Dr. Nicole Diersen

Nicole Diersen

Ancient History
Department of History
Osnabrück University
Schloßstraße 8
49074 Osnabrück

Room 18/101

Tel:  +49 541 969 4389
Fax:  +49 541 969 4397

E-mail:  nicole.diersen@uni-osnabrueck.de

Consultation hours during the lecture period (digital by appointment): Thursdays 13:30-14:30
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  • 2010-2015 Dual-Subject Bachelor of Teacher Education in Mathematics and History at Osnabrück University
  • 2015-2017 Master of Secondary Teacher Education (Gymnasium) in Mathematics and History at Osnabrück University 
  • 2016-2017 Research assistant in Ancient History at Osnabrück University
  • 2017-2021 Research assistant and doctoral candidate in Ancient History at Osnabrück University
  • 2021 Doctorate in the project  "Emotions of the Political" with the title  "Emotionen und Politik in der späten römischen Republik. Emotionsstrategien bei Cicero in den Jahren 58-49 v. Chr." in Ancient History at Osnabrück University, disputation on 08.03.2021
  • Since 2021 Research assistant in Ancient History at Osnabrück University

  • Emotions in Antiquity / History of Emotions
  • Social practices and interaction processes and the application of sociological concepts to historical studies
  • Imperial cult and the exercise of religious offices (in particular that of the flaminicae and their networks in the  imperial priestesses project)
  • Gender history
  • Violence in antiquity

 Emotions of the political (doctoral project)

  •  Murdering Queens: Violence, Gender and Emotion in Hellenism (habilitation project)
  •  Roman battlefield narratives

 Gender Studies Research Center

 Association for Gender Studies

Practical Class  Mobility and mobility spaces of Hellenistic queens

Winter semester 2024/25:

Proseminar  Iulia Domna: Ruler over Rome

Practical class  Depictions of violence in the Historia Augusta

Summer semester 2024:

Proseminar  Emperor Iulian: Back to the... Past

Practical class  The Emotionalization of Battlefield Narratives in Late Antiquity

Winter semester 2023/24:

Proseminar  The Diadoch*innen

Practical class  Violence, power, domination: gender-specific power structures in Hellenism

Summer semester 2023:

Proseminar  The Germanic policy of Augustus

Practical class  Depictions of violence in battlefield narratives along the Rhine and Danube borders from Augustus to the Severans

Practical class (together with  Prof. Dr. phil. Christiane Kunst)  Life at the Upper German-Raetian Limes (preparation for the Mainz excursion)

Winter semester 2022/23:

Proseminar  Athenian democracy: the cradle of European civilization

Practical class  (Un)Civilized Society? Emotions and violence in Hellenism

Summer semester 2022:

Proseminar  Revolt and Violence: Internal Political Conflicts in the Late Roman Republic 

Practical class  Women of the Elite in the Roman Republic

Winter semester 2021/22:

Proseminar  Great Figures and No-Names. The construction of memory in Greek culture

Practical class  Emotion and Memory in Greek Inscriptions of the Hellenistic Period

Summer semester 2021:

Proseminar  The Struggle for Alexander's Legacy: The Hellenistic Dynasties between Bloody Conflicts and the Politics of Reconciliation

Winter semester 2020/21:

Proseminar  The Imperial Cult in the Principate

Summer semester 2020:

Proseminar  Christianus sum: Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire from the beginnings to the beginning of the 4th century

Winter semester 2019/20:

Practical class  Emotions and masculinity in the late Roman Republic

Summer semester 2019:

Proseminar  Ruling practices in late antiquity

WiSe 2018/19:

Practical class  "Do good and talk about it": Charity of Hellenistic rulers

Summer semester 2018:

Practical class  Mobility in Roman Gaul

Winter semester 2017/18:

 Source reading practical class: Emotions in the Roman imperial period

Monographs

  • 2022: Emotionen und Politik in der späten römischen Republik. Emotionsstrategien bei Cicero in den Jahren 58-49 v. Chr. Tübingen 2022.

Articles and Essays

  • 2023: Das Projekt 'Römische Kaiserpriesterinnen (KaiPries)'. In: Albrecht, Helmut u.a. (Hrsg.): Historische Biographik und kritische Prosopographie als Instrumente in den Geschichtswissenschaften. Berlin u.a., S. 97-116.
  • 2018: Der Sieg am Granikos als aufwertendes Mittel zur Heroisierung Alexanders des Großen. In: Kunst, Christiane (Hrsg.): Alexander der Große am Granikos. Die Erzählung der Schlacht als Konfliktort. Rahden/Westf., S. 17-36.

Conference reports

Reviews