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Stefan Rohdewald is Professor (Chair for Eastern and Southeastern European History) in Leipzig since 2020. He studied, was research assistant and defended his PhD in Zurich (2004). He was assistant and lecturer in Passau 2003–2012 and 2013–2020 Professor for Southeastern European History at Giessen. He focuses on shared history of Eastern Europe and the Near East, urban history, remembrance, transconfessionality. He chairs the priority program Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics (DFG) 2017–2023. Selected (co-edited) volumes: "On the Venice of Polotsk": Collective Action of Social Groups in a City between Eastern and Central Europe (2005: Open Access), Gods of the Nations: Religious Figures of Remembrance in Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia. (2014); Lithuania and Ruthenia. Studies of a Transcultural Communication Zone (2007: Open Access); The Ottoman Europe (2014); Transottomanica – Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics (2019: Open Access).
Professional career
- since 04/2020
- 04/2013 - 03/2020
- 11/2008 - 03/2013
- 11/2003 - 10/2008
- 11/2002 - 10/2003
- 11/2001 - 10/2002
- 07/1998 - 11/2001
Education
- 11/2005 - 12/2012
- 02/1998 - 11/2005
- 10/1992 - 01/1998
- show detailsDenominational Minorities as Security Problem during the Early Modern Period (B03): Securitization in Frontier Spaces between the Ottoman and the Habsburg EmpiresRohdewald, StefanDuration: 01/2018 – 12/2021Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
- show detailsCoordinating project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) priority programme Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility DynamicsRohdewald, StefanDuration: 10/2017 – 09/2023Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
- show detailsProject within the DFG priority programme Transottomanica, with Prof. Dr. Johann Büssow (Bochum University): (Christian) Arabs and (Russian) Jews: Identities and Debates on Zionism in the Transottoman Migration Society of Palestine (1880–1925).Rohdewald, StefanDuration: 10/2017 – 09/2020Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
- show detailsDFG Priority Programme (SPP 1981) Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility DynamicsRohdewald, StefanDuration: 10/2017 – 09/2023Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
- show detailsMacedonia as an International (Dis-)Integration AreaRohdewald, StefanDuration: 02/2017 – 01/2021Funded by: Ministerien anderer Bundesländer (ohne Sachsen)Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
- show detailsRohdewald, S."Пра Полацкую Венецыю". Калектыўныя дзеянні сацыяльных груп горада паміж Усходняй і Цэнтральнай Еўропай (Сярэднявечча, ранні Новы час, ХІХ ст. - да 1914 г.) 632 SeitenМінск: Лімарыус. 2020.ISBN: 978-985-6968-79-5
- show detailsRohdewald, S.Sacralizing the Nation through Remembrance of Medieval Religious Figures in Serbia, Bulgaria and MacedoniaLeiden Boston: Brill https://brill.com/view/title/62362. 2022.
- show detailsRohdewald, S.Approaches to Polish-Lithuanian / Belarusian and Ukrainian History before 1800 in the Context of Local, Regional and Transregional EntanglementsIn: Rutz, M.; Bednarczuk, M. (Eds.)Das historische Litauen als Perspektive. Verflochtene Narrative und Identitäten. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2022. pp. 43–58.ISBN: 978-3-447-11842-2
- show detailsRohdewald, S.„Russian" and "Serbian Worlds“: Legitimating Neo-Imperialism and More by a Cultural Mission (2022)
- show detailsDenzel, M. A.; Rohdewald, S. (Eds.)Ukraine und Ukrainische Geschichte unter Beschuss. Historische Perspektiven im transepochalen und transregionalen Zugriff.Historische Mitteilungen / Jahrbuch der Ranke-Gesellschaft. 2023. 33 (2022) [erschienen 2023] (Jahrbuch).ISBN: 978-3-515-13591-7
- show detailsRingvorlesungLeipziger Ringvorlesung zur Literatur, Kultur und Geschichte der UkraineGeschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas; Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik); Universitätsbibliothek (UB); Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur – Simon Dubnow; Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO)Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Gerber, Jan; Röger, Maren; Rohdewald, Stefan; Karwen, Bernd14/04/2022 – 08/02/2023
- show detailsAnnual Conference of the Research Group “Ottoman Europe”.Recording, Gathering, and Organizing Information in Ottoman Europe, 15th‐18th Centuries.Geschichte Ost- und SüdosteuropasEvent Organiser: Petrovszky, Konrad; Rohdewald, Stefan16/09/2023 – 18/09/2023
- show detailsInternationale FachtagungTranslation and Transfer. Conference of the Transottomanica Network (DFG SPP 1981), MarburgGeschichte Ost- und SüdosteuropasEvent Organiser: Rohdewald, Stefan; Riedler, Florian; Fuess, Albrecht; Paul, Ludwig06/10/2021 – 09/10/2021
- show detailsCurrent Perspectives on the Protests in Belarus Digital Talks at Leipzig UniversityFeministische Perspektiven auf die Proteste in BelarusGeschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas; Institut für Slavistik; Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO)Event Organiser: Rohdewald, Stefan; Satjukow, Elisa30/11/2020
- show detailsTagung an der Universität Zürich (Digital)Tagung des Arbeitskreises Osmanisches Europa, in Kooperation mit dem SPP Transottomanica: Knowledge Systems and Ottoman-European Encounters: Spatial and Social DynamicsGeschichte Ost- und SüdosteuropasEvent Organiser: Rohdewald, Stefan; Ursprung, Daniel10/06/2021 – 11/06/2021
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Memory at War? Remembering the World Wars, Communism and Fascism after 1980.
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(Southeastern)European Migration Societies in the 20th Century
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Communism, Kemalism and Fascism: Illiberale Modernities in Eastern Europe