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My take on how to think about current economic polices from the perspective of capitalism's history.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Where Will ‘America First’ Lead Us? The Answer From History: Nowhere Good
Trump’s brand of economic nationalism echoes policies that led to two world wars and the rise of authoritarian regimes across the globe.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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We had a wonderful time with our @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social Group on Post war times; 💯 can recommend
🚨 Just one week left to apply for our FRIAS project groups:
🔹 up to 35.000€ for interdisciplinary group projects
🔹 open to researchers from @uni-freiburg.de or other Freiburg based research institutions
🔹 at least two must be full-time professors at UFR
👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/cfa-fr...
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🚨 Just one week left to apply for our FRIAS project groups:
🔹 up to 35.000€ for interdisciplinary group projects
🔹 open to researchers from @uni-freiburg.de or other Freiburg based research institutions
🔹 at least two must be full-time professors at UFR
👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/cfa-fr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
FRIAS Alumnus @svenbeckert.bsky.social has written a groundbreaking book on the Global History of #Capitalism from 1450 to the present day.
📕More about the book: www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
📰Interview @zeit.de: www.zeit.de/2025/48/sven... @uni-freiburg.de
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Together with @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social and Tübingen College of Fellows, FRIAS is offering #EarlyCareerRescueFellowships.
Open to researchers from all nationalities & represented disciplines | 1-7 years postdoc experience | 2 years btw 7/2026 and 11/2028
👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Die Glassomer-Technologie sorgt für eine nachhaltigere Glasproduktion. In der FRIAS Projektgruppe GlassAge werden daraus neue Perspektiven für Kunstgeschichte und Denkmalpflege entwickelt. Der Workshop "Heritage meets Hightec" diskutiert neue Ansätze: uni-freiburg.de/frias/herita... @uni-freiburg.de
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Welche Rolle spielt Macht in der Ökonomie – und warum ist sie unverzichtbar für das Verständnis moderner Märkte?
Beitrag von FRIAS Fellow @timkriegerfr.bsky.social, FRIAS Alumnus Lars P. Feld & Justus Haucap in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (Ausgabe Nr. 256, 4.11.25, S.16).
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Join me in Berlin on Wednesday November 5 at 6PM for a book talk on Capitalism: A Global History at Freie Universität Berlin | Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (Raum A 127)
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Join us today at Anatomy Lecture Hall👇
“AI provincializes Europe.” For Tobias Rees, #AI is a philosophical earthquake that destabilizes the very concepts on which #Europe has thought itself. What happens when AI runs diagonal to the foundations of European thought?
📍 @uni-freiburg.de | 🗓️ 28 Oct 2025, 17:00
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October 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Wie verändert #KI die philosophischen Grundlagen, die Europa prägen? In seinem Vortrag „Artificial Intelligence and the 2500-year-old project called Europe“ lädt Prof. Dr. Tobias Rees am 28. Oktober 2025 @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social das Publikum ein, diesen Umbruch zu erkunden. ufr.link/rees-ki
October 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Auszeichnung für unseren Distinguished Fellow Jürgen Osterhammel: Der österreichische Bundespräsident Alexander Van der Bellen hat dem renommierten Historiker das Österreichische Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst verliehen - eine der höchsten kulturellen Auszeichnungen der Republik Österreich.
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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In der sonnigsten Stadt Deutschlands ist auch Ende Oktober eine Sonnenbrille nötig!
Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Volles Haus bei den Freiburger Horizonten! 🙌
@deutschmann.bsky.social präsentierte sein Buch "Die #Exponentialgesellschaft" – vor 150 Zuhörer:innen.

🎥 Vortrag verpasst? In Kürze wird eine Aufzeichnung auf unserem YouTube-Kanal veröffentlicht: www.youtube.com/@FRIAS_U_Fre...

Foto: Emily Schlegel
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Wir freuen uns auf den Vortrag von @deutschmann.bsky.social heute Abend. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen. @uni-freiburg.de @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social.
»Ein Buch, das mit seiner analytischen Präzision, seinem Datenreichtum und seinem interpretativen Horizont beeindruckt. Soziologie in Bestform!« (@steffenmau.bsky.social)
Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen. Der Eintritt ist frei.
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/frias/freibu... | @deutschmann.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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🥁 Join us next Thursday, October 23, for the first lecture on on "Anti-colonial Social Theory and the Peripheral Gaze" by Sujata Patel, recipient of the @humboldt-foundation.de Research Award, hosted at the @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social of the @uni-freiburg.de for the duration of her stay 2025-2026!
🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week!
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Starting at 2pm CET: @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social -Conference "The Aftermath. Postwar Times in Modernity and Premodernity: Re-Constructions – Re-Writings – Re-Orderings", if you want to join by uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/6797163684...
Meeting-ID: 679 7163 6844
Kenncode: vBMB85iiG 👇
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
✨With our newly established Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research (YAC), FRIAS is creating a space for new perspectives on what a good life and a good society might mean today. Stay tuned for updates!✨
uni-freiburg.de/frias/resear...
Zehn PostDocs erforschen an neuer Akademie Fragen des „guten Lebens“: Das @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social richtet mit der Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research (YAC) eine neue Plattform für hochqualifizierte PostDocs aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Ländern ein.
➡️ ufr.link/yac-frias
October 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
#CallforApplications for #PhDcandidates and #EarlyCareerResearchers in the Balzan-FRIAS Project in Global History, led by Jürgen Osterhammel and Stefanie Gänger.

📆 22–23 January 2026
📍 @uni-freiburg.de
💲 Accomodation & Travel
❗ Application Deadline: 31 October 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
October 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“AI provincializes Europe.” For Tobias Rees, #AI is a philosophical earthquake that destabilizes the very concepts on which #Europe has thought itself. What happens when AI runs diagonal to the foundations of European thought?
📍 @uni-freiburg.de | 🗓️ 28 Oct 2025, 17:00
uni-freiburg.de/frias/artifi...
October 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Looking forward to joining @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social and others in Freiburg next week to rethink postwar-isms - in my case through the lens of the post-1944 laws of war.

uni-freiburg.de/frias/the-af...
The Aftermath. Postwar Times in Modernity and Premodernity – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
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October 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
»Ein Buch, das mit seiner analytischen Präzision, seinem Datenreichtum und seinem interpretativen Horizont beeindruckt. Soziologie in Bestform!« (@steffenmau.bsky.social)
Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen. Der Eintritt ist frei.
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/frias/freibu... | @deutschmann.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Very much looking forward to our conference next week at @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social and to discussing post-war times in the (early) modern period with @doctoressa.bsky.social @claudiussittig.bsky.social @andrekrischer.bsky.social @paulinastarski.bsky.social
Eighty years after the end of World War II and in view of the numerous conflicts worldwide, urgent questions about the nature and history of postwar times once again arise. The FRIAS project group "Post-war periods" organizes an international conference on the topic. uni-freiburg.de/frias/the-af...
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Eighty years after the end of World War II and in view of the numerous conflicts worldwide, urgent questions about the nature and history of postwar times once again arise. The FRIAS project group "Post-war periods" organizes an international conference on the topic. uni-freiburg.de/frias/the-af...
October 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#CallforApplications addressing senior researchers @uni-freiburg.de and other Freiburg based research institutions: FRIAS is funding two project groups. The aim of this funding programme is to support multidisciplinary cooperation at an early stage. Read more: uni-freiburg.de/frias/cfa-fr...
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Bis zu 14 hochqualifizierte Wissenschaftler:innen in frühen Karrierephasen, die aufgrund ihrer Arbeit in den USA unter politischem Druck stehen, können ihre Forschung künftig @uni-freiburg.de, Tübingen & Konstanz fortsetzen. Das FRIAS hat die Initiative mitbegründet. uni-freiburg.de/neue-fellows...
September 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM