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In Associated Fellows

Julia Burkhardt

(c) Thomas Hauzenberger

(c) Thomas Hauzenberger

Julia is a professor of medieval history at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on the political, cultural and gender history of the late Middle Ages and early modern period. She is currently investigating femicide and violence against women in the global premodern. Her other projects examine female agency in premodern Central Europe, forms of political representation and decision-making, as well as monastic communities and their narrative collections (exempla).  

Femicide in the global premodern

Throughout history, women have been killed by men because of their gender, gender-specific social roles, or societal expectations. Every killing tells a story: one of the perpetrators' claims to superiority and control; of social hierarchies; of practices of punishment; or of social reactions. This project explores analytical approaches to such cases, attempting to provide new insights into the social hierarchies and gender relations in the global premodern.  

Contact

Click HERE to mail Julia, HERE for a list of her publication and HERE for the CAS research group.   Continue Reading
28 April 2026
In Associated Fellows

Viviana Iacob

Viviana’s work explores the connection between non-democratic states and theatre in a global context before and after 1989. Her published work focusses on Cold War and non-aligned expertise networks and strategies of cultural diplomacy. She is a gd:c alumna, having received a fellowship in 2023. The project expanded her research interest into the long-term impact of Cold War dynamics on the international theatre community in the past decades.

Globalisation by any other name: international organisations, theatre and non-democratic regimes around 1989

Viviana returns to gd:c with a new Humboldt research fellowship to pursue an editorial project on illiberalism, theatre and globalisation. The volume Theatre and Illiberalism in a Global Context is the result of two consecutive workshops hosted at the CEU in Budapest and at gd:c in 2023. They were instrumental in developing her work on international organisations and alternative globalisation as well as founding a workgroup on theatre and illiberalism. The edited volume will be its first print project. Viviana’s contribution to this project consists of situating illiberalism on a continuum of illiberal engagements with globalisation.
 
Find out more about the workshop Viviana organized during her last fellowship.  

Contact

Click HERE to mail Viviana and HERE for Viviana’s latest work.   Continue Reading
27 March 2026