Silke Göttsch-Elten studied folklore, history and Scandinavian studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, where she also received her PhD and habilitated. From 1991 - 1995 she was professor of folklore at the University of Freiburg/Br. and from 1995 until her retirement in 2018 at Kiel University. Inspired by her studies with Karl-S. Kramer and Konrad Köstlin, she has devoted herself intensively to historical topics but has also repeatedly discussed theoretical and methodological approaches to historical work in European Ethnology. She understands European Ethnology as a historically arguing contemporary science, whose great potential lies in a historically dimensioned everyday culture research.

Her research topics are in the areas of cultures of the rural, historicity of social practices, professional history, spatial politics, and musealization and cultural heritage.

Guest residency in the context of the Master's research seminar "Historical Dimensioning as Cultural Practice" May 2019.

Courses in the winter semester 2021/22:

080012 PS B210 Forschungsfelder: Zum Umgang mit dem Historischen in der Moderne

080072 SE B610 Gesellschaft: Populäre Wissens- und Kommunikationsmedien des 19. Jahrhunderts

080092 VU M220 Raum-Zeit-Konfigurationen:
Land und Ländlichkeit: Imaginationen und soziale Wirklichkeiten

W: Europäische Ethnologie/Volkskunde Uni Kiel
E-Mail: silke.goettsch-elten@univie.ac.at