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Philipp Ther

Ther

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 598/541
Fax [+39] 055 4685 203

Email philipp.ther@eui.eu

Secretary Francesca Parenti 

Office VS 086, Villetta 1st Floor

EUI HEC Department
via Boccaccio 121
50133 Florence - Italy

 

Prof. Ther receives researchers on Tuesdays, 14.00-15.00 and by appointment

Fields of Research

Comparative social and cultural history and its methodological foundations, music and history, comparative nationalism studies, ethnic cleansing and genocide, collective memory.

Languages

German, English, French, Italian, Polish, Russian

Current Seminars at EUI

Thesis Writing Seminar(with Antonella Romano and Anthony Molho)

The Revolutions of 1989 in Comparative Perspective

The History of the Cold War(with Kiran Patel)

Current Research Projects

  • Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing 
  • European topographies of culture

Selected Recent Publications

Books

  • Národní divadlo v kontextu evropských operních dějin (od založení do první světové války) [The Czech National Theatre in the Context of European Opera History (Since its Foundation until World War I)], Praha: Dokořán, 2008. 
  • In Mitte der Gesellschaft. Operntheater in Zentraleuropa 1815-1914 [In the Center of Society. Opera Theatres in Central Europe, 1815-1914], Wien: Oldenbourg, 2006.
  • (Musikkulturen europäischer Metropolen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, 1) 
  • Deutsche und polnische Vertriebene: Gesellschaft und Vertriebenenpolitik in der SBZ/DDR und in Polen 1945-1956 [German and Polish Expellees. Society and Expellee Policy in the Soviet Zone of Occupation/GDR and Poland, 1945-1956], Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1998. (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft 127) 
  • Peter Stachel, Philipp Ther (eds.), Wie europäisch war die Oper? Das Musiktheater als Zugang zu einer Kulturgeschichte Europas, Wien: Oldenbourg/Böhlau, 2009 (Die Gesellschaft der Oper. Die Musikkultur europäischer Metropolen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Bd. 3). 
  • Georgii Kasianov, Philipp Ther (eds.), A Laboratory of Transnational History. Ukraine and Ukrainian Historiography since 1991, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2008 
  • Martin Dean, Constantin Goschler and Philipp Ther (eds.), Robbery and Restitution. The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe, Providence: Berghahn Publishers, 2007.

 

Articles 

  • Das Europa der Nationalkulturen. Die Nationalisierung und Europäisierung der Oper im „langen” 19. Jahrhundert, in: Journal of Modern European History 5 (2007), 39-66. 
  • Beyond the Nation: The Relational Basis of a Comparative History of Germany and Europe, in: Central European History 36 (2003), pp. 45-74. 
  • War versus Peace: Interethnic Relations in Lviv during the First Half of the Twentieth Century, in: Harvard Ukrainian Studies 24 (2000), pp. 251-284 (=Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture, ed. by John Czaplicka, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002, Special Issue).  
  • Die einheimische Bevölkerung des Oppelner Schlesiens nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Entstehung einer deutschen Minderheit, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 26 (2000), pp. 407-438.

 

Page last updated on 09 June 2010

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