Great Britain Research Working Group

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The UK Research Group (AGF) is an association of historians and political scientists who research and teach about Great Britain , the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations . Until 2017 the working group was called: Arbeitskreis Deutsche England-Forschung (ADEF).

aims

The primary goals of the AGF are interdisciplinary exchange, the promotion of young scientists and networking between German and British scientists.

founding

The founding of the working group goes back to an initiative of the Bochum political scientist Gustav Schmidt, who in 1981 wanted to create a forum for the next generation of academics together with some colleagues, also from the field of history. At the time, the area of ​​Great Britain studies in Germany was still relatively underdeveloped.

activities

The AGF holds a meeting with German and British scientists once a year. These alternate between a political science and a historical focus. As part of these annual conferences, which take place in the Catholic Academy Die Wolfsburg in Mülheim an der Ruhr and, since 2015, in the Great Britain Center of the Humboldt University in Berlin , ongoing research projects are also discussed in workshops. The annual conferences are held regularly in cooperation with the German Historical Institute in London . The conference reports are usually published on H-Soz-Kult . The AGF Junior Workshop has also been held regularly in Berlin since 2013, which is explicitly aimed at young academics. The working group also publishes a series of publications (this is supervised by Ursula Lehmkuhl ) in which, for example, dissertations and conference proceedings appear. Every two years the AGF awards an award for an outstanding dissertation. The AGF is also working to improve the conditions for UK research. In 2018, for example, as a result of an initiative by the working group in cooperation with the Great Britain Center of Berlin's Humboldt University, online access to historical British newspapers via the historical science information service was significantly expanded.

Dissertation Prize

The AGF awards a dissertation prize of € 500 every two years. The award recognizes outstanding work on a subject of British politics or the history of Great Britain, the Empire or the Commonwealth. Graduates from German universities can apply for the award. Prize winners were Hans-Joachim Knopf (2004), Sonja Levsen (2006), Jörg Neuheiser (2008), Peter Pirker (2010), Bernhard Dietz (2012), Julia Fleischer (2014), Miriam Weiss (2016) and Maren Jung-Diestelmeier (2018).

organization

The bodies of the Association are the General Meeting and the Executive Board. The board currently includes the political scientist Marius Guderjan (Humboldt University Berlin) as deputy chairman and the historian Wencke Meteling (University of Marburg) as deputy chairwoman, Bernhard Dietz (University Mainz) as chairman, Torsten Riotte (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) as Treasurer and Michael Czolkoß (University of Oldenburg) as secretary (as of 2019).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gustav.schmidt/
  2. ↑ See, for example, the current report on the 2017 annual conference by Tobias Becker: http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7325?title=competitors-and-companions-britons-and-germans-in-the- world & recno = 1 & q = competitors & sort = newestPublished & fq = & total = 23
  3. ↑ At perspectiva.net you can find more specific information on the individual volumes in the series: http://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/adef ; see also: http://adef-britishstudies.org/ver%c3%b6ffnahmungen.html
  4. ↑ See: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / beta.historicum.net
  5. ↑ Maren Jung-Diestelmeier: "That perverted England". Visual stereotypes on postcards and German self-images 1899–1918. (= Studies on Resentment Past and Present, 1). Wallstein, Göttingen 2017. Volume 40/1 of the German Historical Institute London Bulletin contains an online review of Richard Scully's work (pp. 148–151).
  6. ↑ see: https://www.gbz.hu-berlin.de/staff/dr-marius-guderjan
  7. ↑ see: http://www.geschichte.uni-mainz.de/neuestegeschichte/743.php
  8. ↑ http://www.geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/43148136/Riotte
  9. ↑ see: http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/kulturen-der-partizipation/lösungen/stipendiat-innen/michael-czolkoss/