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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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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.

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On February 3, Stephanie Zloch (Dresden) spoke at the History Department's colloquium on "Water Management at the TH Dresden 1933 - 45: From Research on a University Anniversary to a Transnational History of Science".

On January 27, Dr. Anton F. Guhl (Lüneburg) presented the concept for the KIT research project on the history of Karlsruhe Technical University during the Nazi era. Anton Guhl was already involved in the conception of the online exhibition on the 200th anniversary of KIT by the KIT Archive.

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Dr. Annette Schieck presented the work of the German Textile Museum Krefeld at the research colloquium on January 20. With more than 30,000 objects, the museum houses and conserves a wide variety of textiles and clothing from Europe, Asia and Africa. As well as giving an insight into the history of Krefeld as a textile location and its collection and restoration, Annette Schieck spoke about the research carried out at the museum and research opportunities, including for students.

At the research colloquium on January 13, Erika Érsek, research associate at the Reutlingen Historical Museums, spoke about digital strategies for communicating industrial history. Among other things, she highlighted the work of the Reutlingen Industrial Museum, in which, in addition to the on-site exhibition of machines from Reutlingen's significant textile and mechanical engineering history, the operation of steam engines, looms and knitting machines is kept alive virtually and the work of the experts is preserved for posterity in videos and interviews.