Call for Applications

To all graduate students at the CEU, the Phillips and the Liebig Universities,

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the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in cooperation with the CEU History Department cordially invites you to a three-day- workshop on “history and cartography” in Marburg, Germany, on 14 -16 March 2016. The Herder Institute houses a collection of over 40,000 topographic and thematic maps from the 16th to the 21st century, which cover the territory of today’s Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and beyond.

This workshop represents a unique opportunity for students from the CEU, Marburg and Gießen to consult the map collection and gather material for seminar papers, MA, and PhD theses. The workshop will open with an introduction by Dr. Christian Lotz (HI) on the collection’s history and “critical cartography.” It will conclude with a public talk by Dr. Madalina Veres (CEU IAS). In between, students will be given ample time for archival research and presentations of their findings.

If you are curious which topics you may explore in Marburg, please consult (but do not feel limited by) the following suggestions:

  • Border changes since 1870
  • The Paris Peace Treaties & German Revisionism since 1919
  • Distribution of linguistic, ethnic, and religious minorities
  • The Making of the Polish Nation
  • International Geographic Congresses and the Assessment of Natural Resources
  • Transnational Environmental Policies: Gdańsk, the Vistula, and the League of Nations
  • Cartography in the Cold War

The Herder Institute strongly encourages the participants to consider its library, map, document, newspaper, and image collections for current and future research project.

Accommodation in Marburg will be provided for participants from Budapest. Travel expenses will be covered partially or fully. The HI offers lunch and coffee breaks for all participants.

If you’re interested, please send a short description of yourself and your academic interests by January 13, 2016 to victoria.harms@herder-institut.de.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Christian Lotz

Madalina Veres

Victoria Harms