Caroline Mezger
@carolinemezger.bsky.social
Historian & Associate Professor @EHESS in Paris | Group Leader of INFOCOM Project | World War II, National Socialism, Migration, Informal Communication | Currently writing a book on rumors 📚 🖋
Tomorrow marks the start of my research seminar, "Rumor and War: History and Society in the Twentieth Century," @ehess.fr. We'll be discussing Marc Bloch on "fausses nouvelles," and I couldn't be more thrilled to be teaching his work at his intellectual home.
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Tomorrow marks the start of my research seminar, "Rumor and War: History and Society in the Twentieth Century," @ehess.fr. We'll be discussing Marc Bloch on "fausses nouvelles," and I couldn't be more thrilled to be teaching his work at his intellectual home.
Looking forward to kicking off our seminar "Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah" this week with my lecture "Understanding the Anschluss: Communication, Surveillance, and the Persecution of Austria’s Jews". More information through the link below! @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Looking forward to kicking off our seminar "Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah" this week with my lecture "Understanding the Anschluss: Communication, Surveillance, and the Persecution of Austria’s Jews". More information through the link below! @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr
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November 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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What to know more? Meet us on our:
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October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The fact that such public education has become necessary is mind-blowing.
Who Are the Federal Forces Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations and Crime Crackdown?
As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The fact that such public education has become necessary is mind-blowing.
Looking forward to the start of my teaching @ehess.fr this week! Beginning on Thursday, I'll be teaching an introductory course on Comparative Genocide Studies with @thomaschopard.bsky.social, part of the EHESS' new "Specialization in Genocide Studies"
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Looking forward to the start of my teaching @ehess.fr this week! Beginning on Thursday, I'll be teaching an introductory course on Comparative Genocide Studies with @thomaschopard.bsky.social, part of the EHESS' new "Specialization in Genocide Studies"
An alle Kurzentschlossenen — heute Abend werde ich mit ein paar netten Kolleg*innen die Promotionsmöglichkeiten am @eui-history.bsky.social besprechen. Link zur Registrierung unten!
Promovieren in den Geschichtswissenschaften – aber wie?
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October 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
An alle Kurzentschlossenen — heute Abend werde ich mit ein paar netten Kolleg*innen die Promotionsmöglichkeiten am @eui-history.bsky.social besprechen. Link zur Registrierung unten!
Had the great honor today of acting as an examiner at Damien De Santis' PhD defense. Congratulations, Damien!
www.ehess.fr/fr/soutenanc...
www.ehess.fr/fr/soutenanc...
A mots couverts. Une étude des discours relatifs aux déportations raciales au départ de la France (1941-1945)
www.ehess.fr
October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Had the great honor today of acting as an examiner at Damien De Santis' PhD defense. Congratulations, Damien!
www.ehess.fr/fr/soutenanc...
www.ehess.fr/fr/soutenanc...
Happening now!
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🤔 Cette année, le #festival de sciences sociales, tout public en entrée libre et gratuite, proposera des débats, projections, rencontres, spectacles, et ateliers ludiques autour du thème "S'informer, vraiment ?!",
☀️ Allez Savoir revient du 25 au 28 septembre 2025 à #Marseille.
🤔 Cette année, le #festival de sciences sociales, tout public en entrée libre et gratuite, proposera des débats, projections, rencontres, spectacles, et ateliers ludiques autour du thème "S'informer, vraiment ?!",
September 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Happening now!
Excited about the upcoming publication of Izabela Paszko's #INFOCOM book on informal communication in WWII Upper Silesia! Congratulations!
www.routledge.com/Informal-Com...
www.routledge.com/Informal-Com...
Informal Communication and Occupation in the Polish Borderlands: Fragmented Worlds in East Upper Silesia, 1939–1945
The book explores the neglected role and social dynamics of informal communication – interpersonal channels not controlled “from above” – in the region of Upper Silesia under the German occupation dur...
www.routledge.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Excited about the upcoming publication of Izabela Paszko's #INFOCOM book on informal communication in WWII Upper Silesia! Congratulations!
www.routledge.com/Informal-Com...
www.routledge.com/Informal-Com...
Looking forward to my first full day @ehess.fr @campuscondorcet.bsky.social !
September 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Looking forward to my first full day @ehess.fr @campuscondorcet.bsky.social !
Thrilled and profoundly grateful to have joined the faculty @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr this week. I can't wait to meet all my new colleagues and students!
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Caroline Mezger
crh.ehess.fr
September 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Thrilled and profoundly grateful to have joined the faculty @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr this week. I can't wait to meet all my new colleagues and students!
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Cold War-era nuclear safety notice, as they still hang in most Swiss apartment buildings. (I still remember bunkers packed to the brim with emergency supplies in most Swiss residential buildings well through the '90s)
August 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Cold War-era nuclear safety notice, as they still hang in most Swiss apartment buildings. (I still remember bunkers packed to the brim with emergency supplies in most Swiss residential buildings well through the '90s)
What can rumors tell us about the history of the Holocaust? Read my new piece @histknowledge.bsky.social to find out! #INFOCOM
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26203
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26203
Rumors of the Holocaust: Expressing an Unspeakable Knowledge
A contribution exploring the role of rumor in the development and articulation of knowledge on the Holocaust as it was unfolding.
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What can rumors tell us about the history of the Holocaust? Read my new piece @histknowledge.bsky.social to find out! #INFOCOM
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26203
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26203
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Alles Gute in Paris, liebe @carolinemezger.bsky.social und à bientôt!
This month marks the end of almost 9 years at the @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who made my time there so special! I will fondly remember working at the Center for Holocaust Studies, leading the INFOCOM Project, and the many fruitful exchanges with colleagues. Auf Wiedersehen!
August 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Alles Gute in Paris, liebe @carolinemezger.bsky.social und à bientôt!
This month marks the end of almost 9 years at the @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who made my time there so special! I will fondly remember working at the Center for Holocaust Studies, leading the INFOCOM Project, and the many fruitful exchanges with colleagues. Auf Wiedersehen!
August 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This month marks the end of almost 9 years at the @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who made my time there so special! I will fondly remember working at the Center for Holocaust Studies, leading the INFOCOM Project, and the many fruitful exchanges with colleagues. Auf Wiedersehen!
So proud of my former PhD student Felix Berge, whose book on informal communication in Nazi Germany is about to come out!
www.beck-shop.de/berge-hoeren...
www.beck-shop.de/berge-hoeren...
Berge | Hören und Sprechen im Krieg
Berge, Hören und Sprechen im Krieg, 2025, Buch, Fachbuch, 978-3-11-165574-1. Bücher schnell und portofrei innerhalb Deutschlands.
www.beck-shop.de
August 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
So proud of my former PhD student Felix Berge, whose book on informal communication in Nazi Germany is about to come out!
www.beck-shop.de/berge-hoeren...
www.beck-shop.de/berge-hoeren...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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I distinctly remember, over a decade ago, how a Russian friend ghasped in utter disbelief that I was watching something like Colbert, and that it was being broadcast on US public TV. That, too, will soon be gone.
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CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’
CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night
variety.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I distinctly remember, over a decade ago, how a Russian friend ghasped in utter disbelief that I was watching something like Colbert, and that it was being broadcast on US public TV. That, too, will soon be gone.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Amen/We Shall Overcome - Shades Virtual Spring Jam 2020
YouTube video by Shades of Yale
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July 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
And so it begins
July 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
And so it begins
Zeitenwende nun auch in der Steuerberatung
June 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Zeitenwende nun auch in der Steuerberatung