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The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) is an internationally recognized center for advanced study with offices in Washington, DC, and Berkeley, California. 🌐: https://www.ghi-dc.org
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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...
Poster advertising the event "The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence," a talk by Dr. Emily Sneff, hosted by the Horner Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania and taking place online on Thursday, November 20th at 7 PM Eastern Time.
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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
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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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#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 more 📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025 🔗https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-international-summer-school-innovative-perspectives-on-holocaust-research-sources-method-and-digital-tools-dhi-warschau.html
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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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
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📣 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
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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
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Academy in Exile
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November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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
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In honor of World Digital Preservation Day, please enjoy our short interview with Wolfram Dornik, head of the Graz (Austria) city archives, about the innovative Citizen Archive Platform they've developed: href.hypotheses.org/... #WDPD2025
Screenshot of the German-language landing page of the Citizen Archive Platform (CAP), https://citizenarchive.eu/de/
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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🎉📣Deadline EXTENDED to Dec 31 📣🎉

Do send in your proposals, we're eager to learn all about your research!
@thegsa.bsky.social
#GermanStudies #History @ghiwashington.bsky.social
degruyterbrill.bsky.social De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · Oct 2
🏆 Together with the @thegsa.bsky.social, we are proud to announce the establishment of the GSA-De Gruyter Brill Dissertation Prize.
Visual reading: GSA-De Gruyter Brill Dissertation Prize
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Congratulations to our colleague Axel Jansen who was recently elected to the board of the AFS Foundation, which works to preserve the archives and legacy of the World War I–era American Field Service afs.foundation
AFS Foundation
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November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The Max Weber Foundation’s Research Centre Ukraine and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (@badw.de ) invite applications for the German-Ukrainian Fellowship Programme for Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars 2025/26

Deadline: 25 November 2025
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November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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#CfP Eighth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: German History at the Crossroads? New Narratives, Perspectives and Approaches

📌 #Workshop at @colorado.edu| 06-07/03/2026| organised by @colorado.edu and @ghiwashington.bsky.social

📝 Deadline: 14/11/2025

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#CfP Eighth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: German History at the Crossroads? New Narratives, Perspectives and Approaches 📌 #Workshop at @colorado.edu| 06-07/03/2026| organised by @colorado.edu and @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📝 Deadline: 14/11/2025 🔗https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-eighth-west-coast-germanists-workshop-german-history-at-the-crossroads-new-narratives-perspectives-and-approaches-ghi-washington.html
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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michellelkahn.bsky.social
The Turkish translation of my book is coming soon! It tells the history of Turkish migration to Germany from the 1960s to 1990s, focusing on migrants who returned to Turkey. It exposes German racism and shows how the migrants gradually came to feel "foreign in two homelands." tinyurl.com/kahnbk.
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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As part of our “Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …” series we spoke with Lauren Rever, recently our @rrchnm.bsky.social Henkel Digital History Fellow, about her research into the history of Washington, DC school field trips: href.hypotheses.org/5298
Story Map slide from Lauren Rever’s project on Washington, DC school field trips, depicting two photographs (from the early and late 20th century) of school children in front of the U.S. Capitol Building, with the heading “Is Washington, DC America’s Biggest Classroom?” and the subheading “Each year hundreds of thousands of U.S. students visit the capital as part of a class trip.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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#CfA "Mobility Fellowships - Global Indo-Pacific" to conduct research for 1-2 months at @arinus.bsky.social @dijtokyo.org @ghilondon.bsky.social @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr @ghiwashington.bsky.social or IAAS @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Details ➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/7...
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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📢 Happening tomorrow!
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Our 2025 annual lecture, "Frozen Conflicts between War and Peace," takes place this Thursday evening, September 30, in Washington. To attend in person, please visit our registration page: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Poster for the GHI Washington annual lecture "Frozen Conflicts between War and Peace," to be given by Ulrike von Hirschhausen (GHI Washington) on October 30, 2025, at 6 pm, with comment by Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University). Background image has the caption "Smoke rising can be seen from the beach at Saky after explosions near the Russian military base at Novofedorivka in occupied Crimea, August 9, 2022. UGC via AP."
October 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Our colleague Andreas Greiner is featured in an episode of the Lufthansa podcast series "Above and Beyond" discussing the growth of the airline's route network as part of a look back at its century-long history: www.lufthansagroup.com/de/lufthansa...
Above & Beyond
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October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Our 2025 annual lecture, "Frozen Conflicts between War and Peace," takes place this Thursday evening, September 30, in Washington. To attend in person, please visit our registration page: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Poster for the GHI Washington annual lecture "Frozen Conflicts between War and Peace," to be given by Ulrike von Hirschhausen (GHI Washington) on October 30, 2025, at 6 pm, with comment by Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University). Background image has the caption "Smoke rising can be seen from the beach at Saky after explosions near the Russian military base at Novofedorivka in occupied Crimea, August 9, 2022. UGC via AP."
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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#CfA Research #Scholarships in Germany 2026

📌 for Researchers from the South Caucasus | 1 to 3 months | 1 January – 31 July, 2026 | offered by the Georgia Branch Office of #MWNEasternEurope

📝 Deadline: 15/11/2025

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#CfA 1–3-Month Research Scholarships in Germany for Researchers from the South Caucasus 2026 📌 #Scholarship in #Germany|01/01-31/07/2026|offered by #MWNOTbilisi 📝 Deadline: 15/11/2025 🔗https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-1-3-month-research-scholarships-in-germany-for-researchers-from-the-south-caucasus-2026-mwn-osteuropa.html
October 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment.
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📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund
⏱️15 Nov 25
🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM