German Historical Institute Washington
@ghiwashington.bsky.social
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
The Migrant Knowledge blog has a new location! You can now find it at migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org, complete with an archive of all of the site's past blogposts.
New blogpost by Nicolas Blumenthal of Univ. Fribourg and former @ghiwashington.bsky.social fellowship recipient on Swiss immigration laws and claims of racelessness in the postwar decades: migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
Challenging “Racelessness:” Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland
Discusses deportation practices in Switzerland since World War II
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February 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
The Migrant Knowledge blog has a new location! You can now find it at migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org, complete with an archive of all of the site's past blogposts.
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Are you an emerging scholar seeking to share your research with a wider audience? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" that highlights research by advanced grad students + early career on European history 1914-present. Submit your work! tinyurl.com/2s45996j
New Voices « Cambridge Core Blog
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February 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Are you an emerging scholar seeking to share your research with a wider audience? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" that highlights research by advanced grad students + early career on European history 1914-present. Submit your work! tinyurl.com/2s45996j
GHI Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen will be giving a public lecture on "Spaces of Contested Statehood: A Legacy of Empire" at @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social on Thursday, February 19th. Registration details are available here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
February 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
GHI Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen will be giving a public lecture on "Spaces of Contested Statehood: A Legacy of Empire" at @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social on Thursday, February 19th. Registration details are available here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
We are now accepting manuscripts for consideration for the 2027 Franz Steiner Prize! The prize is awarded every two years to an outstanding work of historical scholarship in the field of North American studies or transatlantic relations. Application details here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fra...
Franz Steiner Prize – GHI Washington
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February 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
We are now accepting manuscripts for consideration for the 2027 Franz Steiner Prize! The prize is awarded every two years to an outstanding work of historical scholarship in the field of North American studies or transatlantic relations. Application details here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fra...
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New blogpost by Nicolas Blumenthal of Univ. Fribourg and former @ghiwashington.bsky.social fellowship recipient on Swiss immigration laws and claims of racelessness in the postwar decades: migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
Challenging “Racelessness:” Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland
Discusses deportation practices in Switzerland since World War II
migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
New blogpost by Nicolas Blumenthal of Univ. Fribourg and former @ghiwashington.bsky.social fellowship recipient on Swiss immigration laws and claims of racelessness in the postwar decades: migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
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#OpenAccess! THE MAKING OF MODERN EATING: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 by Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social has now been published.
Find out more: bit.ly/4jRtWMc
#History #FoodStudies
Find out more: bit.ly/4jRtWMc
#History #FoodStudies
February 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
#OpenAccess! THE MAKING OF MODERN EATING: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 by Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social has now been published.
Find out more: bit.ly/4jRtWMc
#History #FoodStudies
Find out more: bit.ly/4jRtWMc
#History #FoodStudies
Our @germanhistorydocs.bsky.social colleague Insa Kummer was recently interviewed about her role managing the German History in Documents and Images project — check out the conversation here: www.historischer-augenblick.de/dhi-washingt...
Zwischen Forschung und Vermittlung: Digitale Quellenarbeit am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Washington
Screenshot der German History in Documents and Images Website (GHDI). German History in Documents and Images. URL: https://germanhistorydocs.org/ (Abgerufen am 27. Januar 2026). Foto: Lena Essifi, © G...
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February 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Our @germanhistorydocs.bsky.social colleague Insa Kummer was recently interviewed about her role managing the German History in Documents and Images project — check out the conversation here: www.historischer-augenblick.de/dhi-washingt...
Join us online on February 12 for the event "German Americans and the Founding of the United States," a lecture by Dr. Emily Sneff presented in partnership with the Max Kade Institute (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and the German Society of Pennsylvania uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 3, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Join us online on February 12 for the event "German Americans and the Founding of the United States," a lecture by Dr. Emily Sneff presented in partnership with the Max Kade Institute (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and the German Society of Pennsylvania uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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It is out, everyone! 🎉
My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the
@ghiwashington.bsky.social!
The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚
@thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the
@ghiwashington.bsky.social!
The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚
@thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 PM
It is out, everyone! 🎉
My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the
@ghiwashington.bsky.social!
The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚
@thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the
@ghiwashington.bsky.social!
The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚
@thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
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#CfP | Flight, Exile and Emigration in Germany’s Age of Extremes: Biographical Perspectives
📌 International #workshop at Georgetown University in #WashingtonDC | organized by the @ghiwashington.bsky.social | 08-09 October 2026
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026
🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/event...
📌 International #workshop at Georgetown University in #WashingtonDC | organized by the @ghiwashington.bsky.social | 08-09 October 2026
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026
🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/event...
February 3, 2026 at 11:33 AM
#CfP | Flight, Exile and Emigration in Germany’s Age of Extremes: Biographical Perspectives
📌 International #workshop at Georgetown University in #WashingtonDC | organized by the @ghiwashington.bsky.social | 08-09 October 2026
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026
🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/event...
📌 International #workshop at Georgetown University in #WashingtonDC | organized by the @ghiwashington.bsky.social | 08-09 October 2026
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026
🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/event...
Our colleague Anna-Carolin Augustin is a co-convener of the conference "Sexual Violence and Antisemitism: Perspectives from International Law, Halakha and Feminist Theory," taking place at @hls.harvard.edu this week. Further information: pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/sexual...
“Sexual Violence and Antisemitism: Perspectives from International Law, Halakha, and Feminist Theory” Monday February 2 – Tuesday February 3, 2026
Sexual Violence and Antisemitism: Perspectives from International Law, Halakha and Feminist Theory Harvard University, February 2–3, 2026 This academic conference brings together an international g…
pjil.law.harvard.edu
February 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Our colleague Anna-Carolin Augustin is a co-convener of the conference "Sexual Violence and Antisemitism: Perspectives from International Law, Halakha and Feminist Theory," taking place at @hls.harvard.edu this week. Further information: pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/sexual...
Happy publication day to @claudiakreklau.bsky.social, whose book “The Making of Modern Eating” is now published in our Studies in German History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social book series! Available in open access and other formats here: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Krekla...
The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Happy publication day to @claudiakreklau.bsky.social, whose book “The Making of Modern Eating” is now published in our Studies in German History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social book series! Available in open access and other formats here: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Krekla...
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#CfA | Doctoral and Postdoctoral #Research Fellowships
📌 Short-term research #fellowships at the @ghiwashington.bsky.social in #WashingtonDC | 1-4 months | North American and European #history, #German-#American relations etc.
📅 Deadline: April 1, 2026
🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/progr...
📌 Short-term research #fellowships at the @ghiwashington.bsky.social in #WashingtonDC | 1-4 months | North American and European #history, #German-#American relations etc.
📅 Deadline: April 1, 2026
🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/progr...
February 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
#CfA | Doctoral and Postdoctoral #Research Fellowships
📌 Short-term research #fellowships at the @ghiwashington.bsky.social in #WashingtonDC | 1-4 months | North American and European #history, #German-#American relations etc.
📅 Deadline: April 1, 2026
🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/progr...
📌 Short-term research #fellowships at the @ghiwashington.bsky.social in #WashingtonDC | 1-4 months | North American and European #history, #German-#American relations etc.
📅 Deadline: April 1, 2026
🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/progr...
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Only 2 weeks left to submit your proposal for this year's Medieval Germany Workshop in cooperation with German History Society! 📯
📅 29 May 2026
📍German Historical Institute London
⏰ Deadline: 15 February 2026
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📅 29 May 2026
📍German Historical Institute London
⏰ Deadline: 15 February 2026
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January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Only 2 weeks left to submit your proposal for this year's Medieval Germany Workshop in cooperation with German History Society! 📯
📅 29 May 2026
📍German Historical Institute London
⏰ Deadline: 15 February 2026
1/3
📅 29 May 2026
📍German Historical Institute London
⏰ Deadline: 15 February 2026
1/3
Together with our partners at @c2dh.uni.lu we are happy to share the CfP for our 2026 Digital Humanities and Digital History conference: "AI through History, History through AI," taking place this June in Luxembourg. Proposals due March 1! www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
CfP: AI through History, History through AI
The Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History hosted by the C²DH in Belval will revolve around Artificial Intelligence in the historical disciplines.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Together with our partners at @c2dh.uni.lu we are happy to share the CfP for our 2026 Digital Humanities and Digital History conference: "AI through History, History through AI," taking place this June in Luxembourg. Proposals due March 1! www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
Our colleague @swensteinberg.bsky.social will be taking part in a discussion about American and European security policy at a crossroads, on this coming Tuesday (Feb. 2): www.fes.de/veranstaltun...
Trumps Grönland-Vision: Zwischen Realität und Rhetorik - Veranstaltungsdetails
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January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Our colleague @swensteinberg.bsky.social will be taking part in a discussion about American and European security policy at a crossroads, on this coming Tuesday (Feb. 2): www.fes.de/veranstaltun...
For our "Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst…" interview series, Research Fellow @janakeck.bsky.social reflected on the digital methods she used to study text reuse & representations of gender in the 19th-century German-American press href.hypotheses.org/5617
Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …with Jana Dunz-Keck
Can you describe your project in three sentences and explain the digital component of your work? In the 19th century, newspapers copied each other extensively: Texts were reprinted, adapted, and circu...
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January 28, 2026 at 6:54 PM
For our "Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst…" interview series, Research Fellow @janakeck.bsky.social reflected on the digital methods she used to study text reuse & representations of gender in the 19th-century German-American press href.hypotheses.org/5617
Today marks Holocaust Remembrance Day. Our colleague Richard Wetzell's recent article "Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939" examines the ideological developments underlying the violence of the Holocaust: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939 (Chapter 19) - The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
The Cambridge History of the Holocaust - June 2025
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January 27, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Today marks Holocaust Remembrance Day. Our colleague Richard Wetzell's recent article "Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939" examines the ideological developments underlying the violence of the Holocaust: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Rebuild or Retreat?
Our conference website @ghiwashington.bsky.social is now online! Check out the program and don't hesitate to contact me, if you have are interested to learn more about the project.
ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/rebuild-or-r...
Our conference website @ghiwashington.bsky.social is now online! Check out the program and don't hesitate to contact me, if you have are interested to learn more about the project.
ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/rebuild-or-r...
Rebuild or Retreat?
Rebuild or Retreat? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Migration and Mobility in the Global North April 23 – 24, 2026 | German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington, Washington, D.C. Internat...
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January 23, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Rebuild or Retreat?
Our conference website @ghiwashington.bsky.social is now online! Check out the program and don't hesitate to contact me, if you have are interested to learn more about the project.
ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/rebuild-or-r...
Our conference website @ghiwashington.bsky.social is now online! Check out the program and don't hesitate to contact me, if you have are interested to learn more about the project.
ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/rebuild-or-r...
Our partners at C. H. Beck Verlag have an open position for a “Lektor:in Zeitgeschichte” and we are happy to share this great opportunity: karriere.chbeck.de/jobs/6128755...
Lektor (m/w/d) für Zeitgeschichte – Verlag C.H.Beck
Wir sind auf der Suche nach: Lektor (m/w/d) für Zeitgeschichte, Vollzeit, München
https://karriere.chbeck.de/jobs/61287552/Lektor-m-w-d-für-Zeitgeschichte/
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Our partners at C. H. Beck Verlag have an open position for a “Lektor:in Zeitgeschichte” and we are happy to share this great opportunity: karriere.chbeck.de/jobs/6128755...
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Hot off the press: I edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social a special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" - with contributions by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social
metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
January 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Hot off the press: I edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social a special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" - with contributions by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social
metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
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New Year, New Voices! 📣
Get your research out there in 2026 with the help of CEH's blog. New Voices offers a platform for postgrads and ECRs in our field to engage a wider audience with their work.
Here's a reminder of everything we published in 2025 (contact details at the end!) [1/7]
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Get your research out there in 2026 with the help of CEH's blog. New Voices offers a platform for postgrads and ECRs in our field to engage a wider audience with their work.
Here's a reminder of everything we published in 2025 (contact details at the end!) [1/7]
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January 20, 2026 at 10:23 AM
New Year, New Voices! 📣
Get your research out there in 2026 with the help of CEH's blog. New Voices offers a platform for postgrads and ECRs in our field to engage a wider audience with their work.
Here's a reminder of everything we published in 2025 (contact details at the end!) [1/7]
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Get your research out there in 2026 with the help of CEH's blog. New Voices offers a platform for postgrads and ECRs in our field to engage a wider audience with their work.
Here's a reminder of everything we published in 2025 (contact details at the end!) [1/7]
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We’re currently accepting submissions for our Pre-Dissertation Fellowships in German history for scholars at universities in the western U.S. & Canada. Applications due January 31! www.ghi-dc.org/programs/pre...
Pre-Dissertation Fellowships for Students in German & European History at West Coast Universities – GHI Washington
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January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
We’re currently accepting submissions for our Pre-Dissertation Fellowships in German history for scholars at universities in the western U.S. & Canada. Applications due January 31! www.ghi-dc.org/programs/pre...
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#CfA #Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2026-27
📌 10 months #Fellowships beginning on 1 September 2026 | in #Beirut | for applicants with a doctoral degree | focus on #Research in #Humanities and #SocialSciences | organised by #OIBeirut
📅 1 March 2026
🔗www.orient-institut....
📌 10 months #Fellowships beginning on 1 September 2026 | in #Beirut | for applicants with a doctoral degree | focus on #Research in #Humanities and #SocialSciences | organised by #OIBeirut
📅 1 March 2026
🔗www.orient-institut....
January 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
#CfA #Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2026-27
📌 10 months #Fellowships beginning on 1 September 2026 | in #Beirut | for applicants with a doctoral degree | focus on #Research in #Humanities and #SocialSciences | organised by #OIBeirut
📅 1 March 2026
🔗www.orient-institut....
📌 10 months #Fellowships beginning on 1 September 2026 | in #Beirut | for applicants with a doctoral degree | focus on #Research in #Humanities and #SocialSciences | organised by #OIBeirut
📅 1 March 2026
🔗www.orient-institut....
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🎧 This month on Wagnis Wissen, antisemitism researcher Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (@tuberlin.bsky.social) dissects Germany's much-lauded culture of remembrance and explains how the country's selective confrontation of its Nazi past still informs the present.
Image copyright: G. Faller-Walzer
Image copyright: G. Faller-Walzer
January 13, 2026 at 10:55 AM
🎧 This month on Wagnis Wissen, antisemitism researcher Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (@tuberlin.bsky.social) dissects Germany's much-lauded culture of remembrance and explains how the country's selective confrontation of its Nazi past still informs the present.
Image copyright: G. Faller-Walzer
Image copyright: G. Faller-Walzer