Colloquium on university and college history
Winter Semester 2026/27
The research project will continue its series of events, the Colloquium on university and college history, during the 2026/27 winter semester. However, due to the upcoming mid-term conference at the end of October 2026 – to which you are all warmly invited – the series will feature a reduced number of lectures this semester. We are currently planning two lectures on the history of medicine in collaboration with the Institute for the History of Medicine.
Archive of previous semesters
Colloquium Program as a PDF and as a Poster
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April 29, 2026 |
Dr. Nadja Wischmeyer (Clausthal University of Technology) |
Research, Passion, and the War: The Clausthal Mining Academy During the Nazi Era and in the Early Postwar Years |
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May 13, 2026 |
Lisa Pribik (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow) |
Jewish Students at Technical Universities in Saxony, 1869–1938. Presentation of a Research Project in the Digital Humanities |
| May 20, 2026 |
Dr. Martin Baumert ( German Historical Museum, Berlin) |
Indispensable Experts? The Dresden Professors Werner Bauch and Werner Boie under National Socialism and in the GDR |
| June 3, 2026 |
Dr. Gabriela Brudzyńska-Němec and Elisabeth Geldmacher ( Saxon State and University Library Dresden) |
A Marginal Note or a Case Study? Provenance Research on the Forestry Collections from Warsaw and Poznań from 1939 and 1940 at the SLUB Dresden |
| June 10, 2026 |
Prof. Dr. Catherine Maurer ( University of Strasbourg) |
The Reich University of Strasbourg (1941–1944) and Research into a Past That Refuses to Fade Away |
| June 24, 2026 |
Prof. Dr. Till Kössler (University of Cologne) |
Authoritarianism and Childhood in Interwar Europe (1919–1939) |
Colloquium Program as a PDF and as a Poster
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October 15, 2025 |
Dr. Karin Müller-Kelwing (Ernst Barlach Foundation, Güstrow) | 1+1=1? Contradictions and Coincidences in the Reconstruction of Life Stories. The DFG Project “Museums under National Socialism” by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) |
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November 5, 2025 |
Friederike Steensen (Society for Corporate History, Frankfurt am Main) | Companies under National Socialism – The Evolution of Historical Reconciliation, Findings, and Questions |
| December 3, 2025 | Dr. Maik Tändler (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich–Berlin | Armin Mohler and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation |
| January 14, 2026 | Gian Marco Secci (Ruhr University Bochum) | Science for Mobility and Power: The Emergence, Continuity, and Transformation of German Automotive Research Before and After 1945 |
| January 21, 2026 | Prof. Dr. Till Kössler (University of Cologne) | Authoritarianism and Childhood in Interwar Europe (1919–1939) |
| January 28, 2026 | Lisa Pribik (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow) | Jewish Students at Technical Universities in Saxony: On the Possibilities and Limitations of Digital Methods in Historical Research, Using a Biographical Database as an Example |
Colloquium Program as a PDF and as a Poster
| April 23, 2025 | Dr. Sören Flachowsky (HU Berlin) |
The Battle for the Lithosphere: Geological Research in Germany, 1914–1945 |
| May 7, 2025 | PD Dr. Jürgen Kilian (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology / University of Bayreuth) |
The Reich Institute for Water and Air Quality under National Socialism |
| June 4, 2025 | Felix Pankonin (Netzwerkstatt, Hillersche Villa, Zittau) | The Borderland Library in Zittau: An Exploration of the Everyday History of National Socialism in Rural Areas |
| June 25, 2025 | Dr. Christian Voller (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) |
From the Twilight. On Some Methodological Problems in Writing the Prehistory of Something |
| July 2, 2025 | Michael Thoß (Hannah Arendt Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Dresden) | IDOHIST – Documentation, Evaluation, and Visualization of Digital Research Data on the Presence of National Socialism in Dresden’s Cityscape, 1925–1945 |
| July 9, 2025 | Prof. Dr. Peer Pasternack (University of Halle-Wittenberg) |
Phantom Pains – A Comparison of Two Examples from University History: The University of Wittenberg after 1817 and East German Universities after 1990 |
Colloquium Program as a PDF and as a Poster
| November 6, 2024 | Dr. Lutz Kreller (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich/Berlin) | Lawyers in the Wrong: On the Nazi Ties of Otto Palandt (1877–1951) and Heinrich Schönfelder (1902–1944) |
| November 13, 2024 | Prof. (Ret.) Dr. Manfred Heinemann (Leibniz University Hannover) | The Saxon Higher Education Commission: Its Role in the Reorganization of the Saxon Higher Education System (1991–1993) |
| November 27, 2024 | Grit Bakemeier (TU Dresden, Department of Forest Sciences) | The Tharandt Forestry Library During the Nazi Era (Workshop Session) |
| December 11, 2024 | Dr. Martin Göllnitz (Philipps University of Marburg) | The Hour of the Functionaries: Scope for Action by Student Nazi Leaders, Using the Example of a “Borderland University” (1927–1945) |
| January 15, 2025 | Jutta Wiese, M.A. (Dresden State Archives) | Nazi Four-Year Planning and Dictated Research Funding—Four-Year Plan Institutes at the Technical University of Dresden and the Freiberg Mining Academy |
| January 29, 2025 | Prof. Dr. Mark Walker (Union College, Schenectady, New York) | Compromises with Hitler: Werner Heisenberg, Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and National Socialism |
| February 5, 2025 | Rebekka Roschy, M.A. (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden) | The Information Processing Section at TU Dresden and the Beginnings of AI Research in the GDR—A Workshop Report |