Conferences and workshops organized by the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History
Over the years, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz and her team have organized or helped organize a number of major conferences and smaller workshops. Below is an overview of all these events in chronological order. This overview includes archived versions of the original conference websites, featuring objectives and programs, as well as the results in the form of conference reports or references to publications resulting from the conferences.
Past conferences and workshops have included:
- Doing City: Urban Space as a Social Construction in Modernity (Workshop, 2024)
- A Journey into the Past: Historical Tourism in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Conference, 2014)
- History for All in 19th-Century European Journals (Workshop, 2012)
- Web 2.0 and Historical Scholarship: “Social Networking” as a Challenge and Paradigm (Conference, 2009)
- Evolution (in) the Public Sphere: The Debate Over a Scientific Theory from Charles Darwin to the Present (Conference, 2009)
- When Opponents of War Once Again Hurl “Plague-Infected Cows” at Each Other, or: Video Games – History – Science (Workshop, 2008)