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Research foci
Current research projects
Concluded research projects

 

Research foci

• History of historiography
• History of political thought 
• History of mentalities
• Views of History
• Swiss History
• History of education

 

Current research projects 

 

• "Der Aggressor: Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung eines Akteurs zwischen den Nationen"

             Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen

 

• "Wie die Jungfrau zum Staat kam. Die Personifikation des Gemeinwesens in der Vormoderne"

             Project of the Opus Magnum Initiative of the Volkswagenstiftung

             Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen

           

Concluded research projects                                              

 

• "The Fascination of Efficiency: Migrating Ideas and Emerging
    Bureaucraciesin Europe and Asia since the Early Modern Era"
  
  Project A4 in the Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural
  Flows"
  
  Researcher: Sebastian Meurer
  
  Junior Research Group Leader: Dr. Susan Richter

 

 

•  "El Papel de las Repúblicas Europeas en la Conformación del Estado Moderno. ¿Alternativa Modernizadora o Motor del Sistema? (Siglos XVI-XVIII)" 
  
  Researcher: Urte Weeber
  
  Coordinatorr: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen

 

• Übergänge. Die Bedeutung und Funktion von transitorischen Räumen (1400-1800)
  
  Project in the framework of the Innovationsfonds Frontier of the Exzellenzinitiative
  
  Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen, Dr. Daniel Jütte

 

2009-2012

• "Nationising the Dynasty. Asymmetrical Flows in Conception of Government"
  
  Projekt A5 im Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows"
  
  Researcher: Verena Gander
  
  Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen

 

2009-2012

• "Dynamic Asymmetries in Transcultural Flows at the Intersection of
  Asia and Europe: The Case of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" 
  
  Project A7 in the Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in a Global Context"
  
  Researchers: Pascal Firges, Tobias Graf
  
  Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen

 

2009

• The Devolopment of Citizenship in a Transcultural Context
  
  Project A11 in the Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in a Global Context"
  
  Project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen

 

2007-2010

• "Liberalism and Republicanism in Early Modern Europe: Concepts of Citizenship as a usable Past
  for today's Israeli-European Civic Dialogue" 
  
  Cooperation of the ZEGK with the German Israeli Foundation of Scientific Research and Development and Haifa University
  
  Researchers: Elisabeth Natour, Urte Weeber, Antoinette Saxer, Christine Zabel
  
  Project managers: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen and Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa)

 

 2006-2009

• "Das Konzert der Medien in der Vormoderne - Gruppenbildung & Performanz"
  
  Regional doctoral college (Landespromotionskolleg) of the ZEGK and the ZAW
  
  Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen