Dr Arne Christian Segelke

Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Associate

Department of History
Domstraße 9a
Room 0.06
17489 Greifswald
Phone +49 (0)3834 420-3319

segelkea[at]uni-greifswald.de

Consultation hours: by agreement via email

Since 2019 postdoctoral fellow [at the Lehrstuhl] of Nordic History at the University of Greifswald.

2016 doctorate at the Institute of Northern European Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Several years of experience in international youth and adult education in Germany and abroad, including teaching contracts.

Studied History, Scandinavian Studies and History of Art in Freiburg, Kiel and Hamburg, qualification as Magister Artium in 2005.

Danish Language History of the 19th and 20th Centuries

German memory history of the 20th century

British colonial history in South Asia in the 19th century

Monograph:

German and British Propaganda in Denmark during the First World War, Berlin 2019.


Essays (selection):

Politics of Fear - German Diplomacy and the Danish-German Border Issue 1919-1920, in: Border Fears in the Baltic Sea Region, 1918-1991, ed. by Pierre Fréderic Weber, Leiden (Brill) 2024.

One revolution, two perspectives. The Reminder of the November Revolution and the Sailors' Uprising in the FRG and GDR, in: Sonja Kinzler and Doris Tillmann (eds.): 1918 - Die Stunde der Matrosen. Kiel and the German Revolution, Darmstadt 2018, pp. 266-272.

Brockdorff-Rantzau and the "Schleswig-Holstein Question", in: Demokratische History 25 (2014), pp. 81-102.

The Memorialization of 9 November 1918 in the Two German States, in: Bill Niven and Chloe Paver (eds.): Memorialization in Germany Since 1945, Chippenham and Eastbourne 2010, pp. 369-378.

7-9 November 2024: Conference "30 Years of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Germany. Causes, course and effects" in Greifswald.

17.11.2023: A "Threshold of Crisis"? Local conflicts and transnational dynamics of crisis around 1900. workshop in Greifswald.

 

"Reading and letting read in pre-modern Greifswald". Lecture within the framework of an event on the topic "Lesekulturen. Reading practices in the North from the 18th century to the present" of the Nordischer Klang on 8 May 2023 in Greifswald.

"Images of the Buddha: The "Gal Vihara" in Ceylon/Sri Lanka". Lecture within the framework of the workshop "Colonial Knowledge in a Decolonial Age" at the Centre Marc Bloch on 20.04.2023 in Berlin.

"Here is life!" - Pavements, entrances and foyers as liminal spaces in the modern town [Rostock is the only city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]". Lecture within the framework of the FragTrans opera workshop "Institution, Canon, Transformation. Opera houses and opera practice as "shared heritage" of the FragTrans cluster "On the present of cultural heritage" on 3 February 2023 in Greifswald.

Winter semester 2019/2020

  • The Industrialisation of Scandinavia (exercise [Aufgabe])
  • The introduction of book printing in Scandinavia (proseminar)
  • Visit to the manuscript department of the Berlin State Library (day excursion)

Summer semester 2020

  • The "Nordic model" in the 20th and 21st centuries (exercise [Aufgabe])
  • German foreign policy in Scandinavia and Finland 1871-1933 (proseminar)

Winter semester 2020/2021

  • In the beginning was...? Origin narratives and origin myths in the North (exercise [Aufgabe])
  • Introduction to the study of Historical Studies (introductory course)
  • Exams in the evening (revision course)
  • Berlin - A cultural capital of Scandinavia (day excursion, online)
  • Exile under palm trees 1 - Southern France (day excursion, online)
  • Seaside resorts and spa tourism in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (supervised excursion, online)

Summer semester 2021

  • The Nordic states and the divided Germany 1945-1990 (proseminar)
  • Imaginatio Borealis: Ideas of the North from the Middle Ages until Today (advanced seminar)
  • Excursion Minsk (3 days, online)
  • Exile under Palm Trees 2 - On the Pacific (day excursion, online)
  • Exile in the North (supervised field trip, online)

Winter semester 2021/2022

No teaching most of the time)

Summer semester 2022

  • The introduction of book printing in Scandinavia (proseminar)
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Baltic Sea Region (colloquium)
  • Exams in the evening (revision course)
  • Excursion to Bornholm (8 days)
  • Excursion to Gotland (8 days)

Winter semester 2022/2023

  • The scent of the big wide world - Botany and botanical gardens as part of colonialism, imperialism and globalisation (proseminar)

Summer semester 2023

  • Sweet Capitalism - Luxury Food and Modernity in the Baltic Sea region (exercise [Aufgabe])

Winter semester 2023/2024

  • A Finnish-German Perspective on Crises in Modern History (exercise [Aufgabe])
  • A Finnish-German Perspective on Crises in Modern History (lecture)

Summer semester 2024

Winter semester 2024/2025

Summer semester 2025

Winter semester 2025/2026

Summer semester 2026