Projects at the Herder Institute
As an academic service facility for research, the Institute also runs its own agenda-related research in order to guarantee the quality of its academic services. The agenda-related research of the Institute includes current projects on the editing of historical primary sources, planned handbooks and larger-scale academic works by individual employees.
Current projects
- Landesexzellenzinitiative LOEWE
Schwerpunkt: Kulturtechniken und ihre Medialisierung
- Project B2: "Audiovisual historiography: Televisual narratives in East and West Europe"
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Michael Zok M.A.: Communistic policies on history and the media in Poland 1944-1989: The depiction of the Holocaust and its reception (dissertation project)
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Michael Zok M.A.: Communistic policies on history and the media in Poland 1944-1989: The depiction of the Holocaust and its reception (dissertation project)
- Project B4: "Procedures of searching and finding"
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Antje Coburger M.A.: The history of the holdings of the Herder Institute - Cultural techniques and their application as practices in searching and finding (dissertation project)
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Antje Coburger M.A.: The history of the holdings of the Herder Institute - Cultural techniques and their application as practices in searching and finding (dissertation project)
- Transfer project D1: "Multimedialisation of the 'Chronicle of the Ghetto of Lodz/Litzmannstadt' "
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Dr. Markus Roth: The digitisation of the Chronicle of the Ghetto of Lodz/Litzmannstadt
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Dr. Markus Roth: The digitisation of the Chronicle of the Ghetto of Lodz/Litzmannstadt
- Project B2: "Audiovisual historiography: Televisual narratives in East and West Europe"
- Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts
- Konrad Hierasimowicz: Two Belaruses or Belarus 2.0? National identity and historical discourses in Social Media. (dissertation project through the Leibniz Graduate School)
- Stanislava Kolková: Textualization and contextualization of "nation" and "state". The cultural and scientific elites as importers and exporters of knowledge in Slovakia from 1938 to 1948. (dissertation project through the Leibniz Graduate School)
- Kinga Kuligowska: The emigration of Polish intellectuals after March 1968 – a journey into freedom of thought? (dissertation project through the Leibniz Graduate School)
- Tomaš Nenartovic: Territorial Concepts and Geopolitics in Northeastern Europe 1890-1939 (dissertation project through the Leibniz Graduate School)
- Dominika Piotrowska M.A.: Modern residential architecture in the Neumark (dissertation project through the Leibniz Graduate School)
- Dr. Christian Lotz: Time and space as incalculable variables? Plans for the utilisation of European timber resources under the impression of industrialized acceleration (1870-1914) (project for postdoctoral lecturing qualification)
- Konrad Hierasimowicz: Two Belaruses or Belarus 2.0? National identity and historical discourses in Social Media. (dissertation project through the Leibniz Graduate School)
- Historical-Topographical Atlas of Silesian Towns
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Dariusz Gierczak M.A.
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Dariusz Gierczak M.A.
- "Democratic history of the 20th century as a history of caesuras – The example of the early Weimar Republic"
- Employees at the Herder Institute: Agnes Laba M.A.: The public discussion of the eastern borders in the early Weimar Republic (dissertation project)
- Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher: Communal administration and national movements in a multi-ethnic state: Lviv in the 19th century (project for postdoctoral lecturing qualification)
- Dr. Norbert Kersken: The public notary's office in the southern Baltic area(project for postdoctoral lecturing qualification)
- Dr. Anna Veronika Wendland: OEast European urbanity in the Age of the Extreme: Lviv and Vilnius, 1890-1970 (project for postdoctoral lecturing qualification)


