ICYMI: Check out our recent interview with Visiting Research Fellow Daniele Valisena! www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/in...

On April 9 I will be discussing with the brilliant Diana Kim my Capitalism: A Global History in Washington D.C. Details below. Come join us! www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Kudos to our former Visiting Fellow Erica Lansberg from our side as well!

There’s still time to apply for our next cycle of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships— our next deadline is April 1. Read more about our guidelines here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

Only a few days left to apply for our PhD and Postdoc Scholarships at the GHIL! Applications close 31 March! Find out more: www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunitie... #skystorians #scholarship #phd #postdoc

Thanks so much to @brianbunk.bsky.social for his great talk to start our spring lecture series on soccer!

As Women's History Month comes to a close, here is a thread of some of our most popular women's history articles!

The March issue of the JAH is out! Get a preview of the contents at Process: A Blog for American History. https://www.oah.org/process/march-2026

Still time for anyone -- including Austrian music legend Stefan Sterzinger, "the pharmacist of anarchy" -- to submit Research Grant application for research/project promoting understanding of historic relationship between U.S. and (Habsburg) Austria. More: botstiberbiaas.org/march-31-202...

Join us on April 9th for "Rethinking the History of Capitalism," a conversation with Sven Beckert and Diana Kim (Georgetown University) about what it means to write the history of capitalism on a truly global scale. Register in person or to live stream here: www.ghi-dc.org/event...

Applications for our next round of doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships are due on April 1st! Learn more about our fellowship guidelines by visiting our web site: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

Reading in Times of AI: What lies ahead? Last week in Lviv, we reflected on how practices of reading are changing in the age of artificial intelligence and what this transformation means for the present and future of the humanities. @maxweberstiftung.de

Have housemaids staged a comeback? Join us next Thursday for the final lecture in our Spring Series! 📅 Nicole Kramer (Universität zu Köln) will give a talk on 'The Return of the Maidservant? The Hidden History of Long-Term Care for Older People' at Pushkin House (with Zoom option). 1/4

Tonight our Spring Lecture Series on "Soccer: The Beautiful Game" begins! "Soccer in the United States before 1950: The First Golden Age?" ⚽⚽⚽ www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

See a lot of German and transatlantic research on the program for #SMH26. @smh-historians.bsky.social attendees—take note!

Applications for our next round of doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships are due on April 1st! Learn more about our fellowship guidelines by visiting our web site: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

📚 Heute bei #OrteDesWissens: die #Bibliothek des Orient-Instituts #Istanbul. Mitten in Galata ist sie ein wichtiger Anlaufpunkt für Forschung zur osmanischen, türkischen und mediterranen #Geschichte, #Kultur und #Gesellschaft. Zum Steckbrief 👇 gab.hypotheses.org/19232

"Soccer: The Beautiful Game," our 2026 Spring Lecture Series, kicks off this week! Check out the poster for our events on March 26, May 13, and June 4, and learn more about registering to attend by visiting www.ghi-dc.org/2026-spring-...

CfA: Summer School “Diversity and Marginality in the Black Sea Region” Dates: July 12–19, 2026 Location: Chișinău, Moldova Application deadline: April 1, 2026 Full details are available via the link: www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/... @maxweberstiftung.de

Our workshop “Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language” starts today, bringing together scholars from history, linguistics, media studies and other disciplines with the support of @volkswagenstiftung.de. Program: ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/listening-to...

#CfA #Internship at @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📌 three-month stay in 2027 | for students with a BA-degree or equivalent certification | in the departments of #History, #PoliticalScience, #PublicRelations or #PublicAdministration 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 🔗www.ghi-dc.org/progr...

“Soccer: The Beautiful Game,” our 2026 Spring Lecture Series, starts on Thursday, March 26! Our first event, on “Popularizing Soccer,” features Brian Bunk (@brianbunk.bsky.social) presenting “Soccer in the United States before 1950: The First Golden Age?” Signup info: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

🎧 Folge 27 unseres #Podcast „Wissen entgrenzen“ ist da! 🤖 Wie können Telepräsenz-Roboter & 3D-gedruckte Prothesen Teilhabe ermöglichen? – das fragt Janine Funke unsere Forscherinnen Melike Şahinol vom #OIIstanbul und Celia Spoden vom DIJ Tokyo

New interview posted! We spoke with Visiting Fellow Laurelin Middelkoop about her project on early modern political theory and some of the challenges and rewards of research www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/in...

Our Henkel Stiftung lecture tour continues this week when Prof. Dorothee Wierling visits @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social tomorrow, March 10, and UC San Diego on March 12. March 10th event information here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

⏰ There's still time! ⏰ Applications for individual papers, panels, and roundtables to the 2026 annual conference in Phoenix, AZ, are still being accepted through Wednesday, March 18, at 11:59 PM (PDT). 👉 Apply via the OpenWater application portal at: thegsa.secure-platform.com/50/

Our 8th West Coast Germanists’ Workshop is underway at @colorado.edu! Scholars from more than 20 colleges and universities are gathering for two days of discussions about current research and where the field is heading. Read more about the workshop program here: wcgw.hypotheses.org#schedule

From policy advocacy to AI, innovative teaching, and preparing for the semiquincentennial, #AHA26 sparked a weekend of dynamic conversation. With 500+ sessions in Chicago, discussions were wide-ranging and forward-looking. Read the full recap in #AHAPerspectives.

The next deadline to apply for our short-term research fellowships is April 1! Learn more about this program for doctoral and postdoctoral scholars here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

As the World Cup comes to North America this summer, our Spring Lecture Series looks back at the history of "Soccer: The Beautiful Game." We look forward to our 1st event on March 26 on "Popularizing Soccer" with @brianbunk.bsky.social — register to attend here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

LA folks: join us Wednesday at 4 PM at USC's Max Kade Institute for Dorothee Wierling on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Eastern Germany

#CfP Experiencing the Borders: The Long 1940s and Their Legacies in (Eastern) Europe 📌 #Conference in #Lviv | 16-18 September 2026 | organised by @rcu-mws-ukraine.bsky.social, #CenterForUrbanHistoryLviv, @crh.ehess.fr and more 📅 Deadline: 20 April 2026 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Excellent Finding Aids online for preparing an application for a GHI Research Fellowship or just checking their holdings. www.germansociety.org/horner-library

Next week our 2026 Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour begins! We look forward to welcoming Dorothee Wierling to present "The German Blues: A Historian’s Perspective on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Eastern Germany." Further information here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

#CfP Asynchronous Histories Summer School 📌 #SummerSchool from 31 August - 4 September 2026 | in #Warsaw | for #PhDStudents, #MasterStudents and #Postdocs in #Humanities and #SocialSciences | organised by #GHIWarsaw, #UniversityOfWarsaw & more 📅 Deadline: May 31 2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

The recording of Dr. Emily Sneff's talk "German Americans and the Founding of the United States" is now available online! The lecture looks back at how supporters like Mary Ludwig Hays—better remembered as Molly Pitcher—shaped the unfolding of the American Revolution: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jO_...

Apply now for our Horner Library fellowships, which fund research at the German Society of Pennsylvania's unparalleled collections on German-American culture and history. Deadline: March 15; more information at www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fel...

📣 CEH is now on LinkedIn! Head on over and give us a follow for the journal's latest updates and long-form posts! 👉 www.linkedin.com/company/cont...

#CfP AI through History, History through AI 📌#Conference on #DigitalHumanities and #DigitalHistory | 15-16 June 2026 | at University of #Luxembourg @uni.lu | focus on #AI and #HistoryOfSimulation | Co-Conveners @ghiwashington.bsky.social & more 📅Deadline: 1 March 2026 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Tomorrow (Feb. 19) at @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social GHI Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen will give a public lecture titled "Spaces of Contested Statehood: A Legacy of Empire.” To register to attend, please visit: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships @ghiwashington.bsky.social! Information here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

Now available in paperback: “Citizens into Dishonored Felons” by Timon de Groot, part of our @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Studies in German History book series!

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...

📣There's still time! Only one week left until the application deadline for participating in seminars at the GSA conference this year. ⏰Applications due on February 18 at 11:59 pm (PT) ⏰ See our website for the list of seminars and apply via the Open Water portal: 👉 thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsa...

The GHI Washington is saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Zohar Shavit of Tel Aviv University, who partnered with us in our project "Innovation through Tradition," and send our condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues. Learn more about the project here: jewishtrad.hypotheses.org

Happening tonight! Online talk by Dr. Emily Sneff on “German Americans and the Founding of the United States”… register here to attend: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

Happy Love Data Week! Check out our talk with Helena Friedrich Schwinghammer about using a dataset from the 1980s to answer new questions about deindustrialization in Germany, part of our @vhdonline.bsky.social "Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst…” interview series href.hypotheses.org/5722 #LoveData26

The Migrant Knowledge blog has a new location! You can now find it at migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org, complete with an archive of all of the site's past blogposts.

Are you an emerging scholar seeking to share your research with a wider audience? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" that highlights research by advanced grad students + early career on European history 1914-present. Submit your work! tinyurl.com/2s45996j