Sommervortrag
Prof. Dr. Eduard Mühle: ‘Neighbourhood’ – A Concept to Better Understand East Central Europe?
Veranstaltungsort
Thomas-Mann-Museum
Skruzdynės Str. 17, Nida
Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des Thomas-Mann-Festivals statt.
Vortragssprache: Englisch
Neighbourhood is a universal, self-evident phenomenon. The world is full of neighbours who interact, who share experiences, who appreciate each other in the best case, but who also cherish mutual prejudices and hostile images, who too often engage in conflicts, sometimes even wage wars against each other. This lecture raises a question of whether and how the concept of ‘neighbourhood’ can contribute to a better understanding of the specific complexity of Eastern Central Europe. It will offer not only theoretical consideration but also will try to test these theoretical explanations in practice with a concrete example.
Eduard Mühle is professor of East Central and Eastern European History at Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster and a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1995-2005 he was director of the Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg and 2008-2013 director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. He was a Guest Professor and Senior Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College in Oxford, at Wolfson College in Cambridge and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. He has published widely on a broad variety of topics of medieval and modern East Central and Eastern European History. His most recent monograph offers a new interpretation of the Slavs in the Middle Ages, which was published in German in 2020, in Polish in 2021 and is currently prepared for a Czech and English edition.
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Venue
Thomas-Mann-Museum
Skruzdynės Str. 17
Nida
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