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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 (4.12 - 16.12.2025)

all dates & terms

04.12.
Kolloquium
Andrea Behnke (Schriftstellerin /Autorin)

German title:
Historisches Lernen mit Literatur? Geschichtliche Romane und Biografien im Geschichtsunterricht

09.12.
Ringvorlesung
Sören Urbansky (RUB)

German title:
Zonen der (Un-)Ordnung: Militarisierung und wirtschaftlicher Wandel in Nordostasiens Grenzräumen

10.12.
Kolloquium
Lena Herenz (Potsdam)

German title:
„Laboratorium der Einheit“ – Die Fusion des ost- und westdeutschen Radiojournalismus zum Deutschlandradio 

11.12.
Kolloquium
Dr. Nancy Bodden / Johannah Weber (Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv)

German title:
Archiv und Schule: Lern- und Kooperationsformate für den Geschichtsunterricht

15.12.
Vorlesung
Prof. Dr. Frank Uekötter (RUB)

The annual Christmas lecture by Prof. Dr. Frank Uekötter (with Christmas cookies)

16.12.
Ringvorlesung
Kristin Platt (RUB)

German title:
Ordnung, Un-Ordnung und die Idee des Staatsversagens. Schlüsselideen des Entwurfs deutscher Nation nach 1820


Course catalogue - Winter 2025/26

Here you can find the current, annotated course cataloguesBA, MA and M.Ed. (German onlay)


New publications from the Institute

Archive of publikations

Marcus Böick, Constantin Goschler, Ralph Jessen : Jahrbuch Deutsche Einheit 2025

Ch. Links Verlag, 2025

link to the book

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

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

Springer Nature, 2025

link to the book

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

link to the book

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

Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2025

link to the book