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

#CfP Eighth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: German History at the Crossroads? New Narratives, Perspectives and Approaches 📌 #Workshop at @colorado.edu| 06-07/03/2026| organised by @colorado.edu and @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📝 Deadline: 14/11/2025 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...#CfP

The Turkish translation of my book is coming soon! It tells the history of Turkish migration to Germany from the 1960s to 1990s, focusing on migrants who returned to Turkey. It exposes German racism and shows how the migrants gradually came to feel "foreign in two homelands." tinyurl.com/kahnbk.

As part of our “Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …” series we spoke with Lauren Rever, recently our @rrchnm.bsky.social Henkel Digital History Fellow, about her research into the history of Washington, DC school field trips: href.hypotheses.org/5298

#CfA "Mobility Fellowships - Global Indo-Pacific" to conduct research for 1-2 months at @arinus.bsky.social @dijtokyo.org @ghilondon.bsky.social @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr @ghiwashington.bsky.social or IAAS @humboldtuni.bsky.social Details ➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/7...

📢 Happening tomorrow!

Our colleague Andreas Greiner is featured in an episode of the Lufthansa podcast series "Above and Beyond" discussing the growth of the airline's route network as part of a look back at its century-long history: www.lufthansagroup.com/de/lufthansa...

Our 2025 annual lecture, "Frozen Conflicts between War and Peace," takes place this Thursday evening, September 30, in Washington. To attend in person, please visit our registration page: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

#CfA Research #Scholarships in Germany 2026 📌 for Researchers from the South Caucasus | 1 to 3 months | 1 January – 31 July, 2026 | offered by the Georgia Branch Office of #MWNEasternEurope 📝 Deadline: 15/11/2025 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment. @mellon.org 📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund ⏱️15 Nov 25 🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb

We’ve begun accepting applications for our Horner Library fellowships! In partnership with the German Society of Pennsylvania, these fellowships provide opportunities for researchers to visit one of the largest collections of German-American materials in the U.S. www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fel...

GHI Washington Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen will give our 2025 annual lecture next week on Thursday, October 30, titled “Frozen Conflicts between War and Peace,” with the comment provided by @avielroshwald.bsky.social. Join us in person or online: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Happy Open Access week! New titles in our three book series, as well as many of our older titles, are already available in open-access formats. 🧵Thread on where to find them... #OAWeek #OpenAccess

On November 20, we are pleased to co-sponsor with the German Society of Pennsylvania and the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies a virtual talk by Dr. Emily Sneff on "The German Audience for the Declaration of Independence." Register here: germansociety.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

Environmental historian Dorothee Brantz begins the 2025 Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour at UBC Vancouver today (Oct. 21) at 12:30pm PDT. Her talk explores how climate & the seasons have shaped urban life from the late 19th century to today. To watch over Zoom visit: history.ubc.ca/events/event...

Congratulations to @klosem.bsky.social, author of “Why They Gave,” and @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social, author of “Selling Weimar,” whose books in our THS book series have been shortlisted for the Richard T. Arndt Prize for Outstanding Work on Cultural Diplomacy! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Join us Oct. 30 for "Frozen Conflicts between War and Peace," our 2025 annual lecture, to be given by GHI director Ulrike von Hirschhausen www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Thanks to our colleagues for participating in last week's excellent conference "The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1890s-2000s"! ghiworkshops.hypothe...

❄️☀️ Urban life through the seasons! Our 11th Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour features Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin) on how climate & the seasons shape cities—from winter hubs to summer resorts. 📍 First stop: UBC Vancouver, Monday 🔗 history.ubc.ca/event... #UrbanHistory #EnvironmentalHistory

An interview with Lauren Rever, our most recent Henkel Digital History Fellow, has just been posted on @hsozkult.bsky.social

Really thankful to have had the opportunity to present my research and share dialogue with fellow researchers last week in DC.

Please note that we’ve extended the deadline to apply for our 2-year Pacific Office fellowship in Berkeley, California to October 31! www.ghi-dc.org/programs/pac...

Next week we look forward to hosting Prof. Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin) for the 2025 Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour. She will be giving her talk "Urban Seasonalities: Time, Culture, and the Environment in Summer Resorts and Winter Cities around 1900 and Today" at 4 universities in Canada

📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom. 1/6

Heute beim @ghiwashington.bsky.social zu Gast - mit einem Vortrag zur Transformation ostdeutscher Hochschulen und sozialen Ungleichheiten nach 1989/90: ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/campus-and-b...

We are happy to announce that our Research Centre Ukraine is now online with its own account! 👉 Follow @rcu-mws-ukraine.bsky.social for updates, upcoming events and projects

Our conference “The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1890s–2000s” begins tomorrow, with support from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The program can be found here: ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/campus-and-b...

Next week, in cooperation with @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social, Michael Wildt (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) will give the 2025 IES-GHI Feldman Lecture, titled "The Complex Legacies of Nazism: Current Perspectives on the History and Memory of National Socialism." Register to attend:

I really enjoyed our panel. Didi's and my paper both explored the characteristics and "usefulness" of fictional and fabricated sources and emphasized that Jewish history is also part of German-American history. Many thanks to @drjanaweiss.bsky.social for providing the comment! #migrationhistory

The relaunch of “German History in Documents and Images,” our bilingual, primary source collection, is almost complete! Its website can be found here: germanhistorydocs.org

Yesterday, we were thrilled to welcome Ulrike von Hirschhausen as she begins her term as director of the German Historical Institute Washington! Sign up for our newsletter to learn more about our work as we start a new chapter in the institute's history: ghidc.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/g...

Thank you to everyone who attended our roundtable on GHDI 2.0 at #theGSA2025 and a special thank you to our participants: @deanhummac.bsky.social, Jonathan Wiesen, Jim Retallack, and Simone Lässig! If you are teaching with our site, we'd love to hear from you!

Finally, applications for our binational Tandem Program, which provides a two-year research fellowship based at our Pacific Office in Berkeley @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social, are due on October 15: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/pac...

Applications for the @maxweberstiftung.de Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants are due on October 5: www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/careers/f...

Applications for the fall cycle of our short-term doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships are due October 1. Learn more about the criteria here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

📣 One last set of reminders about our upcoming fellowship deadlines is on the way!

My book was a Finalist for two awards at this year’s German Studies Association conference: the David Barclay Book Prize, and the DAAD/GSA Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences. Link to download the open access PDF below 👇 @universitypress.cambridge.org @ghiwashington.bsky.social

In unserer Reihe #MWSInterns stellen wir Praktikant*innen und ihre Arbeitsbereiche vor. Heute nimmt uns Clemens Wagner mit zu seinem #Praktikum am @ghiwashington.bsky.social 💼☕📚 Was waren seine Aufgaben? Was hat ihm besonders gefallen? 🔗 Hier geht's zum Interview: gab.hypotheses.org/1...#MWSInterns#Praktikum

Come visit our table at #thegsa2025 to learn more about our book series, fellowship programs, upcoming workshops and more!

Looking forward to this roundtable #thegsa2025 I have organized with Rebekka Grossmann @rmgrossmann.bsky.social

Deadline reminder: Applications for our next round of doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships are due October 1 www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

Excited to be taking part in #theGSA2025 this week in Arlington! Come find us in the exhibitors' gallery! In addition, several of our colleagues will be taking part in sessions during the conference... thegsa.org/blog/2025-gs...

The AHA's Congressional Briefings program offers historical expertise to congressional offices around many important issues. You can find resources & recordings on our website on topics including tariffs, deportation & immigration, AI, gerrymandering, housing policy, higher ed policy, & more. 🗃

Call for Applications: “8th West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: German History at the Crossroads? New Narratives, Perspectives and Approaches,” hosted at @colorado.edu and taking place March 2026. Further info here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Können Universitäten die #Demokratie retten? Das diskutierten Expert:innen am 10.9. Ein Fazit: Unis sind nicht per se „Rettungsanker“ der Demokratie – aber ohne sie fehlen zentrale Orte für kritisches Denken und offene Debatten. Video+Bericht gibt es hier 👇 www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/veranstal...

Beim @historikertag.bsky.social und auf der Suche nach Lesestoff? Bei Franz Steiner gibt es packendes zum US-Humanitarismus in Nachkriegsdeutschland. Nicht in Bonn? Kein Problem. Hier gibt's den Open-Access-Download: www.steiner-verlag.de/Why-They-Gav... Courtesy of @ghiwashington.bsky.social