Christoph Cornelissen
Christoph Cornelissen is the director of Trento based Fondazione Bruno Kessler’s Italian-German Historical Institute and a professor of contemporary history at the Goethe-Universitaet in Frankfurt am Main. A historian, he deals with European history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
He is the author of several important essays, 4 monographs, 25 curatorships, over 150 scientific studies published in the most important sector journals for his work.
Since 2017, with ISIG’s researchers, he has developed a collaborative project entitled from mediality to intermediality. In 2020, his fundamental summary of the history of Europe in the 20th century was published.
Spotlight's articles
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October 24, 2022Cities and regions under the spell of (de-)globalizationEdition No. 63 of the Italian-German Historical Institute's Study Week took place from Oct. 12 to 14, 2022. -
November 22, 2019Weimar, a hundred years laterFondazione Bruno Kessler is hosting the Siscalt conference dedicated to the complexity of the German republican experience one hundred years after its birth -
September 20, 2019La mobilità degli individui nella storiaSi è conclusa la 61^ settimana di studi organizzata dell’Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico / FBK in cui si è discusso dell’impatto delle migrazioni sulle città europee
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July 8, 2019When the media make historyThe ISIG 2019 summer school has involved modern and contemporary history scholars in an intense debate on ongoing research projects and scientific investigation methods
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May 28, 2019Stories of EuropeA discussion from different perspectives starting from the critical reading of the books "L'Europa che fu" by Pietro Rossi, "European Modernity" by Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner, and finally, "Projekt Europa" by Kiran Klaus Patel entrusted to Edward Tortarolo, Christoph Cornelißen and Gabriele D'Ottavio
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October 2, 2017Italy and Germany. Dialogue between historiographiesFBK's Italian-German Historical Institute is hosting the Study Week November 22 through 24, 2017. Young researchers and PhD students will have the opportunity to present their research projects.
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August 21, 2017Lectio Degasperiana 2017: Here Are the Texts of the Lectures by Letta and CornelissenExcerpts from the talks by Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister and current Director of the International School of Business in Paris, and Christoph Cornelissen, Director of FBK's Italian-German Historical Institute, are now available. -
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May 18, 2017The 2017 edition of the Lectio degasperiana: Letta and Cornelissen at Pieve Tesino on August 18Enrico Letta and FBK-Isig Director Christoph Cornelissen will hold the Lectio Degasperiana 2017 on Friday 18 August at Pieve Tesino, on the initiative of the Trentino Foundation Alcide De Gasperi. Lectio 2107 will explore in depth the relationship between Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer, whose fiftieth death anniversary is being celebrated this year, and will analyze the link between Italy and Germany in the context of a new European perspective.