The research of the center is focused on these six areas:
- Danish and International Contemporary History after 1945
- Transnational History
- Intelligence and Security
- The Baltic Sea Region
- The Danish-German Border Region
- Postcolonial History
The center works to strengthen the research in these areas by a thorough application effort. In addition it is our ambition to arrange a number of seminars and conferences within the framework of our center.
Are you interested in the centre, or do you have ideas for a project that you would like to realize within the framework of Centre for Cold War Studies, we would like to hear from you. We are of course also ready to answer any questions you might have. Find contact information here.
Advisory Board
Nadia Boyadjieva, Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Science
Dieter Kollmer, Military historian in the German Armed Forces
Mark Kramer, Professor at Harvard University
Sébastien-Yves Laurent, Professor at the University of Bordeaux
Anna Piekarska, Deputy director of the Polish National Historical Museum
Peter Ruggenthaler, Deputy Head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the research on consequences of war
The history of the center
The background for the initiative was the desire to create an extensive network of Danish and international scholars, and on the basis of this to establish a setting where scholars and Ph.D.-students (historians, Slavonic specialists, German specialists, men of letters, cultural and social researchers) can work on their projects on a short or long-term basis.
In December of 2005 we made an application to the minister of research. Herein we argued for the establishment of a network or research centre, which could make use of the synergy between scholars, an open procedure of employment in line with the tradition of the universities, for independent research projects where the individual scholar should have the responsibility and for the interpretation that the centre should be a catalyst in the debate of this essential subject.