Profile
Abstract
PD Dr. Daniel Hedinger is a research associate at ReCentGlobe and teaches at the Institute of East Asian Studies. After studying and working in Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Munich, Rome, and Kyoto, he came 2024 to Leipzig University. He specializes in modern East Asian and European history. His research focuses on global fascism, the history of the Second World War, and colonial violence in the 20th century from a transimperial perspective. He leads the "Centre for Transimperial History" together with Nadin Heé.
His publications include:
-Die Achse. Berlin - Rom - Tokio, 1919-1946, 2021.
-with Nadin Heé: “Transimperial History. Connectivity, Cooperation, and Competition”, Journal of Modern European History, 2018.
-“The Spectacle of Global Fascism. The Italian Blackshirt Mission to Japan’s Asian Empire”, Modern Asian Studies, 2017.
-“The Imperial Nexus. The Second World War and the Axis in Global Perspective”, Journal of Global History, 2017.
Professional career
- since 03/2024
Researcher, Japanese Studies/ReCentGlobe, Leipzig University - 06/2021 - 02/2024
Visiting Professor, Kyoto University/Doshisha University/Osaka University, Japan - 03/2020 - 09/2020
Visiting Professor, Global History, Free University Berlin - 03/2019 - 09/2019
Visiting Professor, Modern and Contemporary History, Humboldt University, Berlin - 10/2017 - 09/2018
Visiting Researcher, German Historical Institute, Rome - 03/2014 - 09/2014
Visiting Professor, Japanese Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin - 06/2013 - 09/2017
Postdoctoral Research Associate, History Department, LMU Munich/Research Fellow Center for Advanced Studies, LMU - 11/0212 - 05/2013
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leading the Research Group “Korea And East Asia in Global History”, Free University Berlin - 10/2011 - 10/2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, FRIAS, University of Freiburg - 02/2005 - 09/2011
Research associate (WiMI), SFB 640 "Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel", Humboldt University, Berlin
Education
- 11/2009 - 02/2017
Habilitation, Modern and Contemporary, LMU Munich - 06/2004 - 10/2009
PhD, History, Zurich University - 10/2000 - 05/2004
MA (History/Japanese Studies), Zurich University - 10/1998 - 09/2000
BA (Japanese Studies), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris
- Global and transimperial history
- Fascist studies
- Modern East Asian History (with a focus on Japan)
- Modern European History (with a focus on Germany/Italy)
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The Tokyo Tribunal Revisited. Memory Politics in East Asia after 1945 from a Global Perspective
Summer 2024: Seminar