General News

The Herder Institut in closed on Wednesday September 6, 2030. We have our annual institutes excursion.

The source edition „Fighting Hunger, Dealing with Shortages“ is on the winners‘ list of the „Best historical materials published in 2021/2022“ of the American Libraries Association. Edited by Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Peter Haslinger, Włodzimierz Borodziej, Stefan Martens, and Irina Sherbakova.  Boston: Brill, 2021. 2 vols. 1374 pp. While the Second World War in Europe was a time …

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We are happy to announce that the https://gazetteers.net web application is online. gazetteers.net was developed as part of the Gazetteer research project by the Herder Institute, the Institute for Regional Geography and the Justus Liebig University Gießen. The application is intended to support users in working with different digital gazetteers, and to help them explore …

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Crisis, Conflict and Security in Central and Eastern Europe by CEUPress Series Editors:Heidi Hein-Kircher, Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany.Liliya Berezhnaya, University of Münster, Germany; Central European University, Vienna, Austria; Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Security, crisis and conflicts play a crucial role in the international relations of Central and Eastern …

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Portal DEHIO OME ome.dehio.org launched on November 1st, 2022 Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Colleagues, dear Friends, It is with great pleasure that we inform you that the portal Dehio Ostmitteleuropa – DEHIO OME (https://ome.dehio.org) – is online. With the launch, a goal we have been striving for many years has essentially been achieved: the …

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Application deadline for fellowships in 2023 is September 30, 2022. Within the framework of a fellowship, you benefit as a proven expert in the field of historical research on East Central Europe from the outstanding collections and the research library of the Herder Institute. The fellowship allows a research stay of up to three months. …

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Application deadline for fellowships in 2023 is September 30, 2022. This fellowship is addressed to PhD students and postdocs. It allows a short-term, intensive research stay (up to one month) in the collections and the library. The fellows will have the opportunity to present their projects within the framework of the meetings of the Herder …

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“The war of aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine has brought immeasurable suffering to the people in Ukraine and has led to a dramatic deterioration at international level. It also has direct impacts on research and science. The shelling of civilian targets by the Russian army has not only affected scientific institutions and infrastructure, …

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The Herder Institute presents its image sources on Ukraine in an easily accessible way via a central entry point on the homepage in the online image catalog. Published here in the image archive’s inventory database is a variety of very different visual materials – photographs, postcards and prints – essentially from the beginning of the …

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Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is a clear breach of international law and calls into question the entire security architecture of Europe. It will bring immeasurable suffering to the people of Ukraine. We therefore strongly condemn this aggression by the Russian leadership and the abuse of history to justify it. We will always stand …

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