❄️ Please note that our library in Washington will be closed beginning Monday, December 22nd, and re-open on Monday, January 5th! ❄️

📣 Veranstaltungsbericht ist online!

Dream job, even in this climate. Amazing institute in a wonderful city. Gotta love the district. If you are entertaining the thought, do apply!

We are seeking to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 2026. Applications are due on January 11; for more details visit: www.ghi-dc.org/news-...

We are accepting applications for our six- to twelve-month Visiting Fellowships, for the 2026-2027 academic year, until January 12. Learn more about our thematic areas and the application process here: www.ghi-dc.org/progr...

We recently sat down with Visiting Fellow Douwe Schipper to learn more about his postdoctoral research project examining the politics of mass transit in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s... read on here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-...

The report for this year's conference "Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945," generously funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de, is now available on our website: www.ghi-dc.org/event...

📢 CFP / Fellowship Opportunity Apply to the 2026 Summer Institute on the Holocaust & Jewish Civilization at Northwestern (June 21–July 3). A two-week residential program for faculty, grad students, and educators. Fellowships cover room, board & tuition. 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 1, 2026

#CfA Pre-Dissertation Fellowship For Doctoral Students in German and European #History at North-American West Coast Universities 📌 Two Summer #Fellowships | for enrolled doctoral #students | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📝Deadline: 31 January 2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Now on LISA: Opening Discussion "Universities and the Public Good. Research, Education and Democracy since 1945" @volkswagenstiftung.de With Suzanne L. Marchand; Julie Reuben; Susanne Schregel Moderated by Axel Jansen; Charlotte Lerg @ghiwashington.bsky.social #histuni #histedu #histsci

GHI director Ulrike von Hirschhausen will be taking part in a “Late-Breaking Session” at #AHA26 on “Imperial Legacies? Palestine, Russia, and the US—Changing Landscapes in 2025,” on Sunday at 11am www.historians.org/events/annua...

📚 Out now in our "Studies in German History" series: "A History of the I.G. Farben Trial" by Stephan H. Lindner, published by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

#CfA Fellowship at the Horner Library 📌 2-4 Fellowships | between April 1 and Sept. 30, 2026 | in #Philadelphia | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social and #GermanSocietyOfPennsylvania | for PhD and M.A. students and advanced scholars 📝 Deadline: 1 March, 2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Our colleagues are excited to take part in the American Historical Association's annual meeting next month in Chicago! Here is a quick preview of some of the panels we'll be part of. #AHA26

Bewerben Sie sich bis zum 15. Februar für das KFW-Fellowship! Gefördert werden können Archiv- und Bibliotheksforschungen in Paris sowie Manuskriptarbeit und Vertiefung von wissenschaftlichen Kontakten. ➡️ www.dhi-paris.fr/de/...

#Chancen | The @ghiwashington.bsky.social seeks to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #fellowship Deadline for applications: January 11, 2025

#Chancen | The @ghiwashington.bsky.social (GHI) invites applications for its long-term visiting fellow program | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #fellowship Deadline for applications: January 12, 2026

Congratulations to our former Visiting Fellow Simon Unger, who will be joining Princeton Theological Seminary as assistant professor of modern European Christianity next month! ptsem.edu/about/the-qu...

Yesterday & today we've been holding our annual Fellows’ Symposium, one of the rare moments when our whole research community gathers together, featuring dynamic presentations and conversations across global, European, & American history and showcasing the breadth of research the GHI supports.

Congratulations to former Visiting Fellow Karina Kriegesmann on publishing a new study of the Emergency Committee to Aid Latin American Scholars, based in part on research conducted at our Pacific Office. Available in #OpenAccess: www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...

#CfP Transformation of Heritage, Heritage of Transformation. Political Change and its Impact on Synagogues 📌 #Conference in #Lithuania at #KlaipedaUniversity | 12/10-14/10/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #KlaipedaUniversity and #BetTfila 📝 Deadline: 31/01/2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

‪ 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...

We spoke with current Visting Fellow Max Gaida about his project “From Red Light to Rainbow: The Politics of Sex and Space in Philadelphia’s Urban Crises. Read our interview here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/in...

Congratulations to former Visiting Fellow Prakash Kumar (history & Asian Studies, Penn State) on the publication of his monograph "A History of India's Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025)! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

Our Fall 2025 Bulletin (issue #76) is now online! The full issue is available in #OpenAccess here: www.ghi-dc.org/publi...#76)#OpenAccessSome highlights of this issue include:

Die auf dem letzten Historikertag von @kdstahl.bsky.social und Andreas Greiner @ghiwashington.bsky.social organisierte Sektion „Luftkrieg, Recht und Macht“ mit @janinefunke.bsky.social und annakferl.bsky.social kann das Forschungsgespräch nun bei HSozKult nachlesen: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...

Who produces history, and under what conditions? ⏱️ Only a few days left to submit your proposal #cfp #PublicHistory #citizenscience #heritage www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

📰 In der neusten Ausgabe unseres Forschungsmagazin #WeltweitVorOrt haben wir mit der Historikerin Viola Alianov-Rautenberg vom @ghiwashington.bsky.social über die Rolle von Kontrafakturen in der jüdischen Emigrationsgeschichte gesprochen. 🔗 Jetzt lesen unter www.maxweberstiftung...

The newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...

Excited to share that we’re hiring! We are now accepting applications for two full-time Research Fellow positions in modern/contemporary history in Washington, to begin in June 2026. More details available here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...

#CfP Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 📌 #Workshop at #UCBerkeley | 16/11-17/11/2026 | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📝 Deadline: 16/01/2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

#CfP 31st Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History from the 18th Century to the Present 📌 #Seminar at #UCBerkeley | 16/06-18/06/2026 | organised by @cgesgeorgetown.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📝 Deadline: 31/12/2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...#CfP

Happening tomorrow! Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... #colonialhistory #skystorians

Frisch erschienen: #WeltweitVorOrt zur #Musikforschung in der MWS 🎶 Von jüdischen Kontrafakturen bis zur osmanischen Kunstmusik. 🔗 Hier geht's zum #ePaper: publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor... @ghiwashington.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social

Looking forward to tomorrow's online talk by Emily Sneff, "The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence," co-sponsored with the German Society of Pennsylvania & the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. Registration info here: germansociety.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

We are now accepting nominations for our 2025 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university. Information about the application process is available here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fri...

#CfP International Summer School “Innovative Perspectives on Holocaust Research: Sources, Method, and Digital Tools” 📌 #Workshop and #Seminar in #Warsaw | 05-10/07/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #PolishCenterforHolocaustResearch and others 📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

We are now accepting Visiting Fellowship applications (6–12 months) for the 2026–27 academic year! Learn about our research areas and how to apply here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/lon...

📣 New Call for Abstracts! Our workshop "Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th Centuries" will take place in Nov. 2026 at our Pacific Office at UC Berkeley. Learn more: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

📣 Application deadline extended: The new application deadline for the Academy in Exile Fellowships is 30 November! Are you a researcher who is under threat because of your academic work or civic engagement? Then apply now! 📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu @mellon.org

Job opportunity! There's still time to apply for a Research Associate position on the project “Money, History, and Moral Economies: Communicative Functions of Monetary Information in the Institutional Historiography of the Later Middle Ages (1250–1530)” funded by the German Research Foundation! 1/2

Congratulations to former visiting fellow Rebekka Grossmann, who will be awarded the @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social »Zeitgeschichte digital« für Wissenschaftskommunikation prize later this month! zzf-potsdam.de/wissenstrans...

Reminder: Applications for our 2026 West Coast Germanists' Workshop are due this Friday, November 14! Details about our gathering next spring at UC Boulder are here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:

I’m very happy to announce that I won a book prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism. @ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Today we were happy to welcome Ambassador Jens Hanefeld – a former Stipendiat at @ghilondon.bsky.social – to our office for a lively discussion about history and diplomacy. Alles gute for your time in Washington, Ambassador!

In honor of World Digital Preservation Day, please enjoy our short interview with Wolfram Dornik, head of the Graz (Austria) city archives, about the innovative Citizen Archive Platform they've developed: href.hypotheses.org/... #WDPD2025

🎉📣Deadline EXTENDED to Dec 31 📣🎉 Do send in your proposals, we're eager to learn all about your research! @thegsa.bsky.social #GermanStudies #History @ghiwashington.bsky.social

Congratulations to our colleague Axel Jansen who was recently elected to the board of the AFS Foundation, which works to preserve the archives and legacy of the World War I–era American Field Service afs.foundation

The Max Weber Foundation’s Research Centre Ukraine and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (@badw.de ) invite applications for the German-Ukrainian Fellowship Programme for Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars 2025/26 Deadline: 25 November 2025 @maxweberstiftung.de