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
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...
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
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
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
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...
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...
May 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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...
Looking forward to this "Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History" roundtable I organize with @rmgrossmann.bsky.social at @thegsa.bsky.social and supported by @ghiwashington.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Looking forward to this "Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History" roundtable I organize with @rmgrossmann.bsky.social at @thegsa.bsky.social and supported by @ghiwashington.bsky.social
ICYMI: special section "In Search of the Migrant Child – Entangled Histories of Childhood and Migration" in the Journal of Contemporary History, edited by Friederike Kind-Kovács @kindkovacs.bsky.social, Bettina Hitzer, Sheer Ganor and me
www.hsozkult.de/journal/id/z...
www.hsozkult.de/journal/id/z...
May 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
ICYMI: special section "In Search of the Migrant Child – Entangled Histories of Childhood and Migration" in the Journal of Contemporary History, edited by Friederike Kind-Kovács @kindkovacs.bsky.social, Bettina Hitzer, Sheer Ganor and me
www.hsozkult.de/journal/id/z...
www.hsozkult.de/journal/id/z...
... short interview (in German) early this morning #deutschlandfunk.kultur, about the federal elections in Canada today and some historical (plus also other) perspectives
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/parlamentswa...
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/parlamentswa...
April 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
... short interview (in German) early this morning #deutschlandfunk.kultur, about the federal elections in Canada today and some historical (plus also other) perspectives
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/parlamentswa...
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/parlamentswa...
Had some great days in btf Paris, with a nice visit @dhi-paris.fr Also, I was at the grave of Otto Wels, and brought some flowers for this socialist and democrat who died in exile in 1939
"Freedom and life can be taken from us, but never our honor!"
"Freedom and life can be taken from us, but never our honor!"
April 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Had some great days in btf Paris, with a nice visit @dhi-paris.fr Also, I was at the grave of Otto Wels, and brought some flowers for this socialist and democrat who died in exile in 1939
"Freedom and life can be taken from us, but never our honor!"
"Freedom and life can be taken from us, but never our honor!"
ICYMI: the print version of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2024 appeared, with the special section "Navigating In-Betweenness: Jewish Refugees in Global Transit" I've edited with Simone Lässig, Anna-Carolin Augustin and Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş
academic.oup.com/leobaeck/iss...
academic.oup.com/leobaeck/iss...
April 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
ICYMI: the print version of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2024 appeared, with the special section "Navigating In-Betweenness: Jewish Refugees in Global Transit" I've edited with Simone Lässig, Anna-Carolin Augustin and Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş
academic.oup.com/leobaeck/iss...
academic.oup.com/leobaeck/iss...
Great event today #CarletonUniversity with Thomas Weber and the movie "Goebbels and the Führer", many thanks to @germanambcanada.bsky.social and @fesonline.bsky.social Washington/Ottawa for the support!
April 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Great event today #CarletonUniversity with Thomas Weber and the movie "Goebbels and the Führer", many thanks to @germanambcanada.bsky.social and @fesonline.bsky.social Washington/Ottawa for the support!
Coming soon: movie screening of "Goebbels and the Führer" I have co-organized on April 3 in Ottawa, followed by a discussion with film director Thomas Weber
www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...
www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...
March 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Coming soon: movie screening of "Goebbels and the Führer" I have co-organized on April 3 in Ottawa, followed by a discussion with film director Thomas Weber
www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...
www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...