From summer semester 2026 on, Andrea Acle-Kreysing will take over the substitute Professorship of Modern History (19th and 20th centuries) at Heidelberg University. She previously worked as a research assistant at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for almost three years. In research and teaching, she dealt with modern history with a transnational focus and habilitated at the University of Heidelberg on German-speaking exile in Latin America. We wish her all the best for the new start!

Ole Sparenberg

Im Januar und Februar dieses Jahres fuhr PD Dr. Ole Sparenberg als Experte und Lektor auf seiner zweiten Reise mit einem Kreuzfahrtschiff in die Antarktis. Auf der Reise, die von Argentinien über die Falkland Inseln, Süd-Georgien, das Wedell-Meer und die Antarktische Halbinsel nach Chile führte, hielt er Vorträge zur Geschichte der Region und begleitete Besuchergruppen bei Landausflügen. Neben atemberaubenden Landschaften und einer faszinierenden Tierwelt bietet diese Region auch eine vielfältige Geschichte, die u.a. den Walfang, die Polarforschung und politische Konflikte wie den Falkland-Krieg von 1982 umfasst.

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You have completed your Bachelor's degree and would like to deepen your history studies - interdisciplinary, practical and with a lot of creative freedom? Then the EUKLID Master's degree program at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is just right for you!

Special features of the program:

-> Small groups and intensive supervision

-> Choice of modules and courses

-> Final thesis in either history or philosophy

-> Start in the summer or winter semester

Are you interested? You can find all information about the program structure here
Does your BA degree give you access to the MA Euclid? Do you have any other questions? Make an appointment with the Student Advisory Service: fachstudienberatung.geschichte∂itz.kit.edu

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"Are we on the way to a neo-feudal technocracy?" - this is one of the questions posed by Rolf-Ulrich Kunze in the podcast of the same name in the KIT Campus Report series on the crisis of liberal democracy (from March 17, 2026). The spring discussion on the global political situation with Dr. Stefan Fuchs focuses on the crisis of democracy and technology.

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An exchange on successful teaching formats as well as best and worst practice examples in the history of the environment and technology has rarely taken place to date. For this reason, Marcus Popplow and Nicole Hesse (Department of History), in cooperation with Daniel Jankowski and Christian Götter (TU Braunschweig) and the Working Group Environment & Technology (AKUT) of the Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte e.V., organized the workshop From geoengineering to human-animal interactions on 5 and 6 March 2026. Teaching at the interface of environmental and technological history. In an open and enriching discussion atmosphere, teachers and students from Germany and neighboring countries exchanged views on successful concepts, failures and the change in teaching driven not least by AI. A continuation of the format is currently being planned. The event was financially supported by the KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V. and the Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte e.V. (Society for the History of Technology).

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From January 10 to February 15, we are hosting Utsarjana Mutsuddi as part of a German-Indian cooperation project on the humanities at technical universities. She is researching questions of didactics in the humanities and courses in the natural and technical sciences. Utsarjana Mutsuddi is a cultural scientist and is doing her doctorate on "Denotified tribes in West India" at the Department for Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus in India.