The project (2011-2022), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, examines the influence of different interpretations of the past and concepts of democracy on West German and French educational debates after 1945 from a comparative perspective. It questions the established narrative of supposedly specifically German "authoritarian traditions" and offers a new interpretation of the relationship between democracy and education after 1945. (Sonja Levsen)

Through the analytical lens of gender history, I approach in this study Spain’s fundamental political transformations of the 1930s and 1940s in the field of healthcare. Healthcare, particularly during the Civil War, became a battlefield, too, where competing conceptions of society were negotiated and translated into gendered practices, role expectations, and labour distribution of the medical day-to-day of the women and men. (Katharina Seibert)

The history of the Federal Republic of Germany is in flux. In March 2024, more than 30 historians discussed in Tübingen new developments and changing interpretations in research on the Federal Republic, asking which histories we (have to) narrate – and how we can today narrate these histories. A collected volume is in preparation. (Sonja Levsen)