Theo Jung

Main Interests

• Comparative Western European history (esp. France, Britain, Germany).
• 18th and 19th century intellectual history.
• History of 19th century political communication.
• Historical semantics and discourse analysis.
• History of time.
• Philosophy, theory and methodology of the humanities.

Ongoing Projects

• Qui tacet: The Uses of Silence in Political Communication in 19th Century Europe
  Habilitation / Second Book Project, Freiburg University (submitted in April, accepted in October 2021, publication planned for 2023/4).
• Depoliticization before Neoliberalism: Contesting the Limits of the Political in Modern Europe
  Workshop Project, co-organized with Adriejan van Veen (Nijmegen) and funded by the Thorbecke-Fund of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), edited volume under contract at Palgrave Macmillan.

Completed Projects

• Times of the Event: New Vistas on a Historical Category
  Workshop, organized by the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie (with Anna Karla and Jörn Eiben) in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, leading up to the publication of a forum in History & Theory.
• In/Action: Social and Political Practices of Non-Participation in Modern Europe
  Workshop, leading up to an edited volume, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2017–2019).
• Rupture
  Conference, First Anglo-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, 2019, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy.
• Signs of Decadence: The Emergence of Cultural Criticism in 18th and Early 19th Century Europe
  PhD-Thesis in History, Bielefeld University (2006–2010), summa cum laude, supervisors: Prof. Dr. W. Steinmetz (Bielefeld), Prof. Dr. W. den Boer (Amsterdam), awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft.

Memberships

• Foundation Sites of German Democratic History, Advisory Board (Stiftung Orte der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte, Stifungsbeirat)
• Cemetery of the March Fallen, Board of Trustees (Friedhof der Märzgefallenen, Kuratorium)
• Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands.
• Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie (2018-2022 as co-speaker).
• Network for Silence Studies.
• Frankreich-Zentrum, der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (associated).
• Center for Theories in Historical Research, Bielefeld (associated).

Grants and Honors

• Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize 2022, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.
• French History Article Prize 2017, Society for the Study of French History.
• Post-Doctoral Research Grant, Oct. 2017 – Sept. 2018, Gerda Henkel Foundation.
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Oct. 2014 – Mar. 2015, German Historical Institute, London.
• Karl-Ferdinand-Werner Fellowship, Mar. – Apr. 2014, German Historical Institute, Paris.
• Publishing Grants, Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for the Humanities and FAZIT Foundation.
• Dissertation Prize 2011, Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft.
• Marie Curie Research Fellowship, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
  October – December 2008, Research Fellowship, European Doctorate in the Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean, funded by the European Union.
• PhD Scholarships, Universität Bielefeld
  Oct. 2006 – Dec. 2009, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS).
  Jan. – Sept. 2010, PhD finishing grants, Board (Rektorat) of Bielefeld University and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
• Erasmus Scholarship, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2004 – 2005.
• Honors Class “Crayenborgh College“, Leiden University, 2002, “Historical Figures & Biographies“.

Conference and Workshop Organization

• Depoliticization before Neoliberalism: Contesting the Limits of the Political in Modern Europe
  Workshop funded by the Thorbecke Fund of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-organizer (with Adriejan van Veen), Nijmegen 2022.
• Ethan Kleinberg/Siegfried Kracauer
  Workshop in cooperation between the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie and the Bielefeld Center for Theories in Historical Research, organizer, Bielefeld 2021.
• 1st Anglo-German Frontiers of Humanities Conference “Rupture”
  Conference funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy, co-chair of the Organising Committee (with Maya Mayblin) and co-organizer (with Daniel Lee) of the panel “Disconnection/Reconnection? Imaginaries, Negotiations and Conflicts”, Lübeck 2019.
• Die Zeiten des Ereignisses: Neuvermessung einer historischen Kategorie
  workshop in cooperation between the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie and the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, co-organizer with Anna Karla and Jörn Eiben, Potsdam 2018.
• Nicht/Handeln: Sozio-politische Praktiken der Partizipationsunterlassung in der europäischen Moderne
  Workshop funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, organizer, Freiburg i. Br. 2017.
• Enlightenment from Beginning to End
  Panel at the International Congress for 18th-Century Studies, co-organizer with Franz Fillafer, Graz 2011.

Peer Reviewing

• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
• História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography
• Hungarian Historical Review
• International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity
• Routledge