Institutions and Chairs involved
The interdisciplinary Master of Arts „Public History and Culture“ combines approaches and perspective of comparative cultural studies / anthropology with the fields of (regional) history and media informatics.
The following chairs and professorships are significantly involved in the content and methodological design of the Master’s programme:
Chair of Bavarian Regional History
The perspective of regional history professorships is defined by a spatially limited but chronologically broad approach and by the thematic openness of their objects of investigation. Within this general framework, the Regensburg Chair consciously sets its own accents and pursues specialisations.
Chair holder: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Löffler
Chair of Media Informatics
The Chair of Media Informatics at the University of Regensburg is headed by Prof Dr Christian Wolff. The research focusses on usability engineering, mobile computing, digital humanities and new user interfaces.
Chair holder: Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff
Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies
Comparative Cultural Studies systematically analyses and compares the everyday culture of the broad European population in the present and past. In addition to questions of cultural contact and cultural comparison, the focus is on the medial mediation of culture and the constitution of cultural identities in the context of ongoing processes of modernisation and globalisation.
Chair holder: Prof. Dr. Daniel Drascek
Junior Professorship Public History
Public History is concerned with the diverse forms, formats and practices in which history appears or is made in public. Public history uses material as well as visual, media, digital-virtual or performative representations of the past in public space as sources.
Professor: Prof. Dr. Juliane Tomann