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Two Research Fellow Positions in Modern and Contemporary History – GHI Washington
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Excited to share that we’re hiring! We are now accepting applications for two full-time Research Fellow positions in modern/contemporary history in Washington, to begin in June 2026. More details available here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...
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New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Andreas Markus Schurr @eui-eu.bsky.social wrote about "Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution"
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New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Andreas Markus Schurr @eui-eu.bsky.social wrote about "Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution"
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Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution - Migrant Knowledge
Explores the scientific work of Carl Sartorius and his Veracruz plantation, a center of nineteenth-century transatlantic scientific exchange.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Andreas Markus Schurr @eui-eu.bsky.social wrote about "Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution"
migrantknowledge.org/2025/11/28/c...
New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Andreas Markus Schurr @eui-eu.bsky.social wrote about "Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution"
migrantknowledge.org/2025/11/28/c...
We spoke with current Visting Fellow Max Gaida about his project “From Red Light to Rainbow: The Politics of Sex and Space in Philadelphia’s Urban Crises. Read our interview here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/in...
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We spoke with current Visting Fellow Max Gaida about his project “From Red Light to Rainbow: The Politics of Sex and Space in Philadelphia’s Urban Crises. Read our interview here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/in...
Congratulations to former Visiting Fellow Prakash Kumar (history & Asian Studies, Penn State) on the publication of his monograph "A History of India's Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025)! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Congratulations to former Visiting Fellow Prakash Kumar (history & Asian Studies, Penn State) on the publication of his monograph "A History of India's Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025)! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
Our Fall 2025 Bulletin (issue #76) is now online! The full issue is available in #OpenAccess here: www.ghi-dc.org/publi.... Some highlights of this issue include:
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Our Fall 2025 Bulletin (issue #76) is now online! The full issue is available in #OpenAccess here: www.ghi-dc.org/publi.... Some highlights of this issue include:
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Die auf dem letzten Historikertag von @kdstahl.bsky.social
und Andreas Greiner @ghiwashington.bsky.social organisierte Sektion „Luftkrieg, Recht und Macht“ mit @janinefunke.bsky.social und annakferl.bsky.social kann das Forschungsgespräch nun bei HSozKult nachlesen: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...
und Andreas Greiner @ghiwashington.bsky.social organisierte Sektion „Luftkrieg, Recht und Macht“ mit @janinefunke.bsky.social und annakferl.bsky.social kann das Forschungsgespräch nun bei HSozKult nachlesen: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...
HT 2025: Luftkrieg, Recht und Macht. Ein Forschungsgespräch über technologischen Wandel und Rüstungskontrolle
Technologie und technologischer Wandel sind seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert ein zentraler Bestandteil von Rüstungskontrollverhandlungen. Bereits auf der ersten Haager Konferenz 1899 beschäftigten sich...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Die auf dem letzten Historikertag von @kdstahl.bsky.social
und Andreas Greiner @ghiwashington.bsky.social organisierte Sektion „Luftkrieg, Recht und Macht“ mit @janinefunke.bsky.social und annakferl.bsky.social kann das Forschungsgespräch nun bei HSozKult nachlesen: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...
und Andreas Greiner @ghiwashington.bsky.social organisierte Sektion „Luftkrieg, Recht und Macht“ mit @janinefunke.bsky.social und annakferl.bsky.social kann das Forschungsgespräch nun bei HSozKult nachlesen: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...
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Who produces history, and under what conditions?
⏱️ Only a few days left to submit your proposal
#cfp #PublicHistory #citizenscience #heritage
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⏱️ Only a few days left to submit your proposal
#cfp #PublicHistory #citizenscience #heritage
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CfP: Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past
Call for papers for an international conference hosted by the C²DH on 11 and 12 May 2026.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Who produces history, and under what conditions?
⏱️ Only a few days left to submit your proposal
#cfp #PublicHistory #citizenscience #heritage
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⏱️ Only a few days left to submit your proposal
#cfp #PublicHistory #citizenscience #heritage
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📰 In der neusten Ausgabe unseres Forschungsmagazin #WeltweitVorOrt haben wir mit der Historikerin Viola Alianov-Rautenberg vom @ghiwashington.bsky.social über die Rolle von Kontrafakturen in der jüdischen Emigrationsgeschichte gesprochen.
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🔗 Jetzt lesen unter www.maxweberstiftung...
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📰 In der neusten Ausgabe unseres Forschungsmagazin #WeltweitVorOrt haben wir mit der Historikerin Viola Alianov-Rautenberg vom @ghiwashington.bsky.social über die Rolle von Kontrafakturen in der jüdischen Emigrationsgeschichte gesprochen.
🔗 Jetzt lesen unter www.maxweberstiftung...
🔗 Jetzt lesen unter www.maxweberstiftung...
The newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...
Excited to share that we’re hiring! We are now accepting applications for two full-time Research Fellow positions in modern/contemporary history in Washington, to begin in June 2026. More details available here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...
Two Research Fellow Positions in Modern and Contemporary History – GHI Washington
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November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Excited to share that we’re hiring! We are now accepting applications for two full-time Research Fellow positions in modern/contemporary history in Washington, to begin in June 2026. More details available here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...
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#CfP Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
📌 #Workshop at #UCBerkeley | 16/11-17/11/2026 | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social
📝 Deadline: 16/01/2026
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📌 #Workshop at #UCBerkeley | 16/11-17/11/2026 | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social
📝 Deadline: 16/01/2026
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November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#CfP Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
📌 #Workshop at #UCBerkeley | 16/11-17/11/2026 | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social
📝 Deadline: 16/01/2026
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📌 #Workshop at #UCBerkeley | 16/11-17/11/2026 | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social
📝 Deadline: 16/01/2026
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#CfP 31st Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History from the 18th Century to the Present
📌 #Seminar at #UCBerkeley | 16/06-18/06/2026 | organised by @cgesgeorgetown.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social
📝 Deadline: 31/12/2026
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📌 #Seminar at #UCBerkeley | 16/06-18/06/2026 | organised by @cgesgeorgetown.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social
📝 Deadline: 31/12/2026
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November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#CfP 31st Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History from the 18th Century to the Present
📌 #Seminar at #UCBerkeley | 16/06-18/06/2026 | organised by @cgesgeorgetown.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social
📝 Deadline: 31/12/2026
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📌 #Seminar at #UCBerkeley | 16/06-18/06/2026 | organised by @cgesgeorgetown.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social
📝 Deadline: 31/12/2026
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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...
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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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Frisch erschienen: #WeltweitVorOrt zur #Musikforschung in der MWS 🎶 Von jüdischen Kontrafakturen bis zur osmanischen Kunstmusik.
🔗 Hier geht's zum #ePaper: publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor...
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social
🔗 Hier geht's zum #ePaper: publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor...
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Frisch erschienen: #WeltweitVorOrt zur #Musikforschung in der MWS 🎶 Von jüdischen Kontrafakturen bis zur osmanischen Kunstmusik.
🔗 Hier geht's zum #ePaper: publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor...
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social
🔗 Hier geht's zum #ePaper: publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor...
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social
Looking forward to tomorrow's online talk by Emily Sneff, "The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence," co-sponsored with the German Society of Pennsylvania & the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. Registration info here: germansociety.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Looking forward to tomorrow's online talk by Emily Sneff, "The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence," co-sponsored with the German Society of Pennsylvania & the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. Registration info here: germansociety.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
We are now accepting nominations for our 2025 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university. Information about the application process is available here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fri...
Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize – GHI Washington
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November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We are now accepting nominations for our 2025 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university. Information about the application process is available here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fri...
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#CfP International Summer School “Innovative Perspectives on Holocaust Research: Sources, Method, and Digital Tools”
📌 #Workshop and #Seminar in #Warsaw | 05-10/07/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #PolishCenterforHolocaustResearch and others
📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025
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📌 #Workshop and #Seminar in #Warsaw | 05-10/07/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #PolishCenterforHolocaustResearch and others
📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#CfP International Summer School “Innovative Perspectives on Holocaust Research: Sources, Method, and Digital Tools”
📌 #Workshop and #Seminar in #Warsaw | 05-10/07/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #PolishCenterforHolocaustResearch and others
📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
📌 #Workshop and #Seminar in #Warsaw | 05-10/07/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #PolishCenterforHolocaustResearch and others
📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
We are now accepting Visiting Fellowship applications (6–12 months) for the 2026–27 academic year! Learn about our research areas and how to apply here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/lon...
Long-term Visiting Fellowships – GHI Washington
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November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We are now accepting Visiting Fellowship applications (6–12 months) for the 2026–27 academic year! Learn about our research areas and how to apply here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/lon...
📣 New Call for Abstracts! Our workshop "Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th Centuries" will take place in Nov. 2026 at our Pacific Office at UC Berkeley. Learn more: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
📣 New Call for Abstracts! Our workshop "Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th Centuries" will take place in Nov. 2026 at our Pacific Office at UC Berkeley. Learn more: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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📣 Application deadline extended: The new application deadline for the Academy in Exile Fellowships is 30 November! Are you a researcher who is under threat because of your academic work or civic engagement? Then apply now!
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
Academy in Exile
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November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
📣 Application deadline extended: The new application deadline for the Academy in Exile Fellowships is 30 November! Are you a researcher who is under threat because of your academic work or civic engagement? Then apply now!
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
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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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Congratulations to former visiting fellow Rebekka Grossmann, who will be awarded the @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social »Zeitgeschichte digital« für Wissenschaftskommunikation prize later this month! zzf-potsdam.de/wissenstrans...
Preisverleihung & Festveranstaltung,Förderverein: Verleihung: »Zeitgeschichte digital«-Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation 2025
Beginn: 18:00 Uhr Der Eintritt ist frei.Veranstalter: Fördererverein des Leibniz-Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam e.V.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Congratulations to former visiting fellow Rebekka Grossmann, who will be awarded the @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social »Zeitgeschichte digital« für Wissenschaftskommunikation prize later this month! zzf-potsdam.de/wissenstrans...
Reminder: Applications for our 2026 West Coast Germanists' Workshop are due this Friday, November 14! Details about our gathering next spring at UC Boulder are here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reminder: Applications for our 2026 West Coast Germanists' Workshop are due this Friday, November 14! Details about our gathering next spring at UC Boulder are here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
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I’m very happy to announce that I won a book prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism.
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism.
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’m very happy to announce that I won a book prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism.
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism.
@ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
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!