Jenny Price joined the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as a research associate at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies and as the academic director of the International Heritage Centre in June 2021. Her tasks include coordinating research, teaching and outreach at the centre, planning academic seminars, events and conferences, overseeing public relations at the centre and expanding the international network. Her research interests include Global and Everyday History, Oral History, Literary Studies, Transformation Processes and Memory Culture in united Germany. She received her PhD from the University of Warwick in 2020 with a thesis on social practices during the structural upheaval in Thuringia from 1989-1991.
Jenny Price (Dr. phil.) was born in Halle/Saale in 1987 and grew up in Wales. She studied Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Manchester and wrote her Master's dissertation on East German and Turkish-German identity constructions in modern German literature. From 2010 to 2013, she worked in the field of intercultural education in Berlin and the UK. From 2014, she led a government-funded university network to promote foreign languages Routes into Languages West Midlands at Aston University in Birmingham and administered the EU Tempus-DeTEL project Developing the Teaching of European Languages: Modernising Language Teaching through the development of blended Masters Programmes.
She completed her Master's in Global History in 2016 with a dissertation on the topic of civil movements in Erfurt, 1983-1993, at the University of Warwick. There, she was subsequently a PhD candidate at the Department of History and an Economic and Social Research Council Scholar from 2016 to 2020. From 2017, she was a visiting researcher at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and from 2020 a scholarship holder at the Ettersberg Foundation. In the meantime, she worked as a lecturer for German as a foreign language at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and as a research assistant at the research training group Die DDR und die europäischen Diktaturen nach 1945 in Jena.
In 2020, she received her doctorate from the University of Warwick with a thesis on the transformation process in East Germany from 1989-1991. This was followed by positions as Academic Manager of the Jena Center History of the 20th Century and as Lecturer in German Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. Since 2021, she has been the academic director of the International Heritage Centre at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Publications
Die »Köpfe von gestern«. Gesellschaftliche Aushandlungsprozesse im Zuge des Systemwechsels im Thüringer Raum 1989/90, in: Jörg Ganzenmüller/Bertram Triebel: Gesellschaft als Staatliche Veranstaltung? Orte politischer und kultureller Partizipation in der DDR, Böhlau, Köln 2022
Ost Voices. Local Practices of the Transformation in Eastern Germany, 1989-1991, Doctoral Thesis at the University of Warwick, 2020
Book Reviews & Conference Reports
Ned Richardson-Little, The Human Rights Dictatorship. Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany, Cambridge 2020, in: East Central Europe, 2021
Innere Einheit – Ein (un)erreichbares Ziel? 21.10.2020–21.10.2020 in: H-Soz-Kult, 11 February 2021
Die revolutionären Umbrüche in Europa 1989/91: Deutungen und Repräsentationen. 18. Internationales Symposium der Stiftung Ettersberg, 01.11.2019–02.11.2019, Weimar in: H-Soz-Kult, 07 February 2020
Academic Translations
Katharina Lenski: The Stigma of “Asociality” in the GDR. Reconstructing the Language of Marginalisation, in: Enrico Heitzer (et al.): After Auschwitz. The Difficult Legacies of the GDR, New York 2021, pp. 150-162
Norbert Frei/Christina Morina: Racism and Historiography, in: German Historical Institute London Blog, 16 October 2020
Selected Papers & Public Engagement
30 Jahre nach 1990 / Guest panel speaker, SRB Radio, 05 December 2021
Aktuelle Bücher zu Eigentumsfragen, Markus Böick: Die Treuhand. Idee – Praxis, Erfahrung 1990-1994 / Guest speaker on the panel "Author meets critics", Opening event of the SFB Research Group Strukturwandel des Eigentums, Jena, 09 July 2021
In der Einheit getrennt? Dreißig Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung / Guest speaker at an event series of the Akademie für Lehrentwicklung, Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 28 January 2021
Brexit 2019 und der Demokratisierungsprozess in Ostdeutschland 1990-1993 / Guest speaker at the Teacher Training Event: Demokratie auf dem Prüfstand, Europäisches Informationszentrum, Erfurt, 29 October 2019
Den Neuanfang Gestalten: Der Systemwechsel in den Städten und Gemeinden im Thüringer Raum / Gesellschaft als staatliche Veranstaltung? Orte politischer und kultureller Partizipation in der DDR, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, 10.-11. Oktober 2019
Die Friedliche Revolution und ihre Wirkung auf die heutige Gesellschaft / Guest panel speaker at the Celebration Event for the Day of German Unity, Thuringian State Chancellory, Prediger Kirche, Erfurt, 03 October 2019
Demokratisierungsprozess während und nach 1989 – lokale Akteure in Erfurt und Eisenach / Aufbruch in die Zivilgesellschaft? Formen lokaler politischer Partizipation und Diskussion vor, während und nach der friedlichen Revolution, Zentrum für zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam & Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, Berlin, 04–05 April 2019
Demokratisierung verorten: Thüringen im Wandel 1989-1994 / Guest speaker at the Teacher Training Event »Es lag was in der Luft« Thüringen und Polen in den 80er Jahren, Stiftung Ettersberg Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Andreasstraße, Erfurt, 15 August 2019
Die ostdeutsche Erfahrung: Demokratisierung im Alltag, 1989-1994 / Sozialismus als Erfahrung und Erinnerung. Junge Forschung im etablierten Feld, 16. Potsdamer Doktorand_innenforum zur Zeitgeschichte, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, 21-22 February 2019
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