RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM

The Ruhr University Bochum (German: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, RUB) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in 1965 and has become one of the largest universities in Germany.

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger

Chair of Social and social movements at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, and Director of the Institute of Social Movements (ISB)

Stefan Berger is professor of social history and director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. He is also executive chair of the History of the Ruhr Foundation, president of the German Labor History Association, and an honorary professor at Cardiff University in the UK. He chaired of the DGB Commission on Memory Cultures of Social Democracy from 2017 to 2020.

He has researched and published extensively on the history of memory studies, the history of social movements, and the history of deindustrialization, including industrial heritage and comparative labor history. More recently, he has been working on the effects of nostalgia and memory, raising questions about how this affects “good aging”.

Dr. Alicia Gorny

Postdoctoral Researcher

Alicia Gorny is a historian and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Ruhr University Bochum) in Germany.

Her research focuses on labour, gender, and oral history.

Alicia has analysed the history of deindustrialisation, especially focusing on the textile and garment industry. Identifying as an oral historian, she includes the voices of workers in her research. She is currently working on historical health regulations and disability studies.

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