News from the History Department

International Conference on Stained Glass Research and Conservation: What can we see? What should we see?

Stained glass is one of the most fascinating art genres of the Middle Ages, with its colourful glow defining our image of cathedrals and churches. In the face of massive environmental changes and currently again due to war, these fragile works of art…

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The working group "barrier-free" introduces itself

A working group "barrier-free" has been set up at the Department of History at the University of Erfurt, which deals with the historical aspects of deafness on the one hand, but is also specifically committed to breaking down barriers for people with…

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"The little freedom: celebration, photography, culture of remembrance"

In a seminar at the University of Erfurt, students explore the freedoms that festivals bring on the basis of photographs from the Friedenstein Foundation's collections. The seminar is part of the Studium Fundamentale and brings together students from…

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Open House for the 20th anniversary of the Gotha Research Centre

The Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt will be 20 years old this year. This will be celebrated on Thursday, 20 June, with a summer party in the Landscape House on Gotha's Schlossberg.

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Gotha Research Centre involved in new DFG Research Training Group on Enlightenment

A new Research Training Group (RTG) is being established at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) with the participation of the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt, which will focus on the history of the Enlightenment and its…

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New database system for student administration

The University of Erfurt is switching to a completely new database system for student administration in the summer semester of 2024.

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Research group "Voluntariness" invites you to a research day

The research group "Voluntariness" at the University of Erfurt invites you to a research day on Monday, 3 June, in the research building "Weltbeziehungen". Together with other interested researchers, it would like to discuss voluntariness as its…

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Cataloguing one of the most important German church libraries

On 1 May, the online cataloguing of one of the most important historical church libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany begins at the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt: the historical collections of the library of the Protestant ministry in…

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Presented: New digital platform on the Thirty Years' War

Since the beginning of 2024, a new digital platform entitled "Thirty Years' War online" has been offering academics and other historically interested parties research-oriented information on the most protracted and regionally far-reaching armed…

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Well prepared for your studies: Open Day on 4 May

The University of Applied Sciences Erfurt and the University of Erfurt invite you to their Open Day (HIT) on Saturday, 4 May 2024. It starts at 10 a.m. on the university campus in Nordhäuser Straße and at all three campus locations of the University…

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