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#GermanHistSoc2025 starts TOMORROW! We can't wait to see everyone in Loughborough! You can check out the full programme here: www.germanhistorysoc...

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In #Erfurt finden #andiesemTag 1975, heute vor 50 Jahren, die ersten pogromartigen Ausschreitungen in Deutschland seit Kriegsende statt: Aufgeheizt von erfundenen Gerüchten über Vertragsarbeiter machen bis zu 300 Deutsche Jagd auf Algerier. Erst nach drei Tagen kann die Lage beruhigt werden. 1/

Das IGdJ auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social 2025 mit rechtsgeschichtlicher Fachsektion unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social u.a.auf Basis neuer #OpenAccess Studie zu "Enemy Alien"-Tribunalen im Zweiten Weltkrieg: doi.org/10.1080/0261... t1p.de/bk09u

There's just over two weeks left to register for #GermanHistSoc2025 !! On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon! www.germanhistorysoc...

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

The model of doctoral research that those of us who studied in the 1980s and 1990s experienced is essentially finished.

Pierre Bourdieu: 'Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal' (Polity Press, June 2025). bit.ly/3I0Dnud #sociology #soctheory #theorysky

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Six year position at Vienna! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Join us for IHR@Sheffield, 1 May, 4:15! Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War" There is an online option to join, please contact the convenors if you're interested!

Job available! This is a permanent position listed as "Lecturer in Central and East European History (including Russia/Soviet), Post-1800." It is in a fantastic department in London (UCL History). Applications are due May 9th. Please share and apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT327/l...

!!! CHANGE OF DATE !!! The IHR@Sheffield lecture will now take place on 1 May, 4:15pm

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

Join us for IHR@Sheffield! Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War" The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm. Save the date, more details to follow

Weltweit renommierte Faschismus-Forscher verlassen die USA mit den Worten "Meine Vorfahren sind auch 1939 aus Deutschland geflohen" und hier wird noch über das F-Wort diskutiert.

We have two events coming up next week! Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm) and Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm) Sign-up below

Einige Künstler waren für die NS-Propaganda so zentral, dass Hitler sie vom Fronteinsatz freistellte. In der Nachkriegszeit setzten viele von ihnen ihre Karrieren fort – etwa bei der »documenta«, die Westdeutschland eine neue kulturelle Identität geben sollte.

🚨GERDA HENKEL VISITNG PROFESSORSHIP 2026/27 🚨 The @ghilondon.bsky.social and LSE are recruiting for the Visiting Professorship in the field of 19th and 20th century German history in a European, colonial and/or global perspective. www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/02/14/g...

On April 1, we will be holding a roundtable on our new book: Socialism and International Law at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/e...

PhD candidates! We still welcome applications for our PhD showcase until 13 Dec. Come and present your project to the wider German history crowd at a seminar on 29 Jan 2025 More details here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/mod...

"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:

Happy to see my article "Criminalizing Nazism and Neo-fascism" out in Humanity. It's part of a dossier edited by James Mark and Phil Clark titled "Not Nuremberg. Histories of Alternative Criminalization Paradigms, 1945-2021" There will be a launch event at SOAS on 29 Nov! muse.jhu.edu/issue/53487

Join us for our first seminar this academic year! Rory Hanna discusses: "Early Democratisers? West German Students’ Campaigns for Participation in University Governance, 1957-1961" Wed, 16 Oct, 5:30pm (BST) Sign up here (in-person or online): www.history.ac.uk/events/moder...

The Table of Contents for Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and its Legacies - due out this fall with Oxford University Press.

Available in March 2024 from Oxford: Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Central Eastern Europe, and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law by Raluca Grosescu.

Join us online for our next online seminar on Wed, 13 March, 5:30pm (GMT) Sign up here: history.ac.uk/events/moder... Dr Ned Richardson-Little (Erfurt) discusses: "A Constitution of the Volk: Human Rights, the Basic Law and the Far-Right since German Reunification" All welcome!

We very much look forward to our hybrid ECR spotlight on Wed, 5:30 GMT. Tom Drechsel (Jena) speaks on Mozambican contract workers in the GDR and unified Germany, Alan Lee (London) discusses the instrumentalisation of flags in Cold War Berlin. Sign up here www.history.ac.uk/events/moder...

Join us for @willgray.bsky.social online talk at the IHR Modern German History seminar this week on Wednesday (5:30 GMT). All welcome! Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/events/west-...

New proposal to destroy hard copies of key historical documents (unless they relate to 'notable individuals' such as 'Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and Diana, Princess of Wales'. Please read, reality check & respond. Consultation ends 23 Feb 2024 www.gov.uk/government/n...

We look forward to welcoming Laura Tradii (Kent) on 13 Dec, 5:30 (GMT) for her paper "Legacies of Mass Death on East German Soil: Living with Wehrmacht Fallen Soldiers in the Soviet Occupation Zone and GDR". Join us in person or online, sign up here for both option: www.history.ac.uk/events/legac...

Die mutmaßlichen Putschisten um Prinz Reuß wollten eigene „Heimatschutzkräfte“ aufbauen – mit 75 000 Mann unter Waffen. Davon waren sie weit entfernt. Doch Recherchen zeigen: Sie hatten offenbar mehr Mitstreiter aus Bundeswehr und Polizei als bislang bekannt www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Very much looking forward to the next IHR Modern German History seminar (15 Nov, 5:30 GMT). Dr Jane Freeland will be talking about "Gender Regimes and Divided German History: Rethinking Asymmetry and Entanglement" It's an in-person seminar, but there is an option to join online. Sign up here: