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
Hegelbau, 2nd floor, room 204, or via zoom
Appointments during semester break: After taking contact via email.
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
- Die vernachlässigte Seite des Atlantiks. Quellen und Methoden zu Westafrika im „Zeitalter der Entdeckungen“, Tagung "Klassische Themen des Geschichtsunterrichts globalgeschichtlich perspektiviert", Braunschweig, 29th Februar 2024.
- Tracing the wild dog. Interpreting African knowledge about animals in a Capuchin mission report (1712) and its translations, Informeller Workshop "Knowledge & Translation in the early modern Atlantic World", Tübingen, 9th Februar 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, 11th September 2023.