Paul GreinerResearch Associate and Doctoral
Candidate (History, Politics & Culture)
Candidate (History, Politics & Culture)

Paul Greiner
Research Associate at the Department of Northern European Studies since April 2018.
Fields of interest:
- Construction and representation of national and regional spaces;
- Politics, culture and history (of science) in the Arctic;
- Global History and post-colonial studies;
- Migration, labour and political parties in comparative perspectives.
Curriculum Vitæ
since 04/2018 | Research associate at the Department of Northern European Studies (subject area: “Kulturwissenschaft”). |
2017 | Graduation as M.A. & M.Sc. (double degree, Roskilde & Leipzig) with a thesis on “Geographies of Empire and Nation in Scandinavia. Nordic Geographical Societies and their Role in Processes of Spatialization and Territorialization, 1876–1914”. |
09/2017–10/2017 | Internship at the German Embassy in Copenhagen (departments: press, politics, trade & economics, culture) . |
2015–2017 | Master's programme in Global Studies (Erasmus Mundus) at Universiät Leipzig and Roskilde Universitet. |
03/2016–09/2016 |
Research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig, staff member in Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1199) on “Processes of Spatialization unter the Global Condition”. |
2015 | Graduation as B.A. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) with a thesis on “(Re-)Conceptualizing Sovereignty in the Case of Greenland”. |
03/2013–08/2015 | Student assistant at the Department for Northern European Studies (Scandinavian Literatures). |
10/2013–06/2014 | Student assistant at the translation/project management department of “World Translation A/S”, Aarhus. |
09/2013–06/2014 | Exchange year (Erasmus) at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark (Economics & Political Sciences). |
09/2012–10/2012 | Editorial internship at the daily Danish-German newspaper “Der Nordschleswiger”, Aabenraa. |
2011–2015 | Bachelor's programme in Scandinavian/Northern European Studies, History and Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. |
2014–2017 | Scholarship from “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). |
Public lectures, presentations and conferences
2019
- „Lancering af det nye forskningscenter NAU: Nordic Research at Aarhus University“. Facilitator of an open space-conference on launching a new research cluster at Aarhus University, January 17, 2019.
2018
- „Monbijou Palace”. Historical guided tour (with Clemens Räthel) through Park Monbijou with participants of the KOSMOS workshop Das Europa der Frauen und die Welt der Bücher: Die Prinzessinenbibliothek und die literarische, politische und intellektuelle Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts, Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin, October 18, 2018.
- „The Princesses' Library”. Co-organizer and chair of various panels during the first workshop on the private library of Prussian-Swedish Queens and Princesses Sophie Dorothea, Luise Ulrike und Sophie Albertine, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 17–19, 2018.
2017
- „Geographies of Empire and Nation in Scandinavia: Nordic Geographical Societies and their Role in Processes of Spatialization and Territorialization, 1876–1914“. Presentation at the 5th congress of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH): Ruptures, Empires and Revolutions, Central European University Budapest, September 1, 2017.
- „(Re-)Formatting Global Spaces: Scandinavian Geographers in the Long Nineteenth Century“. Presentation at conference of the Center for Scandinavian Studies (CSS): Rethinking Scandinavia, Lunds Universitet, June 16, 2017.
2015
- „Deutschlands Grenzen: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Migration“. Organization and chairing of an interdisciplinary, 4-day seminar within the framework of “Stipendiaten machen Programm” (funded by “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”), Universität Mannheim, January 8-11, 2015.
2013
- Danish-German Translation Seminar. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 24. bis 25. Mai 2013.
Courses
Summer 2019
- Übung: Aktuelle politische Themen aus Nordeuropa
Winter 2018/19
- Einführung in die skandinavistische Kulturwissenschaft
- Übung: Aktuelle politische Themen aus Nordeuropa
Memberships
- NORDEUROPAforum. Journal for the Study of Culture (editorial staff)
- Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek (editorial staff)