Current Courses

The Compensation Project: Reparations for Historical Wrongs in Europe after 1945 - MA

Semester: 
1st semester
Offered: 
2025

In 1952, West Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference signed the groundbreaking Holocaust Reparations Agreement in Luxembourg. Since then, and increasingly after the end of the Cold War, the Luxembourg Agreement has served as a model for addressing past wrongs for both former victims and perpetrators of severe human rights violations. This seminar explores the negotiations that led to the Agreement, the Agreement itself, and the German-Jewish-Israeli relations that emerged from it. Additionally, the seminar examines other case studies of compensation for historical wrongs in Europe since 1945, focusing on both their theoretical and practical aspects.

Modern Central European History: The Bohemian Lands - BA

Semester: 
1st semester
Offered: 
2025

The recitation explores the history of the Bohemian Lands in the 19th and 20th centuries, spanning from the 1848 Spring of Nations to the aftermath of the 1989 Velvet Revolution. It focuses on political, social, and cultural developments, with particular emphasis on the interactions between local Czechs, Germans, and Jews.

 

Between the Imperial and the National: The Historical Region of Moravia - BA

Semester: 
2nd semester
Offered: 
2025

This course, which includes an excursion, provides an overview of the history of Moravia - a geographical region in the southeastern part of the contemporary Czech Republic - from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The course presents Moravia as a case study of a Central European territory marked by numerous political vicissitudes and upheavals, both during the imperial regime and in the era of the nation-state.

Introduction to 20th Century History - BA

Semester: 
2nd semester
Offered: 
2025

This introductory course provides an overview of key events in 20th-century history, focusing on Europe and beyond. The course spans from the outbreak of the First World War to the period following the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.