Urban Areas
Dr. Tobias Becker
Associate Professor for History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary History
- Cultural history
- Urban history (especially Berlin)
- History of popular culture (19th and 20th century)
- History of Great Britain
- Nostalgia
- Public History
Dr. Gerhard Braun
Professor of Geograhical Sciences
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geographical Sciences
Human Geography
Malteserstr. 74 – 100, 12249 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Urban development
- Urban economy
- Spatial research and planning
- Urban research
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Dr. Hanno Hochmuth
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam
Friedrich-Meineke-Institut:
Koserstraße 20, 14495 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- History of Berlin
- Public history
- Babylon Berlin (television series)
- History in film and television
- Gentrification
- History of the GDR
Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek
Professor of German Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
German Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Culture of emotions
- Satire, irony, comedy
- German-Jewish contemporary literature
- Modern poetry
- Theater of the Enlightenment
- Neurocognitive poetics