Harald Welzer

Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer is head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research at Essen and Research Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Witten/Herdecke. His main fields of research and teaching are memory, group violence, and research methods.

Current Research Projects

Autonomy - Latitude of the Self

Europeanization of National Memory Scapes

Frames of Reference in war. Perceptions and interpretations by axis-power soldiers, 1939-1945

Frames of Reference of Help

The Comparative Family History Project

Memories of Disasters

Shifting Baselines