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 📚 🖋
Not a bad view on my way home from this year's last seminar. Wishing everyone joyous and restful holidays ✨️
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Not a bad view on my way home from this year's last seminar. Wishing everyone joyous and restful holidays ✨️
It's publication day (again)!! #INFOCOM's Felix Berge has published his book on informal communication in wartime Nazi Germany. Congratulations on this accomplishment! 🎊 @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
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Hören und Sprechen im Krieg
Informal communication shaped German society during World War II. Information could be a source of sovereignty, function as a means of survival, or generate anxiety. Historian Felix Berge examines how...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
It's publication day (again)!! #INFOCOM's Felix Berge has published his book on informal communication in wartime Nazi Germany. Congratulations on this accomplishment! 🎊 @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
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Hello Bluesky!
We are a global, interdisciplinary community of scholars examining military occupations and the ways they shape societies past and present.
We are a global, interdisciplinary community of scholars examining military occupations and the ways they shape societies past and present.
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Hello Bluesky!
We are a global, interdisciplinary community of scholars examining military occupations and the ways they shape societies past and present.
We are a global, interdisciplinary community of scholars examining military occupations and the ways they shape societies past and present.
It's publication day! #INFOCOM's Izabela Paszko has published her book on informal communication in Upper Silesia under Nazi rule. Many congratulations! 🎉 @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
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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
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It's publication day! #INFOCOM's Izabela Paszko has published her book on informal communication in Upper Silesia under Nazi rule. Many congratulations! 🎉 @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
www.routledge.com/Informal-Com...
www.routledge.com/Informal-Com...
"Both women said the shooting had damaged a sense of security they had cultivated for years based on the notion that they were unlikely to witness two school shootings in one lifetime."
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Live Updates: 2 Students Killed and 9 Injured in Brown University Shooting
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December 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"Both women said the shooting had damaged a sense of security they had cultivated for years based on the notion that they were unlikely to witness two school shootings in one lifetime."
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Of all the attacks on US higher education this year, I didn't see this one coming. Devastating. My thoughts go out to all those affected by the shooting.
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Of all the attacks on US higher education this year, I didn't see this one coming. Devastating. My thoughts go out to all those affected by the shooting.
The full program of the seminar "Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah" @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr is now online! People interested in attending remotely are welcome to inscribe, via the link below.
December 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The full program of the seminar "Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah" @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr is now online! People interested in attending remotely are welcome to inscribe, via the link below.
Happy (Belated) Thanksgiving! 🦃 Feeling extra thankful this year 🙏
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Happy (Belated) Thanksgiving! 🦃 Feeling extra thankful this year 🙏
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Researcher (M/F) in Contemporary Baltic history
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November 17, 2025 at 8:05 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.
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
📣 Applications for our fully-funded #PhD programme are now open! 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc
⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026!
What to know more? Meet us on our:
🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM
🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians
⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026!
What to know more? Meet us on our:
🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM
🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians
Academy in Exile offers 5 Residential Fellowships in Germany: Application deadline is 15 November 2025
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October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Academy in Exile offers 5 Residential Fellowships in Germany: Application deadline is 15 November 2025
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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?
Am 6 Oktober 2025 findet ein Info-Abend zu Promotionsmöglichkeiten in den Geschichtswisseenschaften am Europäisches Hochschulinstitut, Florenz statt 👉 loom.ly/5MhCuf4
📣 #PhD #Geschichtswissenschaften
Am 6 Oktober 2025 findet ein Info-Abend zu Promotionsmöglichkeiten in den Geschichtswisseenschaften am Europäisches Hochschulinstitut, Florenz statt 👉 loom.ly/5MhCuf4
📣 #PhD #Geschichtswissenschaften
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!
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A mots couverts. Une étude des discours relatifs aux déportations raciales au départ de la France (1941-1945)
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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!
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Happening now!
#SaveTheDate 📅
☀️ 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 ?!",
☀️ 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)