Dr. Klemens Wedekind
Universität Trier IRTG Diversity DM 240 54286 Trier Germany |
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Phone | +49 (0) 651 201-3316 |
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wedekind@uni-trier.de | |
Homepage | https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=49322 |
Academic Career
Graduation / Academic Degrees
2012-2016
PhD in History, Universität Trier (Thesis defended in June 2017)
2002-2009
MA in History, Legal Sciences, Economic and Social History, University of Göttingen
Current Position(s)
Since 2018
Academic Coordinator of the IRTG
Position(s) Held
2017- 2018
Member of the IRTG Coordination Team
2015
Managing Director of Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS)
2013- 2017
Research Associate / Lecturer in International History, Universität Trier
2009- 2012
Administrative employee (controlling of tution fees) of the Faculty of Humanities at the Georg-August-Universtiy of Goettingen
Relevant (International) Research Experience
December 2016
Branding cattle – Gaining Control? Introduction and Use of Branding Irons in Colonial Namibia from a Transimperial Perspective
59th Annual Conferenc of the African Studies Association, Washington DC
March 2014
Research in Windhoek, Namibia
Archival Research in the National Library of Namibia, National Archives of Namibia and the Namibian Scientific Society
Branding cattle – Gaining Control? Introduction and Use of Branding Irons in Colonial Namibia from a Transimperial Perspective
59th Annual Conferenc of the African Studies Association, Washington DC
March 2014
Research in Windhoek, Namibia
Archival Research in the National Library of Namibia, National Archives of Namibia and the Namibian Scientific Society
Major Research Grants, Scholarships and Awards
2014
Traveling Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Ausstauschdienst (DAAD) for archival research in Windhoek, Namibia
2012-2013
Doctoral Fellowship, Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum (HKFZ) Trier
List of Publications
a) Publications in refereed journals and book publications
2020
(forthcoming) "The oversea veterinarian is out of touch with our problems": Veterinary research in Southern Africa and the formation of Tropical Veterinary Medicine (1896-1920). Joint publication on the internationalization of colonial knowledge.
2020
(forthcoming) Impfe und herrsche. Veterinärmedizin und Herrschaft im kolonialen Namibia zwischen 1887 und 1929, Reihe Transnationale Geschichte (Vandenhoek&Ruprecht)
2017
„Eine der wichtigsten Lebensfragen der Kolonie“. Der Einsatz von Pferden und die Bekämpfung der afrikanischen Pferdesterbe im Kontext kolonialer Herrschaftssicherung in Deutsch-Südwestafrika zwischen 1894 und 1914, in: Jessica Ullrich and Mieke Roscher (ed.) Tierstudien 12/2017. Tiere und Krieg, 32-43.
2009
Die Rechtsstellung der freien Frau im Erb- und Eherecht des Edictus Rothari, Concilium medii aevi 12. Online: https://cma.gbv.de/dr,cma,012,2009,a,05.pdf