🚀 Now open for applications! 🚀

The DFG Research Training Group 2571 “Empires. Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders” at @unifreiburg is recruiting four three-year PhD positions (65%, TV-L E13), starting on 1 May 2026.

🗓 Application deadline: 31 December 2025
📍 Location: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Full call and details: https://uni-freiburg.de/empires/jobs-and-opportunities/

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🌍 Guest Lecture Alert!
Join us on 5 December 2025 (2–4 PM, Lecture Hall 1010, KG I) for a talk by Dr Margret Frenz (Oxford/Stuttgart):
“A Part, And Apart. Transcontinental Lives in Imperial Times.”

Discover how migration, memory, and colonial entanglements shaped lives across empires — and join the discussion! ✨

All are warmly welcome.

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Mark your calendars! On 28 July 2025 (2–5 p.m., HS 1132), join our Colonial Photography Workshop with Dr. Kokou Azamede (Lomé) and Prof. Hans Peter Hahn (Frankfurt a. M.). Explore how colonial images served as propaganda, how we can re-read them today, and discuss their enduring relevance.

Workshop language: English.

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