The Department of Philosophy is seeking to fill a permanent full-time position as an Academic Councillor (Bes.Gr. A 13 LBesO) as of 1 April 2025. The duties will primarily include teaching on the Philosophy teacher training programmes to the extent of 9 SWS. In addition, participation in the research and development projects of the department is expected. If the legal requirements for a civil servant position are not (yet) met, the position can (initially) be taken on as an employee (E13 TV-L).

It is almost exactly 2500 years ago that the decisive clashes of the Persian Wars at Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataia took place. These battles were attributed world-historical significance in antiquity and, even more so, in the centuries that followed. The present volume is the outcome of a conference held in Budapest which celebrated the anniversary of Xerxes’ expedition against Hellas by discussing old and new questions related to the war and the history of its reception.
Published 2025 by Franz Steiner; ISBN: 978-3-515-13774-4

Technologies such as tablets, plagiarism software, and learning videos are now an important part of teaching and learning around the world. The underlying human-technology relations that shape modern educational settings have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future. This volume applies the analytical tools of postphenomenology to the context of education. In three sections, the contributors present empirical evidence on the use of technology in schools, show conceptual convergences with current theories relevant to education and training, and challenge and reframe the technologically situated subject as the goal of education in relation to technology.
Published 2024 by Rowman & Littlefield; ISBN: 978-1-66693-915-6.

The second edition of the Spring School will once again provide students and doctoral candidates with an introduction to digital manuscript research. Experts from Münster, Frankfurt and Basel will give talks on the fields of “accessing”, “editing” and “translating” and provide insights into their research material. In the afternoon blocks, staff from the Service Centre for Digital Humanities will introduce participants to working with TEI. An excursion to the Technical Centre of the NRW State Archive and the LWL Archive Office for Westphalia is planned for one day.

The Atlantic and Indian Oceans, spanning vast distances, are not just bodies of water but conduits of global history. They were spaces of human migration, commodity and idea circulation, technological innovation, and political and social reform during the Modern and Late Modern eras. This spring school will focus on the material dimension of cross-oceanic and global exchanges. The participants will study and discuss these issues together with renowned invited scholars, on the basis of primary sources and introductory readings.

This book examines the construction of space and place in early China and the ancient Mediterranean through the lens of performances conducted in specific locations. It highlights conceptions of place and performance, seeing both as crucial to the production of cultural meaning and communal cohesion, and as heavily dependent on the prevailing political culture. Whether urban or rural, global or local, central or fringe, public or private, real or imagined, theatrical or ritual, the places and performances highlighted serve to show both commonalities and differences between the ancient Mediterranean and early China.
Erschienen 2024 bei Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-1-009-39002-6.

Populist movements are gaining ground, right-wing parties are celebrating electoral successes and the cohesion of traditional mainstream parties is declining: Politics, society and the media have been talking about a crisis in party democracy for some time now. This is by no means only the case in Germany, but in many European countries. On Thursday, 12 December 2024, historian Prof. Dr. Silke Mende will take a closer look at these developments. The lecture will take place in the Borken City Archive, room twelve26, and will begin at 7.30 pm.

April 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. In honour of this anniversary, presenter Gottfried Haufe and musicologist and sociologist Prof. Michael Custodis from the University of Münster will take a look at the ‘Nirvana phenomenon’ and the musician Kurt Cobain from very different angles. The event at the Rock'n'Pop Museum Gronau starts at 7 pm.