Colloquium on university and college history
Summer term 2025
The colloquium series will continue in the summer semester 2025. We will start on 23 April, 18:30, HSZ/105 with a lecture by Berlin historian Dr Sören Flachowsky (HU Berlin) on his current research project ‘Kampf um die Lithosphäre. Geological departmental research in Germany 1914-1945’.
Further information and material can be found in our OPAL group.
Sommersemester 2025
| 23.04.2025 | Dr. Sören Flachowsky (HU Berlin) |
Kampf um die Lithosphäre. Geologische Ressortforschung in Deutschland 1914–1945 |
| 07.05.2025 | PD Dr. Jürgen Kilian (TU Bergakademie Freiberg / Universität Bayreuth) |
Die Reichsanstalt für Wasser- und Luftgüte im Nationalsozialismus |
| 25.06.2025 | Dr. Christian Voller (Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg) |
Aus der Dämmerung. Über einige methodische Probleme die Vorgeschichte von etwas zu schreiben |
| 09.07.2025 | Prof. Dr. Peer Pasternack (Universität Halle-Wittenberg) |
Phantomschmerzen – Zwei universitätshistorische Beispiel im Vergleich: Universität Wittenberg nach 1817 und ostdeutsche Hochschulen nach 1990 |
Winter semester 2024/25
In the winter semester 2024/25, the colloquium on college and university history started for the first time: fortnightly every Wednesday, 7th DS (18:30-20:00), HSZ/101.
| 06.11.2024 | Dr. Lutz Kreller (Institute for Contemporary History Munich/Berlin) | Lawyers in the wrong. The Nazi burden on Otto Palandt (1877-1951) and Heinrich Schönfelder (1902-1944) |
| 13.11.2024 | Prof. i. R. Dr. Manfred Heinemann (Leibniz University Hannover) | The Saxon Higher Education Commission: Its involvement in the reorganization of the Saxon higher education system (1991-1993) |
| 27.11.2024 | Grit Bakemeier (TU Dresden, Department of Forest Sciences) | The Tharandt Forestry Library during the Nazi era (workshop session) |
| 11.12.2024 | Dr. Martin Göllnitz (Philipps University Marburg) | The hour of the functionaries. Options for action by student Nazi leaders using the example of a "borderland university" (1927-1945) |
| 15.01.2025 | Jutta Wiese, M.A. (Dresden Main State Archives) | National Socialist four-year planning and dictated research funding - four-year plan institutes at the TH Dresden and the Bergakademie Freiberg |
| 29.01.2025 | Prof. Dr. Mark Walker (Union College, Schenectady, New York) | Compromises with Hitler: Werner Heisenberg, Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker and National Socialism |
| 05.02.2025 | Rebekka Roschy, M.A. (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden) | The Information Processing Section of TU Dresden and the beginnings of AI research in the GDR - a workshop report |