Research

European Research Projects

Mnemonic Populism in Contemporary Europe

Volkswagen “Freigeist” Junior Research Group 
April 2023 – März 2029
Principal Investigator: Kornelia Kończal
Team Members: Melis Konakçı and Hannah von Legat 
Associated Member: Aleksandr Rusanov

ʟᴇxɪ.ᴇᴄᴏ: Europe. Concepts. Online

in cooperation with the University of Lille, France, University of Mainz, Germany, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and University of Tartu, Estonia, in cooperation with EuroClio. European Association of History Educators (The Hague, Netherlands), the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine and the House of European History in Brussels, Belgium 

Erasmus+ KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education

December 2024 – November 2027

Principal Investigators: Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine), Mischa Gabowitsch (University of Mainz, Germany), Kornelia Kończal, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Eva Piirimäe (University of Tartu, Estonia), Thomas Serrier (University of Lille, France), Steven Stegers (EuroClio, The Hague, Netherlands) 

Content Coordinator: Alexandra Kolesnik

 

Bilateral Research Projects

German Concentration Camps: From Personal Testimonies to Sociological Theories 

in cooperation with Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 
funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation
September 2023 – December 2025
Principal Investigators: Piotr Filipkowski (Warsaw) and Kornelia Kończal


Post-German Heritage, Branding and the “Production of Locality” in Masuria

in cooperation with the Foundation for Landscape Protection and Promotion of Regions NUMINOSUM, Warsaw   
funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation
October 2022 – December 2025    
Principal Investigators: Wojciech Bedyński (Warsaw) and Kornelia Kończal

 

Individual Research Projects

Historical Museums under Putin and Stalin: Propaganda of Wars

PhD project supported by DAAD 
July 2024 – September 2026
PhD Researcher: Anastasia Serikova
Supervisor: Kornelia Kończal; Second Reader: Mischa Gabowitsch (Mainz)


Politicized and Depoliticized Global Medievalism in Russia, 2010–20s

Post-Doc project supported by Gerda Henkel Foundation
October 2024 – September 2026
Post-Doc Researcher: Aleksandr Rusanov


Right-Wing Populist Parties and Historical Revisionism in the United Kingdom and Turkey

PhD project supported by the Volkswagen Foundation 
July 2025 – June 2028
PhD Researcher: Melis Konakçı
Supervisor: Kornelia Kończal; Second Reader: N.N. 


Soldiers of Odin: Constructions of Masculinity in the Reception of the Viking Age and Their Appropriation by Contemporary Right-Wing Populism in Germany and Scandinavia 

PhD project supported by the Volkswagen Foundation 
July 2025 – June 2028
PhD Researcher: Hannah von Legat
Supervisor: Kornelia Kończal; Second Reader: N.N.