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Professor Uwe Puschner, long-time co-director of Freie Universität Berlin’s Center for French Studies, has passed on his position to Michael Goebel, historian and Einstein Professor for Global History at the university’s Friedrich Meinecke Institute. The Center for French Studies is supported by both the Department of Philosophy and Humanities and the Department of History and Cultural Studies. It provides an important forum for research related to France and Francophile studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Professor Uwe Puschner, long-time co-director of Freie Universität Berlin’s Center for French Studies, has passed on his position to Michael Goebel, historian and Einstein Professor for Global History at the university’s Friedrich Meinecke Institute. Puschner officially retired in 2020 but continued to carry out his role as director over the last two years. During the pandemic he was instrumental in program planning and helped organize numerous events. The Center for French Studies is supported by both the Department of Philosophy and Humanities and the Department of History and Cultural Studies. It provides an important forum for research related to France and Francophile studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
The center reopened in 2017 with two co-directors: Puschner, who was at the time Professor for Contemporary History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute (FMI), and Ulrike Schneider, professor of Romance languages and literatures. Over the last five years, Puschner, Schneider, and Marie Jacquier, the center’s coordinator for research activities, established a variety of innovative formats to help draw attention to the wide range of research being conducted on France and related topics. With a unique binational, French-German perspective, the center strives to present research in engaging ways to a broad general audience.
Professor Puschner’s successor, Michael Goebel, was appointed Einstein Professor of History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute in fall 2021. Prior to that he held the Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World at the Geneva Graduate Institute (Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement). Goebel’s research focuses on migration and urban history from a global perspective with specialization in Latin American and European history.
Professor Goebel contributed to the Center for French Studies’ program of events for the 2022/2023 winter semester even before assuming the position of director. For example, he helped plan the round table discussion that touches on his own research interests; on January 11, 2023, he will moderate a “table-ronde” with special guests Émile Chabal, Marwan Mohammed, and Christiane Reinecke on the topic “To Count is To Discriminate? Race, Ethnicity, and Statistics in France and Beyond.” More information about the Center for French Studies’ far-reaching program of events can be found on the center’s website.
Marie Jacquier, coordinator for research activities, Center for French Studies, Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures, Room JK 30/123, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Email: marie.jacquier@fu-berlin.de
https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/frankreichzentrum Center for French Studies website
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