Dr Lucas Haasis
Contact
Institute of History (» Postal address)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences (» Postal address)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LHaasis
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lhaasis.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://historians.social/@LHaasis
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-haasis-6b1791258
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7518-3441
Games: https: //uol.de/villa-geistreich/projekte-geschichte/digitale-spiele-in-geschichtswissenschaft-und-unterricht
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucas-Haasis
Dr Lucas Haasis
Postdoctoral researcher
Research coordinator and PR manager of the Prize Papers Project
Lecturer for Early Modern history
Project Games & History
Board member working group History & Digital Games
Info
Dr Lucas Haasis is postdoctoral researcher as well as the research coordinator and PR manager of the Anglo-German Prize Papers Project(www.prizepapers.de). Furthermore, he is a lecturer for Early Modern History at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany.
His research focuses on letter-writing practices and the mercantile culture of the 18th century, Atlantic and maritime history, materiality studies in historiography, historical game studies as well as historical praxeology and microhistory.
His teaching focuses on the Early Modern period, Atlantic and maritime history, magic and witchcraft, historical research approaches, and Games & History. In his teaching, he closely cooperates with teachers in Quakenbrück, Oldenburg, Volkach and Hannover.
For more information on the Games & History project, please visit the project's website. uol. de/villa-geistreich/projekte-geschichte/digitale-spiele-in-geschichtswissenschaft-und-unterricht
Vita
since 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher (since 2020) and Research Coordinator (since 2018), PR manager (since 2021) of the Academy Project Prize Papers (Oldenburg University / The National Archives, UK, London) funded within the Academies Programme of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences in Lower Saxony
since 2014
Lecturer at the Institute of History
Department of Early Modern History, Oldenburg University
PhD Project: The Power of Persuasion. The Luetkens Correspondence, awarded the top score summa cum laude in May 2020 and Winner of the OLB Wissenschaftspreis 2020
2016
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the category Research Based Learning
2015
Research Fellow (Scholarship) GHIL (German Historical Institute) London
2011 - 2014
Research Fellow (Scholarship) DFG Research Training Group 1608/1 Self-Making. Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective, Oldenburg University
2011
Master of Arts (1,0 passed with distinction)
2010 - 2011
University of Uppsala, Sweden, International Master Consistencies and Contradictions, Early Modern Northern Europe
2009-2011
Study of European History at the University of Oldenburg
Memberships
Association of German Historians (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands e.V.)
Society for Global History e.V.
Economic History Society (-2022)
Research Network Letterlocking
Research Network on the Early Modern Paper Trade in Europe
Community Interest Group Correspondance: transhistorical perspectives on language, materials and copora
Board member working group History and Digital Games
Awards & Scholarships
2024: Scholarship, German Historical Institute London, UK
2020: Winner OLB Science Award 2020
2016: Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research Based Learning
2011 - 2014 : Scholarship DFG Research Training Group 1608/1 Self-Formations. Practices of Subjectivisation, University of Oldenburg
2015: Scholarship, German Historical Institute London, UK
2011: Award for Outstanding Master's Thesis, Faculty for the Humanities, Oldenburg
2009: Award for the Best Bachelor's Thesis, Faculty for the Humanities, Oldenburg
Publications
Book
Haasis, Lucas. The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century. Bielefeld: transcript, 2022 / Open Access 2024: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839456521
Download Book: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839456521/html
- Book Review: Elisabeth Heijmans: Review of: Haasis, Lucas: The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century. Bielefeld 2022. in: H-Soz-Kult, 30.03.2023, <www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-117334>.
- Book Review: Gijs Dreijer: Book Review: The Power of Persuasion: Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century by Lucas Haasis. In: International Journal of Maritime History 34, no. 4 (2022): 684-685. https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714221142539d
- Book Review: Anka Steffen: The Power of Persuasion: Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century by Lucas Haasis. In: German History 42, no. 1 (2024): 123-124, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae001
- Book Review: Regina Dauser: Book Review: The Power of Persuasion: Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century by Lucas Haasis, December 8, 2022. in: JbKG 25 (2023): 206-207; https://biblioscout.net/books/series?id=JB-JKG.https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515135832
Edited Volumes
Barth, Steffen / Haasis, Lucas / Kratz, Philipp. Digital History Culture (Geschichte Lernen 223), forthcoming 01/2025.
Haasis, Lucas / Winnerling, Tobias. The Early Modern Period in Games, forthcoming 2025.
Brandenburg, Aurelia / Van Beek, Alan / Haasis, Lucas (eds.). Turning point: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zum Spiel Pentiment, supplement 46 of Mittelalter. Interdisciplinary research and reception history. Münster / Munich / Leipzig 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/128wi.
Haasis, Lucas / Rieske, Constantin (eds.): Historical Praxeology. Dimensions of past action. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2015.
- Book: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/51810
- Book Review: Friederike Schruhl, review of: Haasis, Lucas; Rieske, Constantin (eds.): Historical Praxeology. Dimensions of past action. Paderborn 2015, in: Scientia Poetica. Yearbook for the History of Literature and the Sciences 2017.
- Book Review: Hesse, Nicole: Review of: Lucas Haasis / Constantin Rieske. (Eds.): Historical Praxeology. Dimensions of Past Action, Paderborn: Schöningh, 2015, in: New Political Literature, 61 (2016), 1, 103-105, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15463/rec.302234752
Articles
Haasis, Lucas / Magnin, Lisa. "Friederica et Jannote, la fille d'un barbier et la femme d'un cuisinier. Lettres de femmes dans la collection des Prize Papers." In La publicité de l'intime. Les correspondances privées du milieu du XVIIIe siècle à la Deuxième Guerre mondialeedited by Karine Rance, accepted for publication 2024.
Haasis, Lucas. "An Epoch on the Rise. On 'Pentiment', the Early Modern Period in Games and Microhistory." In Zeitenwende: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Game Pentiment, edited by Alan van Beek, Aurelia Brandenburg and Lucas Haasis, supplement 46 of Mittelalter. Interdisciplinary Research and History of Reception, Münster / Munich / Leipzig 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/128wi.
Haasis, Lucas / Dagmar Freist. "The Prize Papers. Product and Testimony of Global Confrontations, Colonialism and Entanglements in the Early Modern Period (1652-1815)." Globalgeschichte / Global History 1 (2023): 77-106.
Haasis, Lucas. "Games in history lessons. Guidelines for the use of games in the classroom." In Let's remember. Themenportal Games - Erinnerung - Kultur, published by Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur, Berlin 2024, https://www.stiftung-digitale-spielekultur.de/themenportal/games-im-geschichtsunterricht
Haasis, Lucas. "A Hamburg Merchant on an Establishment Trip to France. Ambitions, practices and colonial trade as reflected in business correspondence from 1743-1745." Francia 50 (2023): 281-305.
Haasis, Lucas. "Serious Games in the School." Remembering in Digital Games. LaG Magazine, 20 December 2023 (12/2023), https://lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Lernen-und-Lehren/content/15612.
Haasis, Lucas / Brandt, Mona / Bassermann, Markus. "Introduction. Opportunities and limits of historical appropriation through serious games | "Erinnern. The children from Bullenhuser Damm". Voices from the Working Group on History and Digital Games," Erinnern in Digitalen Spielen. LaG Magazine from 20 December 2023 (12/2023), https://lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Lernen-und-Lehren/content/15612.
Haasis, Lucas. "Buying Patience: Ordering and Purchasing Wedding Jewellery and Furniture through Intimate Networks during Eighteenth-Century Mercantile Marriage Initiation and Preparation." Itinerario 46, no. 3 (2022): 356-70. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115322000262
Haasis, Lucas. "The Writing Seamen. Learning to Write and Dictating Letters on Board the Bremen Ship Concordia." In The Sea. Maritime Welten in der Frühen Neuzeit / The Sea: Maritime Worlds in the Early Modern Period, edited by Peter Burschel and Sünne Jüterczenka, 297-310. Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau 2020. https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412513122.297
Haasis, Lucas. "Papier, das nötigt und Zeit, die drängt übereilt. On the materiality and temporality of epistolary practice in the 18th century and its handling." In Practices of the Early Modern Period, edited by Arndt Brendecke, 305-319. Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412502591-026
Haasis, Lucas. "I still have a moment to talk to you. Praxeological Insights into Commercial Letters of the 18th Century." In: Discourses-Body-Artefacts. Historical praxeology in early modern research, edited by Dagmar Freist, 87-113, Bielefeld: transcript, 2014. https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839425527.87
Haasis, Lucas / Annika Raapke. "Her most devoted and very obedient servant and son." Learning History. Special issue on self-testimonies (2013): 16-23.
Blogs
Haasis, Lucas. "Valiant Hearts: Coming Home. Database Games and Memory Culture. Foundation Digital Games Culture, 09.07.2024, https://www.stiftung-digitale-spielekultur.de/spiele-erinnerungskultur/valiant-hearts-coming-home/
Haasis, Lucas. Blog "Signs of life." German Historical Institute Paris. "Hope in action - L'espérance en action. An early modern blog," edited by Christine Zabel, Albert Schirrmeister and Sabrina Rospert, 17 December 2021, https://doi.org/10.58079/porn
Haasis, Lucas. Blog: "A Hamburg Merchant's Archive, rediscovered after 267 years." Maritiem Portal, Huygens Instituut-KNAW Amsterdam, https://maritiemportal.nl/blog-a-hamburg-merchants-archive-rediscovered-after-267-years
Haasis, Lucas. "Traces on Paper. Database Games and Memory Culture. Foundation Digital Games Culture, 14 March 2024, https://www.stiftung-digitale-spielekultur.de/spiele-erinnerungskultur/spuren-auf-papier
Haasis, Lucas / Heike, Patrick: "Valhalla in the school." Working Group on History and Digital Games (2021): Ein Valhalla für Erinnerungen - Stimmen aus dem AKGWDS zum Release der "Discovery Tour: Viking Age", in: Gespielt | Blog des Arbeitskreises Geschichtswissenschaft und Digitale Spiele. Available online at: https://gespielt.hypotheses.org/4440
Haasis, Lucas / Heike, Patrick / Hennig, Björn: "Pentiment in school and teaching at the university." in Gemalte und Querverwiese - Stimmen aus dem AKGWDS zu Pentiment, edited by Aurelia Brandenburg, Alan van Beek, Lucas Haasis, Gespielt | Blog des Arbeitskreises Geschichtswissenschaft und Digitale Spiele) Available online at: https://gespielt.hypotheses.org/4440
Haasis, Lucas / Annika Raapke. "Falling in love, lost, forgotten, forgiven. Women's letters from the London Prize Papers." TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 05 June 2019, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/18611
Book Reviews
Lucas Haasis: Book Review: Markus A. Denzel. The Hamburg Marine Insurance, 1736-1859, International Journal of Maritime History 36/1 (2024): 160-162, https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714231220740, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08438714231220740
Lucas Haasis: Book Review: Stuart Jenks and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz. Message in a Bottle. Merchants' letters, merchants' marks and conflict management in 1533-34. A source edition, Early Modern Low Countries 7/2 (2023): 263-265, https://doi.org/10.51750/emlc18378
Lucas Haasis: Book Review: Anne Sophie Overkamp. Diligence, Faith, Education. Kaufleute Als Gebildete Stände Im Wuppertal 1760-1840, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020, Central European History 56/4 (2023): 619-21, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923001024.
Lucas Haasis: Review of: Daniel Bernsen / Daniel Behnke: History in games - What's behind them. 20 teaching ideas for historical learning using well-known board and computer games, Augsburg: Auer 2022, in: sehepunkte 24/2 (2024), https://www.sehepunkte.de/2024/02/38962.html
Lucas Haasis: Review of: Dorfner, Thomas; Kirchner, Thomas; Roll, Christine (eds.), Reporting as a communicative challenge. European envoy reports of the early modern period in praxeological perspective. Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. in: Yearbook for the History of Communication 25 (2023): 193, https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515135832
Lucas Haasis: Review of: Daphnis Sonderband (vol. 50, 2-3), ed. by Björn Spiekermann and Christian Meierhofer, on the topic of "Briefpublizistik der Frühen Neuzeit." In: Yearbook for the History of Communication 25 (2023): 197, https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515135832
Lucas Haasis: Review of: Hoffmann-Ocon, Andreas / Vincenti, Andrea De / Grube, Norbert: Praxeologie in der Historischen Bildungsforschung, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines Forschungsansatzes. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021. in: EWR 21 (2022), No. 2 (Published on 03.05.2022), URL: http://www.klinkhardt.de/ewr/978383765374.html
Lucas Haasis: Review of: Freia Hoffmann and Volker Timmermann (eds.). Quellentexte zur Geschichte der Instrumentalistin im 19. Jahrhundert, Hildesheim u. a.: Georg Olms Verlag 2013 (Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft 77). In: Yearbook Music and Gender 10 (2017): 178-180.
Videos
Games in history lessons (for the thematic portal "Games - Remembrance - Culture of the Digital Games Culture Foundation), https://youtu.be/cut9E-67ypg?si=MVRVcpAdYxTkBYdQ
Categorised in terms of memory culture: Spuren auf Papier (game review for the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur), https://youtu.be/jSx67rgzTgo?si=YYil4-GL-EgCnmv_
Categorised according to the culture of remembrance: Valiant Hearts: Coming Home (game review for the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur), https://youtu.be/jneoNsKCkyE?si=EGXJVsG-l7rRTp2_
Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, Lucas Haasis, and the Unlocking History Research Group. "Letterlocking: Prize Papers Archive: A nonagon-shaped letterpacket sent to the attention of Lieutenant D'Alban relating to a Masonic suitcase, 1798." Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Unlocking History number 0220/Letterlocking Unique Video number: 0220. Date filmed: 30 July 2021. Duration: 2:09. Date posted: 28 October 2022. video URL: https://youtu.be/mO0L2iAlqZA.
Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, Lucas Haasis, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Title: "Prize Papers Archive: Triangle letterpacket containing an invitation to a meeting of the Masonic Lodge La Vertueuse, 25 August 5796 (Masonic Year)." Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Unlocking History number 0171/Letterlocking Unique Video number: 0171. Date filmed: 30 July 2021. Duration: 1:53. Date posted: 28 October 2022. video URL: https://youtu.be/Iq9wAoHQCfc
Teaching Documentary
Seminar: Playing in history lessons? What's the point? | University of Oldenburg, Clip produced by the media team of the University of Oldenburg: https://youtu.be/u-OhIkaihhs
Organised Events
Lecture Series
Prize Papers Lunch Talks (Online Lecture Series):
The Prize Papers Lunch Talks. In: H-Soz-Kult, 13 October 2023, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-139191>.
The Prize Papers Lunch Talks. In: H-Soz-Kult, 11 November 2022, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-131237>.
The Prize Papers Lunch Talks. In: H-Soz-Kult, 01 October 2021, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-113082>.
The Prize Papers Lunch Talks. In: H-Soz-Kult, 20 November 2020, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-94357>.
Games & History (Online Lecture Series):
Games in historical research and education. In: H-Soz-Kult, 13 October 2023, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-139189>.
Games & History. In: H-Soz-Kult, 04 November 2022, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-131154>.
History & Digital Games, 2021: https: //uol.de/villa-geistreich/projekte-geschichte/videos-und-fotos
Interviews (as host)
"SpielSchnackSchnuck", interview series on games, 2023: https://www.youtube.com/@lucashaasis/videos
Roundtable "Remembering. The children from Bullenhuser Damm". In: H-Soz-Kult, 12.09.2023,<www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-138574>.
Interview and Q&A with Josh Sawyer, Game Director of Pentiment: https://youtu.be/mptRooNj0Dg?si=oP37LYwjK1RaP-MA
Interview with Gérard Barnaud, Narrative Manager of Valiant Hearts: Coming Home: https: //youtu.be/ipYA6ZhbBsI
Interview with Maxime Durand, Ubisoft Montréal, World Design Director for Discovery Tour: https://youtu.be/fg7-7lbdziI?si=KMs8nJqseX-_o2jl
Interviews (as guest)
British Loot Archive. Sealed packages from once captured ship discovered, 01.03.2024, https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/handelsschiff-anne-marie-seltene-funde-von-einem-gekaperten-schiff-der-faeroeer-inseln-a-bbe9e95e-64ff-491f-b7f3-33e32701c167
School of the future? Games in the classroom. Interview with MDR together with Christoph Kehl Gemeinschaftsschule Kulturanum in Jena, 20 Oct. 2023. https://www.mdr.de/medien360g/medienkultur/schule-der-zukunft-games-im-unterricht-102.html
Assassin's Creed Mirage: Why time travelling never gets old. DW, Deutsche Welle, Culture. Global Issues, 04.10.2023, https://www.dw.com/en/assassins-creed-mirage-why-time-traveling-never-gets-old/a-66982134
Volquardsen, Petra/Hellin, Peter: Prize Papers. Written, never arrived, in: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 22.10.2021, NDR Hafenkonzert.
Conferences
The Early Modern Period in Games | The Early Modern Period in Games. University of Oldenburg, 12.09.2024 - 14.09.2024, organised together with Tobias Winnerling, in: H-Soz-Kult, 30/08/2024, http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-146136.
Things on the Move - Materiality of Objects in Global and Imperial Trajectories, 1700-1900. German Historical Institute London, 08.09.2022 - 10.09.2022, organised together with Indra Sengupta, Felix Brahm, In: H-Soz-Kult, 17.08.2022, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-129160>.
Historical Praxeology - Quo vadis? University of Oldenburg, 15-17 March 2017, organised with Annika Raapke
Workshop Report: Historical Praxeology. Quo Vadis? An International Conference on Historical Practices, 15.03.2017 - 17.03.2017 Oldenburg, in: H-Soz-Kult, 17.11.2017, by Byron Schirbock, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7400
Workshops
Opening the packages of the Anne Marie, The National Archives, UK, 28 February 2024, with Erling Isholm (University of the Faroe Islands) and Margretha Nónklett (National Museum), https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/handelsschiff-anne-marie-seltene-funde-von-einem-gekaperten-schiff-der-faeroeer-inseln-a-bbe9e95e-64ff-491f-b7f3-33e32701c167
Prize Papers Project and Slave Voyages Workshop, University of Oldenburg, 11-12 December 2023, with Daniel Domingues and John C. Mulligan (Rice University): https://idw-online.de/en/news825945
The Sjælland Letters - Prize Papers, with Letterlocking World Premiere, German Historical Institute London (Online Event), 28 October 2022, organised with Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith
Recording of the event: https://youtu.be/3-BtLu6ykVM
Mariner Letters 1600-1800, University of Oldenburg, 14-15 July 2022, organised with Colin Greenstreet (MarineLifes) ,
Mariner Letters 1600-1800. in: H-Soz-Kult, 04 July 2022, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-128410>.
Workshop Report: Conference Report: Mariner Letters. 1600-1800, In: H-Soz-Kult, 14/04/2023, by Annika de Freitas, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-135407
The Materiality of the Prize Papers - I and II, The National Archives, UK, London. 17-18 June 2019, 13 - 14 December 2018, organised together with Christina Beckers, https://materiality.prizepapers.de/workshops-and-documentaries-2
The Prize Papers - Research Themes, Ideas, Methods, University of Oldenburg. 24-25 October 2019, organised with Dagmar Freist, In: H-Soz-Kult, 04.10.2019, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-91074>.
Global Microhistory: Great Expectations, University of Oldenburg. 6-7 December 2018, organised with Annika Raapke, In: H-Soz-Kult, 27.11.2018, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-88612>.
Exhibitions
The Prize Papers and Transatlantic Slavery. A Photography Exhibition at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 7 November to 30 March 2024, curated with Maria Cardamone, Oliver Finnegan and Misha Ewen. https://uol.de/en/news/prizepapers/injustice-with-continuing-impact
The Prize Papers in 10 Photographs. 15 March 2023 to summer 2024, curated with Maria Cardamone, Oliver Finnegan and Hanna Fleming, at The National Archives, UK, first floor. materiality. prizepapers.de/exhibition/the-prize-papers-in-10-photographs
Captured. The Materiality of the Prize Papers. A Photography Exhibition at the German Historical Institute London, 12 September to 31 December 2022, curated with Maria Cardamone, at GHIL London. materiality. prizepapers.de/exhibition-1
Podcasts
Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant. Episode 38 - A Rumour That You Abandoned Me. Hosted by Kathryn Gehred, University of Houston, with Lucas Haasis and Lisa Magnin. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-most-obedient-humble-servant/id1518878481
Telemann and his poets - in German! SKaffeehaus Podcast on Spotify. Hosted by Jonny Sells, with Ralph-Jürgen Reipsch, Telemann scholar in Magdeburg: https://open.spotify.com/show/42MspiziPkY2Gim7CnPNOn
Interview with Meret Lüthi, concertmaster, Les Passions de L'Ame. Orchestra for Early Music Bern: https://www.lespassions.ch/files/Dokumente/Interview_Lu%CC%88thi_Haasis_Newsletter%20Nov.pdf
Podcast The Playing Classroom. The podcast about playing and learning. Episode: Dialogue - Networking - Initiative! https://das-spielende-klassenzimmer.de/s2f8
Podcast OK COOL meets Lucas Haasis. https://okcool.space/ein-historiker-der-spiele-in-den-unterricht-bringen-will-ok-cool-trifft-dr-lucas-haasis
Podcast Game of the Year Podcast. Episode 40: Funding for the seminar "Playing the Prize Papers", https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/folge-40-foerderungen/
Teaching Documentary
Seminar: Playing the Prize Papers: How a board game about captured ships of the early modern period is created. University of Oldenburg, Clip produced by the media team of the University of Oldenburg, https://youtu.be/I2raYY1kIqg?si=JrvfPScQQgImZqxr
Seminar: Playing in history lessons? What's the point? | University of Oldenburg, Clip produced by the media team of the University of Oldenburg: https://youtu.be/u-OhIkaihhs
Papers
| 12/2024 | Uppsala, Sweden: The Historical Society in Uppsala Keynote (by invitation): Teaching History with Games
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| 11/2024 | London, UK: University College London, Workshop on Visual and Material Aspects of Letter-Writing in Early Modern Britain Paper: Letters in the Prize Papers (with Marina Casagrande and Maria Cardamone)
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| 11/2024 | Hamburg, Germany: PLAY Festival Workshop: Serious Games in the Classroom
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| 11/2024 | Dresden, Germany: Saxon State and University Library Workshop: Saxon history in board games
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| 10/2024 | Berlin, Germany: Colloquium HU Berlin Paper (by invitation): Prize Papers - A Global History of the Early Modern Period
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| 10/2024 | Weimar, Germany: Cultural Festival Weimar Rendez-vous with History Roundtable: "Your city grows and prospers!" - City and country in the historical computer game
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| 10/2024 | Ciboure, France: Conference Du quotidien à l'Intime: les correspondances transatlantiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle Paper (by invitation): The Letters of a Merchant, three Sailors, a Prisoner and a Barber's Daughter: Insights into the Prize Papers
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| 08/2024 | Busan, South Korea: 9th IMHA International Maritime History Association Conference Panel Organiser: Panel Prize Papers as a New Source for Global Maritime History
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| 07/2024 | Düsseldorf University, Germany: Forum Neuzeit Public History Keynote (by invitation): History in Play
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| 06/2024 | Poitiers, France: Omohundro Institute 27th Annual Conference Université de Poitiers Paper: The Prize Papers Project and its Importance for Transcontinental Research
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| 06/2024 | Hamburg, Germany, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Roundtable discussion (by invitation): The Fate of the Children of Bullenhuser Damm as a Digital Remembrance Game, Jüdischer Salon am Grindel e.V. in co-operation with the Foundation Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte and the Freiraum im MK&G
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| 05/2024 | Halle (Saale), Gedenkstätte Roter Ochse, Germany: Public game, Stiftung Digitale SpielekulturRoundtablediscussion (by invitation): Attentat 1942 & The Darkest Files (with Mona Brandt, Paintbucket Games, and Lara Keilbart)
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| 05/2024 | Dublin, Ireland: Conference New Directions in the Materiality of Letter-Writing: Roundtable discussion: The Unique Materiality of Letters in the Prize Papers (with Marina Casagrande and Maria Cardamone)
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| 04/2024 | London, UK: German Historical Institute Paper: The Bremen Ship Concordia. A Global Microhistory
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| 04/2024 | Charles University Prague, Czechia Paper (by invitation): Teaching History with Games
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| 03/2024 | Schwabenakademie Irsee, Germany: Conference: Grenzenlos? Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Period (Keynote Speaker) Keynote (by invitation): The Travelling Merchant from Hamburg: Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens on an Establishment Tour in France 1743-1745
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| 11/2023 | La Rochelle, France: Conference Communiquer en temps de guerre. Les correspondances transatlantiques au XVIIIe siècle Paper (by invitation): The Letters of a Merchant - Insights from the Luetkens Archive
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| 10/2023 | Baltimore, MD, USA: Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference Paper: A Merchant's Email and Microhistory: Telling the Story of the Hamburg Merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens based on a Forgotten Archive, Panel: "The Exceptional Normal": Charting a Course between Microhistory and Biography
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| 09/2023 | Leipzig University, Germany: Historikertag 2023 Panel Organiser: Fragile Neutralities. Practices of Maritime Trading as Neutrals During the Early Modern Period (together with Magnus Ressel) Paper: Pushing the Boundaries of Maritime Neutrality: A Hamburg Merchant in colonial France 1743-1745
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| 07/2023 | Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan: Global History Lecture Series (organised by Prof Toshiaki Tamaki), Paper (by invitation): The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century, Discussant: Anka Steffen (European University Viadrina)
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| 07/2023 | HU Berlin: Institute for Asian and African Studies Paper (by invitation): The Prize Papers Collection
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| 06/2023 | Exeter University, UK: Workshop Early Modern Maritime Data and Global Economic History Paper: The Prize Papers in London - Global Entanglements (with Frank Marquardt)
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| 04/2023 | University of Rostock: Institute of History Paper (by invitation): The World in a Mailbag. The Prize Papers in London
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| 04/2023 | Hamburg State Library (Stabi): Hamburg Historical Society Evening Lecture (by invitation): A Hamburg merchant in colonial France 1743-1745
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| 01/2023 | University of Bremen: Institute of History Paper (by invitation): A merchant from Hamburg in France
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| 01/2023 | University of Gießen: Institute of History Paper (by invitation): A Hamburg merchant travelling in France
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| 05/2022 | Oxford University, UK: Long 19th Century Seminar, Roundtable Reading, Writing and Story-Telling Roundtable discussion (invited as speaker) with Julia Mannherz, Steven King and Peter Jones
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| 05/2022 | Regensburg University, Institute for Romance Studies: Workshop Degrees and Facets of Writing Routines in the 18th-20th Centuries Paper (by invitation): The captured merchant's archive. Letters of the Hamburg merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens from France 1744-1745
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| 05/2022 | Edinburgh/Oxford, BSECS (The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies): Postgraduate Early Career Conference Paper: A Hamburg Merchant's Establishment Phase in France 1743-1745 (online)
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| 04/2022 | Cambridge, UK: Economic History Society Annual Conference Panel Organiser: Forging Bonds. Places and Practices of Establishing Trade in the Atlantic World 1650-1800 Paper: The making of a Merchant: How a Hamburg wholesale merchant travelled France to establish himself in the world of Atlantic trade in the 18th century.
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| 03/2022 | Leiden, The Netherlands: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) Intimate Economic Networks: Women's Commercial and Investment Agency in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, Discussant.
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| 03/2022 | Book Launch: The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century (online) Respondents: Margaret Hunt (Uppsala University) & Pierrick Pourchasse (UBO University of Brest)
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| 11/2020 | Stockholm, Sweden, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters: International conference The Scandinavian Prize Papers: history and historical linguistics, 1650-1815 Paper: The Prize Papers as a Historical Source (with C. Beckers)
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| 02/2020 | The Hague, Beeld en Geluid, Netherlands: Closing event of the Project Brienne - Signed, Sealed and undelivered. Paper: Captured once again. The Prize Papers Project (with C. Beckers)
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| 01/2019 | Göttingen, Germany: Historical Institute Paper: Persuasion. On the correspondence practice of the Hamburg merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens
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| 09/2017 | Konstanz, Germany: Conference on the limits and future of praxeology Paper: Work of persuasion. Correspondence practice of the Hamburg merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens
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| 03/2017 | Oldenburg, Germany: International Conference Quo Vadis? An International Conference on Historical Practices (as organiser with Annika Raapke) Paper: Historical Praxeology. An Introduction
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| 04/2016 | Valencia, Spain: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) Paper: Historical Praxeology. A Methodological Approach to Past Practices (with Constantin Rieske)
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| 02/2016 | Cologne, Germany: Conference "Historical. Practical. Good? Potential and limits of praxeological approaches for the historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries" Paper: Historical praxeology. A methodological approach to past practices
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| 09/2015 | Heidelberg, Germany: Conference of the Early Modern Period Working Group, Global Entanglements - Rethinking Europe Paper: All the World(s) in a Postbag. Reflections on a Global Microhistory (with Annika Raapke)
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| 03/2015 | Berlin, Renaissance Society of America, Annual Conference (RSA) Paper: Reading Past Materiality: Praxeological insights into Letters of the 18th Century and how they were handled
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| 10/2014 | London, UK: The National Archives, Conference "All at Sea" Paper: Against all Odds: German Merchants, their Letters & a Glimmer of Hope
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| 09/2014 | Maynooth, Ireland: German History Society Annual Conference Paper: The World on a Merchant's Desk: On German Merchants, their Commission Trade, and the Backdoor to Atlantic Hoppensäcken
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| 04/2014 | Vienna, Austria: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2014 Paper: O Captain! My Captain! Hierarchies in 18th Century Correspondences between Merchants and Ship's Captains |
Teaching
Since 2019: Lecture: Introduction to the Early Modern Period
Since 2019: Prize Papers Lunch Talks
Winter 2024/2025
Summer 2024
Winter 2023/2024
4.02.030a Lecture I: Introduction to the Early Modern Era
4.02.030c Games in historical research and education. Perspectives - Actors - Tools
4.02.032 Playing the Prize Papers
Summer 2023
4.02.030a Lecture: Introduction to the Early Modern Era
4.02.033 Prize Papers (including excursion)
Winter 2022/2023
4.02.030a Lecture: Introduction to the Early Modern Era
4.02.031c Games & Early Modern History | Games and Early Modern History
Summer 2022
4.02.030a Introduction to the Early Modern Era
4.02.033 History & Digital Games
Winter 2021/2022
4.02.030a Introduction to the Early Modern Era
Summer 2021
4.02.030a Lecture I: Introduction to the Early Modern Era
4.02.030b Lecture II: Early Modern Period: Research Approaches
Winter 2020/2021
4.02.030a Lecture I: Introduction to the Early Modern Era
4.02.030b Lecture II: Culture and everyday life in the early modern period
4.02.114 Research colloquium
Summer 2020
4.02.030a Lecture I: Introduction to the Early Modern Era
4.02.030b Lecture II: Culture and everyday life in the early modern period
Winter 2019/2020
4.02.030a Lecture I: Introduction to the Early Modern Era (first-year students)
4.02.030b Lecture II: Culture and everyday life in the early modern period (advanced students)
Summer 2019
4.02.034 Research approaches & methods in early modern research. A practical seminar
Winter 2018/2019
4.02.031a I bims from the early modern period: I & the world 1500-1800
Summer 2018
4.02.035a One ship. Many worlds. The Bremen "Concordia": Possibilities of a global microhistory
Winter 2017/2018
4.02.030 Tutorial Early Modern Times
4.02.031c Witches. Ghosts. Elves. Werewolves. Vampires
TDLL Day of Teaching and Learning - Workshop "The use of video projects in university teaching"
Summer 2017
4.02.030 Tutorial Early Modern Times
4.02.114 Methods and theories of historical studies: Research colloquium on the early modern period
Winter 2016/2017
4.02.030 Tutorial Early Modern Times
4.02.033 Historical epistolary practice. A (genuine) attempt at reconstruction
4.02.034a Global microhistory(ies): The London Prize Papers
4.02.114 Early Modern Research Colloquium
Summer 2016
4.02.031 Early Modern Studies Tutorial
4.02.032 Simply incorrigible. The discovery of the self in the early modern period
Training Courses for Teachers
Training Courses for Teachers | Further training and events on games
| 11/2024 | Serious games in history lessons, training course for teachers as part of the PLAY Festival Hamburg
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| 02/2024 | Playing history. Introduction to the practical use of digital games in history lessons, Friedrich Verlag Akademie, online training course
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| 10/2023 | Gen Alpha - Just shooting? Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty WW2 under the microscope, Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung Dillingen a.d. Donau, FIBS: Fortbildung in bayerischen Schulen
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| 10/2023 | Introducing Game Studies. oldengame - Oldenburg Game Studies Research Collective, with Dr Dom Ford / Prof. Dr Jan-Noël Thon: https://uol.de/ols2023
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| 05/2023 | The Discovery Tours in practical use in history lessons LEARNTEC - Europe's #1 in digital learning. International trade fair and congress, Focus Stage, Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre
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| 05/2023 | Interview and Q&A with Josh Sawyer, Game Director of the game Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment), Twitch stream of the AK Geschichtswissenschaft und Digitale Spiele, with Dr Alan van Beek
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| 11/2022 | Immersive learning. Possible uses of discovery tours in history lessons, Digital Education Day (DED) 2022, Cologne Recording: https://youtu.be/cTshKITCEDI (organised by the Office for School Development of the City of Cologne)
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| 10/2022 | Games in subject lessons - History: The First and Second World Wars on the tablet, Academy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management Dillingen a.d.DonauFIBS: Further training in Bavarian schools
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| 09/2022 | Let's Play History. Workshop, together with Katharina Sambeth, KMS-Bildung/Digitive mobile.schule TAGUNG #molol im HCC Hannover
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| 08/2022 | Playing history. Practical use of digital games in history lessons, Gamescom, Gamescom Congress, Cologne
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| 06/2022 | Historical pixels, interactive cardboard: History in analogue and digital games, roundtable at the Games&Festival 2022 organised by Haus des Spiels - Museen der Stadt Nürnberg and Medienzentrum Parabol
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| 06/2022 | The Discovery Tour in history lessons, LEARNTEC - Europe's #1 in digital learning. International trade fair and congress, Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre
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| 04/2022 | Serious games in history lessons: The First and Second World Wars on the tablet, Academy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management Dillingen a.d.Donau, FIBS: Advanced training in Bavarian schools
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| 01/2022 | Digital games in history lessons: A practical introduction, IDA-EHRE school development day in Bad Oldesloe
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| 12/2021 | Potential of digital games in (history) lessons, Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung Dillingen a.d.Donau
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| 08/2021 | Ubisoft Discovery Tour. Potential for history lessons, Gamescom, Gamescom Congress, Cologne, announcement: gamescomcongress2021.sched.com/event/li1D
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| 08/2021 | Historical video games. Opportunities and limits for use in schools
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Supervision
First Supervisor (2023-2024):
Clara Willmann, Master's thesis: Letters from the Caribbean - Correspondence of Hamburg merchants from St Christopher (1664)
Luan Cakolli, Master's thesis: Aan de weledele manhafte Heer. A micro-historical study of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Masonic lodges in the East Indies based on the life of George August Dosset d'Alban (1790 - 1807)
Carlotta Sophie Crone, Master's thesis: Leader, Merchant, Navigator: The captains of the St Marguerite - An analysis of the functions of captains in merchant shipping (1715-1745)
Rieke Marie Kaiser, Master's thesis: Recevi tu Carta Con infinito gusto - A quantitative analysis of the mailing of letters on the ship Fort de Nantes 1746
Annika de Freitas, Master's thesis: O Vaz de Lisboa. On the trail of a ship under the Portuguese flag in 1748
Clara Willmann, Bachelor's thesis: Closeness despite distance - relationship work in newly catalogued letters to German emigrants in California (1860-1872), report on NDR: https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hallo_niedersachsen/Studentin-erforscht-Briefe-von-Auswandererfamilien,hallonds76476.html
Justin Schröder, Bachelor thesis: I'm packing my suitcase. About the captured clothes of a count in the 18th century, report in the NWZ: https://www.nwzonline.de/oldenburg/oldenburger-uni-forscht-ueber-prize-papers_a_4,0,390615529.html#
Tabea Tadtke, Master's thesis: Character representations in the digital game Ghost of Tsushima
Second Supervisor (2023-2024):
Alicia Anderson, Master's thesis: The Hanseatic League in Bergen - Social spaces, practices and social exchange processes in the late Middle Ages and early modern period
Niklas Klinkebiel, Bachelor's thesis: Knowledge generation and knowledge transfer in exchange with indigenous populations in Oceania in the context of Cook's second voyage of discovery 1772-1775
Janna-Katharina Nyul, Bachelor's thesis: The Middle Ages in the game Assassin's Creed: Valhalla: The (rainbow) bridge between historicity and gaming experience
Marco Zoschke, Master's thesis: "I play the Soviet Union and you play the USA!" - Historical learning through parlour games?
Lena Potschka, Master's thesis: Neutrality put to the test: Judicial practice of the British admiralty courts around 1800 - using the example of court cases concerning Hamburg ships and goods
Mattis Janßen, Bachelor thesis: Cruelties and barbarities - an analysis of the captivity of English soldiers under the French flag in the Nine-Years-War using the example of Richard Strutton
Jonas Behlmer, Bachelor's thesis: The portrayal of the historical Shabbatai Zwi in Ola Tokarczuk's novel "The Books of Jacob"
Daniel Wiens, Bachelor's thesis: An Example in Death: An Analysis of the Exemplary Puritan Within Execution Sermons and Last Dying Speeches in Early American Boston, Massachusetts (ca. 1674-1700)