Perestroika from Below

ERC Research project 
Funded by the European Union
Project leader: Juliane Fürst 
Project start: August 2022

Historiography has assigned a very particular understanding to the perestroika project: it is perceived as enacted from above, hinging on the persona of Gorbachev, and a phenomenon to which people reacted rather than forced action upon. This project will instead look at “perestroika from below”.

DFG Research Group Military Cultures of Violence - Illegitimate Military Violence from the Early Modern Period to World War II

DFG Research Group Military Cultures of Violence at the University Potsdam 
Speaker: Prof. Sönke Neitzel
The research group involves nine scholars from the universities of Potsdam, Göttingen and Bochum, as well as from Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. The cooperation partner is the the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw).

Scaling the Transnational: Entangled Political Imaginaries and Practices in East and West Europe (STEPPE)

Joint project
Project partners: Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin; Democracy Institute, Central European University Budapest; New Europe College. Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest; Institut für Politikwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig
Funding: BMBF 
Duration: July 2024 bis June 2026 

Digital Inequalities. Divides, Hierarchies, and Boundaries in Germany, 1970s to 1990s.

Joint project 
of the Leibniz-Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF) in cooperation with the Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI) and the Hochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung (HS Bund) 
Project management: Michael Homberg 
Funded by the Leibniz Association, funding line “Cooperative Excellence” (2023)  

Dissertationsprojekte am ZZF Potsdam: 

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