Projects from Prof. Dr. Olaf Hartung
Faculty of Arts and Humanities » Historisches Institut » Theorie und Didaktik der Geschichte
“Learning to interpret the signs of the times” – cultural semiotically oriented learning tasks in a controversial historical culture
Our contemporary world is filled with numerous historical-cultural objectifications, each with controversial attributions of meaning, which can also be perceived daily by students: history-related posts on social media, historical video games, history programs and films, "Stolpersteine" (commemorative plaques) remembering people deported and ...
Duration: 10/2025 - 06/2027
Geschichte im digitalen Wandel? Geschichtskultur – Erinnerungspraktiken – Historisches Lernen
The research project is dedicated to current questions about historical culture and digital change: What happens to socially shared stories when the public and social negotiation processes shift more and more into the digital space and even become the starting point for this? How do a new culture of digitality and historical culture(s) interact ...
Duration: 04/2022 - 06/2024
History didactics in discourse
In the teaching project, students and research assistants from the Theory and Didactics of History department devote themselves to current questions of history didactics theory, empiricism and pragmatics and discuss them with regard to their significance for their own research projects. In collaboration with the history meeting of the historical ...
Duration: 04/2015 - 12/2024