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 

 

Europe. Concepts. Online Lexicon: Bridging semantic gaps

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 – Dezember 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

Bielefeld University
Funded by DAAD
July 2024-September 2026
Doctoral researcher: Anastasia Serikova
First supervisor: Kornelia Kończal. Second supervisor: Mischa Gabowitsch.