Institute of History

Team Institute of History

Prof. Dr. Julia Richers

Full Professor for Modern General and Eastern European History

Chair of Modern General and Eastern European History

Phone
+41 31 684 48 68
E-Mail
julia.richers@unibe.ch
Office
B 113, Unitobler, Länggassstrasse 49
Postal Address
University of Bern
Institute of History
Länggassstrasse 49
CH-3012 Bern
Consultation Hour
Prof Dr Julia Richers is on research leave in FS 2025. There will be no consultation appointments.

Main Research Areas

  • History of Russia, the Soviet Union and the Cold War
  • History of Hungary, the Eastern Habsburg monarchy and the Carpathians
  • History and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe
  • Cultures of memory and memory politics (sites of memory in Central and Eastern Europe)
  • Cultural history of space exploration in Eastern Europe

General interest in spatial theories (mental maps, cultural topographies), in visual history (Soviet visual culture; picture postcards) and in transcultural and transnational phenomena (stateless cultures).

Research Projects

  • “Picture book of communism. Soviet picture postcards as historical source” (Research and book project)
  • “Carpatho-Ukraine and the Carpathians in the 19th and 20th century” (planned research project)
  • Centenary of the Peace Conferences of Zimmerwald and Kiental (exhibition; publication)
  • Centenary of the Russian Revolution 1917 (public history series)
  • Russian revolutionaries in Bern (research project)

Past Events

Research contributions and media coverage of the Centenary of the Zimmerwald Conference 1915:

International conference «Sites of Memory of Socialism and Communism in Europa» (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Yaël Debelle, Liebesgrüsse aus Leningrad [From Lenningrad with love], in: Beobachter, Nr. 17 vom 21. August 2015, S. 40-43 (PDF, 7.1 MB)
Julia Richers: Weltgeschichte auf dem Dorfe [World History in the Countryside], in: UniPress, Nr. 165 (Oktober 2015), S. 28-29 (PDF, 212KB)