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Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner

Professor of History of Europe and European Colonialism

Historical Institute
Modern History
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne

Member of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), the CRC 228 Future Rural Africa and mentor in the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne

Contact Details

Philosophikum, 3rd floor, Office 3.127
ulrike.lindner(at)uni-koeln.de
Tel.: 0221-470 3810
Fax: 0221-470 5148
Office: 0221-470 5243

Office Hours Summer Semester 2026 
Office hours can be scheduled via email and will take place in my office (Room 3.127) or via Zoom.

Research Topics

  • Global History
  • Comparative Imperial History
  • Global Social Policy and Medical History
  • Postcolonial Approaches
  • Gender History

News

Successful Dissertation Defence

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Congratulations to Merle Bode, who successfully defended her dissertation. She worked on the history of whiteness in the women’s movement in Cologne, 1971–1991.

German Colonial Rule. Scholarships for Cooperative Research Closing Event

In March 2026, the closing event for the DAAD-fellowship programme “German Colonial Rule” took place. The scholarship programme, highlighting new perspectives on German colonial rule, aimed to foster international and interdisciplinary cooperation and dialogue between different perspectives within this field. 

Double Book Launch

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In a hybrid event on 5 December, the Social Inequalities Research Unit presented two recent publications: The special issue of the journal ZANJ Global Social Inequality, and “Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation and Exchange Since 1900”. 

The stimulating comments by Oliver Tappe and Marcel van der Linden (presented by Oliver Tappe) were first answered by the respective (co-)editors Michaela Pelican, Nicholas Miller and Ulrike Lindner. This exchange then developed into a lively discussion with the authors participating and the audience.

Successful Dissertation Defences

Congratulations to Fabiana Kutsche and Veronica Kimani, who successfully defended their dissertations. Fabiana Kutsche worked on racialised labour discourses in the International Labour Organisation, while Veronica Kimani investigated maternal health policy planning in Tanzania.

Ausstellungseröffnung „Kolonialrevisionismus im Rheinland“

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Der Kolonialrevisionismus oder „Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien“ zwischen 1918 und 1943 war sowohl eine politische Realität als auch Teil einer Phantasiegeschichte der kolonial Bewegten, die 25 Jahre lang von der Rückgewinnung eines Kolonialreichs überzeugt waren. Dieser Geschichte widmet sich die Ausstellung „Kolonialrevisionismus im Rheinland 1919-1943: Akteure, koloniale Propaganda und ‚Mobilisierung der Massen‘“, die zwischen dem 19. November und 10. Dezember 2025 im Foyer des Philosophikums gezeigt wird. 

Zur Eröffnung gab es kurze Beiträge von Prof. Bechhaus-Gerst, Dr. Fabian Fechner und Ulrike Lindner, anschließend wurde zu einer Besichtigung der Ausstellung und einem kleinen Umtrunk im Foyer des Philosophikums eingeladen. 

Interview with the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect

Workshop and Special Issue on “Failed Futures”

A group of researchers

Future Rural Africa Project C07 Health Futures examines public-health policy planning under changing concepts of social welfare and political legitimation. The project’s members recently contributed to the maiden issue of the Zamani Journal of African Historical Studies. The volume is co-edited by Ulrike Lindner and Frank Edward and features contributions by several Future Rural Africa researchers from various sub-projects. The volume seeks to analyse how different approaches to the future, as well as surprises and unintended side-effects, have informed the politics and practices of planning in Tanzania and its various regions. 

Special Issue: Production and Reproduction of Social Inequalities

Cover Page of ZANJ Volume 8, Number 1 and 2

New Special Issue: The Production and Reproduction of Social Inequalities: Perspectives from the Global South, Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies. Verfügbar über Open Access: https://doi.org/10.13169/zanjglobsoutstud.8.1.0000 

Courses and Lectures

Summer Term 2026 

On research leave

Winter Term 2025