Research: Focus on history

History of science

• Euclid in Modern Times: A History of Transcultural Transmissions, Translations and Transformations of the Elements (Dr Angela Axworthy)

• Cosmos, Body, Canon - Epistemic Authorities between Dismemberment and Reorganisation (ca. 1500-1700) (Sabrina Engert, MA)

• The History of the Wahuma - Conceptual Investigation of an External Description in Transition (Lena Filzen, MA)

• The thread of memory. Spanish women workers and labour culture in the textile industry of North Rhine-Westphalia (Dr. Carmen Pérez González)

• Narrative and Material Practices of Commemorating Disasters in Central America and Germany: Entangled Perspectives (Prof. Dr. Matei Chihaia)

History of mathematics

• Political upheavals and disciplinary change. Mathematics in Germany, 1920-1960 (Professors Dr Thomas Heinze and Dr Volker Remmert)
• (Re-)internationalisation of mathematics in Germany after the Second World War (Antina Scholz, M.A.)

History of technology and the environment

• Successful failure. On the significance of spin-offs for the construction industry at the end of high modernism (Prof. Dr Volker Remmert)