Research projects of the director Gabriele Metzler
The Radical Decree in West Berlin: Origins – Impact – Consequences
Funded by the State of Berlin, this project implements a resolution passed by the Berlin House of Representatives.
Projects of Hanno Hochmuth
Leibniz-Lab »Upheavals and Transformations« · Multi-media Documentation of the History of the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1990 · Unlocked! Basketball before and after 1989 (Exhibition project)
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”.
Legacies of Communism? Post‐Communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform, between Autocracy and Revolution
Interdisciplinary research network
Funded by a SAW-grant of the Leibniz Association
Coordination: Jan Claas Behrends, Juliane Fürst and Corinna Kuhr-Korolev
Nuclear Reaction on the Khreshchatyk: Ukrainian Society and its Path from Perebudova to Decoloniality, 1986–1994
Verbundprojekt
im Leibniz-Professorinnen-Programm „Nuclear Reaction on the Khreshchatyk: Ukrainian Society and its Path from Perebudova to Decoloniality, 1986-1994“
Leitung: Juliane Fürst
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).
›Refugees‹ and Others: The Production of Refugee-Related Figures since the 1970s
Joint project
Head of research: Isabella Löhr (ZZF Potsdam) and Jochen Oltmer (Osnabrück University)
Duration: April 2024 until December 2027
University Students as Migrants: A New History of Educational Mobility in Western Europe
Cooperation project
Partner and Principal Investigators: Northumbria University, UK (Daniel Laqua) und ZZF (Isabella Löhr)
Funding: DFG-AHRC
Funding period: February 2025 to January 2028
Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Joint project
mit Partnern in Prag, Warschau, Jena und Budapest und zwei Teilprojekten in Potsdam
Gefördert von der Volkswagenstiftung
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