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Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald

Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald

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Eastern and South Eastern European History
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 5.202
04107 Leipzig

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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

  • Denominational Minorities as Security Problem during the Early Modern Period (B03): Securitization in Frontier Spaces between the Ottoman and the Habsburg Empires
    Rohdewald, Stefan
    Duration: 01/2018 – 12/2021
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
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  • Coordinating project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) priority programme Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics
    Rohdewald, Stefan
    Duration: 10/2017 – 09/2023
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
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  • Project 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, Stefan
    Duration: 10/2017 – 09/2020
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
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  • DFG Priority Programme (SPP 1981) Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics
    Rohdewald, Stefan
    Duration: 10/2017 – 09/2023
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
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  • Macedonia as an International (Dis-)Integration Area
    Rohdewald, Stefan
    Duration: 02/2017 – 01/2021
    Funded by: Ministerien anderer Bundesländer (ohne Sachsen)
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
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more projects

  • Rohdewald, S.
    Sacralizing the Nation through Remembrance of Medieval Religious Figures in Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia
    Leiden Boston: Brill https://brill.com/view/title/62362. 2022.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004516311
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  • Rohdewald, S.
    Multiple imaginierte Geopolitiken: „Russische Welt“ und „Serbische Welt“ in der Überlagerung mit „Eurasien“ im Angriffskrieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine
    Globalgeschichte/Global History. 2024. 2 (1). pp. 119–148.
    ISBN: 978-3-447-18353-6
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  • Rohdewald, S.; Bumann, N.; Jobst, K.; Troebst, S. (Eds.)
    Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region. Open Access: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/97831
    Berlin Boston: De Gruyter. 2024.
    ISBN: 9783110723113
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  • Rohdewald, S.
    Ukrainische Geschichte dekolonial, transimperial und transregional vom Mittelalter bis ins 21. Jahrhundert. Eine Einleitung.
    Historische Mitteilungen. Jahrbuch der Ranke-Gesellschaft . 2023. 33 (2022) erschienen 2023 https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Historische-Mitteilungen-33-2022/9783515135917 ( Ukraine und Ukrainische Geschichte unter Beschuss. Historische Perspektiven im transepochalen und transregionalen Zugriff. Hg. S. Rohdewald). pp. 7–32.
    ISBN: 978-3-515-13591-7
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  • Rohdewald, S.; Fuess, A.; Obertreis, J.; Hein Kirchner , H. (Eds.)
    Mobility Dynamics between Eastern Europe and the Near East. Exploring a Cross-Regional Shared History
    Vorstand des Verbandes der Osteuropahistorikerinnen und -historiker e.V
    Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag. 2024.
    ISBN: 978-3-515-13736-2
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more publications

  • Ringvorlesung
    Leipziger Ringvorlesung zur Literatur, Kultur und Geschichte der Ukraine
    Geschichte 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, Bernd
    14/04/2022 – 08/02/2023
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  • Annual Conference of the Research Group “Ottoman Europe”.
    Recording, Gathering, and Organizing Information in Ottoman Europe, 15th‐18th Centuries.
    Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
    Event Organiser: Petrovszky, Konrad; Rohdewald, Stefan
    16/09/2023 – 18/09/2023
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  • Internationale Fachtagung
    Translation and Transfer. Conference of the Transottomanica Network (DFG SPP 1981), Marburg
    Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
    Event Organiser: Rohdewald, Stefan; Riedler, Florian; Fuess, Albrecht; Paul, Ludwig
    06/10/2021 – 09/10/2021
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  • Current Perspectives on the Protests in Belarus Digital Talks at Leipzig University
    Feministische Perspektiven auf die Proteste in Belarus
    Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas; Institut für Slavistik; Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO)
    Event Organiser: Rohdewald, Stefan; Satjukow, Elisa
    30/11/2020
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  • Tagung 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 Dynamics
    Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
    Event Organiser: Rohdewald, Stefan; Ursprung, Daniel
    10/06/2021 – 11/06/2021
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more events

  • Memory at War? Remembering the World Wars, Communism and Fascism after 1980.

  • (Southeastern)European Migration Societies in the 20th Century

  • Communism, Kemalism and Fascism: Illiberale Modernities in Eastern Europe

Research fields

Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Historical science, History

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