Sebastian Gehrig
@sebastiangehrig.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Europe @unishefhistory. Author: Legal Entanglements. Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany
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Der Bericht von @mjgronau.bsky.social zur rechtsgeschichtlichen Sektion auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social in Bonn mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social und unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann ist erschienen 👇
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Tagber: HT 2025: Demokratie zwischen Recht und Unrecht: Dynamiken der Rechtsentwicklung im Zweiten Weltkrieg und im Kalten Krieg
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-158378
Bonn, 18.09.2025, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-158378
Bonn, 18.09.2025, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
www.hsozkult.de
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Der Bericht von @mjgronau.bsky.social zur rechtsgeschichtlichen Sektion auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social in Bonn mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social und unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann ist erschienen 👇
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Join us for this week's seminar! Prof Jerry Palmer (London) discusses "Hitler's Autobiographies: The Personal is the Political".
The seminar will be held in-person at Senate House, John S Cohen room (N203), 29 October 2025 at 5:30pm.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The seminar will be held in-person at Senate House, John S Cohen room (N203), 29 October 2025 at 5:30pm.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Modern German History
The Modern German History seminar focuses on the history of the German-speaking lands since the nineteenth century
www.history.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Join us for this week's seminar! Prof Jerry Palmer (London) discusses "Hitler's Autobiographies: The Personal is the Political".
The seminar will be held in-person at Senate House, John S Cohen room (N203), 29 October 2025 at 5:30pm.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The seminar will be held in-person at Senate House, John S Cohen room (N203), 29 October 2025 at 5:30pm.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Check out our sibling IHR seminar, the Modern German History seminar @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social, on 26 Nov at 5:30pm to hear @history-doug.bsky.social Douglas Pretsell's talk:
'In the beginning was the Word: “Urning” to "Homosexual" 1866-1913”'
More info here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
'In the beginning was the Word: “Urning” to "Homosexual" 1866-1913”'
More info here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
In the beginning was the Word: “Urning” to "Homosexual" 1866-1913”
www.history.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Check out our sibling IHR seminar, the Modern German History seminar @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social, on 26 Nov at 5:30pm to hear @history-doug.bsky.social Douglas Pretsell's talk:
'In the beginning was the Word: “Urning” to "Homosexual" 1866-1913”'
More info here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
'In the beginning was the Word: “Urning” to "Homosexual" 1866-1913”'
More info here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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We very much look forward to this year's seminar papers! Please join us @ihr.bsky.social for the Modern German History research seminar 2025-26.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
October 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We very much look forward to this year's seminar papers! Please join us @ihr.bsky.social for the Modern German History research seminar 2025-26.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
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#GermanHistSoc2025 starts TOMORROW!
We can't wait to see everyone in Loughborough!
You can check out the full programme here: www.germanhistorysoc...
We can't wait to see everyone in Loughborough!
You can check out the full programme here: www.germanhistorysoc...
September 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
#GermanHistSoc2025 starts TOMORROW!
We can't wait to see everyone in Loughborough!
You can check out the full programme here: www.germanhistorysoc...
We can't wait to see everyone in Loughborough!
You can check out the full programme here: www.germanhistorysoc...
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The German Democratic Republic by @historyned.bsky.social provides a succinct and comprehensive history of East Germany and its people, from its early Cold War foundations to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf
Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf
August 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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In #Erfurt finden #andiesemTag 1975, heute vor 50 Jahren, die ersten pogromartigen Ausschreitungen in Deutschland seit Kriegsende statt: Aufgeheizt von erfundenen Gerüchten über Vertragsarbeiter machen bis zu 300 Deutsche Jagd auf Algerier. Erst nach drei Tagen kann die Lage beruhigt werden. 1/
August 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
In #Erfurt finden #andiesemTag 1975, heute vor 50 Jahren, die ersten pogromartigen Ausschreitungen in Deutschland seit Kriegsende statt: Aufgeheizt von erfundenen Gerüchten über Vertragsarbeiter machen bis zu 300 Deutsche Jagd auf Algerier. Erst nach drei Tagen kann die Lage beruhigt werden. 1/
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Das IGdJ auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social 2025 mit rechtsgeschichtlicher Fachsektion unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social u.a.auf Basis neuer #OpenAccess Studie zu "Enemy Alien"-Tribunalen im Zweiten Weltkrieg: doi.org/10.1080/0261... t1p.de/bk09u
Jeden Tag bis zum Historikertag eine Fachsektion! Heute:
Demokratie zwischen Recht und Unrecht: Dynamiken der Rechtsentwicklung im Zweiten Weltkrieg und im Kalten Krieg
mit: @dinalog.bsky.social , @sebgehr.bsky.social , Kim Wünschmann (Sektionsleitung)
Demokratie zwischen Recht und Unrecht: Dynamiken der Rechtsentwicklung im Zweiten Weltkrieg und im Kalten Krieg
mit: @dinalog.bsky.social , @sebgehr.bsky.social , Kim Wünschmann (Sektionsleitung)
August 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Das IGdJ auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social 2025 mit rechtsgeschichtlicher Fachsektion unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social u.a.auf Basis neuer #OpenAccess Studie zu "Enemy Alien"-Tribunalen im Zweiten Weltkrieg: doi.org/10.1080/0261... t1p.de/bk09u
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There's just over two weeks left to register for #GermanHistSoc2025 !!
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!
www.germanhistorysoc...
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!
www.germanhistorysoc...
August 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There's just over two weeks left to register for #GermanHistSoc2025 !!
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!
www.germanhistorysoc...
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!
www.germanhistorysoc...
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'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'
AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer
A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology
observer.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'
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The model of doctoral research that those of us who studied in the 1980s and 1990s experienced is essentially finished.
'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The model of doctoral research that those of us who studied in the 1980s and 1990s experienced is essentially finished.
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Pierre Bourdieu: 'Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal' (Polity Press, June 2025). bit.ly/3I0Dnud #sociology #soctheory #theorysky
June 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Pierre Bourdieu: 'Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal' (Polity Press, June 2025). bit.ly/3I0Dnud #sociology #soctheory #theorysky
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University Assistant postdoctoral
University Assistant postdoctoral
jobs.univie.ac.at
May 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Join us for IHR@Sheffield, 1 May, 4:15!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
There is an online option to join, please contact the convenors if you're interested!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
There is an online option to join, please contact the convenors if you're interested!
April 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Join us for IHR@Sheffield, 1 May, 4:15!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
There is an online option to join, please contact the convenors if you're interested!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
There is an online option to join, please contact the convenors if you're interested!
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Job available! This is a permanent position listed as "Lecturer in Central and East European History (including Russia/Soviet), Post-1800." It is in a fantastic department in London (UCL History). Applications are due May 9th. Please share and apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT327/l...
Lecturer in Central and Eastern European History (including Russia/Soviet), Post-1800 at UCL
Apply for the Lecturer in Central and Eastern European History (including Russia/Soviet), Post-1800 role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and a...
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April 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Job available! This is a permanent position listed as "Lecturer in Central and East European History (including Russia/Soviet), Post-1800." It is in a fantastic department in London (UCL History). Applications are due May 9th. Please share and apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT327/l...
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!!! CHANGE OF DATE !!!
The IHR@Sheffield lecture will now take place on 1 May, 4:15pm
The IHR@Sheffield lecture will now take place on 1 May, 4:15pm
Join us for IHR@Sheffield!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
April 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
!!! CHANGE OF DATE !!!
The IHR@Sheffield lecture will now take place on 1 May, 4:15pm
The IHR@Sheffield lecture will now take place on 1 May, 4:15pm
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
Requests to remove books from library shelves are on the rise in the UK, as the influence of pressure groups behind book bans in the US crosses the Atlantic, according to those working in the sector.
Although “the situation here is nowhere [near] as bad, censorship does happen and there are some deeply worrying examples of library professionals losing their jobs and being trolled online for standing up for intellectual freedom on behalf of their users”, said Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
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Join us for IHR@Sheffield!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
April 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Join us for IHR@Sheffield!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
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Weltweit renommierte Faschismus-Forscher verlassen die USA mit den Worten "Meine Vorfahren sind auch 1939 aus Deutschland geflohen" und hier wird noch über das F-Wort diskutiert.
Universität Yale: Historiker und Faschismusforscher verlassen die USA
Timothy Snyder und zwei weitere renommierte Wissenschaftler verlassen die USA und forschen künftig in Kanada. Grund sei, dass die Trump-Regierung die Freiheit bedrohe.
www.zeit.de
March 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Weltweit renommierte Faschismus-Forscher verlassen die USA mit den Worten "Meine Vorfahren sind auch 1939 aus Deutschland geflohen" und hier wird noch über das F-Wort diskutiert.
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We have two events coming up next week!
Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)
and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)
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Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)
and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)
Sign-up below
March 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We have two events coming up next week!
Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)
and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)
Sign-up below
Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)
and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)
Sign-up below
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Einige Künstler waren für die NS-Propaganda so zentral, dass Hitler sie vom Fronteinsatz freistellte. In der Nachkriegszeit setzten viele von ihnen ihre Karrieren fort – etwa bei der »documenta«, die Westdeutschland eine neue kulturelle Identität geben sollte.
Hitlers Lieblingskünstler
Einige Künstler waren für die NS-Propaganda so zentral, dass Hitler sie vom Fronteinsatz freistellte. In der Nachkriegszeit setzten viele von ihnen ihre Karrieren fort – etwa bei der »documenta«, die Westdeutschland eine neue kulturelle Identität geben sollte.
jacobin.de
March 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Einige Künstler waren für die NS-Propaganda so zentral, dass Hitler sie vom Fronteinsatz freistellte. In der Nachkriegszeit setzten viele von ihnen ihre Karrieren fort – etwa bei der »documenta«, die Westdeutschland eine neue kulturelle Identität geben sollte.