Since 10/2024: Anniversary Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
Since 03/2024: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies and Member of GIGA Research Programme 4
01/2020 – 12/2021 Scientific Advisor at the Iraq Asylum Chamber at the Hamburg Administrative Court
2017 – 2022 Associate to the Doctoral Program the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
2016 – 2022 Doctoral Researcher at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg
Education: PhD in History at the University of Hamburg Master’s in History at the University of Heidelberg and the École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales in Paris (EHEES) Bachelor’s in History and British & American Studies at the University of Konstanz
Aktuelle Forschung
The Idea of Iraq in the Testimonies of Iraqi Refugees in Europe
Die Rolle der USA im Nahen Osten ist ein Schlüsselthema der Präsidentschaftswahlen 2024. Während sich in Amerika ein Paradigmenwechsel abzeichnet, muss Europa seine eigene Rolle in der Region neu definieren, um Interessen bezüglich regionaler Stabilität, Energiesicherheit und Migration zu wahren.
In June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a ‘new beginning’ in the Middle East. Beyond people’s hopes and disappointments, Nils E. Lukacs takes the Obama’s historical idea under the magnifying glass. Asking what was ‘new’, what was ‘old’, and how the ‘new beginning’ fit into its contemporary discursive context.
MESA Annual Meeting 2023, Palais des congrès in Montréal, Québec, Canada, Montreal
Organisation: Middle East Studies Association
Dr. Nils Lukacs (Vortragende:r)
Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The Crises of Humanitarianism, Climate Change, and Refugees. Panel VI-24, 2023 Annual Meeting. On Friday, November 3 at 4:00 pm
The Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies/29. International DAVO-Congress, Vienna
Organisation: Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient für gegenwartsbezogene Forschung und Dokumentation, Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung
Dr. Nils Lukacs (Chair, Vortragende:r)
The Search for a New Beginning: Obama and the United States’ Legacy in the Middle East
The Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies/29. International DAVO-Congress, Vienna
Organisation: Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient für gegenwartsbezogene Forschung und Dokumentation, Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung
Dr. Nils Lukacs (Chair, Vortragende:r)
The Idea of Iraq: Twenty Years of Iraqi History since the Fall of Saddam Hussein Through the Lens of the Iraq Chamber of the Hamburg Administrative Court
