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Christmas Break at the History Department

We wish everyone a relaxing semester break, happy holidays and a good start into the New Year 2026!

Anna Onufriienko bei ihrem Vortrag im Forschungskolloquium des KIT Geschichte Departments am 2. Dezember 2025Martin Ullmann/KIT
Research colloquium: Rudolf Plank during the Nazi era

Anna Onufriienko (Karlsruhe) spoke at the research colloquium on December 2 on the topic of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Plank's Soviet Journeys: Refrigeration Technologies in the Context of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine. Plank was Professor of Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Technology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (later Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) from 1925-1954.

Das Bild zeigt das Cover des Buches von Anne Sudrow mit dem Titel "Heil Kräuter Kulturen", das 2025 erschienen ist V&R
Research colloquium on the topic of "Medicinal herbs from Dachau concentration camp"

Dr. Anne Sudrow (Berlin) was a guest at the History Department's research colloquium on November 25. In her lecture, she discussed the research and production of herbal medicines carried out under inhumane conditions in the so-called "herb garden" of the Dachau concentration camp by the SS company "Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Ernährung und Verpflegung".

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"Low-tech" in focus

The 44th "History of Technology Conference" of the Eisenbibliothek in Schaffhausen/CH on November 14 and 15, 2025 dealt with the topic "Low-Tech: Procedures, Actors, Concepts". Silke Zimmer-Merkle gave a presentation on the question "Are children's mobilities (s)low-tech? Reflections on the historical example of the scooter". The conference papers will be published in the journal Ferrum.

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Logo of KIT 200 years, Study information day at KIT on November 19, 2025, Karlsruhe campus.KIT
Information about studying history on the info day

Here you can find out more about studying History at the KIT.

Program:

7:45-13:00h Information booth of the Faculty GeistSoz (Audimax, Building 30.95, Straße am Forum 1)

09:45-10:30h Liberal Arts and Sciences at KIT (INFORMATIKOM/Geb. 50.19, seminar room 4)

10:30-11:15h History in the LAS - student advisory service (INFORMATIKOM/Geb. 50.19, seminar room 4), hybrid event

11:30 - 13:00h Seminar "Orientation History" gives an introduction to studying History at KIT (Building 30.91, Franz-Haber-Weg 7, Room 012)

 

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Buchcover "Wasser- und Flussbau im Oberrheingebiet vom späten Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart"Thorbecke
New publication: Hydraulic and river engineering in the Upper Rhine region

On November 10, 2025, the volume will be published in the series "Oberrheinische Studien" under the editorship of Marcus Popplow and others. The anthology consists of contributions that were produced as part of the annual conference of the AG für geschichtliche Landeskunde am Oberrhein on October 7-8, 2022. In his report, Tilman Wagle examines the conflicts of use in fishing on the Murg.

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Thursday, 13 February 2025, 18:00-20:00
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