Education

As one of the two largest chair groups in the History Department in terms of seminar attendance and graduating students, the Chair Group Contemporary History teaches courses that connect themes of contemporary societal relevance with world history since 1945.

Our core courses:

• History 3: The Long Twentieth Century (BA1)
• Regions 1 (BA1)
• Introduction to Political History (MA)
• The History of (Un)Sustainability (MA)
• Methodology of Modern History and International Relations (ReMA)

Research Seminars (BA) examples:

• War Photography and Cultures of Violence since 1914
• New Media and Communication Technologies in the Twentieth Century
• Anti-Colonial Politics and Non-Western Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century
• South Asia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean: Thinking a Region through Land and Water
• The Plantation: Histories and Afterlives
• Rage Against the Machine: Technology and its Critics since 1900
• Global Environmental History

Research seminars (MA) examples:

• The Great Imperial War (1931-1960): The Origins of Our World Today?
• Bad Robot: Technology and Work since the Twentieth Century