Research cooperation

We cooperate in research within research projects and networks, by organising and participating in academic conferences, workshops, and colloquia as well as in the promotion of graduates. Joint research projects are funded by a variety of partner institutions and have been conducted on pre-industrial economic history, the actors of the revolution of 1848/49, the history of Leipzig in the 19th century, the life and work of the writer, journalist, and feminist Louise Otto-Peters, and on the comparative history of women's movements and women's suffrage.

These research projects were based, inter alia, on participation in the working group Irseer Arbeitskreis für vorindustrielle Wirtschaftsgeschichte, in the working group Vormärz- und 1848er Revolutionsforschung of the Leibniz-Sozietät, in the project group Stadtgeschichte der Stadt Leipzig, in the Louise-Otto-Peters-Gesellschaft e. V., in the working group for historical women's and gender studies Arbeitskreis für historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung e. V. (AKHFG) / German section of the International Federation of Research in Womens´s History (IFRWH), at the DFG network 'Gender - Nation - Emancipation. Women and Families in the 'long' Nineteenth Century in Italy and Germany', and in the project group '100 years of women's suffrage'.The holder of the Chair of Social and Economic History was a founding member or temporary coordinator of some of these groups (Academic affiliations and memberships of the Chair holder). Furthermore, we have cooperated with the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore - Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e. V. (ISGV), the CRC 804 Transcendence and Common Sense, as well as experts from Germany and abroad.

We present our research results for discussion not only at the academic conferences and workshops organised by the Chair, but also at regional and international events, such as the workshop on GDR research at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in Belfast, the international conference Narrative of the European Women's Movement in Stuttgart-Hohenheim, the 23rd Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar at the University of Hamburg, the conferences of the DFG network 'Gender - Nation - Emancipation. Women and Families in the 'long' Nineteenth Century in Italy and Germany' in Munich and Rome, or the conference of young women researchers from the Institute of History of the University of Wrocław and from the Institute of History of TU Dresden 'Women in the Political Sphere from the Early Modern Period to the Present' in Wrocław. (News)

Similarly, to support graduates, we cooperate with various institutions such as academic foundations, the AKHFG, in bi-national cotutelle agreements, or with the GenderConceptGroup of TU Dresden in drafting and attracting funding for a doctoral college. As regional coordinator of the AKHFG's Regional Group East, the holder of the Chair of Social and Economic History organises cross-university workshops for doctoral students.

We are especially delighted that a former doctoral student of the Chair, during a research stay in Israel, succeeded in securing a scholarship for a student of TU Dresden for the Weiss-Livant International MA Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa (Sophie and Julius Ferdinand Wollf Scholarship). It was awarded for the first time to a BA graduate of the Chair of Social and Economic History in the academic year 2018/2019.