The History Department, TU Dresden welcomed six colleagues from the Department of History at the University of Warwick for a three-day workshop in mid-July. Scope of the meeting is to explore opportunities to strengthen existing links to intensify cooperation within the EUTOPIA framework. The History Department of the University of Warwick is among the leading research departments of the UK and a stimulating cooperation partner with whom bilateral cooperation relations have existed for some time.

The workshop is the first of three complementary meetings to introduce research fields of the partner institutions and explore areas of further collaboration. Historical research of violence will be centerstage in the upcoming meeting, says Prof. Gerd Schwerhoff, leading researcher of the Dresden delegation. We have a strong focus in violence research and are aiming at further raising the profile of this competence in international cooperation. In addition to intensive professional debates, we are looking forward to a joint visit to the Military History Museum Dresden and a joint city tour that will also focus on violence research.”