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Department of History

We investigate the global, comparative, and transnational history of Europe since 1400

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Research highlight

Body modification and the making of the modern self

with Chiara Lacroix

In this #MyEUIResearch video, Chiara Lacroix asks why we experience our bodies the way we do, and traces how the modern idea of the body as something to shape and improve has its own history.

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Publications

The Department of History focuses primarily on the history of Europe, from the late medieval and early modern period to the present, in a transnational and global context.

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Contribution to book

The interwar professional women’s movement in Scandinavia : ‘like fresh wind from across the Atlantic’

What bolstered the identity of professional women in Scandinavia, particularly regarding their rights and opportunities to work and earn money on equal terms with men? The chapter explores...

AUSTVEG, Victoria Ciobanu, LARSEN, Eirinn,
2025

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The interwar professional women’s movement in Scandinavia : ‘like fresh wind from across the Atlantic’

Working Paper

The construction of international order in the 1930s : polyphony of technocracy in McDougall’s ‘Economic appeasement’ (1936)

This paper contributes to our understanding of how international order was produced in the economic discourse around the League of Nations of the 1930s.

SELCHOW, Sabine Ulrike
2026

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The construction of international order in the 1930s : polyphony of technocracy in McDougall’s ‘Economic appeasement’ (1936)

Article

From political exile to colonial military service: white Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the 1920s

This paper pieces together the Foreign Legion’s recruitment practices, its methods for enlisting military exiles, and the Russian legionnaires’ journeys.

LIMA, Salvador Daniel
2025

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From political exile to colonial military service: white Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the 1920s

Contribution to book

Frau Konsulin Lippich : auf der Suche nach weiblichen Diplomaten im k.u.k. Konsulardienst

The chapter reconstructs the diplomatic activity of the Austro-Hungarian consular wife Teresina Lippich von Lindburg (1854–1924) and this activity’s subsequent concealment in the...

MÖRSDORF, Sven
2025

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Frau Konsulin Lippich : auf der Suche nach weiblichen Diplomaten im k.u.k. Konsulardienst

Article

Saluti di mare e 'battibecchi' di rango : il cerimoniale durante le prime spedizioni navali francesi nel Mediterraneo (1664-1673)

Dall’inizio del regno personale di Luigi XIV nel 1661, le prime sortite nel Mediterraneo dopo la (ri)costruzione della marina francese furono un’occasione perfetta per il suo primo...

MOREL, Maxime
2025

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Saluti di mare e 'battibecchi' di rango : il cerimoniale durante le prime spedizioni navali francesi nel Mediterraneo (1664-1673)

Events

News

From promise to controversy: Corinna Unger on pesticides and global politics

Synthetic pesticides became central to post-1945 agriculture and were debated in international organisations dealing with food, health, labour, and trade. Drawing on their archives, Corinna Unger discusses the pesticide history, expert knowledge, and international decisions in this #EUIResearch interview.

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