Institute of Modern History

Johannes Gradel

Research Assistant

Contact

Department of History
Institute of Modern History
Wilhelmstraße 36
72074 Tübingen
+49 (0) 7071 29-78505
Johannes.Gradel@uni-tuebingen.de

Office hours

After taking contact via email.

Office: Hegelbau, 2nd floor, room 204, or via zoom.

Vita

since 05/2024
Research Assistant

in the DFG-funded project “Actors, Spaces, Translations: A History of Interactions and Relationships in the Capuchin Mission in the Kingdom of Kongo (c. 1645-1715)”

since 01/2023
Research Assistant

in the DFG Priority Programme 2130 “Cultures of Translation in Early Modern Times”

since 12/2022
Doctoral Student

Global History of the Early Modern Period, Department of Modern History, Tübingen University, supervised by Jun. Prof. Dr. Christina Brauner

05/2021-07/2022
Tutor

in Medieval History, Tübingen University

10/2019-07/2022
Master’s programme of History and Latin Philology

at Tübingen University and the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

04/2018-12/2020
Mentor

in Latin Philology, Tübingen University

04/2017-12/2022
Student Assistant

in the Emmy Noether research project “Power and Influence: Influencing Emperors between Antiquity and the Middle Ages”, Tübingen University

10/2015-09/2019
Bachelor’s programme of History and Latin Philology

at Tübingen University

Research

 

PhD project

Actors, Spaces, Translations: A History of Interactions and Relationships in the Capuchin Mission in the Kingdom of Kongo (c. 1645-1715)

Priorities

  • History of West Central Africa
  • Early Modern Mission History
  • 18th century cartography

Talks

  • Maniok, Reis und Sklavenhandel. Transatlantische Food History im Geschichtsunterricht, Conference „Klassiker des Geschichtsunterrichts – globalhistorisch perspektiviert“, Essen, 26 June, 2025.
  • (K)eine Krone für den König des Kongo. Kapuzinermissionare als Vermittler zwischen Kongo und Rom, 1648-1712, Talk in the colloquium of Early Modern European History, Humboldt University, Berlin, 25 June, 2025.
  • Agency and Representation of Enslaved Women in the Capuchin Hospice of Kimbangu, Kingdom of Kongo (1701), International Conference “(Un)Freedom in Global Perspective. Actors – Perceptions – Agencies”, Innsbruck, 4 February 2025.
  • A Mission to the ‘King of the Water’. Narrating Uncertainty on the Border of the Kingdom of Kongo (1698), 11th Cambridge-Tübingen Workshop, Tübingen, 16 September 2024.
  • Mission als Beziehungsgeschichte. Akteure und Übersetzungsräume in der Kapuzinermission im Königreich Kongo (ca. 1645-1715), “Frankfurter Sommerkurs zur Geschichte der FNZ 2024: Religion Postkolonial?“, Frankfurt a.M., 26 July 2024.
  • Die vernachlässigte Seite des Atlantiks. Quellen und Methoden zu Westafrika im „Zeitalter der Entdeckungen“, Conference „Klassische Themen des Geschichtsunterrichts globalgeschichtlich perspektiviert“, Braunschweig, 29 February 2024.
  • Tracing the wild dog. Interpreting African knowledge about animals in a Capuchin mission report (1712) and its translations, Informal Workshop “Knowledge & Translation in the early modern Atlantic World”, Tübingen, 9 February 2024.
  • The elephant in the room. De-centring an episode in Girolamo da Montesarchio's report of the Capuchin mission in the Kingdom of Kongo (17th century), 10th Cambridge-Tübingen Workshop, Cambridge, 11 September 2023.