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RTG upcoming events

Monday, October 20, 2025

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

10.20.2025 Laurin Herberich (RTG 2840): “Frenemies: Maritime Powers and Predators in the Eastern Mediterranean”

Laurin Herberich: Project presentation
HCTS, Room 400.02.12

Thursday, October 30, 2025

3:00 PM

Climate Change, Shipwrecks, and Coastal Defense: Wokou and the Making of the 'Enemy' in the East Asia, 13th-17th Centuries

Ma Guang (Associate Professor, Macao Polytechnic University)
Online

    Monday, November 3, 2025

    2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

    03.11.2025 Vasilka Stoilova, LL.M. (Universität Mannheim): “Legal aspects of Research Data”

    Vasilka Stoilova
    HCTS, Room 400.02.12

    Monday, November 10, 2025

    2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

    10.11.2025 Urvashi Butalia (RTG 2840 Mercator Fellow): “Ambivalent and Intimate Enemies: The Experience of Women in India’s Partition”

    Urvashi Butalia
    HCTS, Room 400.02.12

    Monday, November 17, 2025

    2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

    17.11.2025 Hillel Cohen (Hebrew University Jerusalem): “The Roots of the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives”

    Hillel Cohen
    HCTS, Room 400.02.12

    Thursday, November 20, 2025

    3:00 PM

    Hà Tiên in the Contest for Supremacy between Vietnam and Siam in Mainland Southeast Asia, 1780-1880

    Xing Hang (Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
    Online

      Monday, November 24, 2025

      2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

      24.11.2025 Zachary Mazur (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History): “To Kill a Spy: Political Violence and Everyday Nationalism in fin-de-siecle Europe”

      Zachary Mazur
      HCTS, Room 400.02.12

      Monday, December 1, 2025

      2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

      01.12.2025 Philipp Höhn (Universität Halle): “Violence, Enmity and the Formation of Markets in Late Medieval England”

      Philipp Höhn
      HCTS, Room 400.02.12

      Friday, December 5, 2025

      1:00 PM - 7:00 PM

      Workshop: “Defining Enemies and Allies in Civil Wars”

      Dr. Liudmilla Novikova
      HCTS, Room 400.02.12

      Saturday, December 6, 2025

      9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

      Workshop: “Defining Enemies and Allies in Civil Wars”

      HCTS, Room 400.02.12

      Monday, December 8, 2025

      2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

      08.12.2025 Orit Rozin (Tel Aviv University): “Emotions of Conflict”

      Orit Rozin
      HCTS, Room 400.02.12

      Thursday, December 11, 2025

      3:00 PM

      The Poisoned Drum: Creating Enmity as a Tactic in Pre-Modern Nichiren Buddhism

      Dan Sherer (Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
      Online

        Monday, December 15, 2025

        2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

        15.12.2025 Itai Blumenzweig (Hebrew University Jerusalem): “Read It, Use It, Censor It: Friends and Foes of the Talmud in the Renaissance”

        Itai Blumenzweig
        HCTS, Room 400.02.12

        Monday, January 12, 2026

        2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

        12.01.2026 Ceren Dogan (Universität Heidelberg): “Risk, Resilience and Change: Psychosocial Predictors of Antisemitism and Workshops Outcomes in German Schools”

        Ceren Dogan
        HCTS, Room 400.02.12

        Monday, January 19, 2026

        2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

        19.01.2026 Anastassiya Schacht (Universität Heidelberg): “Policing Soviet Minds: Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Late Soviet Era and the International Response to it”

        Anastassiya Schacht
        HCTS, Room 400.02.12

        Thursday, January 22, 2026

        3:00 PM

        Combat Techniques and Tactics of Japanese Pirates in Korea and China, 1350 to 1420

        Damien Peladan (Maître de conferences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
        Online

          Monday, January 26, 2026

          2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

          26.01.2026 Paula Chan (University of Oxford): “Between Us: Jewish Survival and Betrayal in Soviet Riga”

          Paula Chan
          HCTS, Room 400.02.12

          Monday, February 2, 2026

          2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

          02.02.2026 Bettina Kaibach (Universität Heidelberg): “Broken Wings: Homosexuality in Russian Literature”

          Bettina Kaibach
          HCTS, Room 400.02.12

          Thursday, February 12, 2026

          4:30 PM

          Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is Not

          Walter Hatch (Professor Emeritus, Colby College)
          Online

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            Mon, 20 Oct 2025, 2:15 PM

            10.20.2025 Laurin Herberich (RTG 2840): “Frenemies: Maritime Powers and Predators in the Eastern Mediterranean”

            Laurin Herberich: Project presentation
            HCTS, Room 400.02.12
            Mon, 3 Nov 2025, 2:15 PM

            03.11.2025 Vasilka Stoilova, LL.M. (Universität Mannheim): “Legal aspects of Research Data”

            Vasilka Stoilova
            HCTS, Room 400.02.12
            Mon, 17 Nov 2025, 2:15 PM

            17.11.2025 Hillel Cohen (Hebrew University Jerusalem): “The Roots of the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives”

            Hillel Cohen
            HCTS, Room 400.02.12
            Mon, 24 Nov 2025, 2:15 PM

            24.11.2025 Zachary Mazur (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History): “To Kill a Spy: Political Violence and Everyday Nationalism in fin-de-siecle Europe”

            Zachary Mazur
            HCTS, Room 400.02.12
            Mon, 1 Dec 2025, 2:15 PM

            01.12.2025 Philipp Höhn (Universität Halle): “Violence, Enmity and the Formation of Markets in Late Medieval England”

            Philipp Höhn
            HCTS, Room 400.02.12
            Mon, 8 Dec 2025, 2:15 PM

            08.12.2025 Orit Rozin (Tel Aviv University): “Emotions of Conflict”

            Orit Rozin
            HCTS, Room 400.02.12

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