Imke Rath has been responsible for the online platform 'Zwischentöne’ (Nuances - Teaching materials for classroom diversity) since January 2019 and is currently part of the EU project ‘Making Histories’. In addition to her work for ‘Zwischentöne’, she coordinates the development and evaluation of teaching materials for German schools abroad as part of a German foreign cultural policy measure, and also contributes to several projects in which the GEI is involved, such as: Stories of Diversity from Ukraine, Poland and Turkey, Radical Islam versus radical anti-Islam (RIRA), and Histories in Motion. She is part of the EU ‘Reflections’ project, in which she helps the develop the multi-lingual teaching materials platform ‘EduSkills+’. Between December 2019 and May 2020, Imke Rath prepared a report commissioned by the independent commission on anti-Ziganism (Unabhängige Kommission Antiziganismus) titled 'Textbooks and anti-Ziganism', (Schulbücher und Antiziganismus) which was financed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community. Between 2015 and 2107she was part of the team responsible for the digital platforms EurViews and WorldViews and in 2018 she organised and coordinated a project addressing 'Civil societies in periods of military conflict‘.
Imke Rath was appointed (acting) diversity officer for the GEI in May 2024.
Upon completion of her studies at Hamburg University in Austronesian languages and cultures, Imke Rath worked for the university’s Non-European History faculty as a researcher in the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ‘Text, image, performance: change and ambivalence of cultural orders in colonial contact zones’. Her doctoral thesis examined early modern traditions in a region of the Philippines. Between April and July 2018 she worked as a guest researcher in the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe’ at the Ruhr University Bochum. In July 2024 she was a visiting academic at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Projects
Publications
- 'Perspektiven, Narrative, Zwischentöne - Impulse für den schulischen Geschichtsunterricht'. In: Viola B. Georgi, Martin Lücke, Johannes Meyer-Hamme und Riem Spielhaus (eds): Geschichten im Wandel. Neue Perspektiven für die Erinnerungskultur in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Bielefeld: transcript, 2022, p. 349–359. (With Riem Spielhaus and Carolin Bätge).
- Schulbücher und Antiziganismus: Zur Darstellung von Sinti und Roma in aktuellen deutschen Lehrplänen und Schulbüchern. Eckert. Dossiers 3 (2021). urn:nbn:de:0220-2021-0096. (With Riem Spielhaus).
- Zivilgesellschaft in Zeiten militärischer Bedrohung: Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement und Reaktionen im Bildungssektor auf gewaltsame Konflikte im östlichen Europa sowie im überregionalen historischen Vergleich, Eckert. Dossiers 6 (2019). This volume was published in Ukrainian and Russian language in 2020, in a print version and online. (Edited with Robert Maier and Petro Kendzor).
- 'Observing the Transcendent Other: Early Modern Christian Interpretations of a Philippine Religion'. In: Entangled Religion, 11 (2020) 1, https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8691.
- 'Der Erste Weltkrieg in Afrika: Mehr als nur eine Fußnote in der Geschichte des Weltenbrandes'. In: Philip Bernhard, Susanne Popp and Jutta Schumann (eds.), Der Erste Weltkrieg - globalgeschichtlich betrachtet: Perspektiven für den Geschichtsunterricht, (Historica et Didactica: Fortbildung Geschichte, Vol. 12), St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2019, p. 91-171. (With Denise Bentrovato).
- 'A 'Matter of the Whites'? Contemporary Textbook Portrayals of Former African Colonies in WWI'. In: Eugenia Roldán Vera and Eckhardt Fuchs (eds.), Textbooks and War: Multinational Perspectives on History Education, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018, p. 137-169. (With Denise Bentrovato).
- 'Vergessen, Bedauern und Glorifizieren einer verlustreichen militärischen Operation: Multiperspektivische Einblicke in Schulbuchdarstellungen des Gallipolifeldzugs'. In: Christine Hatzky and Brigitte Reinwald (eds), Beyond Europe: The First World War in Global Perspective, (Dhau: Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte), St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag. 2018, p. 93-113.
- 'Schulbuchforschung als Herausforderung für qualitative Methoden'. In: Imke Rath (ed.), Methoden und Theorien der Bildungsmedien- und Bildungsforschung: Ein Werkstattbericht von Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und –wissenschaftlern des Georg-Eckert-Instituts, Eckert. Dossiers 14 (2017), p. 4-16, https://repository.gei.de/handle/11428/233.
- Christliche Wissenssysteme und "Strategien des Übersetzens" im Missionierungskontext: Die Darstellung der tagalischen Religion im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2017.
- 'Pedro Alejandro Paterno's La antigua civilización tagálog (1887): An Attempt to (Re)construct One's Own Religious Past'. In: Monika Arnez, Jürgen Sarnowsky (eds), The Role of Religions in the European Perception of Insular and Mainland Southeast Asia: Travel Accounts of the 16th to the 21st Century, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2016, p. 227-238.
- 'Von Geistern, die zu Hexen wurden: Transreligiöser Kulturkontakt mit dem Bösen in der spanisch-katholischen Mission auf den Philippinen'. In: Saeculum, 14 (2014) 1. p. 9-24.
- 'Depicting Netherworlds or the Treatment of the Afterlife in a Colonial Contact Zone: The Paete Case'. In: Astrid Windus, Eberhard Crailsheim (eds), Image, Object, Performance: Mediality and Communication in Early Modern Contact Zones of Latin America and Asia. Müster: Waxmann. 2013, p. 173-196.
