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A Position as Research Assistant within the Research Unit on “Voluntariness” is Available

In 2024 several new projects are going to start within the Research Unit on “Voluntariness” (more on this soon…) and a couple of new colleagues will join our team at the Department of History in Erfurt as well. One of the new sub-projects has been developed by Jürgen Martschukat, PI within our group, and it will be conducted by a PhD-student for the next three years. With a focus on North American History it will be dealing with questions of voluntariness, self-care, and health practices in the US around 1865.

Historians specializing in that field and who are interested in exploring questions of governmentality with regard to the topic of voluntariness may apply for a part-time position as research assistant by May 4, 2024, at the latest. If you are interested, please submit your resume an all related documents with the online application service of the University of Erfurt.

Find further information here and apply for our project in North American History.

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“Between Choice and Command” – Workshop and Keynote Lecture

On December 1-2, 2025, a workshop organized by Florian Wagner is dedicated to the question of voluntariness and migration and return across and beyond colonial empires. The event is held at the University of Erfurt, among other contributions with a keynote lecture by Dónal Hassett.

mural in Accra, Ghana

Film Screening and Workshop – “Unsilenced Voices”

On December 15 and 16, 2025, a workshop will be focusing on women’s voluntary activism in Ghana and other (post)colonial contexts. Starting with a film screening followed by a discussion of the 2022 documentary film “When Women Speak”  a workshop on recent research perspectives and resources on Friday will discuss “Voluntariness, Women’s Activism and (Post-)Colonial Narratives.”