• Roofline Head of Department for the Promotion of Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony

Dr Achim Rohde

Main areas of research and work

History of National Socialism as a global history of entanglement, cultures of remembrance in the post-migrant society, politics of history and the New Right.

Since 2023

Head of the "Lower Saxony Memorials Development department", Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation

Since 2023

Associate Scientist, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg

2020/21

Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin, English-language Master's programme Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East

2020

Lecturer at the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg

2019 - 2023

Academic Coordinator of the Academy in Exile, Freie Universität Berlin

2018/19

Coordinator Science Formats of the Academy for Islam in Science and Society, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

2013 - 2018

Scientific coordinator of the research network Re-Configurations. History, Memory and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa, Philipps University Marburg

2012/13

Research assistant at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin

2011/12

Visiting researcher at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Philipps University Marburg

2006 - 2010

Research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig

2002 - 2011

Lecturer at the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg

2002 - 2006

Dissertation in Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Title of the dissertation: Facing Dictatorship. State-Society Relations in Ba'thist Iraq (Supervisors: Prof Dr Gudrun Krämer, Prof Dr Amatzia Baram)

2002/03

Research assistant at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

2000 - 2006

Freelancer in the museum education department of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg

1992 - 2000

Studied Islamic Studies, History and Ethnology at the Universities of Hamburg, Birzeit and Tel Aviv

Publications (selection)

  • 2024

    2018

    • Rohde, Achim; von Braun, Christina und Schüler-Srum, Stefanie (eds.): National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective: The Homophobic Argument, London/New York 2018

  • 2023

    • Rohde, Achim, Woertz, Eckart: The Past is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies, in: International Journal of Middle East Studies 55, 2 (2023): 321–327.

    2018

    • Rohde, Achim: Teaching History in Israel/Palestine, in: Beverage, Berber, Wouters, Nico (Hg.), The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History after 1945, New York 2018, 353-370.

    2013

    • Rohde, Achim: Learning Each Other’s Historical Narrative – A Road Map to Peace in Israel/Palestine?, in: Karina Korostelina and Simone Lässig (Hg.), History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects, London/New York 2013, S. 177-191.

    2012

    • Baram, Amatzia; Rohde, Achim und Zeidel, Ronen: Between the Unknown Soldier Monument and the Cemetery: Commemorating Fallen Soldiers in Iraq, 1958-2010, in: Stefan Milich, Friederike Pannewick, Leslie Tramontini (Hg.), Conflicting Narratives: War, Violence and Memory in Iraqi Culture, Wiesbaden 2012, S. 109-124.
    • Rohde, Achim: Bridging Conflicts through History Education? A Case Study from Israel/Palestine, in: Samira Alayan, Achim Rohde, und Sarhan Dhouib (Hg.), The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East. Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula, Oxford/New York 2012, S. 237-260.

    2005

    • Rohde, Achim: Der innere Orient. Orientalismus, Antisemitismus und Geschlecht im Deutschland des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts, Die Welt des Islams 45, Heft 3 (2005), S. 370-411.

    2000

    • Rohde, Achim: Elfenbeinturm Revisited. Zur Geschichte der Orientalistik im Nationalsozialismus. Das Beispiel der Hamburger Universität, Orient 41, Heft 3 (2000), S. 435-460.
       
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