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History at the RUB

The Institute of History at the Ruhr University Bochum is dedicated to the researching and communicating history in all its facets. From antiquity to the present day, we offer a broad spectrum of research research projects and courses that enable us to delve deep into the past into the past and reconstruct historical developments that shape our and to reconstruct and understand historical developments that shape our present. Our lecturers and lecturers as well as our diverse resources and co-operations make the Institute of History a lively place of exchange and academic and scholarly discoveries.

Find out more about our work, our degree programmes and our current current projects on the following pages. We look forward to your visit!

Current dates & terms (12.6 - 24.6.2025)

all dates & terms

16.06.
Kolloquium
Philipp Winterhager (Berlin)

German title:
Affirmativ, innovativ, additiv: Semantiken materieller Transaktionen in Mainzer Urkunden des 11. Jahrhunderts 

16.06.
Kolloquium
Jennifer Liu Demas (Central Michigan University - CMU)

Military Training in Taiwan's Upper Middle Schools, 1953-1960

18.06.
Kolloquium
Dr. Stefanie Palm (München)

German title:
Hans-Christoph Seebohm: Erster Bundesverkehrsminister und rechtskonservativer Politiker

23.06.
Kolloquium
Caroline Galla (Aachen)

German title:
Wie geschäftige Bienen. Die Lütticher Schulen und die Ordnung des Wissens im Hochmittelalter 



New publications from the Institute

Archive of publikations

Heidi Hein-Kircher, Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh: Modernizing Europe’s Imperial Monarchies

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Springer Nature, 2025

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Heidi Hein-Kircher, Elisa-Maria Hiemer, and Denisa Nešťáková: Challenging Norms

Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

New York · Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2025

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Jörn Rüsen, Michele Barricelli, Nicola Brauch, Estevão Chaves de Rezende Martins, Friedrich Jaeger: Handbuch der Historik

Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2025

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von Lorena de Vita und Constantin Goschler: Redefining Reparation.

Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair

London (Routledge), 2025

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