Robert Grötzsch’s "Tormann Bobby" (1938), written in exile, follows a young footballer amid tensions of capitalism, belonging, and fascism. Republished this summer @fesonline.bsky.social with my intro on refugees, soccer and social justice. Podcast interview: pivoundklobasa.de/36-das-abent...

Today, I received the first-time Czech translation of "Our Quest for a Homeland: A Novel of Emigration." The book was written by German Social Democrat, journalist, and refugee Robert Grötzsch, who fled to Czechoslovakia in March 1933.

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Just got a picture of Heather and me putting the final touches on the exhibition

Gave a guest lecture this week on “Flight to Canada? Immigration, Internment & Transit, Memory” in Simone Lässig’s course “Life in Transit” at @tu-braunschweig.de. Two weeks ago, I talked about Czechoslovakia, Borderland Networks, Resistance, and Memory. Grateful for the chance to share my research

If you want to learn more about the issue and topic before the event, follow the link to get to the #openaccess version: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @lunduniversity.bsky.social @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @swensteinberg.bsky.social

Looking forward to @thegsa.bsky.social annual conference in Phoenix #GSA2026 this Fall. Together with Simone Lässig @tu-braunschweig.de, Jennifer Rodgers #CIERA and Frank Mecklenburg #LBI New York | Berlin I've organized the two panel session "Family Archives in/of Global Transit"

Congrats to Queen's @acs.org Student Chapter for organizing the Historic Chemical Landmark honoring refugee chemist Alfred Bader. Glad to contribute research insights, speak at the ceremony, and presenting “A Journey in 15 Objects” with Heather Home @quarchives.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mrzubfbr

Great news: the UK will rejoin Erasmus+ in 2027. As former Erasmus coordinator in History at @tudresden.bsky.social (2010–18), I especially valued our partnership with @exeter.ac.uk. After the Brexit uncertainty in 2016, its encouraging to see academic exchange opening up again tinyurl.com/mr2b99us

Yesterday and today, more Stolpersteine / stumbling blocs were laid in Dresden to commemorate victims of Nazi persecution. I initiated having this art and memorial project there in 2008; in 2009, the first five blocs were installed. And yesterday marked the 400th! Grateful this work continues!

The CfA deadline for the 2027 volume of "History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" is coming tomorrow - please share and apply

Looking forward to marking the 75th anniversary of Canada-Germany bilateral relations at this event! Learn more about #Canada - #Germany relations ⬇️ www.international.gc.ca/country-pays...

Fantastic presentation + discussion with Dolores Augustine (St. John's University) and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Technische Universität Berlin) today in our "In Global Transit" working group @tu-braunschweig.de Stay tuned: transit.hypotheses.org Upcoming call: www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

Join the In Global Transit working group , founded by former GHI director Simone Lässig and @swensteinberg.bsky.social tomorrow, May 5, 12:30pm ET on the topic of "Permanently in Transit? The Inability of Refugees of the Spanish Civil War to let go of their Homeland” queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to this "75 Years Canada-Germany Diplomatic Relations" event in June @uottawa.ca, organized by @cepi-cips.bsky.social @germanyincanada.bsky.social @globalaffairs.canada.ca and @daadworldwide.bsky.social www.cips-cepi.ca/event/75-yea...

Looking forward to this online talk (in German), “Max Sachs: Life and Work – Crime and Accountability – Reckoning and Remembrance,” on May 9 at Chemnitzer Museumsnacht, where I will discuss my 2024 book on this Jewish journalist and Social Democrat tinyurl.com/k4wsswbc Book: tinyurl.com/4jsnm4h4

Please sign this open letter supporting the Köpenick Blood Week Memorial (Berlin), commemorating SA terror (June 20–24, 1933). Hundreds were abducted and tortured; at least 23 murdered. A stark reminder how fast hate turns into violence. Sign: innn.it/rettet-die-g... #rettetdiegedenkstaette

Nice prep at Queen's Archives today, Heather Home @quarchives.bsky.social and I @queenshistory.bsky.social picked objects for a exhibition about refugee-chemist Alfred Bader for the International Historic Chemical Landmark Ceremony at Queen’s on May 8 qacsstudentchapter.wixsite.com/q-acs/bader-...

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Great conversation today at the "Critical Issues in Global Historiography" online conference of the Global History Initiative @queenshistory.bsky.social, looking forward to the next two days www.queensu.ca/ghi/critical...

Glad to be invited to serve for another term at the International Advisory Board of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge @lunduniversity.bsky.social until 2029 newhistoryofknowledge.com/events/inter...

CfP "History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" (peer-reviewed, open access) for Volume 6 (2027), deadline May 8 - www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Nice screening and discussion today of the 1993 movie "The Joy Luck Club" at The Screening Room, presented by @queenshistory.bsky.social

Coming soon: "Diaspora, Gender & Generation in 'The Joy Luck Club'" - screening & history talk - secure your ticket & spread the word March 28, 2026 3:30 – 6:00 PM The Screening Room Movie Theatre 120 Princess Street, Kingston Tickets: www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/the-jo...

Looking forward to the upcoming Queen's-BSIA International Migrations and Mobilities Graduate Symposium on "Borders, and (Un)Bordering: Analyzing Migration and (Im)Mobility In An Era Of 'Polycrisis'" - March 20 & 21, 2026 www.queensu.ca/mobilities-m...

SAVE THE DATE – May 5, 6:30-7:30PM (Central European) – online presentation + discussion with Dolores Augustine (St. John's University) and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Technische Universität Berlin) I co-organized with "In Global Transit" @tu-braunschweig.de socialhistoryportal.org/news/article...

Glad that I could participate online yesterday in an event in Waldheim / Saxony and talk about my 2015 dissertation on Christian corporate cultures and the industrialization in rural regions of 19th/20th Central Germany, the book is now available open access: slub.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3...

Last year, I joined the Editors-in-Chief team of "History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" (peer-reviewed, open access), after serving on the Advisory Board since 2021. Please share the CfP for Volume 6 (2027) - newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/03/12/c...

Call for Paper: "Family Archives in / of Global Transit: Knowledge, Memory and the Ambiguity between Private and Public," a workshop I co-organize in May 2027 @tu-braunschweig.de, deadline July 31, 2026 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Looking forward to this talk tomorrow @queenshistory.bsky.social

Save the date - and your ticket: on March 28, I will present and discuss "The Joy Luck Club" from 1993 at The Screening Room in Kingston and as part of my seminar on diaspora and migration @queenshistory.bsky.social - open to the public, share widely! www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/the-jo...

Nice turnout & discussion today with Thorsten Faas @utoronto.ca @daadworldwide.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social at @queensucsdd.bsky.social today, many thanks for sharing your research on young voters

Room change: because of the expected turnout, we switched this @queensucsdd.bsky.social event to the bigger D 201 room at Mackintosh-Corry Hall

Copies arrived: special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" I've edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social - with articles by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...

What influence do young people have on politics today? And how does social media influence them? I invited Thorsten Faas @utoronto.ca @daadworldwide.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social to discuss these questions @queensucsdd.bsky.social - mark your calendar for Mar 2, 1-2.30pm, MackCorry A309

#OTD 1945, allied forces bombed Dresden. Years ago, I've published a text about the Heidefriedhof as a main place of commemoration - and instrumentalization of history until today, confusing victims and perpetrators abolishcommemoration.org/steinberg.html www.verbrecherverlag.de/wp-content/u...

New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Nicolas Blumenthal @unifr.bsky.social wrote about "Challenging 'Racelessness:' Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland" migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179

Mark your calendar: on March 28, I will present and discuss "The Joy Luck Club" from 1993 at The Screening Room in Kingston and as part of my seminar on diaspora and migration @queenshistory.bsky.social www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/the-jo...

Excited to see this out! I really enjoyed contributing thoughts racist violence, “gang wars,” and policing in ‘90s Berlin. Thank you @swensteinberg.bsky.social and Raphael Rössel for putting together this important special issue!

Nice conversation today with @matthiasecke.bsky.social @europarl.europa.eu, many thanks to the @fesonline.bsky.social regional office in Saxony for organizing this

Looking forward to the conversation (in German) with @matthias-ecke.eu @europarl.europa.eu next week about transatlantic perspectives on Greenland and the US, organized by @fesonline.bsky.social. Join us online: www.fes.de/veranstaltun...

Hot off the press: I edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social a special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" - with contributions by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...

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...