this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

I spoke with "Forward" about why comparions between the murder of Charlie Kirk and the Nazi "martyr" Horst Wessel are problematic in several respects: forward.com/news/768607/...

What’s a big export sector shared by Leicester, Exeter and Newcastle? Award yourself five points if you said higher education

It’s insane what’s going on at the University of Chicago, and this is well worth reading. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Polen schafft Deutschland-Beauftragten ab: „Das sind schlechte Nachrichten“ Parallel zum Amtsantritt des nationalpopulistischen Präsidenten Nawrocki entlässt die Regierung den vielfach ausgezeichneten Breslauer Historiker Krzysztof Ruchniewicz. #Polen #Deutschland

In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...

Workshop: Translating Cultures: Migration, Mobility and Translation in Europe, c1600-1850, 3/4 September 2025, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. With @rhammersley99.bsky.social @ebuchetmann.bsky.social @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social et al. The programme is now online @ www.hab.de/event/transl...

Mein Artikel zur Begriffsgeschichte von #Propaganda für das Projekt "Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen" des ‪@zfl-berlin.bsky.social‬ ist erschienen. Vielen Dank an Barbara Picht, Falko Schmieder und Ernst Müller für die Betreuung! Die Veröffentlichung ist open access: doi.org/10.31267/Gru...

‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’ FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches! www.ft.com/content/3162...

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

Today we awarded Professor @davidolusoga.bsky.social OBE an honorary degree for his outstanding work as a social historian. As someone who grew up in Tyneside we asked David what he misses most about living here, as well as his words of advice for the graduating class of 2025. #WeAreNCL #NCLGrad

📆 13.-14. November, Düsseldorf Was ist Kopfarbeit, und wie prägte sie die Geschichte der Arbeit in der Industriemoderne? Diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen widmet sich die Tagung in Kooperation mit der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social. Alle Infos zu Programm und Anmeldung: www.boeckler.de/de/a...

Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

1945–2025. War and Post-War(s). Contemporary Perspectives on the Post-WWII World. 📅 June 16–18 | #paris International #conference Series (Berlin & New York) 🔗 Program: https://t1p.de/zoko1 #theendsofwar #endofwwii #wwii80 @unesco @histodons

Wir blicken auf die "Goldenen Zwanziger" noch heute mit den Augen von Pionierinnen der Fotografie. Susanne Byk, Frieda Riess, "Yva" und Marta Vietz schufen großartige Bilder - bis zur Nazi-Zeit. Herzlichen Dank an die @taz.de, dass ich als Gastautor daran erinnern darf. 👇 👇 👇 taz.de/Vor-100-Jahr...

Very shy to share this new text of mine. Here’s a very personal essay about being an independent scholar, my method, about immigration, cracks in academia and fragments. I don’t know if people even read this kind of stuff anymore but if you do, enjoy. aseees.org/newsnet-arti...

Aus aktuellem Anlass ein wenig Werbung in eigener Sache - zur Geschichte der "Weltbühne" von den 1920er Jahren bis 1993:

Some of the best research at universities is done by PhD students. At British universities, scholarships for ‘student-initiated PhDs’ and for those who need them most will be substantially reduced from 2025/26 onwards. I recommend this article: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-f...

Lektor at home verlost ein Freiexemplar dieses Buchs von @dstolper.bsky.social. Teilnahme per Like bis Montag Vormittag.

PhD position available in "Early Modern Global History" (1400-1800) in the Department of Modern History, University of Tübingen (3+1 years), working under the supervision of the amazing Christina Brauner @chbrauner.bsky.social. Apply by 20 June. Details attached.

Wer wissen möchte, was wir am @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social treiben, dem empfehle ich den neuen Podcast mit Leonie Wolters über alternative Nachrichtenagenturen im globalen Süden. Sehr spannend zu hören, wie sie die Mainstream-News veränderten: zzf-potsdam.de/forschung/ne...

Our special section "In Search of the Migrant Child" with Journal of Contemporary History by Bettina Hitzer, @swensteinberg.bsky.social, Sheer Ganor and myself is finally printed. With @susannequitmann.bsky.social,@dacretu.bsky.social, Emma Wyse & Kimberly Cheng, journals.sagepub.com/toc/JCH/curr...

Screenshot from Times Higher Education today

Launching "Historians on Democracy", a transatlantic network and conversation series! For inputs by historians working across the Atlantic on the rise and demise of democratic orders join us on Tue, April 8, 11-12 a.m. EST/17-18 CET, speakers t.b.a. Register: uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to the workshop 'Exile, Migration, Translation' at Newcastle University on 26 February 2025. Organised by @gmahlberg.bsky.social, with a keynote by Susanne Lachenicht and in cooperation with the Modern European History seminar at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

My #book is now available for pre-order with OUP. It's a comparative study of #emergency powers in #Britain and #Germany during WW1. The hardcover price is a bit steep, but I hope it will sell well enough for the publisher to consider a paperback edition. #skystorians

1/Soeben muss ich erfahren, dass bei dem gestrigen Zugunglück der Historiker Thomas Großbölting (Jg. 1969) so schwer verletzt wurde, dass er auf dem Weg ins Krankenhaus verstarb. Ich habe einige Jahre mit Thomas zusammengearbeitet. Er war ein vielseitig interessierter Historiker

Bob (R.I.) Moore, Professor @newcastleuni.bsky.social for many years, died this morning. He leaves behind an impressive body of academic work, including his masterpiece “The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215”. He was also a pioneer of comparative world history. We will sorely miss him.

📢 We're proud to announce over 1,000 scholarships for international and EU students to support them to pursue their degrees, and help to foster a truly global academic community here at Newcastle University. 🌎 Find out more➡️ www.ncl.ac.uk/study/global... #WeAreNCL #WeAreInternational #Scholarships

Stabi on Potsdamerplatz in Berlin: the last modernist giant, falling apart, roof leaking, the Fighting Temeraire of libraries, a 1970s time machine which gave me my PhD and most of my publications, a magical place, a testament of an epoch when libraries were ships moored in the centers of our cities

Including in nineteenth century cities of Central Europe @danielsiemens.bsky.social (Newcastle), 'The German language is "just our blood. We can't get over it." German-Jewish exiles in New York after 1945 and the problem of language and translation'

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

Workshop: 'Exile, Migration, Translation', Newcastle University, 26 February 2025, 3-5.30pm. Come and join us for an afternoon of papers and discussions with Mark Hutchinson, Katalin Straner, Markian Prokopovych, @danielsiemens.bsky.social and Susanne Lachenicht! @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Just published - the American edition of my book "Hinter der ,Weltbühne'", initially written in German and originally published in 2022. The contact sheet we have used for the cover is from the photographer Fred Stein. I hope you'll like it!

Nicht verpassen! Am 28.1. um 18:00 Uhr stellen Stefanie Fischer und Kim Wünschmann in der Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin ihre Graphic History vor: t1p.de/bb4gk. Mit Stefanie Schüler-Springorum und Jacob Eder diskutieren sie Holocaust-Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung im Comic. Zur Anmeldung👇

The LBI London is pleased to present an online lecture by Professor Hermann Beck, historian and recent recipient of the 2024 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 19:00 GMT Book now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/beck-25

Am 10. Januar 1927 wurde der Film Metropolis im Ufa-Palast am Zoo uraufgeführt. "In Metropolis schien das gelähmte Kollektivbewusstsein mit ungewöhnlicher Klarheit im Schlaf zu reden." Siegfried Kracauer, Von Caligari zu Hitler, 1947.

Just published: "Transformationen einer Polizei: Das Landeskriminalamt Sachsen im 20. Jahrhundert", edited by Mike Schmeitzner, Carsten Schreiber and Tom Thieme. Details attached.

"Eine starke Hand ist jetzt unbedingt erforderlich ..." Ergebenheitsadresse deutscher Industrieller an Himmler samt mehr als eine Million Reichsmark Spenden für "besondere Aufgaben". @tagesspiegel.de #OTD 1945 auf der Titelseite über den Hauptkriegsverbrecher-Prozess in Nürnberg.

Eines der Bücher im nächsten Jahr, dem ich viele Leserinnen und Leser wünsche - es lohnt sich! Christoph Kreutzmüller und Bjoern Weigel, Berlin im Nationalsozialismus: Abriss einer Stadtgeschichte, Berlin 2025. Erscheinungsterm: März!

The Call for Papers for the conference "Fascism at the ballot boxes: Political Imaginaries, Constituency, Militancy (Europe, 1918-1945)" in Bordeaux, 13-14 November 2025 has been published. If that sounds interesting to you, see: danslesurnes.hypotheses.org/call-for-app... Please share widely.

Im neuen Heft der Historischen Zeitschrift ist im Forum "Antisemitismus, Postkolonialismus, Israelkritik" neben Texten von Ulrike Jureit, Andreas Wirsching und Jan Gerber auch ein Beitrag von mir erschienen: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Lesenswerter Nachruf auf Historiker-Kollegen Jens Dobler: Warum dieser Hass auf Schwule? www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nachr... via @Tagesspiegel

Die Bewerbungsfrist für das Projekt "Jüdisches Musikleben in Bayern 1930–50" @BenHaimZentrum läuft noch bis zum 10. Dezember. #jewishstudies stellen.hmtm.de/jobposting/a...

Attending #AHA25, the American Historical Association @ahahistorians.bsky.social annual meeting in NYC in January? I've organized two roundtables entitled "The Large and the Small: Trade-list History, Biography, and Memoir" parts 1 and 2. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #18thcentury 1/🧵

The next seminar of Newcastle University's Modern European History seminar is tomorrow, 20 November, 4pm: Katalin Straner will speak about #Knowledge in #Exile: Translating #Science for (and in) 19th-century Central Europe. Details attached. All welcome!

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

People in the UK!