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Newsletter, August 2022
Featured News
With summer slowly waning, we are getting ready for our full fall program with conferences, workshops and an array of public lectures in Washington and Berkeley. Many of these events will also be live streamed so you can join us from wherever you are. Shalini Randeria, President and Rector of the Central European University will deliver the fourth Annual Bucerius Lecture in Berkeley on October 12. The 36th Annual Lecture in Washington features Michael Brenner (American University) on November 10. The author Ingo Schulze will join us for events in both our locations in the first week of October. Later in October, we will host Glenn Penny (UCLA) in Berkeley and Andreas Reckwitz (Humboldt University) in DC. Please see our websiteor this and upcoming newsletters for more details. To ensure you continue to receive our monthly newsletters, please make sure to subscribe here or manage your subscription preferences in your account here.
Other News & Announcements
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GHI Research Fellow Claudia Roesch published a review of "Dürr, Renate (eds.): Threatened Knowledge. Practices of Knowing and Ignoring from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century" in HSozKult. ›› Read on
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GHI Research Fellow Jana Keck's field notes titled "The Denglish Press? Reprinting and Code-Switching in Nineteenth-Century German-American Newspapers" were published (open access) in the latest issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies. ›› Read on
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Sören Urbansky, GHI Research Fellow and Head of our Pacific Office, published the article “Gedanken über Chancen und Risiken ‘dekolonisierter’ Osteuropaforschung” in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung along with co-authors Robert Kindler und Tobias Rupprecht ›› Read on
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GHI Research Fellow Jana Keck co-edited the latest issue of Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies with Whitney Peterson and Melissa Schlecht. ›› Read on
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Anne Klotz, a Pacific Office Tandem Fellow in the History of Migration, has been elected for a fellowship at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows (MBSF), a joint German-Israeli program for postdoctoral fellows whose goal is to create a vibrant and enriching environment for outstanding young scholars in all fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences.. ›› Read on
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Robin Buller, a Pacific Office Tandem Fellow in the History of Migration, published an article on “Refugees feel the pull and push of Oakland” in The Oaklandside (Oakland's local independent paper). ›› Read on
Upcoming Public Events
SEP 01, 2022 | 5PM PT
Mosse Lecture: The Utopian Prerogative
Lecture at The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA | Speaker: Ilija Trojanow
Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War
Hybrid Lecture – UC Berkeley Campus and Zoom | Speaker: Friederike Kind-Kovács (Senior Researcher, Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden) | Moderator: John Connelly (Professor of History and Director of ISEEES, UC Berkeley)
Roads to Exclusion: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructures since 1800
International conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Organized by Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş, Andreas Greiner, Mario Peters (alle GHI Washington), and Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU Munich) | ›› More info
SEP 20 - 22, 2022
In Search of the Migrant Child
Conference at UC Berkeley | Conveners: Friederike Kind-Kovács & Bettina Hitzer (Hannah Arendt Institute, Dresden), Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Swen Steinberg (GHI Washington; Pacific Office at University of California Berkeley) | ›› More info
SEP 25 - 30, 2022
Environments of Inequality: Crises, Conflicts, Comparisons
International Summer School at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), Guadalajara, Mexico | Organizing Committee: Cornelia Aust (Bielefeld University, SFB 1288), Olaf Kaltmeier (CALAS), Mario Peters (GHI Washington), Ann-Kathrin Volmer (CALAS) | ›› More info
SEP 30 - OCT 01, 2022
Beyond Work for Pay? Basic-Income Concepts in Global Debates on Automation, Poverty, and Unemployment (1920-2020)
Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Conveners: Manuel Franzmann (Sociology, Kiel), Axel Jansen (GHI Washington), Alice O’Connor (History, University of California, Santa Barbara) | ›› More info
OCT 10 - 13, 2022
Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives
Sixth Annual Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at the Pacific Office of the GHI in Berkeley | Conveners: Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (Department of History, University of Basel) and Sören Urbansky (Pacific Regional of the GHI in Berkeley) | ›› More info
Upcoming Deadlines & Opportunities
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Call for Papers Work, Class, and Social Democracy in the Global Age of August Bebel (1840-1913) Deadline: August 31, 2022 | Conference at the University of Toronto, May 25–27, 2023 | ›› Apply
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Prize Franz Steiner Prize 2023 Deadline: September 15, 2022 | ›› Apply
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Call for Papers Fourth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: Global Germany Deadline: September 15, 2022 | Conference at the University of California, San Diego, November 4 & 5, 2022 |›› Apply
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Fellowship Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Deadline: October 1, 2022 |›› Apply
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Fellowship 2023 Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants Deadline: October 7, 2022 | ›› Apply
Recent Publications
Double Issue - GHI Bulletin Fall 2021/Spring 2022
The latest issue of the Bulletin is available online and in print. Regular readers will notice that this Fall 2021/Spring 2022 double issue of the Bulletin features a new cover design and layout. This issue features articles by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Emma Thomas, Richard Calis, Cathy S. Gelbin, Mae M. Ngai, Andreas Greiner, and an interview with Simone Lässig.›› Read on
GHI Blog Roundup
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Johannes Schütz, "Violence against Migrants in the GDR and the Lack of Epistemic Impact." ›› Read on Migrant Knowledge
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Gübra Göksel, "Knowledge and Ignorance about ‘the Turkish Woman’ in West Germany and Migrant Women’s Responses." ›› Read on Migrant Knowledge
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Jan Randak, "'Will They Become Human?' Romanies and Re-education Knowledge in Postwar Czechoslovakia." ›› Read on History of Knowledge
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Matthew O. Anderson, "Organizing Impulses: Reframing Adventure as Global Knowledge for Young Readers in Precolonial Germany (1841–1862)."›› Read on History of Knowledge
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Lara Raabe, "Reflections on Researching Digitized Personal Files of Sinti and Roma Created by Berlin’s Criminal Police in Nazi Germany." ›› Read on Href
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Tobias Schweitzer interviewed Barbara Bair, curator and historian at the LC Manuscript Division, about the relaunch and crowdsourced transcription project for Hannah Arendt's digitized papers. ›› Read on Href
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Mark Stoneman, who helped to found the Migrant Knowledge and History of Knowledge blogs, has left the editorial team, but first he continued his series of posts on the History of Knowledge with an article, “Blogging Migrant Knowledge – Part II”, introducing the Migrant Knowledge approach to that blog’s readers with many examples from the Migrant Knowledge blog. ›› Read on History of Knowledge
Alumni News
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Former GHI Horner Library Fellow Elisabeth Piller'sbook in our THS series with Franz Steiner Verlag won the Transatlantic Studies Association/Cambridge University Press prize for the best book in transatlantic studies.
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Former GHI/RRCHNM Gerda Henkel Fellow in Digital History and THS author Julius Wilm’s book Settlers as Conquerers was reviewed in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung. ›› Read on
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War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars, edited by former GHI Research Fellow Mischa Honeck and James Marten, was reviewed by H-War. ›› Read on
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Former GHI Research Fellow Andrea Westermann published an article online: “Against the Aestheticization of Technofossils: Considering Migrant Labor and Petrochemical Feedstocks in the Future History of Plastic,” Anthropocene Curriculum, April 22, 2022. ›› Read on
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Former Visiting Fellow Anne Schult published her article “Interwar Statistics, Colonial Demography, and the Making of the Twentieth-Century Refugee” (open access) in the latest issue of the Journal of Global History. ›› Read on
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Congratulations to many of our recent Visiting Fellows in Washington who are all starting exciting new positions: Bastiaan Bouwman has started a new position as Assistant Professor in Contemporary European History in a Global Context at Utrecht University in the Netherlands; Jana Schmidt has joined the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College as the Director of Academic Programs; NisrineRahal will be starting a new post in the fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor of European History at Wake Forest University; and AndreasGuidi will start as Maître de conférences in History of Southeast Europe at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in September.
Recent Videos
Roundtable Discussion
New Research on Social Movements in Cold War Germany
Featuring: Tiffany Florvil (University of New Mexico), Samuel Clowes Huneke (George Mason University), Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University), Craig Griffiths (Manchester Metropolitan University)
2022 In Global Transit Lecture Series
Times and Places of Liminality in the Emigration Process
Featuring: Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton) and Leora Auslander (University of Chicago)
