The chair for European Regional History is dedicated to research and teaching in the field of comparative and trans-local European history from the early modern period to recent times, focussing especially on geographic spaces below or beyond (nation-)states. This includes the analysis of pre-modern statehood and landscapes as well as regional memory cultures and separatist movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Following the ‘spatial turn’, we view the region both as a structuring factor in more general historical developments and as a subject of research in its own right. Currently, the core themes of research at the chair are regional movements, remembrance culture, protest and violence, and religio-related conflicts. Approaching these topics from a comparative and transnational perspective, we strive to make connections across space and time and raise awareness of the plurality of historical horizons of experience. Focussing specifically on the culture and politics of ‘small spaces’, our research challenges conventional narratives of national and global history.