Video lectures from the lecture series “Empires, Identities and Belonging”

Throughout their history, empires have had a considerable influence on the various social, cultural and religious identities and affiliations to the empire as a whole that individual groups have formulated for themselves The lecture series “Empires, Identities and Belonging” (3 November – 15 December 2020) has used case studies from antiquity to the 20th century to see how the complexity of affiliations and religious identities influenced imperial societies, and to explore the dynamics of social formation associated with them.

All lectures can be viewed as videos here. The lecture series has launched the Cluster of Excellence’s first annual theme, “Belonging and Demarcation. Dynamics of Social Formation”, which deals with the emergence of social groups, as well as the identities and conflicts that these entail.