The IFZO Team

Banka, Andris (2019) To Trip a Bear: Canadian-led Enhanced Forward Presence in Latvia, Canada CDA Institute, Vimy Paper, 39.

Banka, Andris (2019) Words Can Break Deterrence, Aspen Review: Central Europe, 19(1).

Banka, Andris/Quinn, Adam (2018) Killing Norms Softly: US targeted killing, quasi-secrecy and the assassination ban, Security Studies, 27(4).

Banka, Andris (2018) Church lessons: Revisiting America’s assassination ban, Journal of American History and Politics, 1(1).                                                         

Banka, Andris (2018) The Baltics and Buyer’s Remorse, Small Wars Journal, 21(6).

Banka, Andris (2018) Middle-powers to the rescue? The SAIS Review of International Affairs.

Banka, Andris (2017) How the Baltic States Can Win Trump Over on NATO, World Politics Review.

Banka, Andris (2017) Canada is winning hearts and minds in Latvia, Policy Options: Institute for Public Policy.

Banka, Andris (2015) The Withering Assassination Taboo, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Banka, Andris (2015) Saving Distant Lands: From Washington’s View, Book chapter, Latvian Institute of International

Alexander Drost is an interdisciplinary historian and academic manager at the University of Greifswald. After studying history and German literature at Greifswald and Joensuu (Finland), he focussed on the research of cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia in the early modern period. His doctoral thesis on “Colonial Sepulchral Culture in Bengal” (2007) is based on archival research in London, The Hague, Kolkata and field trips to the burial grounds in India. His follow-up research on “European Borders in Asia” provides the basis for studying two maritime regions from a comparative perspective, namely the South China and Baltic Sea regions. The latter has been his research focus since 2006 after he began to manage the research activities and graduate programmes on the Baltic Sea region. Following a brief teaching stint at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 2009-2010, he managed the interdisciplinary and international research programme on “Baltic Borderlands: Shifting Boundaries of Mind and Culture in the Borderlands of the Baltic Sea Region”. This programme has yielded fresh impulses in the study of the Baltic Sea region and moreover strengthened the institutional support frameworks for studying this region. These primordial structures have now been consolidated in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research, which Alexander Drost presently manages. His most recent publications include Collapse of Memory - Memory of Collapse: Narrating Past, Presence and Future about Periods of Crisis. (2019, together with O. Sasunkevich, J. Schiedermair und B. Törnquist-Plewa), “Borders: A narrative turn. Reflections on Concepts, Practices and their Communication”. (2017) and “Bordering jenseits territorialer Grenzen: Intersektionelles Denken und Ungleichheitsphänomene in "Niederländisch-Indien" im 17. Jahrhundert” (2018).

Michael Kalis is a research associate in the "Energy" cluster. He focuses on climate mitigation technologies, hydrogen and other renewable gases.

He studied law with a focus on international and European law at the European University Viadrina and the Université du Luxembourg. For special achievements in European Law he received the certificate "European Law" from the University Viadrina. Following his first state examination, he completed his legal clerkship at the Court of Appeal in Berlin, including positions at the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, Amnesty International e.V., the law firm Geulen & Klinger and the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN in Geneva. After his second state examination, Michael Kalis worked as a research assistant at the IKEM - Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility. At the IKEM, Mr. Kalis is particularly concerned with questions regarding the promotion of innovation in the transformation process of the energy transition. In this context, he deals with real laboratories and experimentation clauses. In addition, Mr. Kalis is investigating the legal framework for power-to-X applications, with a special focus on synthetic fuels and renewable gases. In his dissertation "Justitiabler Klimaschutz in Deutschland" (Justiciable Climate Protection in Germany), he examines the role of courts in national climate protection lawsuits.

After completing a bachelor's degree in political and communication sciences at the University of Greifswald, Judith Kärn studied political and administrative sciences at the University of Konstanz. Furthermore, she studied law at the Universities of Greifswald and Göttingen and completed her major in International and European Public Law at the University of Göttingen. Stays abroad took place in France at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse and at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she completed a certificate course in Polish business law. She gained practical experience in communicating legislative outcomes to the public at the European Parliament in Brussels and at the German Embassy in Oslo. She has led courses on policy analysis, introduction to research methods and statistics at the Universities of Greifswald, Göttingen and Konstanz.

Judith’s research interests lie in particular in the interface between social sciences and law. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation in the Department of Law. Further research focuses on the investigation of legal and social discourses in the context of offshore wind farms and hydrogen technologies.

Perceptions of Nord Stream 2 – a discourse network analytical study with special consideration of legal opinions and legal-political opinions

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was a controversial energy infrastructure project from both a political and legal perspective even before Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine began. While legal discourses before the outbreak of the war focused strongly on European law, the discourse after the outbreak of the war finds a strong anchoring in international law. Based on the advocacy coalitions approach, this research project uses discourse network analysis to investigate the role of legal and legal-political argumentation in the political process for Nord Stream 2.

Together with Friederike Allolio, Michael Kalis, Kate Miller, Roman Weidinger (2021): IKEM COP working paper. Sustainable Cities Working Paper for COP26 in Glasgow (2021)., https://usercontent.one/wp/www.ikem.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211101_WP_Sustainable-Cities.pdf?media=1649333287 .

As speaker:

• “The Role Of Legal Discourses In The Context Of Nord Stream 2 - An Extension Of The Advocacy Coaltion Framework” (poster presentation). Energy and Climate Transformations: 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science, Manchester, June 2022.

Antje Kempe studied Art History, History and Eastern European Studies in Berlin (HU) and Poznań. Her PhD-thesis Warfare Ethos and Memoria. The Representation of the Military Nobility in Silesia (1648–1742) at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2017) deals with the construction of group identities in the media of sepulchral art in Habsburg Silesia. Her Post-Doc Research Project Liquid Environments is dedicated to water as material of arts. It aims to investigate how water in early modern gardens, up to the present day landscape design and to the artistic practices of contemporary art, is constitutive for shaping cultural landscape(s), and, accordingly, which historical and contemporary processes of change they are subject to. Liquid environments are thus to be understood as a structural coupling of nature, art and environment, in which water funtions as a kind of co-author.

Antje Kempe is responsible for the work area The Topacality of Cultural Heritage at IFZO. In 2011-2015 and 2017-2019, she was Research Assistant at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald. In 2010-2011, she was employed at the Chair in Eastern European Art History of the Institute of Art and Visual History of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

She received various scholarships, a.o. of the Caroline von Humboldt-program (2016–2017). Her publications and lectures refer mainly to the sepulchral art of the Early Modern Period, to art historiography after 1945, to garden history, and landscape architecture.

Published soon:

Antje Kempe: Kriegerethos und Memoria. Die bellizistische Inszenierung des Adels in Schlesien (1648–1742) Universal—Global—International. Art Historiographies of Socialist Eastern Europe. Ed. by Marina Dmitrieva, Beata Hock, Antje Kempe, Böhlau Verlag.

Socialist Internationalism and the Global Contemporary —Transnational Art Historiographies from Eastern and East-Central Europe. Ed. by Marina Dmitrieva, Beata Hock, Antje Kempe, Böhlau Verlag.

Antje Kempe (2019): Das Nachleben der Rüstung im sepulkralen Kontext des 16. Jahrhunderts, in: Objekte des Krieges. Präsenz und Repräsentation. Ed. by Romana Kaske, Julia Saviello, Böhlau Verlag .

Veröffentlicht:

Bücher:

Mit letzter Pracht. Studien zu den Grabmälern der Frühen Neuzeit in Mecklenburg und Pommern. Ed. by Kilian Heck and Antje Kempe, Berlin (Lukas Verlag) 2020. Review: Martin Spies, in: Church Monument 35 (2020), 199–200.

Marina Dmitrieva und Antje Kempe (2015): Elastische Dialektik: Zur dynamischen Entwicklung der marxistischen Renaissance-Forschung. In: Ars 48, H. 2, 111-117.

Antje Kempe (2015): Konstruierte Kontinuität. Karl Heinz Clasen und die frühen Jahre einer DDR-Kunstgeschichte, in: (Dis)Kontinuitäten in der Kunsthistoriographie des östlichen Europas nach 1945. Ed. by Katja Bernhardt, Antje Kempe. In: kunsttexte.de/ostblick, 4.2015.

Antje Kempe (2014): Der gefesselte Feind. Zum Aufstieg und Niedergang eines Triumphmotives in der politischen Ikonographie frühneuzeitlicher Feldherren. In: Osmanischer Orient und Ostmitteleuropa. Perzeptionen und Interaktionen in den Grenzzonen zwischen dem 16. und 18. Jahrhundert. Ed. by Robert Born, Andreas Puth, Stuttgart, 157-184.

Antje Kempe (2011): Ein anderes schlesisches Antlitz. Zur polnischen Nachkriegsforschung über die Kunst Schlesiens. In: Paradigmenwechsel. Ost- und Mitteleuropa im 20. Jahrhundert. Kunstgeschichte im Wandel der politischen Verhältnisse. Akten der 15. Tagung des Verbandes österreichischer Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker. Ed. by Peter Bogner, Wien, 60-65.

Antje Kempe (2010): Identität im Piktogramm. Polnische Karten nach 1945 als argumentative Ereignisbilder. In: Osteuropa kartiert – Mapping Eastern Europe. Ed. by Jörn Happel, Mira Jovanovic, Christophe von Werdt, Berlin, 265-276.

Artikel:

Antje Kempe (2019): Das Nachleben der Rüstung im sepulkralen Kontext des 16. Jahrhunderts, in: Objekte des Krieges. Präsenz und Repräsentation. Ed. by Romana Kaske and Julia Saviello, Berlin / Boston (Böhlau Verlag) 2019 (Object Studies in Art History; 2), 123–139.

Antje Kempe (2009): Die Ordnung des Raumes – die Aneignung Schlesiens in den visuellen Medien nach 1945. In: Visuelle Erinnerungskulturen und Geschichtskonstruktionen in Deutschland und Polen seit 1939. Wizualne konstrukcje historii i pamięci historycznej w Niemczech i w Polsce od roku 1939. Beiträge der 13. Tagung deutscher und polnischer Kunsthistoriker und Denkmalpfleger in Darmstadt, 27. September bis 1. Oktober 2006. Ed. by Dieter Bingen, Peter Oliver Loew, Dietmar Popp, Warszawa, 69-85.

Nature Shipping. Remarks on the Contemporary Ideas of Cultural Heritage, 35th CIHA World Congress MOTION: Migrations (São Paulo, 17.–21. Januar 2022) 

Gardens at the Seashore. Perspectives and Limitations of Water Landscapes, 68th Annual Meeting of Renaissance Society of America, Session: Making Green Worlds (Dublin, 30. März–2. April 2022)  

Melting Point: Imaginations and Critical Narratives of the Arctic, Ringvorlesung “Developments, Crisis, Turning Point”, Universität Greifswald SS 2021

Maritime and Underwater Heritage – a Cultural History of the Baltic Sea, BalticRIM Webinar (10.09.2020)

Grow and Flow. New Semantics of Water in Contemporary Gardens, international conference Cultural Landscape: Content, Perception, Transformation. The Baltic States in European Garden Culture (Riga, 14.–17. September 2019)

2016-2021: Pharmacy studies (state examination)

2020/2021: Diploma program in pharmaceutical microbiology

since 06 2021: Junior researcher in the project “Antibiotics and resistant germs in the Baltic Sea”, university of Greifswald, IFZO, research cluster “Sustainability in the Baltic Sea Region“

Holistic studies on ESBL-producing E. coli and drug residues in clinical and environmental settings in Western Pomerania.

Antibiotic-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Wastewater of Abattoirs (https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10050568).

Anna Novikov is a postdoctoral researcher at the IFZO at the cluster “New Nationalisms” and works on her research project dedicated to the revival of patriotic and neo nationalist fashion and performance on the areas of the former Eastern Bloc (East-Central Europe, Baltic States and Central Asia).

Anna Novikov received her doctoral degree in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. During her PhD studies she was a Junior Visiting and Research Fellow at the Oxford University and at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig.

In 2013-2015 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Warsaw. Her book Shades of a Nation: The Dynamics of Belonging among the Silesian and Jewish Populations in Eastern Upper Silesia (1922-1934), Fibre Verlag: Osnabrück, was published in 2015. She was also a co-editor of an additional monograph From Premodern to Postmodern Central Europe. Upper Silesia in the Age /of Nationalisms (co-edited with James Bjork, Tomasz Kamusella, and Timothy Wilson), which was published in Routledge in 2016.

In 2016-2017 Anna Novikov was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Principles of Cultural Dynamics program at the Dahlem Humanities Center at the FU in Berlin and a Research Fellow at the Cologne-Bonn Centre for Central and Eastern Europe at the Cologne University.

He research focuses on the cultural and visual transnational modern and contemporary East-Central European/Eurasian and Jewish history and digital humanities. She analyzes various aspects of history and dynamics of identity through the prism of language, performance and clothing appearance.

Anna Novikov (2016): Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950. Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia. Co-edited with James Bjork, Tomasz Kamusella, and Timothy Wilson, Routledge.

Anna Novikov (2015): Shades of a Nation: The Dynamics of Belonging among the Silesian and Jewish populations in Eastern Upper Silesia (1922-1934), Osnabrück: Fibre Verlag.

Anna Novikov (2020): Examining Fate. “Maurer’s Children”: Debated Identity in the Interwar Border Area. In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae-Studia Territorialia, Prague: Charles University.

Anna Novikov (2019): Borderless Dress? The Transnational Role of ‘Black Fashion’ in Warsaw, in: The Special Issue of Journal of East Central European Studies. Jenseits der Teilungsgrenzen: Architektur, Buch, Eisenbahn und Mode im Polen des 19. Jahrhunderts, Marburg: Herder Institute.

Anna Novikov (2018): Wearing the Motherland. The Revival of Patriotic/People’s Attire in the Post-Communist World, Zeitgeschichte online, 17 March, 2018, www.zeitgeschichte-online.de/thema/wearing-motherland.

Anna Novikov (2017): The Visual Language of Neo-Nationalism: Patriotic Fashion in East-Central Europe and Central Asia. In: Trafo-Blog for Transregional Research,Forum Transregionale Studien and Max Weber Stiftung, http://trafo.hypotheses.org/7082.

Anna Novikov (2016): Creating a Citizen: Politics and the Education System in the Post-Plebiscite Silesian Voivodeship. In: James Bjork, Tomasz Kamusella, Timothy Wilson, Anna Novikov (eds), Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950. Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia, Routledge.

Anna Novikov (2015): Central Europe in the Middle East: The Russian Language in Israel. In: Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders, 2015, 473-49.

Anna Novikov (2015): Kleider Machen Leute. In: Weltweit vor Ort. Das Magazin der Max Weber Stiftung, 40-42.

Anna Novikov (2015): Leo Baeck and Leon Ader: A Friendship Reflected in Correspondence. In: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2015, Oxford University Press, 107-120.

2012- 2021

Teacher training in the subjects English and History (main subjects) as well as Polish and German as a foreign language (minor subjects)

Since October 2021

Junior researcher in the project “Unwanted and Conflictual Heritage”, University of Greifswald, IFZO, research cluster “Shared Heritage” 

“Military legacies of Soviet Union in Poland: Symbols of oppression or cultural heritage worth preserving?”

The PhD project examines the culture of remembrance as well as heritage making in contemporary Poland with regard to Soviet military legacies located within its borders. The inclusion of both spatial and social dimensions of the above-mentioned processes makes it possible to approach the subject from multiple perspectives which in turn allows for a deeper reaching analysis and the implementation of interdisciplinary methods and concepts.

By conducting interviews with local inhabitants as well as the utilization of concepts borrowed from social as well as cultural studies e.g., SKAD and the concept of collective memory, the project is examining how Soviet military legacies are perceived and conceptualized in Polish society and which meanings are attributed to them.      

November 2017 – April 2021 student assistance at the Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Greifswald

April 2018 – September 2021 Tutor for Statistics, Junior Professorship for Political Sociology, University of Greifswald

February 2020 – August 2021 Research Assistant at Institute of Political Science and Communication Studies, University of Greifswald

since October 2021 – Junior researcher at the IFZO

The dissertation project analyzes Germany's military presence in the Baltic Sea region and its visibly changed role as a security actor. Furthermore, it examines which domestic factors, such as party positions, explain Germany's changing role and what expectations the Baltic countries have of Germany. For this purpose, parliamentary debates are examined using text analysis.

Together with Jahn, Detlef, Nils Düpont, Erik Baltz, Maximilian Andorff-Woller, Lisa Klagges, and Sophie Suda, together with Thomas Behm, Sven Kosanke, Christoph Oberst, Martin Rachuj, Christina Stremming, and Debora Thie. 2022. PIP – Parties, Institutions & Preferences: PIP Collection [Version 2022-04]. Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Greifswald.

Together with Jahn, Detlef, Nils Düpont, Sven Kosanke, Erik Baltz, together with Thomas Behm, Christoph Oberst, Martin Rachuj and Nuru Debora Thie. 2020. PIP – Parties, Institutions and Preferences: PIP Collection [Version 2020-08]. Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Greifswald.

Since 10/2021  Junior researcher, project "Presentation of Heritage in a Museum Context: Viking Gold - Treasure Finds as Translocal Heritage", University of Greifswald, IFZO, research cluster "Shared Heritage"

2021                M.A. Art History, University of Greifswald

2019 – 2021    Student Assistant, Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, Greifswald

2018                B.A. Art History/Scandinavian Studies, University of Greifswald, University of Bergen

2016 – 2021    Research Assistant, project “TOPORAZ/TRANSRAZ”, University of Greifswald, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weilandt

The PhD project investigates the reception of Viking gold treasure finds in the Baltic Sea region of the 19th and 20th centuries. Their discovery, their way into museums and collections, their presentation there, as well as research and popularisation allow conclusions to be drawn about processes of identification with and demarcation from this "shared" Scandinavian heritage in the politically and culturally heterogeneous Baltic Sea region. These processes will be assessed from a comparative perspective.