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

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

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...

‪ 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‪ 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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

‪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...

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...

... 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...

Upcoming online discussion (June 24) organized & moderated by founding @migknow.bsky.social member @swensteinberg.bsky.social and Philipp Strobl: Lost Knowledge and Migration: Eliyana R. Adler, Susanne Korbel, Angelika Laumer and Matteo Sartori 5-6 PM (CET) www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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...

Another short interview (in German) early this morning #deutschlandfunk.kultur, about the visit of King Charles III in Canada today and some historical (plus also other) perspectives www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/koenig-charl...

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...

Affiliated scholar @swensteinberg.bsky.social recently spoke with Deutschlandfunk Kultur to provide a historical perspective on this week's elections in Canada

... deadline is Monday next week - please share: the knowledge from your research, and the Call within your networks!

... 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...

Happy to be the moderator of the "Migration, Identity, and Space in Contemporary Literature and Film" panel @thegsa.bsky.social, many thanks to the program committee #GSA2025 - and to Helga Schreckenberger @uvmvermont for organizing this!

Accepted: @rmgrossmann.bsky.social and I proposed the round-table "Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History" to the @thegsa.bsky.social, supported by @ghiwashington.bsky.social. We are looking forward to a inspiring conversation in DC!

This was a wonderful journey, with wonderful colleagues - our "Search of the Migrant Child" was the most precise definition of the terms cooperation and collaboration migchild.hypotheses.org

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!"

New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Kaia Santisteban #UniversityofBuenosAires publishes a "Anthropological Reflection on the Memories and Mobility of the Mapuche-Tehuelche People in the Andes Mountains" migrantknowledge.org/2025/04/14/a...

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...

Very sad to learn that John Meisel died. We featured the perspectives of this refugee from Vienna in our 2021 "Queen's Refuge: Refugees and the University" exhibition @queenshistory.bsky.social #DouglasLibrary www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor... virtual-exhibits.library.queensu.ca/queens-refug...

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!

Last call, this is coming tomorrow in Ottawa!

Check out our forum on social democracy and state violence, as well as other features and reports in our fall 2024 Bulletin— and be on the lookout for our spring 2025 issue, coming soon…