The legal historian Dr Sebastian M. Spitra from the University of Vienna has taken over the research professorship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Legal Unity and Pluralism’ (EViR) on 1 October 2024. He succeeds Dr Gregor Albers and will help shape the programme of the Kolleg as part of the management team until May 2025.

To mark 500 years of the Peasants' War, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg is hosting a public discussion with Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff on 16 January 2025. The early modern historian from the Technical University of Dresden has just published a highly acclaimed comprehensive account of the Peasants' War 1525. The event begins at 19.00 in the Stadtbücherei Münster. Admission is free, registration is not required. The event language is German.

On Friday, 17 January 2025, the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities will host a masterclass with Lyndal Roper and Gerd Schwerhoff in cooperation with the Bielefeld CRC 1288 ‘Practices of Comparison. Ordering and Changing the World‘ and the profile area “History of Pre-Modernity” at Bielefeld University, a masterclass with Lyndal Roper and Gerd Schwerhoff on the Peasants’ War will take place.

This spring school will focus on the material dimension of cross-oceanic and global exchanges in the Modern and Late Modern eras. These processes brought ever more distant regions into direct contact, creating dense material entanglements, but often not on equal terms.