Dr. Juergen Warmbrunn — “From the Baltic Sea to the Marburg Castle Hill — Baltic Exile Collections in the Herder Institute as both academic resources and places of memory”

Every year, the Cologne/Bonn Academy in Exile (CBA) organizes a four-day winter school, giving its fellows the opportunity to present their projects and exchange ideas with their colleagues and CBA members.
With two public key lectures on January 22 in Bonn, we will primarily focus on the current situation of scientific exile of people from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in its social, political, cultural and scientific dimensions, but also on experiences of exile beyond Eastern European conflicts in a historical context. The evaluation of existing research on the long history of knowledge and research in exile will be used as a starting point to discuss our own precarious migrant experiences in the European science system and to transfer them to an “ideal” idea of research in exile.