We’re excited to welcome Dr. Lyndal Roper to give the 2026 Feldman Memorial Lecture this week in Washington. Last spring, she spoke on @draftingthepast.bsky.social about her writing and research process; listen to more here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

🏅 Nominations are now being accepted for the David Barclay Book Prize, to be awarded by @thegsa.bsky.social to the best monograph on German or Central European history written in English or German and published in 2025. Nominations are due May 30; for further info: www.thegsa.org/grants-prize...

Ciao in Rom! Wir freuen uns auf die key note und eine spannende Tagung @lwlgeschichte.bsky.social @ghiwashington.bsky.social @fzh-hamburg.bsky.social

We interviewed Sarah Weicksel, Executive Director of @historians.org, for the latest issue of #WeltweitVorOrt, the @maxweberstiftung.de magazine, about the current status & future of archives in the U.S. The interview is now available here! gab.hypotheses.org/23186

Dorothee Wierling's 2026 Henkel Stiftung Lecture Tour talk, "The German Blues," can now be watched on our Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/1172718549

Die neue Ausgabe #WeltweitVorOrt zum Schwerpunkt „Jenseits der #Archive“ ist da! 🌍 Wie verändert sich Forschung, wenn Quellenzugänge, Materialien und politische Rahmenbedingungen neu gedacht werden müssen? 📰Zum E-Paper: publish.flyeralarm.d...#WeltweitVorOrt

Both Michelle Lynn Kahn and Adam Bisno are past winners of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Friends of the German Historical Institute, and next week we look forward to honoring the 2026 winner, Dr. Lane B. Baker, at our annual Stern Prize Symposium: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Congratulations to @michellelkahn.bsky.social on receiving the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize for her 2024 book "Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History," published in our @universitypress.cambridge.org book series! uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...

📑New publication, available now: Research Fellow Andreas Greiner's article "Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation," forthcoming in @conteurohistory.bsky.social

🎤 In our latest interview, we spoke with Visiting Fellow Sara Halpern about researching the history of statelessness, migration, and refugee policy in the context of Jewish history during and after the Holocaust. Read on: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/in...

Looking forward to our event this Wednesday (May 13): “Globalizing Soccer: Clubs, Leagues, and Fan Culture between the Local and the World,” a conversation featuring @stevengoff.bsky.social, Dee Kundra, & Chukwuka Onwumechili. For info on attending please visit: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

📚 Out now: Our colleague Raphael Rössel has co-authored a chapter examining the history of (post-) colonial street naming and renaming practices in the new edited volume “Kolonialismus dezentriert” (Metropol, 2026). Learn more: metropol-verlag.de/produkt/kolo...

Very excited to see that the interactive map of Reichstag Elections in Weimar Germany that I developed for @ghiwashington.bsky.social is now up on GHDI! germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...

Join us Wednesday, May 13, for a fireside chat on soccer’s past & present! Looking at the interplay of club brands, league expansion, & fan identities, our panelists will explore how soccer has become a global phenomenon rooted in the local context. Sign up info: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

The final day of the #BorderMatters #conference begins at the #GHIWarsaw: Today’s panels explore border-making materials, from seas, ships and paper walls to visas, paperwork and financial tests at borders. @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr @ghiwashington.bsky.social

We are kicking off the #BorderMatters conference with Panel 1 on ‘Phantom Borders’. The panellists are Sandra Dahlke (MWN Eastern Europe), Izabela Paszko (GHI Warsaw), David Jishkariani (MWN Eastern Europe, Tbilisi), Ralf Meindl (GHI Warsaw) and Richard Wittmann (OI Istanbul).

#Jobs | #ResearchAssistant for the EU-funded project #HABILITER 📌 from 1 October 2026 | part-time 0,75, for a duration of 30 months | in #Warsaw at #GHIWarsaw 📅 Deadline: 5 June, 2026 🔗 www.dhi.waw.pl/filea...#Jobs

Join the In Global Transit working group , founded by former GHI director Simone Lässig and @swensteinberg.bsky.social tomorrow, May 5, 12:30pm ET on the topic of "Permanently in Transit? The Inability of Refugees of the Spanish Civil War to let go of their Homeland” queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#LastCall: Only 1 week left to apply for a Thyssen@KWI Fellowship starting this autumn. Join us at KWI and collaborate with partners of the UA Ruhr! 🔔 11 May 2026 📝 tinyurl.com/ypauehh8 Thx for sharing! @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @tu-dortmund.de @unidue.bsky.social @college-uaruhr.bsky.social

We had a great time taking part in #DCHistCon today and sharing more info about our books, programs, and local events with Washington's historical community!

20-22nd of May @dhiroma.bsky.social you can join the #conference " #Gender & #Violence. Power dynamics and their representations" - a Cooperation with the @ghiwashington.bsky.social, LWL Institut und @fzh-hamburg.bsky.social #skystorians #history 👇 historische-friedensforschung.org/2026/04/29/g...

📚Our colleague Viola Alianov-Rautenberg's book "No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine" (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2023) has been reviewed this month in @hsozkult.bsky.social: www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

We’re excited to welcome Professor Lyndal Roper on Thursday, May 21, to give our 2026 Feldman Memorial Lecture, titled “Telling Stories: History, Narrative, and the German Peasants' War, 1524–1526.” Register to attend here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

#Internships at @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📌 for #Students of #History, #PoliticalScience, #PublicRelations and #PublicAdministration at German and US #Universities | three-month stay in #Washington 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/progr...

We're excited to announce our Summer Lecture Series 2026: "Environments of Knowledge: Climate, Risk, and Governance from the Middle Ages to the Anthropocene" The series examines how societies have understood, managed, and monetized environmental change. 1/6

We’re excited to take part in #DCHistCon next week! Find us in the History Network session on Friday, May 1st from 1 to 3:30 pm!

Later this week we look forward to hosting the conference "Rebuild or Retreat? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Migration and Mobility in the Global North." For an overview of the conference program, please visit: ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/rebuild-or-r...

Congratulations to @profmsinha.bsky.social, who received the 2026 @shgape.bsky.social Presidents’ Book Prize. Our Deputy Director Axel Jansen, who chaired the prize committee, presented the award to Prof. Sinha at last week’s @oah.org annual meeting in Philadelphia.

Interested in interning at the GHI in Washington? We encourage students interested in 2027 internships to apply by July 31 of this year! More details are available here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/res...

Heute #OrteDesWissens in #Tokyo: Die #Bibliothek des @dijtokyo.org ist eine wichtige Fachbibliothek für die moderne #Japanforschung. Rund 20.000 Bände, ca. 300 Zeitschriftentitel und die Bandō-Sammlung machen sie zu einer zentralen Anlaufstelle für Forschende. 👇 gab.hypotheses.org/18794

We’re excited to have Dee Kundra of #FCBayern and @stevengoff.bsky.social join us on May 13 for a conversation on “Globalizing Soccer: Clubs, Leagues, and Fan Culture,” moderated by Samuel Jackisch (ARD Radio). Sign up to attend here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

We had a great kickoff to our “Soccer: The Beautiful Game” lecture series last month with @brianbunk.bsky.social! Next up, join us on Thursday, May 13 for a fireside chat about globalizing soccer!

#CallForProposals by the Trans-Atlantic Platform (TAP) “Preparing for Tomorrow – Societies and Strategies in Times of Transition”. The call will fund collaborative research that examines how societies envision, prepare for, and respond to uncertain futures. Deadlines and key themes ⬇️ sohub.io/n5o9

#CfP The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global “Postwar” Decade 📌 #Conference in #Washington | February 25-26, 2027 | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: June 12, 2026 🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/event...

Excellent news!

On behalf of the Friends of the German Historical Institute we’re delighted to announce that the 2026 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Lane B. Baker for his dissertation “From Encounter to Expulsion: Romani Immigrants in the Holy Roman Empire, 1417–1498.” (Stanford, 2025)

Congratulations to our @germanhistorydocs.bsky.social team! 🍾🍾🍾

“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...

New CFP: “The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global ‘Postwar’ Decade,”conference in Washington in Feb. 2027, deadline for proposals Friday, June 12 www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Our thanks to @svenbeckert.bsky.social and Diana Kim for joining us yesterday evening for a lively conversation about “Rethinking the History of Capitalism”!

Next week, on April 19, we are co-sponsoring a reading at The United Church in Washington by Tamar Shapiro of her debut novel, "Restitution," set in the former East Germany in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Please visit this link for further details: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Congratulations to Research Fellow Andreas Greiner for an honorable mention for the Mira Wilkins Prize @businesshistoryc.bsky.social for his article "Turbulent Takeoff—Hard Landing: State-Airline Relations and the Challenges of Early Commercial Aviation in Iran, 1923–1932"!

📢Submit your nominations for our Graduate Student Essay Prize by June 24, 2026! ⏰ 👉For more information and details on how to apply, see our website: www.thegsa.org/grants-prize...

📚"Identity Trouble: Deutschamerikanische Identitätspolitiken und die Erinnerung an den Holocaust," by Julia Lange, has just been published in our Transatlantische historische Studien book series. To order a copy or access the #OpenAccess text please visit: www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Identity-...

This Thursday, April 9, we’re excited to host "Rethinking the History of Capitalism," a conversation with @svenbeckert.bsky.social and Diana Kim (Georgetown University) about writing the history of capitalism on a global scale. Register here to watch the livestream: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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