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
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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
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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...
Coming soon - and for the first time as Czech translation: in 1936, German socialist, journalist, writer and refugee Robert Grötzsch published "Our Quest for a Homeland. Novel of an Emigration" in Czechoslovakia. I introduced this early transit reflection of political exiles fleeing Nazi persecution
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Coming soon - and for the first time as Czech translation: in 1936, German socialist, journalist, writer and refugee Robert Grötzsch published "Our Quest for a Homeland. Novel of an Emigration" in Czechoslovakia. I introduced this early transit reflection of political exiles fleeing Nazi persecution
Many thanks to the German Ambassador in Canada Matthias Lüttenberg for the productive discussion today on the transnational challenges of far-right radicalization with @jennifervevans.bsky.social, Jordan Leichnitz (Friedrich Ebert Foundation), and Populist Publics researcher David Clement and me
July 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Many thanks to the German Ambassador in Canada Matthias Lüttenberg for the productive discussion today on the transnational challenges of far-right radicalization with @jennifervevans.bsky.social, Jordan Leichnitz (Friedrich Ebert Foundation), and Populist Publics researcher David Clement and me
Reposted by Swen Steinberg
Please see our new post today by blog co-founder @swensteinberg.bsky.social about industrial #forced_migrants from #Czechoslovakia in #Canada in the #Nazi era: migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...
Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s - Migrant Knowledge
Describes circumstances of a group of Czech refugees in Canada during WWII to analyze knowledge transfers through migration .
migrantknowledge.org
July 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Please see our new post today by blog co-founder @swensteinberg.bsky.social about industrial #forced_migrants from #Czechoslovakia in #Canada in the #Nazi era: migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...
If you are in Dresden from August to November, please visit the exhibition of the outstanding photographer Andrei Liankevich from Belarus. In 2008, I have organized the first exhibition for Andrei in Germany
kulturaktiv.org/events/liank...
www.anzenbergergallery-bookshop.com/book/353/foc...
kulturaktiv.org/events/liank...
www.anzenbergergallery-bookshop.com/book/353/foc...
Andrei Liankevich – Traditionelle Belarusische Interieurs
Die Ausstellung zeigt das aktuelle Fotoprojekt, in dem Liankevich die verschwindenenden Innenraumausstattungen traditioneller Häuser in Belarus dokumentiert. Sein Projektarchiv umfasst inzwischen mehr...
kulturaktiv.org
July 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you are in Dresden from August to November, please visit the exhibition of the outstanding photographer Andrei Liankevich from Belarus. In 2008, I have organized the first exhibition for Andrei in Germany
kulturaktiv.org/events/liank...
www.anzenbergergallery-bookshop.com/book/353/foc...
kulturaktiv.org/events/liank...
www.anzenbergergallery-bookshop.com/book/353/foc...
Screening & history talk hosted by The Cinema Society of Kingston - September 21, 2025 at 3.30pm
Save the date for Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" at The Screening Room. I will introduce the movie and lead a post-screening discussion
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit
Save the date for Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" at The Screening Room. I will introduce the movie and lead a post-screening discussion
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit
July 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Screening & history talk hosted by The Cinema Society of Kingston - September 21, 2025 at 3.30pm
Save the date for Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" at The Screening Room. I will introduce the movie and lead a post-screening discussion
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit
Save the date for Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" at The Screening Room. I will introduce the movie and lead a post-screening discussion
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit
New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: I wrote a piece about "Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s"
migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...
migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...
Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s - Migrant Knowledge
Describes circumstances of a group of Czech refugees in Canada during WWII to analyze knowledge transfers through migration .
migrantknowledge.org
July 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: I wrote a piece about "Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s"
migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...
migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...
Nice online event today about our "Lost Knowledge and Migration" special issue in the Journal of Migration History with Eliyana R. Adler, Susanne Korbel, Angelika Laumer and Matteo Sartori, co-edited by Philipp Strobl and me
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
June 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Nice online event today about our "Lost Knowledge and Migration" special issue in the Journal of Migration History with Eliyana R. Adler, Susanne Korbel, Angelika Laumer and Matteo Sartori, co-edited by Philipp Strobl and me
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
... coming soon ...
Join us for the "Lost Knowledge and Migration" online discussion @ghiwashington.bsky.social on June 24 at 5-6 PM (Central European Time):
www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Special issue of the Journal of Migration History @degruyterbrill.bsky.social:
brill.com/view/journal...
www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Special issue of the Journal of Migration History @degruyterbrill.bsky.social:
brill.com/view/journal...
June 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
... coming soon ...
New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Amelie Harbisch @unierfurt.bsky.social writes about "Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political", based on fieldwork for her recent book
migrantknowledge.org/2025/06/20/r...
migrantknowledge.org/2025/06/20/r...
Refugees' Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political - Migrant Knowledge
Based on fieldwork, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for asserting their own knowledge about themselves.
migrantknowledge.org
June 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Amelie Harbisch @unierfurt.bsky.social writes about "Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political", based on fieldwork for her recent book
migrantknowledge.org/2025/06/20/r...
migrantknowledge.org/2025/06/20/r...