"Border Rivers and Transboundary Mobility in East-Central and Southeastern Europe"

The conference will take place on March 25 and 26, 2025, in Bochum. You can find the program here.

Starting on 24 October, the ZMS will host a weekly colloquium - all welcome. You can find the colloquium's programme and further information here.

The Chair for the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey is looking for a Research Associate to support its research and teaching. You can find further information in the job advertisement. The deadline for aplications is 15 July 2024.

We are pleased to invite you, as part of the KGE main theme "Europe and the Seas," to an exciting lecture by Prof. Dr. Markus Koller. The lecture, titled "Between Entanglement and Disentanglement - Russian Policy in the Adriatic Region (17th/18th Century)", will take place on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at 6:30 PM at the Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz 14.

We look forward to your attendance at this informative and insightful event. [poster]

On 3 June 2024, Prof. Dr Markus Koller, Director of the ZMS, will give a lecture on ‘Approaches to Europe. Images of history in the classroom’ as part of the 'Education in Focus' event series. His presentation will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic of ‘Europe at school!’. You can find the event's schedule here.

We are pleased to announce the Humboldt Symposium in Heidelberg on June 14-15, 2024. In collaboration with the Center for Mediterranean Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, the event will take place in the lecture hall of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. You can find the event's schedule and poster here.

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Mediterranean Studies 3 (2024) and Mare Nostrum 3 (2024) have been published.

The article "Constitutionalism in Post-Ottoman Southeast Europe during the 19th Century. Serbia, Greece and Romania in Comparative Perspective" by Ioannis Zelepos is now available online in the ZfM. Additionally, the new issue of Mare Nostrum, themed "From Acre to India – Transit, Trade, and Culture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages," has been released, featuring five exciting student contributions.
 

In this semester's lecture series of the ZMS, international speakers from the fields of history, art history, archaeology, and oriental studies will be speaking. The lectures will take place starting from April 16th, Tuesdays, 4:30 PM, at the House of Archaeologies (room will be signposted) and simultaneously via Zoom. You can find the program and further information here (Flyer-pdf).

Successful participation of Dr. Margarita Voulgaropoulou in the international conference "Whose East?" at Princeton University. Her fascinating contribution titled "Whose Adriatic? Blurring the Boundaries of East and West in the Artistic Production of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Adriatic" enriched the discussion. The conference, organized by Maria Alessia Rossi and Henry Schilb from the Index of Medieval Art, brought together distinguished scholars from around the world. For further details, please refer here.

Starting on 24 October, the ZMS will host a weekly colloquium - all welcome. You can find the colloquium's programme and further information here.

Prof. Dr. Markus Koller is going to participate in the conference "Between Imagination and Effectiveness: Mediterranean Dimensions of European History", held at the University of Hildesheim between 9-11th March 2023, and present a paper titled "Between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. The Ottoman Empire as a Sea Power." Further information about the conference can be found here.

Just in time for the start of the semester, issue 2 of Mare Nostrum is now available! The thematic issue is entitled "Bilateral Relations in the Mediterranean Region from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period" and contains nine exciting contributions by RUB students (Undergraduate, Graduate, and PhD students). The journal is accessible and downloadable on the Mare Nostrum homepage.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Margarita Voulgaropoulou is editor of a Special Issue on "Byzantine, Post-Byzantine and European Art History and Cultural Interchange" for the Journal Arts. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 June 2023, you can find the issue's flyer here.

Beginning in 2022, the ZMS is part of a Humboldt Partnership with the Department for the History of Slavonia, Syrmia and Baranya of the Croatian Institute of History in Slavonski Brod and the Chair for East and Southeastern European History at the University of Leipzig. The project will focus on "Regional Translocality in Historical Perspective: The Case of Slavonia and Bosnia." You can read more about it here.

The ZMS hosted the final workshop "Trieste, Ville d'Empire(s), XVième à XIXème Siècles" of the cooperative Ciera project in Bochum from 24th to 25th June, where PhD student Zeynep Arslan was one of the presenting researchers. The workshop's agenda can be viewed here.

After intensive preparation, the Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ZfM) is now online!
ZfM is interdisciplinary, open access, trilingual, and also aimed at young scholars. The journal will publish research from the humanities as well as the cultural and social sciences covering all historical periods and aspects of the Mediterranean. The phenomena, events and processes of the region will be considered comparatively and in a transregional context.
The journal's languages of publication will be English, French and German.

For more information on the Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ZfM), please refer here.

Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ZfM) Vol. 1 (2021) can be viewed here.

Together with the Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University, the Center for Mediterranean Studies is carrying ut a CIERA project with the title "Trieste: City of Empire (s)".
In this context, a digital workshop on "Ottoman Trieste" will take place on February 19 from 2:45 pm.