Swen Steinberg
@swensteinberg.bsky.social
Lecturer @queenshistory.bsky.social / affiliated @ghiwashington.bsky.social / co-founder migrantknowledge.org / co-head transit.hypotheses.org / Ambassador for https://www.daad-canada.ca/en
Website: drswensteinberg.academia.edu
Website: drswensteinberg.academia.edu
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Swen Steinberg
@swensteinberg.bsky.social
· Mar 27
... here and there, everywhere ... now here ...
Looking forward to the conversation (in German) with @matthias-ecke.eu @europarl.europa.eu next week about transatlantic perspectives on Greenland and the US, organized by @fesonline.bsky.social. Join us online:
www.fes.de/veranstaltun...
www.fes.de/veranstaltun...
January 28, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Looking forward to the conversation (in German) with @matthias-ecke.eu @europarl.europa.eu next week about transatlantic perspectives on Greenland and the US, organized by @fesonline.bsky.social. Join us online:
www.fes.de/veranstaltun...
www.fes.de/veranstaltun...
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...
Today, the first time Czech translation of "Our Quest for a Homeland. Novel of an Emigration" from 1936 has been presented at the Masarykova demokratická akademie / Masaryk Democratic Academy @feps-europe.eu in Prague
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Today, the first time Czech translation of "Our Quest for a Homeland. Novel of an Emigration" from 1936 has been presented at the Masarykova demokratická akademie / Masaryk Democratic Academy @feps-europe.eu in Prague
I’ve always wanted to know who I was in a previous life. Apparently, I lived in the summer of 1924 in Montana near Big Timber (naturally in the Crazy mountains), according to a report in the "Sweet Grass News" from July 9, 1924
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I’ve always wanted to know who I was in a previous life. Apparently, I lived in the summer of 1924 in Montana near Big Timber (naturally in the Crazy mountains), according to a report in the "Sweet Grass News" from July 9, 1924
Amazing cross-country morning at Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area
December 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Amazing cross-country morning at Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area
... this might be of interest to @kindheiten.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @socscihistory.bsky.social #childhist #histchild #childhistory #histyouth #youthhist
THE WORLD OF CHILDREN: Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment, edited by Simone Lässig and Andreas Weiß is now available in paperback!
Find out more here: bit.ly/4qJzlYT
#History #CulturalStudies #EducationalStudies #GermanStudies
Find out more here: bit.ly/4qJzlYT
#History #CulturalStudies #EducationalStudies #GermanStudies
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
... this might be of interest to @kindheiten.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @socscihistory.bsky.social #childhist #histchild #childhistory #histyouth #youthhist
Great conversation today of the "In Global Transit" international standing working group @tu-braunschweig.de - many thanks to Nicolas Blumenthal @unifr.bsky.social and Barbara Lüthi @unileipzig.bsky.social for sharing insights from your research!
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Great conversation today of the "In Global Transit" international standing working group @tu-braunschweig.de - many thanks to Nicolas Blumenthal @unifr.bsky.social and Barbara Lüthi @unileipzig.bsky.social for sharing insights from your research!
Coming soon - register here: queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
REGISTER NOW – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Coming soon - register here: queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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...
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.
migrantknowledge.org
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...
The new issue is also coming with a report about the "Refugees in Global Transit: Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s – 1950s" conference I co-organized in February this year in Mumbai
www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/pu...
www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/pu...
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 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The new issue is also coming with a report about the "Refugees in Global Transit: Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s – 1950s" conference I co-organized in February this year in Mumbai
www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/pu...
www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/pu...
REGISTER NOW – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
REGISTER NOW – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Join Richard Ascough and me this Thursday for an info session about the funding opportunities for postdocs and beyond through the German Academic Service Exchange (DAAD) @daadworldwide.bsky.social -
November 6, 2025
10-11am
Ellis Hall 333
#QueensUniversity
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
November 6, 2025
10-11am
Ellis Hall 333
#QueensUniversity
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
November 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Join Richard Ascough and me this Thursday for an info session about the funding opportunities for postdocs and beyond through the German Academic Service Exchange (DAAD) @daadworldwide.bsky.social -
November 6, 2025
10-11am
Ellis Hall 333
#QueensUniversity
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
November 6, 2025
10-11am
Ellis Hall 333
#QueensUniversity
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Great three days in Ottawa with the "Hate, Conspiracy Theories, and the Challenge to Democracy" workshop and the amazing evening event with @milleridriss.bsky.social I co-organized
carleton.ca/populistpubl...
carleton.ca/populistpubl...
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Great three days in Ottawa with the "Hate, Conspiracy Theories, and the Challenge to Democracy" workshop and the amazing evening event with @milleridriss.bsky.social I co-organized
carleton.ca/populistpubl...
carleton.ca/populistpubl...
Hot off the press: the new #OA #OpenAccess volume of "History of Intellectual Culture - International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" has been published @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. I am glad to join the the editorial team of this journal with Isak Hammar
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hot off the press: the new #OA #OpenAccess volume of "History of Intellectual Culture - International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" has been published @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. I am glad to join the the editorial team of this journal with Isak Hammar
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
SAVE THE DATE – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi
Register here: queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
SAVE THE DATE – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi
Register here: queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
SAVE THE DATE – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi
Register here: queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
SAVE THE DATE – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi
Register here: queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#OTD 90 years ago, Jewish journalist and Social Democrat Max Sachs was murdered in Sachsenburg concentration camp. His grandson visited me in Kingston this Friday, we talked a lot about his family, especially his refugee parents and my 2024 book about Max
www.hentrichhentrich.de/book-max-sac...
www.hentrichhentrich.de/book-max-sac...
October 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#OTD 90 years ago, Jewish journalist and Social Democrat Max Sachs was murdered in Sachsenburg concentration camp. His grandson visited me in Kingston this Friday, we talked a lot about his family, especially his refugee parents and my 2024 book about Max
www.hentrichhentrich.de/book-max-sac...
www.hentrichhentrich.de/book-max-sac...
Great conversations today at the Career & Further Education Fair at Queen's University, Richard Ascough and I organized a table as Research Ambassadors of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Great conversations today at the Career & Further Education Fair at Queen's University, Richard Ascough and I organized a table as Research Ambassadors of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social
Come to the table of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social I organize with Richard Ascough at the Career & Further Education Fair this Thursday at 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM (Queen's Main Gym), we will inform about study / funding opportunities
careers.queensu.ca/events-works...
careers.queensu.ca/events-works...
September 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Come to the table of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social I organize with Richard Ascough at the Career & Further Education Fair this Thursday at 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM (Queen's Main Gym), we will inform about study / funding opportunities
careers.queensu.ca/events-works...
careers.queensu.ca/events-works...
Glad to see my last edited volume on display at #thegsa2025, the book "Environments of Exile: Nature, Refugees, and Representations" appeared earlier this year
www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
September 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Glad to see my last edited volume on display at #thegsa2025, the book "Environments of Exile: Nature, Refugees, and Representations" appeared earlier this year
www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
Great panel today on "Migration, Identity, and Space in Contemporary Literature and Film" #thegsa2025, moderated by me
September 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Great panel today on "Migration, Identity, and Space in Contemporary Literature and Film" #thegsa2025, moderated by me
Great conversations today in our “Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History“ panel #thegsa2025 with Anne Rothfeld, @strassenverlauf.bsky.social, Anna Augustin and Simone Lässig (both @ghiwashington.bsky.social), @rmgrossmann.bsky.social and me
September 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Great conversations today in our “Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History“ panel #thegsa2025 with Anne Rothfeld, @strassenverlauf.bsky.social, Anna Augustin and Simone Lässig (both @ghiwashington.bsky.social), @rmgrossmann.bsky.social and me
Looking forward to this roundtable #thegsa2025 I have organized with Rebekka Grossmann @rmgrossmann.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Looking forward to this roundtable #thegsa2025 I have organized with Rebekka Grossmann @rmgrossmann.bsky.social
Great discussion yesterday after the screening of Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" at The Screening Room,
presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and
@queenshistory.bsky.social
presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and
@queenshistory.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Great discussion yesterday after the screening of Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" at The Screening Room,
presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and
@queenshistory.bsky.social
presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and
@queenshistory.bsky.social
Screening of Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" & history talk on September 21, 3.30pm, at The Screening Room.
Presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and @queenshistory.bsky.social
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit
Presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and @queenshistory.bsky.social
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit
September 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Screening of Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" & history talk on September 21, 3.30pm, at The Screening Room.
Presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and @queenshistory.bsky.social
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit
Presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and @queenshistory.bsky.social
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit
New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: "Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book"
migrantknowledge.org/2025/08/28/d...
migrantknowledge.org/2025/08/28/d...
Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book - Migrant Knowledge
Philipp Strobl discusses his new book on displaced knowledge of Austrian refugees in Australia.
migrantknowledge.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: "Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book"
migrantknowledge.org/2025/08/28/d...
migrantknowledge.org/2025/08/28/d...