja Schröter
PhD students: Kathrin Zöller, Clemens Villinger
Funded by the Leibniz Association as part of the Leibniz Competition, 2016-2019
The following positions are currently available at the ZZF Potsdam:
The Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam / Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) is pleased to invite applications for three
Leibniz Summer Fellowships in the field of “German and/or European (including Eastern European) History in the Twentieth Century.”
These two-month fellowships provide an opportunity to pursue individual research in Germany while participating in the academic life of one of Germany’s major historical research centres.
From 2014 to 2018, the Graduate School (Graduiertenkolleg): History of Left-Wing Politics in Germany beyond Social Democracy and Communism" was conducted at the ZZF Potsdam with several sub-projects. The Graduate School was established under the auspices of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research between 2014 and 2018. Mario Keßler, who was the project co-leader at ZZF and is since 2021 a Senior Fellow at the institute, is working on a book project in this field.
The five departments of the ZZF conduct research on various topics of contemporary history and their connections to the present day.
Our research centres on German and European social history after 1945. We also analyse contemporary history in its international context; Department V, which deals with globalisation in a divided world, places a particular focus on this. Founded in 2023, it is the youngest department at the ZZF. Many research projects are also conducted across departments, thus promoting internal exchange and networking within the institute.
Funding period: May 2024 - April 2026
The Leibniz Lab "Upheavals and Transformations" will bring together, discuss and communicate the research of 28 Leibniz institutions. It aims to learn from previous crises and upheavals for the present and future. In particular, the dynamic changes after 1990 are associated with those of the present. The focus is on changes in the economy, the environment and political cultures.
The research area Work, Welfare State, Inequality focuses on the public regulation of market-induced and life situation-related inequalities and the associated conflicts. Our research programme understands social security as a core element of political culture and investigates welfare state regimes as central social norming and relational mechanisms of modern societies and arenas of social opportunity distribution. It thus profiles security and inequality as leading categories of contemporary historical social analysis.
The research focus examines the contemporary history of art and the art business in its democratic-historical, socio-historical and socio-political contexts. The research program analyzes artists, the art trade and art recipients as social and economic actors in the field of tension between aesthetics, market events and public attempts at regulation. It also focuses on the social structure and interest politics of art associations and agents of public and private art promotion.
At the same time as populist movements gained momentum in Germany and Europe, historical research went through a controversy revolving around the extent to which the focus on globalization and global connections, which has characterized international contemporary history and global history since the 2000s, overlooked or downplayed the importance of nationalism and an insistence on regionality. This field of research intervenes in this discussion. Our projects deal with the transnational history of political movements and ideological confrontations in Europe.
