German Historical Institute London
@ghilondon.bsky.social
The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Currently closed due to renovation works.
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
Currently closed due to renovation works.
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
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We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Lecture Series! 📣
We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅
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We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅
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Happening tomorrow!
Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#colonialhistory #skystorians
Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#colonialhistory #skystorians
Join us for the Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture delivered by our new visiting professor Anja Laukötter (@uni-jena.de)!
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Happening tomorrow!
Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#colonialhistory #skystorians
Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#colonialhistory #skystorians
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#JobAlert
Jetzt Teil des @ghilondon.bsky.social werden!
👉https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/58fcd3d14181f381bc7f1dbccdcc84832a1591280
Jetzt Teil des @ghilondon.bsky.social werden!
👉https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/58fcd3d14181f381bc7f1dbccdcc84832a1591280
#JobAlert 📯
📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht
zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026
zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase)
🔍 mit einem Forschungsinteresse
• in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts
und/oder
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📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht
zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026
zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase)
🔍 mit einem Forschungsinteresse
• in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts
und/oder
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November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#JobAlert
Jetzt Teil des @ghilondon.bsky.social werden!
👉https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/58fcd3d14181f381bc7f1dbccdcc84832a1591280
Jetzt Teil des @ghilondon.bsky.social werden!
👉https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/58fcd3d14181f381bc7f1dbccdcc84832a1591280
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and stay tuned!! We expand the analysis in a large-scale project!
Meanwhile, you can also listen to this @ghilondon.bsky.social podcast:
www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
Meanwhile, you can also listen to this @ghilondon.bsky.social podcast:
www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
Stefan Hanß, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König: Analysing Renaissance recipes
www.ghil.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
and stay tuned!! We expand the analysis in a large-scale project!
Meanwhile, you can also listen to this @ghilondon.bsky.social podcast:
www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
Meanwhile, you can also listen to this @ghilondon.bsky.social podcast:
www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
#JobAlert 📯
📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht
zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026
zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase)
🔍 mit einem Forschungsinteresse
• in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts
und/oder
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📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht
zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026
zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase)
🔍 mit einem Forschungsinteresse
• in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts
und/oder
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#JobAlert 📯
📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht
zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026
zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase)
🔍 mit einem Forschungsinteresse
• in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts
und/oder
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📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht
zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026
zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase)
🔍 mit einem Forschungsinteresse
• in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts
und/oder
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Now available as podcast: my lecture for the @ghilondon.bsky.social on nuns' letters, Reformation pamphlets and the development of the German language #nuntastic www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
Henrike Lähnemann: 1525 and All That
www.ghil.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Now available as podcast: my lecture for the @ghilondon.bsky.social on nuns' letters, Reformation pamphlets and the development of the German language #nuntastic www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
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I am very happy my article on the secret training facilities of the British Army of the Rhine for postings in Northern Ireland during the Troubles has now been published!
Thank you @ghilondon.bsky.social for the excellent cooperation.
www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
Thank you @ghilondon.bsky.social for the excellent cooperation.
www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
GHIL Bulletin 47 (2025), No. 2
www.ghil.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I am very happy my article on the secret training facilities of the British Army of the Rhine for postings in Northern Ireland during the Troubles has now been published!
Thank you @ghilondon.bsky.social for the excellent cooperation.
www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
Thank you @ghilondon.bsky.social for the excellent cooperation.
www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
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Join us for the final lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series, Belonging and Exclusion.
Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.
Book now:
lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25
Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.
Book now:
lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Join us for the final lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series, Belonging and Exclusion.
Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.
Book now:
lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25
Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.
Book now:
lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25
Join us for the Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture delivered by our new visiting professor Anja Laukötter (@uni-jena.de)!
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Join us for the Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture delivered by our new visiting professor Anja Laukötter (@uni-jena.de)!
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
@lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
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In association with the @ghilondon.bsky.social - the GHS is pleased to invite papers for the 2026 'Medieval Germany Workshop'
Workshop date: 29 May 2026
Submissions due: 15 February 2026
www.germanhistorysoc...
Workshop date: 29 May 2026
Submissions due: 15 February 2026
www.germanhistorysoc...
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In association with the @ghilondon.bsky.social - the GHS is pleased to invite papers for the 2026 'Medieval Germany Workshop'
Workshop date: 29 May 2026
Submissions due: 15 February 2026
www.germanhistorysoc...
Workshop date: 29 May 2026
Submissions due: 15 February 2026
www.germanhistorysoc...
We had a great time introducing scholarship holders to the work of the German Historical Institute at the Studienstiftung's Networking Fair on Friday!
It was wonderful to meet so many engaged and curious young people. Many thanks for the opportunity!
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It was wonderful to meet so many engaged and curious young people. Many thanks for the opportunity!
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November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We had a great time introducing scholarship holders to the work of the German Historical Institute at the Studienstiftung's Networking Fair on Friday!
It was wonderful to meet so many engaged and curious young people. Many thanks for the opportunity!
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It was wonderful to meet so many engaged and curious young people. Many thanks for the opportunity!
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Job opportunity! There's still time to apply for a Research Associate position on the project “Money, History, and Moral Economies: Communicative Functions of Monetary Information in the Institutional Historiography of the Later Middle Ages (1250–1530)” funded by the German Research Foundation!
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Job opportunity! There's still time to apply for a Research Associate position on the project “Money, History, and Moral Economies: Communicative Functions of Monetary Information in the Institutional Historiography of the Later Middle Ages (1250–1530)” funded by the German Research Foundation!
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📢 Don’t miss Anja Laukötter (Universität Jena) on 25 November 2025 for the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture 2025 on 'Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History'!
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November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📢 Don’t miss Anja Laukötter (Universität Jena) on 25 November 2025 for the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture 2025 on 'Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History'!
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Join us for the final lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series, Belonging and Exclusion.
Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.
Book now:
lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25
Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.
Book now:
lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Join us for the final lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series, Belonging and Exclusion.
Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.
Book now:
lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25
Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.
Book now:
lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25
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Do you hold collections that relate to the Holocaust, whether that be its prehistory, its aftermath, or the role of antisemitism before, during and after WWII?
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Do you hold collections that relate to the Holocaust, whether that be its prehistory, its aftermath, or the role of antisemitism before, during and after WWII?
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)
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#CfP Postgraduate Research Students Conference
📌#Conference in #London | 26-27/02/2026 | organised by @ghilondon.bsky.social | present your work and discuss your research with other students
📝Deadline: 25/11/2025
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
📌#Conference in #London | 26-27/02/2026 | organised by @ghilondon.bsky.social | present your work and discuss your research with other students
📝Deadline: 25/11/2025
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#CfP Postgraduate Research Students Conference
📌#Conference in #London | 26-27/02/2026 | organised by @ghilondon.bsky.social | present your work and discuss your research with other students
📝Deadline: 25/11/2025
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
📌#Conference in #London | 26-27/02/2026 | organised by @ghilondon.bsky.social | present your work and discuss your research with other students
📝Deadline: 25/11/2025
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
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Great news! My wonderful colleague @susannequitmann.bsky.social is this year‘s recipient of the @ghilondon.bsky.social dissertation prize, well-deserved! Congratulations 🥳
Last Friday, we had the great pleasure of presenting the Prize of the German Historical Institute London, which is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis.
This year’s prize went to Susanne Quitmann (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) for her innovative dissertation,
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This year’s prize went to Susanne Quitmann (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) for her innovative dissertation,
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November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Great news! My wonderful colleague @susannequitmann.bsky.social is this year‘s recipient of the @ghilondon.bsky.social dissertation prize, well-deserved! Congratulations 🥳
Last Friday, we had the great pleasure of presenting the Prize of the German Historical Institute London, which is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis.
This year’s prize went to Susanne Quitmann (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) for her innovative dissertation,
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This year’s prize went to Susanne Quitmann (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) for her innovative dissertation,
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November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Last Friday, we had the great pleasure of presenting the Prize of the German Historical Institute London, which is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis.
This year’s prize went to Susanne Quitmann (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) for her innovative dissertation,
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This year’s prize went to Susanne Quitmann (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) for her innovative dissertation,
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Happening tomorrow!
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Happening tomorrow!
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
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In case you missed it:
Erin Hochman’s recent lecture, ‘Rethinking German Nationalism in the Interwar Period’, is now available to stream.
Tune in now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the LBI London YouTube channel.
lbilondon.ac.uk/hochman-25
lbilondon.ac.uk/spotify
Erin Hochman’s recent lecture, ‘Rethinking German Nationalism in the Interwar Period’, is now available to stream.
Tune in now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the LBI London YouTube channel.
lbilondon.ac.uk/hochman-25
lbilondon.ac.uk/spotify
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
In case you missed it:
Erin Hochman’s recent lecture, ‘Rethinking German Nationalism in the Interwar Period’, is now available to stream.
Tune in now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the LBI London YouTube channel.
lbilondon.ac.uk/hochman-25
lbilondon.ac.uk/spotify
Erin Hochman’s recent lecture, ‘Rethinking German Nationalism in the Interwar Period’, is now available to stream.
Tune in now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the LBI London YouTube channel.
lbilondon.ac.uk/hochman-25
lbilondon.ac.uk/spotify
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Join us for the Annual Lecture of the German Historical Institute London on 7 November at 5:30pm at the Deutsches Haus on 34 Belgrave Square, London! 📅
This year’s lecture will be held by Professor Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.social), one of Germany’s leading modern historians.
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This year’s lecture will be held by Professor Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.social), one of Germany’s leading modern historians.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Join us for the Annual Lecture of the German Historical Institute London on 7 November at 5:30pm at the Deutsches Haus on 34 Belgrave Square, London! 📅
This year’s lecture will be held by Professor Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.social), one of Germany’s leading modern historians.
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This year’s lecture will be held by Professor Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.social), one of Germany’s leading modern historians.
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Today we were happy to welcome Ambassador Jens Hanefeld – a former Stipendiat at @ghilondon.bsky.social – to our office for a lively discussion about history and diplomacy. Alles gute for your time in Washington, Ambassador!
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Today we were happy to welcome Ambassador Jens Hanefeld – a former Stipendiat at @ghilondon.bsky.social – to our office for a lively discussion about history and diplomacy. Alles gute for your time in Washington, Ambassador!
The new issue of our GHIL Bulletin is out now! 📘
The two articles in the November issue illustrate just how far cultural, social, and intellectual history have left behind the framework of the nation state...
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The two articles in the November issue illustrate just how far cultural, social, and intellectual history have left behind the framework of the nation state...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The new issue of our GHIL Bulletin is out now! 📘
The two articles in the November issue illustrate just how far cultural, social, and intellectual history have left behind the framework of the nation state...
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The two articles in the November issue illustrate just how far cultural, social, and intellectual history have left behind the framework of the nation state...
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Happening tomorrow:
Join us for our Annual Lecture given by Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.socia) on 'Wine, Organs and Chant. Britain's Gothic Revival and a Rhenish Village'! 🍷🎼
Sign up here: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
Join us for our Annual Lecture given by Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.socia) on 'Wine, Organs and Chant. Britain's Gothic Revival and a Rhenish Village'! 🍷🎼
Sign up here: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Happening tomorrow:
Join us for our Annual Lecture given by Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.socia) on 'Wine, Organs and Chant. Britain's Gothic Revival and a Rhenish Village'! 🍷🎼
Sign up here: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
Join us for our Annual Lecture given by Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.socia) on 'Wine, Organs and Chant. Britain's Gothic Revival and a Rhenish Village'! 🍷🎼
Sign up here: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
Join us tonight for a lecture by Ulrike Lindner (@unicologne.bsky.social)!
Taking the ILO as an example, she'll talk about the significance of epistemic inequalities in the Global South and why these are often prerequisites for the persistence of social inequalities: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
Taking the ILO as an example, she'll talk about the significance of epistemic inequalities in the Global South and why these are often prerequisites for the persistence of social inequalities: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
Join us on Wednesday, 5 November, at 5.30pm at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a GHIL Joint Lecture by Ulrike Lindner (Universität zu Köln) organised in co-operation with the Modern History Research Seminar, @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social. 📅
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November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Join us tonight for a lecture by Ulrike Lindner (@unicologne.bsky.social)!
Taking the ILO as an example, she'll talk about the significance of epistemic inequalities in the Global South and why these are often prerequisites for the persistence of social inequalities: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
Taking the ILO as an example, she'll talk about the significance of epistemic inequalities in the Global South and why these are often prerequisites for the persistence of social inequalities: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
Join us on 11 November at 5:30pm at Pushkin House or via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'A Tale of Two Cities: Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
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November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Join us on 11 November at 5:30pm at Pushkin House or via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'A Tale of Two Cities: Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
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