The end of the year is approaching rapidly, and as usual the last pre-Christmas week is being used to tie up all those loose ends, that had been left untended during the last quarter of the year. Let me use this moment to wish you all a wonderful holiday season, with lots of cookies, regeneration,Continue reading “Merry Christmas ! (…and some 2025 Aspirations)”
Author Archives: Achim Klüppelberg
Research under changed conditions?
This Thursday and Friday, 14-15 November, the GWTF, the Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, is hosting her yearly meeting in my old hometown of Dortmund in the Ruhr Area in the western parts of Germany. The overarching topic will be about how we can conduct research in a changed environment. Here the precarity of manyContinue reading “Research under changed conditions?”
Tensions of Europe is coming up!
*Update: Unfortunately I was forced to cancel my in-person-participation at the conference due to urgent private matters that reached me yesterday night. I will be giving the presentation remotely via Zoom. (As of 2024-09-18)* In already two weeks we are going to meet in Frankfurt (Oder) for the next Tensions of Europe conference, discussing tonsContinue reading “Tensions of Europe is coming up!”
Remembering Chernobyl
Today is the 38th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, which began on 26 April 1986 at 1.23 am. At the moment it is impossible to remember what happened at the downstream end of the Pripyat River without thinking about the horrible war taking place in Ukraine. What we witness right now has never happened before:Continue reading “Remembering Chernobyl”
My Defence
On Friday afternoon, 22 March 2024, I defended my PhD at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In hindsight it was a marvellous day, with so many people thinking of me and participating in this event that marked the end of the journey I embarked on 15 October 2018. A huge “Thank you!” to all ofContinue reading “My Defence”
Upcoming Defence!
Five and a half years ago, on 15 October 2018, I joined KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, to embark on a journey of doctoral education. Working as a doctoral student in the Nuclearwaters-Project (ERC Consolidator Grant, PI Per Högselius), I focussed on the nuclear history of Eastern Europe, especially on the territoryContinue reading “Upcoming Defence!”
AfD-protests in Germany
Today many brave people are demonstrating in Germany against the fascist AfD (Alternative for Germany). It would be great if the party could be forbidden on the basis of extreme rightwing propaganda, which denounces the right to live for everyone. Greetings especially go out to the protesters in Dortmund, Gießen and Göttingen. I hope theContinue reading “AfD-protests in Germany”
What a year! 2023 is coming to an end…
2023 was a turbulent year for me. I am grateful for many great experiences that helped me to grow as a novice scholar and as a person. In the following I would like to reflect in a few paragraphs on this past year. But before I start: Merry Christmas and happy end-of-the-year holidays to everyone!Continue reading “What a year! 2023 is coming to an end…”
New Publication: Public History in Action
Resulting from an exciting PhD-course on Public Humanities at Uppsala University, headed by Maria Ågren and Sven Widmalm, recently an edited volume on public history was published. When I came to the office a couple of weeks ago, I found a handful of freshly printed copies, which made me very happy! In “Public History inContinue reading “New Publication: Public History in Action”
Achim Klüppelberg 