Charlotta Cordes
Scientific employee (PhD candidate)
Contact:
Klagenfurter Str. 8
D-28359 Bremen
Building OEG, Room 3700
Phone: +49 (0)421- 218-66646
charlotta.cordes[at]uni-bremen.de
Person
Since May 2019, Charlotta Cordes is a scientific employee and PhD Candidate in the working group of Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther at the University Bremen. She is a part of the Research Group „Obstacles to Modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR“. In her dissertation Charlotta Cordes deals with the political strategies and actors of economic Transformation in the GDR and the New Federal States of Germany.
Academic education and degrees
since 05/2019 | Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Economics of Innovation and Structural Change / Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen), BMBF- Research Project „Obstacles to modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther, University of Bremen) |
05/ 2017 – 10/2017 | Research Fellow at the Department of History (Leibniz University of Hannover) |
10/ 2012 – 03/ 2017 | MA in History University of Bremen Title of MA thesis: „The Duke of Braunschweig as industrial entrepeneur in Nationalsocialism?“ (Award of the »Arbeitskreis für kritische Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte e.V.« - Association for Critical Business History) |
12/ 2015 – 02/ 2017 | Researcher in the Project „The History of the House Hanover in the Third Reich“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Rauh, University of Hannover), funded by „Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V.“ (Business History Society) |
04/ 2016 – 05/ 2016 | Student assistant in the Project „Digital History“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Magdalena Waligórska, University of Bremen) |
08/ 2009 – 03/ 2013 | Student assistant at the Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen) |
| 10/ 2006 – 09/ 2011 | BA in Sociological European Studies (University of Bremen) Titel of BA Thesis: „Stalinist writing? The Diary of Nina Lugovskaja 1932-1937“ |
| 09/ 2008 – 02/ 2009 | European Studies (Latvijas Universitāte, Riga, Latvia) |
| 02/ 2008 – 08/ 2009 | Student assistant for Prof. Dr. Susanne Schmidt (University of Bremen), Bremer International Graduate School for Social Science (BIGSSS), Collaborative Research Centre: „Transformation of the State“ |
Projects
Since 05/ 2019 |
Obstacles to Modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR Project lead:: Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther (University of Bremen) Sub-project 7: Strategies and Actors of Economic Transformation Duration: 48 months Project start: 01.12.2018 Founded by: BMBF Project consortium: University of Bremen, Technical University of Berlin, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Europauniversität Viadrina |
Workshops, Conferences and Summer Schools
2019 | |
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09/19 | Project: Political Strategies and Actors of the Economic Transformation in the GDR. Presentation at the Meeting 2nd of the Research Consortium “Obstacles to Modernization in the Economy and Science in the GDR”, Technische Universität Berlin |
08/19 | Tension Field "Energy". The Restructuring of GDR Electricity Industry in the German Unification Society. Presentation at the 4th International FRRESH Summer School for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Orilampi |
Publications
- Eine Adelsfamilie auf dem Weg in die Moderne. Der Herzog als Unternehmer im Nationalsozialismus, in: Rauh, Cornelia (Hg.), Das Haus Hannover im Dritten Reich. (in preperation)
- Sowjetischer Dissens und Gender. Über den Beginn der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, digital exhibition and teaching modul, online: www.digitalhistory.uni-bremen.de/women-under-communism